Mickey Mouse - Alpine Climbers (1936) - 1948 RKO reissue titles

In 1947, RKO began re-releasing Disney colour cartoons, and the ones that had originally been released by United Artists were given new opening and closing titles. The 1936 Mickey Mouse short Alpine Climbers was one of those, re-released on April 2, 1948.
The main difference to the original version is that the plain gray background on the title card was replaced by a subtle illustration of footprints in snow. This version was then the basis for the 1967 Buena Vista reissue, where all the titles except the title card were substituted again.
For the earliest theatrical reissues in 1947-48, Disney left the original negatives untouched, which is why the 1936 version is the one we are used to seeing, ever since Disney went back to using the original negatives for their transfers around 1990.
Scanned from a 16mm blue-track IB Technicolor print.

[@disneyfan85]

It's interesting that by the time they started reissuing the shorts, they had already long since started reissuing the full-length animated features. They had reissued "Snow White" in 1944, "Pinocchio" in 1945 and "Fantasia" in 1946.

[@staspastukh2005]

Yes

[@superleviathan]

@@staspastukh2005 Also, Warner Bros. had already been doing Blue Ribbon reissues for its shorts for years, along with other cartoon studios.
Wonder why Disney was so late in instituting a reissue program for its shorts. Some kind of legal/contractual thing?

[@staspastukh2005]

@@superleviathan yes

[@looneytunes9000]

Don’t forget MGM, they started reissuing their old shorts and (maybe) their old features too the same year as Disney did (1948 for shorts, 1944 for Disney features, same year as Warner’s started reissuing their old shorts and films).

[@looneytunes9000]

@@superleviathan To answer your question, RKO (the studio Disney was affiliated with at the time of this reissue) reissued Disney’s old films and shorts from 1944 until RKO and Disney went their separate ways in 1955 or 1956, that’s when Disney took over reissuing their old shorts and old films.

[@anniefinch6843]

I remembered that this cartoon has Donald and Pluto in it. But it reminds me of the movie The sound of Music.

[@MitchellHang]

The layout of the titles look similar to the reissue of Woodland Cafe.

[@erik_palm]

Yes, they were done at the same time. Woodland Café was re-released right after Alpine Climbers.

[@staspastukh2005]

Why?

[@crazytom2024]

The reasoning for the rerelease layout is because there was no other official movie company “logo” for those films at the time. We are talking 1936/37, where those two films originally were released through United Artists (before RKO distributed the cartoons). At that time there was no logo for RCA (until 1940), IATSE (1942), and Cartoonists (1943).

[@anniefinch6843]

I love this cartoon.

[@Musicradio77Network]

Never seen this version with the RKO titles before. This RKO reissue plastered over the UA titles.

[@staspastukh2005]

And Buena Vista titles too.

[@steamboatwill3.367]

nice.

[@SlenderSR]

If here Will be original IB Technicolor to here Will be better

[@meta527II]

Is the reason this isn't on Disney Plus because of the part where Pluto gets drunk?

[@rudymalone1]

Nope!

[@michellealfonsa]

A Mickey Donald & Pluto Cartoon