Pocahontas/Trailer transcripts

Original Teaser Trailer

 * (As the Walt Disney Pictures logo fades in, "Colors of the Wind" plays in the background. Then the screen fades to and from black, revealing silent footage of the movie starting with Pocahontas standing in the mist from the waterfall as her hair flows with the breeze)
 * Pocahontas: (sings) Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?
 * Mark Elliott: From Walt Disney Pictures......
 * Pocahontas: (singing) Can you paint with all the colors of the wiiiiind?
 * Mark Elliott: Comes an extraordinary story of an American legend brought to life. (Screen fades to black where we see the title of the movie) "Pocahontas". (We fade over to see the interior of the Disney studio and the people developing the movie during the narration) For the first time ever, Disney's animators are creating a feature-length motion picture inspired by a true American heroine.
 * Glen Keane: The most challenging part of drawing Pocahontas is going to be try to capture who she really is.
 * Pocahontas: (sings) But I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice.
 * Mark Elliott: Heading a cast of unforgettable Disney characters is Captain John Smith, the handsome and heroic English soldier... (Thunder booms overhead) whose love for Pocahontas opens his eyes to the wonders of her world.
 * John Smith: I'm John Smith. What's your name?
 * Pocahontas: Pocahontas.
 * (The music changes to "Mine, Mine, Mine!")
 * Mark Elliott: There's the greedy Governor Ratcliffe, leader of the Jamestown expedition.
 * (We cut to Ratcliffe lighting a cannon)
 * Governor Ratcliffe: I hereby claim this land in the name of His Majesty, King James the First. (Lights the cannon and it shoots a cannonball at the trees)
 * Mark Elliott: Percy, his spoiled lapdog. And the devoted Flit and mischievous Meeko, Pocahontas' loyal companions. Featuring 8 original songs by "Aladdin's" Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken, and Broadway veteran Stephen Schwartz.
 * Pocahontas: (singing) Just around the riverbend. Just around the riverbend!
 * Mark Elliott: This summer, get ready for a celebration of the American spirit.
 * Pocahontas: (sings) Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?
 * (A bear cub bats John's helmet)
 * Mark Elliott: As Walt Disney Pictures presents its 33rd all-new animated feature film.
 * Pocahontas: (singing) Can you paint with all the colors of the wiiiiind?
 * (Screen fades to the movie title in the black background again)
 * Mark Elliott: "Pocahontas"!
 * (The logo fades out. The subtitles saying "Coming June 23rd to Theaters Everywhere" fade in, but fade to black)

Original Theatrical Trailer #1

 * (Blue subtitles fade in, saying "COMING NEXT SUMMER FROM WALT DISNEY PICTURES", but fade to black four seconds later. Seagull cries are heard as the screen fades from black, revealing the Walt Disney Pictures logo)
 * Man #1: Ready on the mooring lines.
 * Man #2: Check the anchor lines!
 * (Then the screen fades to the movie's silent footage as the song, "Colors of the Wind" starts up. After the part where Pocahontas sees the ship's sails from her point of view, Pocahontas can be heard singing in the background)
 * Pocahontas: (sings) You think I'm an ignorant savage. And you've been so many places, I guess it must be so. But yet, I cannot see....if the savage one is me. How can there be so much that you don't know? You don't know. (After a few seconds of Pocahontas' hair flowing, with blue subtitles reading "ON JUNE 23, 1995, WALT DISNEY PICTURES BRINGS AN AMERICAN LEGEND TO LIFE". The subtitles fade away and the screen fades from black, showing the full animation sequences for the musical number, "Colors of the Wind") You think you own whatever land you land on. (Stands a stick up like a flag and drops it) The Earth is just a dead fact you can claim. But I know every rock and tree and creature. (Touches the rock with one hand, which glows) Has a life... (Touches the tree with her other hand, which glows) has a spirit, has a name. (A swarm of butterflies fly from the trees as the camera flies right where Pocahontas and John are. John aims his musket at the bear standing on the rocky cliff above them) You think the only people who are people. (A bear growls and Pocahontas lowers the gun) Are the people who look and think like you. (Camera focuses on the bear prints as the camera rises up, revealing the bear walking into its den) But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger... (We cut to inside the bear's den where one of the bear's three cubs walks up to Pocahontas, who holds it in her arms and shows it to John) You'll learn facts you never knew, you never knew. (A bear cub bats John's helmet) Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon? (Screen fades to the night heavens as the camera slowly rotates as it pulls off. The stars form a grinning face) Or ask the smirking bobcat why he smirked? (Camera fades to John Smith looking in amazement as the screen slowly rotates) Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind? Can you paint with all the colors of...the wiiiiind? (Pocahontas and John Smith glide through the air as watercolor-painted deer run across the heavens. As the deer run off the waterfall and into the heavens, Pocahontas and John jump down the waterfall and safely land in the woods as Pocahontas and John run apart from the screen) Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest. (Screen focuses on Pocahontas' feet as the camera runs right, but the screen cuts to an outer shot revealing John and two deer running from behind Pocahontas) Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the Earth. (Pocahontas and John jump from the tall grass and Pocahontas does a cartwheel, but rolls down the path with John) Come roll in all the riches all around you. And for once, never wonder what they're worth. (Pocahontas rolls to the screen, transitioning to Pocahontas and John swimming underwater) The rainstorm and the river are my brothers. (Pocahontas and John swim to the surface as a heron flies over the water, and two otters swim with the humans) The heron and the otter are my friends. (As soon as they reach the surface, the screen fades to them lying down on a rock as the camera slowly rotates while pulling off) And we are all connected to each other, in a circle, in a hoop that never ends. (Camera zooms out of an eagle's eye, revealing Pocahontas and John with eagles on their arms) How... (They launch the birds, and they fly up a tall sycamore tree as the camera follows them) high does the sycamore grow? If you cut it down, (Camera focuses on the tree as the eagles fly further off of the screen) then you'll never know! (The eagles land on top of the tree and stand boldly in the sunset, but the screen fades to Pocahontas and John walking to the edge of the rock cliff) And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon for whether we are white or copper-skinned. (Camera pulls off of the two standing at the edge of the cliff) We need to sing with all the voices of the mountain. (We cut to John Smith, with a light shaped like an eagle flying on his chest) We need to paint with all the colors of the wind. (A gust of wind flies right across John's torso, along with a trail of red leaves. Then we cut to Pocahontas stuffing John a hill of dirt, which slides through John's hands and back into the ground) You can own the earth and yet, all you'll own is earth, until you can paint.....with all the colors.....of...the...wiiiiind!
 * John Smith: I'm John Smith. And what's your name?
 * Pocahontas: Pocahontas.
 * (Screen fades to the title, but the screen fades to black. On the final note, blue subtitles fade in saying "COMING JUNE 23, 1995 FROM WALT DISNEY PICTURES" until they fade to black)

Original Theatrical Trailer #2

 * (The Walt Disney Pictures logo appears as "Steady as the Beating Drum" plays in the background, but the screen fades to silent clips of the movie)
 * Indian Chorus: (sings) Hega!
 * Mark Elliott: She was the daughter of a chief.
 * Kekata: She has her mother's spirit. She goes wherever the wind takes her.
 * (We cut to Pocahontas' friend, Nakoma, calling from down below while sitting in her canoe)
 * Nakoma: Come down here!
 * (Pocahontas runs off the rock and does her famous dive)
 * Mark Elliott: And she lived a life of freedom.
 * Nakoma: No! Not that...fashion.
 * (Pocahontas lands in the water, causing the storm to happen. We cut to the storm as the Englishmen shout and run around panicking. We cut to John bravely swinging down from the crow's nest of the ship)
 * Mark Elliott: He was an explorer, searching for adventure in a new land.
 * John Smith: C'mon, men. (Climbs down the rope ladder) We didn't come all this fashion just to look at it.
 * Chief Powhatan: Let us hope they do not intend to stay.
 * Governor Ratcliffe: (Points his rolled-up map to John) I'm counting on you to make sure these heathens don't disrupt our mission.
 * Wiggins: I...I... (Takes off his arrow hat and drops the act) I made it myself.
 * Mark Elliott: But though their worlds were very different...
 * Chief Powhatan: These pale visitors are strange to us. No one is to go near them!
 * Mark Elliott: Their destinies were one. (John Smith jumps onto a rock and the camera zooms in on his gun pointed to the screen, until John sees Pocahontas through the mist of the waterfall and lowers his musket) From Walt Disney Pictures comes the story of an American legend.
 * John Smith: Who are you?
 * Pocahontas: Pocahontas. (Meeko's mouth drops in shock) Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest. (Percy is about to eat a cherry, but Meeko clings into a cannon and swings into Percy's bathtub) Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth. (Meeko bursts a bubble and we cut to Pocahontas cartwheeling) Come roll and all the riches all around you. (Percy trips and rolls down the plank into the mud, and we cut to Pocahontas climbing a tree, with John falling from the tree) And for once, never wonder what they're worth.
 * (As soon as John's helmet lands back on his head, we cut to Grandmother Willow)
 * Grandmother Willow: Hello, John Smith.
 * John Smith: That tree is speaking to me.
 * Pocahontas: Then you should speak back.
 * Grandmother Willow: And he's handsome, as well!
 * John Smith: Oh, I like her.
 * Mark Elliott: She believed in her dreams.
 * Chief Powhatan: Kocoum has asked to seek your hand in marriage.
 * (Meeko makes a choking sound of disgust)
 * Pocahontas: I think my dream is pointing me down another path.
 * Mark Elliott: Followed her heart.
 * Pocahontas: What are you doing here?
 * John Smith: (Catches Pocahontas' arm) I had to see you again.
 * Nakoma: (To Pocahontas) You'll be turning your back to your own people.
 * Pocahontas: (To John Smith, with guilt) I can't leave you.
 * Mark Elliott: And found a love that changed the world.
 * Grandmother Willow: Let the spirits of the Earth guide you.
 * Pocahontas: I love him, Father!
 * Wiggins: Bravo!
 * Mark Elliott: On June 23rd, Disney presents its all-new 33rd feature-length animated motion picture.
 * Pocahontas: (singing) I look once more just around the riverbend! Beyond the shore, somewhere past the sea.
 * Mark Elliott: With music by Academy Award winner, Alan Menken. (Meeko jumps off the rock) And lyrics by award-winning lyricist, Stephen Schwartz.
 * Pocahontas: (sings) And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon, for whether we are white or copper-skinned.
 * Mark Elliott: This summer, experience the adventure.
 * Pocahontas: (singing) Until you can paint.....with all the colors.....of...the...wiiiiind!
 * Mark Elliott: "Pocahontas"!
 * (Screen fades to and from black, revealing the turquoise subtitles "COMING JUNE 23rd")

"Coming Soon to Video" Trailer

 * (The black-and-gold Walt Disney Home Video logo appears)
 * Mark Elliott: Walt Disney Home Video proudly presents... (We cut to an Indian blowing a conch shell) the extraordinary story of an American legend brought to life. (Screen fades to the title) "Pocahontas". (We cut to Pocahontas running in the woods) She was the daughter of a chief.
 * Kekata: She has her mother's spirit. She goes wherever the wind takes her.
 * Nakoma: Come down here!
 * (Pocahontas runs off the rock and does her famous dive)
 * Mark Elliott: And she lived a life of freedom.
 * Nakoma: No! Not that...fashion.
 * (Pocahontas lands in the water, causing the storm to happen. We cut to the storm as Englishmen shout and run around panicking. We cut to John bravely swinging down from the crow's nest of the ship)
 * Mark Elliott: He was an explorer, searching for adventure in a new land.
 * John Smith: C'mon, men. (Climbs down the rope ladder) We didn't come all this fashion just to look at it.
 * Mark Elliott: But though their worlds were very different...
 * Chief Powhatan: These pale visitors are strange to us. No one is to go near them!
 * Mark Elliott: Their destinies were one. (John Smith jumps onto a rock and the camera zooms in on his gun pointed to the screen, until John sees Pocahontas through the mist of the waterfall and lowers his musket) From Walt Disney Home Video comes a celebration of the American spirit.
 * John Smith: Who are you?
 * Pocahontas: Pocahontas. (sings) Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest. (Screen focuses on Pocahontas' feet as the camera runs right, but the screen cuts to an outer shot revealing John and two deer running from behind Pocahontas) Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the Earth.
 * (Pocahontas and John jump from the tall grass and Pocahontas does a cartwheel)
 * Mark Elliott: She believed in her dreams.
 * Chief Powhatan: Kocoum has asked to seek your hand in marriage.
 * (Meeko makes a gagging sound of disgust)
 * Pocahontas: I think my dream is pointing me down another path.
 * Mark Elliott: Followed her heart.
 * Pocahontas: What are you doing here?
 * John Smith: (Catches Pocahontas' arm) I had to see you again.
 * Mark Elliott: And found a love that changed the world.
 * Grandmother Willow: Let the spirits of the Earth guide you.
 * Pocahontas: I love him, Father!
 * Wiggins: Bravo!
 * Mark Elliott: In 1996, Disney's all-new 33rd feature-length animated motion picture comes to video.
 * Pocahontas: (singing) I look once more just around the riverbend! Beyond the shore, somewhere past the sea.
 * Mark Elliott: With music by Academy Award winner, Alan Menken. And lyrics by award-winning lyricist, Stephen Schwartz.
 * Pocahontas: (sings) Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?
 * (Screen fades to black where we see the title of the movie)
 * Mark Elliott: "Pocahontas".
 * Pocahontas: (singing) Can you paint with all the colors of...the wiiiiind?
 * Mark Elliott: Coming to video in 1996!

"Now Available on Video" Trailer

 * (The black-and-gold Walt Disney Home Video logo appears as "Steady as the Beating Drum" plays in the background, but the screen fades to silent clips of the movie)
 * Indian Chorus: (sings) Hega!
 * Mark Elliott: She was the daughter of a chief.
 * Kekata: She has her mother's spirit. She goes wherever the wind takes her.
 * Nakoma: Come down here!
 * (Pocahontas runs off the rock and does her famous dive)
 * Mark Elliott: And she lived a life of freedom.
 * Nakoma: No! Not that...fashion.
 * (Pocahontas lands in the water, causing the storm to happen. We cut to the storm as Englishmen shout and run around panicking. We cut to John bravely swinging down from the crow's nest of the ship)
 * Mark Elliott: He was an explorer, searching for adventure in a new land.
 * John Smith: C'mon, men. (Climbs down the rope ladder) We didn't come all this fashion just to look at it.
 * Chief Powhatan: Let us hope they do not intend to stay.
 * Governor Ratcliffe: (Points his rolled-up map to John) I'm counting on you to make sure these heathens don't disrupt our mission.
 * Wiggins: I...I... (Takes off his arrow hat and drops the act) I made it myself.
 * Mark Elliott: But though their worlds were very different...
 * Chief Powhatan: These pale visitors are strange to us. No one is to go near them!
 * Mark Elliott: Their destinies were one. (John Smith jumps onto a rock and the camera zooms in on his gun pointed to the screen, until John sees Pocahontas through the mist of the waterfall) From Walt Disney Home Video comes the story of an American legend.
 * John Smith: Who are you?
 * Pocahontas: Pocahontas. (Meeko's mouth drops open in shock) Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest. (Percy is about to eat a cherry, but Meeko clings onto a cannon and swings into Percy's bathtub) Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the Earth. (Meeko bursts a bubble and we cut to Pocahontas cartwheeling) Come roll in all the riches all around you. (Percy trips and rolls down the plank into the mud, and we cut to Pocahontas climbing the tree, with John falling from the tree) And for once, never wonder what they're worth. (As soon as John's helmet lands back on his head, we cut to Grandmother Willow)
 * Grandmother Willow: Hello, John Smith.
 * John Smith: That tree is speaking to me.
 * Pocahontas: Then you should speak back.
 * Grandmother Willow: And he's handsome, as well!
 * John Smith: Oh, I like her.
 * Pocahontas: I knew you would.
 * Mark Elliott: She believed in her dreams.
 * Chief Powhatan: Kocoum has asked to seek your hand in marriage.
 * (Meeko makes a vomiting sound of disgust)
 * Pocahontas: I think my dream is pointing me down another path.
 * Mark Elliott: Followed her heart.
 * Pocahontas: What are you doing here?
 * John Smith: (Catches Pocahontas' arm) I had to see you again.
 * Nakoma: (To Pocahontas) You'll be turning your back on your own people.
 * Pocahontas: (To John Smith, with guilt) I can't leave you.
 * Mark Elliott: And found a love that changed the world.
 * Grandmother Willow: Let the spirits of the Earth guide you.
 * Pocahontas: I love him, Father
 * Wiggins: Bravo!
 * Mark Elliott: Now on video, Disney presents its all-new 33rd feature-length animated motion picture.
 * Pocahontas: (singing) I look once more just around the riverbend! Beyond the shore, somewhere past the sea.
 * Mark Elliott: With music by Academy Award winner, Alan Menken. (Meeko dives off the rock) And lyrics by award-winning lyricist, Stephen Schwartz.
 * Pocahontas: (sings) And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon? For whether we are white or copper-skinned.
 * Mark Elliott: Now, experience the adventure.
 * Pocahontas: (singing) Until you can paint.....with all the colors.....of...the...wiiiiind!
 * Mark Elliott: "Pocahontas"!
 * (Screen fades to and from black, revealing the cerulean subtitles "ON SALE NOW!")