…a time when Saturday mornings were the best place to watch cartoons. This was before all-day cartoon channels, before DVDs, and before the Internet. Saturday mornings meant cartoons, and nothing…

…video shelves. The Woodpecker cartoons did make an earlier appearance on DVD through the exclusive Time-Life collections. This anticipated 20-volume series was to have run all of the cartoons in…

…twenty-six cartoons over two years (Foster was then fired, and Tom and Jerry were replaced by the Felix/Mickey rip-off Cubby Bear), and the Tom and Jerry cartoons were later marketed…

…Grimley). This set has been released by Warner Bros. in the heels of Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960’s Collection and Saturday Morning Cartoons 1970’s Collection. The company owns more cartoon properties…

…have. Trailers for other Warners animated titles kick off the first disc, including previews for the Peanuts: 1960s Collection, Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s and 1970s collections, plus a trail for…

…the first bonus feature on Disc 2, Forging The Frame: The Roots Of Animation 1900-1920 (31:00). Filmmakers and animators like Terry Gilliam and Ray Harryhausen are joined by animation historians…

…Is This Thing Loaded? Listed under the “Special Features” are a number of trailers for other Warner Home Video animation titles, specifically Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s and 1970s Volume 2,…

…and Daffy will be satisfied, even if these cartoons do find them in a more cynical mood. These cartoons aren’t for everyone or all ages, being filled with much propaganda…

…Saturday morning cartoons, even though I grew up in the 1970s. I have a supreme fondness for the cartoons of my childhood, but by then they were often just copies…

…feels like some kind of cousin. Desperate to win the $100,000 race, Daredevil Butch carries out every dirty trick in the book to get ahead of Buzz Droopy, who succeeds,…

…Monkey Melodies (1930), Night (1930), Playful Pan (1930), Summer (1930), Winter (1930), Cannibal Capers (1930), Midnight In A Toy Shop (1930), and The Clock Store (1931). The only short I…

…cartoons featured here in Volume Two pick up from later in Pluto’s career, when we was a fully-fledged star of his own series. Unlike the first set, all the cartoons…

King Features (1960-1961), Koch Vision (April 27, 2004), 3 discs, 480 mins, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $29.98 Storyboard: Popeye The Sailor looks…

…Paramount would have to back away from trying to bring Superman to screens. But to Dave’s dismay, and our eventual fortune, Paramount stumped up the reported $90,000 per cartoon –…

60 more Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, and though the strike rate starts to slip with Volume 5, there are still some knockout cartoons in the bunch, served by…

…emphasis on Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera subjects, we explore the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons. The Sweatbox Review: The first volume of this series was one of my favorite…

…from Donald’s persona in these cartoons and towards his antagonists, but that does not mean that these were not great cartoons. Some of my personal favorite cartoons were Chip and…

…were also made but never shown; they are now unfortunately considered to be lost. All told, the Snafu cartoons cost nearly $300,000. The name “Snafu” came from an acronym that…

…them are old favorites like Batman and Yogi Bear. The Sweatbox Review: This second volume of Saturday morning favorites contains a nice variety of cartoons, including many that did not…

…and Tom & Jerry: Spotlight Collection Volume 3 both get attention here, with several more playable from their own menu: The Smurfs: Season One Volume One, Horton Hears A Who:…

…Brodax. A total of 50 Beetle Bailey cartoons were wanted, all to be done at Famous Studios. Krazy Kat and Snuffy Smith also got a total of 50 cartoons, with…