…stuff), running three-and-a-half minutes. Moving onto the main menu proper, and the first extra to grab my attention was the collection of Deleted Scenes, and here we get a glimpse…

…included, think of the way this gem of a short-lived series was treated during its original run. They are also the words of The Critic himself, one Jay Sherman, TV…

…swinging tray holds one of the discs. The package incorrectly gives a runtime of “approx 9.5 hours,” despite correctly touting the presence of eleven episodes, which each run about 22…

…on in such leaps and bounds compared to the “rubber hose” animation of less than a decade before was sadly overlooked. A surprisingly introspective film, Bambi arrived at a time…

…which can only mean Sony Animation execs rubbing their hands together in anticipation of their own penguin movie, the “mockumentary” Surf’s Up, being as popular. Penguins – especially movie penguins…

…brisk 22 minutes, the story is tightly wrapped up too, motoring along like Santa’s sleigh running out of time but taking enough breath and pauses for it all to have…

…want to go to bed, in the rather domestic Me Musical Nephews. In Spinach Fer Britain, Popeye tries to run food to America’s Allies while evading a German ship. Next,…

…the weirdest platypus I’ve ever seen, for instance, while Candace is more traditional. I’m not sure there’s such a strong line running through everything, but most elements feel like they…

…started running out of new ideas, a purely animated series was called for. Already rivalling Alice for attention in the cartoons was Julius The Cat, but Winkler had married Universal…

…shocked discussion between the evil faction? Sure, she seems to have relaxed her rules of appearance as of the second film, but we’re not counting that here, it seems, since…

…comedies to Marvel adventures. Co-director Howard E Baker has an equal sporadic résumé, from animating on Disney’s Hercules, to directing episodes of MTV’s Aeon Flux, and working on Rugrats (for…

…computer. Meanwhile (more or less), Fred Flintstone is conniving about how to afford the vacation that Wilma is demanding. He naturally ropes pal Barney Rubble (whose wife Betty also wants…

…project on to his son Goro, who had never directed a film before. (This was during one of those times that Hayao Miyazaki claimed to have retired.) The somewhat rushed…

Ruby-Spears (1980), Warner Archive (August 14, 2012), 2 discs, 312 mins, 4:3 ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0, Not Rated, Retail: $24.95 Storyboard: The sassy comic strip feline evades police and torments…

…of fewer commercial minutes intruding upon the program. As time wore on and network needs changed, CBS began to excise parts of the classic special in favor of running more…

…the full-blown Technicolor equivalents to those classic tough guy pictures: indeed, if the recent rumors were true (and they’re sadly not) that none other than Orson Welles had once planned…