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Pooh review, big things happening at Views
…reviews. Thanks for your support, Tessie! You may wish to remember that the DVD shelves this week see the arrival of Warner’s new Filmation sets for Superman and Batman. We’ll… |
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Ho-ho-ho! Season's Greetings, an' all that jazz!
…our Contest Corner you’ll find a couple of new giveaways, for a couple of holiday grab bags featuring a handful of fun Disney Channel DVDs and a duo of Filmation… |
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
…a duo of Filmation favorites in the mix at Contest Corner, running until the end of this week. We’ll be back to our regular site updates soon, so stay tooned!… |
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One on one on One Hundred And One Dalmatians!
…bonus package well exceeding expectations. As Rand says, “the set is far from a wash, and based on the bonus disc alone, I can recommend this set to Filmation and… |
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Oscar night approaches, as does Bravestarr!
Rand’s back with some more classic Filmation goodness in his Bravestarr: Volume One review. He wasn’t expecting much from the Studio’s final show, but remains sufficiently impressed following a previous… |
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Animated Star Trek teleporting to DVD
TV Shows on DVD, via Toon Zone, reveals that Filmation’s Star Trek: The Animated Series, the first Star Trek spin-off, could be released on DVD in 2005. “Plans are…underway for… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…behind me, while Darrell MacNeil (animation artist, and co-writer of Animation By Filmation) was in-between us. This made Ben envious later on when I told him, since he had missed… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…DVD set, 455 mins plus supplements, $30 Don’t get excited for Paul Terry’s original, undervalued TerryToon series, or even Filmation’s late 1970s/early 80s Saturday morning television revival, but be energized… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…It really is literally the same story as Star Wars done in this slightly Filmation style, but really quite good. And it was released in 3D back in the day,… |
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Marine Boy: The Complete First Season
…under the sea rather than flew in the sky. This was, after all, what led Filmation to develop Aquaman as a TV show following the success of The New Adventures… |
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Captain Caveman And The Teen Angels: The Complete Series
…at 11am when Filmation’s Batman-Tarzan Adventure Hour came on.) Cavey returned for a second season on the slightly revamped Scooby’s All-Stars, then got his own timeslot in 1980. The series’… |
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Heidi’s Song
…was routinely churning out in the medium. It wasn’t until 1973 that Hanna-Barbera would tackle a feature production again in adapting EB White’s classic Charlotte’s Web, beating their competitors Filmation… |
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Mad: Season One, Part Two
…for some skits, Robot Chicken-like stop-motion for others, or hand-drawn and Flash-enhanced cartooning elsewhere that mocks work from every studio from Disney to Filmation. Usually the movie lampoons use the… |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
…Robot Chicken-like stop-motion for others, or hand-drawn and Flash-enhanced cartooning elsewhere that mocks work from every studio from Disney to Filmation. Usually the movie lampoons use the original actors’ heads… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…something even Filmation would have been ashamed of. Likewise the epic location and Pinewood Studio shoots of Superman: The Movie and Superman II are replaced with dressing a London subway… |
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Abbott And Costello Meet Captain Kidd
…do for Hanna-Barbera and Filmation cartoons. Even mediocre Abbott and Costello is worth watching for me, and fortunately I would consider Abbott And Costello Meet Captain Kidd to be a… |
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Legends Of The Superheroes
…of Hawkman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Hawkman, Black Canary, and The Huntress; and Captain Marvel appears for the first time since his Filmation series. For the most part, their combined… |
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Burton, Timm, Katzenberg to receive Winsor McCay Award
…cartoons with his visual take on DC Comics super heroes, beginning with his co-producing Batman: the Animated Series in 1992. Timm began his career in animation at Filmation, doing layouts… |
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He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special
Filmation (December, 1985), Classic Media (October 12, 2010), single disc, 51 mins, 1.33:1 aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated, Retail: $9.99 Storyboard: He-Man and She-Ra commemorate Christmas for the… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…Filmation’s old school The New Adventures Of Batmanfrom the 1970s (where Batman was actually voiced by Adam West), but with a larger scope. The Brave And The Bold gives us… |
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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: The Complete Series
…by The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries with the added element of featuring real monsters and ghosts. At the time, Filmation’s Ghostbusters and The Real Ghostbusters had become huge hits on television,… |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…don’t end up doing much of anything themselves! After a single season, the cat and mouse were retired again until the Filmation studio licensed them for a new show in… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1
…the same way. Both are remembered nostalgically by fans of 1980s television animation along with Filmation, Disney and DiC. The cartoons released here cover a variety of different genres, from… |
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Iron Man: The Complete 1994 Animated Television Series
…Tom Tataranowicz (he had worked on a number of the late Filmation shows like He-Man and She-Ra) supervised the stories. This season sees Tony Stark grow longer (blue) hair, the… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…and Ricardo Montalban, both in 1974, and a silly parody, Zorro: The Gay Blade, in 1981. Since then, animation has been Zorro’s medium of choice, including shows from Filmation and… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 2
…in Elroy’s Mob. Someone at Warner Home Video is definitely a Jetsons fan, but perhaps this set would have been better served by having one of the Filmation superhero shows… |
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Justice League: The Complete Series
…They discuss the old Filmation and Hanna-Barbera shows and how it was basically a boy’s club where the villains didn’t even have a chance. For their series, they wanted characters… |
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Ghosts, ghouls and goblins? Either our reviewers or it must be Halloween!
…looks like a house! • Mickey’s House Of Villains – the House Of Mouse gets all shook up! • The Ghost Busters – plus Filmation’s animated Ghostbusters Vol 1 and… |
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Wizards
…the late 1970s – being only a notch or two up from the Filmation Studio output of around the same time. Most distracting is the disguised, not-even-rotoscoped footage, culled from… |
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Weekend Roundup! Plus The Tick is back!
Wow…what a week! And just in case you missed any of it, here are the highlights: • Appreciation For Filmation – we looked back and reviewed several titles from the… |
