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James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition
…LaserDisc supplements for the original release of Nightmare, when Selick, in his closing comments, announced plans and showed a brief montage of selected concept images for a stop-motion feature version… |
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The Rescuers
…late in the game on VHS and LaserDisc. When the movie was finally issued on those formats, it was from a later re-issue print and all seemed okay. However, a… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…one of the first VHS tapes I was able to purchase and bring home. When it came to LaserDisc, in a wonderful limited widescreen Archive Edition boxed set, I naturally… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One
…the most tiring thing about watching a cat and mouse beating the heck out of each other! LaserDisc Archives: The Art Of Tom And Jerry – Volume Two LaserDisc Archives:… |
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Masterpiece Alice final DVD specs?
…overall set looks to be a port over from the deluxe CAV LaserDisc pressing from the mid-1990s: remastered 1.33:1 full screen transfer, Dolby Digital 5.1 remix, all-new introductions, song demos… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…LaserDisc set, the footage is sharp but in scratched up condition, coming from a workprint with the editor’s marks intact, but the presentation is as basic as it comes: no… |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…out video paintbox remastering to the image, along the same lines as Disney’s own 1990s video restorations for LaserDisc. The result, on standard definition DVD, was rather pleasing: certainly not… |
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Space Ghost & Dino Boy: The Complete Series
…these final two episodes of Space Ghost, and I do not think he was ever seen since, aside from an old Space Ghost videotape and laserdisc release. (Incidentally, the laserdisc… |
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Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland
Hemdale (1989/1992), CLV, 2 sides, 85 mins, 1.85:1 letterboxed widescreen, Dolby Surround, Rated G Although fairly recently issued on DVD, the earlier Hemdale LaserDisc incarnation in 1993 of this strange… |
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Fun And Fancy Free: Gold Classic Collection
…that were included in these films went on to be re-issued as stand-alone shorts, but with the LaserDisc and DVD releases of the original theatrical versions of these films, we… |
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Warner Archive: Atlantis: The Lost Continent / The Power
…a film I’ve been unable to see (I missed out on a double-feature set of Atlantis and The Power on LaserDisc, much to my chagrin for many years!), this was… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…of these cartoons on laserdisc or videotape, but this set also contains many cartoons that I have only previously read about, often just listings in a filmography— listings which left… |
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More Peter & The Wolf, Madagascar 2 – and a quick catch-up!
…art director! • Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player! – step back into the LaserDisc Archives for some warm reminisces on a fondly remembered format! • Russel Shroeder has retrieved… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
…best. Ink And Paint: Previously released in a deluxe CAV LaserDisc and the Gold DVD edition, both discs announced that the film had been modified to fit standard TV screens…. |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…able to get hold of an old print years ago before it was re-issued on LaserDisc and DVD. The scenes at the end, where he’s walking in that spooky castle,… |
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The Black Cauldron: Gold Classic Collection
…again, that it never even existed. The early adopters of shiny-movie-on-a-disc fanatics waited, and waited, for the possible news that it might come to LaserDisc as part of Disney’s restored… |
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Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection
…Disney’s two-disc collector’s DVD sets, released from the late 1990s and full of the kinds of terrific supplements that had pleased so many fans in the LaserDisc era that flourished… |
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Heavy Metal: Collector’s Edition
…Taarna who is featured in the famous movie poster and the cover of the video/laserdisc/DVD.) This sequence features some of the most intriguing and ambitious animation, aided by rotoscoping live-action… |
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The Man Called Flintstone
…trying to locate a copy, finally being rewarded when I happened to stop by a Wal*Mart in Boca Raton in 1994. I later picked up the laserdisc too, but now… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…all, this 70th Anniversary BD edition of the 1941 classic collects much of the good stuff to be found from previous editions. Back in the 1990s, all LaserDisc owners got… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…LaserDisc boxed set edition of Toy Story, in late 1996, featured an entire side dedicated to mapping out the Pixar timeline right up until their feature debut by way of… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…LaserDisc viewers may remember: Bugs Bunny Superstar on LD dates back so far that it was an analog disc before digital audio came along! Originally released as – if you… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…up next, in Tom & Jerry’s second “official” outing, their third Oscar nominated cartoon, and eventual winner, The Yankee Doodle Mouse, from 1943. As with an earlier LaserDisc release, this… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Sara Duran-Singer on Sleeping Beauty‘s Restoration
Since its release in 1959, Sleeping Beauty has been hailed as one of Disney’s most lavish animated pictures. Previously restored for LaserDisc and a recent DVD edition, Sleeping Beauty has… |
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Snow White and the Seven X-Men!
…1980s (already included in the 1993 Snow White LaserDisc box) or an English-language edition of French historian Pierre Lambert’s hefty tome of the production’s artwork? Well…it’s neither! The official word… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…Thing Loaded? Released to theaters again in 1992, The Great Mouse Detective had an unusually long home video wait before debuting on VHS and LaserDisc, eventually coming to DVD ten… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…that The AristoCats has always been shown on VHS, LaserDisc and even initially on DVD in its “original theatrical aspect” of 1.33:1, but with the previous DVD (the one included… |
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Where Did These AWOL Animated Movies Get To?
…feature were produced: a slightly trimmed “family friendly” PG version previously issued on LaserDisc, and an alternate version with stronger instances of language. Warner Home Video holds the rights, but… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…collectors will have to hold onto their old VHS tapes or perhaps the limited DVD tin that came out years ago. The extras from Criterion’s original, groundbreaking LaserDisc release remain… |
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
…Disney brought it to VHS and LaserDisc in 1998 (I still have my LD). At that time, the Disney people made their own English language dub of the film, using… |
