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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!
…Madagascar, I think the filmmakers clearly embraced the Looney Tunes influence and used it to the benefit of the overall presentation. In addition to polishing the animation, the slapstick nature… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…long weekday morning show is titled Toon In With Me and airs at 7am ET. It’s anchored by Bill Leff and his puppet pal Toony the Tuna. Between Looney Tunes,… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…later this year. Also providing quirky entertainment for grown-ups was Helluva Boss [above, right]. What started as a brutally zany crossover of Looney Tunes and The Office has evolved into… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…care. Even when Horton expresses the notion that the speck of dust he claims to be hearing the voices from, he’s dismissed as a looney, a potentially dangerous creature that… |
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Tangled
…what we expect, from the European-inspired settings, to the mock-medieval costumes, and even the character designs and inclusion of typical sidekicks, villainesses and, of course, extremely hum-able tunes! All of… |
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Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 3
…cat and mouse duo, Tom and Jerry, in the third volume of Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures in yet another eclectic collection of cartoons from the past and present…. |
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Get caught up in Tangled‘s disc details
…Murphy (Spider-Man 2, The Fountain) as Mother Gothel, and Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The City of Lost Children) as the Stabbington Brothers. From directors Byron Howard… |
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Walt Stanchfield – Drawn to Life
…Walt Stanchfield’s amazing handout notes and lectures have been assembled into a two volume collection titled, Drawn to Life – 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes. Walt was an… |
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The Jetsons: The Complete First Season
…wave of the Hanna-Barbera Golden Collection which started in March with the release of The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? and continues this month along with Jonny Quest. It… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…in Hollywood’s Golden Age and the modern blockbuster era – and never really ironed out from there, taking us on a tumultuous and bumpy rollercoaster ride that, to lean on… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies
…story is surely one of the best Silly Symphonies and the song, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” is one of the catchiest of all Disney tunes. It became… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…them. Ray Pointer’s latest collection assembles many of these otherwise lost gems to paint a clear picture of Walt’s first forays into animation. In 1920, Disney was working in Kansas… |
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DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures
…Adventures Aquaman (1967) and The New Adventures Of Batman (1977) released last year, this collection of DC Super Heroes fills in a few of the gaps from those characters’ initial… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…an initial 1.33:1 framed Gold Collection title release on DVD, a later special edition announcement for The AristoCats suggested that a two-disc set was in the works – but this… |
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Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…screams from sleeping kids and recycles them into energy – his only close rival being the devious Randall (a simply slimy Steve Buscemi). The monsters have an endless collection of… |
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Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines: The Complete Series
…with colorful graphics adorning every part of the foldout digipack, the discs, and the clear outer case. As with the past couple of Hanna-Barbera releases, the “Golden Collection” tag has… |
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Perils of Penelope Pitstop: The Complete Series
…Collection” tag has been dropped in favor of “Classic Collection”, and the habit of numbering a release of a complete series has been wisely dropped. Inside the package, one will… |
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Pinocchio Deluxe Edition
…a huge seller on home video. It’s unfortunately become almost the “sacrificial lamb” of the Golden Age features, often put out on new video formats to test the waters. It… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
…his project involving re-creating the comic book collection of comics writer Len Wein, whose collection of comics he worked on was destroyed in a fire recently. Evanier had been contacted… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…coming to DVD ten years later, in 2002, as a quasi-Special Edition disc that wasn’t part of Disney’s then Gold Collection line and wasn’t a full-blown deluxe set either. There… |
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Secret Origin: The Story Of DC Comics
…resonated with Americans of the late 1930s, though the “profile” approach of each character doesn’t really allow for anything more than a collection of “exam pass notes” that gives the… |
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Disney Historian J.B. Kaufman on the greatest Snow White books of all!
…resources for researching Disney history. But you’re right, the collection of the Walt Disney Family Foundation also has a tremendous collection of its own, and it’s growing all the time…. |
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Macca Cartoons Get Big
…COLLECTION COMES TO EGYPTIAN. The American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre will be presenting a special children’s matinee screening of PAUL MCCARTNEY’S MUSIC AND ANIMATION COLLECTION on April 17 at… |
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News from The Front Lines
I was able to attend ASIFA-Hollywood’s special screening last night of Disney’s wartime cartoon collection On The Front Lines (from Wave 3 of the Walt Disney Treasures series) at the… |
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Bonhams & Butterfields celebrate Carl Barks at auction
…it is one of the most compelling examples of Barks’ painting ever brought to public auction. Featured highlights from the Estate of Carl Barks include: a large collection of preliminary… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy
…$32.99 Storyboard: Goofy, one of Disney’s most entertaining and popular cartoon stars finally gets the royal treatment with a complete collection of his greatest misadventures in one set. The Sweatbox… |
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Like a Bolt out of the Blu! Plus The Odd Couple!
…animation, I’d like to give a shout to one of the all-time classic comedy movies that’s just joined the ranks of Paramount’s Centennial Collection and comes highly recommended as a… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Three
…nephews had been a part of the cast since nearly the inception of his own series of shorts, but fresh faces were needed. So, in this collection we get to… |
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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
…(subtitled) trailer covering the entire collection’s contents. Disc two proper takes things further, with a number of interesting archival programs. Though these are all in Norwegian and without the benefit… |
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New announcements and Saturday Morning clips!
…1960s Collection Volume 2 will be available on DVD on October 27th. Pre-order now from Amazon.com! Valley Of The Dinosaurs: Such Luck Saturday Morning Cartoons 1970s Collection V2 will be… |
