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DVD reviews: Gargoyles, Treasures Mickey Mouse Club and Mickey Mouse in Black and White
Coming Soon! has reviews for the DVDs Gargoyles – The Complete First Season (Special 10th Anniversary Edition) (“If you like action-adventure cartoons, then you’ll love Gargoyles. There’s hours of entertainment… |
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Classic \\Popeye\\, rare Charley Bowers shorts added to the National Film Registry
…for cartoon supremacy. This classic by renowned animators Max and Dave Fleischer features lush three-dimensional sets, Technicolor, and was twice the length of normal eight-minute cartoons”. {{link http://www.awn.com/folioscope/gazette/archives/39/bowers.html }}Of \\There… |
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Animated News’ PICKS OF THE YEAR 2004
…that Charles Schulz ever created. Each volume covers two years, and two volumes will be released each year. The first two volumes are already out. Volume 3 is coming out… |
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Krazy Kat DVD gets thumbs up
…to the fore one of the most forgotten of the early cartoon stars. {{link http://reviews.goldenagecartoons.com/pietro-krazy.html Golden Age Cartoons}} has more of a history of the character rather than a straight… |
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Entertainment Rights receives rights for He-Man
…has boosted its library of programming from 50 hours to more than 1,800 hours of children’s and family characters and brands. Thanks to George C at the AN Forum for… |
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Japanese animé still hot, but South Korea in focus at Belgian festival
…be featured. “‘For a long time Korea was seen as a place where Europeans could make their cartoons in a cheap way,’ the festival director, Philip Moins, told Kyodo News…. |
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Stays animated even in milk: Lilo & Stitch breakfast cereal
While other animation blogs are turning their attention to rather trivial matters such as news of adults watching cartoons and what might be in Popeye’s pipe, we here at Animated… |
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Post posts commentary on "reimagined" Looney Tunes, "Loonatics"
…Tunes shorts will continue to air on television, in addition to remarking, “…these are cartoons. Lighten up! They’re fun and the existence of one doesn’t preclude the existence of another.”… |
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Genndy Tartakovsky tribute at the Egyptian
…Genndy Tartakovsky. Genndy will be playing some of his Samurai Jack material, his brand-new Clone Wars cartoons, and works of others who have influenced him (original link via Cartoon Brew)…. |
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Skwigly charity auction
…studios for artwork to be auctioned, with many of them signed by the directors and crew involved. Prints from cartoons such as Cramp Twins, Peppa Pig, My Little Pony, The… |
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Classic Pink Panther on DVD
…Of The Pink Panther remains under rights to another company, though it was available on disc separately {{link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0784012644/qid=1117450497/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7799063-0412607?v=glance&s=dvd from Artisan}} and a new edition is on the way to… |
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Reviews: Spider-Man: Venom Saga, Samurai Jack: Season Two
…DVD. Giving the set’s video a score of 7/10 and its audio a score of 6/10, the site enjoys the featured episodes and extras more, rating them 9/10 and 8/10…. |
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New Disney DVD updates
…does have some {{link http://www.ultimatedisney.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9674 menu shots up}} for three other discs released July 12, including The Best Of The Mickey Mouse Club, whose 90-minute running time suggests the shows… |
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Pixar's One Man Band poster
Following {{link http://www.animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/archives/00003619.html our sneak peek}} at Pixar’s new short last week, regular reader Joost vd Bosch, of ka-Ching Cartoons, has sent in a scan of the souvenir card handed… |
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Jamboree offers educational look at opposites
Bishop Animation has finished work on their latest short film, Opposites Jamboree, an educational look at the world of opposites. With the spirit of past Sesame Street cartoons, the short… |
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More toons come alive in future film spin-offs
Apart from The Jetsons, Yogi Bear and the return of Garfield to the big screen, {{link http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8184943/site/newsweek/ MSNBC’s Newsweek}} has a small piece on more cartoons set to “go live”… |
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Paul Winchell dead at 82
Paul Winchell, best known as the voice of Tigger in Disney’s \\Winnie the Pooh\\ cartoons and Gargamel in \\The Smurfs\\, has died at the age of 82, according to the… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 set to hit stores October 25th!!
…fourth disc. 60 cartoons overall, once again lovingly remastered and restored to look like they did when they first debuted decades ago.” What about another half-baked Premiere Collection, you ask?… |
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Nike's Knight moving into feature animation
Studio Briefing for July 20 reports that Phil Knight, founder of athletic footware company Nike, is gearing up to create a stop-motion/computer-animation hybrid animated feature to be released in 2007…. |
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Jobs and Iger in talks to continue Disney/Pixar partnership
…Disney movies and ABC television shows for a video iPod that is in the works at Apple. Supposedly, Jobs is particularly interested in bringing classic Disney cartoons to the iPod…. |
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Superman, Popeye, and Hercules team up for DVD set
Thought little is known at this time regarding the package, the 3-disc Superhero Collection DVD set, offering cartoons from Superman, Popeye, and Hercules, will arrive in stores on December 6th…. |
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Animated "kid's films" becoming increasingly adult
Recent studies like one series conducted by Harvard University suggest that animated movies are becoming increasingly violent with more abundant mature undertones. SeattlPI comments that while cartoons have long had… |
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Pink Panther Show on the prowl to DVD
…Cartoons” featurette, and the animated title screens from five of the live-action Pink Panther movies. Also due for delivery on January 31st are three single-disc volumes of the cartoon series…. |
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Underdog's Tuxedo and Gophers due for DVD
Go-Go Gophers and Tennessee Tuxedo, two cartoon segments which regularly played in-between Underdog cartoons in The Underdog Show, are about to get new DVD releases from Classic Media and distributor… |
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Extras for Teen Titans – The Complete First Season unveiled
…“Finding Their Voices,” a behind-the-scenes look at the show; Toon Topia bonus cartoons: The Hiros Episodes 1 and 2; “Comic Creations – From Comic Book to Cartoon” featurette; a Puffy… |
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Nickelodeon orders more Squarepants
The Star Online eCentral reports that Nickelodeon has ordered 20 more episodes of SpongeBob Squarepants, bringing the show’s total amount of episodes to 100. The episodes are projected to have… |
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Wally Gator, Quick Draw, Fat Albert DVD news
…Cosby Kids – Volume 3, word comes that the 2-disc title will finally enter stores on May 2nd. Meanwhile, there springs some sad news for anyone anticipating the DVD releases… |
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DC Toy Fair photos
…photos that have been posted online which feature figures from the Fantastic Four animated series, figures from classic Warner Bros. cartoons, and figures “inspired” by Cartoon Network’s Clone Wars series…. |
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China bans animated/live-action hybrids
…penalties would be levied for violators, it did not specify what those punishments would be. The letter also failed to provide examples of “so-called cartoons that mainly feature real people… |
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RIP, Robert "Tiger" West
…was his development of Xerox equipment for the processing of animation. From 1950 to 1953, he was an employee of MGM, working as an assistant on the Tom and Jerry… |

