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Perils of Penelope Pitstop: The Complete Series
…otherwise. Still, it’s much the same show episode after episode, even if each one is entertaining by itself. It may be just a Saturday morning cartoon, but it’s a pretty… |
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Shazzan: The Complete Series
…Loaded? Originally presented on Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s: Volume 2 (which never made sense, since this is a 1960s show, but whatever), The Power of Shazzan (5:45) nicely offers… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…take the lyrics away (or alter them, such as Saturday Night’s chant of “Saturday! Saturday” to “Gnomeo! Gnomeo!” as his friends cheer him on) and there’s some fun, random as… |
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Super Heroes premieres Cry Wolf this Saturday
Legion of Super Heroes continues its new season with the original episode, Cry Wolf, on Saturday, October 6 at 11:00 a.m. ET/PT, as part of the Kids’ WB! lineup on… |
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Brother Bear Opens No. 1 on Saturday.
According to Movie Zone, Brother Bear opened on Saturday with an impressive $11.155 million, making its total box office gross nearly $12 million, including last weekend’s opening in select cities…. |
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Wacky Races: The Complete Series
…Why number the only volume? Both Jetsons and Jonny Quest had revivals in the 1980s (so they may yet get second DVD volumes), but Wacky Races didn’t. The number strategy… |
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Super Friends: Season One, Volume One
…successful Saturday morning cartoons ever. Warner Home Video has already released most versions of the show, beginning with single disc releases (and later a complete series set) for Challenge Of… |
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Superman Classic creator Robb Pratt unveils Flash Gordon Classic
…Disney animator. He started at Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1994, where he worked on Pocahontas, Hercules, Tarzan and Fantasia 2000. Pratt later worked on Disney direct-to-video titles such as… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 1
…90’s show has been at the top of my list of shows that must be released in a season or multi-volume format. Up until now, despite the growing popularity of… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…development in the early 1980s, when the cost of producing the film to the standards thought to be needed proved too high. Eventual director Robert Zemeckis was actually offered the… |
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Spider-Man: The ’67 Collection
…Spider-Man was the first cartoon show that I watched on Saturday mornings, while my weekdays had reruns of the live-action Batman and Adventures Of Superman. As much as I loved… |
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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete First Season
…cranking out low-rent Saturday morning cartoons at the time, makes the appearance of this show on the cultural landscape makes it just that much more interesting. Of course, anyone familiar… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…TV broadcast, animated in the “Saturday morning” style with cost-cutting techniques and a somewhat rushed approach to the visuals (the Aladdin, Cinderella, Pocahontas and Mermaid sequels especially follow this heavy… |
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Thor: Tales of Asgard
…his friends, while the Blu-ray has a close-up of the cover image. Ink And Paint: The animation fell somewhere between movie and Saturday morning cartoon quality. Backgrounds, character designs, transitions… |
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Cartoons helping kids as a medical tool
It’s a simple fact that kids the world over like cartoons and medical professionals are using animation as a tool to connect with them. In India, the non-profit TeachAIDS organization… |
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How the Max Fleischer cartoons defined the “core” of Superman
…a series of cartoons directed by Max Fleischer during the 1940’s. It was from these shorts that the Man of Steel got several of his most iconic character traits, including… |
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Biggest Collection of Early Animated Cartoons
…José Stathes. He’s been collecting animation since the age of eleven and he hopes to use his collection to revive early cartoons. Read the entire story here: Fox News Latino…. |
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Watch Fairly OddParents creator Butch Hartman draw various cartoons in his show’s style
…active on social media. In a recently released YouTube video, he draws several characters from other modern cartoons and draws them in the style of his show, including Gravity Falls,… |
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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…by Dr Seuss (1950, 4:08) are quite a find, written and designed for the motor company by Ted Geisel and animated at the UPA studio, then a rising force in… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…on his update of the Tom And Jerry series, directing several of the new cartoons, including The Mouse From H.U.N.G.E.R. as well as the 1970 animated feature for Jones and… |
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Long-awaited Pink Panther cartoons coming to DVD
…set will include “124 cartoons produced by Freleng and DePatie between 1964 and 1980” and quite a few special features. Three bargain single-disc releases are due at the same time…. |
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Kids versus cartoons in Skatoony
…the show will pit real kids against cartoons, as contestants enter three rounds of challenges. The final contestant will have the opportunity to take everything in a race against the… |
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Vote for the 100 Greatest Cartoons
The UK’s Channel 4 wants viewers to vote for the 100 Greatest Cartoons of all time. The network later show a 4-hour marathon broadcast showcasing clips from the winners and… |
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Disturbing Disney cartoons
Screen Crush has an interesting look back at “10 Disturbing Classic Disney Cartoons”. From World War II propaganda films, to educational shorts about menstruation, to Mickey Mouse doing blackface —… |
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Kids watching adult cartoons; Ren & Stimpy returning to Nickelodeon
…900,000 viewers in that age group, according to Nielsen Media Research. Says David Goodman, executive producer of Family Guy, “I think it’s absolutely for adults,” he says. “I don’t let… |
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Press release: The Wubbcast video podcast for pre-schoolers
…short Opposites Jamboree, the podcast packages a selection of family-friendly cartoons, which are then sent to one’s iPod or PSP every week. For further information on The Wubbcast, please click… |
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Latest on Brer Rabbit, Cultoons, Cartoons for Victory, and Baby Looney Tunes
…Age titles Cultoons and Cartoons for Victory! have been moved to April 11th. Lastly, the press release for Baby Looney Tunes: Volume 1 – PlayDay Pals and Volume 2 –… |
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ASIFA-Hollywood to commemorate birthday of cartoons
To celebrate the 100th birthday of “animated cartoons,” the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive will have an open house on April 6th. The Big Cartoon Database offers a breakdown of the celebration,… |
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The Gremlins
…Bros. cartoons, however, were well underway, and producer Leon Schlesinger instead had the names of the cartoons changed. Bugs Bunny And The Gremlins became Falling Hare, and Gremlins From The… |
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More Futurama and "Weird Cartoons" headed for disc!
…Legend Presents: The Complete Weird Cartoons, a great sounding collection of early American animation shorts, many of them either previously “censored” or not seen in years and making their DVD… |
