…cartoons! Good ol’ Beetle got his start in countless cartoons done by creator Mort Walker for a variety of magazines in the 1940s. He was a little different back then,…

…hive of television production, creating adequate but none too special cartoons for the small screen. The most prolific unit to close was perhaps Warner Bros. Cartoons, once the small corner…

…the cartoons were getting really repetitive; although I am sure many people were wondering why Casper never maintained his friends from the previous cartoons. In these cartoons, we see Wendy,…

…set geared towards collectors, where interest would lie in the many other cartoons produced by the studio around the time. Unfortunately this mishandling stretches to the cartoons themselves, by way…

…charm of watching old black and white cartoons. A less endearing quality is the murkiness present in some of the cartoons, especially Yodeling Yokels and Bosko’s Fox Hunt. Overall, though,…

…surviving original series of cartoons created by Walt, his brother Roy and lead animator Ub Iwerks that were released between the famed Alice Comedies and the eventual introduction of a…

…can see how Goofy’s design changes and how many of the later cartoons feature segments from previous shorts. Maltin’s introductions to the sensitive shorts really help place the cartoons in…

…Schoolhouse Rock was born. Schoolhouse Rock was broadcast on Saturday mornings on ABC between 1973 and 1985. They would also come back for five more years in the 1990s. The…

…where Pluto was a major scene-stealer (even in the later cartoons), some of these cartoons are labelled as Mickey entries, though that is mostly down to Studio cataloguing, and Mickey…

…and Carl Stalling. You will notice that most of those names are normally associated with the Warner Bros. cartoons. If you are one of those toonheads who loves the Disney…

…that many other cartoons of the era were of a similar calibre. On-screen liner notes for individual cartoons also provide useful commentary here. The Still Galleries provide a wealth of…

…“harsher” look of the 1970s WB cartoons). Director Chuck Jones keeps things interesting with a diversion or two along the way, too, such as the relatively off-beat inclusion of the…

…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…

…in…you guessed it, 3½ minutes! In a good way, there is no allusion to the more recently made cartoons, the tired 1970s TV specials, or the attempted 80s and 90s…

…The live-action hosts were soon dropped that April, and the show became simply Beany And Cecil, while adding newly made episodes. It began to be shown on Saturday mornings in…

…the show, like most Saturday morning cartoons, is repeated in every episode, but at least Flash’s music is pretty good. It captures the adventurous, classic feel of the show and…

Warner Bros. Animation (1937-2005), Warner Home Video (November 1 2011), 2 discs, 169 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital, Not Rated (some cartoons rated G, but…

…Jeep. These cartoons represent pure bliss for those of us who love the classic stuff. It simply does not get better than this. The 31 cartoons on the set represent…

…Soglow’s comic strip comes to life via the Van Beuren Studio, and this collection includes the complete series: all ten Little King cartoons, and two pre-King Sentinel Louie shorts plus…

…Collection transfers are visually, the same can be said about the soundtracks. Naturally the 1970s television material isn’t quite as top drawer as the restored earlier shorts or later cartoons…