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It's the Superman music box set, Charlie Brown!
…glossy slipcase and new featurette. Calling the two included specials “among the best the Peanuts cartoons had to offer”, the only thing that it seems we must not mention is… |
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Bruce Broughton's Bambi II; More Justice League and Tom & Jerry Tales
…successfully continued the Carl Stalling style through such looney animated offerings as Tiny Toons Adventures for Warner Bros, and the Roger Rabbit Maroon Cartoons and Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three… |
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Let's end the week with a game of Cartoon Catch-up…!
…the street date for Popeye The Sailor: Volume 3, 1941-1943. By the way, for those with all the previous incarnations of The Pink Panther films and cartoons on DVD, the… |
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Back Under The Sea, plus Filmation's DC Super Heroes!
…cheat: apart from popping up in the into to the Justice League cartoons in the set, he’s actually absent from any of the stories, so if you’re a classic Aquafan… |
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Tweety and Sylvester back on DVD
…is much to appreciate if you are a connoisseur of the cartoons put out by the old Termite Terrace gang”, mainly it seems from the plethora of classic character cameos…. |
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Looney Tunes meets Gargoyles…what's up, doc!?
…in a special edition DVD package. The cartoons this time around are very much more of the specialties that collectors have been waiting for, and as such those casual fans… |
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More Peter & The Wolf, Madagascar 2 – and a quick catch-up!
…thing and included the two Penguins cartoons in with the BD release of the film, according to the press release. Though it drops the Video Jukebox (ah, shame, he says… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. The Harman-Ising cartoons of the period were consistently compared to Walt’s cuter Symphonies so the intricately detailed quality is justly on the same level. It’s a typical Disney… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 3
…cartoons on DVD. X-Men: The Animated Series has steadily been released on DVD by Disney for the past year. While there have been minor themed releases here and there, this… |
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Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…drawing cartoons, one scene gags, and they had great fun with these gags. This looks like a scene where they’re brushing their beards or something. I’m not sure what’s happening…. |
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Dopey speaks: Snow White‘s characters and legacy!
…the time, when Hollywood collectively believed audiences would not sit through an hour and a half of cartoons. Over 70 years later, they not only sat through Snow White in… |
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
…the Green Lantern DVD/Blu-ray release, and gives a look at DC’s current crossover epic. Bruce Timm, per usual, selected some bonus cartoons for this disc. Here he has selected another… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume Two
…smile about when considering the image. Black and white cartoons can sometimes look extremely appealing, but these episodes look plain dull. Greys smear together, and there is very little that… |
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Roger Rabbit sequel to use mo-cap
…he said. But the human characters are apparently fair game: “All the other characters that [the cartoons] would sort of have fun with would be magnificent in performance capture technology”…. |
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Burton, Timm, Katzenberg to receive Winsor McCay Award
…cartoons with his visual take on DC Comics super heroes, beginning with his co-producing Batman: the Animated Series in 1992. Timm began his career in animation at Filmation, doing layouts… |
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Hollywood Reporter animation updates
…cartoons were mostly aimed at children”. Lastly, a very interesting Awards Watch article offers an Anatomy of Up, speaking to the filmmakers and looking behind the scenes at the concept… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…cartoons religiously — especially Disney’s Wonderful World of Color. Particularly, he adored Donald Duck. He loved everything about this quirky character with a goofy, fiery temper. Fantasia, Dumbo and the… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 1: It All Started With A…Mermaid!
…the best Mickey animation, do you think about cartoons like The Brave Little Tailor? MH: Yes, in which Frank, Freddy Moore and Ollie, all three of them, worked on Mickey…. |
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Actor Cuyle Carvin becomes a cartoon
…an award-winning throwback to the old ‘Uncle’ hosted shows of the 50s and 60s featuring many classic cartoons, has announced the cartoon caricatured style Cuyle Carvin Coloring Book. More can… |
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A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
…years to come. Today, many of these cartoons continue to be re-broadcast and some new animated sequels have been created based on the original stories. This includes the most recent… |
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Little Nemo, The Muppet Movie among those added to National Film Registry
…Brooks and Charles Durning. Quasi at the Quackadero (1975) Quasi at the Quackadero has earned the term “unique.” Once described as a “mixture of 1930s Van Beuren cartoons and 1960s… |
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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
…or two of dialogue. The old-school charm in the animation again recalls the simpler look of the Pooh cartoons, and although A Very Monkey Christmas isn’t as CG enhanced as… |
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Golden Globes for animation, and a teaser for this week…
…at the latest from Thunderbean, who continue to do collectors a huge service by collecting the most obscure and wonderful cartoons to be found on DVD. In terms of what’s… |
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Tom and Jerry Deluxe Anniversary Collection DVD in June
Warner Home Video has announced Tom and Jerry Deluxe Anniversary Collection DVD for 29th June. DVDActive shares the full rundown on included cartoons along with the official package artwork for… |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty awakens…
…with cartoons. Who wouldn’t love that?” The filmmakers first enlisted the support of Dick Cook, who at that time was chairman of The Walt Disney Studios. He had worked side… |
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Easter goodies, plus a review roundup!
…wacky Easter wabbits: Friz Freleng’s 1977 Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies pulls together some classic cartoons with new animated sequences for an entertaining enough hour, though stop-motion masters Rankin/Bass abandon that… |
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Disney Legend Floyd Norman writes (and talks) about his Animated Life
…and ill-tempered person he’s often described. Can you tell me more about YOUR Walt Disney? FN: I enjoyed drawing cartoons about Walt Disney and I often portrayed him as this… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…However, the cartoons and scrapbook are all missing here…perhaps this is another mystery for Basil to take on as his next case? The only other material of note is the… |
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Cartoon Network reviving Looney Tunes
…each episode of The Looney Toons Show as a half-hour story along with “cartoons within a cartoon.” The concept takes Bugs and Daffy out of the woods and puts them… |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: The Complete First Season
…after Jerry in most of these cartoons, and Jerry is still trying to get Tom into trouble. The themes contained in the show’s first season include animals, city life, music,… |
