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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…mongrel Dodger and joins a gang of down and out dogs of various breeds and temperaments who hang out with human pickpocket Fagin. As per tradition, Fagin finds himself under… |
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Nextoons: The NickToons Film Festival Announces Festival Judges
…of TV cartoons such as Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Simpsons, Powerpuff Girls, and the current Disney series Super Robot Monkeys, in addition to numerous animated features. For the Batman… |
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Scooby-Doo designer Iwao Takamoto dead at 81
…the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatians. In mid-August of 1961, Takamoto moved to Hanna-Barbera Studios, where he helped reinvent cartoons for television. Virtually all the characters and cartoons released… |
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Jonny Quest: The Complete First Season
…the dog Bandit. The Sweatbox Review: It is easy to forget now just how innovative Jonny Quest was. Back in 1964, there had only been three previous animated prime-time shows—… |
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New announcements and Saturday Morning clips!
…Collection Volume 2, both out next week. Some classic Jetsons and Valley Of The Dinosaurs nostalgia awaits you below… Stay tooned! — Ben. The Jetsons: Dog Slobber Saturday Morning Cartoons… |
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Artist Bob Camp recalls the ill-fated Space Jam 2
…or Your Gang, in which a live-action host presented an assortment of cartoons, each a parody of popular cartoon scenarios. Camp and Kricfalusi shared an office with animation historian Jerry… |
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Big Hero 6
…Jerry were given overtly superhero makeovers or, to a lesser degree, such things as immense strength and other powers for a handful of cartoons. Theatrically, though, that was about as… |
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Inkwell Images add many new titles to their DVD roster!
…compilations featuring the very early work of {{link http://www.inkwellimagesink.com/pages/cartoons/cartoons-WaltDisney.htm Walt Disney}}, such as the Newman Laugh-O-Grams and the Alice Comedies, and the {{link http://www.inkwellimagesink.com/pages/cartoons/cartoons-MaxFleischer.htm Fleischer Brothers}}, including new Out Of… |
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Su and Mo poke "crude, rude and lewd" fun at the Film Festival experience
…Boas, animator and co-director. “I look at it like the classic Pepé Le Pew cartoons. They’re funny not because they mock the French, but because they use clichés and the… |
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Cartoon Network Wins Three Pulcinella Awards
For this first time in its history, Cartoon Network was honored by the prestigious “Cartoons on the Bay, International Festival on Television Animation” with three top awards, including “Best Series… |
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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume Two
…left. The slipcase has the same front cover, but a different back cover. The cover says “32 Cartoons”, which is really incorrect. I know there are four cartoons in each… |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…the Betty Boop cartoons and the Hoppity Goes To Town feature, only two of the six/eight shorts have been brought to this disc, again as per the 60th Anniversary DVD… |
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Spider-Man: The New Animated Series: Special Edition
…like an arachnid; but Stan Lee’s script and Steve Ditko’s artwork struck a chord with readers, and this underdog hero became one of the most popular superheroes in comics. He… |
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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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Space Ghost & Dino Boy: The Complete Series
…cartoons began in 1966, when all three major networks began to rely on new cartoons for most of their Saturday morning schedules. Prior to this, reruns of popular kids shows… |
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Birdman & The Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series
…approach. Toth set the standard back then for what adventure cartoons should look like, with his work carrying on into the 1970s and beyond with such series as Super Friends…. |
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The One That Started It All… The Making Of Snow White
…(around the time that the Studio had switched to fully color cartoons in its Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony series) to tell them a story and let them into his… |
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Cultoons! Volume 2: Animated Education
…A second helping of, as the packaging suggests, “rare, lost and strange cartoons”, featuring a host of early animated information and safety curios. The Sweatbox Review: Steve Stanchfield’s Thunderbean bounces… |
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WB Academy Award Animation Collection – Winners!
Out February 12, the Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection presents the jewels from the crown of the Studio’s archive of classic cartoons, including shorts from WB’s own Looney Tunes… |
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DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures
…cartoons actually looked and felt like the panels they were drawn from, and the approach – while forced upon the program makers by necessity – took advantage of both mediums… |
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WALL-E: 3-Disc Special Edition
…the Presto animated short that accompanied WALL•E in theaters. At just 5:15 it’s one of Pixar’s fastest and wittiest cartoons – that being the optimum word – and an unusual… |
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Ruby-Spears’ Superman: DC Comics Classic Collection
…And The Tramp than the typical Saturday morning cartoons, a longer than usual length, and sterling vocal performances from another Disney stalwart, Hans Conried, among others, gave the film life… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…from the toy commercial aspect of kids television cartoons, and the writing reflected the darker, more mature world that Batman inhabited, and I felt the continuation from Burton’s movies in… |
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Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles: The Complete Series
…1966— the first, great year of Saturday morning cartoons. The live action Batman was getting lots of buzz prior to its primetime premiere on ABC, and that may explain why… |
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Thor: Tales of Asgard
…are smooth and clean, showing up nicely in HD. There were very little outlines, however. In most cartoons, characters are outlined in black or a darker, contrasting color to set… |
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Heidi’s Song
…want to try and escape back into the country. The Sweatbox Review: Given their start in full-quality theatrical animated cartoons with MGM’s prestigious Tom & Jerry shorts, it always struck… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote as he pleased…
…closer you are to the crazy ideas that are being invented to give birth to the animated cartoons we love. It was therefore critically important for me to focus on… |
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Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem
…similar previous attempts in cartoons, falls short of making sense. I have never thought that cyberpunk and Batman fit together terribly well, largely due to the necessity in a movie… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…and Rhythm In The Ranks. Incidentally, of the twelve additional cartoons that appeared in only standard definition on The Puppetoon Movie Blu-ray (as well as the previous DVD), only Aladdin… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…or both — the Superman movies set was a super-disappointment, as was the much-lambasted Fleischer cartoons disc. As for Disney [below right], Strange World and, certainly, The Little Mermaid didn’t… |
