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Beauty and the Beast enchanting its way onto Blu-ray June 6th; cover art and trailer revealed
…directly to all your favorite songs and sing along with the movie. “Belle” “How Does a Moment Last Forever” (Music Box) “Belle” (Reprise) “Gaston” “Be Our Guest” “Days in the… |
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2004: Looking like a great year for animation on DVD!
…of Forbidden Planet (for which the Disney Studio provided the film’s many animated special effects in 1956). Also reported are long-rumored first season editions of the classic Hanna–Barbera shows The… |
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Van Eaton Galleries
…studios such as Disney, Warner Bros., and Hanna–Barbera. Some of their recent additions include cels from The Little Mermaid, The Great Mouse Detective, Mickey’s Christmas Carol, and Alice in Wonderland…. |
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Back to business: new reviews and announcements!
…Rodney takes on Hanna–Barbera’s famed cat and mouse for Tom & Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 2, a belated follow up to the original 2000 disc. Containing fourteen original animated shorts,… |
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Beetle Bailey: The Complete Collection
…as “Gopher” in Disney’s Winnie The Pooh theatrical featurettes. Allen Melvin (often heard on Hanna–Barbera cartoons, including the title character on Magilla Gorilla) plays Sergeant Snorkel. I could also hear… |
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Mad Monster Party
…TV specials Frosty The Snowman and Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer and were one of the major producers of television animation, along with Hanna–Barbera. Their list of credits sounds like… |
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Kermit, Piggy, Woody, Oswald…and Jerry Beck too!
…Treasures, which look like they’ll be pleasing us come Christmas. Warners, who have practically led the classic revival this year with tons of nostalgic television programming, mined their Hanna–Barbera and… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…was developed within the Hanna–Barbera studio and outsourced to Collingwood’s own production company and overseas, though pleasingly again the quality level is easily above and beyond the kind of routine… |
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Yogi! New announcements! And tons of Pinocchio clips!
…Yogi Bear!, the 1964 animated feature comedy from Hanna–Barbera that marked their return to the big screen after producing so many of the original Tom & Jerry shorts. Hey There… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
Warner Bros. Animation / Hare Raising Films / United Artists (July 9 1975), Warner Archive Collection (November 8 2012), single disc, 91 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original Academy ratio, Dolby… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Composer J.A.C. Redford!
…sequences, but there are cues like Bedtime Stories where they really let the music sing. And it was supposed to sing. There were moments when they really needed to provide… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…they were a little younger! Finishing up, we have Vincent Price’s classic moment from the film, The World’s Greatest Criminal Mind, in sing–along mode. Presented in full-frame 4×3, this is… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…have the DVD Storybook that offers up a new story, Dumbo’s Big Discovery, while a couple of Sing–along Songs for Look Out For Mr Stork and Casey Jr are included…. |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition
…original cut backgrounds. Other than a sing–along subtitle track, that’s it for extras that play through the movie, so we move on to Backstage Disney, which collects two extras (all… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…And The Great Prince Of The Forest title. For, following the tried and tested DisneyToon formula, the movie is another in the long line of “mid-quels”…essentially filling in “missing” scenes… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…and a couple of sing–alongs. The Big Top Edition swapped out Crawford’s song for a performance by Jim Brickman and Kassie DePaiva and dropped the Reluctant Dragon sequence, but did… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…a sing–along subtitle track, that’s it for extras that play through the movie, so we move on to Backstage Disney, which collects two extras (all in HD except where noted)…. |
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Winnie The Pooh
…was a Honey Tree storyteller record! A Disney Song Selection and Sing–Along With The Movie are pretty self-explanatory, playing through the film’s seven brief songs with or without onscreen lyrics… |
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2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…like leading them on to a sing–a-long of the main theme. The panel this year consisted of just members of the English voice cast, though it was the main players… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Documentary)
…course, and the kids then proceed to sing about the lovable loser. When narrator Don Sherwood goes on to describe the characters from the strip, animation shows such classic set-ups… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…first movie he saw. He met some people at the university who were also very interested in animation and together they started to work for advertising agencies, as storyboarders. They… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…keep things ticking along, just as in a live action setting. Perhaps this calmer atmosphere was a reaction to Alice In Wonderland, which had garnered much criticising of its haphazard… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
…very difficult to recommend this new edition. With more involving menus, the full Disney television show program, a couple of Sing–alongs and a generally nicer feel, the Gold Collection edition… |
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Return To The Sea (again), plus Dr Horrible and another Nutty Professor…
…Big grins all around! While I’m off riffing, I’ll make a mention of Dr Horrible’s Sing–Along Blog finally coming to DVD in a couple of days, where it will be… |
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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
…Second Screen? demonstrates the feature and how the featured content should play in sync with the movie. Play Movie also offers up a Sing–Along Mode which basically subtitles the lyrics… |
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Disney Blu-ray 3D Reissues: Chicken Little / Meet The Robinsons / Bolt / G-Force
…executed moment, comes along, it’s instantly clear that all the heart and emotion that the middle had been missing has been saved up for this ingenious third act. If any… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…Tramp, with a great deal of time spent with singer/songwriter Peggy Lee and co-songwriter Sonny Burke. The footage of Lee singing He’s A Tramp is scintillating, while the Mello Men… |
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Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell . . . Kid Rock?
…Days of Christmas.” The segment will air December 14 on VH1 as part of A Kid Rock Christmas. No word yet on whether his girlfriend Pamela Anderson, who herself is… |
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More Mickey! It's a big day for the mouse!
…future, with first-look clips from the 2D feature Three Musketeers, the 3D them park attraction Mickey’s Philharmagic and next Christmas’ 3D video title Twice Upon A Christmas. Follow our link… |
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The UK's 100 Greatest Cartoons!
…(1978) 85 = Droopy Dog (1943-55) 84 = Roobarb (1974) 83 = Dumbo (1941) 82 = How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) 81 = Babaar (1989-91) 80 = Yogi Bear… |
