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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…edition even back in the LaserDisc days, the most unusual special feature to be found on that format was an additional Spanish track (what, no French!?) and the debut of… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…coming late in the game on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD even though it was a big hit back in original release. Why The Rescuers has always been “late to the… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…as far back as the 1990s LaserDisc release and runs for 16 – yes, just 16 – minutes! Though this is a quickly paced and essentially valuable piece, it hasn’t… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…will remember it already from the LaserDisc and previous DVD discs. Also cribbed from the original LD is a full-length Audio Commentary with Hahn, Trousdale and Wise, who bring their… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…theatrical reissue, also appearing on LaserDisc at the same time and allowing for a frame-by-frame analysis of that Sykes car shot and his eventual comeuppance on the Brooklyn Bridge subway… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…Fans of the film who previously owned the CAV LaserDisc boxed set of Pocahontas will know that If I Never Knew You is good for a couple of other reasons… |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…and, indeed, as appeared back in the LaserDisc days? Supposedly, this Deluxe Anniversary Collection offers the “cream-of-the-crop” picks from the duo’s long career, taking in Hanna-Barbera’s original theatrical animated shorts,… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…with, but for long-time collectors and LaserDisc owners, there’s a strong sense of déjà vu in store: most if not all of this material has been available elsewhere. First up… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…screen or television by way of VHS, LaserDisc and DVD, Beauty And The Beast is also a perennial title that the Studio has sometimes been close to over-egging, from the… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…this second collection of Hanna-Barbera MGM material with class and style. LaserDisc Archives: The Art Of Tom And Jerry – Volume One LaserDisc Archives: The Art Of Tom And Jerry… |
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Bedknobs And Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition
…in time for the film’s 25th Anniversary LaserDisc release. This added 22 minutes to the film, giving it an impressive runtime of 139 minutes. Since then, no other version has… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…With Disney (perhaps the best release of all this material is still the 1990s deluxe Exclusive Archive Collection boxed edition LaserDisc). But Walt & El Grupo doesn’t carry a “The… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…an argument for extending the pace of the fade out here, allowing for the shock to settle in (the LaserDisc pressing used to help matters, the side break appearing at… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…and indeed kept this up through this series. Now recompiled for DVD following a near 20-year old LaserDisc anthology set, we kick off as before with Pent-House Mouse (1963), and… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…find CAV LaserDisc edition of the home video compilation The Best Of Roger Rabbit did chance upon a background gag only seen in freeze-frame mode. When Roger swoops down to… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…going to get reissued past a 1990s LaserDisc, at least the Blu-ray’s transfer was spotless. Disney also scored well with the latest in its Tinker Bell franchise, The Secret Of… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three
…as possible, however, is an entirely different matter! LaserDisc Archives: The Art Of Tom And Jerry – Volume One LaserDisc Archives: The Art Of Tom And Jerry – Volume Two… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…list of bonus features, my mind went back to the exceptional LaserDisc box sets of the 1990s, when all matter of things specifically compiled for the collector were included in… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…reasons highlighted above; even its LaserDisc debut skipped on offering anything of note), Disney actually gave the film a surprisingly fine DVD treatment for its Gold Collection series, with some… |
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Warner Archive: Captain Sindbad
…of remastering, or the absence of extras, and especially the $20 price point. But I say “phooey!” to that: I remember a time back in the LaserDisc days when an… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…the deluxe LaserDisc collections of the 1990s bringing new appreciation to their many animated shorts and the internet a chance for fans to exchange views and really get together to… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…Adventures unwittingly kick-started the DTV craze with How I Spent My Vacation, never intentioned for the big screen but released to video and LaserDisc at the insistence of Spielberg, who… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…long while now for a decent disc update to the wonderfully deluxe LaserDisc edition of Pinocchio that collectors cherished back at the end of 1993! That package, coming in a… |
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Warner Archive: The Big Circus
…of remastering, or the absence of extras, and especially the $20 price point. But I say “phooey!” to that: I remember a time back in the LaserDisc days when an… |
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Warner Archive: A Distant Trumpet
…of remastering, or the absence of extras, and especially the $20 price point. But I say “phooey!” to that: I remember a time back in the LaserDisc days when an… |
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Warner Archive: Captain Nemo And The Underwater City
…of remastering, or the absence of extras, and especially the $20 price point. But I say “phooey!” to that: I remember a time back in the LaserDisc days when an… |
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Warner Archive: Freebie And The Bean
…of remastering, or the absence of extras, and especially the $20 price point. But I say “phooey!” to that: I remember a time back in the LaserDisc days when an… |
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Warner Archive: Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze
…of remastering, or the absence of extras, and especially the $20 price point. But I say “phooey!” to that: I remember a time back in the LaserDisc days when an… |
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The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons
…presumably from recently restored HD masters, and some not so great, presumably from the best available transfers perhaps from the LaserDisc days. Jerry himself was instrumental in bringing a terrific… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…a terrific anthology collection put out by MGM themselves on LaserDisc in the early 1990s contained the chronological adventures of Tom & Jerry without cuts and with the original soundtracks… |
