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Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies

…these cartoons varies greatly with earlier cartoons notably suffering from old age. However, considering that some of these cartoons are almost 80 years old, I am glad that we are…

Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942

…full-color cartoons by the Fleischer Studios. Hey, there were the names I recognised on those excellent Popeye cartoons! Wow – this must be awesome, I thought. I begged my mother…

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two

…chance to see a handful of these Private SNAFU cartoons again, as well as three (of only four outings) cartoons featuring Hank Ketchum’s Navy pal Mr Hook. 1943’s Coming!! SNAFU…

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five

cartoons from the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes library right on time, and although there might not be quite as many choice selections as before, there’s a strong case for…

Comic-Con@Home Coverage

…on his work. Saturday – July 25 Warner Archive’s Secret Origins of Saturday Morning Cartoons Dip behind the curtain to reveal the beginnings of the beloved tradition of Saturday Morning

Flip The Frog: The Complete Series

…blacksmith, and then as a dentist, before wooing his feline girlfriend in Ragtime Romeo. The cartoons still basically follow the “music & gags” model, like many cartoons of the day,…

Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald Volume Four

…from Donald’s persona in these cartoons and towards his antagonists, but that does not mean that these were not great cartoons. Some of my personal favorite cartoons were Chip and…

Private Snafu Golden Classics

…the United States National Archives. The cartoons have undergone restoration, and surely we now have the best possible set of these cartoons. Compared to the older DVD, the cartoons now…

Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!

…not only ran their own studio (at one time they were Hanna-Barbera’s chief competitors on Saturday mornings), but they also were instrumental in many of Hanna-Barbera’s greatest successes. It was…

Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees

…just the 15 Oscar-winning cartoons, this three-disc, 41-title collection adds an additional 26 Nominees to the mix and brings together the likes of Bugs, Pepe, Speedy, Tweetie, Droopy, Tom &…

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…

Birdman & The Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series

…season, and shows like Fantastic Four and Birdman went into reruns, but then the superhero shows pretty much vanished from Saturday mornings. The closest thing to superheroes on Saturday mornings…

Plastic Man: The Complete Collection

…goofiest criminal turned superhero crime fighter stretches into his own animated program from the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons, facing a number of wild and wacky foes through a…

Beetle Bailey: The Complete Collection

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,…

Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons

…offerings devolved into largely formulaic and bland cartoons that many fans don’t mind forgetting. And next came the television cartoons and a further, inevitable dip in quality. Popeye animated cartoons

Stronger Than Spinach

…act in the cartoons, so one can’t say the personnel was inferior. In fact, had the cartoons stayed under the guidance of the Fleischers, they may have evolved in a…

George Of The Jungle: The Complete Original Series

…a show of strong quality. This release is recommended for anyone who has ever enjoyed Saturday morning cartoons or Rocky And Bullwinkle. Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board?…

Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles

…several non-Jones mouse cartoons are evoked to support the argument but, just when one might think it’s a scam to promote cartoons in some other collection, a welcome surprise is…

The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three

…the H-B cartoons their spark. Here Tom and Jerry are more mischievous, with careful plotting taking the place of a quick and painful revenge. Certainly, these cartoons are of their…

Casper and Wendy’s Ghostly Adventures

…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,…

The Best Of Casper: Volumes 1 and 2

…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…

Uncensored Bosko: Volume 1

…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,…

Otto Messmer And Felix The Cat

…The films themselves were also clever and whimsical, shining with a creative spark that other cartoons of that era could not match. The cartoons are admittedly crude by today’s standards,…

Bugs Bunny Superstar

…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…

Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy

…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…

Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume One

…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…

Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1

…what in the T&J cartoons makes people laugh. We hear more from Nicole Parker (who, in the commentary tracks, sounds as if she’s never seen the cartoons before so it’s…

Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit

…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…

The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu

…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…

Aesop’s Fables: Volumes 1 & 2

…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…