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The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection

…their lives in his hands as Rameses plans one final, vicious attack… The Sweatbox Review: The first traditionally hand-drawn animated feature to come from the then-new DreamWorks Studio was this…

Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land

DisneyToon Studios (February 15 2002), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 20 2002), single disc, 73 mins, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: The setting…

Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure

DisneyToon Studios/Walt Disney Home Entertainment (February 27 2001), single disc, 70 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Set right…

The Lion King 1½

DisneyToon Studios/Walt Disney Home Entertainment (February 10 2004), 2 discs, 77 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: The “untold tale” of…

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Two

…$65 Storyboard: 60 more fully uncut and restored cartoon classics from the studios of the Brothers Warner including such iconic shorts as Gorilla My Dreams, The Heckling Hare, Beep Beep,…

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…

The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney

…character shorts and rarely seen curios and oddities making their way back to the (small) screen courtesy of professionally packaged compilations that often do the bigger studios shame. While the…

Arthur And The Invisibles

…or if it would just be the result of another live-action director packing up his cameras for the safer, warmer climes of the computer studio. That some people were surprised…

American Legends (featuring John Henry)

…would finally be able to see the Studio’s long delayed short John Henry. When the cover art was posted on pre-order sites online, it was apparent that our wish had…

Little King and Bravestarr's best, plus hi-def gripes

…title from a major studio, and sell-through title from a major studio. Although this adds more kudos to the groaning Pixar shelf, the original disc was nothing to shout home…

Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1

Pixar Animation Studios (1984-2007), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 6 2007), single disc, 54 mins plus supplements, multiple aspect ratios (1.33-2.39:1 original full-frame and anamorphic widescreen), Dolby Digital, Not Rated,…

Walt Disney Treasures…live again!

…format those interesting in hi-def should be focusing on now is clearer than ever and with Universal looking to be the only major studio still on the fence it’s only…

My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie

…to translate traditionally animated icons into computer generated dummies, the result being more “Mouse Of Wax” than anything else. Much, much better was to come when the Studio repurposed the…

Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition

…Geisel at Warner Brothers, and when he found the Studio was closing down, set himself up as an independent producer, finding great success on television with the classic half-hour adaptation…

The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition

…enormous and somewhat unexpected success of the 1989 film immediately prompted a newly buoyant Disney Studio to expand their television animation division, itself enjoying a resurgence on the back of…

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

…Melman, Gloria, Marty and those Penguins making a smash-hit return to the big screen in Escape To Africa, DreamWorks’ Madagascar becomes the Studio’s second most important franchise, behind the increasingly…

Fantastic Mr Fox

Studios, with much of the same crew as worked there on Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. Given these British connections, not least Dahl’s original story, there’s a distinct Brit-feel to Mr…

Monsters, Inc.

Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios (November 2 2001), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 10 2009), 2 Blu-ray Discs plus DVD and Digital Copy, 92 minutes plus supplements, 1080p high definition…

Yogi’s First Christmas

…who got them to where they were. The single most powerful cartoon studio in Hollywood, Hanna-Barbera had some of its earliest successes in its comedy shows featuring anthropomorphic animals, and…

Roy E. Disney 1930-2009

…successful effort with the Save Disney campaign to remove Michael Eisner from office. In recent years, Roy became something of a figurehead for the Disney Studio, the only member of…

Warners goes Blu-combo too

A proven success primarily for the Disney Studio and being picked up as a packaging format of choice by other distributors, Warner Home Video is the latest studio to announce…

The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 3: The Orlando Features

…and serving as supervising animator on the Studio’s current contemporary classic! Disney’s Floridian animation studio is famous for the three animated features they produced, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch and Brother…

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas

Imagine Entertainment/Universal Studios Home Entertainment (October 13 2009), single disc, 57 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Not Rated, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: The adorable little monkey is…

How To Train Your Dragon

If there is one thing every other animation studio could learn from DreamWorks it is this: when talent is out there snatch it up! For years DreamWorks has gone after…

Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection

…series also “borrowed” much from other studios, and despite going on to become one of the most cherished cat and mouse shorts, The Cat Concerto is a direct copy of…

UPDATED: Toy Story 3 Home Release Formally Announced

…Night • the film’s epilogue on its own • Buzz Lightyear mission log “The Science of Adventure” • a “Paths to Pixar” piece on the studio’s editors • “Studio Stories”…

The secrets of Walt’s Vault unlocked…!

…never before appeared in print. Discover the forgotten agonizing month-by-month tale of legendary Warner Brothers animator and director Chuck Jones as he struggled at the Disney Studio when he was…

Warner Archive: Atlantis: The Lost Continent / The Power

…help from his friend Walter Lantz, after moving from Hungary to run his own studio in Berlin, developing his patented stop-motion Puppetoon system. With the threat of war in Europe,…

Danger Man / Secret Agent: The Complete Collection

…the legendary MGM British Studios, but that the show is not particularly tied to studio interiors only lends it a higher class of production value (incidentally, that pilot’s exteriors were…

Don Hahn discusses Fantasia 2000 and Waking Sleeping Beauty

…the renaissance that took place between 1984 and 1994 at the fabled Walt Disney Animation Studios and explains how Disney animation regained its magic with a staggering output of hits…