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\nanimation\/video.stuff #1, from hmccracken, 526 chars, Sun Apr 14 19:33:11 1991
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\nTITLE: _Crusader Rabbit_ on video
\nTwo people have told me they’ve seen _Crusader Rabbit_ cartoons
\navailable on el cheapo videotapes, but I’ve yet to see them
\nmyself. Has anyone here actually seen such tapes, and can they
\ntell me if they’re the Jay Ward ones or the later version produced
\nby another studio (the former would be in black-and-white, the
\nlatter should be in color)? Any Boston-area BIXen who could point
\nme to a store around here that was actually selling the tapes would
\nbe doing me a special favor.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #2, from hmccracken, 184 chars, Mon Apr 15 21:37:21 1991
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\nTITLE: If there are any _Colonel Bleep_ fans out there…
\nthey may be interested to hear that Streamline Pictures will
\nsoon be releasing the Col.’s adventures on videotape.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #3, from hmccracken, 347 chars, Mon Apr 15 21:39:25 1991
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\nTITLE: If you don’t have _The Little Mermaid_ or _Peter Pan_ on videotape
\nand want to, grab them quick. Disney has stopped shipping them to
\nstores, effective Apr 1st. Of course, _Mermaid_ is just now making
\nits Disney Channel debut, and _Peter Pan_ will probably be on the
\nChannel eventually, so they are still available in that form.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #4, from morganfox, 17 chars, Tue Apr 16 07:21:00 1991
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\nYES! Col. Bleep!<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #5, from aturn, 351 chars, Tue Apr 16 08:37:22 1991
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\nZero-Zero Island?
\nHis pals, Squeak the puppet and Scratch the caveman?
\nDoctor Destructo?
\nThe Black Knight?
\nThe Black Robot?
\nThe Black Pirate?
\nOkay, if that’s what you like. As far as I’m concerned, though, it
\nfalls under the category of “drawn pictures displayed on the TV”. There was,
\nas I remember it, no (or virtually) no *animation* involved.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #6, from hmccracken, 137 chars, Tue Apr 16 18:19:34 1991
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\nFrom what little I’ve seen of _Col. Bleep_, you’re absolutely right,
\nbut it seems to be fondly remembered by a lot of people.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #7, from davemackey, 214 chars, Tue Apr 16 20:11:31 1991
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\nI have seen the tapes out there but haven’t had need to pick them
\nup myself. If I’m in a K-mart or Caldor or similar and I see ’em,
\nI’ll get it and report back to you on it.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #8, from hmccracken, 85 chars, Tue Apr 16 20:34:59 1991
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\nI’ll also check out the Caldor near me, a good source of el cheapo
\ntapes.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #9, from davemackey, 282 chars, Tue Apr 16 23:40:56 1991
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\nIncidentally, there was quite a bit of waxing nostalgic over the
\nBleepster (and his close cousin from England, Dodo The Kid From
\nOuter Space) a long time ago over in the boob.tube category —
\nread the thread that starts with #68 for details.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #10, from hmccracken, 810 chars, Sat Apr 20 16:52:04 1991
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\nTITLE: Cartoons in Spanish
\nWhile browsing in Woolworth’s today, hoping to come upon the Crusader
\nRabbit tapes I mentioned earlier in this topic, I found a bunch of
\nchep PD tapes in the Cartoon Superstar series, a line of crummy tapes
\nI’ve seen at Woolworth’s before. The difference this time was that
\nthe packaging for the tapes- which included Little Lulu, Casper,
\nBabyuey, and similar titles — was all in Spanish. The tapes were
\nfive bucks apiece, but a sneaking suspicion that they might just be
\ncartoons in English inside a Spanish-language case kept me from
\nbuying any, at least for the moment.<\/p>\n
Has anybody seen these? Do you know if they’re recently-dubbed cartoons,
\nor ones that were released in Spanish back when they were made? If
\nthe latter is true, they could be quite interesting.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #11, from davemackey, 857 chars, Mon Apr 29 21:01:25 1991
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\nI know of the existence of some Spanish-dubbed cartoons that
\nChannel 47 in New York used to show, but none from the Paramount
\nstudio. They had Mighty Mouse theatricals, Hanna-Barbera New
\nCartoon Series (Wally Gator, etc.) and the ever-popular Batfink.
\nI believe these were all overdubbed in Mexico, quite badly. If
\nyou listen carefully to the soundtracks of these, you can hear
\nthe original voice track faintly beneath. I don’t envision that
\nthere was ever a theatrical market for this sort of stuff, so I
\nwould assume these dubbings were done for television stations.
\nMore recently the New York Spanish stations are showing
\nSpanish-track DIC cartoons like “C.O.P.S.” and “Beverly Hills
\nTeens,” a series which I believe has never been mentioned in the
\nAnimation conference before, but not for lack of trying. \ud83d\ude42
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #12, from hmccracken, 215 chars, Mon Apr 29 21:57:15 1991
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\nI suspect that these tapes may either be in English or be
\nnew dub jobs — unless the manufacturer was able to find
\nSpanish-language prints of all those PD cartoons that
\neverybody else releases in English.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #13, from elfhive, 386 chars, Tue Apr 30 17:27:34 1991
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\nTITLE: Jungle Book
\nPicked up a copy of the videotape at Crown Books in downtown D.C. for an
\namazing $16.89. I have been waiting for the Disney release for
\nyears. I’m real pleased to add this to the collection. While I don’t
\nthink this does any justice at all to Kipling’s original story and
\noverall the film is mediocre, there are some very inspired moments and
\nsome wonderful songs.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #14, from hmccracken, 311 chars, Tue Apr 30 20:30:49 1991
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\nPoor story, nothing to do with Kipling, but some of Disney’s
\nbest animation ever. I used to think it was the last great
\nDisney feature, but now I think that the fact that it was the
\nfirst film I ever saw may have colored my opinion of it. I
\nstill love it and will definitely be picking up the tape.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #15, from davemackey, 503 chars, Tue Apr 30 23:18:46 1991
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\nThis is one I’m going to have to get myself, too, and for the
\nsame reasons you cite. It’s one of the musically rich later
\nfeatures, with great songs as “I Wanna Be Like You” and “Bear
\nNecessities” brought to life by such talents as Louis Prima and
\nPhil Harris.
\nIf you’re looking for reasonably authentic Kipling
\nadventures in animation, try Chuck Jones’ trilogy of “The White
\nSeal,” “Rikki Tikki Tavi” and “Mowgli’s Brothers.” (I think
\nthey’re all on tape.)
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #16, from elfhive, 263 chars, Wed May 1 11:07:59 1991
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\nThanks for the pointers to Chuck Jones. The other tape I have to get is
\nthe “Best Of” which Hugh and Mary Ann Kenner shared with shadow and I
\nbefore they moved to Georgia. “One Froggy Night” still occupies part of
\nmy laugh center and is difficult to dislodge \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #17, from hmccracken, 354 chars, Wed May 1 12:03:06 1991
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\nThe Jones Kipling specials are closer to Kipling than Disney’s
\n_Jungle Book_ (and possibly made as a sort of rejoinder to it),
\nbut they’re definitely Chuck Jones films. One character is
\na dead ringer for Wile E. Coyote (Jones did the same thing when
\nhe made some Raggedy Ann and Andy films: he introduced a wolf
\nwho looked just like Wile E.).
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #18, from davemackey, 257 chars, Wed May 1 19:28:33 1991
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\nThe “Salute To Chuck Jones” tape is a great one to own because
\nmost of his great cartoons are there in one place for you: “Duck
\nDodgers,” “What’s Opera Doc?”, “One Froggy Evening,” “Feed The
\nKitty,” “High Note,” etc.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #19, from davemackey, 595 chars, Fri May 3 00:10:37 1991
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\nTITLE: Six new Disney videos
\n….will be released June 7, all at $12.99.
\nThe following are in the Mini-Classics series: “The Prince
\nAnd The Pauper” (the recently-produced featurette starring Mickey
\nMouse in the title roles), “Willie The Operatic Whale,” and
\n“Peter And The Wolf.” For a limited time you may buy any two
\nMini-Classics, send in the proof of purchase and $2.99 and get a
\nPluto plush puppet.
\nAnd these episodes of the “New Adventures of Winnie The
\nPooh”: There’s No Camp Like Home, Win Some Lose Some, and All’s
\nWell That Ends Well.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #20, from hmccracken, 444 chars, Fri May 3 14:52:44 1991
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\nI think a lot of people will be glad to hear that _Willie the
\nOperatic Whale_ will be out on tape; it seems to strike a
\ncertain chord in those folks who are of the right age to have
\nseen it when it was originally released as part of _Make Mine
\nMusic_ (that *was* the film it was in, right?). My folks, at
\nleast, both have always been very fond of it, and I heard their
\ngleeful descriptions of it for years before I actually saw it.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #21, from davemackey, 256 chars, Fri May 3 23:42:49 1991
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\nYes, “Willie The Operatic Whale” (released as a featurette on
\nAug. 17, 1954) was originally the “Whale Who Wanted To Sing At
\nThe Met” segment of “Make Mine Music.” Sequence directors were
\nGerry Geronimi and Ham Luske.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #22, from davemackey, 1220 chars, Wed May 8 19:11:49 1991
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\nTITLE: Magoo videos
\nHere’s an exact breakdown of the contents of Paramount Home Video’s Mr. Magoo
\ntapes:
\n“The Mr. Magoo Show,” Vols. 1-4, each contain five UPA cartoons from the
\n1960-1961 production, at $9.95 each.
\n“What’s New Mr. Magoo,” Vols. 1-3, each contain two half-hour episodes
\nfrom the 1978 DePatie-Freleng series, at $12.95 each.
\n“Mr. Magoo’s Literary Classics” each contain two half-hour episodes of
\n“The Famous Adventures Of Mr. Magoo” from 1964. (Bob McKimson worked on
\nsome of these, for you Warner Bros. completists.) They’re all $12.95 each.
\n“Uncle Sam Magoo” is the famous special from 1970, at $12.95.
\nFinally, “Gerald McBoing Boing” is a six-tape set of segments from “The
\nGerald McBoing Boing Show” produced for CBS in the 1950’s. There are tapes
\ndevoted to Dusty Of The Circus and The Twirliger Twins. These are $9.95 each.
\nAll told, this comprehensive video release of Mr. Magoo encompasses 20
\nvolumes — possibly one of the largest mass releases of any animation
\nstudio’s work to home video. (And Paramount’s not done yet — the final seven
\nvolumes of “Dick Tracy” cartoons are soon to be released, completing that
\nseries.)
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #23, from hmccracken, 399 chars, Wed May 8 23:21:09 1991
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\nYes, but there are a lot of good UPA cartoons that *aren’t*
\navailable on video — in fact, they seem to release the bad
\nstuff in great quantities while neglecting the early, good
\nUPA films. And when will we see some tapes of Columbia
\ncartoons? (There was a disastrous _Li’l Abner_ tape, which
\nwas supposed to be followed up by a _Fox and the Crow_
\ntape which was ultimately cancelled.)
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #24, from hmccracken, 467 chars, Wed May 8 23:23:44 1991
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\nTITLE: Steve Edwards, during yesterday’s animation CBIX, reported
\nthe interesting news that Disney’s _Rescuers Down Under_ will be
\nout on home video this summer (the _Jungle Book_ tape features
\nan ad for it). Those of you who missed it in the theaters —
\nand I think there were a lot of you — will be able to catch
\nwhat’s easily one of the best post-Walt features, as well as
\na landmark technical achievement (the film was entirely colored
\nby computer).
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #25, from dave.f, 421 chars, Thu May 9 09:14:28 1991
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\nThe _Jungle_Book_ tape we rented also had a preview of the work on _Beauty_
\nand_the_Beast_. Looks decent enough. My 5-year old daughter is dying to see
\nit, anyway. She’ll watch anything animated, but definitely has an eye for
\nthe good stuff. Must be dad’s influence!! :^} She’s showing some strong
\nart talent, too, so I want to keep her exposed to as much stuff as I can.
\n(Sounds like a good excuse, doen’t it?)<\/p>\n
D=<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #26, from bferg, 179 chars, Thu May 9 16:58:10 1991
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\nJungle Book happens to be one of mine and Doug’s favorite animated
\n{films. We were quite glad to see it come to video at such a reasonable
\ncost. The CD is good, too!!<\/p>\n
Barbara<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #27, from davemackey, 741 chars, Thu May 9 19:05:34 1991
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\nWell, RCA\/Columbia Pictures Home Video did release a good portion of the 50’s
\nUPA library, both Magoos and unusual one-shots. They can still be found in
\nsome rental shops and are required just as a point of reference to gauge the
\nrapid decline of UPA in the 60’s.
\nThere really has been a dearth of Charles Mintz and later stuff
\navailable — and I think some of that stuff would go over well with
\ntoday’s audiences, particularly the Frank Tashlin years, when he had an
\nalmost entirely ex-Disney staff. (I myself am curious about this work, as
\nit’s sort of a stylistic bridge between his two directorial tours at Warner
\nBros., and we know that Tash made some very stylish cartoons in both stints.)
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #28, from bferg, 833 chars, Wed May 15 11:09:48 1991
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\nTITLE: Bullwinkle
\nI am too lazy to check all the back posts, but has there been
\na thread on the basically new Bulliwinkle video tapes? We bought
\nthem all! (Take the i out of Bullwinkle in above sentence!)
\nThe Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle was one of my favorite
\ncartoons, mainly because of the zanny way the stories fit together,
\nthe alternate titles (some are classic) and the slightly derranged
\nmind of “our heros.” Each video runs about 45 min and includes
\nruns of the Dudley DoRight clips, Fractured Fairy Tales (these are
\nhilarious), and (the great Peabody’s time to shine) Mr. Peabody
\nand Sherman. *Anyone* out there in animation land would love these
\ntapes, brought back some memories and some good laughs. TINAR<\/p>\n
“Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat”…..”GRRRRRRRR”…<\/p>\n
“Oh, must have the wrong hat!”<\/p>\n
\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Barbara<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #29, from hmccracken, 497 chars, Wed May 15 11:20:38 1991
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\nWe’ve been discussing the Bullwinkle tapes in several topics, Barbara.
\nDo a search for them in boob.tube and you’ll find most of the messages
\nrelating to them.<\/p>\n
It’s nice to see the tapes doing so well, and a little sad that Jay
\nWard and Bill Scott did not live to see this. I hope that the success
\nof the tapes leads to some of the more obscure Jay Ward cartoons being
\nreleased on tape. Are there any other _Hoppity Hooper_, _George of the
\nJungle_, or _Super Chicken_ fans out there?
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #30, from t.kelly, 37 chars, Wed May 15 19:03:28 1991
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\n“Look out for that treeeeee” \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #31, from davemackey, 380 chars, Wed May 15 19:10:24 1991
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\nTITLE: Coming from Disney…
\nBillboard reports that Walt Disney Home Video will be releasing six more
\nvolumes of “the Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle” this fall, and there is
\nalso a possibility that “The Rescuers Down Under” will be this year’s
\nholiday-season release (contradicting the earlier news that it would be a
\nsummer release). –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #32, from davemackey, 374 chars, Wed May 15 19:54:30 1991
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\nI think I was more of a fan of “Hoppity Hooper” (also known as “Uncle Waldo”)
\nthan “George” and his friends. I especially liked the bumper for the next
\nepisode tease where Hooper has to produce the scenes from the next episode in
\njust under five seconds. Channel 7 in New York was still running “Hoppity
\nHooper” until last September.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #33, from dferg, 657 chars, Wed May 15 22:05:15 1991
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\nTo the SuperCoop (or is that ‘coupe’), Fred!
\nYes, I remember Super Chicken, all right, and his bumbling yet ever practical
\nsidekick, Fred the lion. I managed to get one episode from a friend who
\nhad it on videotape, and (as usual) I found it even funner then I had when
\nstill a (chronological) kid.<\/p>\n
Does anyone have the figures on how many episodes of this (and for that
\nmatter, the other Jay Ward productions) were produced? I don’t remember there
\nbeing that many of them, as re-runs showed up frequently. Hmmm, and th
\n(the) same goes for George of the Jungle…Tom Slick…et al.<\/p>\n
::gassing up the Thunderbolt GreaseSlapper for another run::<\/p>\n
-Doug<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #34, from hmccracken, 216 chars, Wed May 15 23:13:23 1991
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\nThere was only one season produced of _George and the Jungle_ —
\neighteen or so episodes. Likewise for _Hoppity Hooper_, I believe.
\nLikewise again for Ward’s only live-action series, _Fractured
\nFlickers_.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #35, from davemackey, 252 chars, Thu May 16 00:33:39 1991
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\n“George Of The Jungle” was only 16 episodes; “Dudley Do-Right,” 38 episodes;
\n“Adventures of Hoppity Hooper” and “Rocky & His Friends,” 52 episodes each;
\n“Bullwinkle Show,” 78 episodes (all according to Woolery).
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #36, from switch, 105 chars, Thu May 16 08:10:45 1991
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\nI’m told I would incessantly watch George of the Jungle when I
\nwas really ypung. Does that count?<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #37, from hmccracken, 399 chars, Thu May 16 09:10:06 1991
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\nBut Bulwinkle, Rocky and his Friends, The Rocky Show, and Dudley Do-
\nRight were all made up to at least some degree of the same cartoons
\nshuffled into different combinations (and Hoppity Hooper used a lot
\nof the same material). Were there really as many episodes of
\nHoppity Hooper as of Rocky and his Friends? I find that hard to
\nbelieve, although Woolery is usually a reliable source.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #38, from davemackey, 360 chars, Thu May 16 21:23:31 1991
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\nI think these episode counts were provided by the distributor — these days
\nThe Program Exchange (part of the giant Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency)
\n— and don’t account for overlapping material, or inclusion of non-Ward
\nelements in the programs (e.g. The Hunter and The King and Odie in the Dudley
\nDo-Right Show).
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #39, from hmccracken, 389 chars, Fri May 17 09:11:06 1991
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\nThat’s interesting…I wonder how accurate the figures are. I still have
\ntrouble believing there are those many episodes of _Hoppity Hooper_.
\nThe situation may be similar to that of all the _Rocky and Bullwinkle_
\nepisodes Ward made: they’re split up among the different syndication
\npackages, and I think there are some episodes which aren’t currently
\nbeing syndicated at all…
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #40, from davemackey, 325 chars, Sat May 18 00:17:46 1991
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\nTITLE: “Jungle Book”…
\n… has become No. 1 on Billboard’s Home Video Sales chart after debuting
\nlast week at No. 16.
\nThis further proves that Disney’s marketing strategies for the
\nsell-through market are again on-target, especially as far as the classic
\nfeatures are concerned.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #41, from bferg, 193 chars, Sat May 18 10:30:45 1991
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\nAND the fact that Jungle Book has been hiding away for soooo long,
\neveryone was so eager to see it, they RAN to the video store to buy
\nit!! Strategy, yeah! Starvation then feast! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Barbara<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #42, from hmccracken, 2174 chars, Sun May 19 14:50:24 1991
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\nI was walking by that Woolworth’s where I had seen videotapes of
\nSpanish-language cartoons a few weeks ago, and my curiosity and
\na 20%-off-everything sale that happened to be going on today
\ncompelled me to invest $4.11 in a copy of _El Patito Huey y
\nAmigos_, one of these tapes. As I suspected, the dub job seems
\nto have been done for the tapes (or at least recently), rather
\nthan back when the cartoons were made. At least that’s what I
\ndeduce from the fact that the tape has cartoons from more than
\none studio, but the voice artists (or artist; it may be one guy,
\na la Mel Blanc) are the same on all the cartoons.<\/p>\n
As the title suggests even to those of us who don’t speak Spanish,
\nthe featured cartoon stars Baby Huey — _Quack a Doodle Doo_,
\nwhich seems to be his first cartoon (Dave?). The dub job on
\nthis and the other cartoons on the tape isn’t bad; the original
\nsoundtrack has been maintained except for the voices, and though
\nthey all seem to be done by one Spanish-speaking man without
\nmuch vocal flexibility, they’re well-synched to the lip movements.<\/p>\n
The next cartoon on the tape is _Tinta y El Pajaro Minah_ —
\nin English, _Inki and the Minah Bird_. Those who have seen this
\nfine Chuck Jones short may remember that it’s done completely
\nin pantomime, thereby saving the producers of this videotape
\nfrom having to dub it.<\/p>\n
Next comes _El Toreador Timido_, aka _The Timid Toreador_, a
\nPorky Pig cartoon directed by Bob Clampett. There’s relatively
\nlittle dialogue here, though the voice artist does a game job
\nof emulating Porky Pig’s stutter.<\/p>\n
The last cartoon on the tape is _Franjas Para Siempre_ (or _Bars
\nand Stripes Forever_ in English), a Warner Bros. cartoon set in
\na prison populated by dogs. This probably has the most dialogue
\nof any cartoons on the tape, and it’s a cartoon I’m glad to have,
\nin any language — I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before.<\/p>\n
In short, the tape was worth the small amount of money I asked
\nfor it, and it’s not a ripoff — or at least no more of a ripoff
\nthan any el cheapo cartoon tape is. The dubbing seems competent
\nenough, at least as far as a non-Spanish speaker like your
\nobedient servant can judge.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #43, from davemackey, 488 chars, Sun May 19 20:11:58 1991
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\nWell since you asked, “Quack-A-Doodle Do” is the first Huey cartoon; note
\ncreator Marty Taras’ story credit. And since you didn’t ask, may I just add
\nthat “The Timid Toreador” was a joint effort of Bob Clampett and Norm McCabe;
\nit was one of two cartoons McCabe and Clampett directed together before the
\noriginal Stormin’ Norman got his own unit in 1941.
\nI would presume that the version of “Timid Toreador” is the recolored
\nversion, correct?
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #44, from hmccracken, 25 chars, Sun May 19 22:21:11 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 43.
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\nThat’s right.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #45, from davemackey, 340 chars, Tue May 28 18:20:05 1991
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\nTITLE: “Shame” for you
\n“Shame Of The Jungle,” an adult animated Tarzan parody, will hit video racks
\nsometime in June courtesy of JEF Films. The voice cast includes the late John
\nBelushi, Bill Murray and Christopher Guest, all of whom were in the cast of
\n“Saturday Night Live” at one time or another.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #46, from hmccracken, 244 chars, Tue May 28 18:35:36 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 45.
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\nI remember hearing about this Italian feature when it was made
\nten years or more ago, mostly because it was the object of a
\nlawsuit by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate (I believe the
\noriginal title was _Tarzoon, Shame of the Jungle_).
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #47, from davemackey, 1429 chars, Sun Jun 2 12:24:43 1991
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\nTITLE: Disney scoreboard
\nVince Staten, in today’s New York Daily News, has an article about Disney’s
\nhomevideo strategy of putting titles on sale and then withdrawing them.
\nHere’s a status report on all of the Disney features, not counting the more
\nepisodic features of the mid-late 40’s.
\n“Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs,” “Fantasia,” “101 Dalmatians,” “The
\nAristocats,” “The Rescuers,” and “Oliver And Company” have never been
\nreleased to home video. (Staten failed to mention that “The Fox And The
\nHound,” “The Black Cauldron,” and “The Great Mouse Detective” haven’t been
\nreleased to video either. Not that anyone asked… Nor has “The Rescuers
\nDown Under,” which with “Fantasia” are rumored to be Christmas releases.)
\n“Pinocchio,” “Lady And The Tramp,” and “Sleeping Beauty” are all on
\nmoratorium but are relatively difficult to find sale copies of. You will have
\nbetter luck with “Bambi,” “Cinderella,” “Peter Pan” and “The Little Mermaid,”
\nthe latter two of which just went on the moratorium roster April 1.
\n“Dumbo,” “Alice In Wonderland” and “The Sword In The Stone” are still in
\nprint and readily available.
\n“Robin Hood” is being reissued July 12 after a four-year hiatus,
\npossibly to coincide with the new big screen version starring Kevin Costner.
\nAnd “The Jungle Book,” of course, just went on sale and is available
\njust about everywhere you look.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #48, from dopheim, 34 chars, Sun Jun 2 21:15:51 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 23.
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\nUPA? Just who,may i ask, was UPA?<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #49, from sje, 248 chars, Sun Jun 2 21:29:09 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 48.
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\nUPA is “United Productions of America”, an animation firm that was
\nstarted in the early 1940s with a bunch of ex-Disney talent. Its most famous
\nanimation character is “Mr. Magoo”. It also made the feature length “Gay
\nPurr-ee” in 1962. — Steve<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #50, from hmccracken, 689 chars, Sun Jun 2 21:58:47 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 49.
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\n…UPA also made the Gerald Mc Boing Boing cartoons, as well as some
\nartsy-type cartoons like adaptations of James Thurber’s “The
\nUnicorn in the Garden” (actually they did a great job on that
\none) and “Rooty Toot Toot,” a retelling of the Frankie and Johnnie
\nstory. The studio’s first cartoon was “Hell-Bent For Election,”
\na political film made to advance FDR’s re-election in 1944.
\nThat cartoon was directed by Chuck Jones. It’s appropriate that
\nwe’re discussing UPA in the wake of the fiftieth anniversary of
\nthe Disney strike, as many of the founders of the studio were
\nDisney strikers, and the whole UPA style was a reaction to the
\nrealism of Disney animation at the time.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #51, from davemackey, 600 chars, Wed Jun 5 00:10:19 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 2.
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\nI also read in today’s Daily News (thanks to their B-movie columnist The
\nPhantom Of The Movies) that Streamline is also releasing the feature
\ndocumentary “Comic Book Confidential,” episodes of “Clutch Cargo” and “Space
\nAngel” and the anime “Zillion Special.” The phone # for Streamline is (213)
\n657-8559. Streamline hasn’t set prices for these yet but they should be
\navailable in July, along with the aforementioned “Col. Bleep” tape.
\nOne can only hope that Jerry Beck and Carl Macek will exhume more
\nalmost-forgotten cartoons and bring ’em out on video.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #52, from switch, 88 chars, Wed Jun 5 15:18:55 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 51.
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\nOh, great! Now I can get Comic Book Confidential and inflict it on my
\nfriends \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #53, from davemackey, 266 chars, Sun Jun 23 08:15:45 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 22.
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\nFirst of all, I haven’t seen any of the Magoo tapes anywhere. Second of all,
\nthe Dick Tracy tapes are delayed yet again. Please don’t make me buy another
\npublic domain tape with “Yankee Doodle Daffy” on it. Give us new stuff.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #54, from hmccracken, 310 chars, Sun Jun 23 11:22:02 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 53.
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\nThe Magoo tapes — at least some of them, as well as the Gerald
\nMcBoing Boing ones — are out. I saw them at Tower
\nRecords recently, where I aslo saw several tapes of
\nBell Science Series educational films, which featured
\nwork by the Warner Bros. cartoon studio, UPA, and
\nShamus Culhane productions.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #55, from davemackey, 818 chars, Sun Jun 23 18:08:02 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 53.
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\nThe Magoo tapes are indeed out, in fact, I just picked up one of the “What’s
\nNew Mr. Magoo” volumes, further demonstrating my blind loyalty to anything
\nproduced by the DePatie-Freleng studio.
\nThe first tape has a labeling error. The cartoons listed are “Who’s Zoo
\nMagoo,” “Museum Magoo,” “Magoo’s Monster Mansion” and “Mountain Man Magoo.”
\nThe cartoons actually are “Come Back Little McBarker,” “Magoo’s Fountain Of
\nYouth,” “Roamin Magoo,” and “Miniature Magoo.” Anyone know if these episodes
\nare from another volume in the series?
\nTransfer is up to Paramount’s usual good standard, and complete
\nproduction credits for the series appear at the end of each pair of stories
\n(and they reveal some segments to be written by veteran Disney\/Lantz writer
\nMilt Schaffer).
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #56, from davemackey, 511 chars, Mon Jun 24 03:58:12 1991
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\nTITLE: I think we’re all Bozos on this videotape
\nLarry Harmon, for the first time, has licensed videocassettes of his Bozo The
\nClown cartoon series. There are at least two tapes, running an hour apiece
\nand containing a good selection of Bozo cartoons (produced by Harmon in the
\nlate 1950’s) linked with live-action Bozo interludes. The tapes are now
\navailable in toy stores; fittingly, I found them in a store called Circus
\nWorld Toys (which is a subsidiary of Kay-Bee).
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #57, from davemackey, 498 chars, Tue Jun 25 19:07:26 1991
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\nTITLE: “Tale” spins into Home Video…
\nWalt Disney Home Video has slated August 9 as the release date of the first
\nfour homevideo volumes of the “Tale Spin” series. The tapes are “True Baloo,”
\n“Jackpots and Crackpots,” “That’s Show Biz,” and “Fearless Flyers.”
\nThe tapes will retail for $12.99, there will be a four-pack gift set
\navailable, and as a back-to-school promotion, Disney will offer a Tale Spin
\nbackpack for $4.99 and two proofs of purchase.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #58, from davemackey, 336 chars, Mon Jul 1 21:45:59 1991
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\nTITLE: Disney 4th quarter plans…
\n..are to be announced at a news conference tomorrow. It is expected that
\nDisney will formally announce the release of “The Rescuers Down Under,” and
\nit is rumored there may be an announcement of either “101 Dalmatians” and\/or
\n“Fantasia” for the holiday season.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #59, from davemackey, 338 chars, Mon Jul 1 21:46:11 1991
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\nTITLE: Marvel heroes (again)
\nA company called Best Video has acquired the homevideo rights to 150 programs
\nfeaturing Marvel Heroes (what programs were not specified but I would presume
\nthey’re those 60’s cheapies) and will begin releasing them on videotape with
\nthe first 8 volumes due next month.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #60, from davemackey, 325 chars, Mon Jul 1 21:46:19 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 54.
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\nI just realized the impact of your Bell Science series reference. I would
\npresume the tapes to include “Hemo The Magnificent” and “Gateways To The
\nMind.” Both of which I distinctly remember seeing in school as a child, along
\nwith “Donald in Mathmagic Land” and “The Dot And The Line.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #61, from anickerson, 352 chars, Wed Jul 3 00:52:33 1991
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\nTITLE: Multimedia
\nIf anyone want to do great Multimedia Animations I have the code for you!!
\nMultifli is a full featured Audio\/Video Sequncer that was developed and written by Innovative Technology thier data num
\nber is (508)674-7187 and voice is (508)677-1921 …. Multifli Jr. sells for $69.95 and Multifli goes for $250.00 and sy
\nncs up very nicel<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #62, from davemackey, 410 chars, Mon Jul 8 23:05:40 1991
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\nTITLE: New from Turner…
\nTurner Home Entertainment has wasted no time getting out its cartoon series
\non videotape. Added to the already-released volumes of “Captain Planet And
\nThe Planeteers” and “Wizard Of Oz” will be two volumes of “Tom And Jerry Kids
\nShow” priced at $12.98 each. The tapes, which contain three half-hour
\nepisodes apiece, will be released in August.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #63, from davemackey, 475 chars, Wed Jul 10 03:23:44 1991
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\nTITLE: New from Buena Vista…
\n“Felix The Cat: The Movie” will be released to homevideo in August. At a
\nselling price of $19.99, it shouldn’t be too difficult to run “righty-oh” out
\nand get one.
\nThe movie was made overseas several years ago by a group headed by Don
\nOriolo, son of the late Joe Oriolo, who had drawn the Felix comic strip since
\nthe 1950’s and produced the 1958-1961 Trans-Lux cartoons everyone’s so
\nfamiliar with.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #64, from davemackey, 162 chars, Sat Jul 13 12:29:33 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 58.
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\nAccording to this week’s TV Guide, Disney will be releasing “The Rescuers
\nDown Under” and “Fantasia” this holiday season.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #65, from morganfox, 76 chars, Sun Jul 14 13:54:17 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 64.
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\nReleasing “Fantasia”, like as in to have and to own on video tape?
\nYowzers!<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #66, from davemackey, 562 chars, Tue Jul 16 12:54:06 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 65.
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\nIt’s twoo, it’s twoo, Morgan! I finally have the details. Yes, Virginia,
\nDisney is finally going to be releasing “Fantasia” on videocassette and
\nlaserdisc on November 1. The sale window is only going to be 50 days, which
\nwould place the off-sale date somewhere around Christmastime. There are
\ngoing to be two editions each of the video and disc. The video will be
\npriced at $24.99 for the regular edition and $99.99 for the limited edition
\ncommemorative. I would expect the videodisc releases to be appropriately
\npriced.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #67, from sharonfisher, 348 chars, Tue Jul 16 12:57:17 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 66.
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\nArticle in the paper also said Disney was producing some new segments, as
\nWalt had originally intended. I didn’t read the article thoroughly enough
\nto tell whether buyers would get Fantasia Classic or not. The new portions
\nmay not be to classical music. Betcha the segments that go are the ones
\nthat have been controversial when it was shown…<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #68, from hmccracken, 219 chars, Tue Jul 16 15:26:27 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 67.
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\n…Which just goes to show everybody how worthwhile the Animation
\nCBIXes are. BIXen Steve Edwards reported all of this last week,
\nbefore it was in the papers, and we had a spirited debate on the
\nwhole topic.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #69, from adunkin, 183 chars, Tue Jul 16 21:19:06 1991
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\nTITLE: They
\nalso say, according to the commercials during today’s Disney Afternoon,
\nthat the “Prince and the Pauper” will be out on videotape .. is this old
\nnews?<\/p>\n
— Alan Dunkin<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #70, from davemackey, 155 chars, Wed Jul 17 19:08:10 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 69.
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\nYes, the tape was released on June 7. I posted a message about it on May 3;
\nread it in this section, message #19.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #71, from davemackey, 980 chars, Wed Jul 17 19:08:30 1991
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\nTITLE: Interesting discovery
\nI wasn’t aware that there’s a manufacturer of public domain cartoon videos
\nnot far from where I live. An outfit called Royal Sound Video Productions,
\nbased in Eatontown, New Jersey, has a series of PD tapes out with the best
\npackaging jobs I’ve ever seen on this class of video: a line drawing
\nreproduction of the featured cartoon on the tape, and below it, little still
\nframes from the other cartoons. These tapes are worth searching out since
\nsome of them have suppressed material not seen on current TBS\/TNT versions of
\ncertain cartoons (like “Have You Got Any Castles” or “Flop Goes The Weasel”).
\nI’ve driven by Royal Sound’s offices for years, not knowing what the
\nheck they did. Now I know.
\nThis may or may not be the same company as Starmaker Productions, also
\nheadquartered in Eatontown, New Jersey (they have a rather large industrial
\npark), who put out a tape called “50 Greatest Cartoons.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #72, from adunkin, 88 chars, Wed Jul 17 20:24:33 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 70.
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\nHmm .. I guess I missed it. Teaches me not to read back messages \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
— Alan Dunkin<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #73, from switch, 259 chars, Thu Jul 18 10:11:13 1991
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\nI’ve been picking up quite a few of those tapes on my recent forays
\nto the States. There are quite a few tapes up here, but 99% of them
\nare the French versions (grrrr!). I don’t believe I have any
\nof Royal Sound Video’s tapes; do you have an address?<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #74, from davemackey, 117 chars, Thu Jul 18 19:27:41 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 73.
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\nRoyal Sound Video Productions, 200 Industrial Way West, Eatontown, NJ 07724.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #75, from switch, 14 chars, Mon Jul 22 10:12:50 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 74.
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\nThanks!<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #76, from davemackey, 315 chars, Thu Jul 25 23:41:02 1991
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\nTITLE: Fun Fantasia Factoid
\nAt the Video Software Dealers Association convention, Jeffrey Katzenberg
\nrevealed that when plans were in the works for the video release of
\n“Fantasia,” the project was code named “Stokie.”
\nI wonder if Leopold’s wife ever called him that? \ud83d\ude09
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #77, from davemackey, 512 chars, Thu Jul 25 23:41:17 1991
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\nTITLE: “Rescuers Down Under”
\nWalt Disney Home Video will release “The Rescuers Down Under” on September
\n20, 1991, at $24.99. Downy and Tide will team up to offer a $5 rebate.
\nThe videotape is going to be supported with a $28 million advertising
\ncampaign with spot buys on all four major networks.
\nThe advertising and marketing campaign Disney has planned for its
\nNovember 1 release of “Fantasia” is said to be the largest and most expensive
\never for home video.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #78, from hmccracken, 95 chars, Fri Jul 26 09:12:52 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 76.
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\nI think Walt was said to have called him that as they worked together
\non _Fantasia_.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #79, from sje, 238 chars, Fri Jul 26 22:15:33 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 77.
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\nThe video _RDU_ can be pre-ordered at your local Disney Store for
\n$19.95 (prepaid). This includes an inexpensive plastic watch when the tape
\narrives 19 Sep 1991. I don’t know if this includes any third party product
\nrebates. — Steve<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #80, from davemackey, 204 chars, Sat Jul 27 18:17:07 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 79.
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\nThe 19.95 would imply that the rebate had already been taken care of through
\nthe courtesy of Downy and Tide.
\n(I’ve always preferred Pride and Joy myself… \ud83d\ude09
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #81, from sje, 428 chars, Sat Jul 27 21:02:54 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 80.
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\nPerhaps there will be some advertising inserts inside the tape box.
\nThis is much preferred over video inserts as leading commercials; something
\nstrictly forbidden by Disney during theatrical engagements.<\/p>\n
I stick with no-frill soap stuff mostly; most big name brands are
\nrarely worth the extra price. (Data based on _Consumers’ Reports_.)<\/p>\n
Actually, I paid less than US$18 for the tape because of my MKC
\ndiscount. — Steve<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #82, from davemackey, 373 chars, Thu Aug 1 21:45:34 1991
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\nTITLE: Son of a b-b-b-b
\nI don’t know of any other legitimate video source for Porky Pig’s infamous
\n“son of a bitch” blooper from the 30’s other than a tape that Simitar
\nEntertainment has released called “Hollywood Bloopers” (cat. no. 2224). Be
\nforewarned that this tape has crude language and nudity if you do choose to
\nseek it out.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #83, from hmccracken, 76 chars, Fri Aug 2 09:23:19 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 82.
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\nThe clip has also been shown on the USA Network’s _Night Flight_.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #84, from elfhive, 32 chars, Fri Aug 2 17:00:54 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 82.
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\nIs it audio or video nudity \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #85, from richard.pini, 275 chars, Sat Aug 3 21:38:02 1991
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\nThere’s another volume called “Blushing Bloopers” – I don’t have the box
\nwith me or I’d be able to say whether or not it’s the same tape with a
\ndifferent title, but it has the Soupy segment uncensored, and the Porky
\nPig ending, as well as a bunch of other stuff. Will check.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #86, from davemackey, 162 chars, Sun Aug 4 18:24:31 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 85.
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\nIt might be. The tape also has those shopworn Laugh-In and Star Trek bloopers
\nthat have been making the rounds for years.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #87, from davemackey, 874 chars, Tue Aug 13 19:35:31 1991
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\nTITLE: Coming from Warner Home Video
\nA few new and reissued animated offerings of note, coming from Warner Home
\nVideo in time for the holidays…
\n“The Incredible Mr. Limpet,” starring Don Knotts and featuring some of
\nthe final animation of the Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. Cartoon Division under
\nthe supervision of Bill Tytla, is being reissued at $19.98. “The Hobbit,”
\nfeaturing animation by the Rankin-Bass studio, is being re-released as well
\nat $19.98. I believe both videos had been released before at a $59.95 price
\npoint and both have been offered in Whole Toon’s catalogue..
\nNew offerings include “Bugs Bunny’s Thanksgiving Diet” at $12.95 and
\nsomething called “Chuck Amuck: The Movie” at $19.98 (I’ll definitely let Hugh
\nKenner and other curious parties know more about “Chuck Amuck: The Movie”
\nwhen I find out more)
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #88, from sje, 255 chars, Tue Aug 13 20:18:14 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 87.
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\n_The Hobbit_ has recently been making the rounds on the Disney Channel.
\n_The Secret of NIMH_ was on this evening, and _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_ was
\nalso shown last week.<\/p>\n
I guess all of you know from where I’m getting my videotape collection.
\n— Steve<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #89, from sje, 621 chars, Tue Aug 13 20:24:11 1991
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\nTITLE: _Fantasia_ on Laserdisc<\/p>\n
I just put in my advance order for the CAV laserdisc version of
\n_Fantasia_ due out on November first. The list price is US$99.99, and I got
\na ten percent discount from my friendly LD dealer.<\/p>\n
The laserdisc version does not come with a pair of audio CDs as does
\nthe collector’s version of the VHS cassette.<\/p>\n
I have heard that Image (the distributor) is only taking advance
\norders for guaranteed delivery up until August twenty second. It is likely
\nto be a different case with the VHS cassette as they are being (apparently)
\ndistributed though Disney’s own Buena Vista label. — Steve<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #90, from bferg, 267 chars, Wed Aug 14 11:34:05 1991
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\nTITLE: Wizard of Speed and Time
\nI finally got to see a video of The Wizard of Speed and Time,
\nand have a copy as well. I have watched it 5 times now, and with
\neach viewing, see something new. It is hilarious. The man in the
\ngreen jacket stikes again!<\/p>\n
\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Barbara<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #91, from davemackey, 643 chars, Wed Sep 11 19:05:14 1991
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\nTITLE: Crusader Rabbit on video (maybe)
\nRhino Home Video has announced plans to market two videocassettes of the
\noriginal Crusader Rabbit television series, entitled “Crusader Rabbit vs. The
\nState of Texas” and “Crusader Rabbit Vs. The Pirates.”
\nHowever, 20th Century Fox Film Corp. has filed a lawsuit in Manhattan
\nFederal Court charging that the videos’ release would hinder plans for Fox’s
\nWNYW-TV to begin airing the “Crusader Rabbit” cartoons in January 1992 and
\ndiminish their market value. The suit seeks to enjoin Rhino from marketing
\nthe videos and $100,000 damages for each infringement.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #92, from hmccracken, 336 chars, Tue Sep 17 20:59:56 1991
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\nTITLE: New on Video
\nJust out on videotape are two titles of particular interest:
\n_The Rescuers Down Under_ (Disney’s most recent animated
\nfeature), and _Chuck Amuck_ (as reported here, an adaptation
\nof Chuck Jones’s memoirs). I have the first tape and will
\nundoubtedly be getting the second one soon, and will report
\non both.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #93, from hmccracken, 1011 chars, Sat Sep 21 14:57:00 1991
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\nTITLE: _Crusader Rabbit_
\nRhino Video has recently released at least two volumes — or
\ntwo “Crusades,” as they dub them — of the original Jay Ward
\n_Crusader Rabbit_ cartoons. (Another company has alreadyreleased some of the later, color, non-Ward Crusader cartoons,
\nbut these new tapes are the very early, black-and-white ones.)<\/p>\n
For the uninitiated, Crusader and his pal, Rags the Tiger, were
\nprototypes for Ward’s later Rocky and Bullwinkle in many ways.
\n_Crusader Rabbit_ was the first animated series produced
\nfor television; its production values are so low that
\nit’s just *barely* animation. There are lots of held
\ndrawings, and when characters speak they tend to turn their
\nface away from the camera so as to avoid lip
\nmovements.<\/p>\n
The writing, however, is utterly charming — like that
\nof Ward’s later cartoons in many ways, but gentler and a bit
\nmore kid-oriented. Crusader and Rags are
\nwonderful characters, and it’s good to see them back
\nin the spotlight after several decades of obscurity.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #94, from davemackey, 454 chars, Sun Sep 29 01:24:42 1991
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\nTITLE: Get more Moose and Squirrel!
\nOn November 15, Walt Disney Home Video will be releasing Volumes 7 and 8 of
\n“Rocky and Bullwinkle.” The two tapes are called “Whistler’s Moose” and
\n“Norman Moosewell,” continuing the classic painting motif of the first six
\ntapes. The new tapes, as the others were, are $12.99 list price.
\nThose first six tapes, by the way, are being offered in a gift set for
\nthe holidays.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #95, from davemackey, 483 chars, Sun Sep 29 10:04:26 1991
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\nTITLE: Simpsons home video
\nFox Video is releasing “The Simpsons Christmas Special” on videotape
\non October 24, at the price of $9.98 suggested retail. The Christmas
\nshow was the first episode of “The Simpsons” ever broadcast two seasons
\nago.
\nAs a merchandising bonus, stores will make available to their
\ncustomers who want them the 6-foot standee of Bart saying “No way man!”
\nwhich is intended to be used to promote the video, at $14.98 each.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #96, from davemackey, 229 chars, Sun Sep 29 10:28:36 1991
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\nTITLE: New “Dino” vids from Disney
\nWalt Disney Home Video will be releasing three tapes each consisting of two
\nepisodes from the prime-time series “Dinosaurs” on December 6 at $12.99 list.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #97, from davemackey, 427 chars, Mon Sep 30 18:16:17 1991
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\nTITLE: More Disney stuff
\nDisney is still busy busy busy. In addition to the already-announced
\n“Fantasia,” “Rocky and Bullwinkle” Vol. 7 and 8, and “Dinosaurs,” they will
\nrelease the Disney Channel cable special “Sebastian’s Carribean Jamboree” on
\nNovember 22 at $12.99. The video features new animation of Sebastian Crab and
\nlive-action performances by Sebastian’s voice, Samuel Wright.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #98, from davemackey, 259 chars, Mon Sep 30 18:16:27 1991
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\nTITLE: Bucky video
\nLive Home Video, current distributors of Family Home Entertainment, will soon
\nbe releasing the “Bucky O’Hare And The Toad Wars” animated series on home
\nvideo. More details to be released forthcoming.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #99, from davemackey, 236 chars, Fri Oct 11 22:34:58 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 93.
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\nI finally got a hold of one of the tapes, and it is pretty primitive, but you
\ncan see bits and pieces of the sort of story structures and subject matter
\nWard would favor for Rocky and Bullwinkle.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #100, from jeffbrown, 225 chars, Sat Oct 12 16:01:03 1991
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: Help find Betty
\nWould anyone know where I can get a copy of Betty Boop’s “Snow
\nWhite” (the one with Cab Calloway doing “St. James Infirmary Blues”
\n)? Reply here or Email if you can help. One VHS is all I desire.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #101, from davemackey, 712 chars, Sat Oct 12 19:35:01 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 100.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nRun, don’t walk, to your local video store and see if they have a copy of
\n“Betty Boop Collectors Edition Vol. 1” (Republic 7065, $19.95) for the
\noriginal black and white version, or “Best Of Betty Boop, Vol. 1” (Republic
\n7045, $14.95) for the inferior colorized version. If they don’t have it there
\nyou can order either from Whole Toon Access at (206) 391-8747.
\nI would advise you to blow the extra five bucks on the “Collectors
\nEdition” because that tape also includes “The Old Man Of The Mountain,” “I’ll
\nBe Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You” and “Bimbo’s Initiation” — the best
\nof the Betty Boop cartoons all in one place, and all in pristine
\nblack-and-white.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #102, from switch, 185 chars, Sat Oct 12 22:46:45 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 101.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nAck! I’ve been looking for that short for *three years* and you come up
\nwith a solution in under 24 hours? I should have you strung up for not
\nknowing I needed to know that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #103, from davemackey, 123 chars, Sun Oct 13 02:27:16 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 102.
\n————————–
\nIt was easy, thanks to my Whole Toon Access catalogue! (Winks knowingly at
\ncamera)
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #104, from aameden, 464 chars, Tue Oct 15 21:47:32 1991
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: Computer animation
\nI have been looking for 2 pieces of animation on video tape. One is “The Mind’s
\nEye”, and the other is a cartoon called “The Tin Toy” which won an Oscar a few
\nyears ago. I found “Mind’s Eye” at Radio Shack of all places, and it is really
\nnice, although not edited as well as it could be. I can’t find the “Tin Toy”
\ncartoon though. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Also can anyone
\nmention other similar tapes?
\nThanks,
\nAAMEDEN<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #105, from switch, 187 chars, Tue Oct 15 22:05:39 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 104.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
\nThere are additional comments to message 104.
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\n_Tin Toy_ and other Pixar animations can be had through Direct
\nCinema Ltd. If their address isn’t already in animation\/sources,
\nit will be as soon as I drop out of tonight’s CBIX.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #106, from hmccracken, 186 chars, Tue Oct 15 23:12:38 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 105.
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\nDirect Cinema is the company, by the way, which has stirred up
\nsomething of a storm by refusing to send Pixar films into
\nUtah (the company is opposed to Utah’s abortion laws).
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #107, from pixelmove, 284 chars, Tue Oct 22 02:19:30 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 104.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nYou can buy Tin Toy directly from PIXAR, the people that made it.
\nThe price is $24.95 plus Shipping, The address is:<\/p>\n
REAL VIDEO LIMITED
\nP.O. Box 69799
\nLos Angeles, CA 90069<\/p>\n
The shipping charge is $5 for the first item and $2 for the next.
\nBTW, I got this information at Siggraph \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #108, from random.a, 164 chars, Tue Oct 22 03:14:24 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 107.
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\nI’ve got an extra Luxo Jr\/Red’s Dream\/Tin Toy – I bought one and then
\ngot one free when I bought MacRenderMan – I’ll sell the extra on for $20
\nif anyone wants it..<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #109, from mscoville, 401 chars, Wed Oct 23 22:34:51 1991
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: Fantasia release
\nWhen Disney finally realeases Fantasia next week, it will be in the number 2
\nslot for sales in 1991 and the year and reorders aren’t over yet. It is pre-
\ndicted by many it will surpass the current leader. Quiz: who is the current
\nleader? Also, for those who haven’t pre-ordered their own copy of Fantasia,be
\nwarned that Disney will pull it off the market in 50 days. mscoville<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #110, from nicolas, 54 chars, Thu Oct 24 03:22:57 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 109.
\nThere are additional comments to message 109.
\n————————–
\nE.T.
\nWhat else \ud83d\ude42
\n……….
\n. Nico .
\n……….<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #111, from nicolas, 111 chars, Thu Oct 24 03:23:13 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 109.
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\nDoes anyone know if Fantasy will be released in Europe?
\nAnd on PAL format?<\/p>\n
……….
\n. Nico .
\n……….<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #112, from bferg, 225 chars, Tue Oct 29 10:20:14 1991
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nOn Headline News last night they told of a truck load
\nof Disney Fantasia videos being stolen, someone just
\ndrove the truck away, to an unknown destination. Now,
\nthose videos seems like they will be in great demand.<\/p>\n
Barbara<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #113, from hmccracken, 242 chars, Tue Oct 29 17:39:03 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 112.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nWell, only 50,000 videos were stolen, and I imagine the press
\nrun was more on the order of several million. Still, it makes
\na heck of a publicity story for Disney — they couldn’t have
\ntimed the theft better if they were behind it!
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #114, from paulr, 172 chars, Tue Oct 29 18:45:49 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 113.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nOh I don’t know – _Fantasia_ is $15.88 at our local target, and they only
\nhave one small endcap of it. (We bought two copies today.) Bet it is gone
\nbefore COB tom.
\n-Paul<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #115, from davemackey, 187 chars, Tue Oct 29 19:27:16 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 114.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nI’ll probably run out to K-Mart and see what their price is, as my brother’s
\nrecord store won’t have it until next week. Will report back in CBIX.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #116, from davemackey, 263 chars, Wed Oct 30 19:20:17 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 115.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nI didn’t report back in CBIX as promised. But K-Mart didn’t have it! I went
\nto some local supermarkets and discovered one where I could get it for $14.99
\nwith a store coupon. Most of the stores have it for $16.99 or $17.99.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #117, from paulr, 151 chars, Thu Oct 31 10:22:37 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 116.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nYEah- the Target here, where we bough ours, has a bare endcap there now. \ud83d\ude42
\nI don’t know if they sold them or removed them, but they are *gone*.
\n-Paul<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #118, from hmccracken, 376 chars, Sun Nov 3 16:25:08 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 117.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nHere in Boston, _Fantasia_ doesn’t seem to be as widely available
\nas other Disney videos (the grocery stores that loss-leadered
\n(sorry!) _The Little Mermaid_, etc. don’t have it. Those stores
\nthat do have the tape seem to be selling out rapidly. I bought
\nthe third-from-last copy at Blockbuster Video for $15.95.<\/p>\n
Has anyone seen the laserdisc version for sale yet?
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #119, from morganfox, 117 chars, Sun Nov 3 16:30:52 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 118.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nYep! Saw it last night in both versions, the reg. and deluxe at Tower records
\nin Cambridge. They also had the tape.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #120, from hmccracken, 197 chars, Sun Nov 3 20:15:53 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 119.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nThen the question is, should I buy the laserdisc in case I own a
\nlaserdisc player someday? Or risk the possibility of the disc not
\nbeing available at the time I make the player purchase?
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #121, from morganfox, 96 chars, Sun Nov 3 21:57:19 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 120.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nBetter safe then sorry, I’d say. Get the disc, you *know* the players are
\nalways available. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #122, from hmccracken, 156 chars, Sun Nov 3 21:59:07 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 121.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nActually, I’ve heard that the best laserdisc players — the ones
\nthat can play any disc with perfect-quality frame-by-frame —
\nare a dying breed.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #123, from hkenner, 72 chars, Sun Nov 3 22:48:48 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 122.
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\nHarry–
\nIn a case like that, I’d solicit an opinion from jerryp.
\n–H K<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #124, from davemackey, 820 chars, Thu Nov 21 22:50:05 1991
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: Video Xmas specials
\nJust about every well-known animated Christmas special is out on video. But
\nsomehow, it’s just not the same being able to watch them at will.
\nA bunch of co-workers and I were watching the 1970 version of “Santa
\nClaus Is Coming To Town” (produced by Rankin-Bass), and I came to the
\nconclusion that while such communal viewing on company time is an interesting
\ndiversion, it’s no match for sitting in front of that 23-inch console with
\nthe Christmas tree blinking in the background, at 8 p.m. or so on a cold
\nDecember night, complete with commercials. Back then the showing of these
\nprograms was a one time only EVENT. These days, anyone can watch the Grinch
\nat any time (even in the hot days of summer). And that takes some of the
\nthrill out of it.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #125, from hmccracken, 439 chars, Thu Nov 21 23:17:46 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 124.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nAin’t it the truth. I was so happy when I got my VCR and was able
\nto tape _The Wizard of Oz_ — the yearly showing of which had
\nalways been a huge event in my life since I was a wee lad. Now
\nthat I have it on tape, the annual showing means nothing, and I
\nalmost never get around to watching the tape. On the other hand,
\nI do have some videotaped movies that I watch all the time.
\nAmong them are _Pinocchio_ and _The Wrong Box_.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #126, from jshook, 503 chars, Thu Nov 21 23:24:48 1991
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\nTITLE: Flintstones go to Mongolia<\/p>\n
Next time you’re at your local newsstand, flip to page 39 of
\nthe December issue of Harper’s. You will see six in a series
\nof postage stamps published by the Mongolian Post Office
\nwhich depict Fred and the gang on an excursion to Mongolia.
\nSee them tour the countryside, chat with friendly Mongolians
\nand participate in a camel\/dino rodeo. “The Flintstones
\nstamps were designed by Mongolian artists following
\nguidelines set by Hanna-Barbera, the cartoon’s creator.”<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #127, from jshook, 199 chars, Thu Nov 21 23:28:40 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 125.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
\n————————–<\/p>\n
I *love* “The Wrong Box”! I even had the soundtrack album
\nat one time, although I don’t think I could lay my hands
\non it right now, since I haven’t seen it in about 20 years
\n(the record, I mean).<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #128, from hmccracken, 405 chars, Fri Nov 22 09:45:26 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 127.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nThe _Wrong Box_ soundtrack? Wow! I don’t have that, but I’ve read
\nthe Robert Louis Stevenson novel the movie is based on, which is
\nhard to come by these days. The movie is much funnier. My video
\ncopy was taped off TV; the film was released on commercial video
\nsome years ago, but I haven’t been able to locate a copy for
\nsale.<\/p>\n
It’s one of the funniest movies ever made — maybe *the* funniest.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #129, from jshook, 399 chars, Fri Nov 22 23:14:19 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 128.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
\n————————–<\/p>\n
After seeing the film I was inspired to read the RLS original. It
\nwas a long time ago, and I don’t remember much about it except
\nthat the movie was very different.<\/p>\n
A few years ago I rented it on video with some friends
\n(I don’t have a VCR) and was very disappointed that they
\ndidn’t seem to like it much. I don’t see much of them
\nanymore….<\/p>\n
But it is available (at least to rent) on video.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #130, from hmccracken, 196 chars, Mon Nov 25 09:37:01 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 129.
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\nI know how you feel. My father, sister, and I are all big
\n_Wrong Box_ fans. More than once, we’ve watched it together,
\nmy mother bemusedly wondering what was so funny in the
\nbackground.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #131, from davemackey, 691 chars, Mon Dec 2 07:55:56 1991
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\nTITLE: PD discovery
\nI don’t believe I’ve ever seen a British cartoon on a public domain video.
\nJust recently saw one collection from United American Video which includes a
\nGinger Nutt cartoon from the late 1940’s entitled “Ginger Nutt’s Christmas
\nCircus,” produced by GB Animation. The animators at GB appeared to have
\nlearned their lessons from watching Hollywood cartoons, since (except for one
\ncharacter that had a very British accent) it has the look and feel of a
\nHollywood cartoon. The cartoon was quite funny in spots.
\nThe tape (UAV 6002) is rounded out with three Paramount cartoons: “Snow
\nFoolin'”, “Gobs Of Fun” and “Hep Cat Symphony.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #132, from hmccracken, 308 chars, Mon Dec 2 09:43:47 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 131.
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\nGB Animation was a studio that tried to emulate the Hollywood
\nstyle in England, and which created many Hollywood-like characters
\nover its brief history, including Ginger Nutt. The studio was
\nheaded (for at least part of its existence) by David Hand, the
\nDisney veteran who supervised _Snow White_.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #133, from davemackey, 340 chars, Sun Dec 8 01:38:00 1991
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\nTITLE: Two new WB videos
\nWarner Home Video will be releasing two new-to-video Bugs Bunny specials in
\nmid-January. They are “Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle Of The Video Music Stars” and
\n“Bugs Bunny’s Wild World Of Sports.” Both specials were written and directed
\nby the team of Greg Ford and Terrence Lennon.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #134, from davemackey, 615 chars, Wed Dec 11 13:25:00 1991
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: “T&J Christmas”
\nTom And Jerry’s 1940 short “The Night Before Christmas” is the centerpiece of
\na new tape just released from MGM\/UA Home Video and Turner Home
\nEntertainment. Among the other shorts on the tape is a seldom-seen number
\nfrom 1935 called “Toyland Broadcast.” This cartoon is known to include
\nseveral racial caricatures, and if anyone knows if this cartoon is complete
\non the homevideo verson, I’d really like to know.
\nTurner has also released two volumes of “Tom And Jerry Kids” with
\nepisodes culled from the program’s first season on the Fox Network.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #135, from davemackey, 1309 chars, Wed Dec 11 13:25:25 1991
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\nTITLE: What I Want For Christmas
\nMGM\/UA has released on laserdisc only “The Golden Age Of Looney Tunes,
\n1933-1948.” This five-disc set includes 70 of the best Warner Bros. cartoons
\npicked from among those owned by Turner Entertainment. There are also two
\nearly black-and-white entries, “Smile Darn Ya Smile” and “Shuffle Off To
\nBuffalo.” The video sides are arranged thematically, by character, and there
\nare several sides each devoted to one of the pioneering WB cartoon directors.
\nA brief description of each side:
\n(1) Early musical cartoons like “I Love To Singa” and “Miss Glory”
\n(2) First appearances of major characters like “A Wild Hare”
\n(3) Tex Avery including “Thugs With Dirty Mugs” and “The Bear’s Tale”
\n(4) Bob Clampett including “A Corny Concerto” and “Kitty Kornered”
\n(5) Chuck Jones including “The Dover Boys” and “Old Glory”
\n(6) Friz Freleng including “Pigs In A Polka” and “Tweetie Pie”
\n(7) Bugs Bunny including “Heckling Hare” and “Gorilla My Dreams”
\n(8) This side doesn’t seem to have a theme
\n(9) “Hollywood Steps Out,” “Coo-Coo Nut Grove” and similar cartoons
\n(10) More Bugs including all three matchups with Cecil Turtle
\nA complete list of titles can be found in the latest “Whole Toon Catalogue.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #136, from davemackey, 203 chars, Wed Dec 11 13:25:50 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 66.
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\nI was in my local store, and the “Fantasia” display noted that it will be
\ngoing off sale on January 23, 1992. Anyone know if the on-sale window had
\nbeen extended?
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #137, from hmccracken, 504 chars, Wed Dec 11 16:01:03 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 134.
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\nI don’t know if the tape includes the complete _Toyland Broadcast_,
\nbut I kind of doubt it. Ted Turner, who at one point in the early
\neighties owned the last TV station in America that aired _Bugs
\nBunny Nips the Nips_ on a regular basis, has become much more
\nsensitive about cartoons with stereotypes. In fact, when the
\nAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (is that the name?)
\nrequested a print of _Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs_ for a Bob
\nClampett tribute, he declined to provide it.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #138, from morganfox, 319 chars, Thu Dec 12 01:16:24 1991
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\nTITLE: New commercial
\nHave ya all seen the new animated and deadly cute bit for baby oil in Toilet
\npaper? The first time I saw this, I sorta sat up and said “Different”. After
\na few more viewing, I noted that it seems no blacks are used in the animation.
\n(as a color)
\nReally does make the whole impression one of soft.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #139, from davemackey, 647 chars, Fri Dec 13 19:05:01 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 118.
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\nI (finally!) got my copy of “Fantasia,” at K-mart, on sale for $15.97. I
\ndon’t think this video can possibly be priced any lower with a $24.95 list
\nwithout the retailer taking a loss on it. The picture restoration was
\nspectacular, the audio restoration a little less so but remarkable anyway.
\nAlso at K-mart: the series of Terrytoons tapes that came out a few years
\nago, six cartoons per tape, all major characters represented, for just $2.50
\na tape. Picked up one, “Fairy Tale Classics Vol. 1” which had some great
\ncartoons from the late-30’s and early 40’s all with rare original titles and
\ncredits.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #140, from davemackey, 528 chars, Fri Dec 13 19:05:15 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 15.
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\nThe three Chuck Jones-produced specials featuring Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle
\nBook stories have just been reissued by Family Home Entertainment for the
\nholidays at the new low list price of $9.95.
\nNitpicky note: The ad copy that arrived in the mail in my “Amex Video
\nBulletin” said that Chuck Jones was in the upper echelon of animators “along
\nwith Walt Disney, Fritz (sic) Freleng and Walter Lantz.” You think after all
\nthese years people would know that it’s FRIZ Freleng, not Fritz.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #141, from hkenner, 53 chars, Fri Dec 13 21:17:29 1991
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\nSo where do I get those Jones\/Kipling specials?
\n–hk<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #142, from davemackey, 392 chars, Sat Dec 14 00:06:44 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 141.
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\nYou should be able to order them from Whole Toon at the new price; I’m think
\nDoug will adjust downward (disregard the price in the catalogue). The AMEX
\nvideo catalogue sells them as well if you’re a cardmember. Otherwise check
\nyour local video store. I found one of these tapes in the K-mart today,
\npossibly due to the fact that it’s now1 low-priced.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #143, from hmccracken, 428 chars, Mon Dec 16 15:27:33 1991
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\nTITLE: _Crusader Rabbit_ in Court
\nA while ago, I made some favorable comments about two new
\n_Crusader Rabbit_ video compilations from Rhino Video.
\nIt turns out that the tapes are not only entertaining,
\nbut collector’s items as well. I’ve heard that NBC claims
\nthe rights to Crusader and has gotten an injunction against
\nRhino that caused the distribution of the tapes to be halted.
\nOnly 7500 copies made it to stores.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #144, from elfhive, 37 chars, Tue Dec 17 21:36:46 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 139.
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\nPrice Club carried it for under $15.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #145, from hmccracken, 812 chars, Thu Dec 19 21:05:26 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 139.
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\nI was in K mart today and picked up a couple of those $2.50 Terrytoons
\ntapes — a Gandy Goose one and a Mighty Mouse one. The price is
\ncertainly right, and the Gandy Goose tape actually has some good
\ncartoons, from the period before Terry’s work became quite as
\ndull as it did. The Mighty Mouse tape isn’t bad either, although
\nunlike the Gandy one, it doesn’t hae the original titles and
\ncredits. I’ll probably pick up one or two more of the tapes
\n(possibly one of Lariat Sam, to get re-acquainted with a character
\nI liked as a wee tot but haven’t seen since).<\/p>\n
One question: the tapes include six cartoons apiece and the boxes
\nsay that the tapes are approximately 30 minutes. That works out
\nto onlly 5 minutes a cartoon — were Terrytoons really that
\nshort, or are the versions on the tapes cut down?
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #146, from davemackey, 576 chars, Fri Dec 20 14:49:08 1991
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\nThe cartoons aren’t edited or time compressed, and I think that 30 minutes
\nmight be a conservative estimate. Maybe in the later years, the cartoons were
\nabout five minutes apiece (I have to check on another tape I got with six Sad
\nCat cartoons including “Gadmouse The Apprentice Good Fairy,” the first
\ncartoon ever directed by Ralph Bakshi — a piece of animation history.)
\nIf you can get used to the fact that these tapes are recorded in the EP
\nmode, they’re a solid value otherwise. Cartoons aren’t duplicated from tape
\nto tape.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #147, from hmccracken, 287 chars, Fri Dec 20 20:15:59 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 146.
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\nI’ll keep an eye out for that Sad Cat tape — it sounds Historically
\nImportant.<\/p>\n
The Gandy Goose tape I includes a cartoons called _Doomsday_ that’s
\nbetter than I would have thought a Terry cartoon could be. Great,
\ncolorful art and a funny story (a takeoff on Chicken Little).
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #148, from davemackey, 246 chars, Mon Dec 23 07:42:01 1991
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\nTITLE: Dilemma
\nOkay, here’s the dilemma…. my brother gave me the “Fantasia” box set for
\nChristmas. Do I open it and enjoy the bonus goodies, or keep it sealed and
\nmaintain its value as a Collectors Item?
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #149, from hmccracken, 233 chars, Mon Dec 23 10:04:58 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 148.
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\nIf I were you, I’d open it, Dave. First of all, Christmas presents
\nare for enjoying. Secondly, I’m dubious about something that’s
\navailable in every video and record store in America ever appreciating
\nthat much in value…
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #150, from morganfox, 136 chars, Mon Dec 23 10:16:05 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 149.
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\nYeah, I agree with Harry. Instant gratification is more my style. :]<\/p>\n
Have fun everyone! A Happy New Year and greetings of the Season!<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #151, from hmccracken, 323 chars, Mon Dec 23 14:12:46 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 150.
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\nOf course, Morgan, I could be wrong about it never appreciating
\nin value — someone just bought a copy of _Batman_ #1 for $40,000.
\nFifty years ago, that was available on every newsstand in America
\nfor one thin dime.<\/p>\n
(Of course, it was among the comic books of my mother’s that got
\nthrown out circa 1960. *sigh*)
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #152, from tsin, 364 chars, Mon Dec 23 14:38:50 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 149.
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\nnot to mention every:
\nk-mart
\nwalmart
\n7-11
\nshell minimart
\nwalgren’s
\nhairsalon
\ngawd..yer Dr is prob selling em!
\nAnyway, Merry Christmas to all of you I would never have heard of if
\nI wasn’t hanging around with a certain Animation Moderator of questionable
\nbackground.
\nWhat’s a nice girl like me doing with a guy like him??!!
\nMerry Christmas!
\nHappy New Year!
\nCynthia<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #153, from switch, 56 chars, Mon Dec 23 14:59:06 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 152.
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\nQuestionable background? I resemble that remark!<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #154, from tsin, 126 chars, Mon Dec 23 19:04:44 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 153.
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\n::looking::
\nOmigosh! You Do!
\nAll the same, Mr. Townsend..I hope you have a Merry Christmas, and an
\neven Happier New Year!
\n\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #155, from nicolas, 96 chars, Tue Dec 24 04:00:19 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 150.
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\nYep, Everyone a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year from Holland.
\n……….
\n. Nico .
\n……….<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #156, from hmccracken, 45 chars, Wed Dec 25 01:27:44 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 155.
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\nHo, ho, ho, Nico! Merry Christmas!
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #157, from jshook, 544 chars, Thu Dec 26 17:43:19 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 148.
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Obviously you’re not a *real* collector or you wouldn’t have to ask…<\/p>\n
Here’s what you do: Open and enjoy the gift (that’s what gifts are for,
\nafter all, and I don’t think I’d enjoy any recipient of mine saying
\n‘thanks a lot, now I think I’ll just put this in the ol’ safe deposit
\nbox for now’….) But if you are really concerned about possible future
\nvalue, buy another and leave it unopened. By the time this acrues any
\nadditional value, however (how many of these things have been sold?) the
\nsignal will be gone from the tape anyway.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #158, from jshook, 66 chars, Thu Dec 26 17:45:41 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 151.
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On the other hand, a dime was worth a lot more fifty years ago.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #159, from hkenner, 72 chars, Thu Dec 26 17:57:55 1991
\nThis is a comment to message 158.
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\nTo be precise, 95 cents in 1990 bought what a dime bought in 1939.
\n–HK<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #160, from davemackey, 272 chars, Sat Jan 4 12:31:26 1992
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\nTITLE: “Rover”‘s new home… video
\nWarner Home Video will soon release “Rover Dangerfield” to the home video
\nrental market (retail $92.99). The much-hyped animated film received little
\nor no theatrical release in the United States.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #161, from hmccracken, 79 chars, Sat Jan 4 17:53:56 1992
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\nI’ve heard that it did reach theaters in New York, but only
\nbriefly.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #162, from dnagamine, 187 chars, Sun Jan 5 11:40:44 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 161.
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\n>Rover Dangerfield<\/p>\n
It played at the the Animation Celebration Festival in Los Angeles last
\nmonth, but I haven’t heard about it playing at any other theaters in the
\narea.<\/p>\n
Daryl Nagamine<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #163, from davemackey, 166 chars, Sun Jan 5 20:35:43 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 162.
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\nAt least we know it’s eligible for the Oscar… who knows, there could be TWO
\nanimated Best Picture Nominees this year (grin)
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #164, from switch, 104 chars, Mon Jan 6 15:14:12 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 160.
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\nIt was here for about two or three weeks, and it was pulled the
\nday I had the time to go see it.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #165, from hmccracken, 401 chars, Fri Jan 10 09:34:48 1992
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\nTITLE: Four Days Left For _Fantasia_
\nToday’s _Boston Globe_ has a large ad in the film section announcing
\nthat January 13th is the last day that Disney will sell _Fantasia_
\non videotape. I think that means it’ll be the last day it’ll be sold
\nto wholesalers — so it should still be on store shelves for a while.
\nIn any event, if you haven’t got it and you want it, now’s the time
\nto get it!
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #166, from davemackey, 433 chars, Mon Jan 13 19:33:36 1992
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\nTITLE: “101 Dalmatians” Release Announced
\nWalt Disney Home Video will release “101 Dalmatians” on April 10, the 101st
\nday of 1992, at a price of $24.99.
\nThere is a promotional tie-in, as usual, with sponsor yet to be
\nannounced.
\nDisney will also be releasing nine other videos on February 28. They are
\n“Sebastian’s Party Gras”, four Winnie The Poohs, and four volumes of “Tale
\nSpin.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #167, from davemackey, 414 chars, Mon Jan 13 19:33:50 1992
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\nTITLE: Warner Bros. new video…
\nWarner Home Video is releasing “Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Summer
\nVacation” on March 11 at $19.95.
\nThis was the Tiny Toons video that we were promised before the series
\nbegan, and it features all-new material. There will be promotional tie-ins as
\nwith Disney’s videos; the sponsors are Dixie and Tiny Toons Real Fruit
\nSnacks.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #168, from hmccracken, 434 chars, Tue Jan 21 00:34:04 1992
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\nTITLE: Reasons to Rush Out and Buy a Laser Disc Player
\nThe recent five-set laser disc collection of Warner Bros. cartoons,
\ndiscussed here by Dave Mackey, has been so successful that MGM\/UA
\nis not only planning a sequel (which will be issued this May), but
\nwill issue, at Christmas, a set including ***Every cartoon Tex Avery
\ndirected at MGM!*** They also have plans for other such sets, including
\nan all-Tom and Jerry one.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #169, from davemackey, 326 chars, Tue Jan 21 02:55:23 1992
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\nEvery cartoon? Including “Uncle Tom’s Cabana”? “The Blitz Wolf”? “The Early
\nBird Dood It”? “Half-Pint Pygmy”?
\nAgain I say… WOW. Of course, MGM could conceivably cover Tex Avery’s
\nearly years if they wanted to, since they also own the rights to all his
\ncolor work at Warner Bros.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #170, from hmccracken, 283 chars, Tue Jan 21 09:25:46 1992
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\nFrom what I hear, the collection will include *every* Avery MGM
\ncartoon. Of course, this will presumably be a fairly high-ticket
\nitem and not something that will go in the kiddie department,
\nwhich (I hope) will give MGM an incentive to include even the
\nracier Avery films.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #171, from hmccracken, 637 chars, Tue Jan 21 15:25:07 1992
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\nTITLE: Animal Land coming to video
\nStreamline Pictures, best know for their theatrical and video releases
\nof Japanese animated films, will be releasing David Hand’s Animal Land
\ncartoons on video. For those not in the know, the Animal Land shorts
\nwere made in England in the mid-1940s, and were an attempt to do
\nHollywood-style cartoon shorts in Great Britain. (Hand, an American,
\nwas a Disney veteran who supervised _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_.)
\nA few of the Animal Land cartoons have been released on public domain
\nvideos, but this will be the first major reissue of these historically
\nimportant cartoons in many years.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #172, from davemackey, 228 chars, Tue Jan 21 19:33:49 1992
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\nTITLE: That was fast!
\nMCA\/Universal Home Video will release “An American Tail: Fievel Goes West” on
\nMarch 17, at a list price of $24.99. The film was in theatres this past
\nholiday season.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #173, from hmccracken, 202 chars, Tue Jan 21 21:24:24 1992
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\nWow! I wonder what the gap will be between its departing the theatres
\nand entering the video stores…I’m willing to bet that _Beauty and
\nthe Beast_ will *still* be in theatres on March 17th.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #174, from mscoville, 489 chars, Thu Jan 23 21:23:45 1992
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\nTITLE: Laser Discs & Players?
\nI had an interesting conversation with someone who told me that there are
\nproblems with the stability and lasting quality of laser discs. He told me that
\nPhillips, who holds the patents, has kept this quiet. One problem is called
\nlaser garbage. It involves the glue separating from the 2 halves of the disc.
\nHe also said that there are other problems and that it is not the most stable
\nmedium as many would have us believe. Any knowledge of this? mscoville<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #175, from mscoville, 142 chars, Thu Jan 23 21:25:45 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 173.
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\nWhat do you expect from a poorly produced film as well as a poorly executed
\nrelease date in competition with Beauty and the Beast. mscoville<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #176, from ianl, 175 chars, Thu Jan 23 21:32:48 1992
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What kind of time-span are we talking about? If a disk falls apart after
\n5 years, that’d bother me, but if we’re talking 50 years, it’s kinda hard
\nto get worked up over.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #177, from jshook, 754 chars, Fri Jan 24 06:52:19 1992
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The term I have heard is “laser rot.”<\/p>\n
There was a lot of talk about this a few years ago, and many people were
\nconcerned since the technology that is used to make video discs is the
\nsame as that used in manufacturing CDs, which were just taking off at the
\ntime.<\/p>\n
If I remember correctly, there was a problem with some early video
\ndiscs–the two halves of the plastic sandwich enclosing the metal
\n(aluminum, I think) layer were imperfectly joined and\/or contaminated
\nwith chemicals. This caused the aluminum layer to begin to oxidate.
\nOver time, this would have led to the disappearance of the encoded
\nprogram material.<\/p>\n
My impression is that this was a problem affecting only some early
\nvideo discs, and the manufacturing process has been corrected.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #178, from davemackey, 306 chars, Fri Jan 24 23:01:43 1992
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\nTITLE: Watch out for that tree
\nYes, George Of The Jungle will soon be available to home video. CBS\/Fox Video
\nwill be releasing 4 volumes at $9.98 list price. These videos will only have
\nfour episodes each on them, clocking in at a little less than a half-hour
\neach.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #179, from nicolas, 249 chars, Mon Jan 27 02:56:15 1992
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\nPhilips, the dutch company we are talking about here, has ordered a
\nresearch program to see how long data will last on CD’s, CD-ROM’s etc.
\nThere is talk that there will be data will deterioate (sp?) after 10
\nyears.
\n……….
\n. Nico .
\n……….<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #180, from ianl, 2137 chars, Mon Jan 27 04:16:40 1992
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Well, I’ve got musical CDs that are 7 years old, and show neither physical
\nsigns of degradation (other than minor scuffing I’ve caused by handling), nor
\nany audible difference. I’m not sure how long CDs have been around, but I
\ngot into it pretty early, so they can’t have too much long-term data avaiable
\nyet.<\/p>\n
BTW…you can bring scratched or scruffed CDs back to life quite easily. I
\nassume the technique would work equally well for a video disk, but I don’t
\nhave laser video equipment, so I’m not sure. I’ve scratched some CDs pretty
\ndeeply, and always been able to recover them 100%.<\/p>\n
For minor scratches, you can just polish the disk with Johnson’s paste wax
\n(the kind for your car), or a similar product. Make sure it’s a real wax,
\nnot one of those space-age acrylic polishes. For deep scratches, I use
\nDuPont Rubbing Compound #7 (the red kind). I use a Q-tip, and put just a
\nvery tiny amount of the compound on the end of it, and buff it in (gently)
\nwith small circular motions over the scratch. Rinse it in plain water, and
\nyou should have a milky-looking patch where the scratch used to be. If you
\ncan still see the scratch, do it again, perhaps applying a wee bit more
\npressure. If you can see distinct scratches from your pass with the rubbing
\ncompound, do it again, using less compound and lighter pressure, until you
\nend up with the hazy\/milky look where the scratch used to be. Once you get
\nit looking milky, polish it with paste wax until it shines like new. It may
\ntake two or 3 polish\/buff cycles to remove the milky look and get a like-new
\nshine. If you had to buff out a deep scratch, you may never get a like-new
\nshine, there may always be some visible micro-scratches from the rubbing
\ncompound. But, the disk will still play like new even if you can see a tiny
\nbit of milkiness left from the rubbing compound.<\/p>\n
Remember, you’re working on the clear plastic protective coating, you’re
\nnowhere near the data itself, so it’s hard to really ruin a disk by polishing
\nit. Beside, if the disk is scratched badly enough that it’s skipping, you
\ncan hardly make it worse; you’ve got nothing to lose. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #181, from davemackey, 415 chars, Thu Feb 6 04:49:51 1992
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\nTITLE: It’s almost a certainty…
\n…that Walt Disney Home Video will be releasing “The Great Mouse Detective”
\non home video before the year is out, given the fact that it’s soon being
\nreissued to theatres (see my message in animation\/silver.screen). You will
\nnote that most of the recent Disney homevideo releases of animated features
\nwere preceded by a theatrical reissue.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #182, from hmccracken, 526 chars, Thu Feb 6 09:22:40 1992
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\nMaybe, Dave — but Disney seems to be trying to release the really
\nsuccessful films on video first. Second-stringers like _Aristocats_
\nand _Mouse Detective_ don’t always seem to get the same treatment.
\nOn the other hand, nearly every big-time Disney animated feature
\nis out on video, with the exception of the forthcoming _101
\nDalmatians_ and _Snow White_ (which I think we’ll see on video within
\nthe next 18 months). They may have to move on to releasing films
\nlike _Aristocats_, _Rescuers_, and _Mouse Detective_.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #183, from davemackey, 357 chars, Mon Feb 10 23:45:49 1992
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\nTITLE: Yet another Underdog repackaging
\nUnited American Video, which has released a number of “Underdog” videos in
\nvarious time formats (with most of them having a 60-min. running time), has
\nreleased “Underdog Super Party,” which includes two hours of Underdog and
\nfriends including several complete 4-part episodes.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #184, from davemackey, 331 chars, Mon Feb 24 23:26:24 1992
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\nTITLE: Disney second-half plans?
\nThere is speculation (and it is just that, merely speculation) in this week’s
\nBillboard that Walt Disney Home Video will be releasing “Beauty And The
\nBeast” and “The Adventures Of The Great Mouse Detective” on the sell-through
\nmarket for the holiday season.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #185, from davemackey, 493 chars, Mon Feb 24 23:26:37 1992
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\nTITLE: Turner withdraws HB home video
\nTurner Home Entertainment has begun withdrawing the Hanna-Barbera homevideo
\nproduct formerly controlled by Worldvision.
\nThe moratorium, effective February 17, excludes “Greatest Stories From
\nThe Bible”, “Timeless Tales”, “Addams Family”, “Dark Water” and “Young Robin
\nHood.” Everything else is being pulled off the market to prevent overexposure
\nas Turner prepares to launch The Cartoon Network cable channel.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #186, from davemackey, 327 chars, Tue Feb 25 21:10:39 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 170.
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\nIn the near term, however, MGM will just give you a little taste of the
\ncartoon lunacy that is Tex Avery. MGM is also releasing a two-disc “starter”
\nset called “All This And Tex Avery, Too” which will include a choicer
\nselection of material. It’ll sell for $34.98 and run for two hours.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #187, from davemackey, 232 chars, Fri Mar 13 20:21:33 1992
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\nTITLE: TTA home video
\nHaven’t had a chance to take a close look at “Tiny Toon Adventures: How I
\nSpent My Vacation” but by the weekend I’ll have posted my thoughts on this
\noriginal production.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #188, from ianl, 314 chars, Fri Mar 13 23:41:27 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 187.
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CNN Headline is doing a story about the TTA home release. I only caught
\npart of it.<\/p>\n
Part of what I saw was a clip that poked fun at the THX-Sound opening that
\nsome movies have. I haven’t laughed so hard in months, it just totally
\ncracked me up. I’m definately gonna have to learn more about these toons.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #189, from davemackey, 261 chars, Wed Mar 18 19:21:27 1992
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\nTITLE: The new all-time champeen…
\nThe Walt Disney Company has announced that “Fantasia” has become the single
\nbest-selling videocassette of all time, surpassing the previous record
\nholder, “E.T. The Extra Terrestrial.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #190, from jshook, 175 chars, Thu Mar 19 00:08:41 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 189.
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I think my enthusiasm for this milestone would be less muted if I didn’t
\nfeel that Disney’s marketing tactics for this title amounted to something
\nvery much like blackmail.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #191, from hmccracken, 506 chars, Thu Mar 19 09:39:21 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 190.
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\nAbsolutely. As I’ve probably said before, if Ted Turner had released
\n_Citizen Kane_ on video, with an ad campaign telling the public that
\nthis was the last time they’d be able to see the film as is, because
\nhe was going to insert new scenes into the story, there would undoubtedly
\nbe an *enormous* outcry, and calls for the government to take action.<\/p>\n
Only Disney could get away with telling every _Fantasia_ fan in America
\nto “give us $24.95, or you’ll never see your baby in one piece again!”
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #192, from ianl, 579 chars, Thu Mar 19 15:22:36 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 191.
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Not that I want to be in the position of defending marketing and advertising
\nfolks and their slimeball tricks, but… I would have bought Fantasia the
\nday it came out with or without the threats of limited release. Some fans
\nare just fans, and the blackmail was a wasted effort on us.<\/p>\n
Has Disney pulled this with any other video releases, or just Fantasia?
\n(I wouldn’t know, since Fantasia is the only Disney movie (live or animated)
\nthat I can stand to watch. It’s the only one that isn’t terminally cute,
\nand even it would be better without the Mickey Mouse sequence.)<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #193, from hmccracken, 609 chars, Thu Mar 19 15:43:48 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 192.
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\nGee, I would have bought _Fantasia_ with or without the hype, too. In fact,
\nI’ve bought just about every major Disney animated-feature release on video
\n(excepting _Robin Hood_ and one or two others).<\/p>\n
This is the only tape Disney has tried the blackmail scheme with. They
\nseem to love to tamper with _Fantasia_ — ten years ago, they replaced
\nthe soundtrack with a new recording, then more recently they went back
\nto the old soundtrack and restored the visuals. Deems Taylor’s narration
\nhas also appeared and disappeared over the years, and segments have
\nshuffled places and been cut and re-added.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #194, from davemackey, 178 chars, Thu Mar 19 19:20:44 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 191.
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\nOn the other hand, I did still see lots of unsold Fantasias taking up space
\nat the Blockbuster yesterday… so it is still out and about.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #195, from ianl, 599 chars, Thu Mar 19 20:52:41 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 193.
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I know the world is full of purists, but I for one would like to see a
\nversion of Fantasia with a completly re-recorded soundtrack. I’d still
\nwatch the original occasionally, but unless it was very badly done, I
\nthink I’d prefer the clean-sound version.<\/p>\n
I was wondering how hard it would be to rerecord the music. On the one
\nhand, it would be tough to get the tempo of the music exactly as it needs
\nto be for the visuals. (Or so it seems to me, a layman by any measure.)
\nBut on the other hand, with live-action films the music goes on after the
\nvisuals are down, so it must be possible.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #196, from davemackey, 903 chars, Fri Mar 20 06:09:31 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 195.
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\nAs Harry alluded to in his previous message, there was an entirely new
\nsoundtrack recorded for the film’s 1980 reissue, by Irwin Kostal. Needless to
\nsay it didn’t go over too well with the purists, but some people probably
\nenjoyed the updated sounds.
\nIt is possible to post-synch an animated film — that is, do the
\ndrawings first and then do the soundtrack to match the pictures. The
\nFleischers did it all the time, projecting the cartoon action on a screen as
\nthe orchestra, sound effects and voice people did it all in one take. This
\nsort of synchronization is possible when you realize that most action in
\nanimated films is worked out in some multiple of a divisor of 24 — 1×24,
\n2×12, 3×8, or 4×6 (and vice versa), and that mechanical devices can be
\ncreated that can beat out the proper tempo in click form so that the
\nmusicians can be in proper synch.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #197, from davemackey, 462 chars, Tue Apr 7 22:35:47 1992
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: “B&B” home video imminent
\nDisney has plans to release “Beauty And The Beast” on home video before you
\nknow it. Their forthcoming release of “Sing Along Songs: Be Our Guest” on June
\n19 is advertised in trade papers with the line “Capitalize on the phenomenal
\npopularity of “Beauty And The Beast” before its video release.”
\nI strongly suspect “BATB” will be in video stores for this Christmas season.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #198, from hmccracken, 231 chars, Wed Apr 8 23:10:58 1992
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\nTITLE: _Dalmatians_ on street
\nThe official street date for Walt Disney’s _101 Dalmatians_ is
\nday after tomorrow, but I picked up my copy tonight at Blockbuster
\nfor $17.95. Dalmatian fans (and Cruella DeVil fans) rejoice!
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #199, from hmccracken, 120 chars, Thu Apr 9 22:07:59 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 197.
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\nI can top that, Dave: my local Suncoast video store is presently
\ntaking preorders for the _Beauty_ videotape.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #200, from hmccracken, 457 chars, Thu Apr 9 22:12:10 1992
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\nTITLE: George, George, George of the Jungle!
\nCBS\/Fox Home Video, reacting (no doubt) to the success of the
\nRocky and Bullwinkle videotapes, has released a series showcasing
\nthe later Jay Ward series _George of the Jungle_ (which the
\nWard Studio considered its best work). Each volume runs about
\na half-hour and includes cartoons featuring George, Super Chicken,
\nand Tom Slick (the famed racecar driver and owner of the Thunderbolt
\nGreaseslapper).
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #201, from hmccracken, 778 chars, Fri Apr 10 11:34:59 1992
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: Three Disney Features on Video
\nBuena Vista Home Video has announced plans to release three more
\nDisney animated features on home video by year’s end. The *big*
\nnews is that _Beauty and the Beast_ will be released on home video
\non October 30th. But more surprisingly, it will be preceded by
\n_The Great Mouse Detective_ on July 17th and _The Rescuers_ sometime
\nin September. All three releases will retail for $24.99. This
\nleaves only a few Disney animated features that have never been
\navailable on video — _Snow White_, _The Aristocats_ and _Oliver
\n& Company_ are the ones that come to mind.<\/p>\n
In other Disney video news, the company has acquired home video
\nrights to _Alvin and the Chipmunks_, and also plans three tapes
\nof Goofy cartoons for release in July.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #202, from davemackey, 47 chars, Fri Apr 10 21:49:21 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 201.
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\nDon’t forget “The Black Cauldron”… ::smile::<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #203, from hmccracken, 121 chars, Fri Apr 10 23:18:08 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 202.
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\nYep, that’s right. I’ve heard folks say that that film will never
\nbe re-released in any form, but who knows…
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #204, from jshook, 113 chars, Sat Apr 11 00:12:56 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 203.
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Seems I read recently that there is a plan to re-release “The
\nBlack Cauldron” with a slightly-different title.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #205, from davemackey, 90 chars, Sat Apr 11 16:15:46 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 204.
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\nYes… “The Adventures Of The Black Cauldron”? \ud83d\ude09
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #206, from davemackey, 145 chars, Tue Apr 14 01:07:45 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 201.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nWalt Disney Home Video will also be releasing several new volumes of “Rocky
\nAnd Bullwinkle” in the Fall.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #207, from ianl, 75 chars, Tue Apr 14 02:30:26 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 206.
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Cool! But…how did Disney end up with the rights to distribute R & B?<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #208, from hmccracken, 45 chars, Wed Apr 15 10:33:20 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 207.
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\nThey paid Mrs. Ward lots of money.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #209, from davemackey, 491 chars, Thu May 7 01:33:45 1992
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\nTITLE: Same suit, different claimant
\nNow it’s the Philadelphia Orchestra who is suing The Walt Disney Company for
\na pile of money, saying their contract for performing the music for
\n“Fantasia” did not have provision for revenues from release of the film in
\nhome media… of course, they are after a piece of the mega-profits. This is
\nsort of like Peggy Lee’s recent lawsuit, and if I remember correctly she only
\ngot a fraction of what she was asking.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #210, from davemackey, 342 chars, Mon May 11 19:04:19 1992
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\nTITLE: H-B\/Worldvision stuff headed for a fate worse than…
\nFrom what I understand, officials of Turner Home Entertainment are in the
\nprocess of purchasing old stocks of Worldvision-distributed Hanna-Barbera
\ntapes for the sole purpose of destroying them. Does anyone have any further
\ndetails on this?
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #211, from davemackey, 1162 chars, Wed May 13 20:33:43 1992
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\nTITLE: Highlights from the new “Whole Toon Supplement”
\nBeing a gazetteer of new offerings, hitherto unreported, and found in the
\nlatest Whole Toon Supplement (for details, e-mail ‘drtoon’ here on BIX)…
\n* Warner Bros. is releasing six new compilations of its classic
\ncartoons on August 12, and in the fall, three compilations of “Tiny Toon
\nAdventures, all at $12.95 each
\n* “The Golden Age Of Looney Tunes Vol. 2” laserdisc sometime in May or
\nJune, 70 more cartoons for $99.95
\n* A compilation of George Pal Puppetoons from the 30’s and 40’s,
\nprimarily featuring Jasper but also including such gems as personal favorite,
\n“Date With Duke”
\n* “Plymptoons: The Complete Works Of Bill Plympton” coming in mid-June
\n* “The Raymond Scott Project Vol. 1: Powerhouse” featuring the actual
\nScott recordings that inspired the soundtracks of many of the Warner Bros.
\ncartoons of the 40’s. 24 tracks, 69 minutes in all. $14.95 on compact disc.
\n* A laserdisc collection of every Fleischer Superman cartoon, mastered
\nfrom the original 35mm nitrate prints. (With added attraction “Snafuperman”
\nstarring Pvt. Snafu.)
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #212, from hmccracken, 446 chars, Mon May 18 22:56:39 1992
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: Fractured Fairy Tales
\nWhile we’re waiting for more Rocky and Bullwinkle videos from Disney
\n(didn’t they announce a bunch that never shipped?), Kids Klassics
\nVideo (love that name) has released a tape of Jay Ward’s Fractured
\nFairy Tale cartoons, one of the series that made up the Bullwinkle
\nshow. There are no copyrights on the tape box, which leads me to
\nbelieve that these are cartoons that have lapsed into the public domain.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #213, from ianl, 828 chars, Mon May 18 23:06:23 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 212.
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Wow, I’ll have to keep my eyes open for that. Of course, there’s every
\nchance that I’ve seen all the ones they’ve package together, probably
\nseveral times.<\/p>\n
The quality of Fractured Fairy Tales has always amazed me, in terms of
\nthe variability. Some of them are well-drawn and colored (at least, as
\nwell as the Bullwinkle sequences that surround them). Others are hastily
\nsketched line drawings dabbed over with blobs of color that don’t even
\nvaguely follow the sketched lines. (This is mostly in backgrounds, foreground
\ncharacters are usually more detailed.) After watching a bunch of them, you
\nget the idea that there are two distinct styles of fractured tales. I don’t
\neven find the hastily-sketched backgrounds unpleasing, it’s really more
\njust a stylistic difference to me now. (I did dislike them at first.)<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #214, from hmccracken, 210 chars, Tue May 19 09:34:00 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 213.
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\nI think part of the problem is that Ward used different foreign studios
\nto do the actual animation on the FFTs; some of the early ones may
\nactually have been animated at the Ward studio in Hollywood.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #215, from ianl, 350 chars, Tue May 19 21:52:59 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 214.
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One of my favorite FFTs is one of the blob-colored-background ones, the
\nstory of (er, perhaps better to say “an interpretation of”) Tom Thumb. At
\none point you see a quick, strange flash on the screen. If you go through
\nit at slow motion on the video tape, you see a post-it sort of note on
\nthe screen that says “Cut here, back 3 frames”. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #216, from jshook, 297 chars, Tue May 19 23:24:49 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 215.
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Ooops….<\/p>\n
I used to use my own system: I would stick my hand under the camera,
\nwith the number of fingers indicating how many frames to trim before
\nthat frame. I remember one roll of film with so many of these shots
\nI could have sold it uncut to Sesame Street to teach simple number
\nconcepts.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #217, from davemackey, 384 chars, Sun May 31 08:01:47 1992
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: “Rock-A-Doodle”
\nHBO Video is releasing “Rock-A-Doodle” in late August at $24.95, with a $5
\nrebate offered by Wisk.
\nThis video will cap an unusually busy third quarter for sellthrough
\nvideo, with other major titles being released in the summer and early fall
\nmonths including “The Great Mouse Detective,” “Hook” and “Wayne’s World.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #218, from davemackey, 496 chars, Sun May 31 15:33:58 1992
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\nTITLE: Blockbuster bargains…
\nThe Blockbuster Video chain is in the process of liquidating some of its
\nvideo titles for as low as $4.88 each.
\nThough the inventory will vary from store to store, I did manage to find
\na few goodies at this lowest price point: Mike Jittlov’s “Wizard Of Speed And
\nTime” and a collection of Zbig Rybczynski’s work released by Pacific Arts
\nVideo. There will also be a number of cartoon collections available to each
\nstore.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #219, from davemackey, 184 chars, Mon Jun 1 23:14:54 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 217.
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\n…And don’t you have eerie thoughts of an animated commercial for Wisk
\nfeaturing Chanticleer singing the “Tsk Tsk Tsk Wisk Wisk Wisk” song? \ud83d\ude09
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #220, from davemackey, 191 chars, Sat Jun 27 16:58:18 1992
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\nTITLE: “Ferngully” release announced
\n“Ferngully: The Last Rain Forest” will be released on home video by 20th
\nCentury Fox on August 28 at $24.98 list.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #221, from davemackey, 313 chars, Sat Jun 27 16:58:29 1992
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\nTITLE: “Chipmunks” release announced
\nBuena Vista Home Video will release the first six volumes of “Alvin And The
\nChipmunks” in September at $12.99 list, coinciding with a new audio and video
\nrelease campaign coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the Chipmunks’
\ncreation.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #222, from hmccracken, 87 chars, Sat Jun 27 22:20:42 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 221.
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\nAre these the original 1960s Chipmunks shows or the more recent incarnation?
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #223, from davemackey, 211 chars, Sun Jun 28 09:24:18 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 222.
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\nIt is probably going to be the more recent Chipmunks, but the audio
\nrepackaging will be including old and new material. The Chipmunk audio
\ncatalogue is now owned by Sony.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #224, from davemackey, 907 chars, Wed Jul 29 01:09:54 1992
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\nTITLE: Casper back on video
\nCasper The Friendly Ghost, long a staple of public-domain video presentations
\n(particularly his earliest reels such as “There’s Good Boos Tonight” and “The
\nFriendly Ghost”), will be featured in three new homevideo releases.
\nThe tapes, to be priced at $9.95 each, will each feature four cartoons
\nfrom the 1950’s Casper theatrical series. Promotional material for these
\ntapes note that picture and soundtrack have been restored to their original
\ncondition and will include original (possibly Paramount) main and end titles.
\n(The current Casper television package mismatches beautifully restored
\npictures with an awful synthesized music score and dull voices and sound
\neffects.)
\nThe 1970’s Hanna-Barbera Casper, with Julie McWhirter Dees voicing the
\nGhost, had been released by Worldvision Home Video, but has since been
\nwithdrawn.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #225, from switch, 671 chars, Thu Jul 30 10:02:40 1992
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\nTITLE: More stuff from Streamline…<\/p>\n
Some of this may be repeated, but what the heck.<\/p>\n
Upcoming video releases by Streamline Pictures:<\/p>\n
_Castle of Cagliostro_, minus any references to the name Lupin:
\nSeptember ’92, $29.95<\/p>\n
_Fist of the North Star_, Sept. 92, $29.95<\/p>\n
_Robotech_ will be released on a monthly basis, three tapes a
\nmonth (one from each part of the trilogy). Each tape will have
\ntwo episodes in English, and the two corresponding Japanese episodes,
\nsubtitled.<\/p>\n
(Sorry, that’s to be released in October.)<\/p>\n
No release date announced: _3X3 Eyes_, _Crying Freeman_, _Gokuu:
\nMidnight Eye_.<\/p>\n
_Captain Quantum vs. The Ugly Druggies_, available now, $39.95.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #226, from hmccracken, 253 chars, Sun Aug 9 22:11:03 1992
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\nTITLE: Anyone Know How To Get to Pingo Pongo?
\nDoes anyone know if the Tex Avery Warner Bros. cartoon _The Isle
\nof Pingo Pongo_ is available on video? (Or does anyone have a
\nvideo copy?) If so, please drop me a BIXnote or tell me here.
\nThanks!
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #227, from davemackey, 158 chars, Mon Aug 10 00:34:40 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 226.
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\n“Pingo Pongo” has never been legitimately released. Check with your friendly
\nneighborhood bootlegger for this one. \ud83d\ude09
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #228, from davemackey, 763 chars, Thu Aug 20 14:06:16 1992
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\nTITLE: New Warner Bros. Videos
\nInformation on three of the new Warner Bros. videos that have just
\nbeen released. These all contain original uncut cartoons, and those
\nthat have been computer colorized are noted with (CC).
\n“Daffy Duck — Tales From The Duckside” (12425): “Wise Quackers,”
\n“The Impatient Patient” (CC), “Porky And Daffy” (CC), “Porky Pig’s
\nFeat” (CC) and “Stork Naked.”
\n“Yosemite Sam: The Good, The Bad And The Ornery” (12429): “Mutiny
\nOn The Bunny,” “Sahara Hare,” “Honey’s Money,” “Wild And Woolly Hare,”
\nand “Rabbit Every Monday.”
\n“Bugs Bunny: Truth Or Hare” (12424): “The Fair Haired Hare,” “Dr.
\nDevil And Mr. Hare,” “Wideo Wabbit,” “Hare-Way To The Stars,” and “Water,
\nWater Every Hare.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #229, from davemackey, 429 chars, Thu Aug 20 14:06:21 1992
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\nTITLE: New from Streamline
\nIn stores now, courtesy of Jerry Beck and his friends at Streamline
\nPictures, are volumes of “Clutch Cargo” and “David Hand’s Animaland.”
\nThe former is the 1957 Synchro-Vox series revived not long ago on
\n“The Higgins Boys And Gruber” show on The Comedy Channel; the latter
\nis composed of theatrical shorts produced in Great Britain by the
\ndirector of “Bambi”.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #230, from davemackey, 243 chars, Thu Aug 20 14:06:24 1992
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\nTITLE: New from Republic
\nFor the first time, Republic Pictures Home Video has issued a volume
\nof Max and Dave Fleischer’s silent Ko-Ko The Clown cartoons. The cartoons
\nrange in date from 1927 to 1929.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #231, from davemackey, 1175 chars, Thu Aug 20 21:36:28 1992
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\nTITLE: The other new Warner videos
\nHere are the cartoons on the three other new Warner Bros. video compilations:
\n“Sylvester And Tweety: The Best Yeows Of Our Lives”: “All A Bir-r-r-d,”
\n“Tweet And Sour,” “Tweet Tweet Tweety,” “Home Tweet Home” and “A Bird In A
\nGuilty Cage.”
\n“The Road Runner And Wile E. Coyote: The Scrapes Of Wrath”: “Whoa Be
\nGone!”, “Guided Muscle,” “Stop! Look! And Hasten!”, “Hopalong Casualty,” and
\n“Rabbit’s Feat.”
\n“Porky Pig: Days Of Swine And Roses”: “Porky’s Party” (CC), “Patient
\nPorky” (CC), “Thumb Fun,” “Porky’s Hero Agency” (CC), and “Bye, Bye,
\nBluebeard.”
\nIt is not noted anywhere on the package or on the video that the
\ncomputer colorization has been done to the black-and-white Looney Tunes from
\nthe 30’s and 40’s that are in the Daffy and Porky packages, other than a
\nstatement reading “Color Version (C) MCMXC [or MCMXCII in the case of more
\nrecent colorizations] Warner Bros., Inc.” Many of the colorized films that
\nhave been released to video state that the colorization has been done without
\nthe consent of the films’ original author. Anyone know if such a caveat is
\nrequired?
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #232, from switch, 67 chars, Fri Aug 21 22:22:09 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 231.
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\nIt’s not required yet, but there is a group lobbying for it.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #233, from davemackey, 294 chars, Sun Sep 6 12:08:12 1992
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: Bullwinkle, vols. 9-12
\nWalt Disney Home Video is releasing the next four volumes of “Rocky And
\nBullwinkle” on October 16, at $12.99 list.
\nThe volumes are entitled “Banana Formula,” “Pottsylvania Creeper,”
\n“Weather Lady” and “Painting Theft.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #234, from ianl, 203 chars, Sun Sep 6 15:18:29 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 233.
\nThere are additional comments to message 233.
\n————————–<\/p>\n
Hmmm, that’s interesting. Pottsylvania Creeper and Weather Lady are in
\nthe syndicated series, but Banana Formula is not, and I don’t think
\nPainting Theft is either unless the name is misleading me.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #235, from hmccracken, 166 chars, Sun Sep 6 19:27:14 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 233.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nDoes that mean that Alex Anderson’s lawsuit against the Ward
\nestate has been settled? I think that’s what was holding up
\nrelease of the additional volumes.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #236, from davemackey, 493 chars, Mon Sep 7 02:48:48 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 235.
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\nI am not sure about that, but it is that time of year for additional volumes
\nto come to market. They release a handful every fall.
\nBy the way, the “classic stuff” motif of the first eight volumes has
\nbeen discontinued in favor of a new “funny stuff” format, with the package
\ngraphics more representative of scenes from the actual cartoons, mostly the
\nfamiliar bumper graphics of Bullwinkle attempting to pull a rabbit out of his
\nhat and like that.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #237, from davemackey, 241 chars, Mon Sep 14 14:47:14 1992
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\nTITLE: “Snafu” in stores
\nAt last! Rhino Home Video has made two volumes of Warner Bros.’ wartime
\ntraining films starring “Private Snafu” available through retail outlets.
\nThe tapes are an hour long.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #238, from davemackey, 367 chars, Mon Sep 14 14:48:48 1992
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\nTITLE: “Bedtime Stories” from Shelley…
\nMCA\/Universal Home Video has released three volumes of “Shelley Duvall’s
\nBedtime Stories,” the animated series which currently airs on cable’s
\nShowtime service. The animation is by Universal Cartoon Studios under the
\ndirection of cartoon veteran Art Leonardi (“Tiny Toon Adventures”).
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #239, from davemackey, 249 chars, Sat Sep 19 12:02:15 1992
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: “Rescuers” video: deceptive advertising?
\nIs it ethical for Disney to promote the video release of the 15-year-old
\ntheatrical film “The Rescuers” as an “all-new adventure”? Makes me think
\nit’s a new production.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #240, from hmccracken, 196 chars, Sun Sep 27 23:17:46 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 239.
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\nIt certainly seems deceptive to me! The packages clearly suggest that
\nthis film is a new sequel to _The Rescuers Down Under_, rather than
\nthe first film in the series, dating from 1977.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #241, from davemackey, 287 chars, Wed Oct 14 19:25:21 1992
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: New from Warner Bros…. \ud83d\ude09
\nWarner Home Video is releasing six brand-new laserdisc compilations of its
\ncartoons. Each volume lists for $34.98 and contains about two hours worth of
\ncartoons, many which have never been released to home video before.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #242, from davemackey, 178 chars, Thu Oct 15 01:50:41 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 241.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nI have a list of titles for each of these laserdiscs that is way too long to
\npost; e-mail me if interested and I’ll shoot you a copy of the list.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #243, from hmccracken, 70 chars, Thu Oct 15 09:48:31 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 242.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nWhy not post it in long.messages, Dave? I’d love to see it.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #244, from davemackey, 74 chars, Fri Oct 16 06:12:00 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 243.
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\nDone. Check animation\/long.messages #101.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #245, from davemackey, 813 chars, Sat Oct 17 17:11:50 1992
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\nTITLE: Casper videos
\nThe first three of six Casper videos has been released by MCA\/Universal Home
\nVideo and Harvey Comics Entertainment.
\n“Casper’s Halloween,” “Casper’s Animal Friends” and “Casper’s Travels”
\neach feature four original cartoons from the 1950’s and 1960’s with original
\nmusic and voice tracks. The picture and sound quality is outstanding, but the
\ntitles and opening music aren’t quite all there. But for the revisionist
\nHarvey regime of Jeffrey A. Montgomery to promote original soundtracks after
\npoorly redubbing all of his Casper cartoons for television syndication is
\nclearly a step in the right direction.
\nThe forthcoming volumes in the series are “Casper’s Good Deeds,”
\n“Casper’s Fairy Tales” and “Casper’s Favorite Days.” Each tape lists for
\n$9.98.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #246, from davemackey, 389 chars, Wed Oct 21 23:55:53 1992
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: How to get a “Beauty” at home
\nQVC is taking pre-orders of the video release of “Beauty And The Beast.” The
\nvideo itself is $15.97 and the collectors box set is $97.50, which includes
\nCD soundtrack, “Making Of” video and other goodies. QVC will ship these out
\non October 31, which means you could get yours well in advance of the nominal
\nstreet date.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #247, from peabo, 178 chars, Thu Oct 22 00:51:49 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 246.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nHmmm, my local video dealer (the dolt) didn’t tell me about the collector’s
\nbox set. I asked him about a laserdisc release, and he said there wasn’t
\none. Is he correct?<\/p>\n
peter<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #248, from hmccracken, 242 chars, Thu Oct 22 10:35:20 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 247.
\nThere are additional comments to message 247.
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\nDisney usually releases its animated films on laserdisc some months
\nafter the videotape release. That’s because discs make such nice
\nmasters for pirates to run off copies from. I’m sure _Beauty_ will
\narrive on disc sooner or later.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #249, from switch, 145 chars, Sat Oct 24 00:38:00 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 247.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nThere’s a rumor on the Internet (rec.arts.disney) that the BatB
\n“work in progress” cut will be released on laserdisc RSN, for about
\n$50…<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #250, from elfhive, 340 chars, Sat Oct 24 12:09:35 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 249.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nI saw this in the latest Image Entertainment catalogue, received about
\ntwo weeks ago. It has some additional material in it on the making of
\nan animation sequence. I’m on the road in LA and not near the catalogue
\nso I can’t be more specific. I also saw that they have _The Adventures
\nof Ichabod and Mr. Toad_ which is not available on VHS.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #251, from switch, 45 chars, Sun Oct 25 11:33:32 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 250.
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\nI must own this video! <drool, drool><\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #252, from davemackey, 200 chars, Wed Nov 11 22:26:22 1992
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\nTITLE: Attack Of The Cheap H-B Videos
\nRecently purchased at Kmart: a bunch of Hanna-Barbera videos, 2 for $7,
\nincluding the feature length “The Man Called Flintstone”!
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #253, from davemackey, 173 chars, Tue Nov 17 19:03:22 1992
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\nTITLE: The return of “Pinocchio”
\nWalt Disney Home Video reissues its classic animated feature “Pinocchio” on
\nMarch 23, 1993, at $24.95 list.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #254, from davemackey, 460 chars, Wed Nov 18 19:19:39 1992
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\nTITLE: “Golden Age Of Looney Tunes” videoTAPES
\nMGM\/UA Home Video has released the ten-laserdisc set “The Golden Age Of
\nLooney Tunes” as individual videotapes for $12.95 list. The packages feature
\nnew artwork based on the original cartoons by Darrell Van Citters. Quality is
\noutstanding, even on early-30’s source material.
\nThank goodness they’ve cut out those false AAP openings. I’m sure
\neveryone’s tired of those by now.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #255, from davemackey, 212 chars, Thu Nov 19 20:42:20 1992
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\nTITLE: Pointer to new long.message
\nNow posted in long.messages: the list of titles for “The Golden Age Of Looney
\nTunes, Vol. 3,” to be released any day now from MGM\/UA Home Video.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #256, from grekel, 565 chars, Thu Nov 19 23:02:39 1992
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: Popeye music axes?
\nAm I nuts, or has anyone else noticed…
\nAt the beginning of older Fleischer Popeye cartoons, during
\nthe opening theme, is there a measure of music cut out?
\nIt’s hard to describe, but it usually seems to be one of
\nthe last “wah wah wahhh” talking trombone measures, and
\nsometimes the cut is not very clean. I can’t say if there
\nis an accompanying picture cut, but there probably is.
\nMy kids watch TNT Toons weekday mornings, and today the
\nomission sorta struck me, as if I’d heard it a lot and
\njust not noticed it.
\nwhat’s the deal?<\/p>\n
greg<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #257, from davemackey, 239 chars, Fri Nov 20 19:02:45 1992
\nThis is a comment to message 256.
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\nThere are music replacement edits at the beginning of almost every FAMOUS
\nPopeye from the 40’s through about 1955. This is probably what you are
\nhearing. The Fleischers have no music edits in the beginning.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #258, from davemackey, 266 chars, Thu Jan 7 04:58:46 1993
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\nTITLE: Yet another format for GALT
\n“The Golden Age Of Looney Tunes,” previously available on videodisc and ten
\nindividually-sold VHS tapes, is now available as a 5-cassette VHS boxed set
\nencompassing all ten chapters for $79.99 list.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #259, from hmccracken, 757 chars, Sun Jan 31 20:02:44 1993
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\nTITLE: _The Compleat Tex Avery_
\nThe multi-disk laser disk collection of every MGM Tex Avery cartoon is
\nout, and it’s great — probably good enough to justify the purchase
\nof a laser disk player. (I’m still pondering the issue myself; I
\nwatched the set at a friend’s house.)<\/p>\n
The set includes several cartoons that have rarely, if ever, been
\nshown on TV, such as _The Blitz Wolf_ and _Uncle Tom’s Cabana_,
\nas well as two rare Cinemascope remakes of earlier Avery films.
\nOther cartoons which do get shown on TV in edited form are complete
\non the disks, although at least one cartoon — _Droopy’s Good Deed_ —
\nappears to have a gag cut out. In any event, this is great stuff
\nand worth every penny of the $100.00 cost for research purposes alone.
\n– Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #260, from davemackey, 532 chars, Sun Feb 14 23:04:47 1993
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: Finally, “Tiny Toon Adventures”
\nWarner Home Video will begin releasing episodes of “Tiny Toon Adventures” to
\nthe homevideo market on March 24, with each $12.95 list tape including two
\nhalf-hour episodes. No word on which of the show’s 98 episodes will be
\nincluded in the tape.
\nOf course, last week Fox showed the “How I Spent My Vacation”
\nhomevideo-only release in half-hour chunks, unfortunately interrupted by
\n“Sepulveda Boulevard” on Tuesday due to an error by Fox programming drones.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #261, from davemackey, 405 chars, Fri Feb 19 19:05:59 1993
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\nTITLE: Disney’s latest scare tactic
\nWalt Disney Home Video has begun running television commercials stating that
\nit’s your last chance to purchase some of its cartoon videos (including
\n“Beauty And The Beast”) and that “orders will no longer be taken”.
\nDon’t panic. How long did videos of “Fantasia” remain on the shelves
\nafter Disney nominally pulled it from release?
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #262, from davemackey, 284 chars, Tue Feb 23 19:17:26 1993
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\nTITLE: Disney’s latest TV show hits vidstores
\nWalt Disney Home Video will soon be releasing episodes of its “Goof Troop”
\ntelevision series, currently seen in local syndication and on ABC (though
\nthat will change next season), on the home video market.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #263, from davemackey, 373 chars, Tue Feb 23 19:17:36 1993
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\nTITLE: Summer turkeys become winter videos
\nTwo of last summer’s crop of eminently forgettable animated features have hit
\nvideo stores.
\nParamount Home Video has priced Ralph Bakshi’s “Cool World” for rental
\noutlets, while Hemdale Home Video has made “Little Nemo: Adventures In
\nSlumberland” availble at the sell-through price of $24.95.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #264, from davemackey, 239 chars, Thu Feb 25 15:57:33 1993
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\nTITLE: “Mermaid” shortform swims into video stores
\nWalt Disney Home Video has released three volumes of its “The Little Mermaid”
\ntelevision series, which presently airs on Saturday mornings on CBS.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #265, from davemackey, 334 chars, Tue Mar 9 19:24:23 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 260.
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\nThe “TTA” tapes that Warner Home Video is releasing will consist of:
\n“The Best Of Buster And Babs” (“Prom-ise Her Anything” and
\n“thirteensomething”)
\n“Tiny Toons Music Television” (“TT Music Television” and “Toon TV”)
\n“Tiny Toons In Two-Tone Town” (“Two-Tone Town” and “Fields Of Honey”)
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #266, from hmccracken, 594 chars, Wed Mar 24 09:24:37 1993
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: _Pinocchio_ Returns to Video
\nThe new release of Walt Disney’s _Pinocchio_ on videotape is available
\nin stores, making the Disney classic available for the first time in
\nseveral years. That’s great news for anyone who doesn’t have a copy,
\nbut for those of us who picked up the original video release in
\nthe mid-1980s, there’s a burning question: is there any reason to
\nupgrade to _Pinocchio_ version 2.0? Disney claims that this new
\ntape is based on a restored print, but my old video copy looks pretty
\nclose to perfect. Has anyone out there had a chance to compare the
\ntwo?
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #267, from elfhive, 120 chars, Wed Mar 24 23:52:01 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 266.
\nThere are additional comments to message 266.
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\nI’m going for the laser disc release that I’m told will also be out.
\nI’ll let you know how that looks in a week or two.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #268, from srider, 248 chars, Thu Mar 25 01:40:23 1993
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\nTITLE: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on videodisc<\/p>\n
The animated graphic sequences in this TV series of six episodes
\nis a rare treat. I’ve spent hours still-framing the images and
\nenjoying the details. A must for amyone who loves trifles. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #269, from hmccracken, 459 chars, Sun Mar 28 19:28:22 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 266.
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\nI went out and rented the new _Pinocchio_ tape and did an informal
\ncomparison with my vintage 1985 copy. While the old copy looked
\nvery nice, the colors in the new version are brighter and more
\nsaturated, and some scratches that were visible in the old copy
\ndon’t show up in the new one. I’m still trying to decide if
\nthe better quality is worth shelling out $15.00 for (but then,
\nI still haven’t bought a copy of _Beauty and the Beast_, either).
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #270, from davemackey, 236 chars, Tue Apr 13 19:03:31 1993
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\nTITLE: Watch out (again) for that tree
\nFour new volumes of “George Of The Jungle” are on store shelves now, courtesy
\nof Fox Video. Titles include “It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad George” and “In George
\nWe Trust.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #271, from davemackey, 157 chars, Mon Apr 26 15:20:46 1993
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nTITLE: “Aladdin” is coming….
\nWalt Disney Home Video will release “Aladdin” on home video on October 1.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #272, from davemackey, 179 chars, Tue May 4 01:45:39 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 271.
\nThere are additional comments to message 271.
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\nIn the meantime, Disney has released the latest volume of its “Sing Along
\nSongs” entitled “Friend Like Me” featuring certain songs from “Aladdin”.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #273, from davemackey, 295 chars, Mon May 17 05:52:58 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 271.
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\nConsumer Alert! DON’T BE FOOLED by a knock off version of “Aladdin” now
\nappearing in video stores. The cassette is distributed by Goodtimes Home
\nVideo and appears in packaging that is very close to Disney’s. Remember: the
\nDisney “Aladdin” comes out on October 1.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #274, from davemackey, 275 chars, Tue May 25 20:17:07 1993
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\nTITLE: “Mayday”! “Mayday”!
\nMCA\/Universal Home Video has just issued “Dennis The Menace: Mayday For
\nMother” on home video at $9.98 list. The half-hour program, a
\nMirisch-DePatie-Freleng Production, was written by “Dennis” creator Hank
\nKetcham.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #275, from davemackey, 236 chars, Tue Jul 13 19:14:29 1993
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\nTITLE: End your video “Quest”
\nTurner Home Entertainment will release “Jonny’s Golden Quest” on home video
\nat $24.95 list. The feature was commissioned by USA Network for its World
\nPremiere Movies series.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #276, from davemackey, 1367 chars, Mon Aug 2 10:52:11 1993
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\nTITLE: New Releases: Warner Bros.
\nWarner Home Video has released five new videos of Warner Bros cartoon
\nclassics and three volumes of the current SatAM series “Taz-Mania.”<\/p>\n
The five volumes of classics are:
\n“Bugs Bunny’s Hare-Brained Hits” with “My Bunny Lies Over The Sea,”
\n“Captain Hareblower,” “Big House Bunny,” “Baton Bunny” and “Hillbilly
\nHare”
\n“Elmer Fudd’s School Of Hard Knocks” with “Each Dawn I Crow,” “Pests
\nFor Guests,” “Upswept Hare,” “Don’t Axe Me” and “Robot Rabbit”
\n“Roadrunner & Wile E. Coyote’s Crash Course” with “Going! Going! Gosh,”
\n“Ready Set Zoom!,” “There They Go-Go-Go!”, “Hip Hip Hurry!” and “Scrambled
\nAches”
\n“Sylvester And Tweety’s Tale Feathers” with “Muzzle Tough,” “A Street
\nCat Named Sylvester,” “Satan’s Waitin’,” “Doctor Jerkyle’s Hide” and
\n“Ain’t She Tweet”
\n“Yosemite Sam’s Yeller Fever” with “Hare Trimmed,” “Southern Fried
\nRabbit,” “This Is A Life?,” “Hare Lift” and “Bunker Hill Bunny”<\/p>\n
The three volumes of “Taz-Mania” are:
\n“Taz-Maniac” with “Not A Shadow Of A Doubt,” “Food For Thought,”
\n“Gone To Pieces” and “Deer Taz”
\n“Taz-Manimals” with “The Dog The Turtle Story,” “Here Kitty Kitty Kitty”
\nand “Here Kitty Kitty Kitty Part 2”
\n“Taz-Tronaut” with “Airborne Airhead,” “Taz And The Pterodactyl,”
\n“Astro Taz” and “Bottle Cap Blues.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #277, from davemackey, 493 chars, Tue Aug 3 20:37:58 1993
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\nTITLE: New Whole Toon Catalogue
\nIt’s interesting that the cover of the new “Whole Toon Catalog” features
\nPopeye on his 60th anniversary, yet very few Popeye films have been released
\nto home video, outside of a few odd King Features and Hanna-Barbera episodes.
\nNevertheless, it’s interesting to note that there’s one less cartoon series
\nto revive for home video: there’s now a tape of “Courageous Cat and Minute
\nMouse” cartoons out. (are Bucky and Pepito next?)
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #278, from davemackey, 1459 chars, Tue Aug 3 21:45:00 1993
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\nTITLE: Panther is in da house
\nMGM-UA Home Video will be releasing six new volumes of Pink Panther cartoons,
\nwhich is an almost certain tie-in to Pink’s new TV series starting this fall.
\nAll these cartoons were made from 1964 to 1977 — none of the cartoons done
\nfor ABC are on these tapes. Each volume is $9.99.<\/p>\n
The Pink Panther On Parade: “Pink Paradise”, “Pink Plunk Plink” (co-starring
\nMancini), “Forty Pink Winks”, “Rocky Pink”, “Pinky Doodle” and “The Pink
\nPro”.<\/p>\n
Pink Panther’s Cartoon Cavalcade: “Therapeutic Pink”, “Mystic Pink”, “Pink
\nElephant”, “Pink Pajamas”, “Pink Pistons,” and “Vitamin Pink.”<\/p>\n
Pink Panther’s Comic Capers: “Shocking Pink”, “The Pink Blue Print” (Academy
\nAward Nominee!), “Psst Pink”, “In The Pink”, “An Ounce Of Pink” (“You weigh
\n140 pounds!”), and “Pink Streaker” (which was about skiing, but since it was
\nmade in 1975, people thought it was about running around naked).<\/p>\n
Pink Panther’s Greatest Hits: “The Pink Phink” (Academy Award Winner!), “Pink
\nDaVinci,” “Think Before You Pink”, “Pink Panic,” “We Give Pink Stamps” and
\n“Pink On The Cob.”<\/p>\n
Pink Panther’s Laugh Festival: “The Scarlet Pinkernel,” “It’s Pink, But Is It
\nMink?”, “Sherlock Pink,” “Pink Campaign,” “Pink Ice” (the only Panther
\ncartoon in which Pink has substantial dialogue), and “Pink Sphinx.”<\/p>\n
Pink Panther’s Zaniest Adventures: “Salmon Pink,” “The Pink Pill,” “Jet
\nPink,” “Dial P For Pink”, “Pink Posies,” and “Pinkfinger”.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #279, from davemackey, 275 chars, Mon Aug 23 19:18:18 1993
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\nTITLE: Nicktoons videos
\nOn August 31, Nickelodeon will issue videotapes of episodes of all three
\nNicktoons series: “Doug,” “Rugrats,” and “The Ren And Stimpy Show.” An audio
\nalbum of Ren And Stimpy is also being released called “You Eediot!”.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #280, from hmccracken, 282 chars, Fri Sep 17 21:23:35 1993
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\nTITLE: Nick Videos
\nFans of _Ren and Stimpy_, _Rugrats_, and _Doug_ needn’t schedule their week
\naround Nickelodeon’s airings of the shows any longer; episodes of all three
\nprograms are now available on pre-recorded video. There’s a new _Ren and
\nStimpy_ compact disc, too.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #281, from hmccracken, 583 chars, Sat Sep 25 01:06:12 1993
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\nTITLE: While you’re waiting for _Aladdin_ to come out on video…
\nyou can keep yourself occupied by buying another of 1993’s animated
\nfeatures, _Once Upon a Forest_, which is now available on tape.
\nThe Hanna-Barbera feature came and went from theaters very quickly
\nthis past summer.<\/p>\n
In another _Aladdin_ note, that film can be had for even lower prices
\nthan Disney features usually go for on tape. A local video store is selling
\nit for $8.99 once all the discounts and rebates are figured in. Quite a
\nchange from when _Pinocchio_ was first released on tape for $79.95!
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #282, from hmccracken, 215 chars, Sat Oct 2 01:38:10 1993
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\nTITLE: Disney’s _Aladdin_…
\nis out on videotape, in case you hadn’t noticed. If you’ve been in a store
\nof any type, you probably have noticed; the thing is omnipresent, at a cost
\nof about $14.99-$19.99.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #283, from hmccracken, 334 chars, Sat Oct 2 16:46:33 1993
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\nTITLE: Disney’s Next Video Release…
\nas far as animated features go, will apparently be the 1981 film _The Fox
\nand the Hound_, which will be released on tape in the Spring of next
\nyear. Of course, that’s assuming that the company doesn’t suddenly announce
\nthat _Snow White_ will be out on video for Christmas of this year.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #284, from davemackey, 259 chars, Tue Oct 5 11:38:21 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 281.
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\nI have also heard that “Tom And Jerry: The Movie” is due out near the end of
\nOctober, as is “Happily Ever After.” All of this summer’s animated turkeys
\nhave wasted no time getting into your local video stores.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #285, from hmccracken, 1413 chars, Sun Dec 5 16:23:55 1993
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\nTITLE: God Bless Us, Everyone
\nRichard Williams’ 1970 adaptation of _A Christmas Carol_ is a legendary piece
\nof animation, but it’s been rarely shown on TV and not available on videotape
\nsince its first airing. That’s happily changed for this Christmas; Goodtimes
\nVideo has released it on a tape which I picked up at a local discount house
\nfor a cool $3.99.<\/p>\n
Goodtimes, the kings of deceptive packaging, have put it in a case that
\nfeatures a brightly-colored painting of an elfin, cutesy-poo Scrooge.
\nBe not deceived — Williams’ film is done in an excellent, neo-Victorian
\nstyle that’s limited in color range and captures the harshness of the
\ntimes very well. (The film’s credits include the names of such Warner
\nBros. veterans as Chuck Jones, Ken Harris, and Abe Levitow, but this
\nis asombre and utterly faithful adaptation of the Dickensstory —
\nI didn’t laugh once, nor did I expect to.)<\/p>\n
If there’s a problem, it’s that the film, at thirty minutes, is at leastr
\nten minutes’ short of sufficient time to tell the whole story. Several
\nsections are rushed, and it ends abruptly. Still, this is one of the
\nbest _Christmas Carols_ of them all, up there with the Alastair Sim
\nlive-action film. (Sim does the voice of Scrooge here, too, and
\nMichael Redgrave narrates.) Shame on Goodtimes for recording it in
\nlong-play mode, which saves them money but makes the picture and
\nsound more than a little fuzzy.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #286, from hmccracken, 380 chars, Sun Dec 5 16:25:14 1993
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\nTITLE: Speaking of Goodtimes Video…
\ntheir attempts to fool video buyers into thinking that Goodtimes tapes are
\nDisney movies have been described here in the past. They’ve taken it
\na step further recently with a Snow White tape that apes the packaging
\nfor the video release of Filmation’s _Happily Ever After_ — itself an
\nunauthorized sequel to Disney’s _Snow White_.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #287, from hmccracken, 292 chars, Tue Dec 21 21:56:13 1993
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\nTITLE: Good grief!
\nStop by your local Shell service station and get a fill-up, and you’re
\nentitled to buy a copy of “You’re in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown!”
\nfor $4.99. This original Peanuts video is the second such Shell
\noffering, after a similar Christmas-themed tape last year.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #288, from davemackey, 606 chars, Wed Dec 22 00:36:40 1993
\nThis is a comment to message 287.
\nThere is\/are comment(s) on this message.
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\nThe tape that Shell offered last year was “It’s Christmastime Again, Charlie
\nBrown,” which was the new special that CBS aired. I would think that CBS will
\nair the “You’re In The Super Bowl” special sometime in late January (the game
\nis being played for the first time on January 30 — my birthday, so hopefully
\nthe Giants will give me a nice present on that day ;).
\nMight I add that in New Jersey, where they have all kinds of weird laws
\nsurrounding gasoline station premiums, that no purchase is required to buy
\nthe video. Just go to Shell and they’ll give it to you.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #289, from davemackey, 490 chars, Mon Dec 27 09:38:00 1993
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\nTITLE: Suppressed “TTA” to video
\nA segment of “Tiny Toon Adventures” that was in an episode withheld from
\nairing by Fox network standards people will be issued on videotape in
\nFebruary. The collection “Tiny Toon Fiendishly Funny Adventures” will include
\na segment called “Night Of The Living Pets”, which has never aired on
\ntelevision.
\nTwo other videos, “Tiny Toon Big Adventures” and “Tiny Toon Island
\nAdventures” will also be released on February 23.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #290, from hmccracken, 1632 chars, Tue Jan 4 20:31:41 1994
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\nTITLE: _Mickey Mouse: The Black and White Years_
\nWow! This multiple-disc laserdisc set is certainly the neatest video product
\nI’ve seen in a long time. It includes more than four hours’ worth of
\noriginal, untampered-with, gloriously monochrome Mickey Mouse cartoons,
\nfrom the first (_Steamboat Willie_) to the last (_Mickey’s Service Station_).
\nThere are several bonuses, including a rare pencil test animation,
\nthe recently-discovered first footage of Mickey in color (which was made
\nin 1932 to be shown at the Academy Awards), and storyboards for many of
\nthe cartoons, which you can step through picture-by-picture.<\/p>\n
It’s probably not a great idea to try to sit through the whole collection
\nat once. These cartoons aren’t big on variety: most of them are not
\nmuch more than excuses for Mickey and Minnie and the gang to sing, dance,
\nand generally have a good time. But they’re always fun, and it’s fascinating
\nto watch the development — as new characters get introduced (Goofy,
\nPluto, and Donald) and as the Disney artists take a crude artform and
\npump life into it little by little.<\/p>\n
Many of these cartoons have been virtually unseen in decades; I’ve
\nalways gotten the feeling that Disney is a little embarassed by
\ntheir relative lack of polish. But they’re musts for any Disney
\nfan, and a real “defining app” for laserdisc, just like PageMaker
\nwas for the Macintosh (to steal a computer term). I actually don’t
\nown a disc player yet — I rented one in order to watch this set —
\nbut volumes like this one, and the also-available complete Tex Avery
\non laserdisc, make the idea of buying a disc player hard to resist.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #291, from elfhive, 411 chars, Wed Jan 5 23:48:19 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 290.
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\nI concur on the reason for a laserdisc player. The chance to see the
\noriginal storyboards frame-by-frame is also terrific. I think the
\nDisney Archive Collection is one of the best things about laserdiscs.
\nMy review of the Mickey Mouse collection will be in the next LaserViews
\nmagazine and I am working on a three part series for them on animation
\navailable on laserdisc. I’m really looking forward to this \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #292, from hmccracken, 713 chars, Thu Jan 6 23:32:45 1994
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\nTITLE: Made-for-Video Spielberg Stuff
\n_The Land Before Time_, the Spielberg\/Lucas\/Bluth animated feature of
\nseveral years back, will be used as the lspringboard for three
\nanimated sequels that will be released directly to video. (This makes
\na certain amount of sense, since many animated features of recent
\nvintage have done poorly in theaters but very well on video.)
\nBluth will have nothing to do with these; they will be made by
\nUniversal Cartoon Studios. When the _Land_ films are finished,
\na series of “Fievel” cartoons, based on _An American Tail_’s
\nrodent hero, will be made. Fievel will also star in 65 episodes
\nof a syndicated show (which will include episodes that aired
\non CBS last season).
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #293, from linkster, 238 chars, Sun Jan 9 14:12:51 1994
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\nTITLE: Finally
\nThe local video rental stores are carrying anime to some degree. Is the lack
\nof anime and other more mature animation in the major video chains more
\nwidespread or is it because I’m in the Midwest.<\/p>\n
LInk<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #294, from hmccracken, 173 chars, Sun Jan 9 15:16:51 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 293.
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\nI think it may be nation-wide, Link. Except for a few stores that
\nspecialize in offbeat video, most Boston-area video places don’t
\nhave much in the way of anime.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #296, from linkster, 424 chars, Sun Jan 9 19:08:16 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 294.
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\nThat is what I was afraid offf…. Fortunately one of the local comics
\nshop has a anime\/video collection that rivals anystore in town. Unfortunately
\n, on the other hand, they did something _very_ low to another comics retailer
\nthat makes me feel uncomfortable when I go in for anime. Alas they lost the
\nbusiness I sent they’re way on a fair occasion. If you want some more details
\nyou can email me.<\/p>\n
LInk<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #297, from switch, 522 chars, Sun Jan 9 20:22:12 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 293.
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\n’round here (Montreal), one of the two major stores I know of downtown stocks
\nsome Streamline stuff. The other only has _Akira_.<\/p>\n
Boite Noire on St-Denis, which is the place for major movie buffs to go, stocks
\nplenty of animation, Japanese or not.<\/p>\n
It’s kinda funny; when I lived in Pierrefonds (the ‘burbs), most of the video
\nclubs in the area had extensive and sometimes eclectic animation sections. As
\na result, I had memberships at over twelve clubs. I gorged myself. Now, it’s
\nas if they’ve all imploded.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #298, from davecolton, 512 chars, Mon Jan 10 00:03:30 1994
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\n*** Moved from animation\/anime #1069 of Sun Jan 9 21:45:26 1994
\nTITLE: Is Disney kinky?<\/p>\n
I was just watching Aladdin and the Genie was telling Al that his
\nwishes had been reduced by one when the Genie took them all out of the
\ncave. Al says that he never actually wished for it. Genie turns it
\n\/himself into a sheep and says “You baaaad boy.” The sheep then
\nturns around, raises its rump in the air and faces Al and says
\n“No more freebies.” Is it me or is this well, perverse, particularly
\nin a Disney film?<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #299, from hmccracken, 291 chars, Mon Jan 10 00:05:35 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 298.
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\nI’ve seen the movie at least four times, and never noticed any
\nhidden meaning. But now that you mention it…<\/p>\n
It could be entirely innocent, but you never know. In any event,
\nit follows in a proud tradition of Disney moments of that sort.
\n_The Three Caballeros_ is full of them.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #300, from nicolas, 211 chars, Wed Jan 12 03:06:23 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 294.
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\nHah! Try to get Anime in Holland in a videostore. Only recently they
\nhave Akira in an english dub with dutch subtitles. But that’s it. If
\nyou want anime, you have to buy it.
\n……….
\n. Nico .
\n……….<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #301, from hmccracken, 801 chars, Sat Jan 15 22:10:41 1994
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\nTITLE: New videos from Expanded
\nExpanded Entertainment has two new videotapes of note. _The World’s
\nGreatest Animation_ is a $39.95 volume that includes eleven films
\nthat won the Oscar for best animated short film — _Creature Comforts_,
\n_Your Face_, _Anna and Bella_, _The Big Snit_, and others. _Pixar_
\nis a collection of John Lasseter’s wonderful computer-animated
\ncartoons — _Luxo Jr._, _Red’s Dream_, _Tin Toy_, and _Knickknack_.
\nIt’s $25.<\/p>\n
Order both tapes from Expanded for a grand total of $70.95 including
\npostage and handling, and you get a free subscription to _Animation
\nMagazine_. Operators are standing by at (800) 966-TOON. (This is
\nbeginning to sound like a paid advertisement, but it’s not. In fact,’
\nI don’t even like _Animation Magazine_. The tapes sound great, though.)
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #302, from robairmackey, 175 chars, Sat Jan 15 22:52:38 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 288.
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\nDave:
\nAt our age we need all the presents we can get. Especially when the
\nGiants eat it with 41 points.
\n–Robair<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #303, from davemackey, 53 chars, Sun Jan 16 12:04:40 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 302.
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\nYou said it, Bob. \ud83d\ude09
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #304, from davemackey, 432 chars, Thu Jan 20 21:43:51 1994
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\nTITLE: More Disney Scare Tactics
\nDisney is again frightening people into buying their latest hot title,
\n“Aladdin”, by saying they are no longer offering it after April. (Gee, they
\nsaid this about “Fantasia”, too, and I saw a few copies in a store just this
\nevening.)
\nOddly, they are also asking consumers to buy no more than two copies of
\n“The Jungle Book” as that film has become discontinued.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #305, from hmccracken, 291 chars, Thu Jan 20 23:01:55 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 304.
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\nDave >> ” Oddly, they are also asking consumers to buy no more than two copies of
\n“The Jungle Book” as that film has become discontinued.”<\/p>\n
I love it! Can’t you envision the teaming masses of K Mart customers
\nhoarding copy after copy of Jungle Book? Maybe they should be rationed.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #306, from robairmackey, 484 chars, Fri Jan 21 21:26:12 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 305.
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\nI think the people who buy these titles up before moratorium are usually
\nyour black marketeers, flea marketeers, and just plain collectors of
\nDisneyana who know that the title’s value goes up and up when it’s no
\nlonger available. They are full aware that if someone wants Cinderella
\nbad enough, they will pay $40-50 for it. I applaud they Disney collectors
\nfor hoarding these titles, but not the make-a-buck marketeers.
\n–Bob<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #307, from davemackey, 117 chars, Sat Jan 22 08:22:58 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 305.
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\nIf Disney starts rationing “The Brave Little Toaster”, then I know we’re in
\ntrouble.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #308, from davemackey, 180 chars, Sat Jan 22 08:23:05 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 280.
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\nA new Ren And Stimpy video has been released. Entitled “On Duty”, it includes
\namong its episodes “In The Army” and “Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #309, from robairmackey, 629 chars, Sat Jan 22 19:01:01 1994
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\nTITLE: Woody Woodpecker recalled
\nUAV Corp., a distributor of low end videocassettes, recalled about 20000
\ncopies of its tape numbered #3015, called “Woody Woodpecker and Friends.”
\nA disgruntled employee (is there ever any other kind?) of the company
\nmastered two suggestive minutes of the Theresa Russell movie “Whore”
\nat the end of the tape. This occurs on at least 500 copies of the tape,
\nmaybe more.
\nIt was not immediately known by this correspondent if there was
\na woodpecker in the live-action footage.
\n(You mean that wasn’t Wally Walrus in a dress?)
\n^^^^^^ –Bob<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #310, from linkster, 549 chars, Tue Feb 1 20:31:05 1994
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\nTITLE: Disney Video Sales
\n_Aladdin_ has outsold _Beauty and the Beast_ by 1 million copies in US release.
\nThis makes _Aladdin_ the best selling home video.<\/p>\n
ON the international scene. _The Jungle Book_ has shipped more copies than
\n_Beauty and the Beast_ by 3 million. Admittedly the number sold is much
\nless. According to CBG, the percentage is 77.2% are actually sold. This
\nstill gives _Jungle Book_ a lead of 2.3 million copies. This knocks
\n_Beauty and the Beast_ to #2 in video sales outside the U.S.<\/p>\n
Source CBG 1055, paraphrased.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #311, from hmccracken, 231 chars, Sat Feb 5 21:24:56 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 294.
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\nUpdate on anime in Boston video stores: just got back from the
\nlocal (Porter Squart) Blockbuster, and they have a new
\nsection devoted to grown-up animation — anime, Bakshi
\nstuff, Tournee collections, and the like. Neat!
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #312, from davemackey, 193 chars, Sun Feb 6 11:00:45 1994
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\nTITLE: New on tape
\nA trip to my local Suncoast has revealed that episodes of “Raggedy Ann And
\nRaggedy Andy” and “Hurricanes” are now available on videocassette.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #313, from peabo, 51 chars, Mon Feb 7 00:41:59 1994
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\nAre these tapes for sale, or just for rent?<\/p>\n
peter<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #314, from hmccracken, 92 chars, Mon Feb 7 09:03:42 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 313.
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\nThis is in the rental section. I’m not sure if they’re available
\nfor sale or not.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #315, from hmccracken, 222 chars, Sat Feb 12 22:08:12 1994
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\nTITLE: Disney to make made-for-video animated features
\nSee \/best.of.net #34 for an interesting press release from Disney,
\nwho is planning a series of made-for-video cartoons, starting
\nwith a sequel to _Aladdin_.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #316, from davemackey, 379 chars, Wed Feb 23 11:42:52 1994
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\nTITLE: In case you haven’t heard…
\nHarry already reported this, but for the sake of the topic, I’m re-reporting
\nit.
\nWalt Disney Home Video will release “Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs”
\nto home video this fall.
\nThe price is not yet determined but expect Disney to do more of their
\nlimited-availability scare tactics.<\/p>\n
Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #317, from davemackey, 374 chars, Tue Mar 15 12:29:55 1994
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\nTITLE: Who Dirtied Roger Rabbit
\nNews reports have surfaced noting that special, um, explicit
\nframes have been slipped into copies of “Who Framed Roger
\nRabbit” on video disc.
\nI have also heard a report of a Disney film into which
\nMichael Eisner’s home phone number appears among grafitti
\non a brick wall. Maybe this is it, too?
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #318, from kipw, 725 chars, Wed Mar 16 21:43:39 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 317.
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\nYes, the story has hit the news. I sat with my finger on the
\nremote for a half hour after it was announced that they’d be
\ntalking about the tape. They never said another word about it.
\nDisney cops strike again? Who Censored the Roger Rabbit story?
\nBut seriously, folks, inquiring minds want to know: are the
\nextra frames on the CAV or the CLV version? And is Whole Toon
\nAccess open at this time of night?
\nNow the big question that comes to mind (particularly at the
\nstudio) is “So, who laid the scene out? Who animated it and did the
\nin-betweens and clean-up and inking and paint and coloring and
\nphotographed it and transferred it to disc?” Sounds like another
\n“lone nut” case to me. Probably some janitor.
\n–Inquiring Kip<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #319, from dgh, 432 chars, Sat Mar 19 02:21:15 1994
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\nAccording to a source in the COMICS forum on Compuserve, one of the scenes
\nis when Jessica falls out of the car. If you use freeze-frame, you’re
\nsupposed to be able to see her do a Sharon Stone imitation.<\/p>\n
Another scene is supposed to be when Baby Herman walks underneath the
\nwoman’s skirt as he stalks off the set. If you use freeze-frame, you’re
\nsupposed to be able to see him goose the woman’s bare bottom.
\n,
\n|) \/\\ \\\/ | +)<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #320, from davemackey, 706 chars, Mon Mar 21 19:43:54 1994
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\nI talked to a friend who’s worked in animation for a couple of decades. He’s
\na big laserdisc buff, and he basically pooh-poohed any suggestion that the
\nanimators deliberately drew risque scenes into “Roger Rabbit.” He thinks the
\n“bawdy” frames are the result of bad inking and painting (remember that
\nthere were several subcontracting studios on several continents, and lots
\nof matte and highlighting processes before you ever saw it on screen), and
\nthat you can basically read sexual innuendo into anything.
\nMeanwhile, the disc of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” has been hopping off
\nvideo store shelves. Doug Ranney! If you’re out there, tell us how many do
\nyou have left?
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #321, from hmccracken, 175 chars, Mon Mar 21 20:42:43 1994
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\nYour friend may well be right. I mean, they showed the questionable frames on
\nCNN, and they didn’t look so racy to me. I’ve seen more nudity in Betty Boop
\ncartoons.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #322, from davemackey, 550 chars, Tue Mar 29 22:21:47 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 321.
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\nAnd backing my friend up: no less an authority than Mark Kausler, who worked
\non the film and said pretty much the same thing on “Entertainment Tonight” on
\nTuesday night: Jessica’s apparent nudity was the result of BAD INK AND PAINT.
\nCase closed.
\nIncidentally, Leonard Maltin also talked to Ward Kimball during the
\nsegment. He talked a little about how Disney used to use artists’ caricatures
\nin the cartoons, and debunked recent rumors about forest creatures defecating
\nin “Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #323, from davemackey, 664 chars, Fri Apr 1 18:15:14 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 315.
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\nEven though Disney sees a future in OVA’s, I truly think the non-Disney
\nindustry is going to shift gears in the next several years and release its
\ntitles exclusively to home video only. The real money for animated features
\nis in home video release, not in theatres. Disney is the only production
\ncompany with a good track record with its cartoons in theatres and will
\ncontinue to use that venue to promote its product.
\n“The Magic Voyage” is a good example of a title that was produced a
\ncouple of years ago — to tie into Columbus’ 500th anniversary — received a
\ntoken theatrical release, shelved, and released to home video.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #324, from hmccracken, 740 chars, Tue Apr 12 10:33:34 1994
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\nTITLE: Heigh Ho
\nThe “Advertising” column in today’s _New York Times_ is about Hal
\nRiney & Partners, the ad agency which has been chosen to create
\nthe ads for Disney’s Fall release of _Snow White and the Seven
\nDwarfs_ on videocassette. According to a Riney employee, _SW_
\n“has to be marketed differently” from _Aladdin_, _Beauty and
\nthe Beast_, and other Disney videos. “Snow White is a little
\nbit of American history…Mickey Mouse and Snow White are,
\nin a sense, the Disney brand. They define the company in the
\nway the Macintosh defines Apple Computer and baby products
\ndefine Johnson & Johnson.”<\/p>\n
The article says that the price for the video hasn’t been
\nset, but is likely to be $24.99 — with a street price
\nof about $16.99.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #325, from davemackey, 244 chars, Wed Apr 13 19:54:27 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 324.
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\nHal Riney and Partners is probably best known for their ads for Bartles And
\nJaymes wine coolers, which featured actors Dick Maugg and Dave Rufkahr as the
\ntitle characters who always thanked us for their support.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #326, from hmccracken, 1969 chars, Fri Apr 29 15:21:32 1994
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\nTITLE: Snow White on Video: The Details
\nThe Walt Disney Company has announced the details of its upcoming release
\nof _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_ on home video. The film will be
\nreleased on October 28tyh; list price is $24.99 for the standard videotape
\nedition, or $79.99 for a deluxe set that also includes a “Making of”
\nvideo, a booklet, and some lithographs. Disney will also be releasing
\na laserdisc version — which they usually don’t do right away, since
\nthey make such good source material for pirates — at $26.99 for the
\nstandard edition or $79.99 for the deluxe one.<\/p>\n
As usual with Disney videos, it’s a complicated process if you want to
\nsave money. There’s a $5 mail-in rebate you can get by buying four
\nPillsbury products, including Pillsbury Cookies, All Ready Pizza Crust,
\nPillsbury Grands! Biscuits, Soft Breadsticks, Pillsbury Plus Cake Mix,
\nPillsbury Frosting, Family Brownie Mix, Deluxe Bar Mix, Deluxe Brownie Mix,
\nBundt Cake Mix, Streusel Swirl Cake Mix, Quick Bread Mix and Sweet Rolls.
\n(I’m getting hungry just thinking about it.)<\/p>\n
Then, if you want to really save the big bucks, you can take advantage of
\na coupon book attached to each _Snow White_ package that offers the
\nfollowing instant rebates on other Disney tapes:<\/p>\n
$1.50 off “The Brave Little Toaster” or “The Return of Jafar”
\n$1.50 off “Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas”
\n$1 off any “Disney Sing Along Songs” or “Mickey’s Fun Songs”
\n$1 off any “Winnie the Pooh”
\nor a $5 Mail-In Refund on Any Disney Animated Classic.<\/p>\n
Disney is planning a massive publicity campaign; get ready to be
\nconfronted by Miss White and her tiny friends any time you turn on a TV,
\nvisit a store, or open a newspaper or magazine this Fall. They’re
\nbasically going to beat us into submission until we buy the thing; the
\nDisney press release refers to an “aggressive campaign” that
\nwill “repeatedly hit” us consumers. (Sounds like Evander Holyfield is in
\ncharge of it!)
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #327, from davemackey, 904 chars, Sat Apr 30 16:35:22 1994
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\nTITLE: “Batman” now in stores
\nWarner Bros. has just released “Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm” to
\nvideocassette and laserdisc. It is the first theatrical feature from Warner
\nBros. Animation in five years, and the first to not feature its Looney Tunes
\nstable of characters. (This does not include animated features produced by
\nothers and merely distributed by Paramount.)
\nIt’s available for a $24.95 list, but I picked it up at Sam Goody for
\n$14.99. The corporate tie-ins are a $5 rebate coupon good towards the
\npurchase of “B:MOTP” and another Warner Bros. Family Entertainment video
\nrelease, such as “The Secret Garden”, “Free Willy” or “Dennis The Menace”,
\nand a $3 coupon good towards the purchase of any pair of shoes at Payless
\nShoe Source.
\nI believe the laserdisc version is letterboxed. I don’t know the price,
\nbut it’s probably listing in the $35-40 range.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #328, from switch, 340 chars, Sat Apr 30 22:22:11 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 327.
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\n> Warner Bros. has just released “Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm” to
\n> videocassette and laserdisc. It is the first theatrical feature from Warner
\n> Bros. Animation in five years, and the first to not feature its Looney Tunes
\n> stable of characters.<\/p>\n
Didn’t Warner also do the animation for ROVER DANGERFIELD, as well as
\ndsitribution?<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #329, from hmccracken, 71 chars, Sun May 1 10:13:25 1994
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\nNope — _Rover Dangerfield_ was done by Hyperion. (I think.)
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #330, from davemackey, 138 chars, Sun May 1 12:56:41 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 328.
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\nI think Nelvana did “Rover Dangerfield.” Or it could have been Hyperion. I
\nnever saw it, so I don’t know.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #331, from davemackey, 498 chars, Sun May 1 12:57:02 1994
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\nTITLE: New “Flintstones” videos…
\nAs part of the marketing onslaught tied in to the forthcoming feature film,
\nTurner Home Video has released four new “Flintstones” tapes. Each includes
\ntwo episodes never before released on video and lists for $13.
\nTangentially, Fred Flintstone himself — John Goodman — is set to host
\n“Saturday Night Live” on May 7. And Betty herself — Rosie O’Donnell — was
\nseen just last night in an repeat of a show from last November.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #332, from robairmackey, 376 chars, Sun May 1 22:43:00 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 331.
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\nAnd according to the packages, these are the “restored” editions. One
\ntape has “The Blessed Event” and “Mother In Law’s Visit”, another has “Ann-
\nMargrock Presents” and “Return of Stoney Curtis”, and another has a compilation
\nof Fred’s inventions, based on last year’s picture book. I plan to pic
\nand report on it asap.
\n–Robair<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #333, from davemackey, 175 chars, Sun May 8 10:16:44 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 327.
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\nParamount? What was I thinking when I wrote that? 4:30 in the afternoon on
\nSaturday; my brain shouldn’t have been a pile of mush at that time.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #334, from davemackey, 552 chars, Thu May 12 22:01:56 1994
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\nTITLE: Video Pink
\nMGM\/UA Home Video has released its first Pink Panther laserdisc. Entitled
\n“The Pink Panther Animation Archive, Vol. 1”, it includes eleven complete
\nPink Panther shorts, including “The Pink Phink”, “Pinkfinger” and “Pink,
\nPlunk, Plink” (the one with Henry Mancini’s cameo), and the main title
\nsequences from six of Peter Sellers’ live-action Inspector Clouseau comedies,
\nwhich were animated at various times by DePatie-Freleng and Richard Williams.
\nThe disc, which runs nearly two hours, lists for $35.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #335, from hmccracken, 248 chars, Wed May 18 00:58:18 1994
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\nTITLE: _The Return of Jafar_…
\nDisney’s made-for-video sequel to _Aladdin_, is now available at department
\nstores, discount houses, drugstores, and practically everywhere else you
\nturn. I’ll post a review once I’ve finished watching it.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #336, from hmccracken, 2470 chars, Fri May 20 20:52:11 1994
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\nTITLE: _The Return of Jafar_
\nIf you’re a fan of Disney’s 1992 animated feature _Aladdin_, how
\nyou feel about _The Return of Jafar_ — its made-for-video sequel —
\nwill depend on how much slack you’re willing to cut it, given
\nthe circumstances of its production. Knowing that its budget
\nwas a TV-animation one — probably a small fraction of that for
\nthe original movie — do you judge it against Saturday morning
\ncartoons? Or does the movie fail if it isn’t everything the original
\nwas and more?<\/p>\n
Benchmarked against most of the animation on the tube, _The
\nReturn of Jafar_ stacks up pretty well. The look is relatively
\nlavish, and some of the animation is very good — indeed, much
\nof the animation of the Genie compares well with that in the
\nfirst film. The story is a reasonably entertaining follow-up
\nthat places Iago, the disreputable parrot, at the center of
\nthings; while that’s its sole original idea, one doesn’t look
\nto sequels for original thoughts.<\/p>\n
Nearly all the original voice performers are back; the notable
\nexception is Robin Williams. But Dan Castalanetta does a fine
\njob of replacing Williams — so fine, in fact, that if I were
\nDisney, I’d be worried about Williams suing.<\/p>\n
Compared against the first film, though, _Jafar_ comes up
\nshort. While it’s slick, it’s a lot more simplified — take
\na look at how much detail has been lost in the design on
\nthe magic carpet, for instance. And while the best animation
\nis very good, there’s a lot of mediocre work, especially
\nnear the end. Aladdin and his girlfriend Jasmine sometimes
\nlook like characters out of _Speed Racer_ — not a quality
\none wants in one’s Disney heroes and heroines. The songs, too,
\ncan’t compare with the Oscar-calibre ones in _Aladdin_.<\/p>\n
But we better get used to the idea of made-for-video sequels
\nto Disney cartoons. (As well as TV series — the crew that
\nmade this movie is also producing the _Aladdin_ series, which
\nI haven’t seen yet; both were made largely overseas, by
\nan entirely different group than Disney’s feature animation
\ndepartment.)<\/p>\n
In fact, if _The Return of Jafar_ is a hit, I’m willing to
\nbet money that we’ll see sequels to some true Disney classics —
\n_Snow White_, perhaps, or _101 Dalmatians_ — in a similar
\nvein.<\/p>\n
One last note: _Jafar_ has so many coming attractions tacked
\nonto it — for _The Lion King_, _The Nightmare Before
\nChristmas_, and _Snow White_ — that it almost seems like
\na promotional tape that happens to include a movie, too.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #337, from elfhive, 353 chars, Sun May 22 23:41:29 1994
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\nSomebody at Tower is banking heavy on this Disney OAV sequel. There
\nis literally a wall of Jafar immediately upon entering the downtown
\nDC store. From what you describe it sounds like I might break down
\nand examine a copy for myself.<\/p>\n
Do they mention a release date for _Nightmare Before Christmas_
\nit’s going to be hard waiting for the LD on this one.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #338, from hmccracken, 91 chars, Mon May 23 09:22:38 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 337.
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\n_Nightmare Before Christmas_ will be released sometime this Fall,
\nas I remember.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #339, from davemackey, 291 chars, Wed May 25 06:15:29 1994
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\nTITLE: Batman video
\nI finally got around to seeing “Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm.” I
\nfind a little of the animation techniques ringing untrue, but on
\nthe whole it’s a solid, exciting big-screen translation of the
\nsuccessful television series — as it existed for its first few
\nyears on Fox.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #340, from elfhive, 1020 chars, Tue Jun 7 00:22:34 1994
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\nTITLE: Animation LD releases
\nI’m pleased to see that street dates have been announced for the
\nfollowing Disney animation films:<\/p>\n
Aladdin CLV Pan & Scan ($29.99)
\nAladdin THX CAV LTBX ($49.99)
\nSep. 21, 1994<\/p>\n
Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs CAV: Special Edition ($99.99)
\nSnow White & The Seven Dwarfs CLV ($29.99)
\nOctober 26, 1994<\/p>\n
Nightmare Before Christmas CAV: Special Edition ($99.99)
\nNightmare Before Christmas CLV ($29.99)
\nNovember 16, 1994
\nThey don’t list it as letterboxed which is a major disappointment,
\nalthough I don’t think the ratio was too extreme.<\/p>\n
Not exactly animation but of note:<\/p>\n
Dark Crystal LTBX ($29.99) July 27, 1994<\/p>\n
Also, Criterion is coming out with something called
\nWorld’s Greatest Animation (CAV) $99.95
\nI don’t know what is included in this release yet.<\/p>\n
I’ll put this here as it transcends the topic of Japanese animation:<\/p>\n
My Neighbor Totoro ($29.98)
\nAn excellent family film from Hayao Miyazaki finally available on
\nlaserdisc in an English dubbed version that is faithful to the original.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #341, from elfhive, 105 chars, Tue Jun 7 00:24:58 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 340.
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\nOops, the street date for Totoro is July 27, 1994 and for the World’s
\nGreatest Animation, Aug. 31, 1994.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #342, from hmccracken, 265 chars, Tue Jul 26 22:23:31 1994
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\nTITLE: _My Neighbe Totoro_…
\nhas been released on home video by Fox Video, which is actually advertising
\nit heavily as a film for the whole family. Maybe I’ll finally get to see
\nthis film (said to be one of the best Japanese animated films of them all).
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #343, from robairmackey, 239 chars, Fri Jul 29 23:49:18 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 342.
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\nWell, you should be able to find it…it’s being displayed in most
\nbookstores right alongside Thumbelina, Return of Jafar, and the latest
\nripoff of Lion King…in quantity.
\n–Robair<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #344, from davemackey, 404 chars, Thu Aug 18 20:27:00 1994
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\nTITLE: Sing Along With Dr. Seuss
\nFox Video has released the half-hour Dr. Seuss animated specials in “new
\nsingalong format” with words to all songs superimposed on the screen. The
\nreissued tapes include “The Cat In The Hat”, “The Lorax” and “The Hoober
\nBloob Highway.”
\nThis probably ties into the upcoming release of the Dr. Seuss tribute
\nspecial on TNT in November.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #345, from davemackey, 240 chars, Thu Aug 18 20:27:08 1994
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\nTITLE: It’s not what you think it is
\nIt had to happen: Sony Wonder has released “The Jungle King,” a 48-minute
\nvideo priced at $14.88. It’s about Maximillian, king of the jungle, and his
\nitchy brother Irwin.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #346, from kipw, 1386 chars, Sat Aug 20 10:11:55 1994
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\nTITLE: Silent Toons from LC
\nThe Library of Congress (along with the Smithsonian) has released a
\nswell collection of silent toons dating from the turn of the century
\n(J. Stuart Blackton and trick films) to about 1922. Bobby Bumps, Krazy
\nKat, the Katzenjammers, Keeping UP with the Joneses, and various others
\n–including fragments of two rare McCay toons (okay, so they spelt his
\nname wrong on the box) make for an entertaining educational experience.
\nOne of my favorites is the Bud Fisher-esque “AWOL,” a sort of prehistoric
\nPrivate Snafu. The Mutt-like soldier who starts the cartoon off by
\ngriping about how long it’s taking to get off the base now that the World
\nWar is over soon succumbs to the blandishments of an irresponsible hussy
\nnamed “Joy.” She takes him on a Joy Ride. The small audience here at Chez
\nWhat laughed out loud when the car got to teetering on a cliff edge. We
\nfocus in tight on the doughboy, who opens his mouth real wide and emits a
\nrather tiny “eek” of consternation.
\nAnyway, do yourselves a favor and support dead animators! Available at high-
\nclass museums in DC, including (besides the two co-producing institutions)
\nthe National Gallery of Art. It’s part of a series of silent reissues that
\nincludes THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ, a D.W. Griffith gangster flick, and the
\nsilent work of Black film pioneer Oscar Micheaux. No other animated titles yet.
\n–Kip<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #347, from hmccracken, 217 chars, Sat Aug 20 10:18:51 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 346.
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\nI haven’t seen the silent animation tape yet — I’ll keep an eye out
\nfor it — but I did see _The Patchwork Girl of Oz_ several years ago,
\nat a theatrical screening with live piano music. It’s a great film.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #348, from davemackey, 450 chars, Thu Aug 25 18:10:24 1994
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\nTITLE: Oh brothers! Oh sister!
\nWarner Home Video has released the first four volumes of “Animaniacs” on home
\nvideo. Among the compilations, there is one devoted to holiday themes, one
\nsing along tape, and one featuring Pinky And The Brain, those wacky lab mice
\nout to take over the world.
\nIt probably speaks to my opinions of the program that the first tape
\nI’ve picked up so far is the Pinky And The Brain tape.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #349, from switch, 108 chars, Thu Aug 25 22:14:28 1994
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\nWow! Now more of my friends will know what I’m talking about!<\/p>\n
How many episodes are there per tape?<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #350, from davemackey, 181 chars, Fri Aug 26 23:57:00 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 349.
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\nEach tape is 48 minutes and contains four or five segments, not
\nnecessarily in programs they aired as. It’s more of a thematic
\ncompilation.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #351, from hmccracken, 1276 chars, Mon Sep 12 12:23:45 1994
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\nTITLE: Don’t Be Fooled…
\nby the latest animation videos that do their darndest to look just like
\nDisney products, with similar packaging, design, and subjects that might
\nbe confused with Disney ones.<\/p>\n
There are two new ones: Goodtimes Home Video (the expert in this field)
\nhas Leo the Lion: King of the Jungle. I don’t know much about this
\nfilm, except that Goodtimes is obviously trying to hitch its wagon
\nto Disney’s _The Lion King_. (The Goodtimes tape doesn’t seem to have
\nanything to do with _Leo the Lion_, a dubbed version of the sequel
\nseries to Osamu Tezuka’s _Kimba the White Lion_ that ran on U.S.
\ntv about ten years ago.)<\/p>\n
Then there’s Sony\/Wonder’s _Snow White_, a very Disneyesque looking
\nproduct that just happens to be in stores a bit before Disney ships
\nits _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_ next month. Again, I don’t
\nknow anything about this film. (It’s worth noting that the producers
\nof both these movies may well have had no intention of ripping off
\nDisney; it’s the packaging that is designed to fool the public.)<\/p>\n
Goodtimes is a small company that’s been doing this for years
\n(and has been sued at least twice by Disney, once successfully
\nand once not). You’d think, however, that a major vendor like
\nSony would be above this sort of thing.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #352, from elfhive, 229 chars, Mon Sep 12 21:44:40 1994
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\nTITLE: MGM
\nannounces a new laserdisc release combining “How the Grinch Stole
\nChristmas” and “Horton Hears a Who” to be released in October at a
\nlist price of $29.98
\nA new digital video remastering has been done for the occasion.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #353, from davemackey, 114 chars, Mon Sep 26 07:58:08 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 352.
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\nIs this going to be the newly expanded “Grinch” that is going to be shown on
\nTNT?
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #354, from elfhive, 618 chars, Wed Sep 28 23:17:28 1994
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\nTITLE: Incredible deal
\nI walked into my local Tower Video for a noon grazing in the laserdisc
\nracks when a salesman who knows me starting waving his hands and pointing
\nat the red tag bin. “Best buy in the house,” he said. Boy, was he not
\nkidding! Fantasia box set CAV laserdisc special edition: $24.95<\/p>\n
Needless to say, the two remaining ones are now in my living room \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I’m actually delighted since I had purchased one when it was first released
\nand had left it in mint condition in the shrink wrap. Now I can actually
\nsee what is inside. Too bad about the little hole they drill to mark the
\nothers as “cut-outs.”<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #355, from switch, 82 chars, Thu Sep 29 16:19:06 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 354.
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\nElf’ if by some miracle that disc is still available, =please= let me know.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #356, from davemackey, 310 chars, Sun Oct 2 21:30:54 1994
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\nTITLE: Whole Toon
\nAccording to reports on the Usenet, the retail location of the Whole
\nToon Catalogue in Seattle has closed. Of course, if Doug Ranney were
\na little more active on BIX (he did have an account here at one
\ntime), he could give us the Real Scoop.<\/p>\n
Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #357, from hmccracken, 123 chars, Sun Oct 2 22:21:53 1994
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\nThat’s too bad. Will the mail order catalog continue? I think it’s been
\nseveral months since I got my last copy.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #358, from dondumitru, 537 chars, Mon Oct 3 05:46:49 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 356.
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\nRe: Whole Toon
\n>According to reports on the Usenet, the retail location of the Whole
\n>Toon Catalogue in Seattle has closed.<\/p>\n
I’m pretty sure that they *have* closed – I tried to go by there on a
\nSaturday, um, back in July? And they had a sign up announcing “going out
\nof business” pricing for all their stuff. And (of course!) another sign
\nsaying that the store hours were changing, and they weren’t open on
\nSaturdays anymore.<\/p>\n
I didn’t manage to make it back (since driving into Seattle on a week-day
\nis not very appealing…)<\/p>\n
–Don<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #359, from switch, 111 chars, Tue Oct 4 21:49:58 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 357.
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\nAccording to a post on rec.arts.animation, they’re moving.<\/p>\n
Guess we’ll have to wait (or phone) and see.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #360, from hmccracken, 613 chars, Fri Oct 21 21:49:00 1994
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\nTITLE: Get Ready for _Snow White_
\nWalt Disney’s _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_ will officially be released
\non home video next Friday, a week from today. While video merchants are
\nusually forbidden to begin selling popular tapes to the public before
\nthe official release date (which often doesn’t stop them, anyhow), Disney
\nsays it’s OK for them to sell us all copies of this particular video as
\nsoon as their copies are delivered — which may be as soon as next
\nTuesday.<\/p>\n
Once it’s available, you shouldn’t have any trouble finding it: Disney
\nsays that it has orders for twenty-seven million copies.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #361, from robairmackey, 154 chars, Fri Oct 21 22:22:10 1994
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\nThis is standard operating procedure for Disney: annoucing a Friday street
\ndate but actually releasing the product on Tuesday. This will be no
\ndifferent.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #362, from nicolas, 156 chars, Tue Oct 25 03:48:04 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 360.
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\nI allready ordered mine. The store expects it to be in on November 9.
\nBut I’ll bug them as of friday, just in case \ud83d\ude42
\n……….
\n. Nico .
\n……….<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #363, from davemackey, 166 chars, Tue Oct 25 23:13:48 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 361.
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\nI got mine on Monday. My local Price-Rite had it, albeit at full list price.
\nBut I bought it anyway because I didn’t know any better.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #364, from hmccracken, 264 chars, Thu Oct 27 21:43:54 1994
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\nTITLE: How Much for Snow White?
\nWell, the _Snow White_ video is out, and practically every store in the mall
\nI just returned from seemed to be selling it. The best price I saw wad
\n$17.99. Is that the lowe
\nst one I’ll find, or should I hold out for less?
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #365, from ddsnell, 234 chars, Sat Oct 29 14:44:34 1994
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\n[hmccracken on 27-Oct-1994]<\/p>\n
I saw “Snow White” at one of the local stores yesterday, selling
\nfor $16.99. Dunno that I’d hold out for a dollar less. (And I really
\ndoubt you’d want to travel to Portland to get it! \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n
–dds<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #366, from hkenner, 274 chars, Sat Oct 29 17:01:17 1994
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\nProblem here in Athens, GA (pop 50,000+) has been to find it at all.
\nNumerous stores that have been advertising its imminence still don’t
\nhave it and don’t seem to know why. I finally found it at Blockbuster
\nVideo for $19.99, a significant but not massive discount.
\n–HK<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #367, from switch, 103 chars, Sat Oct 29 21:11:11 1994
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\nI saw it for $16.97 here — that’s in Canadian, though. That’s something like
\n$12 US.<\/p>\n
Hmmmn…<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #368, from hmccracken, 640 chars, Tue Nov 8 09:37:48 1994
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\nTITLE: Direct-to-Video Boom
\nToday’s _New York Times_ has an article on the trend towards
\nHollywood studios producing films specifically for release on
\nhome video, and among its revelations is the fact that thre top
\nthree direct-to-video productions of all time are all cartoons.
\nDisney’s _Return of Jafar_ is by far the biggest direct-to-video
\nhit of all time, having made $120 million (not bad for a film that
\ncost $5 million to produce). Sony holds the #2 and #3 slots with
\nits _Jungle King_ and _Snow White_ videos, two Disney knockoffs that
\nhave been discussed here. Both did between two and three million
\ndollars in sales.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #369, from hmccracken, 151 chars, Sat Nov 19 00:38:15 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 365.
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\nI finally found _Snow White_ selling for $15.99 at a local Sam’s Club,
\n(Unfortunately, it was after I’d already paid a buck more elsewhere.)
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #370, from robairmackey, 637 chars, Wed Nov 23 22:34:18 1994
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\nTITLE: Space Ghost and The Mask
\nThere will be a little bonus on the videocassette version of “The Mask”
\nwhich is to hit the video stores mid-January: an episode of “Space Ghost
\nCoast To Coast” featuring “Mask” star Jim Carrey and that film’s director
\nwill precede the movie. It is doubtful that this “lost episode” will air
\non The Cartoon Network. It is also assuredly the longest “featurette” to
\nprecede a video release.
\n–Robair
\nasking for the exclusive
\non Cameron Diaz<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #371, from davemackey, 180 chars, Thu Nov 24 23:13:40 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 370.
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\nThat featurette with Jim Carrey aired on Cartoon Network a few weeks ago.
\nWhere were you? (It runs about five minutes, shorter than a regular SGCTC
\nepisode.) –Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #372, from davemackey, 222 chars, Thu Nov 24 23:13:54 1994
\nThis is a comment to message 357.
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\nThe mail order catalogue does indeed continue. I received a new one on
\nTuesday, at my mom’s address — I just happened to be over there showing
\noff my new van when the postman came with it.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #373, from davemackey, 414 chars, Sun Dec 4 10:41:11 1994
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\nTITLE: Disney beaten to the punch…again
\nRemember last summer when Disney first released “The Lion King” and Goodtimes
\nHome Video made a move to undercut the film’s business by releasing their
\nversion on video while the original was still in theatres?
\nGoodtimes isn’t even waiting for the film to come out next summer: their
\nknockoff version of “Pocahontas” is in stores now.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #374, from davemackey, 224 chars, Sun Dec 25 21:27:12 1994
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\nTITLE: Disney Scare Tactics Again
\n“This is the only Holiday Season where you’ll be able to purchase ‘Snow
\nWhite’ or ‘The Fox And The Hound’ for your video library”… or words to that
\neffect.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #375, from hmccracken, 299 chars, Thu Dec 29 11:09:28 1994
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\nTITLE: The Movie After the Land Before Time
\n_The Land Before Time II_, a sequel to the Spielberg\/Bluth theatrical animated
\nfeature, is now out as a direct-to-video release. I’m not sure what studio
\nmade this film, but I’m reasonably sure that Don Bluth didn’t have
\nanything to do with it.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #376, from davemackey, 80 chars, Fri Dec 30 18:49:38 1994
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\nThe film was made by Universal Cartoon Studios.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #377, from hmccracken, 1092 chars, Tue Jan 10 11:12:32 1995
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\nTITLE: Who Won: Snow or the Dinos?
\nVideo industry research firm VideoScan has released a list of the
\ntop ten best-selling home videos during 1994. The winners are:<\/p>\n
1. Jurassic Park
\n2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
\n3. Mrs. Doubtfire
\n4. Fox And The Hound
\n5. Speed
\n6. Return of Jafar
\n7. Beethoven’s 2nd
\n8. Thumbelina
\n9. The Secret Garden
\n10. The Fugitive<\/p>\n
These figures are controversial; VideoScan says that _Jurassic Park_ was
\nthe champ, and _Snow White_ came in second.Disney, however, contends that
\n_Snow_ really sold more copies, and VideoScan’s numbers aren’t
\nrepresentative of the real home video market. The company has a point;
\nVideoScan’s survey didn’t take into account mass marketers such as
\nWal-Mart, which undoubtedly sold millions of copies of _Snow White_.<\/p>\n
In any event, Disney doesn’t really have cause for complaint. With _Snow
\nWhite_, _Fox and the Hound_, and _Return of Jafar_, the company’s animated
\nfar made up half of the six top-selling tapes in 1994. The only other
\nanimated film to make the list was Don Bluth’s _Thumbelina_, at #8.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #378, from davemackey, 238 chars, Sat Jan 14 16:20:29 1995
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\nBypassing theatrical release seems to be the “in” thing for animated videos.
\nI just saw a television commercial for Bluth’s “A Troll In Central Park”,
\nwhich was supposed to have been a theatrical release.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #379, from hmccracken, 120 chars, Sat Jan 14 20:40:10 1995
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\nWell, maybe we’ll finally get to see Richard Williams’ _The
\nThief and the Cobbler_ as a video release, then.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #380, from switch, 157 chars, Sat Jan 14 22:21:28 1995
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\nTITLE: Speaking of video releases…
\nFebruary 7 will see the release of the first volume of _The Best of
\nLiquid Television_ from MTV. SRP is $12.98.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #381, from davemackey, 355 chars, Sun Feb 12 08:23:05 1995
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\nTITLE: Heh heh… heh heh…
\nMTV has released the first two volumes of “Beavis And Butt-Head” to home
\nvideo. Each has eight episodes, but no music video interlocutions (possibly
\nbecause of the difficulty in securing rights to the various songs they rag
\non). There is also one volume of “Liquid Television.”
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #382, from elfhive, 517 chars, Sun Feb 26 14:49:55 1995
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\nTITLE: The Lion King
\nImage Entertainment’s March 1995 catalog features a September 19, 1995
\nrelease date for the CAV Special Edition of The Lion King. The box set
\nwill include “The Making of the Lion King” and a portfolio of 6 lithos
\nof “conceptual art” from the film, plus other unspecified bonuses.<\/p>\n
The SRP is $99.99 in keeping with their other LD CAV Releases, there will
\nalso be a CLV letterbox movie-only release at $29.99. The laserdisc releases
\nwill feature THX audio encoding. The letterbox ratio is 1.85:1.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #383, from elfhive, 623 chars, Sun Feb 26 14:55:13 1995
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\nTITLE: Other Disney Animation
\nImage Entertainment is also announcing a number of laserdisc releases from
\nDisney:<\/p>\n
Pooh Playtime looks like 6 titles from the tv series for a total of 102
\nminutes.<\/p>\n
Ariel’s Songs & Stories feature the following adventures from The Little
\nMermaid:
\nWish Upon A Starfish
\nMetal Fish
\nGiggles
\nAgainst The Tide<\/p>\n
Jasmine’s Enchanted Tales features the heroine from Aladdin in
\nDo The Rat Thing
\nBad Moon Rising
\nGarden of Evil
\nElemental My Dear Jasmine<\/p>\n
Ariel and Jasmine run 88 minutes. All discs are SRP at $29.99. No street
\ndate was listed. The last two are part of the “Disney Princess Collection.”<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #384, from hmccracken, 557 chars, Sun Feb 26 21:52:28 1995
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\nTITLE: This Friday…
\n_The Lion King_ home video is scheduled to appear in stores. (Which means that
\nsome places will probably start selling it on Wednesday or Thursday.)<\/p>\n
Don’t be fooled by ads claiming that the tap is $6.95 or so — the street
\nprice
\nis really $17 or so. The $6.95 price is the effective one if you take
\nadvantage of the various baking-goods rebates and discounts that come in
\nthe package.<\/p>\n
— Harry
\n(Who’s not sure if he’ll buy the tape or not, since he only saw the movie
\nonce in theaters and has no burning ambition to see it again.)<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #385, from robairmackey, 498 chars, Tue Feb 28 01:53:40 1995
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\nNearly every retailer in this are will receive the tape early tomorrow
\nmorning so they may place the product in their already assempled POP bins.
\nSo Tuesday is the basic “unofficial street date” for any Disney release,
\nwhich I have to admit gives them a helluva head start on the top slot on
\nthe Billboard Sales chart.
\nPathmark supermarkets is offering a tape FREE in conjunction with
\nthe rebates and a $50 purchase minimum.
\n–Robair<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #386, from davemackey, 344 chars, Thu Mar 2 22:31:04 1995
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\nAnd you have to wade through no less than FIVE promos for other Disney
\nproducts and films to get to the film — one of which is for the forthcoming
\nfirst-time-ever-on-video release of the 1970 film “The Aristocats.”
\nI don’t think I’ll get “Lion King”, either, since I don’t claim to be a
\nDisney completist.
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #387, from dgh, 208 chars, Fri Mar 3 03:40:06 1995
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\nTITLE: Oh My Godess!
\nIs this video series any good? I picked up issue one of the 8-issue limited
\nseries comic book and the comic-lady suggested that I might want to rent the
\nvideo series.
\n,
\n|) \/\\ \\\/ | +)<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #388, from elfhive, 614 chars, Fri Mar 3 19:56:56 1995
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\nIt’s an interesting show. I’ve only seen the first episode and I enjoyed
\nthe insights into Japanese culture. It’s one of those shows that has
\nstrong cultural aspects to it. The concept is a good one, call up for
\nfast food, get the Goddess hotline, make a wish for a Goddess and voila!
\nIt should happen to everyone \ud83d\ude42
\nThe animation is competent, it may not be my thing particularly. I just
\ngot through watching Kishin Corps (Kishin Heidan) and I love that style.
\nThis is rather soft, seemed to rely a lot on panning action, it is fairly
\nslowed paced but perhaps that’s because it is aimed at a different audience.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #389, from dgh, 331 chars, Sat Mar 4 00:08:36 1995
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\nThanks for the insight. What about, oh what was it called? Battle Tank
\nsomething, maybe? (Memory like a sieve…) From the tape box, it looks
\nlike scantily clad females in battle tanks (the cover for volume two shows a
\nwoman with her shirt half open and two band-aids taped in a cross over a
\nvital spot…)
\n,
\n|) \/\\ \\\/ | +)<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #390, from switch, 174 chars, Sat Mar 4 11:43:45 1995
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\nWould that be _Dominion Tank Police_? If so, then contrary to any image
\nimplied by the Puma sisters, there’s very little raunch in the series, save
\nfor comedy value.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #391, from elfhive, 390 chars, Sat Mar 4 12:18:42 1995
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\nMy first reaction was “Them’s no scantily-clad females, them’s the Puma
\nsisters!” It’s Anna and Uni right? The concept of “sea urchin” Puma seemed
\ndelightful to me. As for raunch, well there is the “strip dance” in Act I.
\nAnd how about the phallic shaped tank stoppers in that great chase sequence?
\nHowever, this isn’t “hentai” (lecher) oriented stuff by any stretch of the
\nimagination \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #392, from switch, 133 chars, Sat Mar 4 12:27:13 1995
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\nYeah, exactly. It’s on about the same level as an episode of _Married, With
\nChildren_ only used a lot less and a lot funnier.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #393, from elfhive, 165 chars, Sat Mar 4 12:33:03 1995
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\nThat’s a good comparison, Emru. I wonder if the producers of _Married With
\nChildren_ ever thought of a scene putting strategic band-aids on Christina
\nApplegate? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #394, from switch, 116 chars, Sat Mar 4 15:32:43 1995
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\nI’m sure they’ve =thought= of it. The question is, has anyone had the nerve
\nto propose this to Applegate? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #395, from elfhive, 69 chars, Sun Mar 5 12:38:57 1995
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\nWell, if they do, I hope they propose to use the “ouchless” kind \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #396, from switch, 32 chars, Sun Mar 5 13:19:59 1995
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\n…if not flesh-coloured.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #397, from dgh, 188 chars, Mon Mar 6 03:05:56 1995
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\n_Dominion Tank Police_ sounds about right. But is it any good?
\n(for reference, I consider _Dirty Pair_ #1 good, _No enemy but time_ very
\ngood, and _Akira_ excellent.)<\/p>\n
,
\n|) \/\\ \\\/ | +)<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #398, from switch, 320 chars, Mon Mar 6 21:49:38 1995
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\nI like _Dominion_. It’s Shirow Masamune’s (_Appleseed_, _Black Magic M-66_)
\nlighter work. Of course, it has his usual background social theme — in these
\ncase, ecological — but the emphasis is really on comedy. The anime is a
\npretty good adaptation of the manga, which is more than I can say for
\n_Appleseed_.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #399, from elfhive, 315 chars, Tue Mar 7 01:18:39 1995
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\nI found the first two acts of _Dominion_ to be rollicking good fun. The
\nsecond two got bogged down in plot seriousness. The animation quality,
\nhowever, is excellent throughout.<\/p>\n
Shouldn’t we be having this conversation in \/anime or is this proof that
\nJapanese animation has now crossed over into the mainstream \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #400, from hmccracken, 598 chars, Sat Mar 11 19:37:14 1995
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\nWe’ve been bashing _The Lion King_ here for the five promos that precede
\nthe film itself on the home video version. But I’m beginning to think
\nthat it’s unfair to single Disney out here. This weekend, I rented
\n_Undercover Blues_ and _The Hudsucker Proxy_ (excellent, by the way) —
\nand the former had four promos, and the latter five.<\/p>\n
At least you can get away from commercials by seeing films
\nin their original theatrical release — usually. My favorite
\nlocal theater did show an ad for the Jeep Cherokee recently; I
\nbooed loudly and angrily. They haven’t shown any commercials since.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #401, from switch, 286 chars, Sun Mar 12 19:34:52 1995
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\nYep. I’m getting really tired of sitting through 15-20 minutes of previews at
\nthe cinema. *Especially* when some of them are ads for ice cream, credit
\ncards, or health spas, rather than actual movie trailers.<\/p>\n
I usually start screaming “Make it stop!” but it hasn’t worked yet.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #402, from davemackey, 186 chars, Tue Mar 14 17:42:56 1995
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\nBut.. Emru.. you know you had the power to stop it all along! See that funny
\nbutton on the VCR with the square painted on it? That is the STOP button. \ud83d\ude09
\n–Dave<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #403, from switch, 62 chars, Thu Mar 16 08:09:39 1995
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\nBut they haven’t installed stop buttons at cinemas yet!<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #404, from mikester, 453 chars, Fri Mar 24 12:12:43 1995
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\n>Yep. I’m getting really tired of sitting through 15-20 minutes of previews
\n>at the cinema. *Especially* when some of them are ads for ice cream, credit
\n>cards, or health spas, rather than actual movie trailers.<\/p>\n
I don’t mind two or three movie trailers, but 6 movie trailers, “Browse our
\nartgallery, our happy staff will assist you” and “Visit our horrendously
\noverpriced consession stand” really get me annoied.<\/p>\n
—Mike (Obligatory Galahad Moment)<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #405, from hmccracken, 231 chars, Fri Mar 24 12:24:22 1995
\nThis is a comment to message 404.
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\nI kind of like seeing movie trailers, as long as they’re not ones I’ve
\nseen a thousand times before. Even if the trailer makes the film look
\nunappealing, it’s useful — I know that I probably won’t want to see
\nthat movie.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #406, from hmccracken, 630 chars, Sun Jun 18 02:42:24 1995
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\nTITLE: _Pocahontas_ is out on video…
\n…sort of. Don’t expect Disney’s version to come out for another
\nyear or so, but _Young Pocahontas_, a release from a video company
\nI’ve never heard of before, is already on the shelves.<\/p>\n
Curiously enough, there’s a chance that this film might be a
\nbit more historically accurate than the Disney one. It appears
\nto depict Pocahontas as a small girl; as has been widely noted,
\nthe real-life Pocahontas was twelve years old at the time her
\nadventures with Captain John Smith happened.
\n(Disney’s character is a lot older, in order to inject a healthy
\ndose of romance into the plot.)<\/p>\n
— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #407, from elfhive, 2699 chars, Fri Nov 24 20:07:13 1995
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\nTITLE: Tron
\nThe Disney Exclusive Archive laserdisc edition of the film TRON hit the
\nstreets on Wednesday (at least I got it on that date through US Laser Video).
\nThis 3 CAV disc box set is a definitive release of this fascinating and
\nunparalleled animation production. Those who want to know how the electronic
\nworld effects were achieved will have all their questions answered in this
\nrelease.<\/p>\n
First of all, the film is spread over four sides in standard play. It is
\nthankfully free of any jitter frames. The breaks are all intelligently
\nplaced. The audio mix has some problems on side one where the dialogue
\nseems to be too far under the music\/efx tracks. This is really surprising
\nfor a THX processed soundtrack. It isn’t intolerable though and it seems
\nto get better on the rest of the film. Analog track one has a commentary
\nfrom Lissberger, Kushner, Ellenshaw and Taylor. It is a running commentary
\nwhile watching the film, but it doesn’t just stick to scene analysis. It
\ngives a broad history of the effort and many technique details. These,
\nhowever, become much clearer when watching the supplemental material on
\nthe third disc. Analog track two has isolated Wendy Carlos’ music score.<\/p>\n
The supplemental disc is superb. It has a wealth of production drawings
\ngrouped into subjects. There are unused concepts by Andy Probert and the
\nmany musings of Moebius and Syd Mead. There is a section that goes through
\nlayer by layer the many types of animation enhancements and how they were
\naccomplished. When I think that they shot 70,000 feet of live-action film
\nand transferred it to individual frames for the cel animation effects, my
\nbrain hurts. As Lissberger says in the commentary, if he had understood
\nthe magnitude of the job before they started he never would have done it.<\/p>\n
The highlight of the set for me are two deleted scenes that are presented.
\nThe first containing the most animation elements shot for any of the
\nfilm’s sequences and taken all the way to music and dialogue mix. The
\nsecond much shorter follow up scene doesn’t have the dialogue or music track.
\nBoth scenes take place in Yori’s apartment (I didn’t even know she had one),
\nbetween Cindy Morgan (Yori\/Laura) and Bruce Boxleitner (Tron\/Allan). It is
\none of the more awkward love scenes I’ve ever screened, but, oh the environ-
\nment in which it takes place! Like the rest of the film, it showed the
\nlack of skill of the creators on a human emotional level, but clearly
\ndemonstrates their technical brilliance and creative energy.<\/p>\n
With this release, Disney Studios does great justice to this film and
\nbrings to the public the kind of insights that may allow a fresh approach
\nto give TRON the acclaim it really deserves.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #408, from switch, 66 chars, Fri Nov 24 22:32:29 1995
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\nExcuse me while I revert to 14 years old:<\/p>\n
Yes! Yes! Yes!<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #409, from mikebryant, 155 chars, Mon Nov 27 23:33:30 1995
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\nI had heard that many minutes of TRON had been trimmed for release in theaters.
\nDoes the laserdisk set have an uncut or at least “Director’s Cut” version?<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #410, from elfhive, 677 chars, Tue Nov 28 09:21:42 1995
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\nI don’t know of any specific scene trims, but it could have been done.
\nHowever, Disney kept a pretty tight control over the theater prints and
\nI suspect it was never cut by them, I don’t actually now if there was a
\ntheatrical re-release after the original dates since it was so poorly
\nreceived.
\nThe laserdisc edition is the original cut, there is no “Director’s Cut,”
\nit was so expensive to create any scene that if it wasn’t going to be
\nin the final movie, all the necessary effects were not added. The only
\nexception was the deleted scene mentioned in my original message in
\nYori’s apartment. This has not been integrated into the original movie
\nand is presented separately.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #411, from mikebryant, 294 chars, Tue Nov 28 22:26:13 1995
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\nAh. I used to work with a fellow who did some of the work on the Tron film.
\nHis company, MAGI, I think, did all of the computer rendering for the film.
\nHe even has some of the original lightcycle films.<\/p>\n
The rendering times for that film were enormous. Something like a day or two
\nPER FRAME!<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #412, from elfhive, 608 chars, Tue Nov 28 22:45:42 1995
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\nMAGI worked on some of the computer generated effects while a company called
\nTriple I did others. The laserdisc set goes into this in considerable
\ndetail even showing early demo footage from both companies. Robert Abel
\nwas another pioneer who did some of the effects. One of Lissberger’s
\naccomplishments was to integrate the best applications of these early
\ncomputer rendering breakthroughs into a cohesive “electronic” world. It
\nwas interesting to hear him mention that they rejected calling it “cyber-
\nspace” because they thought it would sound too alien to the mainstream
\naudience they were aiming at \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #413, from switch, 84 chars, Tue Nov 28 22:52:09 1995
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\nTron, mainstream? I always refer to it as the ultimate computer geek film \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #414, from elfhive, 69 chars, Tue Nov 28 23:26:38 1995
\nThis is a comment to message 413.
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\nSince when has disney approved the making of computer geek films \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #415, from peabo, 798 chars, Wed Nov 29 00:31:25 1995
\nThis is a comment to message 411.
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\nMAGI did the lightcycles, and they did the scene where the big stomping
\nfloating trash compactor got blasted into bits (I forget what those things
\nwere called … it’s the thing that could rotate its legs and squeeze).<\/p>\n
A lot of other stuff was done by triple-I and there may have been some
\nother graphics companies involved too.<\/p>\n
MAGI’s claim to fame involved simulating the propagation of neutrons
\nthrough dense materials in nuclear power plant design. It turned out
\nsome of the software they did to figure that out was useful for rendering
\nordinary light, given the somewhat dark terrain of the game grid.<\/p>\n
The rendering scene I used to point out to people involved the flare when
\nthe fighter tank goes over the edge of the cliff and flips on its back
\njust before hitting the bottom \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
peter<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #416, from elfhive, 189 chars, Wed Nov 29 09:06:08 1995
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\nThose “trash compactors” you mention were called “Recognizers” and were
\nfrom the game “Space Paranoids” — great title!<\/p>\n
Triple I did the solar sail model and Sark’s “carrier” in the film.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #417, from peabo, 339 chars, Wed Nov 29 21:06:43 1995
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\nOh yeah, the solar sail … seems to me there was a book about the making of
\nTRON (or maybe just a chapter on another animation book) that came out back
\nin the ’80s. Do you remember that? My recollection is of some pencil
\nsketches. Hmmm … maybe it was part of ACM SIGGRAPH’s proceedings. Drat!
\nGotta go grep my mind, I guess.<\/p>\n
peter<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #418, from elfhive, 267 chars, Thu Nov 30 00:42:11 1995
\nThis is a comment to message 417.
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\nThe film was released in August 1982. I saw it in London in November of that
\nyear. I was living in Europe and the Middle East. I don’t remember any
\npublications about Tron. I’d be surprised if it didn’t get some coverage
\nin something like Cinefantastique or Starlog.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #419, from hmccracken, 407 chars, Thu Nov 30 23:57:38 1995
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\nOddly enough, I never saw _Tron_ — odd considering that I was
\nat least as interested in both computers and animation in 1982
\nas I am now. But I recall that _Time_, I believe, did a cover
\nstory on the film. (Bet it would be fun to dig it out and re-read it
\ntoday.) And I’d wager almost anything that my friends at
\n_Cinefantastique_ (for whom I used to write) gave the film some
\nexcellent coverage.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #420, from switch, 95 chars, Thu Nov 30 23:59:28 1995
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\nI’ve seen Tron more times than any human being has a right to. It had some
\ngreat ideas.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #421, from peabo, 397 chars, Fri Dec 1 01:18:43 1995
\nThis is a comment to message 419.
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\nI saw it five times in the theater, and a year or two later bought the
\nfirst Laserdisc release. I haven’t watched it recently, but wasn’t it
\nCLV? I recall being properly mollified when Disney released Fantasia in
\nCAV, but that may have been simply because I had been so irritated at not
\nbeing able to get it even on VHS earlier, rather than as a distinction
\nfrom how they released TRON.<\/p>\n
peter<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #422, from grekel, 396 chars, Sat Dec 2 14:57:32 1995
\nThis is a comment to message 417.
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\nI have a pretty thin paperback called “The Art of TRON” that I got
\nwhen the film was released. I’ll see if it’s not stuck in the
\nattic and let you know. As I recall, its cover is predominantly
\nblue.<\/p>\n
BTW, do you remember the TRON arcade game? I saw it first as a
\nstand-inside booth with some sort of 3-D trickery on the display.
\nDuplicated the “dodge-ball” disc game, sorta like a POV Pong…<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #423, from elfhive, 292 chars, Sat Dec 2 18:57:14 1995
\nThis is a comment to message 422.
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\nYes, I do remember the booth arcade game. I believe it also had the light
\ncycles and the recognizers (Space Paranoids). I think I only played it once.
\nI’m not much good at those games, although I did practice pin-ball a lot
\nwhen that was the main attraction, guess that gives away my age \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #424, from mikebryant, 237 chars, Sun Dec 3 11:29:02 1995
\nThis is a comment to message 422.
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\nI used to own a “Discs of Tron” arcade video game. (Heavy sucker) I had it
\nfor about a year and then I moved. Since it was so heavy I ended up giving it
\nto a friend if he moved it. As far as I know he still has it and it works fine.<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #425, from peabo, 80 chars, Sun Dec 3 15:18:02 1995
\nThis is a comment to message 422.
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\nNo, I don’t get to the arcades much, so I never saw an actual Tron game.<\/p>\n
peter<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #426, from dgh, 155 chars, Sun Dec 3 17:04:40 1995
\nThis is a comment to message 422.
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\nI also have “The Art of TRON” (which I got at a deep discount at B. Daltons
\nmany years ago) and remember playing the TRON arcade game.
\n,
\n|) \/\\ \\\/ | +)<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #427, from switch, 368 chars, Sun Dec 3 21:39:00 1995
\nThis is a comment to message 422.
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\nYou’re thinking of Tron: Deadly Discs, the second arcade game. The first
\n(simply titled Tron) was the one with four different games (MCP cone,
\nlight cycles, grid bugs, tanks).<\/p>\n
There are two arcades in Montreal that have perfectly
\nfunctioning Tron machines, and one with a perfectly functioning
\nDeadly Discs machine — I was just playing a game a few days ago.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #428, from hmccracken, 105 chars, Wed Mar 13 14:13:54 1996
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\nTITLE: Attention, _Toy Story_ Fans
\n_Toy Story_ will be released on video on October 30th, 1996.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #429, from hmccracken, 368 chars, Mon Apr 15 23:09:09 1996
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\nTITLE: Thank hesavens they never made a _Pinocchio_ 6…
\nDon Bluth’s feature film _The Land Before Time_ has earned an unusual
\ndistinction: It’s spawned an incredible number of sequels. Parts II
\nand III are out, and THREE MORE sequels are in the works. All of these
\nfilms are made-for-video projects, and Bluth didn’t have anything
\nto do with any of them.
\n— Harry
\n\/<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #430, from switch, 111 chars, Tue Apr 16 22:12:51 1996
\nThis is a comment to message 429.
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\nFor extinct critters, those guys are making an awful fuss.<\/p>\n
Has anyone here seen any of the LBT sequels?<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #431, from hmccracken, 1136 chars, Thu May 2 22:48:59 1996
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\nTITLE: _The Aristocats_…
\n…Walt Disney Studios’ 1970 animated feature, is now available on video.
\nOddly enough, it’s been available in other parts of the world for quite
\nawhile — I saw it for sale in London when I was there a year ago.<\/p>\n
_The Aristocats_ was the first animated feature made by the studio after
\nWalt’s death, and it’s some Disney fans’ choice as the worst animated
\nfilm the studio ever produced. And there *are* some embarassing things
\nabout it — it has a cheesy, low-budget look (some of the animation
\nis traced from _101 Dalmatians_), as well as a weirdly cavalier attitude
\ntowards history. (It’s set in Paris of the 1920s, but one of the characters
\nis a hippie cat and there are a couple of _Hee-Haw_-style countrified dogs.)<\/p>\n
Still, the last time I saw the film, about 10 years ago, I enjoyed it.
\nThe animation, by Disney’s Nine Old Men, is extremely facile, and there
\nare plenty of enjoyable gags. Note that this film, a love story about cats in
\nParis, was made just a few years after Chuck Jones’s very similar _Gay
\nPurr-ee_. Jones has been known to wonder out loud whether that was
\na coincidence.<\/p>\n
— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #432, from nicolas, 379 chars, Fri May 3 02:42:43 1996
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\nRe: _The Aristocats_…
\n>…Walt Disney Studios’ 1970 animated feature, is now available on video.
\n>Oddly enough, it’s been available in other parts of the world for quite
\n>awhile — I saw it for sale in London when I was there a year ago.
\n><\/p>\n
Yep, bought mine about a year ago in Holland.
\n—
\nNico Veenkamp Cybrarian at large
\nhttp:\/\/www.xs4all.nl\/~nicolas\/index.html<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #433, from hmccracken, 332 chars, Fri May 3 16:04:05 1996
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\nAnd would you advise that other Disney fans buy it, Nico? I’m still trying
\nto decide. While there are many Disney features that I snapped up the first
\nday they became available on tape, there are just as many — _Pocahontas_,
\n_Sleeping Beauty_, _Beauty and the Beast_, and others — that I never got
\naround to purchasing.<\/p>\n
— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #434, from switch, 172 chars, Sat May 4 09:06:05 1996
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\nI saw The Aristocats last week, for the first time since I was tiny. Aside
\nfrom one sequence (Thomas O’Malley’s introduction) nothing could really hold my
\ninterest.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #435, from hmccracken, 618 chars, Sat May 4 12:00:56 1996
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\nI remember seeing _The Aristocats_ in 1970, when I was five or six, quite
\nclearly. It was the third movie my parents took my younger sister to
\nsee, after a double-feature of _Fantasia_ and Chaplin’s _The Circus_
\n(you can tell that they were trying to instill good taste in her at an
\nearly age).<\/p>\n
The first movie *I* saw in a theater was Disney’s _Jungle Book_, which
\ncame out when I was three. And it may explain the fact that I’ve been
\ninterested in animation ever since. Who knows; if my folks had taken me to
\nsee a Woody Allen movie, or a James Bond one, my whole life might have
\nturned out differently.<\/p>\n
— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #436, from nicolas, 465 chars, Mon May 6 03:43:50 1996
\nThis is a comment to message 433.
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\nI would recommend buying it just for completeness. As you said in an
\nearlier message, the animation leaves much desired. They could have done a
\nlot better at Disney. I bought it mainly for the ‘swinging’ scene where the
\nO’Malley introduces his band. I can’t keep my fingers from snapping and my
\nfeet from tapping looking at this scene. For the rest it is enjoyable
\nenough.<\/p>\n
—
\nNico Veenkamp Cybrarian at large
\nhttp:\/\/www.xs4all.nl\/~nicolas\/index.html<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #437, from switch, 275 chars, Mon May 6 21:54:07 1996
\nThis is a comment to message 435.
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\nMy earliest memory of cinema animation is a showing of Peter Pan at my first
\nelementary school, but apparently my folks had taken me to see Fantasia earlier
\nand I loved it. That and the early exposure to Warner Bros. and Brave Raideen
\nmight explain something as well.<\/p>\n
Emru<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #438, from hmccracken, 1969 chars, Sun May 12 14:23:25 1996
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\nTITLE: _The Aristocats_
\nYou’ve got to have a lot of patience to watch Disney’s new home video of
\n_The Aristocats_. First, when you open the package, you’ll be showered
\nwith glossy brochures advertising a variety of other Disney products,
\nas well as various kid-oriented food and other products. Then, when
\nyou pop the tape in your VCR and press Play, you’ll need to sit through
\na lengthy series of Disney ads, including promos for Disney World,
\nsome Disney video games, several recent and upcoming video releases
\n(including a truly terrible looking _Aladdin_ sequel), _The Hunchback
\nof Notre Dame_ (which opens next month in theaters), and who knows
\nwhat else (I lost count).<\/p>\n
If you can stand all that, you’ll see a pleasant, unpretentious cartoon
\nfrom 1970, which seems like eons ago, given the lavish, blockbuster
\nevents that recent Disney cartoons have become. _The Aristocats_ has
\ncheesy production values, an over-reliance on Disney’s stock voice
\nartists of the 1960s and 1970s (Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway,
\net al), and a storyline that’s distinctly reminiscent of the much better
\n_101 Dalmatians_. Despite being set in Paris in 1910, it’s full of every
\naccent: Hungarian, British, and several American dialects, as well as
\ncirca 1970s touches such as psychadelic special effects and the use of
\nwords such as “Groovy!” in the dialogue.<\/p>\n
Still, it’s enjoyable, and I don’t think I feel that way purely for
\nnostalgic reasons. The animation and backgrounds are expertly-done; these
\ncats really move and behave like felines should. And while the film isn’t
\nambitious in the least, it’s clear that it’s done by artists who are
\nconfident about their own skills (which they should have been, since most
\nof them had been at work at Disney since the great days of the 1930s).
\n_The Aristocats_ may be a minor effort, but at least it doesn’t
\noverpromise great things, as most of Disney’s recent films have, and as
\n_Hunchback_ almost certainly will.<\/p>\n
— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #439, from nicolas, 805 chars, Mon May 13 02:43:03 1996
\nThis is a comment to message 438.
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\nRe: _The Aristocats_
\n>You’ve got to have a lot of patience to watch Disney’s new home video of
\n>_The Aristocats_. First, when you open the package, you’ll be showered
\n>with glossy brochures advertising a variety of other Disney products,
\n>as well as various kid-oriented food and other products. Then, when
\n>you pop the tape in your VCR and press Play, you’ll need to sit through
\n>a lengthy series of Disney ads,<\/p>\n
This *exactly* what I hate most of the Disney video’s. I could not care
\nless for their ad stuff. Especially the indecent lenght of promo material
\nthey put before the real movie almost makes me wish for a perfect VCR
\ncopying machine and copy only the movie on a fresh tape and throw the
\noriginal away.
\n—
\nNico Veenkamp Cybrarian at large
\nhttp:\/\/www.xs4all.nl\/~nicolas\/index.html<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #440, from hmccracken, 426 chars, Thu Jul 11 23:25:15 1996
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\nTITLE: The Last Disney Animated Feature…
\n…to reach home video may well be _Oliver and Company_, which is due out
\nthis September. Why would it be the last one? Because it’s just about
\nthe only animated feature left in the Disney vaults that has never
\nbeen released on tape. The only exception I can think of is _Victory
\nThrough Air Power_, a WWII propaganda feature that may *never* be
\navailable for home viewing.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #441, from lkaplan, 428 chars, Fri Jul 12 01:10:43 1996
\nThis is a comment to message 440.
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\nRe: The Last Disney Animated Feature…
\n>The only exception I can think of is _Victory
\n>Through Air Power_, a WWII propaganda feature that may *never* be
\n>available for home viewing.<\/p>\n
I’ve heard of that, but never seen it … I’ve always enjoyed watching
\ncartoons (and other films) made during WW II … subtle and not-so-subtle
\nreferences and all that. I suppose some of them are fairly “politically
\nincorrect” nowadays!<\/p>\n
-Len<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #442, from hmccracken, 444 chars, Mon Aug 12 09:27:38 1996
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\nTITLE: _Aladdin and the King of Thieves_…
\nis the title of a made-for-videotape sequel to Disney’s _Aladdin_.
\nIt’s hitting video stores early this week, and the big news is that
\nRobin Williams returns as the voice of the Genie. (In the first
\nvideo sequel to _Aladdin_, as well as the subsequent TV series,
\nanother actor played the part.)<\/p>\n
The first sequel was terrible, but the new one gets a rave review
\nin today’s _New York Times_.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #443, from elfhive, 247 chars, Mon Aug 12 18:37:01 1996
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\nEither this means that direct to home video release in the US is now
\nlucrative enough to attract big talent or that Robin Williams is having
\nso much fun with the character he’s willing to do it for less than
\nwhat his agent would probably want \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #444, from hmccracken, 650 chars, Mon Aug 12 19:56:04 1996
\nThis is a comment to message 443.
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\nWell, Williams was annoyed with Disney after the release of _Aladdin_.
\nIt apparently had to do with the fact that he was paid only a small
\nfee despite the movie’s huge success, or perhaps that they touted
\nhis name in the movie’s merchandising after promising not to do so.
\nHe eventually made up with Disney after the company gave him an
\nexpensive painting.<\/p>\n
It’s probably a safe bet that he’s getting a lot of money for this
\nnew movie. The first _Aladdin_ sequel was the most successful
\ndirect-to-video movie ever made, and this new one is being
\nheavily marketed with ads that spotlight the Genie — they’re
\non all the buses here in Boston.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #445, from hmccracken, 370 chars, Sat Aug 17 20:48:43 1996
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\nTITLE: Recent Warners on tape
\nTwo of Warner Bros.’ most recent cartoon shorts starring its classic
\ncharacters are now available on video tape. _Chariots of Fur_ is a
\nnew Road Runner directed by Chuck Jones and designed by Maurice Noble;
\n_Carrotblanca_ is a Bugs Bunny parody of guess-what-classic-film.
\nEach cartoon comes on a tape with several vintage shorts.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #446, from hkenner, 28 chars, Sat Aug 17 21:22:09 1996
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\nWhere do we find them?
\n–HK<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #447, from hmccracken, 292 chars, Sat Aug 17 23:13:58 1996
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\nThey should be available just about anywhere that sells kid-oriented
\nvideos — I saw them at Tower Records. You can also order them online
\nright from BIX. At the : prompt, type<\/p>\n
telnet videoexpress.com<\/p>\n
…then follow the menus to search for either CARROTBLANCA or CHARIOTS OF FUR.<\/p>\n
— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #448, from hmccracken, 231 chars, Sat Oct 5 23:09:54 1996
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\nTITLE: Video news
\n_A Close Shave_, the latest film starring the Oscar-winning
\nBritish clay-animation duo of Wallace and Grommit, will
\nbe released on video in the USA this month. I can
\nhardly wait — I haven’t seen it yet.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #449, from pwirtz, 313 chars, Tue Oct 8 09:39:44 1996
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\nRe: Video news
\n>A Close Shave_, the latest film starring the Oscar-winning
\n>British clay-animation duo of Wallace and Grommit, will
\n>be released on video in the USA this month<\/p>\n
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll be looking for also.<\/p>\n
|||||paul|||||
\nNow on Warp 4.0
\nSouthern Calif OS\/2 Users Group
\nhttp:\/\/www.scoug.com<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #450, from hmccracken, 1392 chars, Sun Oct 13 00:24:18 1996
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\nTITLE: A Profusion of Boop
\nRepublic Home Video has released _Betty Boop: The Definitive Collection_,
\na $70 set that includes 8 video tapes, with a total of nine hours of
\nBetty Boop cartoons — that’s 115 films in all. Oddly enough, this
\ncollection is available only on tape; usually, elaborate packages such
\nas this one, obviously aimed at grown-up cartoon nuts, are available
\non laser disc but *not* on tape.<\/p>\n
I’m still working my way through the tapes, but I’m mostly impressed —
\nthe quality is excellent, and I’m seeing both Boop classics (such
\nas _The Old Man of the Mountain_ and _Minnie the Moocher_) and
\ncartoons that are completely new to me. The set may be “definitive,”
\nbut it’s not absolutely complete — there are a handful of Betty
\nBoop cartoons that are missing (and most of them are truly missing —
\nthat is, no prints are known to exist). Due to a gaffe on Republic’s
\npart, one cartoon is a black-and-white print of an — ick — recolored
\ncopy.<\/p>\n
I also wish that the collection came with a thicker, more informative
\nbooklet than the one you get, or at least that the year that each
\ncartoon was made was identified. (Rather than putting the cartoons
\nin chronological order, the tapes organize them into themes, such
\nas “surrealism.”) But the price is reasonable, the best of the
\ncartoons remain amazing, and the set is a must-buy for aficionados
\nof 1930s animation.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #451, from hmccracken, 261 chars, Tue Oct 29 22:14:28 1996
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\nTITLE: Toy Story…
\n…is out on videotape. The copies I saw were $19.98 apiece, but
\nI think I’ll shop around a bit and see if it’s available more
\ncheaply elsewhere.<\/p>\n
I plan to get a copy — I think it would hold up quite well to
\nrepeated viewings…<\/p>\n
— Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #452, from hmccracken, 339 chars, Sun Mar 9 00:48:55 1997
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\nTITLE: Hunchback on Video
\nWalt Disney Pictures’ _The Hunchback of Notere Dame_ is now available
\non home video.<\/p>\n
If you saw it in the theaters last year, you know that it’s ghastly,
\nso there’s no reason to buy a copy of the tape. If you missed it the
\nfirst time around, here’s a chance to avoid seeing it all over again.<\/p>\n
— Unbiased Harry<\/p>\n
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\nanimation\/video.stuff #453, from hmccracken, 524 chars, Mon Mar 17 09:38:58 1997
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\nTITLE: Get them while you can
\nAccording to current radio commercials, Disney will soon be pulling
\nthe video editions of several of its animated films off the market:
\nPocahontas, The Aristocats, and Oliver and Company among them.
\nThe company tries to pawn its videos off as collectors’ items by
\ndiscontinuing them every so often — this does keep supplies limited,
\nI guess, but before they’re cut off, millions of copies are distributed.
\nIt’s likely that all of these movies will be back eventually in new
\neditions.
\n— Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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