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| Laughing Gravy | May 8 2016, 03:10 PM Post #31 |
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Quite the antithesis. Four of the finest minutes I've ever spent. As I probably have already bored you with, when *I* was a little gravy, the Depatie-Freleng were the ONLY cartoons we ever saw at movies. I believe they were probably distributed by United Artists, hence showing up at James Bond and Pink Panther movies. So I have great fond memories of Ant & Aardvark (which showed up on Saturday mornings later), The Inspector, and The Pink Panther. Never saw that Crane one, after my time. But it was a treat to go to the movies and get a free cartoon with the feature, let me tell YOU, bub. We added a second cartoon to our FNF showings when the two li'l girls were regulars, but after they moved away, the grownups requested we keep 'em that way. I will say this, the Vitaphones are popular way, way, way beyond my expectations and I am so, so sorry I didn't get a chance to show these to my dad. He would've loved 'em. We're working our way through the Jazz Singer BD bonus disc now. |
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| Laughing Gravy | May 8 2016, 03:12 PM Post #32 |
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Trap Happy Porky (1945) has since shown up on Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection. In HD yet! |
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| The Batman | May 8 2016, 04:19 PM Post #33 |
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This is a great animated short, very funny. I don't have it, is it on a set? I've seen it several times on TV up here. Another recent animated set that Catwoman surprised me with one day is called EXTRAORDINARY TALES and features five Poe stories in various forms of animation. In addition, each story is read by a different actor, including: Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Julian Sands, Roger Corman and Guillermo Del Toro. How's that for a line-up? Very well done and highly recommended. The various forms of animation are all gorgeous and engaging. Here's the links on Amazon, for anyone interested: Extraordinary Tales - on DVD Extraordinary Tales - Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack |
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| rodney | May 10 2016, 12:07 PM Post #34 |
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I love cartoons, and watch one or two before every movie I watch, along with an occasional marathon (generally depending on if I'm reading about cartoons at the time). Currently I'm rotating between Fleischer Popeyes (in 1942 now) and chronological Looney Tunes (somewhere near 1936). |
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| CliffClaven | May 17 2016, 12:20 AM Post #35 |
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Matching toons to features enhances the experience. To be clear, I'm not really talking content. The Walter Lantz toons may lag behind Looney Tunes, Disney and MGM, but they're pitch perfect for Universal B pictures. Pink Panther and other DePatie Freleng theatricals sort of go with James Bond, but really go with swingin' miniskirted comedies. Disneys play best with Disneys, but are also a match RKO musicals and the big holiday films of the 50s-60s. MGMs go with MGMs, and other big movies. Even Tom & Jerry and crazed Tex Avery had a certain gloss that befitted MGM-scale product. The best Looney Tunes go with new films as well as old Warner. And perhaps with vintage Paramounts featuring the Marx Brothers, Bob Hope, W.C Fields and their comic ilk. B&W Fleischers might play even with silent features, and with Warner gangster fare. Can't imagine Famous/Paramount Studios and Terrytoons playing with features. You mix a dozen with Stooge shorts for a Kiddie Matinee. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Oct 16 2016, 01:51 PM Post #36 |
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Sorry, Bats, I didn't see your query til now. Bob's Birthday is on one of the "Best of the Best" sets, which were three separate discs of Canadian cartoons sold by Image a long time ago. And to apologize for keeping you waiting, I went in the other room and found it: Best of the Best: Romantic Tales. Then I looked up a link. No, no, don't thank me, your smiling face under that cowl is enough. My current cartoon regular lineup includes... FNF: Still on chronological Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies (we're up to '38) taken from all the official Warners releases, DVD and Blu-ray, including the bonus cartoons as extras on various movie discs. Watched as part of every show, usually two of 'em, although sometimes the second cartoon is Popeye (we're up to '41 in those sets). I love how the Warners cartoons of this period veered sharply off into non-Disney territory; we just watched Porky in Wackyland, a marvelous cartoon Disney never would've or could've done in that era. Strange Science Cinema: Have completed the official Herman & Katnip collection (up and down, but not bad) and the Popeye '50s set from VCI (putrid) but still working on Casper (hmmmm). I will say this, the 1957 Casper cartoons are better than the past few years worth. These are from Shout!'s Complete Casper three-disc set). Our other two cartoons in this series are random Famous/Paramount from the "Complete Harveytoons" set, and ScreenSongs from some generic public domain company. Disney: As part of the ongoing True-Life Adventures and Tomorrowland watchings, I watch a B&W chronological Mickey Mouse, a color chronological Donald Duck, and a Silly Symphonies (they weren't released chronologically on DVD). Other: Forbidden Hollywood viewings get a Cubby the Bear cartoon from the Thunderbean Blu-ray; hey, cartoons weren't art back then (except maybe for Disney), they were animals forming jug bands, so I don't judge these too harshly, they're generally fun and the prints are gorgeous. I have grey market sets of Mighty Mouse and Tex Avery MGM cartoons, and watch them with '40s and '50s films. Anything newer gets The Ant and the Aardvark, including stuff like Thor. Sunday Silents get Koko the Clown from Inkwell Images. And I always watch the bonus materials on DVDs when they're cartoons and shorts, often after the feature, though. Of course, if I have a friend over for a movie, she gets to pick it, and I'll say this: Foghorn Leghorn is extremely popular, for some reason, with the ladies. |
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| Pa Stark | Oct 16 2016, 03:06 PM Post #37 |
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The two Warner's cartoons with Beaky Buzzard flying and singing. One he just goes "Ba Doop ba doop a doop ah doop a doop" and the one everyone remembers is his mother sends her brood out to bring home food for dinner, and the others bring home elephants, horses, etc, and Beaky, whom his mother calls "Killer," brings home a baby bumblebee. Sheer genius. At work there was a co-worker who was the slowest, almost brain dead person you ever saw. Funniest thing is, his last name was Heep. He was a heap. We all swear that he could sleep standing up. One day I was in the break room with another co-worker, and he walked by, and the guy I was sitting with, started singing the "Ba doop" song, and it fit him so perfectly, I almost fell out of my chair I was laughing so hard. After that every morning when we would punch in, we would start the morning singing that song. Even got another couple of other workers to join in. Edited by Pa Stark, Oct 16 2016, 03:12 PM.
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