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| thadk | Aug 13 2007, 04:04 PM Post #16 |
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I'm not entirely sure. Guess they don't see market potential in them. I saw Bob Jaques at the Comic-Con, and he told me when he was working on the [horrible] new cartoons, he proposed a laserdisc compilation of the Lantz cartoons, to get people reacquainted with those characters. Universal gave him a flat-out no, that they wanted nothing to do with the old cartoons. They also shot down his proposal of doing new Andy Panda shorts. |
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| The Batman | Aug 13 2007, 05:29 PM Post #17 |
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LG, I can appreciate you supporting this, but that doesn't mean we all have to. There are so many things out there that I DO want that it would make absolutely no sense for me to divert my limited funds from those purchases in favor of supporting a release that I already know I won't enjoy and probably wouldn't watch all the way through even once. Hey, for those who enjoy Woody and his gang, I am thrilled it was released. I know the feeling of finally getting a legitimate, uncut DVD release of a favorite that I never thought would see the light, when Sony released the first Batman serial a year or so ago. I just can't afford to support every niche release that comes down the pike. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 16 2007, 08:03 PM Post #18 |
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Continuing on with the set, tonight I watched two more Woody cartoons, the okay The Loan Stranger and the awful The Screwball. Much more interesting were the 1930 Oswald cartoon Spooks (not a good cartoon, but inasmuch as it's a parody of Phantom of the Opera, it held my interest; the unmasking scene is a direct steal from the Chaney version) and the Cartoon Classics Hollywood Bowl, a 1938 cartoon that seems to have directly inspired Fantasia! Plus there's a lot of Hollywood characters in cartoon form in it, including W.C. Fields, Charlie McCarthy, and Groucho Marx. Good stuff. |
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