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Post by angilasman on Sept 22, 2010 21:47:08 GMT -5
After a twinge of nostalgia this summer I got the first Looney Tunes Golden Collection and was rewarded with that great feeling you get when you revisit something you loved as a child and realize it's even better than you remember. Inspired by this I quickly bought and burned through the second collection, which was just as good.
Right now I'm loving The Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Award Animation Collection, a real neat set that includes Oscar winning and nominated shorts from WB, MGM, and the Fleischer Studios. Besides a bunch of other neat features (a dozen Tom and Jerry shorts, a Bugs Bunny toon not included in the Golden Collections) it contains two of my favorite cartoons: "Peace on Earth" and "The Dot and the Line," which are a joy to watch.
I've also bought (but haven't watched) the first season of Rocky and Bullwinkle, and watched a bunch of Popeye shorts on Youtube - so I've sort of immersed myself. I've been meaning to buy these DVDs and such for ages, and I suppose when it rains it pours.
Anyone else love classic toons? Favorite characters?
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Post by CBG on Sept 23, 2010 9:48:30 GMT -5
I grew up with them, and I've been hesitant to buy any new DVD release because of the uncertainty of censorship. Are these the original cuts of the cartoons, or the politically-correct-edited versions that started springing-up in the eighties? If they're watered down, they're worthless.
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Post by angilasman on Sept 23, 2010 10:22:28 GMT -5
I grew up with them, and I've been hesitant to buy any new DVD release because of the uncertainty of censorship. Are these the original cuts of the cartoons, or the politically-correct-edited versions that started springing-up in the eighties? If they're watered down, they're worthless. What, no- all of the Popeye sets and Looney Tunes Golden Collections are the original, unedited versions. I think that some of the Tom and Jerry sets accidentally got dubbed versions of some of their toons where Mammy Two-Shoes is voiced by an black actress doing a less "sterotypical-mammy" voice. This was probably a mistake, since they're right along with cartoons with the original voice.
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Post by PimPamPet on Sept 23, 2010 11:16:18 GMT -5
Yeah, I bought the first two Looney Tunes collections about a year ago and I've been loving them to death. I definitely intend to buy more volumes.
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Post by CBG on Sept 23, 2010 12:27:36 GMT -5
Well, I'm workin' at WB right now...I think I'll go check their prices...
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Post by Mod City on Sept 23, 2010 13:47:30 GMT -5
I picked up a couple of volumes of the Looney Tunes collections for a gift for a friend, and one of the first ones to come up was the one where Bugs keeps tricking Fudd into blasting Daffy's beak off.
I don't think those collections are edited. I don't think that cartoon would have made it on air in any form in today's world.
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Post by angilasman on Sept 23, 2010 15:37:00 GMT -5
By the way - the LT discs released a month ago (The Golden Collections ended in '08 with vol. 6), a Bugs disc and a Daffy disc, met with much controversay with fans. The post-'53 cartoons were matted, with the tops and bottom of the picture chopped off to make it widescreen for HD televisions. That's how they were probably shown in theaters back then: '53 was the year that the WB animaters stared making sure all importrant information wasn't in the top or bottom of the screen becuase theaters were transitioning to widescreen. Apparantly this was applied to these shorts again (after decades of appearing in fullscreen on TV) to appeal to the new TV shape using the theater thing as a precident. Fans were oh-so angry about it becuase the cartoons in the Golden Collections were in no way edited or changed. But even these matted cartoons were restored and unedited for content.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Sept 29, 2010 7:34:27 GMT -5
This was one of my favorites growing up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=akAEIW3rmvQAnd I love the Disney animated "documentaries" from the 50's and 60's, especially the Tomorrowland ones.
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Post by angilasman on Sept 29, 2010 7:47:58 GMT -5
Oh, that's one of the best. It's on disc 4 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection vol. 2 (which was really cool, since it was all music themed or Hollywood parody cartoons, including What's Opera Doc and The Three Little Bops).
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Post by CBG on Sept 29, 2010 8:44:50 GMT -5
This was one of my favorites growing up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=akAEIW3rmvQAnd I love the Disney animated "documentaries" from the 50's and 60's, especially the Tomorrowland ones. It never ceases to amaze me, mumms, how much we have in common. "Jack Bunny" "I luv ta wake'a witha southa in my moutha." I also love the Looney Toons "documentaries" as well.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Sept 29, 2010 10:21:54 GMT -5
This was one of my favorites growing up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=akAEIW3rmvQAnd I love the Disney animated "documentaries" from the 50's and 60's, especially the Tomorrowland ones. It never ceases to amaze me, mumms, how much we have in common. "Jack Bunny" "I luv ta wake'a witha southa in my moutha." I also love the Looney Toons "documentaries" as well. Hey, we both showed up here, didn't we?
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Post by CBG on Sept 29, 2010 14:28:56 GMT -5
Ooh, good point.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 29, 2010 14:38:16 GMT -5
I love the old Warner Bros. cartoons, and Tom & Jerry. Who doesn't?
But my favorite series growing up was always Woody Woodpecker. I've never seen those classics get the same treatment. I remember the syndication version I watched as a kid in Chicago also included great Chilly Willy and Droopy shorts. They also had some great spoofs of the "World of Tomorrow" type shorts we know and love from MST.
My favorite Woody moment was the short where the psychiatrist sent the guy having a nervous breakdown to a resort, only to be harassed by the noise coming from the neighbors in the next room, who turned out to be....the psychiatrist and his nurse.
Oh yeah, and this one:
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 29, 2010 14:49:09 GMT -5
After a bit more searching, I need to fix my earlier post. The "Car of Tomorrow" and Droopy shorts were MGM, so they must have been on the Tom & Jerry telecasts, and not Woody Woodpecker.
Still, Woody was the best. But this one was great, too:
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Sept 29, 2010 17:21:20 GMT -5
I love the old Warner Bros. cartoons, and Tom & Jerry. Who doesn't? But my favorite series growing up was always Woody Woodpecker. You know how much I respect and admire you Mr, A, but oh my, how different we are. I love Warner Bros. cartoons, Tom & Jerry, not so much. And Woody Woodpecker? What an annoying little twirp. I don't hunt but he makes me want to shoot birds. But still I respect and admire you.
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