Help with Episodes Released Separately With Animated Menus

[discomoonmusic]

Okay, I was viewing some of the very first DVD releases put out on Youtube of the boxed sets that started to feature those animated menus, and as some here know, I do have a project going on with that as seen here.

And I came across the animated menu for Manos: Hands of Fate and I couldn't believe it, it was probably done around the time of the Gamera menus.

So I looked up any other single DVD release that might have had its own menu treatment and in the section here under "Shout! Factory single episode releases" it has the Manos release and there are others. What I want to know is if there were menus made specially for these other titles:

Wild World of Batwoman

Red Zone Cuba

Beginning of the End

Manos Hands of Fate (confirmed animated menu for this title)

The others listed with it are individually either from a boxed set already having a menu animation or a release with just the generic menus.

Also I did see a snippet of MST3K The Movie / This Island Earth with an animated menu and of course it's not on my DVD copy of it.

And as always I have a notepad docu saved for the future upcoming Manos blog entry and will be adding that one when I can.

[discomoonmusic]

Is there no one who has these DVDs?

[jocksinclair]

Those three are actually relatively rare, I think because people bought the Rhino versions and didn't bother upgrading. With "Batwoman", it's not even an upgrade at all, it's the same master.

[Torgo]

I think all of the Shout website exclusive titles just had stock menues with the theater seats on the bottom with the episode title in the center. I don't own these titles, but someone posted a photo when they were released.

[jocksinclair]

If you're really interested in the menus, one of the discs has a bonus feature about them.

[discomoonmusic]

May 3, 2019 16:19:41 GMT -5 jocksinclair said:

If you're really interested in the menus, one of the discs has a bonus feature about them.

Which one was that? What disc?

Yeah I had no idea that those rare single dvd releases had any extra work put to them and figured they were simply recycled, and it could be that Manos was the only one that got the new animated menu added to it for release, but now I wonder about those few other ones.

Also apparently there is an animated menu for This Island Earth.

I would have never known unless I saw a snippet of that on youtube. It was like a collage of menus all strung together, like a few seconds worth of each one since box set 13 or so.

[jocksinclair]

I had to double check it, the "Animated Menus of MST3k" bonus feature is on "Mighty Jack", which is part of Vol XXII.

[leeharveyosmond]

Shout's edition of Manos was meant as a special release so it got the full treatment like the episodes released in box sets. Same for The Movie/This Island Earth, particularly being a Blu-ray/DVD combo. None of the other singles/re-releases have animated menus, although I'd like to point out the Mitchell/Brain That Wouldn't Die disc from the 25th Anniversary box set (or Vol. 28) which has a more limited variant compared to the others (just dialogue from the two movies though, not the 'Bots).

[Torgo]

That Mitchell/Brain menu is still neat though. It plays out like a strange conversation between Mitchell and Jan in the Pan.

[discomoonmusic]

May 4, 2019 10:10:05 GMT -5 leeharveyosmond said:

Shout's edition of Manos was meant as a special release so it got the full treatment like the episodes released in box sets. Same for The Movie/This Island Earth, particularly being a Blu-ray/DVD combo. None of the other singles/re-releases have animated menus, although I'd like to point out the Mitchell/Brain That Wouldn't Die disc from the 25th Anniversary box set (or Vol. 28) which has a more limited variant compared to the others (just dialogue from the two movies though, not the 'Bots).

That's what I figured and I hope that was the only one because there's little chance I'll find any of those readily available. But the menu and the episode both are on youtube so I can get that added to my blogger, no problem. The Mitchell/Brain menu I had finished up a while back and some lines and sounds were from the actual full-length movies themselves so I had to watch through those on youtube to get the menu ensemble finished. Thankfully they were on youtube.

I really hope one day soon someone uploads the full-length movie of Marooned (aka Space Travellers) to youtube so I can fill in the time points for the few lines used from that.

And the Movie that I have on DVD doesn't come with an animated menu so am I right in guessing that there was a newer release of the MST Movie? My copy is from some years ago.

Now I'll have to grab that one too, and is it a double disc release with the extra blu ray? I need details!

[discomoonmusic]

May 3, 2019 9:07:42 GMT -5 jocksinclair said:

Those three are actually relatively rare, I think because people bought the Rhino versions and didn't bother upgrading. With "Batwoman", it's not even an upgrade at all, it's the same master.

Do you have the Batwoman dvd release then? Let me know if it's just a generic menu. That way I can cross that one out on the list as having an animated menu.

[discomoonmusic]

May 4, 2019 9:23:20 GMT -5 jocksinclair said:

I had to double check it, the "Animated Menus of MST3k" bonus feature is on "Mighty Jack", which is part of Vol XXII.

Yeah that's probably the one that was uploaded to youtube. I'll find the link again, if I can. I'm sure I have it somewhere or can easily find it again.

[discomoonmusic]

Update!

Did find one youtube link with a little bit of the animated menu for This Island Earth, but it's unfortunately cut short.

youtu.be/6eMaJWp1o0c

Between 0.26 - 0.41 seconds. If anyone can tell me if the dvd with the menu is currently available, and what I should be looking for, let me know. My copy of This Island Earth does not have the animated menu so it must be an older copy.

Edit to Add: I just had a look at my DVD copy of MST3K This Island Earth and it appears that it's not a Shout Factory release. So I guess I will keep my eye out for the SF release as I'm sure that's where the animated menu will show up on.