100 Cartoon Classics (12DVD)

Who can complain at about $0.25 per cartoon? So they aren't all 'classics', and maybe most kids of today won't like them. But if you're a bit older (39, I must confess ;), still can enjoy cartoons, and are interested in more than just the topfavorites, then you can like quite a few of these 100 cartoons.

THE COMPLETE LIST OF CARTOONS:

* Popeye

"Popeye Meets Aladdin & His Wonderful Lamp"

"Ancient Fistory"

"Taxi Turvy"

"Popeye for President"

"Assault & Flattery"

"Fright to the Finish"

"Bride & Gloom"

"Gopher Spinach"

"Customers Wanted"

"Out to Punch"

"Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves"

"Spree Lunch"

"Greek Mirthology"

"Parlez Vous Woo"

"A Haul in One"

"I Don't Scare"

"Insect to Injury"

"Cookin' with Gags"

"Suteye Popeye"

"Floor Flusher"

"Let's Sing Along with Popeye"

"All's Fair at the Fair"

* Tom & Jerry

"A Spanish Twist"

"Piano Tooners"

"The Tuba Tooter"

"Plane Dumb"

"Redskin Blues"

"Jolly Fish"

"Barnyard Bunk"

* Baby Huey

"Quack a Doodle Doo"

* Felix the Cat

"April Maze"

* Betty Boop

"My Friend the Monkey"

"On with the New"

"Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow"

"Rhythm on the Reservation"

* The Three Stooges

"Hairbrained Barbers"

"The Littlest Martian"

* Gabby

"Fire Cheese"

"Gabby Goes Fishing"

* Little Audrey

"The Lost Dream"

* Little Lulu

"Cad and Caddy"

* Bertha

"Marriage Wows"

* Uncle Tom

"Uncle Tom's Cabin"

* Scotty

"Scotty Finds a Home"

* Toby the Pup

"The Museum"

* Herman

"The Henpecked Rooster"

* The Little King

"Sultan Pepper"

* Mutt & Jeff

"Westward Whoa"

* Molly Moo Cow

"Molly Moo-Cow and the Indians"

"Molly Moo Cow & Robinson Crusoe"

* Heckle & Jeckle

"The Talking Magpies"

* Toonerville Trolley

"Trolley Ahoy"

"Toonerville Picnic"

* Various

"Ali Baba"

"The Magic Horn"

"Brave Molly"

"Hasty and the Princess"

"The Kindhearted Girl"

"The Three Sisters"

"The Proud Princess"

"The Sunshine Makers"

"Nearlyweds"

"Once Upon a Time"

"Little Brown Jug"

"Parrotville Post Office"

"Snow Man"

"Spinning Mice"

"Goofy Goat Antics"

"Parrotville Old Folks"

"Le Escargo"

"Circus Capers"

"A Mutt in a Rut"

"Red Riding Hood"

"The Story of Time"

"Nursery Scandal"

"Comin' Round the Mountain"

"Boy Meets Dog"

"Crazytown"

"The Golden State"

"Winter Draws On"

"It's a Greek Life"

"Jerky Turkey"

"Picnic Panic"

"Doggone Tired"

"Cupid Gets His Man"

"Time for Love"

"Mendelssohn's Spring Song"

"Little Stranger"

"Little Hawk"

"Hawaiian Birds"

"The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra"

"Peeping Penguins"

"A Car-Tune Portrait"

"Hoffnung Vacuum Cleaner"

"Play Safe"

"The Hoffnung Music Academy"

"Ants in the Plants"

"Professor YaYa's Memories"

I am loving the DVD scene. Production costs have obvisously gone low enough that Public Domain releases are coming into their own. And that's what this is: a collection of old cartoons that are in the Public Domain. Which means pretty much stuff you haven't seen before.

This is not a set for children. Society has changed so much that we are just Not Allowed to think some of the thoughts that went into the jokes in these cartoons. Which means there is a subversive quality to this collection, which means it needs to exist.

Some of these cartoons are simply bad. Some are very interesting. There are 4 Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra cartoons from the Halasz-Batchelor studio in England, designed for a very specialized audience but which I'm glad to have seen.

I'm amused that someone said that the Tom and Jerry cartoons are the only "real" cartoons in this box, since these Tom and Jerrys have nothing at all to do with the cat and mouse. They are amusing, though.

The fun in this set is discovering something that I've never seen before (which means it will be a while before I get around to the Popeyes and other "famous" cartoons). Like I said, some of these are simply bad, but a lot are simply amazing in a "what kind of drugs were they on in the 1930s" way. There's no way I would watch more than one disc at a sitting, and there's no way I would inflict these on a child. But I'm having fun with this set.

Being a Public Domain release, basically it's put together from whatever old films they could find. Don't expect digital restoration. But the transfers are for the most part clean and clear, lightyears ahead of what we were getting on PD VHS tapes.

Large box with 12 double sided DVD's each in it's own cardboard sleeve.

As stated before the Tom & Jerry cartoons are not the cat and mouse but 2 men instead. The New Three Sttoges are cartoons only with no live action in them.

Adult cartton buffs (such as myself) will like this set but todays children may not as many of these cartoons were made for an adult audience. Better to get todays kids cartoon sets made by Warner Brothers with characters such as Bugs Bynny, Daffy Duck & Tweety...

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