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Tuesday, July 20, 2021
The Salvation Army Orlando helps struggling families With an Army of Vol...
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Salvation Army in Orlando Kicks off the Angel Tree Campaign to Give Good...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021
The Extraordinary Adventures of the Mouse and His Child - full movie new...
This is the first full restoration - Color and Sound - of :The Extraordinary Adventures of the Mouse and His Child", the forgotten production of Charles M Schulz which is a wonderful full length animation for kids old and young, staring the voices of Peter Ustinov, Cloris Leachman, Sally Kellerman, Andy Devine, and John Carradadine. The story centers around a wind up toy mouse attached to his son in the same toy. They have an assortment of friends they call their family in a toy store, until they accidentally fall out a window.
When the mouse and his child fall out the window they fall on a trash heap and end up at the dump. There they are enslaved by a rat who runs an illegal casino and who enslaves broken wind up toys. But since most toys end up at the dump some day, their friends from the toy shop end up in the same dump. Banding together, they over come the evil rat and his gang and form a unique family!
This is an unusual tale that has been forgotten over the years. When it was released in theaters, good old Leonard Maltin, never one to look too deeply into the goodness of a story, called it a "Bomb, and said "boring animated film with talk talk talk and no action, what adult wants to watch this.?" Well Leonard, this work of art was not made for us adults, it was made as a wonderful tale for kids and drawn well enough for parents and animation lovers to enjoy it's innocence as well!
We at Cartoon Crazys found the best copy of The Mouse and his Child to be a real mess, faded, scratched and with many video anomalies, not to mention very bad sound. We have worked very hard to make it look and sound as the original artists created it to be. Remember that when this was filmed (animation frames transferred to film master) it was done in the dreaded kodak process. So the color was gone and pink, as well as old and faded.
If and when Sanrio Films ever decides to put a good restored copy out, we will of course take this one down, and they are welcome to any elements of this restoration they would like to use in the process. But for now, we hope you enjoy this restored version of The Extraordinary Adventured of the Mouse and His Child free for your viewing pleasure. It is here on YouTube in many versions, but I think you will find this version to be the only one that is full rich color and ultra stereo clear soundtrack!
Thank you for watching our labor of love!
Thomas R Reich PhD
Cartoon Crazys Channel
Friday, December 25, 2020
Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies stood out in the classic cartoon world of the 1930's and early 1940's as the main Warner Bros competition to Fleischer Studios and Disney Studios, Where Looney Tunes only really competed with Fleischer Studios stars Popeye and Betty Boop since all Loony Tunes before 1943 were black and white. Fleischer Studios also chose to keep their most popular stars Popeye and Betty Boop in Black and White, even after Fleischer Studios went bankrupt and became Famous Studios, Popeye continued in Black and white until 1943.
One fact is that after 1943, there's no difference at all but for the different theme songs between Merrie Melodies and Loony Tunes.. The Warner Brothers cartoon studios arbitrarily designated half their films as "Looney Tunes" and the other half as "Merrie Melodies," using the titles interchangeably after 1943 when the decision was made for all WB cartoons to be in color,
This was also the beginning of absolute standardization for WB cartoons, they started to become as formula as Famous Studios cartoons, consistent stars, look, colors and predictable story lines. One big difference was the "clean" animation, achieved by using thinner line art on the characters and the more pastel like colors on most cartoons, where both Famous and Disney were much more bold and in your face with color and line art. The other difference after 1943 was the constant presents of Chuck Jones and Mel Blank, a duo that can be recognized a mile away in their collaborative art!
Before that, however, there was a slight separation. Looney Tunes tended to be based around recurring characters like Bosko, who was succeeded as their main star by a short-lived hero named Buddy, who was soon supplanted by Porky Pig. In the meantime, perhaps in emulation of Mr. Disney's "Silly Symphonies," the Merrie Melodies series featured cartoons built primarily around music. Most of them were structured around a song which served as the title of the short. (They did not precisely adhere to these distinctions. The character of Egghead, for instance, turned up in some late-30's Merrie Melodies, breaking the "no recurring character" rule.) Egghead is featured in Two for the Zoo, featured here in this collection of classic cartoons on Cartoon Crazys YouTube Channel.
Apart from that, the other main difference was that in 1934, they began to make the Merrie Melodies shorts in color, whereas the Looney Tunes series remained black-and-white until 1943. From then on, no one knew which was which…or cared. In the marketing business, especially in the entertainment business, if you have a popular name with the public, you never let it go. If you want a comparison at the grocery store, Tide and Gain are the same product, slightly different fragrances.
Thomas R Reich PhD
The Original Cartoon Crazys
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