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Max Fleischer's Color Classics: Somewhere in Dreamland
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Product Description
This comprehensive collection of Max Fleischer cartoon masterpieces presents over 30 rarely seen Technicolor animated shorts, produced during the golden age of animation. Fleischer created the "Color Classics," a twisted collection of musical cartoons, to showcase his patented "Stereo-optical Process" that created the illusion of depth by animating his characters over three-dimensional, live action backgrounds. In this special digital picture and sound restoration, you'll discover a menagerie of wonderfully bizarre new characters and a massive dose of the Fleischers' surreal humor. Highlights include "Greedy Humpty Dumpty," "The Cobweb Hotel," "Ants in the Plants," and "The Fresh Vegetable Mystery." Featured are two Academy Award Cartoon Short Subject nominees - "Educated Fish" (1937) and "Hunky and Spunky" (1938) - as well as famed Fleischer femme fatale Betty Boop ("Poor Cinderella") and Grampy ("Christmas Comes But Once a Year"), and a potpourri of great song cartoons such as "Dancing on the Moon," "Hold It," "An Elephant Never Forgets," and "Small Fry." This collection is a dream come true for cartoon aficionados and Fleischer fanatics, young and old alike! Animated characters: BETTY BOOP, GRAMPY, HUMPTY DUMPTY, HUNKY and SPUNKY and more!
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.48 x 5.31 x 0.55 inches; 6.4 ounces
- Item model number : 089859052422
- Director : Max Fleischer, Dave Fleischer
- Media Format : Color, Multiple Formats, Animated, NTSC
- Run time : 4 hours and 30 minutes
- Release date : July 30, 2002
- Actors : Animated
- Producers : Max Fleischer
- Studio : VCI Entertainment
- ASIN : B0000687E3
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #55,902 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #37,414 in DVD
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The Fleischer studios Color Classics are excellent short animated films. The simple stories are memorable and the animation is unique. The characters are made to be rather cute and the rotoscope backgrounds are an unusual touch. These films do not get the credit they deserve, but here they are to be rediscovered.
Somewhere in Dreamland is an obvious standout. Two desperately poor children walk home to find a meager dinner of bread and coffee. They go to bed and dream of a world of undulating sweets and happiness. When they wake, they find that the neighborhood has gathered a collection of goodies for them to enjoy.
Play Safe is a sweet little story about a curious little boy and the dog that protects him. When the boy wanders away from the yard, it is up to the dog to save him.
Christmas Comes But Once a Year features a group of orphans in the poorhouse who have very little for Christmas. A local man dresses us as Santa Claus and makes all sorts of creative toys from odds and ends for the children.
In Little Lamby, a wolf comes to town and sets his sights on a tasty young lamb. He lures it to him by holding a "cutest baby" contest among all of the animals. Little do they know that the winner will become his dinner.
The Fresh Vegetable Mystery is very well done; the baby carrots turn up missing and some mischievious creatures do all they can to prevent them from being found.
Several rare cartoons are found in the Lost Episodes feature, a short documentary about the Fleischer cartoons and the making of this DVD set. The Kids in the Shoe is included here, a great short about the woman who lived in the shoe. She puts the children to bed and goes off to take her nap, and the kids wake up to play some great jazz.
Overall, this is a great set. The picture quality isn't always amazing, but all of the cartoons are watchable and appropriate for all ages.
Oddly you can only find the track listing by playing it, so here's what the 2 DVDs contain...
1 Poor Cinderella
2 Little Dutch Mill
3 An Elephant Never Forgets
4 Song Of The Birds
5 Dancing On The Moon
6 Somewhere In Dreamland
7 Little Stranger
8 Cobweb Hotel
9 Greedy Humpty Dumpty
10 Hawaiian Birds
11 Play Safe
12 Christmas Comes But Once A Year
13 Bunny Mooning
14 Chicken A La King
15 Car Tune Portrait
16 Peeping Penguins
17 True Love
18 Musical Memories
1 Educated Fish
2 Little Lamby
3 Hold It
4 Hunky and Spunky
5 All's Fair At The Fair
6 Playful Polar Bears
7 Always Kickin'
8 Small Fry
9 Barnyard Brat
10 Fresh Vegetable Mystery
11 Little Lambkins
12 Ants In The Plants
13 Kick In Time
14 Snubbed By A Snob
15 You Can't Shoe A Horsefly
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My boyfriend was so surprised that I had manage to find a film collection with the short 'Somewhere in Dreamland', as it is a shared favourite of ours.
Thanks!
Old school cartoons always make me happy and bring back alot of memories :)