This week’s film, “The Lumber Champ” starring Pooch the Pup, has a really great series of bizarre and outlandish gags. The mid-30s Lantz shorts are beautifully animated, but I really miss the zaniness of these earlier films.
One of the last things to do on the Private Snafu Blu-Ray project is to add in several new bonus features. David Gerstein has unearthed some incredibly cool finds – and here’s a sneak peek.
I promised Jerry that Thunderbean Thursday would be back with a vengeance, so here it is – with updates, a new ‘special’ set offer, and a Scrappy cartoon to boot!
Musings on mastering and some thoughts on the future of animated film restoration. And a visit with Scrappy and Bimbo.
This week, I’m taking a serious interest in all of your safety with these films that just happened to be animated. The animation this time, unlike most of what I…
For this week, I decided to turn my column over my colleague Chris Buchman – whom I wrote about here in May 2014. With Chris, Thunderbean produced and released “A…
What are your essential films that aren’t available on Blu-ray? In high school, I was a ‘film purest’. That is, I remember arguing with a friend how the merits of…
That’s right! Cool miscellaneous stuff that will likely never be on any official release from anyone. It’s a post of oddities! I always thought the coolest thing about visitiing any…
I wanted to talk a little bit about the color Whoppers and a few more of the Willies this week, plus offer the ‘Pre-order’ for the set… but first, a…
The summer here is always much anticipated; it’s a time where I’m able to catch up on so many things and commit uninterrupted time to the often interuppted or longer…
