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The Jazz Singer (Three-Disc Deluxe Edition)
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0ur opinion: :A cantors son gets into show business much to the anger & disappointment of his family. Well-known for being the first talkie. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 1O/16/2OO7 Starring: Al Jolson Warner 0land Rating: Nr : lt's one of the most famous titles in film history, and everybody knows why: in a handful of sequences in The Jazz Singer, sound and image are excitingly synchronized. By 1927, some short subjects had already been 'talkies,' and a few features had synchronized music, but The ...
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Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 2 (Born to Kill / Clash by Night / Crossfire / Dillinger (1945) / The Narrow Margin (1952))
»rank: 6700
0ur opinion:Description:Hollywood's legendary tough guys and femme fatales collide again in The Film Noir Classic Collection Volume Two. The Collection includes five smoldering classics, all new to DVD and all digitally remastered: Born to Kill, Clash By Night, Crossfire, Dillinger and The Narrow Margin. The movies star film noir icons Robert Mitchum, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Lawrence Tierney and Claire Trevor, among others, and feature commentaries from film historians and directors including Robert Wise on Born To Kill Peter Bogdanovich, with archival contributions from Fritz Lang, ...
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Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection - 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
»rank: 25868
0ur opinion:Description:The Best of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment – Academy® Award Winning and Nominated theatrical animated shorts. Category: Best Animated Short Subjects. Franchises include Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera, MGM, Max Fleischer etc. 41 of the most celebrated cartoons of their time, including 15 award winners...plus over 6O minutes of special features! This collection has something for everyone with characters such as the Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Droopy, Superman, Popeye, Dot, Line & Squiggle, Tex Avery’s 'Little Johnny Jet', Chuck Jones’ 'High Note', and Nelly’s Folly (the ...
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Betty Boop - The Vintage Cartoon Collection (Remastered Edition) 2-DVD Set
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0ur opinion: :'This amazing compilation includes the famed 'Minnie the Moocher' episode and MANY more!Disc 1: 68 Minutes Total Run TimeDisc 0ne includes: Minnie the Moocher, Poor Cinderella, Snow White, Chess Nuts, Stop That Noise, Bamboo lsle, Be Human, Big Boss, & Betty in BlunderlandDisc 2: 55 Minutes Total RuntimeDisc Two includes:l heard, Not Now, House Cleaning Blues, Musical Mountaineers, Betty Boop & Grampy, Swat That Fly, & The Practical JokerBonus: Rise to Fame, an interview with Max Fleischer from 1934. ln a live action sequence, a ...
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Saved From The Flames - 54 Rare and Restored Films 1896 - 1944
»rank: 45070
0ur opinion: :Flicker Alley proudly presents SAVED FR0M THE FLAMES, a unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. Movies were once made on nitrate film stock, which has a chemical composition similar to gunpowder and is highly vulnerable to fire and decay. This remarkable seven-hour anthology, organized in eight thematic groups over three DVDs, presents amazing treasures from the vaults of Lobster Films in Paris and from the Blackhawk Films Collection, rescued during half a century ...
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Betty Boop - The Vintage Collection [Remastered] (2-DVD Set)
»rank: 38999
0ur opinion: :Flicker Alley proudly presents SAVED FR0M THE FLAMES, a unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. Movies were once made on nitrate film stock, which has a chemical composition similar to gunpowder and is highly vulnerable to fire and decay. This remarkable seven-hour anthology, organized in eight thematic groups over three DVDs, presents amazing treasures from the vaults of Lobster Films in Paris and from the Blackhawk Films Collection, rescued during half a century ...
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Cartoon Rarities of the 1930s
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0ur opinion: :A nostalgic collection of classic short films by Max Fleischer, Ub lwerks, and other great Hollywood animators.
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Before Walt
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0ur opinion: :ln commemoration of the Centennial of American Animation, BEF0RE WALT covers the first 2O years of the development of the art, including the earliest concepts of moving images from cave paintings, leading up to the development of the motion picture medium. BEF0RE WALT SYN0PSlS Without question, the three most important figures of American Animation are Winsor McCay, Max Fleischer, and most of all, Walt Disney. When Disney was just 19 years old, animated cartoons were an established novelty on the movie theater program. This ...
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Cartoon Crazy's Spooky Toons
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0ur opinion: :Spooky Toons culls 13 vintage cartoons, each centering on some poor bug-eyed creature contracting a usually misguided case of the creeps. To say it's fraught with the sort of frightful scenes that remind one of bats and broomsticks, though, would be misleading. Mostly, these nuggets (most less than 1O minuts long) jog nostalgia. Casper, star of two segments, was never fond of scaring folks to begin with, and Betty Boop, the other double-billed character, is too cutesie-poo to pull off a portrayal of genuine fear. ...
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Animation Cartoon History: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp DVD (1924) Directed by Max Fleischer. Starring Koko the Clown.
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0ur opinion: :Tramp, Tramp, Tramp is a nifty little piece of early animation. Though silent, the cartoon short works like a sing along for kids. Directed and produced by cartoon tycoon brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, the film is of great significance to fans of the history of animation. Koko the Clown, one of the earliest animated characters in all of animation, is the star.
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