Well, this year marks the 10th Anniversary of the "Cartoon Capers" shows as part of the CAPA's Summer Movie Series at the Ohio Theatere.  Hard to believe that I been to most of their showings since the Movie Series first add it in 2004.  I saw it grow from one show per year to two shows per year (more or less) and also from regular film reels to, unfortunatly, digital DVD prints.  However, the shows are still crowd pleasers and today's show was no exception.  As it was recent years, it was mostly Warner owned material with one exception being a nice Universal Lantz cartoon billed on the pamplet as a special surprise cartoon.  Also, I don't think there were any repeats this time and I rather not bother looking up to make sure since the search engine on the GAC archive fourm is useless

So, here is the list for the first show:

Cartoon Capers 2014, June 21

"Haredevil Hare" (1948, Warners)-

"Puny Express" (1951, Lantz: Surprise Short)-

"Scent-imental Romeo" (1951, Warners)- 

"Love That Pup" (1949, MGM)-  :spikesmiliehere:

"Don't Give Up the Sheep" (1953, Warners)

"Canary Row" (1950, Warners)- 

"Homesteader Droopy" (1954, MGM)- 

"The Mummy Strikes" (1943, Famous Studios)- :supermansmiliehere: :loislanesmiliehere:

"Horton Hatches the Egg" (1942, Warners)

"My Little Duckaroo" (1954, Warners)-

"Tennis Chumps" (1949, MGM)-

"A Date to Skate" (1938, Fleischers)- :olivesmiliehere:

"Hook, Line, and Stinker" (1958, Warners)-

"Roman Legion-Hare" (1955, Warners)-  


Stay tuned for the content of the July 19th show, which, considering the last two years, may or may not be PD heavy.

  I just got back from this year's Cievent and thier Saturdaty Annual Animation Program.  This year's selection was very good and they included a Disney cartoon this year.  Unfortuantly, I was dissapointed that a Donald cartoon was not included as Donald's 80th birthday is coming up real soon.  I asked why, and it was because the team wasn't aware about that anniversary.  Despite that, it was good show.

 After that, I looked around the venders at the same floor and bought 5 Thuderbeans DVDs (and 1 blu-ray copy) from Steve before I lefted.
 Anyway, here this year line-up:

"Koko the Kop" (Fleischers, 1927)- Koko, Fritz

"The Skeleton Dance" (Disney, 1929)

"Reducing Creme" (Iwerks, 1934)- Willie Whopper

"The Penguin Parade" (Warners, 1938)

"The Early Bird Dood It" (MGM, 1942)

"The Million Dollar Cat" (MGM, 1944)-

"Jungle Jive" (Lantz, 1944)

"Magic Strength" (Columbia, 1944)- Willoughby Wren

"Hare Splitter" (Warners, 1948)-

"Cat-Tails For Two" (Warners, 1953)-

Hopefully, Donald will get his due next year.

After more than a year,  I have heard that "Sesame Street Old School: Volume 4" is finally coming out on DVD as promised.  This is going to be a 3-disc set again and will cover seasons 16-20 (1984-89).  This will include the season premire episodes of each season including  Season 16 (where the adults start taking sides on who believes that Snuffy really exist) which was the only season opening that was not included in Noggin's "Sesame Street Unpaved" package.  Bonus features include audio commentary for the season 17 premire where the adults finally meet Snuffy, the network preview special "This Was to Sesame Street" (have no idea if the Xerox tags and mentions will be intacted), clips from the week long storyline where the Robinsons adopt Miles and the episode of the wedding of Maria and Luis, a bonus episode which will be the season 20 final (the birth of Gabi), interviews and some behind the scences material, and of course, the bonus classic clips for each season.  Hopfully they get the music rights for the show's theme song this time.

Here's the promo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dot3xn3SFw
 

Echoing a simlar question that was asked on the GAC fourn (now missing), I need some help with a problem.  After several years of seaching I decided to finally buy the 1998 multimedia Cd-Rom on Amazon which was still shrinked wrapped.  I borrowed this at the library twice a long time ago and wanted to a copy of my own espically since this closest for me now of going to the Walt Disney Family Museum and Youtube videos arn't the same experience.   

However, while my Windows XP can run some older software, it can't run any older version of Quicktimes and for some dumb reason, the newer version of Quicktimes can't support the older features of Quicktime 2.1.3 whatever that is used on this CD-Rom!  I try running this on my laptop, but as it's an even newer version of windows (I forgot which one), I got the same results.  I tried uninstalling Quicktimes on the laptop and then try to install the required Quicktime download but it didn't work.  Any suggestion? 

Otherwise, I'm thinking of going to a second hand computer store and try to find a Windows 95 model laptop so I can run this and other Cd-Roms that don't seem to want to load on the two computers.

Yes, I decided to continue to go to the screenings.  As I mentioned last year, the cartoons for these screenings (and most of the other Summer Movie Series with exceptions such as the Silent Movie Screening) at the Ohio Theater are digital copies now and no longer film prints as it's getting rarer to find these days.   Our newpaper made note of it ahead of time (and probably last year too, but I didn't seem to notice that).  Because of this, all the cartoons for today's show are ones that Warners put out on DVD as is.  Despite that, I went and saw it anyway as it's always amazing seeing the cartoons on the silver screen as they ment to be.


Here is the list for today's show:

Cartoon Capers 2013, July 13:

"Acrobatty Bunny" (1946, Warners)

"Fast & Furry-ous" (1949, Waners) - repeat

"Garden Gopher" (1950, MGM)- edited

"Hatch Up Your Toubles" (1949, MGM)

"Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" (1953, Warners) -repeat

"The Hypo-Chondri-Cat" (1950, Warners)-repeat

"Hare Force" (1944, Warners)

"Bird Anonymous" (1957, Warners)

"The Awful Orphan" (1949, Warners) 

"The Duck Dactor" (1952, MGM) 

"The Three Little Pups" (1953, MGM)  -DVNR(!)

"The Underground World" (1943,  Famous) :supermansmiliehere: :loislanesmiliehere:

"Ghosks in the Bunk" (1939, Fleischers)  :blutosmiliehere:  :olivesmiliehere:

"Rabbit Punch" (1948, Warners)


Overall, it was good despite the short comings like the DVNR copy of "The Three Little Pups" from the Droopy set.  Stay tune for the Augest screening.

P.S.  Speaking of Droopy, in case Patrick didn't get my PM, the Youtube video links for the aformentioned shorts and most of the other Droopy shorts are already pre-blocked by Warners.  I suggest taking them down.  I think the screenshots are good enough for those pages anyway.  Thanks.

This is a very broad and somewhat hard question, but what animated film or films (U.S. only) do you think should be inducted to the Library of Congress' National Film Registy?

One that I think should be included would be "Red Hot Riding Hood" as I think that represent Tex Avery as a whole, pehaps more so than "Magical Maestro" which is on the list.

Ever since Disney bought Marvel, Disney fans were hoping Marvel will do a Disney comic line again.  It hasn't happen... until now.    Today, it's been annouced that Marvel is going do a Disney line starting in Augest.  This is going include both the classic characters and the feature film characters.  Dave Gerstein has been named head editer. 

Here's more info: 


http://www.battlegrip.com/?p=47814










P.S.  April Fools.


P.P.S.   How come Jon and Matt didn't mentioned anything about this Hot Wheel line?