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Thunderbean is proud to present this revised Blu-ray edition of rare, 'modern design' cartoons from the 40's, 50's and early 60's. These theatrical shorts, commercials, industrial films and drive-in commercials were produced by studios stepping away from the established cartoon design styles that had become standards in the industry, instead finding inspiration in modern graphic design and the work of contemporary fine artists. These new ideas in animation design became staples of the Television age, largely because of the influences and pioneering work of United Productions of America (UPA) as well as the many newly established commercial studios. This collection is mastered from original 16mm and 35mm prints. Quality is stunning.
Films in this collection include:
Theatrical and entertaining Industrials:
Big Tim- Beautifully animated UPA short from 1948
Destination Earth-Oil is king in this astonishingly designed industrial short from 1956
The Magic Fluke-Great Fox and Crow short from UPA
It's Only the Beginning- rare Technicolor John Sutherland pro-business propaganda film
The Sailor and the Seagull (1949) rare UPA cartoon for the Navy
Swab Your Choppers (1948) UPA for the US Navy
Planet Patrol- Rare and cool late 50's pilot for a TV series
Cool Drive in Stuff!
Drive in countdown and snack bar ads from the golden age of drive-in movies.
Super Stylish Commericals
A truely great collectionof 'spots' including rare commercials for Nash, Playhouse Pictures, a Shamus Culhane Productions showreel, Rare TV weatherman spots from Soundac Studios, Tex Avery Kool-Aid Commercials and much more!
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Thunderbean is proud to present this second collection of rare, 'modern design' cartoons from the 40's, 50's and early 60's. This volume features rare commercials and industrial films produced by studios stepping away from the established cartoon design styles that had become standards in the industry, instead finding inspiration in modern graphic design and the work of contemporary fine artists. These new ideas in animation design became staples of the Television age, largely because of the influences and pioneering work of United Productions of America (UPA) as well as the many newly established commercial studios. Many of the shorts in this collection run 15 to 20 minutes. This new collection is mastered from original 16mm and 35mm prints
Films in this collection include:
Educational and Industrial films:
The Brotherhood of Man (1946) Classic short from UPA
Man Alive (1953) Entertaining education short from UPA about cancer awareness
The Rhapsody of Steel (1959) Big budget theatrical short for US Steel
Man on the Land (1956) Oil Industry PR film from UPA
Look Who's Driving (1953) beautifully designed driver's safety film
A is for Atom (1957) John Sutherland short produced by General Electric
Tune In Tomorrow (1954) UPA promotional film for CBS Radio
It's Everybody's Business (1956)
Commercials
A Smattering of Spots (50s) a great reel of commercials produced by Storyboard, inc.
UPA New York Commercials (50s) A reel of rare spots produced on the East Coast
Thunderbean is proud to present “Fleischer Rarties” an entertaining collection of animated shorts and materials from The Fleischer Studios. Max and Dave Fleischer, along with a talented studio of artists and family , created some of the most entertaining cartoons made during the ‘Golden Age’ of American animated films. This Blu-ray is a great look into the studio, featuring both favorit and rare cartoons many from only-known existing 35mm and 16mm prints. An extensive collection of bonus materials rounds out the set, featuring trailers, music, original production art and much more!
All Aboard for a Trip to the Moon (1920)
Inklings #12
Snipshots (British release of an 'Inklings' short)
Christmas Seals Advertisement (1925)
Koko Salutes (1925)
My Old Kentucky Home (1925)
It's the Cat's (1926; Weiss reissue version)
Finding His Voice (1929 for Western Electric)
Hurry Doctor (1931 for Texaco)
Let's Sing with Popeye (1933)
Betty In Blunderland (1933)
This Little Piggy Went to Market (1934)
Dancing On the Moon (1935)
Musical Mountaineers (1939)
The Vacationer's Paradise (1942)
News Sketches (1944)
Bonus materials include:
Liner Notes
Rare Songs and music
Production Artwork Gallery
Posters Gallery
Paramount Sales News Galleries
Ads and Publications Gallery
Fleischer’s Animated News
Live Action Appearances
and more!
Contained in this collection are the following spooky early animated antics, presented in brand-new 2K restorations from rare 16mm and 35mm prints:
The Haunted Hotel (J. Stuart Blackton, 1907)
The Pumpkin Race (Roméo Bosetti, 1907)
Out of the Inkwell: The Ouija Board* (Max Fleischer, 1920)
Dinky Doodle in Just Spooks* (Walter Lantz, 1925)
Out of the Inkwell: Ko-Ko Sees Spooks (Max Fleischer, 1925)
Alice's Mysterious Mystery (Walt Disney, 1926)
Mutt & Jeff in Slick Sleuths (Associated Animators, 1926)
Pete's Haunted House (Walter Lantz, 1926)
Felix in Sure-Locked Homes (Otto Messmer, 1928)
The Fresh Lobster (ca1920s) with Billy Bletcher
Snap the Gingerbread Man in The Witch's Cat (1929)
The Haunted Ship (Van Beuren, 1930)
Felix in Skulls and Sculls (Otto Messmer, 1930)
Tom & Jerry in Wot a Night (Van Beuren, 1931)
Felix in Bold King Cole (Van Beuren, 1936)
After years in progress, Thunderbean is proud to present a great collection of rare Abbott and Costello appearances on film, TV and radio. This Blu-ray/ DVD combo features things that most all of the die hard Abbott and Costello fans haven't seen- a must have for fans of these comedy legends.
Included on this set:
Classic trailers
15 trailers from classic films
Abbott and Costello audio,
including rare shows, an audience warm-up and more
The long missing 'Colgate Comedy Hour'
featuring Bud Abbott with guests Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, from a week where Lou was under the weather
An incredible 35 minute collection of Kodachrome Home Movie footage
from the 1943 war bond tour across the US.
Outtakes
from various features
Clips from newsreels
And much more!
A few of the many film trailers included in the 'Abbott and Costello Rarities' Blu-ray:
Yuletide Flickers is a great Blu-Ray/ DVD Combo collection of rare Vintage Christmas / Holiday shorts, both live action and cartoons. Many of these rare shorts were perenial holiday favorites, distributed for him movie use in 16mm and 8mm prints, sold and rented from camera shops. Some were also favorite annual showings on television. Here are nearly three hours of these rare favorites and forgotten classics, many available for the first time on any home video format, in all new digital transfers, digitally restored by Thunderbean from the best rare 35mm and 16mm original film prints available. The set includes a Blu-ray and DVD version of the program. This collection has six sections.
Titles included:
Festive Novelties from the 20s: ‘Five Orphans of the Storm’ Aesop’s Fables (1924) ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’ (1922) ‘T’was the Night Before Christmas’ (1925) ‘The Toy Shop’ (1928) in Technicolor Castle Films Classics: Christmas Time in Toyland Merry Christmas A Christmas Dream The Night Before Christmas The First Christmas Claus Toons: Jingle Bells (1926) Season’s Greetings (1946) Santa’s Surprize (1948) Christmas Daze (1958) Hector’s Hectic Life (1948) Toys will be Toys (1949) Holiday Trailers Merry Jingles: Frosty The Snowman (1951) Hardrock, Coco and Joe (1951) Suzie Snowflake (1951) Choir Sing Alongs: Christmas Carols A Collection of Carols Finale: The Shanty Where Santa Claus Lives (1933) The Snowman (1931) Christmas Night (1934)
Cartoon Roots: The Bray Studios--Animation Pioneers (Blu-ray/DVD combo) is now available from Cartoons On Film!
Featuring brand new HD transfers & restorations of films from the Stathes Collection and the Bray Animation Project; also included are extras galleries, mini-documentaries, never-before-released footage and audio of J.R. Bray, and an informative booklet--all in the same package.
Films include:
THE ARTIST'S DREAM (J.R. Bray, 1913)*
COL. HEEZA LIAR'S AFRICAN HUNT (J.R. Bray, 1914)
DIPLODOCUS (J.R. Bray, 1915)**
FARMER ALFALFA SEES NEW YORK (Paul Terry, 1916)
THE POLICE DOG ON THE WIRE (Carl Anderson, 1916)**
BOBBY BUMPS' PUP GETS THE FLEA-ENZA (Earl Hurd, 1919)
Krazy Kat: THE BEST MOUSE LOSES (Vernon Stallings, 1920)*
Jerry on the Job: TALE OF A WAG (1920)*
Judge Rummy: A FITTING GIFT (1920)*
Dinky Doodle: THE PIED PIPER (Walter Lantz, 1924)
Pete the Pup: THE LUNCH HOUND (Walter Lantz, 1927)**
Koko the Clown: TANTALIZING FLY (Max Fleischer, 1919)**
HOW ANIMATED CARTOONS ARE MADE (Wallace Carlson, 1919)*
CHEMICAL INSPIRATION (1920)**
THE POINT OF VIEW (ca. 1921)**
*new musical score by Robert Israel
**new piano score by Charlie Judkins
Thunderbean presents 'Van Beuren Classics' a Blu-ray/ DVD combo collection of 17 cartoons produced by the Van Beuren cartoon studio from 1926 through 1936, all in new HD transfers, digitally cleaned up and restored from original 35mm and 16mm materials. Highlights include 'The Sunshine Makers' and 'Pastrytown Wedding', from The Library of Congress' excellent 35mm Cinecolor prints, Cubby Bear in 'Barking Dogs', The Little King in 'Sultan Pepper' Tom and Jerry in 'Wot a Night' and many more. The quality is stunning on most of these shorts, all available for the first time in HD.
Cartoons on this collection:
Hunting in 1950 (1926)
The Land O' Cotton (1929)
The Fly's Bride (1929)
Custard Pies (1929)
The Office Boy (1930)
Wot A Night (1931)
Makin' 'Em Move (1932)
The Wild Goose Chase (1932)
Barking Dogs (1933)
Silvery Moon (1933)
The Bully's End (1933)
Sultan Pepper (1934)
A Little Bird Told Me (1934)
Pastry Town Wedding (1934)
A Picnic Panic (1935)
The Sunshine Makers (1935)
Neptune Nonsense (1936)
Out of history's mists and the Tom Stathes Collection come cartoon pioneers' earliest hits—the "roots" of animation's Golden Age! Dive into rare works by Max Fleischer, Earl Hurd, Paul Terry, and Walter Lantz; sample the best of Col. Heeza Liar, Krazy, Koko and more. You'll even meet Bob McKimson's long-lost Binko the Cub—making his home theatre debut!
Cartoons include:
LIGHTNING SKETCHES (Blackton, 1907)
CARTOONS ON TOUR (Barré, 1915)
COL. HEEZA LIAR, DETECTIVE (Bray, 1923)
BOBBY BUMPS STARTS TO SCHOOL (Earl Hurd, 1917)
Out of the Inkwell: THE CIRCUS (Fleischer, 1920)
THE JOLLY ROUNDERS (Terry, 1923)
Mutt and Jeff: FIREMAN SAVE MY CHILD (Dick Huemer, 1919)
Jerry On the Job: THE BOMB IDEA (Bray, 1920)
FELIX COMES BACK (Otto Messmer, 1922)
Farmer Al Falfa: SPRINGTIME (Terry, 1923)
Krazy Kat: SCENTS AND NONSENSE (Bill Nolan, 1926)
Dinky Doodle: LOST AND FOUND (Lantz, 1926)
Binko the Cub: HOT-TOE MOLLIE (Romer Grey, 1930)
Toby the Pup: THE MILKMAN (Huemer, 1930)
FARMERETTE (Van Beuren, 1932)
Extras! Info booklet, archival galleries, and music by noted composers Robert Israel and Ben Model!
Thunderbean presents Technicolor Dreams and Black and White Nightmares' a Blu-ray/DVD combo set featuring a great collection of rare cartoons from the Golden Era of animated shorts.
These films have been digitally restored from rare 35mm and 16mm prints. Highlights of this collection include the rare Ted Eshbaugh shorts 'The Snowman' 'Tea Pot Town' and Wizard of Oz', all transferred and restored from beautiful 35mm materials in glorious 2-strip Cinecolor and 3-strip Technicolor. This Blu-ray/DVD combo also includes five bonus shorts on the DVD, plus still galleries and other special features.
Shorts included:
Dolly Doings-A Motoy cartoons 1917
The Wrong Track- Jerry on the Job
Alice Rattled by Rats!- Disney
Playing with Fire- Mutt and Jeff
Goldilocks and the Three Bears- produced for Kodak's Cinegraph series
Mendelssohn's Spring Song- Cy Young
The Bandmaster- Oswald
The Snowman- Ted Eshabaugh
A Swiss Trick- Tom and Jerry
The Wizard of Oz- Ted Eshbaugh
Tea Pot Town- Ted Eshbaugh
The Magic Mummy- Tom and Jerry
To Spring- MGM Harman/Ising
The Enchanted Square- Famous Studios
From the early 1920s through the early 1940s, the Fleischer Studio created some of the greatest and most popular cartoons ever made - including the Popeye, Betty Boop, Out of the Inkwell, and Superman series!
Featured in this Blu-ray/DVD combo is Gulliver's Travels (1939), the second American feature-length animated film! Fleischer's epic tale of Gulliver in Lilliput is presented in a carefully-restored hi-definition master from rare 35mm Technicolor elements; preserving the film's original beauty, and looking better than it has in decades!
Also included are eight classic Fleischer shorts - in new digital transfers from high-quality 16mm and 35mm materials! Titles include:
Modeling (1921)
In My Merry Oldsmobile (1932)
Is My Palm Red (1933)
Little Dutch Mill (1934)
The Paneless Window Washer (1937)
Ding Dong Doggie (1937)
Two For The Zoo (1941)
Swing Cleaning (1941)
Bonus features include galleries of rare Fleischer merchandise, classic Gulliver radio programming, liner notes by longtime animation historians, and more!
Blog posts by Steve Stanchfield about the release and restoration:
Great news, and just pre-ordered it! GULLIVER'S TRAVELS was the first feature-length film I bought when I started collecting 16mm back in college, and was a nice reduction print from Thunderbird, but this Blu-ray promises to surpass it greatly in quality (not to mention including all the rare bonus shorts) at a tiny fraction of what I paid for the used 16mm print decades ago!
Can't wait! I own all the Thunderbean DVDs and I'm really pleased we are now getting Blu-Rays as well.
Another Blu-Ray that will eventually be released by Thunderbean is one called 'Technicolor Dreams and B/W Nightmares'. It will feature 20 rare cartoons from the 1920-1950s.
In addition to this blu-ray, how's about adding the ThunderBean dvds to the blu-ray.com database?
("Private Snafu : Golden Classics", "Cartoon Commercials!, Vol. 1" & "Mid-Century Modern Animation, Vol. 1", etc).
In addition to this blu-ray, how's about adding the ThunderBean dvds to the blu-ray.com database?
("Private Snafu : Golden Classics", "Cartoon Commercials!, Vol. 1" & "Mid-Century Modern Animation, Vol. 1", etc).
Question someone asked in the comments at the Cartoon Research post;
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Q: Definitely ordering this no matter what, but it would be nice to know what other cartoons are included. I don’t see them here or on the Amazon page – ? Or is that still being decided?
STANCHFIELD: I kind of like a surprise Some are already decided, but so far for sure are: Modeling (35mm Nitrate transfer), Ding Dong Doggie (Pudgy), one of the Gabby shorts, In My Merry Oldsmobile (35mm Nitrate), and a color classic (35mm).
I hope they eventually release the Superman series they did as well. Those are incredible pieces of animation that had a DVD release years ago, but wasn't a really great transfer.
Another Blu-Ray that will eventually be released by Thunderbean is one called 'Technicolor Dreams and B/W Nightmares'. It will feature 20 rare cartoons from the 1920-1950s.
Question someone asked in the comments at the Cartoon Research post;
It looks like a Popeye will be in the offering, too, based on the cover art.
Even though Warner restored the B/W Popeyes in HD years ago (for the DVD releases), they haven't been eager to release them on Blu-Ray.
I'm calling it now; this will be the most dramatic improvement in a Blu-Ray double dip ever for a feature film (even if both releases aren't by the same company). The previous Blu-Ray can't help but look even worse in comparison.
08-22-2013, 07:50 PM
Thunderbean Classic Animation Blu-rays
Looking forward to revisiting old times!
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