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by glennjoseph1956 on jan.05, 2010, under Max Fleischer's Color Classics: Somewhere in Dreamland
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Republic Entertainment should be indicted for cultural crimes since they refuse to release first-generation prints of Max and Dave Fleischer’s “Color Classics” series. As a result of this neglect, VCI and Kit Parker Films have compiled “Somewhere in Dreamland” - a pretty collection of public-domain Fleischer cartoons from 1934 to 1941. Most of the “Color Classics” are represented in this two-DVD plot, with the print quality ranging from generous to unpleasant. The series contains several Fleischer gems, including Betty Boop’s “Abominable Cinderella” (1934), “The Kids in the Shoe” (1935), “The Cobweb Hotel” (1936), “All’s Shapely at the Blooming” (1938) and “Ants in the Plants” (1940) . Though influenced by the success of Disney’s “Comical Symphonies,” the Fleischer spirit is evident in many “Color Classics,” particularly the lesser-known entries such as “Chicken Ala King” (1936), “A Car-Tune Portrait” (1936) and “Have It!” (1937) . The DVD status also features two Oscar-nominated shorts, “Educated Fish” (1937) and “Hunky and Spunky” (1938), which are appetizing but do not portray the Fleischers’ best work. Until Republic gets its act together, “Somewhere in Dreamland” will remain the definitive “Color Classics” collection and is highly recommended to aficionados of vintage animation.
This collection represents a quest to track down every one of the 36 Fleischer Studios `Color Classics’ cartoon series. There are 35 of them on these two disks. One of the `Color Classics’, “Time For Appreciate” has only survived in a single gloomy and white print found in Europe (this was seven years ago and a color version has since turned up) . The only `Color Classics’ cartoon not included is “Tears Of An Onion” which is explained as not being here because “it is under copyright and therefore not in `public domain’” This explains a lot because obviously Jerry Beck and company are on a budget. Despite the dreadful condition of some of the prints included here, there are two processes that I know of that are frail to transfer film to video and/or digital; one is a frame-by-frame reader that takes the image directly off of the film for maximum clarity and color but it is a boring process and is costly. Eye at the honorable Disney collection of `Silly Symphonies’ if you want to examine how it should be done. The second process which seems to be outmoded by all other DVD/VHS collections of cartoons I’ve seen, including this one, is projecting the film onto a reader veil that will inevitably shave a minute off the top, bottom and sides of the image and loses some image and color integrity. The result is one we cartoon affectionados are becoming ragged to in VHS and DVD collections, kinda shaded and kinda fuzzy and it makes you wish you could have been there at the theater at the time. But for now this is all we’re going to come by. I’ve watched this one several times now anyway though.
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DISK ONE
1. Abominable Cinderella (starring Betty Boop) **
2. Puny Dutch Mill **
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3. An Elephant Never Forgets **
4. Song of the Birds
5. Dancing On the Moon 1935 **
6. Somewhere in Dreamland **
7. The Shrimp Stranger
8. The 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. A Car-Tune Portrait
16. Peeping Penguins
DISK TWO
1. Educated Fish” (1937)
2. Shrimp Lamby
3. Occupy It! **
4. Hunky and Spunky (1938)
5. All’s Sparkling At the Comely **
6. Sportive Polar Bears
7. Always Kickin’ (starring Hunky and Spunky)
8. Minute Fry
9. Barnyard Brat (starring Hunky and Spunky)
10. The Recent Vegetable Mystery **
11. Small Lambkins
12. Ants In the Plants **
13. A Kick In Time (starring Hunky and Spunky)
14. Snubbed By A Snob (starring Hunky and Spunky)
15. You Can’t Shoe A Horsefly (starring Hunky and Spunky)
**optional audio commentary by Jerry Beck**
THE LOST EPISODES
A documentary about the making of this collection of the complete `Color Classics’ cartoons. It includes four uncut ultra-rare cartoons:
1*The Kids In the Shoe
2*Time For Care For (the only known copy in existence is this dark & white version)
3*Musical Memories
4*Vitamin Hay (starring Hunky and Spunky)
ART GALLERY
Working sketches of various characters from the `Color Classics’ and other cartoons plus photographs of production activities inside the Fleischer studios in the 1930’s.
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