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Cartoons On Film™ is the distribution label featuring exclusive releases from the Stathes early animation archives. Cartoons on "Film" reminds us that these early cartoons were originally produced and are still discovered and preserved on physical film formats. COF's mission is to reintroduce these historic films to worldwide audiences.
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Cartoon Roots: Halloween Haunts (2017)
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Nothing says All Hallows' Eve like early animated films, with their bumptious bent for ghosts and goblins! Now the Stathes Collection brings you a ghoulish gaggle of shorts featuring Max Fleischer, Otto Messmer, Koko the Clown, Mutt and Jeff, and more—in scary soirees with the supernatural! Come for the classics; stay for THE HAUNTED HOTEL (1907), one of the first-ever animated frights!
Films include: THE HAUNTED HOTEL (J. Stuart Blackton, 1907) THE PUMPKIN RACE (Roméo Bosetti, 1907) Out of the Inkwell: OUIJA BOARD (Max Fleischer, 1920) Dinky Doodle: JUST SPOOKS (Walter Lantz, 1925) Out of the Inkwell: KO-KO SEES SPOOKS (Fleischer, 1925) ALICE'S MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY (Disney, 1926) Mutt & Jeff: SLICK SLEUTHS (Dick Huemer, 1926) PETE'S HAUNTED HOUSE (Lantz, 1926) Felix the Cat: SURE-LOCKED HOMES (Otto Messmer, 1928) THE FRESH LOBSTER (ca. 1920s) with Billy Bletcher Snap the Gingerbread Man: THE WITCH'S CAT (Kinex Studios, 1929) Waffles & Don: THE HAUNTED SHIP (Van Beuren, 1930) Felix the Cat: SKULLS AND SCULLS (Messmer, 1930) Tom & Jerry: WOT A NIGHT (Van Beuren, 1931) Felix the Cat: BOLD KING COLE (Van Beuren, 1936) Extras! Booklet, archival galleries, and new music by Robert Israel and Charlie Judkins Featuring Films from the Stathes Collection Co-Produced by Thunderbean Animation order on amazon |
CARTOON ROOTS: THE BRAY STUDIOS—ANIMATION PIONEERS (2015)
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Disney may have "started with a Mouse"--but the first great cartoon studio started with a dachshund! Max Fleischer, Walter Lantz, and Paul Terry all launched their careers at the silent animation house of John Randolph Bray--and now you can meet the animated heroes who were born at Bray's barn: Koko the Clown, Col. Heeza Liar, Krazy Kat, and the sausage-gobbling sausage-dog of J. R.'s famous first film, THE ARTIST'S DREAM!
Films include: THE ARTIST'S DREAM (Bray, 1913) COL. HEEZA LIAR'S AFRICAN HUNT (Bray, 1914) DIPLODOCUS (Bray, 1915) FARMER ALFALFA SEES NEW YORK (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 (Lantz, 1924) Pete the Pup: THE LUNCH HOUND (Lantz, 1927) Koko the Clown: TANTALIZING FLY (Fleischer, 1919) HOW ANIMATED CARTOONS ARE MADE (Wallace Carlson, 1919) CHEMICAL INSPIRATION (1920) THE POINT OF VIEW (ca. 1921) Extras! Booklet, extensive mini-documentaries, archival galleries, and music by noted talents Robert Israel and Charlie Judkins Featuring Films from the Stathes Collection Co-Produced by Thunderbean Animation order on amazon |
CARTOON ROOTS (2014)
Out of history's mists come film pioneers and long-lost cartoon greats - the "roots" of animation's Golden Age! Dive into the works of Max Fleischer, Earl Hurd, Paul Terry, and Walter Lantz; sample the best of Col. Heeza Liar, Krazy, Koko and more. Meet Binko the Cub, first creation of Bob McKimson, Preston Blair and Ken Harris, in a long-lost short from the Romer Grey Studio - making its video debut for the first time anywhere!
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Contents include:
Lightning Sketches (J. Stuart Blackton, 1907); Cartoons On Tour (Raoul Barré, 1915); Mutt & Jeff in Fireman Save My Child (1920); Farmer Alfalfa in Springtime (Paul Terry, 1923); The Jolly Rounders (Aesop's Fables, 1923); Felix Comes Back (Otto Messmer, 1922); Krazy Kat in Scents and Nonsense (Bill Nolan, 1926)... Bray Studios greats: Bobby Bumps Starts to School (Earl Hurd, 1917); Jerry on the Job in The Bomb Idea (1920); Koko the Clown in The Circus (Max Fleischer, 1920); Col. Heeza Liar, Detective (Vernon Stallings, 1923); Dinky Doodle in Lost and Found (Walter Lantz, 1926)... Early sound rarities: Hot-Toe Mollie (Romer Grey, 1930); Toby the Milkman (Dick Huemer, 1931); and The Farmerette (Van Beuren Prod., 1932). Newly remastered in HD by Steve Stanchfield, these films are sourced from original 16mm, 28mm, and 35mm prints in the Tom Stathes collection. Some silent shorts feature new scores by noted film accompanists Robert Israel and Ben Model; others include vintage tracks, many compiled by David Gerstein. Our beautiful package art is the work of cartoonist Stephen DeStefano. It's some of the shorts you've seen in our recent TCM specials... plus more! Dig down to the roots of cartoon history - Cartoon Roots! |
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reference dvd collections
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containing rare silent and early sound cartoons from the 1900s thru the 1930s.
No frills or fancy packaging... these are meant for researchers and hardcore fans only!
containing rare silent and early sound cartoons from the 1900s thru the 1930s.
No frills or fancy packaging... these are meant for researchers and hardcore fans only!
