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 Cartoons:5, Product:1 Feb 03, 2009
The five stars are for the cartoons themselves. They took me back to the 1950's when this new, modern-style of cartoons was just beginning. At an age when I was just starting to discover myself, these cartoons were "cool" and I embraced their modernistic style and jazzy scores. The cartoons look pretty good on this DVD but they only leave you with the incomplete feeling of wanting more. The Steve Bosustow/UPA cartoons were a ground-breaking, award-winning series. Many of them immediately come to mind: The Tell-Tale Heart, Rooty Toot Toot, The Unicorn in the Garden, Madeline, and the Mr. McGoo series to name just a few. It is a crime against film history that these exiting cartoons are not available. Columbia Pictures: Wake up!!
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 The good parts are great Aug 01, 2008
Maybe that should be the good part - singular. The first of these cartoons adapts a story by Dr. Seuss. Gerald, a small boy, speaks only in sound effects: twangy jaw-harp "boings," train whistles, and lots more. With the good Doctor's bouncy script, even the loose and somewhat sub-par animation come to life, creating a charming story.
The franchise goes quickly down hill, though. Some amusement remains in this one-joke series, as the joke is repeated in the other three `toons on this disk. This series comes from one of the less fortunate eras of animation, however, after the era when labor was cheap enough for artistic animation by hand, but before computers took over much of the drudgery in creating thirty slightly different images for each second of playing time. Good story-telling could have overcome that accident of birth, but did so only in the first of these shorts.
I'm glad I spent the half hour that these cartoons lasted, but I probably won't spend it again. Five stars for the first `toon on the disc, but less for the others. And, for the price, I would have appreciated something more than a half hour of viewing time.
-- wiredweird
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What more could you want? Aug 11, 2007
Geez, it won the Academy Award!
But, the disk does not include Citizen Kane and Debbie Does Dallas. Try harder Sony!
If anyone cares, Gerald played Tiny Tim in Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol.
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cartoons adventures-gerald mcboing boing Mar 24, 2006
great that steven bosustow's cartoons came to the market in a dvd format. The only sad part is that this great dvd contains 4 cartoons only.
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 DEAR SONY... Feb 03, 2006
I em enthralled that by some godsent miracle, you actually decided to release these wonderful films to DVD! It's certainly about time!
However four 7 minute shorts do not a DVD make!
Why couldn't you have at least included some other classic UPA entries in the Jolly Frolics series, such as the wonderfully creative and artistic masterpiece, Rooty Toot Toot, The Tell-Tale Heart, the many Mr. Magoo theatrical shorts you hold license to, etc..?
Again, I'm very happy to finally be able to own these on one convenient DVD package, but it seems like very little effort was put into this release. These cartoons were not aimed at children and I don't expect the majority of sales to come from them either. These are among the most artistic, innovative, stylized and brilliant animated film productions of all-time!
The UPA cartoons deserve their own comprehensive release so please stop neglecting your animated film library!!!
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