I don't know how many of you still watch some cartoons but i got a dvd this weekend for only $5.00. it's classic cartoons, like popeye, casper, betty boo, felix the cat, the three stooges. it's so funny !!! i think i enjoyed more than my niece and nephew did. some are in black and white 2. some others 2 and hours of fun.

I'm a huge fan of Bugs Bunny and all the Warner Brother's cartoons.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Me, too. Some of them are just freakin' HILARIOUS!!

purplebutterfly2 said:

They still do those LOL. Use to be cheap and nasty VHS similar to those. I say nasty because of the crappy covers, but those cartoons can be pretty rare (or were pre youtube).

What those collections are, are public domain cartoons. Nobody owns them anymore (copywright expired), so anyone can release them. You wont ever find a disney cartoon on those things, as they protect their vaults.

Warners sold all their movies/cartoons pre 1948 (around that year) in the 50's I think. Then Ted Turner bought them in the 80's, but since then, WB seems to have them all back? Of course, pre 1948 WB cartoons before WB bought them all up again still show up on some compilations. Its complicated with WB, but its also ironic they once sold all their pre 1948 catalogue, as those were their best films/cartoons.

You'll find Popeyes. Betty Boops (which still dont get shown on tv for sexism ), Felix etc..., lots of more obscure cartoons, including banned and racist ones sometimes, which are always facinating for me.

Rarely ever see Paul Terry cartoons (heckle and jeckle and mighty mouse), but then, alot of his cartoons sucked. Basically every major hollywood studio had its own animation department. Most sold their films/cartoons off doing the 50's and 60's, except post 1948 WB cartoons, and Disney cartoons.

i like catching the really old cartoons from the early days of animation. some of them are pretty creepy and surreal.

Anxiety said:

Betty Boops are cool. Very musical (eg cab calloway is in one).

Those early cartoons had great scores. Seriously. The music in some of those cartoons were alot better then their live action counterparts.

Original Tom and Jerry cartoons have fantastic music for example.

Anxiety said:

http://www.youtube.com/v/...Vo_g&hl=en

I LOVE the old Looney Toons cartoons. They are so funny. They aged well.

I have a few of those DVDs and the Looney Toons are the only ones I like...the others are kinda meh to me.

I LOVE Popeye! I forgot that one.

Ooooh, I have a dvd with a couple episodes of Little Black Sambo on it.
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ToraToraDreams said:

all hail marvin the martian...he was this shit

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Me too. I also love the Hanna Barbera cartoons, such as The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, Johnny Quest, etc. etc.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Very very hard 2 beat the WB cartoons from the mid 40's up 2 the late 50's!

Smurfs

Woody Wood Pecker!

Ocean said:

I can only dignify that with

I adore classic cartoons!

I love how odd and surreal so many of them were. I've got loads of cheapo DVD sets from the dollar store with original Betty Boops, Popeyes, Felix the Cat, etc. A friend's got an old VHS called "Weird Cartoons", featuring a collection of some of the strangest shit ever to hit hand-drawn black and white cells.

Know what I love about these old cartoons? The obvious love and effort that went into them. The animation technology may have been pretty primitive, but I can't recall ever seeing a stupid mistake like you see in current cartoons where something's coloured wrong for half a second or a character just loses a limb for no good reason. Careless mistakes like that are rampant in new animation, and to me that just shows how little a lot of studios care about their output.

I also really like that absolutely everything back in the day was hand painted or hand drawn. Nothing wrong with CGI, but must everything be done by a computer these days?

NuPwr319 said:

I still literally laugh my ass off at these.

"1,2,3 your out!, 1,2,3 your out....."


I'm desperately looking for a cartoon that is about different types of dogs. The Doberman Pinscher goes around pinching people. It's hilarious!! I can't find it though.

psychodelicide said:

Yes. I love THE FLINTSTONES!!! THE HILLBILLY BEARS!!! SCOOBY DOO!!!

Amaxx said:

Totally!!

Tom. And. Jerry.



4eva.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Great cartoons! They don't make them like that anymore, sad to say.

psychodelicide said:

Those were my favorites, those mid-to-late 60's HB cartoons(the Herculoids, Mighty Mightor, Space Ghost, Frankenstein Jr., the Impossibles, Shazzan!, Moby Dick, Wacky Races, Young Samson, etc., etc.). They don't make 'em like they used to.
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Anyone remeber Battle Of The Planets? That was class!!!

psychodelicide said:

I'm truly saddened. I found out that the cartoon I was looking for was never made available. It's nowhere to be found. Waaaaa!!! It's called DOG TALES.

muirdo said:

Awesome, but the Japanese originals are better without all that 7-Zark-7 and 1-Rover-1 nonsense that was created for the U.S.

anyone remember the land of the lost. where they had a girl and her brother and father lost someplace. they had a monkey i forget his name that use to help them out in the woods. it was funny

purplebutterfly2 said:

His name was Cha-ka. I just found out that they're making a LAND OF THE LOST movie. It's filming right now.

http://io9.com/385067/fir...-sleestaks

What was the name of that half cartoon, half live action kids show in the late 70's? Was it Tom Sawyer something?

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Yeah I vaguely remember it. Wasn't that cartoon featured on 'The Banana Splits'?

uPtoWnNY said:

THAT'S where they showed it, thanks. I used to love that.

I just looked it up and OMG!!!!! It brought back so many memories. It was called THE NEW ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FIN.

Atom Ant!!!!! And those Chararaboodiay girls!!! They used to give me the creeps.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

The Arabian Nights & the New Adventures of Gulliver were on the Banana Splits too. Great show.