When shown on TV, most of the time the exact same copies of the transfers with the edited opening titles as seen on the VHS tapes were used, though some Cartoon Festivals VHS prints were shown with the original opening rings intact such as " Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur" and " Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt". Many of these Cartoon Festival VHS transfers were used for broadcast on the Turner networks (TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network) from 1986 to 1995 prior to the debut of the 1995 dubbed versions.Some of these VHS transfers (with the original opening titles intact) are even recycled for the Cartoon Moviestars VHS collection and the first four volumes of The Golden Age of Looney Tunes LaserDisc releases (with the former home media release having some of these transfers keeping their original a.a.p. Though most of the Cartoon Festival VHS transfers are presented on this VHS collection and on television with the opening intros cut or altered, the transfers themselves do exist with their original opening rings intact.Some of the cartoons' transfers have been mastered twice for this VHS collection, such as " Tweetie Pie" and " Duck Soup to Nuts".logo is featured before the cartoons, instead the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or United Artists logo is featured before the cartoons.īugs Bunny Cartoon Festival Featuring "Hair Raising Hare" (PAL-exclusive release )
#VIDEO SHORTS MGM 1947 SERIES#
Unlike other VHS series by MGM/UA Home Video where the Turner Entertainment Co. These were fixed in the Cartoon Moviestars VHS and The Golden Age of Looney Tunes LaserDisc. logo opening the original opening rings are replaced with the 1947-49 Color Rings and Blue Ribbon opening title (with the 1939-41 Merrie Melodies opening music playing over it) before it cuts to the rest of the original opening titles. opening title sequence where after the a.a.p. to make them marketable.Įach cartoon in the tape has a distinctive transfer where they mostly have light blue borders around the titles and sometimes, the original opening Color Rings are cut or have an altered a.a.p. This video collection marks the first attempt to remaster 16mm prints by a company other than Warner Bros. Slapstick, meanwhile, was reduced to a single product line, the Our Gang series, now one-reelers, which MGM took over from Roach upon the latter’s departure.Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals is the first series of VHS releases of the pre-1948 a.a.p.-owned Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons issued by MGM/UA Home Video in 1986. Even comic shorts were conscripted to this instructional rhetoric, albeit in motley, in the form of the popular Pete Smith Specialties (1936-1955), in which Smith lent wry commentary to documentary topics of wide-ranging general interest, and the Robert Benchley “How to” series (1935-1940, 1943-1944) on the frustrations of daily life. Under Jack Chertok, head of the shorts division since 1935, MGM began to introduce a growing number of what it described as “informative” product lines, perhaps most famously the long-running Crime Does Not Pay reenactments of true crimes (1935-1947). By the mid-1930s, however, Roach was looking to leave the shorts market to enter into features, and the studio took the opportunity of his impending departure to radically rebrand its shorts output. The studio had entered the sound era with among the strongest short comedy line-ups in the industry, courtesy of the studio’s distribution deal with Hal Roach (commencing in 1927).
8 Boy Friends-Roach Comedies (6x2rl, 2x3rl)Ĥ Laurel and Hardy-Roach Reissues (2x2rl, 1x3rl, 1x4rl)Ħ Laurel & Hardy-Roach Comedies (2x2rl, 4x3rl)Ĩ Laurel & Hardy-Roach Comedies (5x2rl, 3x3rl)ġ Special (Servant of the People, reels unspecified)ġ Special (Roosevelt - The Man of the Hour, 2rl)Ģ Specials (Audioscopiks, 1rl Chic Sale, 2rl)Ģ Specials (Jimmy Fidler's Personality Parade, 2rl The New Audioscopiks, 2rl)įew short-subject divisions experienced as profound a change as did Loew’s-MGM’s in the decade following sound.
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