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Release: May 30, 2017

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Unlike Warner Bros. Cartoons iconic Road Runner, nothing about DePatie-Freleng s supersonic Blue Racer could be described as streamlined. This listing reptile, while surely speedy, definitely is not slick and ranks as more of an Everysnake who loses more battles than he wins, most of them to a philosophical Japanese Beetle. The DePatie-Freleng artists, while dubious acknowledgists, still displayed their knack for extended physical comedy and squash-and-stretch action scenes in this surprisingly popular scheme that bucked the contemporaneous trend toward limited animation. Never consigned to any indiginous natural habitat, Blue Racer vacations in Tokyo, winters in Alaska, even emigrates to Ireland with a wanderlust echoed by the films producers, who outsourced one of the entries to Sydney, Australia and another to Barcelona, Spain. List of shorts: HISS AND HERS SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SERPENT NIPPON TUCK PUNCH AND JUDO LOVE AND HISSES CAMERA BUG YOKAHAMA MAMA BLUE RACER BLUES THE BOA FRIEND WHAM AND EGGS KILLARNEY BLARNEY BLUE ACES WILD FOWL PLAY FREEZE A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW SNAKE PREVIEW ACES AND SNAKES LITTLE BOA PEEP Special Features: Two documentaries by Greg Ford and William Hohauser: DePatie-Freleng s Range Rovers and Art for Art s Sake (a tribute to brilliant DePatie-Freleng multi-hyphenate Art Leonardi), featuring Mark Arnold, Jerry Beck, Barbara Donatelli, Will Friedwald, Art Leonardi and layout artist Martin Strudler. | Audio commentaries for selected films by author Mark Arnold, director Bob Balser (archival audio), animation historian Jerry Beck, filmmaker Greg Ford and cartoon writer William Hohauser.

Release: April 24, 2018

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Spoofing the 1972 blockbuster The Godfather (while paying homage to the classic gangster pictures of the 1930s and 40s), DePatie-Freleng's The DogfatherTM centers around a bumbling pack of canine mafiosi. Backed by his overgrown henchman Pug and the diminutive Louie (voice artist extraordinaire Daws Butler), the mumble-mouthed Dogfather (voiced by Bob Holt) unleashes his own breed of disorganized crime in a series of seventeen cartoons that were a conscious throwback to the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes films. Special Features: -Two documentaries by Greg Ford and William Hohauser: 'Chips Off the Old Blockbusters' and 'Tales of Production (and Production Overload)' - Featuring author Mark Arnold, historian Jerry Beck, cartoon director/producer John R. Dilworth, ink-and-paint specialist Barbara Donatello, composer Doug Goodwin, director/animator Art Leonardi, and layout artist Martin Strudler -Audio commentaries for selected films by author Mark Arnold, historian Jerry Beck, filmmaker Greg Ford, and cartoon writer William Hohauser -Reversible Art Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Dogfather

Release: June 28, 2016

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The timeless melodramatic tradition of duelling polar opposites became the foundation of many an animated conflict, but never were Good and Evil so stylistically rendered as in the ROLAND AND RATTFINK cartoons. Square-jawed Roland and the green-complected Rattfink occupy the roles of yin and yang with hilarious aplomb: peacenik vs. warmonger, stalwart singing cowboy vs. scurrilous cattle rustler, effetely sensitive flower child vs. bomb-throwing miscreant. This special edition showcases all seventeen episodes of DePatie-Freleng s ROLAND AND RATTFINK, which rank among Hollywood s most innovative cartoons of the late 60s/early 70s, and continue to inspire laughs in the 21st Century. Contents: HAWKS AND DOVES HURTS AND FLOWERS FLYING FEET THE DEADWOOD THUNDERBALL SWEET AND SOURDOUGH A PAIR OF SNEAKERS SAY CHEESE, PLEASE A TASTE OF MONEY THE FOUL KIN BRIDGEWORK ROBIN GOODHOOD WAR AND PIECES GEM DANDY TRICK OR RETREAT THE GREAT CONTINENTAL OVERLAND CROSS-COUNTRY RACE A FINK IN THE RINK CATTLE BATTLE Bonus Features: Two documentaries by Greg Ford and William Hohauser: DePatie-Freleng s Odd Couples and DePatie-Freleng s Music and Sound Mix-ologists, featuring Jerry Beck, Barbara Donatelli, Will Friedwald, Doug Goodwin, Art Leonardi, and Joe Siracusa, Audio commentaries for selected films, by author Mark Arnold, historian Jerry Beck, filmmaker Greg Ford, and cartoon writer William Hohauser

Release: May 30, 2017

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Diminutive loudmouth Sheriff Hoot Kloot, astride his curmudgeonly, limping horse Fester, wages an ongoing battle of witlessness against lunatic sheep rustler Crazywolf. DePatie-Freleng s only series of cartoon Westerns, the Sheriff Hoot Kloot films are characterized by especially strong direction and layout (by Hawley Pratt, Gerry Chiniquy, Art Leonardi and others). Delighted with the chance to slip in clever Wild West in-jokes, writer John Dunn further pits Kloot and crew against a veritable rogues gallery of ridiculous outlaw villains, including Billy the Kidder, Calamitous Jane, Butch Casualty, Wild Bill Hiccup, and the hanging Judge Soy Bean. KLOOT S COUNTY APACHE ON THE COUNTY SEAT THE SHOE MUST GO ON A SELF-WINDING SIDEWINDER PAY YOUR BUFFALO BILL STIRRUPS AND HICCUPS TEN MILES TO THE GALLOP PHONY EXPRESS GIDDY UP WOE GOLD STRUCK AS THE TUMBLEWEED TURNS THE BADGE AND THE BEAUTIFUL BIG BEEF AT THE O.K. CORRAL BY HOOT OR BY CROOK STRANGE ON THE RANGE MESA TROUBLE SADDLE SOAP OPERA Special Features: Two documentaries by Greg Ford and William Hohauser: DePatie-Freleng s Range Rovers and Art for Art s Sake (a tribute to brilliant DePatie-Freleng multi-hyphenate Art Leonardi), featuring Mark Arnold, Jerry Beck, Barbara Donatelli, Will Friedwald, Art Leonardi and layout artist Martin Strudler. Audio commentaries for selected films by author Mark Arnold, cartoon director Bob Balser (archival audio), animation historian Jerry Beck, filmmaker Greg Ford and cartoon writer William Hohauser.

Release: June 28, 2016

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Like an amphibian Laurel & Hardy, TIJUANA TOADS revives the thin guy/fat guy formula for comedy, and endows it with a distinctive south-of-the-border flavor. Toads "Pancho" and "El Toro" engage in madcap mischief (and even a bit of romance) while seeking to advance themselves within the biological food chain: giving chase to grasshoppers, Japanese beetles, and flies, while evading comic predators like snakes, cats, dogs, and a particularly dopey crane. This edition includes all seventeen laugh-filled episodes, rendered in the distinctive DePatie-Freleng style of the late '60s/early '70s, newly remastered in high definition.