“If Woody had gone straight to the police, this would NEVER have happened…” (from BUNCO BUSTERS)
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I portion some fans’ viewpoint that the 1940s Woody starring vehicles are the best. But many Woody viewers luxuriate in the 1950s Woody shorts — the body of this collection — for other reasons. These are the Woody shorts from which generations of nostalgia near.
“The fable you are about to peer is a tall paunchy lie…” “Now I’ve gotcha, Chief Charlie Horse!” “YAAAAAY!” “Fabricate with them keys, Maestro, and don’t terminate!” Face it: you remember these beloved Woody cliches even if you no longer grasp the specific cartoons (UNDER THE COUNTER Sight, CHIEF CHARLIE HORSE, NIAGARA FOOLS, CONVICT CONCERTO) from which they reach. You’re getting them. All of them.
And that’s not even starting on the supporting features, a mini-anthology of highly inspired choices. Andy Panda’s MOUSIE Near HOME envisions codependence in crazed cartoon form; Cold Willy’s HALF-BAKED ALASKA has its unforgettable patter routine (“More butter? More syrup? “) ; and THE HAMS THAT COULDN’T BE CURED is a hot jazz Three Cramped Pigs send-up.
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Finally there’s Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the star Walter Lantz inherited from an earlier (1927-28) Walt Disney/Ub Iwerks regime at Universal. Disney reacquired some rights to Oswald in 2006; last year saw a selection released in their Walt Disney Treasures line. But Universal retained rights to its hold Oswald material, and Woody Vol. 2 brings us another microscopic, tempting quintet.
The inventive, necessary dim and white classics are a fascinatingly different viewing experience from anything else on this box, as wannabe hero Oswald is smacked by Tex Avery’s earliest gags. A long-lost color Oswald featuring girlfriend Fanny, SPRINGTIME SERENADE, is here too.
With original Oswald dolls and merchandise now available in stores, one can only hope Universal will tie in by taking the next step — to release a multi-volume disc situation on the Woody model, but with Oswald as the main character. From Wintry CON CARMEN’s pre-Betty Boop hooch dance to the cyborg T-Rex of STONE AGE, from the impossible ocean tricks of PERMANENT WAVE to Oswald’s surrealist, pre-Wackyland adventures on MARS, there are dozens of these classics crying for a release.
Throw in a few pre-Lantz Oswalds as extras, and we’re so there.
This space will have 45 Woody Woodpecker Cartoons spanning from 1952-1958. The distress is that director Paul J. Smith (boo) was only alive to in bringing the cartoons in under budget, creativity was not an philosophize for him. He started taking over Woody in 1955 and the cartoons started to became mediocre.
The Sterling NEWS is that there will also be non-Smith Woodys and 30 Walter Lantz non-Woody cartoons produced from 1930-1960 in this location, and these classics will be well worth getting this for! With DVDs you can unbiased skip over the Paul J. Smith clunkers and cue the menu to these.
The Classic Cartoons will include these new-to-DVD titles:
SHE DONE HIM Apt (1933) w/Pooch The Pup B&W
FIVE AND DIME (1933) w/Oswald Rabbit B&W
WAX WORKS (1934) w/Oswald Rabbit B&W
SPRINGTIME SERENADE (1935)
A-HAUNTING WE WILL GO (1939)
FAIR TODAY (1941)
BOOGIE WOOGIE MAN (1943) A Swing Symphony
THE PAINTER AND THE POINTER (1944) w/ Andy Panda
+ 22 more!
The Woody Woodpecker cartoons in this plot are:
(previously released to DVD by Columbia House unless renowned “modern to DVD”)
1952
TERMITES FROM MARS (Don Patterson)
1953
WHAT’S SWEEPIN’ (Don Patterson)
BUCCANEER WOODPECKER (Don Patterson)
OPERATION SAWDUST (Don Patterson)
WRESTLING WRECKS (Don Patterson)
BELLE BOYS (Don Patterson)
HYPNOTIC HICK (Don Patterson) – originally shot in 3-D, but this will be standard 2-D here.
HOT NOON (spoofing the movie High Noon) (Paul J. Smith)
1954
SOCKO IN MOROCCO (Don Patterson) – fresh to DVD!
ALLEY TO BALI ( aka Bali Ho ) (Don Patterson)
UNDER THE COUNTER Glance ( aka Secret Agent FOB, a Dragnet spoof) (Don Patterson)
HOT ROD HUCKSTER (Paul J. Smith)
REAL GONE WOODY ( aka The Beat Beatnik ) (Paul J. Smith)
FINE FEATHERED FRENZY ( aka Last Scoot ) (Don Patterson)
CONVICT CONCERTO (Don Patterson)
1955 ** unless celebrated, all are directed by Paul J. Smith from here on **
HELTER SHELTER – novel to DVD!
WITCH CRAFTY
PRIVATE Leer POOCH
BEDTIME BEDLAM
SQUARE-SHOOTING SQUARE
BUNCO BUSTERS (spoof of the Bunco Squad)
TREE MEDIC, THE (Alex Lovy) – possibly the last beneficial Woody!
1956
AFTER THE BALL – recent to DVD!
GET LOST ( aka Hansel & Gretel )
CHIEF CHARLIE HORSE – current to DVD!
WOODPECKER FROM MARS
CALLING ALL CUCKOOS – unusual to DVD!
NIAGRA FOOLS
ARTS AND FLOWERS
WOODY MEETS DAVY CREWCUT (Alex Lovy) – fresh to DVD!
1957
RED RIDING HOODLUM
BOX CAR BANDIT – unique to DVD!
UNBEARABLE SALESMAN
INTERNATIONAL WOODPECKER
TO Find A WOODPECKER (Alex Lovy) – original to DVD!
ROUND Scoot TO MARS
DOPEY DICK AND THE PINK WELL
FODDER AND SON
1958
MISGUIDED MISSLE
WATCH THE BIRDIE (Alex Lovy)
HALF-EMPTY SADDLES
HIS BITTER HALF – unusual to DVD!
EVERGLADE RAID
THREE’S A CROWD
JITTERY JESTER – unique to DVD!
After watching the B&W cartoons on disc 1, I want to add that I am surprised at how well the Lantz studio imitaded other studios.
Take “SHE DONE HIM Upright”, if you did not search for the production credits you would announce that you were watching a 1933 Max Fleischer Betty Boop cartoon.
“A HAUNTING WE WILL GO” may first remind you of a Disney cartoon, but with the racist “Lil’ Eightball” starring character it reminds me more of the MGM/Harmon-Ising “BOSKO IN A Stupefied HOUSE” cartoon.
The trusty bright surprise is the last Oswald presented on this disc, “THE PUPPET Demonstrate”. This strangely combines live puppets with an Sharp Oswald as the puppeteer. At first I conception he was added to an existing puppet short, but as the film goes on there is an bewitching dream sequence of the puppets. Was Universal trying to savce an aborted puppet film project? Was the exercise of live action puppets a cost-saving map to fetch the years productions encourage on budget? Either map, it makes for a nice departure from the standard Lantz cartoons of that time.
“Splendid TODAY” is a passe Tex Avery inspired cartoon, “JOLLY Exiguous ELVES” reminds you of some Leon Slessinger/Warner Brothers cartoons & “CANDY LAND” could be from any studio of that time.
It appears that Lantz did not collect a true style of his have until Woody Woodpecker & Andy Panda came on the scene.
It would be hard for me to mediate buying a volume 3, but this dwelling is collected well worth getting!
Bowtrol