Cartoon Adventures Starring Gerald McBoing Boing
by Robert Cannon
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Actor: Marvin MillerDirector: Robert Cannon
Brand: Sony
Writer: Robert Cannon
Producer: Stephen Bosustow
Writer: Bill Scott
Writer: Dr. Seuss
Writer: Phil Eastman
Writer: T. Hee
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Animated, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 29 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Cartoon Adventures Starring Gerald McBoing Boing
DVD Review: A good start, but can be better.
Summary: 4 Stars
I am writing as a non native "american", so culturally McBoing Boing's influence in my life is not as deep as in many other readers or tv spectators may be. Nevertheless, I am a part of those delighted by sepcific UPA members animation work such as John Hubley and, in this particular case, Robert "Bobe" Cannon.
Cannon's visual influence in animation, according to Bendazzi's "Cartoons" (book available from Amazon.com) "born from Matisse, Picasso and Klee", certainly proves more than plain entertainment animation, in this case with 4 McBoing Boing's shorts.
The reason to miss the five stars is not because of Cannon's work, but because of Sony, as video-archive compiler and reseller.
Due to UPA's importance in animation history by rebelling to a dominant Disney's realistic style (around the mid 40's)and, ironically, turning later to a great influence for future Disney animation "experimental" styles (which turned into Adademy Award winning productions such as "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom"), a first try to present some of Cannon's work would deserve some extras especially considering the DVD format.
The funny fact is that Sony decided to include most of McBoing Boing's shorts in this DVD as extras in their comic-cult movie "Hellboy" (just missing "Gerald McBoing Boing's Symphony") but didn't mind to add any documentary or additional data for "Cartoon Adventures Starring Gerald McBoing Boing".Woludn't it be nice for corporations to think once in a while that costumers can be interested in more than fun-pack version releases?
Anyway Robert Cannon's work is still extense and a great recommendation for future acquisitions in Sony's archives for DVD compliations would be:
Willie the Kid (1952)
Madeline (1952)
Christopher Crumpet (1953)
Christopher Crumpet's Playmate (1953)
Fuget's Budget (1954)
The Jaywalker (1956)
Along with some extras about UPS history.
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