Walter Lantz on DVD!

[Douglas E.]

http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=183018

YES! I have only seen 12 Walter Lantz cartoons so I can't wait!

-Doug:andy::rabbit::woody:

[Matt the Y]

As Daffy Duck said in "Duck Soup to Nuts", "Praaaaaaaise the Lord!"

Glory be! Hell has finally frozen over and I am happy! ;) :D :p
If you head on over to the original source of this news, the contents of the DVD set is nothing to sneeze at either. It has all the 1940's Woody shorts, all 4 of the Tex Avery-directed Lantz shorts, and a lot of Swing Symphonies as well.

Now I know what they truly mean when they say, "Good things come to those who wait", 'cuz I've waited years and years for this and it finally paid off in spades!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forgive my overexcitedness but... well, I'm really overexcited.

I only hope the good news about this set only gets better!!!

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[cartoonfan]

Matt,

I couldn't have said it better!!! I'll be first in line when this collection shows up!!!!

[Matt the Y]

Matt,

I couldn't have said it better!!! I'll be first in line when this collection shows up!!!!

Nope. I'm afraid you'll be second... 'cuz no one but NO ONE is gonna be first in line before me!!!! ;) ;) ;)

[cartoonfan]

OK, I'll settle for a first place tie!!!:D

[Studio Toledo]

Well, FINALLY! That's all I can say!

[frizfrelengfan]

Someone at NBC-Universal has seen the light that there is a market for these cartoons, that they're not just for kids, and it makes no sense for them to sit in the vaults. Whoever that someone is, thanks!

[Der Captain]

I always found it odd that Woody was deemed significant enough to be promoted at the Universal Studios theme park, but up til now not significant enough for his cartoons to be released for the general public. Go figure.

[lonesome-lenny]

I'd like to take a moment to remind this board that, not so long ago, several members doubted that this set could ever even exist, or tht anyone at Universal valued these cartoons...

Just goes to show that you've always got to have some hope, and that good things will eventually happen! :)

[Mark J]

This was already revealed on this board in a thread about Jerry Beck's appearance on a radio program last week - he is the one who announced this. Jerry stated that he is working on the DVDs and decided what to include, that he wanted to create a dream Lantz set and will include the 4 Averys and the first 45 Woody's to make sure all the 1940's Woody toons are included. Based on the few bits of information Jerry revealed I am sure that this will be a fantastic DVD set. :woody:

[BloodyChamp]

Rock and roooooooollll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[captchucky]

What about Andy Panda? I need all of his 1940's shorts as well! This is amazing news!

[SheckyGrey]

I hear that one disc will consist solely of the Complete Beary Family Shorts. How about that!

[Matt the Y]

I hear that one disc will consist solely of the Complete Beary Family Shorts. How about that!

I'm guessing that was meant as a joke. While I don't dislike The Beary Family like a lot of other people, they aren't the Lantz studio's "prime representation". There might be a few Beary Family shorts here and there but a whole disc of them doesn't sound likely.

[Der Captain]

I hear that one disc will consist solely of the Complete Beary Family Shorts. How about that!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....

[Der Captain]

...ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooo....

[Sogturtle]

I'd like to take a moment to remind this board that, not so long ago, several members doubted that this set could ever even exist, or tht anyone at Universal valued these cartoons...

Just goes to show that you've always got to have some hope, and that good things will eventually happen! :)

Lonesome Lenny~

I have no problem with being wrong... We're ALL human, sooooo we're all wrong sometimes:). (But on the other hand I did know about it several weeks ago:D).

[Fibber Fox]

I hear that one disc will consist solely of the Complete Beary Family Shorts. How about that!

Don't forget the bonus feature: "Paul J. Smith - Master Director at Work."

FF

[Duck Dodgers]

I hear that one disc will consist solely of the Complete Beary Family Shorts. How about that!

Please don't start rumors!
The set is gonna have the first 45 Woody Woodpecker cartoons, the Avery Lantz, some Swing Symphonies, some Oswald and Pooch and other stuff.
What you said, even if mentioned as a joke, could develope into a rumor.

I suppose GAC decision is to not discuss the set before the official announcement. At least, that's the impression I had in the past days. And I agree with that.

[millsie]

I hear that one disc will consist solely of the Complete Beary Family Shorts. How about that!


Wow, I'd buy that...








If I was really drunk and had a billion dollars and there was nothing better to spend it on. I think that I'd also would have had to have been lobotomized before I'd consider buying a Beary Family disc.:D

Mat

[wundermild]

I suppose GAC decision is to not discuss the set before the official announcement. At least, that's the impression I had in the past days. And I agree with that.
Sshhh, making assumptions based on personal impressions, that's how rumors originate.
:D

Early Woodpeckers plus Tex Avery, that sounds like a fine set.

[Duck Dodgers]

Sshhh, making assumptions based on personal impressions, that's how rumors originate.
:D




:D :D :D

By the way, the set will not ony include the early Woody but ALL the Forties ones and some from the Fifties too! ( At last a decent print of "Destination Meatball"):D

The first 45 are in fact from "Knock Knock" to "The Great Who-Dood-It";).

I presume that if sales will be good we'll have a volume 2 that will include other Woody appearences, starting with "Termites from Mars".

[dandu]

This is just great, I hope we are drumming sense into these faceless companies. I wonder if they have the missing cartoons on our Lantz page...

[Matt the Y]

Wow, I'd buy that...








If I was really drunk and had a billion dollars and there was nothing better to spend it on. I think that I'd also would have had to have been lobotomized before I'd consider buying a Beary Family disc.:D

Mat

Gee, am I the only person in the world who actually likes the Beary Family? I admit a lot of their later shorts are very uninspired and I probably would never want to see a whole disc dedicated to them but some of the earlier shorts in the series such as "Mother's Little Helper", "Rah Rah Ruckus", and "Guest Who" aren't so bad. Again, it's later shorts in the series such as "Charlie's Campout" or "Charlie in Hot Water" that are absolute dreck.

[Matt the Y]

BTW, forgive me for asking this but why hasn't this thread been transferred to the news forum yet?

Are we still waiting for an official word yet? Usually, when news like this comes around, it's transferred to the news forum within a matter of hours.

[Lee Glover]

WOW! That is good news. :woody:

To tell you the truth, I'm not hugely surprised that we are getting a Lantz DVD set. Despite the long wait, I always believed that we would get at least a single DVD release at some point in the future. However, I didn't expect the inclusion of the Oswald shorts. :rabbit:

It'll be interesting to find out what the extras will be. IMHO Universal is not particularly hot on the extras front, but with Jerry Beck on board, I'm hopeful that we'll get some satisfying extras (such as commentaries).

[Jon Cooke]

BTW, forgive me for asking this but why hasn't this thread been transferred to the news forum yet?

Are we still waiting for an official word yet? Usually, when news like this comes around, it's transferred to the news forum within a matter of hours.


We are waiting for Universal's official announcement before we really start to promote the set here on GAC. :woody:

[BloodyChamp]

Don't forget the bonus feature: "Paul J. Smith - Master Director at Work."

FF

Now...it's...personal...DUN DUN DUN!

[houserunner]

This is a fantastic news. I hope all four Avery shorts have commentary. I can't wait.:)

[MF TOON]

Apart from "SH-H-H-H-H", I hope Jerry also squeezes in the two remaining Foolish Fables from 1953 as well... and I really hope we get a handfull of the mid-30's Cartune Classics included also!

[dandu]

Now, if Columbia decided to release a cartoon dvd this year...it would be Krazy!! (pun intended)

[Jack G.]

This is just great, I hope we are drumming sense into these faceless companies.Sense and the corporate enviroment are an oxymoron.

But I'm glad the decision was made to put out a Woody and Friends set.:woody:

Hey, can't we have a smilie of the classic Woody?

[BloodyChamp]

Seriously people I just can't put it in this little box how happy I am.......................

[Larry T]

Hey, can't we have a smilie of the classic Woody?
http://ca.geocities.com/kitty_face@rogers.com/images/WoodySmilie.gif <=== Hu-hu-hu-haaaaaa-ha!!!


I thought this day would never come.... I hope the people in front of me in the line to buy this set when it comes out are pretty darn strong ;)

[Jack G.]

http://ca.geocities.com/kitty_face@rogers.com/images/WoodySmilie.gif <=== Hu-hu-hu-haaaaaa-ha!!!Where's that coming from?
I don't see that in the Lantz smilies.

[Gossamer]

The Merry Old Soul, which was the first Lantz short nominated for an Academy Award and the only one of the Lantz nominees which I don't have. I don't even know if it still exists.

May this find you happy and healthy.


Robert Reynolds
Tucson AZ

[chuckamuck45]

:D I'm as happy as a pig in....well, I'm happy TOO!

I just pray that they come unedited...http://forums.thebothanspy.com/images/smilies/pray_2.gif

[BloodyChamp]

:D I'm as happy as a pig in....well, I'm happy TOO!

I just pray that they come unedited...http://forums.thebothanspy.com/images/smilies/pray_2.gif

Somebody said it......I was hoping that if nobody said what we all know we're hoping that maybe they really would come untainted. Anyway, I'm praying too!

[Matt the Y]

Somebody said it......I was hoping that if nobody said what we all know we're hoping that maybe they really would come untainted. Anyway, I'm praying too!

As am I... I can't stand edited cartoons of any kind but they ESPECIALLY do not belong on DVD releases.

I still have never seen or owned an uncut copy of "The Reckless Driver" [1946]!

[Duck Dodgers]

As am I... I can't stand edited cartoons of any kind but they ESPECIALLY do not belong on DVD releases.

I still have never seen or owned an uncut copy of "The Reckless Driver" [1946]!

It's not like watching the cartoon...but it is still something

http://classiccartoons.blogspot.com/2006/06/did-you-miss-me-reckless-driver.html


;)

The Merry Old Soul, which was the first Lantz short nominated for an Academy Award and the only one of the Lantz nominees which I don't have. I don't even know if it still exists.

The short still exist and it is a good cartoon. Not worth an AAN in my opinion, but a good cartoon anyway.

[Matt the Y]

It's not like watching the cartoon...but it is still something

http://classiccartoons.blogspot.com/2006/06/did-you-miss-me-reckless-driver.html


;)


Thanks, Andrea! I just hope an unedited print of this short shows up on the Woody DVD. It's a pretty lame and pointless edit, IMHO. Then again, all edits are quite lame and pointless in my book but I don't see why it's so hard to track down an unedited copy of "Reckless Driver"!

(BTW, I suspect that Les Kline animates that whole scene...;) I know that Grim Natwick animates the scene where Wally tries to test Woody's reflexes).

[Jack G.]

I presume that if sales will be good we'll have a volume 2 that will include other Woody appearences, starting with "Termites from Mars".I want Hot Noon!:woody:

[Chow Hound]

It's not like watching the cartoon...but it is still something

http://classiccartoons.blogspot.com/2006/06/did-you-miss-me-reckless-driver.html
OK I give up. What is it about those scenes that is supposed to offend my delicate sensibilities so much that I go off on an anti-Universal rampage?

[Duck Dodgers]

OK I give up. What is it about those scenes that is supposed to offend my delicate sensibilities so much that I go off on an anti-Universal rampage?

Spitting is PU but not PC!;):D

[Matt the Y]

OK I give up. What is it about those scenes that is supposed to offend my delicate sensibilities so much that I go off on an anti-Universal rampage?

In all honesty, I agree with Larry's theory. Woody was spitting at an authority figure in connection with the law and the censors felt some people may have gotten the "wrong idea". Hence, the scene was done away with.

I agree; it was total idiocy. They also heavily edited "Swing Your Partner" (to remove any reference to tobacco chewing and alcohol, i.e. moonshine consumption) and "Knock! Knock!" (to remove references to insanity; i.e. the finale with the asylum attendants coming to get Woody) as well.

[Duck Dodgers]

I agree; it was total idiocy. They also heavily edited "Swing Your Partner" (to remove any reference to tobacco chewing and alcohol, i.e. moonshine consumption) and "Knock! Knock!" (to remove references to insanity; i.e. the finale with the asylum attendants coming to get Woody) as well.


And the tobacco plant gag is cut in a great number of the prints of "The Wacky Weed"!!!!

[Matt the Y]

And the tobacco plant gag is cut in a great number of the prints of "The Wacky Weed"!!!!

Oh, yeah... that too. At least, I've actually seen that cartoon unedited (albeit a long time ago; it was on the "The World of Andy Panda" VHS tape).

[SheckyGrey]

I'm guessing that was meant as a joke. While I don't dislike The Beary Family like a lot of other people ...

Anybody who actually believes that a whole disc would be devoted to the Beary Family ... in turn, I think then deserves to have to sit through a whole disc of the Beary Family.

That being said, I can think of plenty worse animation to subject myself to, particularly from the past thirty years.

[captchucky]

I think all of Lantz' output deserves to be collected, released and kept in print. He was one of animation's near-founders, for goodness sakes! I hope the DVD release is successful enough so that all the rest are collected. With DVD's we have a format that is pretty inexpensive per cartoon, so it seems like a perfect time to release all this stuff.