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World's Greatest Animation, The
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"The World's Greatest Animation" -- now there's a lofty title. 105 minutes worth of Academy Award winning & nominated animated shorts are included on this disc, but much like attending a student film festival, some of these shorts will appeal to you and others just fall flat -- which shorts have which effect depends on the viewer.
The following shorts are on the disc:
Video: The quality of the video varies from short to short. Most are hardly better than VHS, but considering the source material and the limited number of prints Image Entertainment had to work with, the transfers are as good as can be expected.
Audio: Again, for low-budget animated shorts, the audio is about what you'd expect. Definitely not reference quality, but it does the job.
Extras: None.
Conclusion: Animation buffs might want to pick it up. I bought "The World's Greatest Animation" solely for Nick Park's brilliant "Creature Comforts", and other Wallace & Gromit fans may want to do the same. If you have some coupons lying around or have another way of getting this disc inexpensively, I'd recommend it, but unless you're a collector, this disc is more suited towards a rental.
The following shorts are on the disc:
- Creature Comforts (Nick Park; 1990)
- Balance (Christoph & Wolfgang Lauenstein; 1989)
- Technological Threat (Cordell Barker; 1988)
- Your Face (Bill Plympton; 1987)
- A Greek Tragedy (Nicole Van Goethem; 1986)
- Anna & Bella (Borge Ring; 1985)
- The Big Snit (Richard Condie; 1985)
- Charade (Jon Minnis; 1984)
- Sundae in New York (Jimmy Picker; 1983)
- The Great Cognito (Will Vinton; 1982)
- Tango (Zbigniew Rybczynski; 1982)
- The Fly (Ferenc Rofuscz; 1980)
- Crac! (Frederic Back; 1981)
- Every Child (Eugene Fedorenco & Derek Lamb; 1979)
- Special Delivery (John Wheldon & Eunice Macaulay; 1978)
Video: The quality of the video varies from short to short. Most are hardly better than VHS, but considering the source material and the limited number of prints Image Entertainment had to work with, the transfers are as good as can be expected.
Audio: Again, for low-budget animated shorts, the audio is about what you'd expect. Definitely not reference quality, but it does the job.
Extras: None.
Conclusion: Animation buffs might want to pick it up. I bought "The World's Greatest Animation" solely for Nick Park's brilliant "Creature Comforts", and other Wallace & Gromit fans may want to do the same. If you have some coupons lying around or have another way of getting this disc inexpensively, I'd recommend it, but unless you're a collector, this disc is more suited towards a rental.
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