DVD Talk DVD Reviews https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/list/DVD Video DVD Talk DVD Review RSS Feed en-us Cartoon Roots: Halloween Haunts (Blu-ray) Blu-ray https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/73391 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:02:55 UTC Recommended

Tommy Jose Stathes' Cartoon Roots series is an ongoing anthology of classic early animation, and its third installment is Halloween Haunts. Featuring 15 shorts originally released between 1907 and 1936 from the likes of the Fleischer brothers, Walter Lantz, and even Walt Disney, there's a good cross-section of mostly silent-era shorts with a few "talkies" thrown for good measure. The running theme is obviously all...Read the entire review

]]> Cartoon Roots (Blu-ray) Blu-ray https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/66835 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:18:46 UTC Highly Recommended

Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD portion of Cartoon Roots.

The Cartoons:

Far from being a tossed-off, randomly thrown-together set of public domain cartoons, Cartoon Roots presents an expertly curated program of shorts from animation's early, developmental years.

Although my description makes Cartoon Roots sound dry as toast, this disc contains some funky, strange stuff (those who fondly remember the "King of Cartoons" segments from Pee-Wee's Playhouse will relate). Before Walt Disney introduced Mickey Mouse and set the standard (for better or worse), the animation industry was a crazy-quilt of different styles and complexities - Cartoon Roots certai...Read the entire review

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