Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: MALTIN,LEONARD EAN: 0014381024128 Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Image Entertainment Manufacturer: Image Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Image Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 10, 2001 Running Time: 95 minutes Sales Rank: 59214 Studio: Image Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 1994
Product Description: No Description Available No Track Information Available Media Type: DVD Artist: MALTIN,LEONARD Title: ANIMATION FAVORITES Street Release Date: 04/10/2001 Domestic Genre: ANIMATION
Amazon.com: Since its establishment in 1939, the National Film Board of Canada has provided a place for artists to explore innovative styles, content, and media, especially in animation. Leonard Maltin serves as the genial host of this overview of the board's work, explaining some of the more recherché techniques developed there. Jacques Drouin manipulated the shadows of thousands of tiny steel pins to produce the gray, pointillist images in his striking 'Mindscape.' Norman McLaren drew, painted, and scratched images onto the surface of 35mm film stock as he sought to marry animation, the least spontaneous of art forms, to the bright, improvisational music of the young Oscar Peterson. These elegant experiments contrast sharply with the humor of John Weldon's 'The Log Driver's Waltz' and Sheldon Cohen's 'The Sweater.' 'Log Driver's Waltz' is a nutty, loose-limbed adaptation of a folk song in which a woman reflects that any dancing partner seems flat-footed compared to a man who can skip over spinning logs in a river. 'The Sweater' presents a warmly nostalgic memoir of boyhood hero-worship--with a slyly funny ending. As Maltin notes, the NFB has served as a 'kind of academy' that has enabled talented artists to pursue individual visions of what an animated film can be--an academy that U.S. citizens can only envy. Complete contents: 1. 'Begone Dull Care,' 2. 'Mindscape,' 3. 'The Log Driver's Waltz,' 4. 'The Cat Came Back,' 5. 'Getting Started,' 6. 'The Sweater,' 7. 'The Street,' 8. 'Pas de Deux,' 9. 'Anniversary.' These films are unrated and suitable for ages 10 and older for some adult themes and unusual imagery. -- Charles Solomon
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Rating: - Leonard Maltin's Yap-Yap!
Will Leonard Maltin Please GO AWAY!........He Ruins Every DVD He Shows Up On!......We're Not Stupid!...We Are Able To Make Judgements On Our Own, Without The Insufferable Drivel Of L.M!....Since I Could'nt Cut Maltin's Bologna Out To View Real Creative Artist's Work...I Returned It!
Rating: - Cat Came Back Good
and I think one other but the rest bored my husband and kids. I kind of FF through some too and I love animation. My 8 year old keeps playing The Cat Came Back and a few others again and again so for him it was worth it.
Rating: - NFB Cartoon Shorts
Having spent time in Canada as a kid, I remember (fondly) a number of the short cartoons that are on this DVD. The features were largely from independent film makers who were funded by the National Film Board of Canada, and always covered interesting subjects about growing up and/or outdoor life in Canada.
Given their age (and relative commercial unimportance) I had given up hope that I would ever see them again...but here they are, in a beautifully-restored collection. What Leonard Maltin has to do with this, I don't know, but if you (like me) long to see these features once again, this is the DVD for you!
Rating: - Forget it
Unless you want a copy of "The Cat Came Back" forget this. The animations are no better than flip pages by 5th graders, except for the CGI. So some guy can scratch on film, big deal. This is art? The stories really poor and uninteresting. "Cat" is the saving grace.
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