Gerald McBoing Boing won the 1950 Oscar for best short subject cartoon, but what's more amazing is that kids today are still intrigued by this fun program. Based on the unlikely premise that a young boy named Gerald speaks not in words, but in sound effects like "boing," this simply drawn and animated series appeals to every child's sense of the ridiculous. Gerald is reprimanded for his inab…
Cars 2 (Five-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy)
There's an extra coat of hot wax on Pixar's vibrant, NASCAR-influenced comedy about a world populated entirely by cars. Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) is the slick rookie taking the Piston Cup series by storm when the last race of the season (the film's high-octane opening) ends in a three-way tie. On the way to the tie-breaker race in California, Lightning loses his way off Route 66…
yellow submarine e' un classico d'animazione ispirato dall'omonino brano di john lennon e paul mccartney, e' un racconto fantastico ricco di pace, amore e speranza, arricchito dalle canzoni dei beatles, tra cui eleanor rigby, when i'm sixty-four, lucy in the sky with diamonds e all you need is love
The 12 shorts in this collection were made at the Soyuzmultfilm Studio during the late '80s, shortly before the collapse of the Soviet regime ended the subsidies that had financed the studio's output since its establishment in 1936. Nina Shorina's mordant stop-motion film "Door" (1986) probably ranks as the best known work in the anthology. The outré inhabitants of a crumbling apartment house…
Along with Fantasia and Fantasia 2000, the anthology set contains a third disc that examines a segment of both movies in detail. Each segment has an introduction that has experts (including Leonard Maltin), producer Roy E. Disney, or the animators setting up the piece's history. Notes on the music and dozens of design photos are included on all the segments, although others offer more int…