Comments on: Today’s the Day…

By: chris ford

chris ford — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:19:58 +0000

hey jerry. Glad to hear about popeyes new dvd release i am waking up early on july 17 to be the first at my local dvd store . Say what happened to the popeye show that was a great show you think you could put it back on tv.

By: Marci Cameron

Marci Cameron — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:00:41 +0000

The DVD set is amazing! I got mine at Target almost a month ago. And after watching “Sindbad” and “Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves” with restored opening titles for the first time, I have to say I am impressed! As for that “Making of Popeye as Aladdin” segment, I recently found it on YouTube at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0P795hUCIo It’s very interesting and I hope they include that as an extra on Volume 2. I just hope they can restore the Famous Studios color Popeye cartoons for DVD, those are my faves of the series.

By: Rob Gourlay

Rob Gourlay — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:56:57 +0000

The Popeye set is fantastic! I grew up watching these cartoons on local television in the 60’s and was able to tape them off a Buffalo TV station in the late 80’s. The print quality is beautiful. The set negatives are few: the stacked discs; the pitiful, useless commentary by the three animators; why are there no release dates noted on the packaging or on the screen menus?; a little more technical information on the multi-plane process would have been interesting in a detailed documentary; and how about a poster gallery of one-sheets of the titles in the set.
Just a few other questions: 1)Are there any titles (in this or future sets) that we are seeing complete for the first time? Have the a.a.p. prints we’ve seen on TV been uncut? 2)Were there any trailers produced for the theatrical releases? 3) It would be interesting to know some details on the restorations. Where were the complete prints found or stored, etc.?
I can’t wait for the next set! Great site! Thanks.

By: pp

pp — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:03:10 +0000

That’s the only negative I’ve noticed on this otherwise amazing set. The jittering doesn’t happen in every cartoon, fortunately.

Fabulous restoration and mastering jobs! Great audio.

By: Frank Provasek

Frank Provasek — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:29:16 +0000

My Amazon preorder came Aug 1 and I have watched some of these every day since. Have to give it an A- (but much better than ever seen before) Sort of annoying that the opening ship door credits are rock steady, but the cartoon material still has the up and down jitter usually associated with sprocket wear. Perhaps they were fearful of the rath that would have come from the anti digital noise reduction crowd.

By: Tom Bertino

Tom Bertino — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:29:33 +0000

With regard to the promised “publicity campaign”, I was complekely susprised while watching AMC last weekend (you know: Any Minute a Commercial) and saw ads! TV ads for the thing! TWICE! I’ve never, EVER seen a TV commercial for any of the previous “classic cartoon” collections from any studio. Am I totally wrong or is this, in fact, unprecedented?

By: Eric Homan

Eric Homan — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:03:54 +0000

Great job, Jerry and all those involved. What a fantastic collection, with terrific commentaries and extras. A new standard for cartoon DVDs.

By: randomizer9

randomizer9 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:09:07 +0000

Awesome set, I’ll echo the sentiment regarding the low-rent packaging, is it me or does Warner consistently have the worst DVD boxes? -glares at cardboard-packaged WB DVDs on shelf-

A minor complaint, though, bring on volume 2!