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Stefan Andersson wrote: Wed Jun 25, 2025 8:19 pm Laurel & Hardy features 1931-40 restored from ClassicFlix:
https://www.classicflix.com/blog/2025/0 ... g-and-more

Synopsis

In cooperation with Paramount Pictures Archives, and newly restored from 4K scans of original studio materials, Cartoon Logic is proud to present the Famous Studios Champion Collection—a selection of the very best and most requested cartoons from the animation house’s neglected creators.

When Paramount Pictures reorganized its animated shorts operation as Famous Studios, so began a search for a new identity. Throughout the 1940s, the Famous talent began experimenting with new series’ and concepts aimed at varied audiences and created an array of beloved characters and hilarity still fondly remembered to this day.

Defined by funny animals waging war, fantasies coming to life, snappy music, and gorgeous candy-like Technicolor®, the Famous Studios Champion Collection features 18 cartoons in all including: comics’ leading lady Little Lulu in two of her finest and funniest cartoons; the complete misadventures of 1940s screwball archetypes Blackie Sheep and Wolfie; and the earliest appearances of Famous superstars Little Audrey, Baby Huey, Herman the Mouse and Casper the Friendly Ghost.

Included are:
No Mutton Fer Nuttin’ (1943)
The Henpecked Rooster (1944)
Suddenly It’s Spring! (1944)
A Lamb in a Jam (1945)
The Friendly Ghost (1945)
Bargain Counter Attack (1946)
Sheep Shape (1946)
Sudden Fried Chicken (1946)
Much Ado About Mutton (1947)
A Bout with a Trout (1947)
There’s Good Boos To-Night (1948)
Butterscotch And Soda (1948)
Readin’, ‘Ritin’, And Rhythmetic (1948)
Hep Cat Symphony (1949)
A Haunting We Will Go (1949)
Campus Capers (1949)
Our Funny Finny Friends (1949)
Quack-a Doodle-Doo (1950)

BONUS FEATURES:
Optional audio commentary by Famous Studios experts Jerry Beck, Will Friedwald, Bob Jaques, Mike Kazaleh, Thad Komorowski and Rob Waldman
Two “Mostly Lost” Cinecolor Noveltoons: Snuffy Smith in Spree for All (1946, black-and-white) and Buzzy the Crow in Cat O’ Nine Ails (1948, picture only as audio is non-extant)
Production artwork galleries

Beautifully restored in 4K, largely from original studio negatives, come 20 cartoons from legendary animation pioneer Max Fleischer in Fleischer Cartoons – Greatest Hits, Volume 1.

For over two decades, Fleischer Studios was unsurpassed in the realm of ingenious animated entertainment. Now, Volume 1 presents many of the studio’s best and funniest cartoons with a depth and clarity likely not seen since their original theatrical releases, and showcases their entire ensemble: Koko the Clown™, Bimbo™, Popeye the Sailor Man™, Superman™, and, of course, Miss Betty Boop™.

Relive the Fleischers’ art and inventions like never before, from the silent era, to the dawn of sound, to their glorious Technicolor spectacles in this carefully curated collection. Each silent short also has musical accompaniment composed and performed by Ben Model, Kevin MacLeod and Joel Pierson.

Surrealism is always on tap with Fleischer, but this is not a dream–these classics are yours to watch forever!

INCLUDES:
Barnacle Bill (1930)
Betty Boop and Grampy (1935)
Betty Boop’s Crazy Inventions (1933)
Betty in Blunderland (1934)
Cartoon Factory (1924)
Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936)
Dinah (1933)
Dizzy Dishes (1930)
The Fortune Teller (1923)
Hot Dog (1930)
Ko-Ko at the Circus (1926)
Ko-Ko’s Earth Control (1928)
Ko-Ko’s Haunted House (1928)
A Language All My Own (1935)
The Mechanical Monsters (1941)
Mysterious Mose (1930)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves (1937)
Small Fry (1939)
Somewhere In Dreamland (1936)
Swing You Sinners! (1930)

therewillbeblus wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 5:01 pm Swing You Sinners! is an all-time favorite, and after sampling Barnacle Bill, this is a thrilling announcement if the rest of the shorts are like this - absolutely surreal and built with a stream-of-consciousness that defies a consistent internal logic. I loved it

therewillbeblus wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 5:01 pm Swing You Sinners! is an all-time favorite, and after sampling Barnacle Bill, this is a thrilling announcement if the rest of the shorts are like this - absolutely surreal and built with a stream-of-consciousness that defies a consistent internal logic. I loved it

domino harvey wrote: Sun Aug 26, 2018 8:46 pm
Swing You Sinners! (Dave Fleischer 1930)
Betty Boop’s pal Bimbo tries to steal a chicken and the entire world (and underworld) contorts itself to serve as punishment in this fascinating animated short. I am drawn to these kind of movies in which injustice is punished by non-corporeal entities who manipulate all known natural laws to enact vengeance (the Girl in a Swing, Triangle), and the pleasure beyond the aesthetics of the fun and fluid animation is in the disproportionate response of the dead and undead to a relatively common and here unsuccessful “sin.” And it makes sense: If we remove judgment from a trusted entity and put it in the hands of the world, why do we assume the world would be just or fair?

domino harvey wrote: Thu Mar 05, 2026 3:59 pm My write up from the 30s list

domino harvey wrote: Sun Aug 26, 2018 8:46 pm
Swing You Sinners! (Dave Fleischer 1930)
Betty Boop’s pal Bimbo tries to steal a chicken and the entire world (and underworld) contorts itself to serve as punishment in this fascinating animated short. I am drawn to these kind of movies in which injustice is punished by non-corporeal entities who manipulate all known natural laws to enact vengeance (the Girl in a Swing, Triangle), and the pleasure beyond the aesthetics of the fun and fluid animation is in the disproportionate response of the dead and undead to a relatively common and here unsuccessful “sin.” And it makes sense: If we remove judgment from a trusted entity and put it in the hands of the world, why do we assume the world would be just or fair?

Are the other titles more like this one or more of the free associative Bimbo’s Initiation variety?

domino harvey wrote: Thu Mar 05, 2026 3:59 pm Are the other titles more like this one or more of the free associative Bimbo’s Initiation variety?

domino harvey wrote: Thu Mar 05, 2026 3:59 pm My write up from the 30s list

domino harvey wrote: Sun Aug 26, 2018 8:46 pm
Swing You Sinners! (Dave Fleischer 1930)
Betty Boop’s pal Bimbo tries to steal a chicken and the entire world (and underworld) contorts itself to serve as punishment in this fascinating animated short. I am drawn to these kind of movies in which injustice is punished by non-corporeal entities who manipulate all known natural laws to enact vengeance (the Girl in a Swing, Triangle), and the pleasure beyond the aesthetics of the fun and fluid animation is in the disproportionate response of the dead and undead to a relatively common and here unsuccessful “sin.” And it makes sense: If we remove judgment from a trusted entity and put it in the hands of the world, why do we assume the world would be just or fair?

Are the other titles more like this one or more of the free associative Bimbo’s Initiation variety?