Customer Reviews

150 Cartoon Classics

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4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

For the price you really can't complain too much. There are about 2/3 of the set that I rate as good cartoons that I'd watch again. Obviously some real clunkers, like THREE STOOGES, the HOFFNUNG & the MR PIPER ones which don't appeal to me liking the bizarre 1930s ones, fortunately there are lots of those on here! Many are typical public domain quality, the worst one is the wonderful COBWEB HOTEL Fleisher Toon which is rough at the start. Some have extra noise too from worn films. 5 stars for 2/3 being good toons & the price.

There are loads of Popeye (23 of them, almost all the post Fleischer ones), just one Casper & Woody Woodpecker, which may disappoint, but the Woody one is a great early 40s one.

BEWARE buying this set if you own the 100 Cartoon collection (with the dog pen drawing on the front) and the 101 Set (from Australia) as these duplicate most of this set. The 101 set copies 75% of this set in the same order!

Here's the full track listing on 4x DVDs...

1 Tuba Tooter
2 Plane Dumb
3 Redskin Blues
4 Jolly Fish
5 Barnyard Bunk
6 Spanish Twist
7 Piano Tooners
8 Pencil Mania
9 Mendelssohn's Spring Song
10 In The Museum
11 Snow Man
12 Goofy Goat Antics
13 Let's Sing With Popeye
14 Circus Capers
15 Sultan Pepper
16 Red Riding Hood
17 Nursery Scandal
18 Boy Meets Dog
19 Westward Whoa
20 Molly Moo Cow Indians
21 Talking Magpies
22 Jerky Turkey
23 Doggone Tired
24 Trolley Ahoy
25 Toonerville Picnic
26 Inki and Mynah Bird
27 Fresh Vegetable Mystery
28 Have You Got Any Castles?
29 Hamateur Night
30 Tale Of Two Kitties
31 Case Of Missing Hare
32 Enchanted Square
33 Private Eye Popeye
34 Porky's Midnight Matinee
35 Tarts and Flowers
36 Flycycle Built For Two
37 Wolf wolf!
38 Bargain Counter Attack

1 Little Hawk
2 Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra
3 Uncle Tom and Little Eva
4 Hoffnung Vacuum Cleaner
5 April Maze
6 Hoffnung Music Academy
7 Hoffnung's Professor Yaya's Memoirs
8 Along Came Duck
9 Story Of Ali Baba
10 Magic Horn
11 Brave Molly
12 Hasty and Princess
13 Kindhearted Girl
14 Three Sisters
15 Proud Princess
16 Sunshine Makers
17 You Can't Shoe Horsefly
18 It's Greek Life
19 Picnic Panic
20 Cupid Gets His Man
21 Molly Moo Cow Robinson Crusoe
22 Scotty Finds Home
23 ParroTVille Post Office
24 Spinning Mice
25 ParroTVille Old Folks
26 Les Escargots
27 Henpecked Rooster
28 Mutt In A Rut
29 Story Of Time
30 Notes To You
31 Mechanical Monsters
32 Fresh Hare
33 There's Good Boos Tonight
34 All's Well
35 Flat Heads
36 Shuteye Popeye
37 Cheese Burglar
38 Stupidstitious Cat

1 Time For Love
2 Little Stranger
3 Hawaiian Birds
4 Peeping Penguins
5 Car-tune Portrait
6 Play Safe
7 All's Fair At Fair (1938)
8 Ants In Plants
9 Cobweb Hotel
10 Day At Zoo
11 Jungle Jitters
12 Nearlyweds
13 Fire Cheese
14 My Friend Monkey
15 On With New
16 Pudgy Takes Bow-wow
17 Rhythm On Reservation
18 Hairbrained Barbers
19 Sock-a-bye Kitty
20 Comin' Round Mountain
21 Crazytown
22 Golden State
23 Winter Draws On
24 Shortnin' Bread
25 Once Upon Time
26 Lost Dream
27 Cad and Caddy
28 Quack-a-doodle-doo
29 Marriage Wows
30 Hector's Hectic Life
31 Falling Hare
32 Gabby Goes Fishing
33 Goofy Goofy Gander
34 I Don't SCare
35 Noisy Silent Movie
36 Littlest Martian
37 Naughty But Mice
38 Early Worm Gets Bird

1 Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
2 Ancient Fistory
3 Taxi-turvey
4 Popeye For President
5 Assault and Flattery
6 Fright To Finish
7 Bride and Gloom
8 Gopher Spinach
9 Customers Wanted
10 Out To Punch
11 Popeye Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
12 Spree Lunch
13 Greek Mirthology
14 Parlez Vous Woo
15 Haul In One
16 Insect To Injury
17 Cookin' With Gags
18 Floor Flusher
19 Little Brown Jug
20 Corny Concerto
21 Wabbit Who Came To Supper
22 Timid Toreador
23 Impatient Patient
24 Casper Friendly Ghost
25 Goose That Laid Golden Egg
26 Pantry Panic
27 Electric Earthquake
28 Pigs In Polka
29 Yankee Doodle Daffy
30 Wacky Wabbit
31 Get That Snack Shack Off Track
32 Boo Moon
33 Patriotic Popeye
34 Big Bad Sindbad
35 Eleventh Hour
36 Queen Of Hearts

What a disappointment - EVERY cartoon in this collection has a BIG, UGLY yellow-orange "MILL CREEK ENTERTAINMENT" LOGO slapped on it! Adding to insult is the fact that some entries (Cobweb Hotel, for example) are so poorly recorded as to be unwatchable: blocky artifacts, flashing, focus problems and more. I threw mine in the trash and will NEVER buy a Mill Creek disc again, ever.

Let me start off by saying that this is the best bang for your buck if you want these hard to find works, and this 4 disc collection has the best versions of these toons I have yet seen, and wide variety to boot!

However, do not think you can sit the kids down unattended, this is a historical collection and contains many cartoons with stereotyped and racial characterizations.

Overall, this may be the best place to start building a collection of works from this bygone era of entertainment.

I bought this primarily because I wanted free shipping (I was about 7-8 bucks away, so I'm thinking why not with this one). This DVD set has no public domain Looney Tunes like one of the reviewers says it does, and the rest of the cartoons are plain bad (and I'm not worried abouit the quality of the film prints).Just stay away, you'll thank yourself later.

I found this gem in Walmart's $5 bin and bought it on a whim. I am old enough to remember when they still showed these cartoons on tv. Alot of these are politically incorrect, crude by today's crystal clear 1080p cgi standards but imho had more heart than stuff i see on tv today. For the price you really can't afford not to have this archive of cartoons your children might otherwise never get to see and reminisce the past yourself. Really hard to complain about the quality of 1930's cartoons on a $5 dvd so i really don't understand some of the bad reviews here and to the person who claimed that "EVERY TOON HAS BIG UGLY COMPANY LOGO" i have to disagree. My copy has the company logo when the dvd first starts but definitely not on every or any of the cartoons.

this was a gift for my son. he loves these dvds . what a great deal 4 dvds for the price was incredible.

150 CARTOON CLASSICS, along with the ULTIMATE 150 CARTOON FESTIVAL, were MCE's original jumbo animation DVD sets. These two multi-packs have been neatly combined (with an attractively designed heavy paper oversleeve) into the AMAZING 300 CLASSIC CARTOON COLLECTION.

Video dubs on "150 Cartoon Classics" vary from very good quality to barely fair. There's no evidence here of digital enhancement. Some shorts are taken from 16mm b&w prints once sold for home use, even though the originals were in color. One example is "Jingles" (it's actually "Mendelssohn's Spring Song" -- "Jingles" being the series name). Although b&w here, this was originally in "Brewster Color." Audio is generally clear, however a few titles have unsynched sound and picture. Also, MILL CREEK flashes their logo on-screen for several seconds midway through each short.

Betty Boop is most plentiful in this collection, followed by Popeye and The New 3 Stooges. Less-common cartoons include works from Britain, France and Canada. Studios represented: AUDIO PRODUCTIONS, BREWSTER, CAMBRIA, CORNELL, FAMOUS, FLEISCHER, HALAS & BATCHELOR, JEFFERSON, LANTZ, NEW WORLD, PIED PIPER, POWERS, SOFAC, SULLIVAN, TERRYTOON, VAN BEUREN and WINKLER.

FAMILY CLASSICS 100 Movie Pack (also from MILL CREEK) is an excellent motion picture supplement to this MCE DVD.


FOR A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM LIST (including studios and synopses),
SEE COMMENTS #1 and #2, LOCATED DIRECTLY BELOW THIS REVIEW.

I PURCHASE THIS OLE SCHOOL CARTOONS FOR MY GRANDSON....HE LOVED IT...I CONSIDER IT A CARTOON WHEN THE HERO RESCUES ARE PLEASANT FOR HIM TO SEE, INSTEAD OF WATCHING THE HEROS OF TODAY WHICH ARE THE ONES THAT KILL...COLOR IS FANTASTIC.....I LOVED IT...BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD

Most cartoons remind me of my childhood and that's exactly why I got the DVD. I am somewhat of a collector and don't want to forget all the good memories. Production quality is A+. Good mix of cartoons.

I have this DVD and it is a great addition to our collection. My 4 year old daughter prefers them to anything else. I loved them as a child and now I find myself glued to the TV when I have them on for my daughter.