Product Details

• Format: Animated, Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Victory Multimedia Consignment
• DVD Release Date: April 22, 2008
• Run Time: 145 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0006UBMFG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #188,277 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Cubby Bear returns!!!! In the early 1930's, Mickey Mouse was the king of cartoons and every studio attempted to capture some of the same success. The Van Beuren Studio chose Cubby Bear, who appeared in 20 cartoons between 1933 and 1934. Created by studio animator Mannie Davis, these charming cartoons are among the best ever produced at the short lived studio (it closed in 1936). They feature surreal gags, crazy animation and great jazzy soundtracks! Presented here are all 20 Cubby Bear cartoons (the entire series assembled for the first time), Including two produced by the Harman/ Ising studio, and one by Harman/ Ising that was never released. These almost forgotten cartoons have been wet-gated and digitally restored from original film materials and presented in their original, uncut form, from THUNDERBEAN ANIMATION. The quality is excellent. Note: some of these shorts contain racial stereotypes and pre-code risqué humor. Parental discretion is advised. Cartoon titles: Opening Night (1933) Love's Labor Won! (1933) The Last Mail (1933) Bubbles and Troubles (1933) Barking Dogs (1933) Indian Whoopie (1933) Fresh Ham (1933) The Nut Factory (1933) Cubby's World Flight (1933) Cubby's Picnic (1933) The Gay Gaucho (1933) Galloping Fanny (1933) Croon Crazy (1933) Sinister Stuff (1934) Goode Night (1934) How's Crops? (1934) Cubby's Stratosphere Flight (1934) Mild Cargo (1934) Fiddlin' Fun (1934) Mischievous Mice (unreleased, 1934) ©1993, 2004 Thunderbean Animation. All Rights Reserved.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars At last, all the Cubby cartoons on one excellent DVD!, March 1, 2005

By 

Lee David Glover (Plymouth, Devon United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Adventures Of Cubby Bear (DVD)

Around the early 1930's, nearly every studio tried to catch up with Disney, even to the extent of making Mickey Mouse-type characters. One example is Van Beuren's Cubby The Bear. Created by animator Mannie Davis as a repacement for Tom & Jerry (not the famous cat-&-mouse, but a Mutt & Jeff-type duo), he made his debut in "Opening Night" in 1933. The character design wasn't uniform throughout the cartoon, and he didn't have much of a personality (neither did Mickey Mouse), but the cartoon featured great, bizzare gags, and a wonderful Gene Rodemich music score. Overall, a good debut, and most of the cartoons afterwards are very entertaining too (highlights include "Love Labor's Won", "Barking Dogs", "Croon Crazy", and "How's Crops?"). There were also three Cubby cartoons made by Harman-Ising after they left Warner Bros (Van Beuren only released two). Although enjoyable, Cubby was redrawn to look like Bosko, and some gags and animation were taken from earlier H-I Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons ("The Gay Gaucho" does borrow quite heavily from "Lady, Play Your Mandolin"). Unfortunately, the Cubby cartoons ended towards the end of 1934, when ex-Disney employee Burt Gillet took over as head director.

This is a first DVD title from Thunderbean Animation, and this is a vert strong debut. The cartoons have been restored using "Wetgate" technology, and look even better than the ones you can normally find on other PD videos and DVDs. In fact, the quality of some of the cartoons are on a par with the restored B&W Mickey Mouse cartoons featured on the Disney Treasures DVD. The only extra on this DVD is an unreleased cartoon, "Mischievious Mice" (made by Harman-Ising in 1933-34, but was released as a television cartoon later in the 1940's).

Overall, a fantastic DVD from Thunderbean (they subsequently made more brilliant classic animation DVDs), and an essential DVD for any animation buff!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cartoon Collectors Dream DVD, December 11, 2004

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D. Walker - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Adventures Of Cubby Bear (DVD)

Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny we all know these cartoon stars. But Cubby Bear?

The character was intended to emulate the Mouse, but somehow he never could quite escape the surrealistic imagery the Van Beuren Studio flavored their cartoon films with. He only lasted about a year, but this series of cartoon films is now cherished by vintage cartoon fans, and rightly so.

Thunderbean Studios has produced another excellent quality DVD, using films sourced from probably the highest quality prints still in existence. Every title is here, even one which never saw theatrical release! Beautifully transferred, with excellent sound quality, the production values rival that of much more expensive "major title" animation DVDS. This is not a "cheapo" quick buck release! If you love vintage animation cartoon films then you will not be disappointed with this one!

Del Walker

DVDToons.com

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If only ALL cartoon characters could get such treatment!, February 7, 2005

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Craig P. Davison (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Adventures Of Cubby Bear (DVD)

I'm sure the segment of the Earth's population who've even HEARD of the cartoon character "Cubby Bear" would statistically work out to be roughly 0% but here we have a disc that contains beautiful transfers of EVERY cartoon in this obscure series!

If you like black & white 1930s cartoons this collection is sure to please! Keep up the good work, THUNDERBEAN!