Product Details

• Actors: Van Beuren Jim Tyer
• Producers: Chris Buchman, Rex Schneider, Thunderbean Animation Steve Stanchfield
• Format: Black & White, Color, Full Screen, Restored, Animated
• Region: All Regions
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Thunderbean DVD
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000P4S7FQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,978 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Van Beuren's rarely seen Little King cartoon series, based on Otto Soglow's popular comic strip creation, were produced in 1933 and 1934. These charming and nearly forgotton shorts are inventive, funny and entertaining, featuring great animation and musical scores by Gene Rodemich and Winston Sharples. This special collector's edition DVD features (for the first time available anywhere) the complete series, including the pre-Little King Sentinel Louie cartoons, plus Fleischer Studio's 1936 Betty Boop cartoon featuring the Little King, restored from original 16mm and 35mm film prints. Contents: AM to PM (1933) A Dizzy Day (1933) The Fatal Note (1933) Marching Along (1933) On the Pan (1933) Pals (aka Christmas Night) (1933) Jest of Honor (1934) Jolly Good Felons (1934) Sultan Pepper (1934) A Royal Good Time (1934) Art for Art's Sake (1934) Cactus King (1934) Betty Boop and the Little King (1934) Bonus features include still galleries, liner notes by Chris Buchman, Milton Knight and Producer Steve Stanchfield

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thunderbean does it again!, April 6, 2007

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A. Rubio (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Animated Adventures of the Little King (DVD)

Once again, Thunderbean has given us a DVD worth watching over and over again. This time, we get every animated short feauring Otto Soglow's The Little King. With most of the animation coming from the vastly underrated Van Beuren Studios (and his final appearance with Betty Boop coming from the wonderful Fleischer Studios), his majesty has never looked better! These cartoons have been cleaned up and given a shine that looks marvelous. And the sound! So clean. So crisp. Better than they've ever sounded. Thunderbean has outdone themselves this time around.

As for the shorts, they're a definate treat borderlining from slapstick to the downright bizarre. These cartoons need to be seen to be believed. They're a time capsule from a different era featuring a character that should have been given more of an animated spotlight. They're fun fun fun!

If you're an animation collector, this release belongs in your collection. Avoid the cheapy, VHS-transfered releases and get this one!

You're in for a treat!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars At Last - ALL The Little King Cartoons In One Place!, April 11, 2007

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Craig P. Davison (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Animated Adventures of the Little King (DVD)

A complete collection of the Van Beuren Studios' "Little King" cartoons has long been on my video "want" list. Well, Thunderbean has delivered the goods IN SPADES! Not only do we have all of the Van Beuren L.K. titles, but we have two "Sentinel Louie" precursor cartoons plus the Fleischer Studios' one and only L.K. appearance with Betty Boop.

Thunderbean has assembled this collection by searching out the best-looking and best-sounding prints from a world-wide network of archives and collectors. It's AMAZING that a collection assembled with this level of care and effort could be had at such a reasonable price!

If you love vintage cartoon rarities, do not fail to seek out this collection.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Royal Treatment from Thunderbean, July 14, 2007

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William Cross (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Animated Adventures of the Little King (DVD)

Another home run for Thunderbean animation. This "little company that could" has a lesson some of the bigger companies should learn. This is how a package of vintage cartoons should be assembled!

The cartoons have been selected based on the best available prints (some of the titles here are actually composites from several different prints) to recreate the entire catalog of Van Beuren Sentinel Louey/Little King cartoons - with a bonus Fleischer Betty Boop thrown in for good measure.

Long neglected and virtually forgotten, "The Little King" can stand with the best black and white cartoons of the 1930's. The surrealistic gags and jazz soundtracks bring to mind the work of the Fleischer Brothers Studio.

This title has joined the other DVDs I've ordered from Thunderbean ("Attack of the 1930's Characters," "Cubby the Bear," and "Aesop's Fables"). A "must have" for fans of vintage cartoons!