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Giant 600 Cartoon Pack

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For anyone familiar with other Mill Creek collections, this is pretty standard. It's a collection of 600 cartoons, of frequently middling video quality and unknown provenance (i.e. you may being seeing the version originally shown, or the version edited for TV 30 years later). The collection is indiscriminate--"Destination Earth" is a propaganda piece by the oil industry, for example--but most of them are fairly typical cartoons. If you have other cartoon collections, this probably overlaps them, if it doesn't include them. Many of these cartoons are available online from legit sources.

Being familiar with Mill Creek, my worst problem with this set was organization. There's no good reason to spread series across several disks, mixed in with other cartoons. No disk is filled by cartoons with one character or by one series, and one typical example, the Popeye cartoons, have 30 cartoons on one disk, 6 on another, and one more on its lonesome.

Is it worth it? If you have to have just about every cartoon released in these "public domain" cartoon collections in one neat box, then this is your box. If you don't have any "public domain" cartoon collections and want to see one, this will begin and just about end your collection. You might want to grab a few DVDs at a dollar store first, to see if it's to your taste. If you're looking for a decent collection of almost any of the Warner Brothers or Disney characters, then don't look here; little of their work is available here, and it's not the good shorts. If you're looking for beautifully restored film, likewise, you need to look at pricier, smaller sets; this set averages okay with some pretty bad stretches, and at no point has seen careful restoration.

I'm 57 years old so I grew you with these cartoon. It was fun revisiting old friends I grew up with as a child. And at ten dollars, it's a real bargain. Is the quality great, no. Is the animation fantastic, no. But it was a different time and era. For me, there're great.

I've always been attracted to old cartoons. This dvd has lots of them and many great memories are here. There are cartoons by Paul Terry, George Pal, and others from the early days of movie cartoons. Cartoon characters include The Little King, Felix the Cat, Toonerville Trolley, Betty Boop, Popeye, Casper, Little Lulu, Farmer Alfalfa, and Dick & Larry aka Tom & Jerry (not the cat and mouse). You'll surely find some that you like. Nope...there aren't any Looney Tunes here, though.

This is from Mill Crek's Giant 600 Cartoon- Special Collector's Edition". Seems the only diff is a free t-shirt & some other things in the Special edition:

DISC 1
Includes Popeye and Betty Boop

# Popeye - 30 episodes
# Betty Boop - 22 episodes:

DISC 2
Includes Tom & Jerry, Mr Piper, The Three Stooges, Casper, Herman, Gabby, Little Audrey, Little LuLu, Felix the Cat and Mr. Bang, Katrinka & The Skipper
# Tom & Jerry - 5 episodes
# Mr Piper - 7 episodes
# Casper - 3 episodes
# Herman - 3 episodes
# Gabby - 4 episodes
# Little Audrey - 3 episodes
# Little LuLu - 2 episodes
# Felix the Cat - 2 episodes
# Mr. Bang, Katrinka, The Skipper - 3 episodes

DISC 3
Contains cartoons with various characters including Baby Huey, Hunky & Spunky, Mighty Mouse, Woody Woodpecker, Raggedy Ann, Heckle & Jeckle, and more!
# Other - 53 episodes:All's Fair At The Fair, Along Came A Duck, Ants In The Plants, Boy Meets Dog, A Car-Tune Portrait, Circus Capers, The Cob Web Hotel, Comin' Round The Mountain , Crazytown, Cupid Gets His Man, The Enchanted Square, The Fresh Vegetable Mystery, The Golden State, Goofy Goat Antics, Hawaiian Birds, Hector's Hectic Life, In The Museum, It's a Greeks Life, Jingles , Les Escargots, Little Brown Jug, Little Hawk, The Little Stranger, Marriage Wows, Music Academy, A Mutt In The Rut, Nursery Scandal, Once Upon A Time, Palm Court Orchestra, Pantry Panic, Parrotville Old Folks, Parrotville Post Office, Peeping Penguins, Picnic Panic, Play Safe, Professor YaYa's Memoirs, Quack-A-Doodle-Doo, The Queen of Hearts, Red Riding Hood, Scotty Finds a Home, Snow Foolin', The Snow Man, Spinning Mice, The Story of Time, Sultan Pepper , The Sunshine Makers, The Talking Magpies, Time For Love, Vacuum Cleaner, Westward Whoa, Winter Draws On, Wolf! Wolf!, You Can't Shoe a Horsefly

DISC 4
Includes Betty Boop, The Three Stooges, Various Christmas Cartoons and more!
# Betty Boop - 19 episodes
# The Three Stooges - 22 episodes
# Christmas Cartoons - 8 episodes
# Other - 6 episodes:The Big Bad Wolf, Mary's Little Lamb, Old Mother Hubbard, Simple Simon, The Three Bears, Tom Thumb

DISC 5
Includes Tom & Jerry, Felix the Cat, Popeye, Casper, Gabby, Little LuLu, Little Audrey & More!
# Tom & Jerry - 5 episodes
# Felix the Cat - 8 episodes
# Popeye - 6 episodes
# Casper - 2 episodes
# Gabby - 3 episodes
# Little Lulu - 4 episodes
# Oswald Rabbit - 3 episodes
# Little Audrey - 2 episodes
# Molly Moo-Cow - 1 episodes
# Alice - 3 episodes
# Other - 7 episodes: The Cat's Canary, Frisky Frolics, Frozen Frolics, Humpty Dumpty, Magic Mummy, Merry Kittens, The Toyland Caper
Product Description
DISC 6
Includes Hunky & Spunky, Pied Piper & more!
# Hunky & Spunky - 6 episodes
# Pied Piper - 4 episodes
# Other - 42 episodes: The Big Drip, The Big Flame Up, Bimbo's Auto, Bunny Mooning, Chicken a la King, Christopher Columbus, A Coach for Cinderella, Dancing on the Moon, David & Goliath, Dick Whittington's Cat, An Elephant Never Forgets, The Emerald Isle, The Enchanted Horse, Farm Foolery, Gobs of Fun, Granite Hotel, Helter Swelter, Little Red School Mouse, The Lone Star State, The Mild West, Much Ado About Mutton, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, Our Funny Finny Friends, Paul Bunyan, Pest Pupil, Pleased to Eat You, Robin Hood, Robin Hood Rides Again, Scrappily Married, A Self Made Mongrel, The Ski's the Limit, Sing or Swim, Small Fry, Somewhere in Dreamland, The Stork Market, Suddenly It's Spring, The Tears of an Onion, Tom Sawyer, Toys Will Be Toys, Treasure Island, The Trojan Horse, Yankee Doodle Donkey

DISC 7
Includes Calvin and the Colonel, Clutch Cargo, Felix, Aesop's Fables and more!
# Calvin And The Colonel - 4 episodes
# Clutch Cargo - 15 episodes
# Aesop's Fables - 10 episodes
# Felix - 11 episodes
# Space Angel - 5 episodes
# Blackie the Lamb - 2 episodes
# Snap, Crackle & Pop - 1 episodes
# Cinderella - 1 episodes
# Little Gray Neck - 1 episodes
# Little Gray Neck

DISC 8
Includes Fraidy Cat, Gumby, Hoppity Hooper, Wizard of Oz and Popeye
# Fraidy Cat - 9 episodes
# Gumby - 14 episodes
# Hoppity Hooper - 24 episodes
# The Wizard of Oz - 1 episodes
# Moonbird - 1 episodes
# Popeye - 1 episodes

DISC 9
Includes Farmer Alfalfa, Alice, Wacky & Packy, Herman the Mouse and many more!
# Ray Harryhausen - 5 episodes
# Farmer Alfalfa - 12 episodes
# Alice - 6 episodes
# Wacky & Packy - 9 episodes
# Nicky Nome - 2 episodes
# Comicolor - 4 episodes
# Herman the Mouse - 2 episodes
# Van Beuren Studios - 4 episodes
# Christmas Cartoons - 6 episodes

DISC 10
Includes Colonel Bleep, Christmas Cartoons & more!
# Colonel Bleep - 25 episodes
# George Pal Puppetoons - 5 episodes
# Mel-O-Toons - 10 episodes
# Christmas Cartoons - 9 episodes: Little Christmas Burro, Santa's Pocket Watch, Howdy Doody's Christmas, Santa in Animal Land, The Night Before Christmas, The Little Lamb, A Christmas Dream, The Elf and Mr. Little, A Present for Santa Claus
# Meany, Miny, and Moe - 1 episodes

DISC 11
Includes Calvin and the Colonel, Clutch Cargo, Felix the Cat, Tom & Jerry and more!
# Calvin and the Colonel - 4 episodes
# Clutch Cargo - 35 episodes
# Terrytoon - 3 episodes: Billy Mouse's Akwakade, The Black Duck, Sharpshooter
# Felix the Cat - 1 episodes
# Other - 7 episodes: Joe Glow the Firefly, Teacher's Pest, Ups and Down Derby, Joint Wipers, Adventures of Junior Raindrop, Destination Earth, To Spring

DISC 12
Includes The Three Stooges, Hoppity Hooper and more!
# The Three Stooges - 19 episodes
# Hoppity Hooper - 16 episodes
# Max Fleischer - 6 episodes
# Screen Songs - 5 episodes
# Noveltoon - 3 episodes
# Other - 1 episodes: Going Places

The pros:
This set contains an extraordinary amount of material -- more than 5 hours per DVD, and as such is an oustanding value for the price. The cartoons range in quality from execrable or grotesque all the way to breathtakingly beautiful artistic treasures. They also range in time from the 1920s to the 1950s, some possibly from the 60s. Even the poorer cartoons are interesting as illustrations of cartooning history. This is a wonderful set of cartoons!
The (only) cons:
The disks are cheaply made. Some are so poorly made that in one of my video players (a top-of-the line Pioneer stand-alone DVD burner with hard drive) the disks vibrated so much after loading that they came into contact with the optical mechanism carrier and accumulated more scratches with each loading. Not good. One disk refused to play altogether on my Pioneer machine, but did successfully load in a cheaper JVC DVD player. Ultimately, such disks would soon self-destruct from cumulative damage. This is unfortunate, as otherwise the product is attractively packaged, and even the disk labels are beautiful. The contents, as described previously, are beautiful and an oustanding value.
My suggestion is that this set is definitely worth buying, but that you should make yourself backup copies of the disks (provided that this is legal in your area) if you really wish to keep this material playable. Play the backup copies. I've never had any recordable DVDs vibrate or get scratched in any of my DVD players. A great little utility which permits making backup copies, even of copy-protected DVDs, is AnyDVD, in conjunction with a utility called CloneDVD. Both are available at a modest price from a company called slysoft. I've been using these for some years and have found them reliable and a great value. Please be aware that CloneDVD can't copy physically damaged disks, so make backups *before* your originals are damaged. Some DVD burning software (such as Record Now DX) is capable of duplicating slightly damaged disks.
Good luck and happy cartoon watching!

An update to my review: I went to Mill Creek Entertainment's web site, which listed email addresses for customers to contact, and sent an email to customer service describing the quality problems with their disks. I promptly received a very apologetic and helpful email offering to mail me replacement disks for any defective ones. They even said that I didn't have to mail them back the defective disks. They also stated that they would be contacting their manufacturer to investigate this disk quality problem.

How about that for old-fashioned customer service? Just try to get a replacement for a defective DVD from the bigger studios -- good luck; some don't even list any email address for their customers to contact them. Not only does Mill Creek produce DVD sets of cartoons and old movies, all of which are an excellent value, but they have demonstrated great respect for their customers -- all at a very modest price. In my opinion, this company really deserves our business.

Yep, it is lotsa cartoons. Great for when you are stuck sick in bed. Or if you just want to drive the wife crazy!

This 12 DVD set is a treasure chest of cartoons from some famous and not so famous animation studios. Included are eight episodes of Calvin and the Colonel from the early 1960s. Based on the old Amos 'n' Andy Show, CATC even used the voices of Freeman F. Gosden and Charles J. Correll for its lead characters; the very shady Colonel Montogomery J. Klaxon and his naive but conniving friend Calvin Burnside. The laughs come quickly as the show was produced and often written by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher of The Munsters fame. Picture and audio quality for these eight black and white episodes is fairly good.

As for the DVD set generally, some of what I have to say has been noted by other reviewers. This set appears to be a combination of Mill Creek's Amazing 300 and Super 300 cartoon collections. The picture and audio quality ranges from very good to sometimes quite ordinary. Remember these cartoons have been remastered onto DVD but not restored. On the up side, these are single sided discs and there are cartoon characters and themes to keep almost everyone interested. There's lots of Popeye, Betty Boop, Gumby, Three Stooges; and for lovers of late '50s sci-fi, Colonel Bleep. There's also a number of Christmas themed cartoons, a Noah's Ark cartoon, and even a Howdy Doody piece of film.

Also, Tom & Jerry here is not the cat and mouse T&J most of us would be familiar with; Felix the Cat is some very early stuff from the 1920s and 1930s; haven't viewed every disc yet but it seems only one Woody Woodpecker and one Mighty Mouse cartoon are on the set - I say 'seems' because some cartoon characters appear on more than one disc and the disc sleeves don't always list cartoon titles in their correct order.

Overall, this is a good value DVD set (I was lucky enough to purchase mine when it was discounted down to the price of a 300 cartoon set) just so as long as you are not expecting polished cartoons from Disney, Hanna Barbera and Warner Bros.
PS - Pick up the Super 300 Cartoon Collection if you only want Calvin and the Colonel. I believe all eight episodes appear on this smaller DVD set.

I work with small children two Saturday's a month and I needed something to show them for an hour are two. I'm not a fan of the new aged cartoons, so I wanted to let the children watch some older cartoons. The menus were simple and easy to understand and the cartoons were all classic shows. Overall, this is a good value DVD set I purchase mine when it was discounted. This is a must have, just so as long as you are not expecting polished cartoons from Disney, Hanna and The Warner Bros.

people are crazy to think this has poor quality. the quality for these old cartoons are awesome. i saw bad quality on cartoons on other dvds but not this one. this collection is a steel. the money for 600 cartoons you can not beat. this is so well worth the money its unbelievable. the cartoons are great and so is the quality.these cartoons on this collection have a super good quality.i highly recommend this to every cartoon fan. i bought this collectin at a cracker barrel.

600 cartoons. Yes, they're all public domain, so the quality varies wildly, however 600 CARTOONS. Almost for free. I wasn't expecting much (besides quantity) but I've been gobswobbled by the choice here. Hoppity Hooper! I forgot about this cartoon (from Jay Ward - Bullwinkle's creator). TONS of Betty Boop, TONS of the good and bad eras of Popeye, WAY more cartoon stooges than you'd ever want (mostly preceded by a live-action intro by the real SMoe, Larry and Curly Joe). Lots of those old 'sing with the bouncing ball" cartoons that people hitting their 50's will vaguely remember, a bunch of color Fleischers, some surprising things like a short by the creator of that old stoner-beloved animated movie from the '70's "Fantastic Planet", there's a short that won an Academy Award in '59, Herman the Mouse, Baby Huey, a bunch of old Felix the cat, some early Walt Disney's called Oswald, there are some of the earliest animations ever created and the list goes on and on. BUY THIS. It's so cheap, buy a new copy so the company gets some of the money. ONE MORE NOTE: as I understand it, this includes all the other Mill Creek smaller collections - the 200, 150, etc. cartoon sets. One glaring exception - the beautiful "Tears of an Onion" by Fleischer is not on here, but it's on "Ultimate 150 Cartoon Festival", which is worth the price for that cartoon alone. STOP READING AND BUY THIS !!!!