Product Details

• Directors: Earl Hurd, Raoul Barre, Tom E. Powers
• Writers: Earl Hurd, Tom E. Powers
• Producers: John Randolph Bray, William Randolph Hearst
• Format: Animated, Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Allumination Filmwor
• VHS Release Date: August 8, 1995
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• ASIN: 6303523137
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #361,991 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

This collection showcases the best of the Library of Congress's animated cartoons from the first decades of this century, an era full of surprises and experimentation. Among the 21 complete films (and two fragments) are samples of early live0action animation from J. Stuart Blackton (The Enchanted Drawing, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces), oddball lovelorn angst from George Herriman's "Krazy Kat", immigrant family shenanigans from "The Katzenjammer Kids," and pranks from "Bobby Bumps" and Tom Power's "Phables" series satirize pre-World War I domestic life. Alongside sophisticated pen artistry by Wallace Carlson (Dreamy Dud) and Winsor McKay (surviving fragments from Gertie on Tour and The Centaurs), are pioneer examples of stop-motion (Mary and Gretel; Willis O'Brien's The Dinosaur and The Missing Link) and cut-out animation (Tony Sarg's Almanac).