World The Fleischer cartoons are coming to DVD...

[Sawyer]

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/max-fleischers-superman.html

I'm looking foreward to it.

 

[WallCrawl]

I downloaded hi res .mov files of all of them a while back. Definitely buying the DVD.

 

[Sawyer]

That cover looks great, too.

 

[Johann Krauss]

couple of episodes

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[batman44]

Nice, I'll be picking this up.

 

[p4poetic]

That's great!! I remember watching the reruns when I was young.

 

[Changeling]

Never seen em. Are they good?

 

[p4poetic]

^Yes. They're classics. If you even remotely like Superman and haven't seen them you are a disgrace. OK, not a disgrace but um...you should watch them.

 

[The Shredder]

I'll be picking this one up ... looking forward to watching the retrospective featurettes.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

These have been available on DVD many times over... including on that big 14 disc Superman box-set from 2006.

I think the retrospective featurettes were on there as well. So... meh!

 

[Sawyer]

These have been available on DVD many times over... including on that big 14 disc Superman box-set from 2006.

I think the retrospective featurettes were on there as well. So... meh!

But look at that cover art!!! up:

 

[theMan-Bat]

Awesome! While I already have all the cartoons on this DVD:

I'll still be getting this new set for the cartoons fully restored, the featurette First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series which has interviews with Fleischer animator Myron Waldman, Richard Fleischer, Mark Fleischer, Leslie Cabarga (author of The Fleischer Story), Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, Roger Stern and the new The Man, The Myth, Superman featurette and that cover.

This is from The Complete Superman Collection - Diamond Anniversary Edition DVD from Bosko/Image which I have:

And this is the restored version from the original masters on this new set:

Much better!

 

[Superark]

^^Awesome stuff!! God I love those cartoons!!

 

[Panthro]

Just how many times have the Fleischer cartoons been put on DVD anyway?

 

[p4poetic]

For sentimental reasons, I kind of like the un-restored picture.

 

[Sawyer]

Now, is that a gorgeous cover or is that a gorgeous cover?

 

[Sawyer]

Bump.

Anyone get this yesterday? I did.

 

[theMan-Bat]

After years of seeing faded scratchy prints this DVD set is awesome! The restoring of these cartoons from their original masters really brings out their astonishingly detailed backgrounds, the dramatic film noir-ish lighting effects and the intoxicatingly rich vivid colors.

There is one documentary called The Man, the Myth, Superman about Superman's roots in mythology and another documentary called First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series about the history of these 1940s Fleischer cartoons. If you don't get this you are really missing out!

 

[Team Andino]

I saw this at Target early this week an wanted to pick it up but couldn't due to lack of $$. Rest assure first thing tomorrow morning after work I'll be going to Target an adding this greatness to my collection