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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
By: Ryan Ball
Warner Home Video announced that it will release the animated series The New Adventures of Superman (1966) and The New Adventures of Batman (1977) as two separate two-disc collector sets on June 26. Each release will feature all episodes of the Filmation shows, plus retrospective documentaries.
The New Adventures of Superman will offer 36 installments of the CBS cartoon series that introduced to the screen intrepid reporter Jimmy Olsen and such iconic villains as Lex Luthor and Brainiac. The 6-minute vignettes will be accompanied by a featurette titled Superman in 66, which explores how the ’60s era influenced the character of Superman and how Filmation brought that out on screen.
The New Adventures of Batman features the voices of Adam West and Burt Ward, who starred in the 1966 live-action series. The show has Batman, Robin and Batgirl battling various villains in Gotham City with the occasional help of Batmite, a dimensional imp. All 16 episodes are included, along with a doc titled Dark Versus Light–Filmation and the Batman. Through interviews with the president and publisher of DC Comics, the president of Warner Bros. Animation and others, the extra feature looks at the legacy of Filmation, its animation style and how the studio provided a lighter, more comical version of the brooding character introduced in the pages of Detective Comics. In addition, Filmation historian Michael Swanigan and Filmation founder Lou Schiemer will provide commentary on two of the episodes. Each disc set will retail for $26.99.
http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/6618
(Put this in the Batman products thread as well)
By: Ryan Ball
Warner Home Video announced that it will release the animated series The New Adventures of Superman (1966) and The New Adventures of Batman (1977) as two separate two-disc collector sets on June 26. Each release will feature all episodes of the Filmation shows, plus retrospective documentaries.
The New Adventures of Superman will offer 36 installments of the CBS cartoon series that introduced to the screen intrepid reporter Jimmy Olsen and such iconic villains as Lex Luthor and Brainiac. The 6-minute vignettes will be accompanied by a featurette titled Superman in 66, which explores how the ’60s era influenced the character of Superman and how Filmation brought that out on screen.
The New Adventures of Batman features the voices of Adam West and Burt Ward, who starred in the 1966 live-action series. The show has Batman, Robin and Batgirl battling various villains in Gotham City with the occasional help of Batmite, a dimensional imp. All 16 episodes are included, along with a doc titled Dark Versus Light–Filmation and the Batman. Through interviews with the president and publisher of DC Comics, the president of Warner Bros. Animation and others, the extra feature looks at the legacy of Filmation, its animation style and how the studio provided a lighter, more comical version of the brooding character introduced in the pages of Detective Comics. In addition, Filmation historian Michael Swanigan and Filmation founder Lou Schiemer will provide commentary on two of the episodes. Each disc set will retail for $26.99.
http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/6618
(Put this in the Batman products thread as well)
