 French Comicolor and Flip the Frog DVD sets, Anyone seen these? |
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 May 17 2005, 05:25 PM
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QUOTE (Am01ne @ May 17 2005, 04:43 AM) So purchasing these french sets would be redundant if one already owned the earlier Image releases? Not if the Flip the Frog cartoons listed above as missing from the Image discs are included. |
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May 17 2005, 06:42 PM
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So it's just the Flip cartoons than, and if so, can anyone confirm whether the following are offered on the French sets...
Jail Birds (1931) Fire! FIRE! (1932) Phoney Express (1932) Pale-Face (1933) The Village Specialist (1931) Flip's Lunch Room (1933) Puppy Love (1932) Flying Fists (1930) Stormy Seas (1932) Africa Squeaks (1931) Little Orphan Willie (1930) Bulloney (1933) Also, does anyone have any info as to whether the menu screens and whatnot are all in French? France isn't PAL, is it? -------------------- WARNER BROS... Bring MGM's HAPPY HARMONIES / BARNEY BEAR / TEX AVERY Series To DVD!!! |
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May 17 2005, 06:49 PM
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QUOTE (Am01ne @ May 17 2005, 10:42 AM) France isn't PAL, is it? Officially, France uses SECAM, but oddly enough their DVDs are PAL-encoded. |
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May 17 2005, 10:40 PM
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QUOTE (Lee Glover @ May 17 2005, 10:49 AM) QUOTE (Am01ne @ May 17 2005, 10:42 AM) France isn't PAL, is it? Officially, France uses SECAM, but oddly enough their DVDs are PAL-encoded. There is no SECAM as far as DVD goes. I guess all PAL dvd players output something that works over there. |
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May 18 2005, 07:31 PM
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MK2's Flip the Frog dvd contains :
(a preface by Serge Bromberg, producer, animation historian) 1930 : - Fiddlesticks (colored version) - Flying Fists - The Village Barber - Little Orphan Willie - The Cuckoo Murder Case - Puddle Pranks 1931 : - The Village Smitty - The Soup Song - Laughing Gas - Ragtime Romeo - The New Car - Movie Mad - The Village Specialist - Jail Birds - Africa Squeaks - Spooks 1932 : - The Milkman - Fire-Fire - What a Life - Puppy Love - School Days - The Bully - The Office Boy - Room Runners - Stormy Seas - Circus - The Goal Rush - Phoney Express 1933 : - The Music Lesson - Nurse Maid - Funny Face - Coo Coo The Magician - Flip's Lunch Room - Techno-Cracked - Bulloney - Chinaman's Chance - Pale Face - Soda Squirt MK2 ComiColor 2 DVDs set contains : DVD1 : (a preface by Serge Bromberg, producer, animation historian) 1933 : - Jack & the Beanstalk 1934 : - The Little Red Hen - The Brave Tin Soldier - Puss in Boots - The Queen of Hearts - Aladdin & the Wonderful Lamp - The Headless Horseman - The Valiant Tailor - Don Quixote - Jack Frost DVD2 : 1935 : - Little Black Sambo - The Brementown Musicians - Old Mother Hubbard - Mary's Little Lamb - Summertime - Sinbad the Sailor - The Three Bears - Balloonland - Simple Simon - Humpty Dumpty 1936 : - Ali Baba - Tom Thumb - Dick Wittington's Cat - Little Boy Blue - Happy Days |
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May 18 2005, 08:25 PM
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I wouldn't mind buying the Flip collection (just for completeness sake), but as I already have all the Comicolor cartoons on the Image "Cartoons That Time Forgot" series and Steve's Attack of the 30's Characters DVD, I'll give that one a miss
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Dec 6 2006, 10:30 PM
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bumping this one up from a while back.......had forgot about these.....wondering if anyone picked these up and could comment on how they look, especially compared to the Image discs.
Thanks! |
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Dec 7 2006, 05:32 AM
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I have the M2k Flip the Frog DVD. I've never seen the Image set so I can't compare them. The cartoons do look good on the French set. The French set also includes a brief documentary on Iwerks & his studio. English subtitles are available for the documentary.
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Dec 7 2006, 06:14 AM
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The French Betty Boop set had interlace problems. Can you still
frame through the cartoons on this set without jitter frames or combined frames? thanks steve -------------------- Stephen Worth sworth@animationarchive.org
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Dec 7 2006, 07:14 AM
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Yes, I can still frame through the cartoons without any problems. Here are some screen shots from Africa Squeaks.
  
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Dec 10 2006, 01:22 AM
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I wish we had these in the states, I wonder if some people can post the Flip cartoons that are not on the Image DVD on youtube. I love Flip!
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Jan 7 2007, 03:31 PM
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I haven't done extensive comparisons, but so far I would say the Mk2 Flip the Frog set is worth the upgrade from the Image discs for quality alone, not to mention the missing cartoons. The image is much more stable and clean, but not in a digitally scrubbed to death way, and the sound is miles better, with the Image sounding like a sock is over my speaker(s). There's also better detail because the black level is balanced better....the Image discs often look "blasted out", so that some background details seem to be invisible.
I got mine from a seller on Amazon Marketplace (France, of course), for around $25, shipped. There was only one seller who shipped internationally, acsadis_, but I see it is relisted by him at EUR 9,95 currently. Might have to try the Comicolor set now! This post has been edited by unclehulot: Jan 7 2007, 03:41 PM |
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Feb 18 2007, 11:34 PM
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QUOTE (Little Red Henski @ Dec 7 2006, 07:14 AM)  Yes, I can still frame through the cartoons without any problems. Here are some screen shots from Africa Squeaks. How do you guys get screen shots or frame grabs off of DVDs? I have a Mac G4 and the DVD player automatically turns off the screen shot function, and there's no way to just grab a frame off the screen that I know of? It would be great to be able to get screen shots that could be compared in another program. |
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Feb 19 2007, 12:51 AM
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QUOTE (Larry Latham @ Feb 18 2007, 03:34 PM) How do you guys get screen shots or frame grabs off of DVDs? I have a Mac G4 and the DVD player automatically turns off the screen shot function, and there's no way to just grab a frame off the screen that I know of? It would be great to be able to get screen shots that could be compared in another program. I use a freeware program called SnapNDrag for the Mac. Works great on DVD images. You can find it at http://www.yellowmug.com/snapndrag/. |
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