I've been interested in this topic more and more over the last year. The animation quality is just top notch and it's got such a funky style that I'm surprised something so weird looking would have been the mainstream.
And the best part is a lot of this stuff is available free on YouTube as much has slipped into the public domain. Popeye in these mythological adventures is the best.
I'm a big fan of Fleischer Studios. My Dad had those Popeye movies on Super8mm film, so I saw them a lot of a kid. I recently picked up the first volume of the Popeye DVD collection. I bought the Superman cartoons on VHS tapes mastered from 35mm prints about 1980. I just love them.
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I am reading a free sample right now and at the very beginning -- I'm at the part where a dude comes along and figures out by painting the figures onto a transparent piece of celluloid, you can start doing cartoons with backgrounds. I think it's the 1920s.
This 4k restoration of Max Fleischer's "Superman - The Mad Scientist" is unbelievable, it looks practically new.
Was this the only "serious" animated adventure series done by any studio at this time period? Almost everything else I can think of is humor except for Snow White & the Seven Dwarves.
Original Popeye cartoons are hilarious. I have the full set of the Fleischer black and white ones on DVD. Popeye's constant mumbling commentary just makes it so good. Animation as a whole back then was done meticulously and with so much detail and movement.
Original Popeye cartoons are hilarious. I have the full set of the Fleischer black and white ones on DVD. Popeye's constant mumbling commentary just makes it so good. Animation as a whole back then was done meticulously and with so much detail and movement.
Envy! I should have bought those sets; I think they're out of print now.
I bought the first set and then somehow got distracted. BAD DOOT
Cuphead is insanely difficult and makes you want to throw the controller through your screen. But it does capture those old cartoons feel amazingly well.
A Leonard Maltin special on Max Fleischer.Remember seeing this when it aired on the A&E channel back when that channel actually featured arts and entertainment.
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Cuphead is insanely difficult and makes you want to throw the controller through your screen. But it does capture those old cartoons feel amazingly well.
Does anyone know, is there a YouTube clip that lets you just watch a successful play-through?
Cuphead is insanely difficult and makes you want to throw the controller through your screen. But it does capture those old cartoons feel amazingly well.
Does anyone know, is there a YouTube clip that lets you just watch a successful play-through?
You can find playthroughs of nearly any game by searching "let's play (name of game)".
Cuphead is insanely difficult and makes you want to throw the controller through your screen. But it does capture those old cartoons feel amazingly well.
Does anyone know, is there a YouTube clip that lets you just watch a successful play-through?
You can find playthroughs of nearly any game by searching "let's play (name of game)".
Cuphead is insanely difficult and makes you want to throw the controller through your screen. But it does capture those old cartoons feel amazingly well.
Does anyone know, is there a YouTube clip that lets you just watch a successful play-through?
You can find playthroughs of nearly any game by searching "let's play (name of game)".
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