THE PUPPETOON MOVIE VOLUME 2 Blu-Ray + DVD features More Academy Award®-winning stop-motion animated Puppetoons of George Pal. This landmark collector's release includes 18 Restored High Definition Puppetoons never before released on any home video format*. Brilliant by any measure, these shorts are pure eye candy that must be seen to be believed!
In the 1930s and 1940s, before George Pal made classic features like The Time Machine (1960) and The War of the Worlds (1953), he created dazzling stop-motion animated short subjects called PUPPETOONS™ which utilized an astonishing Pal invention called the replacement figure or series puppet where thousands of wood puppets were created and replaced as required for each advancing frame of film. Pal’s big Idea transformed the flat cartoon into three dimension. Puppetoons are often praised as some of the great works of stop-motion animation ever conceived.
In 1987, working with Mrs. George Pal, Arnold Leibovit produced and directed The Puppetoon Movie©. In 2013, an acclaimed HD restoration Blu-ray was released and now for the first time Leibovit presents Puppetoon masterpieces restored from Original 35mm Technicolor Successive Exposure Negatives (SEN) or 35mm (IB) Imbibition Technicolor Nitrate Prints.
Of special interest to fans will be licensed appearances by none other than Bugs Bunny and Superman, both at the height of their popularity when these shorts were made!
Puppetoons (High Definition)
- Dipsy Gypsy (1940)
- Radio Valve Revolution (1934)
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1935)
- A Hatful of Dreams (1944)
- Rescue Brigade (1937)
- In Lamp Light Land (1935)
- Jasper and the Choo-Choo (1942)
- Love On The Range (1938)
- The Gay Knighties (1941)
- Two Gun Rusty (1944)
- How An Advertising Poster Came About (1938)
- Jasper Goes Hunting (1944)
- Sky Pirates (1938)
- Jasper’s Close Shave (1945)
- The Ship of the Ether (1934)
- Good Night Rusty (1943)
- Wilbur the Lion (1946)
- Jasper Tell (1944)
Extras (Standard Definition)
This is Oil, No.1: Prospecting for Petroleum (1946) Shell Oil Company Inc.
Trailers From Hell: Arnold Leibovit on The Puppetoon Movie
Trailers From Hell: Arnold Leibovit on The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
The Puppetoon Movie Speedy Alka-Seltzer Promo Miles Laboratory
The Puppetoon Movie Montage
Full Production and Donor Credits
Includes 6-Panel Color Booklet, Liner Notes by Arnold Leibovit
Blu-ray:
Digital Video: 1080p High-Definition Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1
Audio: Dual Mono
Subtitles: Selected Subjects Optional English
Run Time: 186 minutes
Technicolor & Gasparcolor/Black & White
Disc Configuration BD Single Layer
Region Free Code "0" All Countries
Not Rated
DVD:
Digital Video: Standard Definition Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1
Audio: Dual Mono
Subtitles: Selected Subjects Optional English
Run Time: 186 minutes
Technicolor & Gasparcolor/Black & White
Disc Configuration DVD-9 Duel Layer
Region Free Code "0" All Countries
Not Rated
* The Ship of the Ether first time in HD