Cartoon Rarities - Aesop's Fables, Volume 2

EXELLENT

This set provides poor-to-fair reference copies of some older, lesser-known cartoons from the Van Beuren studio. There's no pretense of restoration—many are blurry, jittery, and scratchy, and nearly all are mercilessly cropped—but these transfers are still better than the majority of what you'll find floating around the Internet. For $11, I can't complain too much.A few notes:* These discs are made on-demand. That means they're DVD-R. If you have a finicky DVD player, you might want to reconsider purchasing this set.* The cartoons are indeed black and white, despite the deceptive packaging. Color cartoons didn't really become common until the mid-1930s, when Disney's exclusivity deal with Technicolor lapsed.* The second disc has a production fault that causes one cartoon ("Love in a Pond") not to play. I don't know how Alpha Video images their discs, so I'm not sure if this was a replication issue (i.e. an issue with my copy only) or an issue with the master disc image itself (i.e. an issue with all copies). At any rate, buyer beware.

Glad I added this to my collection.

They went to great lengths to make the box all in color. The cartoons are all in black and white, I did not look closely at the description but this is deceptive advertising on the part of the manufacturer

Gift

Although I received this product on time and in good condition, I was very disappointed to find that every single cartoon was in black and white, unlike the front of the DVD jacket that shows all the cartoons in color, which is what I thought it contained. I wished I knew that before I bought it, as I would not have.

Metci

More magnificent surrealism from the Van Beuren studio. The quality's more consistent and generally better than the "Rarities of the 1930s" disc, as well as the cartoons themselves are more weird and fun.

It's always a pleasure to compare the cartoon before and now. Love it.

PICTURE QUALITY NOT BAD , VERY WATCHABLE

Awesome