The Golden Age of Cartoons: Cultoons! Ads and Oddities

Buy this set! It is from a great company named Thunderbean and Mackinac Media. Transfers are great, the commentary is joyful, and the booklet is great to have with it, too! I think the best short in this set is the Spring song by Cy Young. The transfer is so good, but splicy, and the color is popping good. Plus, that cartoon will be available in HD in an upcoming set that's Blu-ray. That set will also be from Thunderbean. Another good cartoon was Monkey Doodle, which had a very good transfer. Also, if you get this set, you couldn't resist but to replay this commericial, which advertises Wonder Bread. Not really like commercials from now. It is actually a commercial that you can sit down and watch like a show. The transfer is very great, too. So, if you want this dvd set, don't hesitate. It's great. Go and but it right now. I highly recommend it.

It's amazing how much animation has been lost to history. I don't mean that in just a physical way where filmed animation has been destroyed on purpose for various reasons. I mean simply by people who forget they have copies of animation stored in attics, basements, storage units, etc. Much of it was made to advertise products, stores, and brands. This collection brings some of it back into the public consciousness. Although the advertisements main purpose is gone, the artistry, ingenuity, and humor can still be appreciated by today's home entertainment audience. As a kid, I remember watching Cap'n Crunch and Linus the Lionhearted cartoons. They were very popular back in the 60s, but have disappeared since then. Why? Because they were essentially commercials for cereals. Commercials starring Charlie the Tuna, Poppin' Fresh the Pillsbury Dough Boy, the Hamm's Beer bear, Exxon's Tiger, et al have entertained us for years, yet many of them have disappeared from public view. That animation has been sent into obscurity simply because the ad campaign they were a part of ended. I hope many more DVDs/Blu-rays are produced like this one. There is a vast amount of it around gathering dust, when it could easily be entertaining a fairly wide audience. Most people would be happy to view vintage spokesperson characters hawking vintage items from back in the day! There are so many different categories for ads, that compilations categorized into chapters would make them easily digestible in small doses to a sizable market. The quality in both the audio and video is very high for the various segments included. I doubt any of the material here will ever be presented in a better version. I applaud the efforts in this release, and I look forward to more similar releases if sales numbers are high enough to merit them.

I just recently came across the company Thunderbean. These DVDs (this is my second purchase after Cartoons for Victory, another great set) are real treasures for both animation buffs or just anyone interested in classic animation. The actual animated shorts on this disc are exactly how they're advertised: oddities. Monkeydoodle is a prime example of this. You really need to see it just to know how weird it is. The commercials are pretty decent, but a little on the short side (I guess that's why they have a whole DVD for that). Overall, this is an excellent set. The only complaint I have is that I wish it were a bit longer, but I do think it's worth the price just for the odd shorts.

Once again, Thunderbean Animation finds rare cartoon gems and does outstanding restoration work. Highly recommended to animation fans.

A great collection of rarities and oddities (and yes many of these are animated advertisements..but they are very cool to see). This is only for the hardcore animation fans though.

Good to see older cartoons and animated commercials from the 1950s. But looks amateurish in production values. Would not play on two dvd players nor my computer, I had to go to an old 1999 machine to get any play.

This was almost all ads; about zero entertainment value. Includes a 30 minute ad to supermarket managers by Stokely Van Camp.

Thanks for putting this together what fun...I will be ordering the other volumes...Worth the money.