tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post3728594892830698245..comments2024-02-25T03:15:48.893-05:00Comments on News and Views by Chris Barat: DVD Review: PEANUTS 1960s COLLECTION (Warner Home Video)Chris Barathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06845538037091279990noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-12871949518878100882009-07-18T19:39:26.262-04:002009-07-18T19:39:26.262-04:00Yeah; there was a time where I bragged about how o...Yeah; there was a time where I bragged about how original TaleSpin was in using real children in all their child character voice overs; until someone on Usenet pointed out that Bill Melendez and company were doing it for the Peanuts gang for YEARS. Still; it's nice to know where Magon gets his ideas from. Despite the downside of using children as voiceovers; I think it's a bonus since it does sound more real; but then again comedy cartoons never needed them since emotion wasn't needed and therefore you could fake the voice and no one would notice. <br /><br />But try pathos without acting and it doesn't work. At least from my experience watching shows. Which is why is was a smart move on Bill's part to use children to voice the children for more realism.<br /><br /> And as for Snoopy: I guess the critics couldn't tell the difference between a talking balloon and a thinking balloon. Tells you the smarts of them doesn't it?Gregory Weaglenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-34522014906724848782009-07-14T21:17:52.723-04:002009-07-14T21:17:52.723-04:00Joe,
Melendez was prominently featured on the min...Joe,<br /><br />Melendez was prominently featured on the mini-documentaries I mentioned that were included with the earlier releases. (They must have been recorded not long before his death.)Another reason why I wish they'd been included with this set.<br /><br />ChrisChris Barathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06845538037091279990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-35769780189641371832009-07-14T20:29:51.512-04:002009-07-14T20:29:51.512-04:00There were numerous clips of Bill Melendez on the ...There were numerous clips of Bill Melendez on the Looney Tunes Golden Collections, before his passing. It’s actually surprising there is no such material that Warners could use here. Peanuts, and its impact on what was then contemporary animation, is certainly worthy of in-depth feature coverage. Though, more so than a program or episode, I’d hate to see an extra feature “double-dipped”, if I owned the original. <br /><br />I guess these specials are so ingrained, that I never even considered that (prior to them) most “little-kid voices” were done by the likes of Daws Butler, Don Messick, Mel Blanc, June Foray, Janet Waldo, and Dick Beals (…never mind Clarence Nash)! Go from WB, to Hanna-Barbera, to Jay Ward, to Roger Ramjet… and on and on. That WAS a significant move that made the show less cartoon-like and more naturalistic! <br /><br />With this Peanuts collection, two Sat AM Cartoons 1960s sets (one out now, another coming in October) and the Tom and Jerry Chuck Jones Collection, WHV appears to be giving the sixties their due! And it couldn’t happen to a more interesting decade! <br /><br />…Now, if only they’d finish Huckleberry Hound!Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.com