Well so much for whatever’s left of a productive afternoon…
Not sure we’re talking about the same thing, but I have a couple of those – like 500 or more cartoons, now in the public domain, in a box of DVDs. Some disks will have several episodes from one series, while other disks are seemingly random. Anyway, it’s how I discovered Hoppity Hooper – which is relevant to this website.
(after 10m 54s)
I’m apparently in a small minority among Tom & Jerry fans, but I really like the Gene Deitch episodes, for example “Dicky Moe:”
Also, the important takeaway from these is to audibly hum to yourself, like this fellow, as you go about your business:
I wouldn’t claim that Deitch’s Tom and Jerry’s are the best. But I think Deitch also took the series in his own direction. I’d hate to see the new Looney Tunes become an ill-fated attempt to re-heat a soufflé.
I remember watching Tom and Jerry Kids in the early '90s. In one episode they used the Atari 2600 version of Donkey Kong for sound effects – they can’t possibly have had that low of a budget; seemed more like it was intentionally half-assed. (Slightly more on this subject)
On a related note, I miss splicing tape (& making loops etc.). Around the same time I was doing that, I was trying to build oscillators, ring modulators etc. on breadboards. Some snide asshole* asked, why didn’t I just buy a synthesizer? Well, where’s the fun in that? Also, I could afford to spend $10-20 on a breadboard and some resistors, transistors etc. – a synth, not so much.
*(our significant others were pals, so I couldn’t completely avoid him)
Same goes, I guess, for what Man Ray did with photography (and how he did it) vs. what one can do with Photoshop.
