Top 10 All Time Warner Bros Cartoons

Top 10 All Time Warner Bros Cartoons, are my top 10 restorations of the great Slazenger Studio cartoons spanning 40 years of history. I think you will find these cartoons are now rich in color, HD, and in Ultra Stereo with wide and varied soundtrack, crisp an brilliant.

I do not abuse my rights to the roots of these cartoons, but these versions are mine, restored over the years for various projects distributed by Fox Lorber, Image, Sony, OneEntertaimnent, Madicy and Goodtimes. The days of DVD distribution is over and I refuse to be one of those sad little men reproducing old glories one at a time on a DVD burner, so I present these collections of our hard work over the years free and without strings!

Warner Brothers cartoons had a very distinctive color scheme, one that you could tell the second it came on the screen of the theater. It is this color pattern that I strive to get back for your enjoyment. There were 4 studios with distinct color identity; Warner, Fleischer. Disney and VanBeuren/

Warner had a very commercial = real color, almost the colors found in the real world, but more distinct. The colors were divided by exposed black drawing lines, but very thin, almost imperceptible. You could tell a Warner animation, even the one offs by the quality and high art of them. All Warner cartoons were like a page out of Life Magazine, as close to perfect as it gets.

Fleischer had colors that fit what he was doing in the animation, they were not bright or over the top, to Max Fleischer, color should not be so bright that it overpowers the art of the animator. When they went to the amazing 3 color Technicolor process, this attitude did not change. Restored correctly, Superman is currently bright and colorful, but not over the top like a Disney Cartoon, still settle, and the bright colors were saved for the explosions and car chases, just like in the comics. Looking at the movies, both Gulliver’s and Mr. Bug are settling and almost pastel at times.

Disney, being the king of fantasy wanted over the top colors, juxt apposed colors, colors that popped off the screen more than anyone had ever seen. To Walt Disney, he hired the best righters and animators to make sure he had great stories and wonderful flowing animation, but his hot button was color. Nothing shows this more that Fantasia, where Walt was let to go totally crazy with color, still to this day, Disney finds new and amazing ways to knock our socks off with color even if the story may be a little kiddish, like Frozen.

VanBeuren was actually the first to have the 3 color Technicolor process and boy did he use it to its fullest range. At the time he was criticized for his totally unnatural use of color, over the top and way to bright to be in the real world. His reaction, “you do not seem to understand, this is animation, we deal in the realm of fantasy, reality is for the living, my color direction is to see how far color can be pushed.” VanBeuren said that a week before Technicolor pulled his contract for 3 color and gave it to Walt Disney. You have to admit, VanBeuren had some amazing color for the early 1930’s, some of my restorations are on this channel.
The most Successful and only surviving original animation shorts maker is Warner Brothers animation, even though Disney does still make some shorts, Warner stayed in heavy production until the 1970s as a short film animation studio.

Please enjoy this collection, and let me know any feedback you may have, I think they are about as good as they get considering what I started with. Remember, with Fleischer and Famous, I get many masters from the source, that does not happen with Warner, so I restored from what I could dig up!

Thomas R Reich PhD
Cartoon Crazys Group