Cartoon Classics-Volume 7

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General		Extras
Category	Animation	None
Rating
Year Of Production	?
Running Time	71:25
RSDL / Flipper	No/No	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Menu
Region Coding	1,2,3,4,5,6	Directed By	Chuck Jones Friz Freleng Art Davis
Studio Distributor	Flashback Home Entertainment	Starring	Mel Blanc
Case	C-Button-Version 2
RPI	$9.95	Music	Carl W. Stalling

The cartoons featured on this disc are:

• Tom Turk and Daffy - Will Tom avoid being Elmer Fudd's dinner, or will Daffy take the cake, so to speak?
• Hiss and Make Up - Wellington and Roscoe are driving Granny mad. Will they end up outside in the cold?
• The Trial of Mr Wolf - Maybe the big, bad wolf was not so bad after all.
• Of Thee I Sting - Mosquito boot-camp.
• Two Gophers From Texas - The Goofy Gophers take on a hungry dog, with consummate ease, and utmost courtesy.
• Hobo Bobo - Little Bobo the elephant dreams of better times in the circus.
• Double Chaser - A mouse uses a bulldog as a canine shield against a determined cat.
• Holiday for Shoestrings - A shoemaker's work is never done, unless, of course, it is all done by elves.
• The Gay Anties - A day in the life of hungry ants at a picnic. The picnic of someone else of course.
• Conrad The Sailor - Conrad the cat fights tooth and nail with the annoying Daffy Duck.

    So there you have it, an interesting collection of cartoons from the Warner Bros. stable. The poor transfer quality aside, this is quite a good purchase given the very cheap price. A great way to keep the children at bay for just over an hour.

Video

    This disc is presented in the very-nearly-original-aspect-ratio of 1.33:1, and it is not 16x9 enhanced.

    Hmm, sharpness, ahh, yes, umm, where to begin... All episodes in this collection are very soft, without any hint approaching sharpness. Shadow detail is quite poor given the constant encroachment of low level noise. There is a lot of chroma noise present, and combined with a drastically over-bright transfer, this makes it very difficult to pick up any colour gradients in the transfer. Most lighter colours wash out presenting a very bleak landscape for cartoons, and dark colours tend to blend together. This effect is worsened by the misaligned chroma signal, shown throughout by primary colours washing over the edges of nearby objects. If you are seeing a blue halo down one side of a character, don't be concerned - it is the poorly aligned chroma signal. During the fade-to-black at the end of each episode, the luminance returns to a much more natural level. It's a shame that this only lasts for a second.

    Given the poor quality of the luminance portion of the transfer it is quite difficult to pick out specific examples of MPEG artefacts. Posterization occurs with regular monotony. Film artefacts abound with just about every problem known to man (or woman).

    There are no subtitles present on this single layered disc.

Video Ratings Summary

Sharpness
Shadow Detail
Colour
Grain/Pixelization
Film-To-Video Artefacts
Film Artefacts
Overall

Audio

    There is one English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono track, encoded at 192kbps, available on this disc.

    Dialogue quality is acceptable throughout. Audio sync is a bit dubious in a couple of episodes where the on-screen action seems quite out of time with the soundtrack. There are numerous audible pops and crackles, a particularly obvious occurrence of which can be found at around 18:40.

    The music is credited to Carl W. Stalling and is the usual Merrie Melodies fare.

    The surround speakers are never called to action and the subwoofer lay dormant for the entirety of the feature.

Audio Ratings Summary

Dialogue
Audio Sync
Clicks/Pops/Dropouts
Surround Channel Use
Subwoofer
Overall

Menu

    The video quality is very poor.

    The audio is sub par.

    The extras do not exist.

Video
Audio
Extras
Plot
Overall