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| Space Angel Collection 1 (Full Col Dol) | 
 enlarge | Director: Dick Brown
Actors: Ned Lefebver, Margaret Kerry, Hal Smith
Studio: VCI Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $7.24
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 38227
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 225
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: UTED8533D
UPC: 089859853326
EAN: 0089859853326
ASIN: B001B0H7D6
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
Release Date: July 29, 2008
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Studio: Video Communications Inc. Release Date: 07/29/2008 Run time: 225 minutes Rating: Nr
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Stand By for Adventure November 12, 2008
Animation is expensive to make, which is why so many full-animation cartoons today are made in Korea and other places overseas. In its beginnings on TV in the late '50s, animators also had to contend with paltry budgets for an entire series, as opposed to the lavish capital for theatrical cartoons. It was widely believed that no one could make a half hour cartoon for TV. Hanna-Barbera did, beginning with The Ruff and Reddy Show, and the rest is animation history.
But it meant cutting corners, what H-B called "limited animation". In H-B and Filmation shows, it meant characters running past the same house and barber pole over and over again, and that animated heads were filmed on mostly non-moving bodies. Jay Ward, for Crusader Rabbit, made different choices, relying on a narrator to tell the story and minimize characters talking. Both Crusader and Sondac's Space Marine, Colonel Bleep, were "cliff-hanger" cartoons, broken into short segments that could be shown by a live TV host, like Captain Kangaroo or J.P. Patches, interspersed throughout a live action kids' show.
To kids of the era, this seemed like a great mix, and Nick brought it back for a short-lived, but popular show called Wienerville. The best known cliff-hanger cartoon is also one of the most loved: Jay Ward's Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The advantages are obvious. Retelling "our story so far" enabled animators to reuse the same animation from the last segment. The narrator's witty and dramatic recap of "when we last left Moose and Squirrel" showed that you didn't really need to animate much if you had a winning combination of great character design and scripts that played like radio.
Cambria Productions, known for very limited animation cartoons, released a cliff-hanger series in 1959 called Clutch Cargo, drawn sort of from Terry and the Pirates in the Sunday comics, and using a bizarre technique called Synchro-vox, in which human lips were superimposed over characters heads, and which had been seen in '50s shorts in which zoo animals talked.
Space Angel, which aired from 1962- 1964, took the process further. It was in color, each 25 minute story split into five cliff-hanger segments (which made for convenient commercial breaks). Cambria minimized the synchro-vox scenes by having characters' mouths mostly covered by microphones. The design, by illustrator Alex Toth, used a lot of black, and resembles a graphic novel. The animators made the same choices as early anime like Speed Racer: animate the important parts. Thus, in Space Angel, lamps blink on control panels, a rocket fires on a space ship, and the art keeps you watching.
Space Angel inherited a space opera tradition in full swing, with Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, Flash Gordon, and numerous other live action serials, themselves the offspring of space-themed radio shows. The challenge was to do it in animation. Space Angel influenced numerous later programs, including Jonny Quest, as well as live action shows like Star Trek. Taurus is a Scottish powerplant technician aboard the Star Duster. Was Scotty's role meant as a later tribute? Because Space Angel is the secret identity of pilot Scott McCloud, and works for the Earth Bureau of Investigation, there's also a gumshoe/ gangbusters angle that could generate countless dramatic plots.
Space Angel may not appeal to viewers of tech 'toons like Star Wars: The Clone Wars (or it may), but this 9 show collection will be welcomed by animation fans and historians, as well as anyone who remembers it. VCI Entertainment is finally filling the void left for so many years, and catering to the classic TV and family audience which has been so long ignored by major studios. VCI is bringing back affordable collections of great shows, like the eagerly awaited Space Angel, to viewers who remember how ground-breaking it once was, and are primed once again to stand by for adventure.
An excellent and long-needed production! October 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I do not know if younger viewers will appreciate the limited animation and classic "space opera" storylines of SPACE ANGEL but I grew up watching the series and I love it. A collection like this has been needed for a long time. I only hope that there will be more released. The episode selection was well done (more common episodes released by other companies were avoided.) There was one episode that I hadn't seen since I was young and two others that I had never seen- that was worth the cost to me.
These have obviously been remastered- and to an quality that I didn't think was possible given the cheap film stock of the originals and their tendency to degrade over the years. The color is unbelievably bright. Plus, there were no glitches in playing the entire DVD thru to the end.
This is a wonderful excercise in nostalgia for the older viewer- and a good introduction to the Space Angel and his universe for the novice.
Ah - A trip down memory lane - and really not bad, even today! September 5, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Space Angel was one of those early sixties cartoon that came out early in the space race. As noted by others, the Space Angel was done by the same folks who did Clutch Cargo, which became a bit of cult favorite because the voice sync was done by superimposing actors' moving lips on still drawings. In effect, what you have is someone animating a comic book - good to excelent art work, but very limited animation. But, it is this wonderful art work that redeems Space Angel - notably that by Alex Toth, who helped on Jonny Quest, Space Ghost, and a host of others. And really, the plots are not too bad - and the science is reasonably accurate - yeah, it gets strained at times - but really the basics are there.
So, an enjoyable trip down memory lane - the prints and sound tracks are in excellent shape! Well worth its modest price!
thrilling days of yesteryear!!!! August 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT THERE WAS NOTHING BUT
BLACK & WHITE TV'S!!! I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS SHOW AS A KID--AMAZED
AT THE VISUALS/ARTWORK OF THE SHOW!! NOT REALIZING THAT THE GREAT ALEX TOTH
DID ALL THE WORK. NEVER--REALIZING THAT THE SHOW WAS IN COLOR!!!
I EVEN REMEMBER TRYING TO DRAW THE ROCKET!!!
I WAS FACINATED BY THE SUPERIMPOSED HUMAN MOUTHES DOING THE DIALOG.
IT'S REALLY FUN WATCHING THIS STUFF AGAIN. I REALLY HAVE'NT BUMPED INTO THIS
SERIES OVER THE YEARS.
IT JUST BRINGS BACK FOND MEMORIES WHEN ADVENTURE WAS SIMPLE & PURE-FUN!!
MIKE CLARK!!! {NUFF-SAID!!!}
 Nostalgic Goofy Fun August 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Here's a series that I never thought I'd see again. SPACE ANGEL was produced in the early 1960s by Cambria, the production company that gave us CLUTCH CARGO and the execrable NEW THREE STOOGES cartoons. The unique and genuinely strange
"Synchro-Vox" technique of live action mouths superimposed on drawn characters is employed here. The animation is limited, to say the least, and drawn to resemble 1950s science fiction comics, so it's not too surprising to learn that comics stalwart Alex Toth (SPACE GHOST) had a hand in it. Said animation also betrays the "gotta have it yesterday" nature of it all, as many weird errors can be spotted throughout these episodes; I'll let you spot them all yourselves. In spite of this, however, SPACE ANGEL is really surprisingly fun, and I hope that this won't be the only volume to be released. DVD quality is fine, and the disc is reasonably priced. Recommended mostly to retro animation fanatics, though others may enjoy it as well.
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