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"America's Greatest Cartoonist," Winsor McCay (1869-1934) was a master draftsman
and illustrator who began his career as a newspaper illustration artist and editorial cartoonist in the late 1890s. McCay then advanced to become one of animation's true
pioneers, and this DVD collects every surviving film that McCay ever made. His best-known short, Gertie the Dinosaur (1914), not only promoted the public's
ongoing fascination with dinosaurs, but its title character was perhaps the first prehistoric creature in movie history to be imbued with human characteristics.  Click Here for price and info
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Filmed in VIDECOLOR and
SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a master class in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a
virtue out of the fact that (a) the show is in color and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest
scale, predating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armageddon by 30 years and more and fetishizing gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond
movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and
Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. Click Here for price and info
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Lyle the Kindly Viking
. This brawny band of Vikings love their job (and have an affinity for big-screen TVs) but cannot understand why the meek Lyle (Junior Asparagus, natch) wants to share his meager belongings
with their victims. Certainly, the sharing ways of Lyle will win the day. Click Here for price and info
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While Heero and Quatre wage their battles on the ground, the other Gundam pilots remain in space. Duo must take the offensive while piloting an incomplete Gundam
Deathscythe into battle. Back on Earth, Zechs continues his crusade to destroy the Romefeller's Mobile Dolls. The Treize Faction faces near destruction at the hands
of the Romefeller Foundation, while Heero must head alone towards the battlefield and with him, the destructive power of a new Gundam, is leashed. Click Here for price and info
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Set in medieval Japan, Miyazaki's original
story envisions a struggle between nature and man. The march of technology, embodied in the dark iron forges of the ambitious Tatara clan, threatens the natural
forces explicit in the benevolent Great God of the Forest and the wide-eyed, spectral spirits he protects. When Ashitaka, a young warrior from a remote, and endangered, village clan,
kills a ravenous, boar-like monster, he discovers the beast is in fact an infectious "demon god," transformed by human anger. Ashitaka's quest to solve the beast's fatal
curse brings him into the midst of human political intrigues as well as the more crucial battle between man and nature Click Here for price and info
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With its "Super-Marionation"-animated characters (their strings endearingly in plain sight) and way-cool supersonic vehicles and space-age gadgets, each hour-long episode
plays like a mini-James Bond film. This boxed set contains six fab episodes that chronicle the further futuristic adventures of International Rescue, led by former astronaut
Jeff Tracey and manned by his five sons, who pilot the five Thunderbirds aircraft. They are aided on the ground by the glamorous and unflappable Lady Penelope,
who is squired around in a pink Rolls Royce by her devoted chauffeur, Parker ("Yes, milady"). Adults who formed their own Thunderbirds squadron on the playgrounds
of America in the '60s and '70s should be thrilled with these newly digitally remastered episodes. Click Here for price and info
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Dinosaurs come alive like never before in this costly computer-animated film from Disney. After a breathtaking opening (a dino egg is kidnapped), the film changes style;
realistic dinosaurs are given human characteristics and voices. The kidnapped egg grows into an iguanodon named Aladar, who is raised by lemurs on a lush island
void of other dinosaurs. When a meteorite destroys their island home in a thrilling sequence, the lemur family and Aladar become part of a dinosaur troop roaming the
mainland deserts looking for the lush nesting grounds. Click Here for price and info
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An Outlaw's life can sure be complicated. After encountering other outlaws, pirates, and the evil known as the Ctarl-Ctarl, Gene
and company are speeding along happily through the galaxy. However, with the final battle at hand, the crew of the Outlaw Star must find the legendary Galactic Leyline
before the MacDougell brothers and the powerful Hanzanko finds it first. The battle for absolute power begins as the Outlaw Star's crew must put their lives on the line to
save the universe from these powerful madmen. A battle that will rage across multiple planes of existence in the climactic conclusion of "Outlaw Star." Click Here for price and info
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