Category: Animation

Computer Animation Magic

Computer Animation Magic on VHS. Directed by Geoffrey de Valois and Steve Michelson. 1986.

Computer Animation Magic on VHS. Directed by Geoffrey de Valois and Steve Michelson. 1986.

From the box:

A Multi-Million Dollar Special Effects Collection

Computer Animation Magic will take you on a delirious one-hour trip through a strange and magical world where anything can be created — swirling electronic logos, chrome dinosaurs, or a melancholy night club piano player. These are just a few samples of the futuristic wizardry you’ll witness in this incredible exposé on computer graphics.

You’ll see how computer graphics creates the dazzling flying-book from Amazing Stories as well as the unbelievable stained glass swordsman who comes to life in Young Sherlock Holmes — one of the finest electronic sequences in film history.

Computer Animation Magic will lift you up and keep you up for one exhilarating hour. This deftly-assembled collection displays the hypnotic works of over 150 production companies and artists from around the world, and took two years to complete!

Computer Animation Magic — it is the threshold of a new era in video realism.

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Cool World

Cool World VHS cover art. Movie starring Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger, Brad Pitt. With Michele Abrams, Deirdre O'Connell. Directed by Ralph Bakshi. 1992.

Cool World on VHS. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger, Brad Pitt. With Michele Abrams, Deirdre O’Connell. Directed by Ralph Bakshi. 1992.

From the box:

When ex-con cartoonist Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne) was behind bars he found escape by creating Cool World, a cartoon series featuring a voluptuous vixen named Holli Would.

But the ‘toonsmith becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli pulls Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. A hard-boiled detective (Brad Pitt)–the only other human in Cool World–cautions Jack with the law: ‘Noids (humans) don’t have sex with doodles (cartoons).

The flesh proves weaker than ink, however, as Holli takes human form (Kim Basinger) in Las Vegas, starting a trans-universal chase that threatens the destruction of both worlds.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit VHS cover art. Movie starring Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd. With Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner, Stubby Kaye. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Based on the story by Gary K. Wolf. 1988.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit on VHS. Starring Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd. With Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner, Stubby Kaye. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Based on the story by Gary K. Wolf. 1988.

From the box:

Touchstone Pictures and Steven Spielberg present A Robert Zemeckis Film

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a tale of a man, a woman and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble. It’s a world where laughing can be dangerous, romance can be hilarious, and Toons and people live side by side. It’s a wonderful place you’ll want to visit again and again.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The chemistry is magic. The effects are astonishing. And the film is unforgettable!

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Macross II: Episodes One And Two

Macross II: Episodes One And Two VHS cover art. Starring Jonathan Charles, Debbie Rogers, Susan Byrkett, Bryan Cranston, Takumi Yamazaki. Directed by Shinichirô Watanabe, Shôji Kawamori. English screenplay and voice direction by Raymond Garcia. 1992.

Macross II: Episodes One And Two on VHS. Starring Jonathan Charles, Debbie Rogers, Susan Byrkett, Bryan Cranston, Takumi Yamazaki. Directed by Shinichirô Watanabe, Shôji Kawamori. English screenplay and voice direction by Raymond Garcia. 1992.

From the box:

Super Dimensional Fortress

Eighty years have passed on Earth since the events chronicled in Macross — Do You Remember Love? The descendants of the Zentradi/Meltradi conflict have established a new society with the people of Earth. The U.N. Spacy force has integrated Zentradi warships into its fleet, and Zentradi and humanity peacefully co-exist.

In episode one, “Contact,” Hibiki Kanzaki of SNN (news network) is after a story about Valkyrie ace Silvie Gena. Events in his life quickly change as an invading force enters the solar system. Armed with the legendary “Minmay Song Attack,” the Earth forces are sent to stop the intruders. Hibiki is assigned to cover the battle and encounters a mysterious and exotic alien woman, Ishtar!

In episode two, “Ishtar,” Hibiki returns with the beautiful micron Ishtar. Hibiki wants to teach her about human culture, but the alien warrior Feff plans to rescue her from Earth. Both Feff and Silvie follow Hibiki and Ishtar to Culture Park Plaza, the site of Earth’s greatest monuments as well as the SDF-1 Macross. Ishtar is strangely drawn to the old ship, but Feff attacks before she can discover the secret of Macross…

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Speed Racer: The Mammoth Car

Speed Racer: The Mammoth Car VHS cover art. Starring Peter Fernandez. 1967.

Speed Racer: The Mammoth Car on VHS. Starring Peter Fernandez. 1967.

From the box:

The Mammoth Car is Speed Racer’s most popular and most dangerous episode! Speed races against a car that literally crushes the competition! Action and adventure in the classic high-speed style! Co-starring the mysterious Racer-X! The super-spy extraordinaire, and secretly Speed Racer’s older brother, Rex Racer!

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Better Off Dead

Better Off Dead VHS cover art. Movie starring Starring John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Diane Franklin, Kim Darby. With Curtis Armstrong, Demian Slade, Amanda Wyss. Directed by Savage Steve Holland. 1985.

Better Off Dead on VHS. Starring Starring John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Diane Franklin, Kim Darby. With Curtis Armstrong, Demian Slade, Amanda Wyss. Directed by Savage Steve Holland. 1985.

From the box:

Teenage life has never been darker… or funnier.

After his girlfriend (Amanda Wyss) ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane (John Cusack) decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts bring him only more and more agony and embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares, a family you can’t help but identify with and a host of wonderful comic characters, Savage Steve Holland’s directorial debut is a masterful look at those painfully funny teen years.

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Pink Floyd The Wall

Pink Floyd The Wall VHS cover art. Movie starring Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson. With Eleanor David, Kevin McKeon. Written by Roger Waters. Animation sequences by Gerald Scarfe. Directed by Alan Parker. 1982.

Pink Floyd The Wall on VHS. Starring Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson. With Eleanor David, Kevin McKeon. Written by Roger Waters. Animation sequences by Gerald Scarfe. Directed by Alan Parker. 1982.

From the box:

Rock superstar Pink (Bob Geldof) has had too many shows, too much dope and too much applause. Somewhere in Los Angeles he sits in a locked hotel room slowly going mad. Join him if you dare on his journey through the spiraling world of insanity where fantasy bends reality into a nightmare. Pink builds brick after brick in his “wall” — until the night he brings a young groupie to the hotel and lets out all his locked up emotions in a screeching climax that will rock your senses and carry you along with Pink, over the edge.

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The Hobbit

The Hobbit on VHS. Starring Orson Bean, John Huston, Brother Theodore. Directed by Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. 1977.

The Hobbit on VHS. Starring Orson Bean, John Huston, Brother Theodore, Richard Boone, Otto Preminger, Hans Conried, Cyril Ritchard, Glenn Yarbrough. Directed by Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. 1977.

From the box:

The place is Middle Earth. The time is long ago, when man shared his days with elves, wizards, goblins, dragons, heroes… and hobbits. Bilbo Baggins is a hero and a hobbit, a roundish, peaceable homebody who sets off on a dangerous quest–even though adventures make hobbits late for dinner!

The adventure begins when the great wizard Gandalf enlists Bilbo’s aid in retrieving a fabulous treasure stolen from friendly dwarves. All Bilbo must do is brave dark forest, towering mountains, hobbit-eating trolls, a slimy Gollum, gigantic spiders, a flame-breathing dragon and more terrors that would alarm any hobbit who’d much rather be home eating buttered muffins. But, reluctantly, off Bilbo goes — so dragons beware!

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