Torrance, California-based Expanded Entertainment, which produced the
Tournee of Animation and Animation Celebration in recent years, and
compiled and distributed tapes of award-winning animated shorts, has sold
its inventory to Chicago-based Facets Video, which also handles The Whole
Toon Catalog. The titles include four Animation Celebration volumes,
British Animation Invasion, six International Tournee of Animation volumes,
The World's Greatest Animation, and several other titles. Once Facets'

Long-withheld due to a legal snag, this fall MGM Home Entertainment will be
reissuing YELLOW SUBMARINE. This release will restore YELLOW SUBMARINE to
its original English release length, which is said to be three and a half
minutes longer than the US release, restoring the "Hey Bulldog" sequence
that was cut for reasons of length for the original Amercian theatrical
release. MGM/UA's new transfer is said to be bright and colorful, without a
trace of the film dirt and scratches that mar the earlier video release.

Houston, Texas-based ADV Films is releasing GALAXY FRAULEIN YUNA RETURNS on
July 13 and QUEEN EMERALDAS on July 27 in the US. Both ADV Films titles
will be available in subtitled and dubbed versions. For more information
visit www.advfilms.com. New York City-based Central Park Media is releasing
RECORD OF LODOSS WAR: CHRONICLES OF THE HEROIC KNIGHT - A NEW LEGEND
BEGINS, MIDNIGHT PANTHER: GENERAL RELEASE VERSION, and THE SLAYERS NEXT:
THE FORBIDDEN DANCE? on August 8 in the US, and RECORD OF LODOSS WAR:

The team that created Fox's ANASTASIA, director Don Bluth, partner and
producer Gary Goldman, and the Fox Animation Studio have finished a sequel
called BARTOK THE MAGNIFICENT which will be released on video and DVD on
November 16. The wisecracking bat, voiced by Hank Azaria, is promoted to
headline the music-filled sequel, with Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Tilly, Tim
Curry and Catherine O'Hara taking on other voice roles. BARTOK is the first
major Fox direct-to-video title produced in-house at their Phoenix facility

The April Fool's Day episode of SOUTH PARK which starred the kids' favorite
TV show characters, Terrance & Phillip, will be available in US stores on
June 15. This is the only full-length, half-hour episode featuring the two
Canadian action stars from the "show-within-a-show" on SOUTH PARK. The
episode was broadcast on April 1, 1998, the date viewers were expecting to
see a cliffhanger identifying Cartman's father. As a result of this April
Fool's Day trick, Comedy Central received thousands of e-mails and letters

As we reported, on June 1 Rhino Home Video released THE WORLD OF SID &
MARTY KROFFT, a three-volume set that included one episode from every
Krofft Saturday morning show. Now on July 20 the kooky shows of Sid & Marty
Krofft will once again find their way into American living rooms with the
home video release of individual episodes of H.R. PUFNSTUF, SIGMUND & THE
SEA MONSTERS, LAND OF THE LOST, BUGALOOS, LIDSVILLE, and FAR OUT SPACE
NUTS. While these shows are mostly live-action (the primary exception is

Manga Video will release BLACK JACK in the US on June 29, 1999. Directed by
Osamu Dezaki, this 1993 direct to video release from Japan is based on a
manga by Osamu Tezuka that was first serialized in Japan from 1973-78.
Tezuka is known as the father of animation and comic books in Japan, and
specifically as the creator of such TV series as ASTRO BOY and MARINE BOY,
as well as award-winning shorts such as JUMPING. In BLACK JACK, Dr. Black
Jack, an unlicensed but extremely successful surgeon, is a lone wolf who

TWEETY: TWEET & LOVELY gives US fans of the lovable little canary and his
always-hungry pursuer, Sylvester, 10 of their funniest Warner cartoons.
Included are "Red Riding Hoodwinked," "Fowl Weather," "A Pizza Tweety Pie,"
"Tugboat Granny," "Rebel Without Claws", "Tweety's Circus", "Greedy for
Tweety", "Hawaiian Aye Aye", "Tweet and Lovely", and "Catty Cornered". 66
min. Warner Home Video. US street date: June 22. $14.95. TWEETY: HOME TWEET
HOME includes ten more cartoons featuring Tweety and Sylvester. "Birds

A boxed set of TV shows made by Sid and Marty Krofft in the 1970's collects
episodes from thirteen Krofft programs, including the short programs that
were part of "The Krofft Super Show," and will be released by Rhino Home
Video on May 18 in the USA. These shows are not animated, but their cheesy
"special effects" have a camp appeal for many fans of animation, especially
for the children of the Seventies.


Tape 1 (120 mins.) includes:


H.R. PUFNSTUF - "Book, Flute, & Candle" Episode 12. Jimmy finds Freddie The

Siren Entertainment, an Australian company, has released eight volumes
of THE MILTON THE MONSTER SHOW, available in both VHS PAL and NTSC
formats. In the fall of 1964, THE MUNSTERS and THE ADDAMS FAMILY,
sitcoms about families of monsters, appeared on US TV. Attempting to
cash in on their subsequent success, Hal Seeger Productions produced THE
MILTON THE MONSTER SHOW for ABC's 1965-1966 season. Milton is a giant
Frankenstein monster-type created by Professor Weirdo and Count Kook.
His creators meant Milton to be scary, but he turns out to be a