Columbia Records will celebrate the 20th anniversary of
the release of PINK FLOYD's album THE WALL with the release of the film on
DVD in October. The film includes animation designed and directed by Gerald Scarfe, who went on
to design Disney's HERCULES. The DVD features a new transfer of the
original widescreen film, as well as unreleased footage, a remastered 5.1
Dolby Digital soundtrack, the 25-minute "making of" documentary THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE WALL, and the new 45-minute documentary RETROSPECTIVE, with

Image Entertainment is releasing BOB CLAMPETT'S BEANY AND CECIL: THE
SPECIAL EDITION DVD on October 12, 1999 in the US. Created by Robert
Clampett, BEANY AND CECIL, about the adventures of a sea sick sea serpent
and his pal, Beany, began as a live broadcast puppet show, TIME FOR BEANY,
in the 1950s, before being re-done as an animated series in the early
1960s. There was also a brief revival for Saturday morning television in
the 1980s. The DVD will include a dozen of the original Beany and Cecil

Warner Bros. Home Video is re-releasing the feature length THE LOONEY,
LOONEY, LOONEY BUGS BUNNY MOVIE, a collection of Looney Tunes by Friz
Freleng. It includes the following Bugs Bunny shorts: KNIGHTY KNIGHT BUGS,
SAHARA HARE, ROMAN LEGION HARE, HIGH DIVING HARE, HARE TRIMMED, SHOW BIZ
BUGS, WILD AND WOOLY HARE, and THE UNMENTIONABLES, as well as CATTY
CORNERED (Tweety & Sylvester), GOLDEN YEGGS (Daffy Duck), and THE THREE
LITTLE BOPS. (Note: Some films may not be complete.) Also from Warner Bros.

Disney is releasing three original made-for-video titles. MADELINE: LOST IN PARIS will appear on August 3. Featuring the voice talents of Jason Alexander, Lauren Bacall, and Christopher Plummer, the story is based on characters that first appeared in the Madeline book series by Ludwig Bemelmans. In LOST IN PARIS, Madeline and her eleven school friends get immersed in an evil plot to steal Madeline's inheritance. BELLE'S TALES OF FRIENDSHIP and HERCULES: ZERO TO HERO will both be released on August 17.

This list of upcoming home entertainment releases includes some new titles,
but most of them are new only to DVD. Disney has just re-released ROBIN
HOOD and ALICE IN WONDERLAND; their live-action RETURN TO OZ, which
includes some stop-motion by Will Vinton Studios, will be released on DVD
and VHS on August 10. Touchstone's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? will be
released on DVD on September 28. Warner Bros. has just released 1999's
animated THE KING AND I on both VHS and DVD; WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE

A.D.V. Films is releasing the following titles in the US. CITY HUNTER: BAY
CITY WARS, and SORCERER HUNTERS VOLUME 5 - FORBIDDEN DESIRES, are being
released on October 12, while SAKURA WARS 2, SAKURA WARS DVD, and VARIABLE
GEO, are being released on October 26. All of these titles will be released
in both English dubbed and Japanese with English subtitles. A.D.V.'s
Softcel division, which specializes in titles with nudity, sex, and adult
situations, is releasing CAN CAN BUNNY and COUNTDOWN: AKIRA on September

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