Buena Vista Home Entertainment previously announced that the 60th
Anniversary Edition of Disney's classic PINOCCHIO would be the first Disney
animated feature to be released in the DVD format [Animation Flash
8/24/99]. Now they have announced that a new VHS edition of PINOCCHIO,
fully restored and THX-certified, will be available on the same day as the
DVD version, October 26, 1999 in the US. This version will include a
"Making of Pinocchio" bonus section, which will only be available on the

New York-based Kino on Video is releasing
two Brothers Quay videos. THE BROTHERS QUAY COLLECTION: TEN ASTONISHING
SHORT FILMS 1984-1993 includes THE CABINET OF JAN SVANKMAJER, THE EPIC OF
GILGAMESH OR THIS UNNAMEABLE LITTLE BROOM, STREET OF CROCODILES, REHEARSALS
FOR EXTINCT ANATOMIES, DRAMOLET (STILLE NACHT I), THE COMB (FROM THE
MUSEUMS OF SLEEP), DE ARTIFICALI PERSPECTIVA OR ANAMORPHOSIS, ARE WE STILL
MARRIED? (STILLE NACHT II), TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS (STILLE NACHT III),

Although Disney has released a few titles on DVD, including THE NIGHTMARE
BEFORE CHRISTMAS and A BUG'S LIFE, they have not released their classics in
the US on DVD, preferring to back DIVX, a DVD competitor that was sold
through Circuit City retail stores. But now that DIVX is defunct, due to
the lack of consumer support, Disney is embracing DVD. Buena Vista Home
Entertainment will debut nine of Disney's animated features on DVD over the
next four months. Each of the titles will be available for a limited 60-day

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

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

Released last week in the USA, Pixar's A BUG'S LIFE was the week's best
selling video and DVD title, selling enough copies to already put it at No.
4 on the list of the year's best selling videos, and No. 10 on the list of
the year's best selling DVD's. (There are no plans to release the Pixar
film on laser disc.) It is already ahead of ANTZ and just behind THE
RUGRATS MOVIE, but farther behind MULAN. Other best selling VHS titles for
the week include THE RUGRATS MOVIE, which finished third; SCOOBY-DOO'S