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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089859853326
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: VCI Entertainment
Manufacturer: VCI Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: VCI Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Running Time: 225 minutes
Sales Rank: 19128
Studio: VCI Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
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Scott McCloud is the Space Angel, a secret agent for EBI (Earth Bureau of Investigation), who together with his friends, Taurus, Crystal, and Professor Mace, travel far and wide from their base on the space station Evening Star, on board the spaceship Starduster. Whether it's battling a mass exile, or stopping a brainwashing mad scientist, it's all in a day's work to secure the welfare of the solar system. Space Angel was an animated science fiction television series produced from early 1962 through 1964. It used the same Synchro-Vox (live-action moving lips over the mouths of the animated characters lips) technique as Clutch Cargo, the first cartoon produced by the same studio, Cambria Productions. The science fiction stories were serialized with five episodes comprising each adventure. Voices included Ned Lefebver as Scott McCloud, with Margaret Kerry and Hal Smith providing other incidental voices.
Bonus Features: Episode Selection, Interview with Margaret Kerry (Tinker Bell), Adlets Specs: DVD9; Color; Year 1962
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Rating: - Stand By for Adventure
Animation is expensive to make, which is why so many full-animation cartoons today are made in Korea and other places overseas. In its beginnings on TV in the late '50s, animators also had to contend with paltry budgets for an entire series, as opposed to the lavish capital for theatrical cartoons. It was widely believed that no one could make a half hour cartoon for TV. Hanna-Barbera did, beginning with The Ruff and Reddy Show, and the rest is animation history.
But it meant cutting corners, what H-B called "limited animation". In H-B and Filmation shows, it meant characters running past the same house and barber pole over and over again, and that animated heads were filmed on mostly non-moving bodies. Jay Ward, for Crusader Rabbit, made different choices, relying on a narrator to tell the story and minimize characters talking. Both Crusader and Sondac's Space Marine, Colonel Bleep, were "cliff-hanger" cartoons, broken into short segments that could be shown by a live TV host, like Captain Kangaroo or J.P. Patches, interspersed throughout a live action kids' show.
To kids of the era, this seemed like a great mix, and Nick brought it back for a short-lived, but popular show called Wienerville. The best known cliff-hanger cartoon is also one of the most loved: Jay Ward's Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The advantages are obvious. Retelling "our story so far" enabled animators to reuse the same animation from the last segment. The narrator's witty and dramatic recap of "when we ... Read More
Rating: - An excellent and long-needed production!
I do not know if younger viewers will appreciate the limited animation and classic "space opera" storylines of SPACE ANGEL but I grew up watching the series and I love it. A collection like this has been needed for a long time. I only hope that there will be more released. The episode selection was well done (more common episodes released by other companies were avoided.) There was one episode that I hadn't seen since I was young and two others that I had never seen- that was worth the cost to me.
These have obviously been remastered- and to an quality that I didn't think was possible given the cheap film stock of the originals and their tendency to degrade over the years. The color is unbelievably bright. Plus, there were no glitches in playing the entire DVD thru to the end.
This is a wonderful excercise in nostalgia for the older viewer- and a good introduction to the Space Angel and his universe for the novice.
Rating: - Ah - A trip down memory lane - and really not bad, even today!
The Space Angel was one of those early sixties cartoon that came out early in the space race. As noted by others, the Space Angel was done by the same folks who did Clutch Cargo, which became a bit of cult favorite because the voice sync was done by superimposing actors' moving lips on still drawings. In effect, what you have is someone animating a comic book - good to excelent art work, but very limited animation. But, it is this wonderful art work that redeems Space Angel - notably that by Alex Toth, who helped on Jonny Quest, Space Ghost, and a host of others. And really, the plots are not too bad - and the science is reasonably accurate - yeah, it gets strained at times - but really the basics are there.
So, an enjoyable trip down memory lane - the prints and sound tracks are in excellent shape! Well worth its modest price!
Rating: - thrilling days of yesteryear!!!!
I'M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT THERE WAS NOTHING BUT
BLACK & WHITE TV'S!!! I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS SHOW AS A KID--AMAZED
AT THE VISUALS/ARTWORK OF THE SHOW!! NOT REALIZING THAT THE GREAT ALEX TOTH
DID ALL THE WORK. NEVER--REALIZING THAT THE SHOW WAS IN COLOR!!!
I EVEN REMEMBER TRYING TO DRAW THE ROCKET!!!
I WAS FACINATED BY THE SUPERIMPOSED HUMAN MOUTHES DOING THE DIALOG.
IT'S REALLY FUN WATCHING THIS STUFF AGAIN. I REALLY HAVE'NT BUMPED INTO THIS
SERIES OVER THE YEARS.
IT JUST BRINGS BACK FOND MEMORIES WHEN ADVENTURE WAS SIMPLE & PURE-FUN!!
MIKE CLARK!!! {NUFF-SAID!!!}
Rating:  - Nostalgic Goofy Fun
Here's a series that I never thought I'd see again. SPACE ANGEL was produced in the early 1960s by Cambria, the production company that gave us CLUTCH CARGO and the execrable NEW THREE STOOGES cartoons. The unique and genuinely strange
"Synchro-Vox" technique of live action mouths superimposed on drawn characters is employed here. The animation is limited, to say the least, and drawn to resemble 1950s science fiction comics, so it's not too surprising to learn that comics stalwart Alex Toth (SPACE GHOST) had a hand in it. Said animation also betrays the "gotta have it yesterday" nature of it all, as many weird errors can be spotted throughout these episodes; I'll let you spot them all yourselves. In spite of this, however, SPACE ANGEL is really surprisingly fun, and I hope that this won't be the only volume to be released. DVD quality is fine, and the disc is reasonably priced. Recommended mostly to retro animation fanatics, though others may enjoy it as well.
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