Weird Cover On The Same Old Cartoons

Molly Moo-Cow is one of the all time weird cartoon heroes, right up there with Fleischer`s Hunky and Spunky for being oddly odd. But is that any reason to update the cover image to make her look like Cow from Cow and Chicken playing superhero? What up with that?



This disk from EastWest is a standard fair Public Domain cartoon DVD. Mostly Van Beuren from the Bert Gillet/Tom Palmer era with 3 Fleischer cartoons added in, one of them an all time favorite of mine.

The disk does have the kind of rare Molly Moo-Cow and Rip Van Winkle. The other Mollys are all over the place. It has a good copy of Dancing on the Moon, one of the best of the later Fleischer cartoons.

But It also has Bold King Cole one of the low points for silent superstar Felix the Cat, who sings in high squeaky Mickey voice. Not that this film is out of line with what Gillet was putting out at Van Beuren at that time. But because it is a sad come down to a great silent star. Kind of like Buster Keaton in his later talky pictures. Sad! He shouldn`t have to put up with this crappy material.

Okay disk but doesn`t add anything new to my collection. Some of the best color transfers on the Molly Moo-Cows. But the cover art is kind of insulting.