tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693402.post3470792298275354521..comments2023-08-04T04:03:19.618-05:00Comments on Anime Hell: The Halloween Specials That Time Forgot: The Devil & Daniel MouseDr. Milahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02709123264511789800noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693402.post-45213578460394643122009-10-06T17:23:24.199-05:002009-10-06T17:23:24.199-05:00Tohoscope said...
For a brief second I was sur...<i>Tohoscope said...<br /> For a brief second I was surprised to hear that this was on Selectavision, but then I was all, "yeah, it's Selectavision."</i><br /><br />RCA wasn't going to let us down that easy!<br /><br /><i> A month ago I was going through the tapes at Half Price Books when somebody came in with a box of those Selectravision things. All in really good condition, too. Lots of Disney titles. Too bad I don't have a Selectravision player.</i><br /><br />I remember seeing that stuff at a Goodwill nearly two decades ago (and before that, a video store in the early 80's, when membership wasn't free just yet). I can't think of anything in Selectavision I want to see though (or buy badly).Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693402.post-90569526858882457592009-10-06T10:04:14.872-05:002009-10-06T10:04:14.872-05:00For a brief second I was surprised to hear that th...For a brief second I was surprised to hear that this was on Selectavision, but then I was all, "yeah, it's Selectavision."<br /><br />A month ago I was going through the tapes at Half Price Books when somebody came in with a box of those Selectravision things. All in really good condition, too. Lots of Disney titles. Too bad I don't have a Selectravision player.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01621988278894362595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693402.post-47438981612633006702009-10-05T20:14:41.346-05:002009-10-05T20:14:41.346-05:00Tohoscope said...
Also, I've got to give p...<i>Tohoscope said...<br /> Also, I've got to give props to the voice actors who did Weeze and B.L. Wonderful performances that still hold up. Sure, Dan and Jan are good, too. But Weeze and B.L. steal the show.</i><br /><br />Being reminded as children me and my sibs would be playacting those characters out as well. I was usually the devil, my sis was Jan and my brother, probably Dan. My older brother probably got in on the act as well.<br /><br /><i>d. merrill said...<br /> I have the LP from "Devil & Daniel Mouse", at some point it's going to go up on Found Sound. It's on a Selectavision with "Rom-e-o and Julie-8."</i><br /><br />Cool, didn't know there was an LP for that too!<br /><br />"Romie-0 and Julie-8" is another one of those very cooky yet enjoyable specials from them as well. What other animated special would give you a junk pile with the Millennium Falcon ditched in. ^_^<br /><br />I mention a while back about having notice these specials were put on 16mm as well, I have prints of "Cosmic Christmas", "Intergalactic Thanksgiving" and "Take Me Up To The Ballgame", but missed out on a chance to have "The Devil and Daniel Mouse" over a decade ago when I found a copy at a public library's book sale (they wanted to charge by the minute, and I didn't have $25 handy or whatever). Love to get 'em all someday.<br /><br /><i> Our new place is two blocks from Nelvana's offices, actually.</i><br /><br />Extremely cool, but I be nowadays the best they could do is a lot of Flash-based stuff just to keep the work in-house than to send it all overseas as usual. You'd think with all those tax incentives from the government they could do better? Course I hardly ever seen anything new lately on the tube to know for sure, but a lot of it just doesn't appeal to me at all.Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693402.post-38834299962919436432009-10-05T09:53:40.882-05:002009-10-05T09:53:40.882-05:00I have the LP from "Devil & Daniel Mouse&...I have the LP from "Devil & Daniel Mouse", at some point it's going to go up on Found Sound. It's on a Selectavision with "Rom-e-o and Julie-8."<br /><br />Our new place is two blocks from Nelvana's offices, actually.d.merrillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07704651182760972937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693402.post-57460939772467103392009-10-05T07:28:00.936-05:002009-10-05T07:28:00.936-05:00Also, I've got to give props to the voice acto...Also, I've got to give props to the voice actors who did Weeze and B.L. Wonderful performances that still hold up. Sure, Dan and Jan are good, too. But Weeze and B.L. steal the show.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01621988278894362595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693402.post-8988446334316588162009-10-05T00:13:13.083-05:002009-10-05T00:13:13.083-05:00I know what you mean. 1978 was not a big year for...I know what you mean. 1978 was not a big year for anything animation-wise in this country (someone would probably prove me wrong but let 'em, I can take the abuse), and TV animation in general was the pits. What these guys proved was that you didn't need to cut corners if you were doing a TV special such as this with all you got.<br /><br />I once knew one of the guys who animated on this special in particular that I once e-mailed to a long time ago. Not sure what character or scene he had, but I hoped it was one of the familiar ones I liked, especially with the weasel character.Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693402.post-14533530258911613482009-10-04T22:33:32.534-05:002009-10-04T22:33:32.534-05:00I think one of the things that really made The Dev...I think one of the things that really made The Devil & Daniel Mouse stand out at the time was not only the designs but the production values. This was feature quality animation done for a half hour TV special. And it was something of a shock to see after years of cheap limited animation TV specials.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01621988278894362595noreply@blogger.com