The Delbert Cartoon Report

 Like that rash on your skin, this thread never goes away, where we highlight the best and worst, though mostly worst, public domain companies.  Today's company is a small but somewhat impact full company known as Silver Screen Video. Very little is known about this company.  It, essentially, was another fly by day company.  Its earliest known tapes were around 1989, its latest.....around 1990.  Two years, and they couldn't keep a profit.  Clearly they couldn't be that bad......could they? Well for the art covers for starters, yes.  The covers for a lot of their tapes are really bad.  Some of these looked like they were drawn by a five year old.  The many different volumes of tapes include Mickey Mouse, which we'll talk about later, Superman, Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, Popeye, Mighty Mouse, Woody Woodpecker, Tweety, Elmer Fudd, Heckle and Jeckle, and Casper.   Our first infamous tape is Mickey Mouse which appear...

  For those that have been following the recent updates, you may have heard about the leaked plots coming for the live action series for The Loud House.  There were statements of a girl (or boy, or non-binary....you never know in this day and age) named Charlie that's supposed to be in it and it's been suggested that this character or some other significant other is Lincoln's crush.  Immediately the backlash happened especially on Twitter.  "Who is this crush?  It should be Ronnie Anne!  This better say Ronnie Anne is his crush or I'll get furious!"  The tweets go on and on and on.......... Now, I don't know what is going to happen to the series, and if it has bad writing, I'm not going to defend that, but if fans start throwing fits sending death and harassment threats to the writers, producers, directors, and heaven forbid the actors, then yeah, I'm going to defend the people involved in the series.  This controversy brought to light an argument...

  30 years ago this month, Cartoon Network celebrated a big anniversary.....30 years.  It was launched due to Turner's acquisition of Hanna-Barbera, not just the old library, but the studio itself, which meant that new content could be made for Turner.  With all of those resources as well as Turner owned cartoons prior to Hanna-Barbera (MGM, pre-1948 Warner Bros. Cartoons, and the theatrical Popeye cartoons), it was enough to launch an all cartoon channel. Now Cartoon Network has fully acknowledged the big anniversary with many tributes, look backs, and other cool stuff.  Some of it, I do fear, is to convince their new owners, Discovery, that they are relevant.  If you have been reading the news, you know what I'm talking about.  Many animated shows are being canceled and deleted off of HBO Max.  These shows include Infinity Train, OK KO, and more recently Final Space.  And in the case of Final Space, all copies are being destroyed.  Now I ha...