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...

 Hooo boy, Public Domain Highlights is back with a big topic today.  This one may be by far one of the most infamous companies out there that operated.  I'm talking of course about Vidtape Inc.   The origins of the company came about around 1989 as Home Video Syndications Ltd.  Somewhere along the lines either it became Vidtape Inc or these were two separate companies and Vidtape bought them out.  It's hard to tell since hardly any records of the said company exists.  There also were claims that HVS used 35mm prints for the cartoons, but I highly doubt it to be true.  What I do know is true is that their most popular VHS series was Cartoons R Fun which we'll talk about the most on here. First, however, go with me on a journey back in time when I was a lad.  The only tape I ever owned from the company was a Casper one and was their later Wonder Toons brand.  We'll get to that later.  Meanwhile, the VHS rental shop, first Broadwa...

  This will be a quick update on everything happening for Bugs Bunny's Birthday this upcoming week. First up on Me TV is a special episode of Collector's Call.  This time we look at a collector of all things Bugs Bunny.  You may see something you had as a kid as we look at this guy's collection.  Special guest star Jeff Bergman who voiced Bugs Bunny on The Looney Tunes Show, New Looney Tunes, and Space Jam a New Legacy.  That's Sunday 6:30pm ET on Me TV.  Check your local listings.  Otherwise, Frndly if where you can live stream it. Next up is Bugs Bunny Builders.  The latest Looney Tunes series is the first for Cartoonito on Cartoon Network and of the few eductaional Looney Tunes series.  Bugs, Lola, Tweety, and friends run a construction crew and learn how to work together and teamwork helps make the dream work.  This series promises to be faithful to the original classic cartoons while still meeting the educational requirements. ...

  It comes down to this.....The Final Four!!!!  Here are the statistics.   Only 1 #1 seed remains...Elmer Fudd Half of the four are #2 seeds: Sylvester and Sailor Saturn Of the Final Four, 2 are Looney Tunes characters, one Disney, and one anime (more specifically Sailor Moon).  This now means that Looney Tunes are dominant in the tournaments.  We we last left, anime was the dominant one and The Loud House was strong.  Only 1 anime character now remains with The Loud House knocked off entirly.  The same two Looney Tunes characters that were in the Sweet 16 remains. That said, let's talk about our Final Four Sylvester While his next season may be a little rocky with the new Looney Tunes movie, King Tweety, Sylvester was able to pull it off this year with his own success in Space Jam a New Legacy and Looney Tunes Cartoons.  Not to mention his strong presence on Me-TV.  Sylvester has defeated Ronnie Anne, Tom and Jerry, Lynn Loud, and Zim. ...

  We've just received breaking news about some major changes happening to Toon in With Me.  With the success of last Saturday night's Sventoonie, Toony the Tuna has left Toon in with Me to pursue his horror hosting career.  As a result of this, Bill Leff also had been let go due to management changes over at Me TV. For the past year, Bill and Toony had hosted Toon in with Me every weekday morning at 7am ET.  The show is filled with cartoons from the Warner Bros., MGM, Paramount, and Sony theatrical cartoon library with favorites such as Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, and Popeye.  It provided entertaining segments as well as background information on some of the greatest cartoons ever made.  But now that Toony is moving to Sventoonie for his new show, fans may be wondering, who and what will be replacing Bill and Toony.  Fortunately, Me TV decided to skew a younger audience for its cartoons, and with clearance from a major kids network, they were able to an...