Friday, December 10, 2004
Okay, time for me to eat some words. Back in October I mouthed off on how un-useable Disney's "On the Front Lines" DVD is in a classroom setting with limited time. over-protective-on-front-lines
I believe everything I said then is still true, the user interface is hard to use, they force you to watch a disclaimer before each cartoon but Jerry Beck put me into the right prospective when he said that he doesn`t care who he has to listen to for what kind of disclaimer before getting to watch Education For Death. He`s just glad that they opened the vault.
He`s right, he`s right. The only way to see the stuff on this DVD use to be to find a bootleg 16mm print up some dark alley.
This year ASIFA-Hollywood is giving a Special Achievement award to Disney's "On the Front Lines" DVD.
The things on this disk set are amazing. My god, Victory Through Air Power. I didn`t have that before. And this film may have changed the very outcome of the war. It shifted the US war effort from Sea Power to Air Power.
And Der Feuhrer`s Face, before this disk all that we could find out there is Milt Neal on Cartoons at War talking about this Oscar(R) winning short animation.
I`m sorry for badmouthing the interface with its forced disclaimers. I was just mad that I couldn`t show my class more of the treasures from the Disney vault. I should be grateful like Jerry just to see these films to have them to show my students. And if I am going to have to set through a disclaimer to get to the good stuff then Leonard Maltin is the guy I would chose to listen to.
This is a great set of disks and Disney done good! (sic) Thanks for opening the vaults guys.
