In the 1930s and 1940s, before George Pal made classic features like The Time Machine (1960) and The War of the Worlds (1953), he created dazzling stop-motion animated short subjects called PUPPETOONS™ which utilized an astonishing Pal invention called the replacement figure or series puppet. Inconceivably, thousands of crafted wood puppets would be replaced for each frame of film. Pal's Big Idea transformed the flat cartoon into three dimension. Over the years, Puppetoons are often praised as some of the greatest works of stop-motion animation ever conceived.

In 1987, working with Mrs. George Pal, Arnold Leibovit produced and directed The Puppetoon Movie ©. In 2013, an acclaimed HD restoration Blu-ray was released and now for the first time Leibovit presents Puppetoon masterpieces restored from Original 35mm Technicolor Successive Exposure Negatives (SEN) or 35mm (IB) Imbibition Technicolor Nitrate Prints.

Puppetoons (High Definition)

Dipsy Gypsy (1940)
Radio Valve Revolution (1934)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1935)
A Hatful of Dreams (1944)
Rescue Brigade (1937)
In Lamp Light Land (1935)
Jasper and the Choo-Choo (1942)
Love On The Range (1938)
The Gay Knighties (1941)
Two Gun Rusty (1944)
How An Advertising Poster Came About (1938)
Jasper Goes Hunting (1944)
Sky Pirates (1938)
Jasper's Close Shave (1945)
The Ship of the Ether (1934)
Good Night Rusty (1943)
Wilbur the Lion (1946)
Jasper Tell (1944)

Extras (Standard Definition)

This is Oil, No.1: Prospecting for Petroleum (1946) Shell Oil Company Inc.
Trailers From Hell: Arnold Leibovit on The Puppetoon Movie
Trailers From Hell: Arnold Leibovit on The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
The Puppetoon Movie Speedy Alka-Seltzer Promo Miles Laboratory
The Puppetoon Movie Montage
Full Production and Donor Credits


Includes 6-Panel Color Booklet, Liner Notes by Arnold Leibovit

Blu-ray:

Digital Video: 1080p High-Definition Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1
Audio: Dual Mono
Subtitles: Selected Subjects Optional English
Run Time: 186 minutes
Technicolor & Gasparcolor/Black & White
Disc Configuration BD Single Layer
Region Free Code "0" All Countries
Not Rated

DVD:

Digital Video: Standard Definition Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1
Audio: Dual Mono
Subtitles: Selected Subjects Optional English
Run Time: 186 minutes
Technicolor & Gasparcolor/Black & White
Disc Configuration DVD-9 Duel Layer
Region Free Code "0" All Countries
Not Rated


* The Ship of the Ether first time in HD

©™ Arnold Leibovit

Courtesy Paramount Pictures, EYE Filmmuseum, The British Film Institute, The Library of Congress, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Philips Company Archives, GlaxoSmithKline, KPN Telecommunications, Bio Vacantieoord, Royal Verkade, Netherland Institute of Sound and Vision, J. Walter Thompson, Miles Laboratories, Chris and Mrs. Maria Cooper, Sandor Szlatinay, Mark Kausler