Talk:The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show
That makes all of them. -- Signed by James (talk) 00:22, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- Nice, hope to see you start on the episodes soon. -- Snoopy The Dog (talk) 00:23, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
About The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show
Hi Snoopy, are all the episodes of The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (including the Droopy ones) by Filmation available on the Boomerang streaming app and are they all either NTSC or PAL prints?
If they are all in the PAL format, that probably means that Hallmark possibly must have discarded all the original film negatives, print rolls and original sound masters and other archival material belonging to Filmation and only kept PAL copies.
According to TV Tropes and here's the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/Filmation
Many 2000s DVD releases of these cartoons have the sound higher pitched. This was because, when they owned the rights to the library in 1995, Hallmark (the card company) deliberately threw out the original masters (as well as sound masters and other important archival material) and made new ones- but only for international distribution, apparently because they hated Filmation's library (which begs the question of why they even brought the rights to begin with); this was discovered when Entertainment Rights (which has, through various mergers, been absorbed into Dreamworks Animation, and by extension, NBCUniversal) bought it off Hallmark. Hence, the majority of the library is now high-pitched, due to being in the PAL format as compared to NTSC. Some of the lucky few to escape this included Ghostbusters (both the 1976 live-action and 1986 animated versions), several of their little-known live-action series like Ark II, and Star Trek: The Animated Series (the latter being held by Paramount, then CBS), and likely other series held by other companies, like their DC Comics cartoons (distributed by Warner Bros.). That said, one could always lower the pitch of the sound to replicate the original masters.
So i take it the entire Filmation library might be slightly higher pitched (including He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, The Archie Show and others) due to being in the PAL format, even though some of the lucky few to have escaped the purge included Ghostbusters (both the 1976 live-action and 1986 animated versions), several of their little-known live-action series like Ark II, and Star Trek: The Animated Series (the latter being held by Paramount, then CBS), and likely other series held by other companies, like their DC Comics cartoons (distributed by Warner Bros.) such as The Adventures of Batman possibly still being in the NTSC pitch and speed?
What are your thoughts about that? --Michael (talk) 15:17, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
- Interesting, although I don't have the Boomerang app. -- Snoopy The Dog (talk) 15:18, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
- Boomerang doesn't exist in my region, but there is a likely chance that the show is in an NTSC format. When I was growing up, I vaguely remember seeing it on a channel called Teletoon Retro. It was basically a Canadian equivalent to the Boomerang cable channel, and focused its programming on re-airing classic cartoons (including those from Hanna-Barbera, for example). Since 2015, the channel is no longer available, though the regular Teletoon channel still exists on Canadian cable television.
