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	DVD Review - The Puppetoon Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Leibovit starts the tribute with a newly filmed stop-motion prologue, in some ways prefiguring the opening scene of "Jurassic Park." We are in a peaceful glade, the roving camera piercing through branches until it settles upon a deer drinking from a brook.
		For me, the Puppetoon represented in the theatrical version that really shows Pal as a visionary is "John Henry and the Inky Poo." Nominated for an Oscar (as Best Animated Short) in 1946, "John Henry" is an epic account of the railroad worker who bested a rail-driving machine and entered legend.
		Baker fondly recalls the buzz of activity at the Puppetoon studio, uses the puppets to help illustrate the replacement animation process (it’s always helpful to use visual tools!) and laments the loss of Pal for himself and the world.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_puppetoon_movie.shtml (1491 words)

	Amazon.ca: Puppetoon Movie: DVD: Arnold Leibovit,Paul Frees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		All of the Puppetoons were made before television was invented, when the movie theater was the true pinnacle of the dream vision manifest experience, although there were radios in practically every home.
		George Pal financed several of his Puppetoons by funding from clients who were basically paying to have their products' recognition foisted on an unsuspecting movie-going public.
		Three of these Puppetoons (4, 6, and 11) are complete versions of ones cropped in 'The Puppetoon Movie' and all twelve are crisper and clearer too.
	www.amazon.ca /Puppetoon-Movie-Arnold-Leibovit/dp/B00004Z4VL (1609 words)

	Puppetoon Movie, Fun For the Whole Family! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Both "The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal" and "The Puppetoon Movie" are now available on DVD in expanded director's versions which may be available for purchase at the showing.
		"The Puppetoon Movie" is a loving tribute to Pal who died in 1980 at the age of 72.
		He is currently working on producing a remake of Pal's other classic, "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao," and is also in pre-production on a sci-fi romantic comedy, which he is directing.
	www.stgeorgechamber.com /ARTICLES/puppettoon_movie.htm (792 words)

	The Puppetoon Movie
		Jasper, a very cute little boy, who was a major figure in Puppetoons who starred in over 20 features, is trapped in a music store.
		He is surrounded by a number of the original Puppetoon characters in this segment.
		Puppetoons, many of them Oscar nominees, were in a class by themselves that have never been duplicated.
	www.dvdcorner.net /html/puppet.html (1551 words)

	DVD Review of Puppetoon Movie, The - DVDtoons! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		“The Puppetoon Movie” theatrically released in 1987, is both a tribute to the director, and homage to this often overlooked animated series.
		As noted earlier, 12 complete and unedited Puppetoon films are included, 9 of which were not a part of the feature film.
		Additional extras are the theatrical trailer for “The Puppetoon Movie” as well as a plug for another Image Entertainment DVD disc, “The Fantasy Worlds of George Pal” which appears to be biographical in nature.
	www.dvdtoons.com /reviews/102 (2912 words)

	George Pal's Puppetoons
		Pal's Puppetoons (he coined the word from a combination of "puppet" and "cartoon") started as soft-sell advertising films in Europe.
		These short films were so much fun to watch that theaters soon billed them in the lobby and played them for free (that is, without the advertisers paying for screen time).
		Eventually, Pal and his wife (Zsoka) fled the horror of the Nazi invasion, moved to Hollywood, USA, and was able to make the Puppetoons without advertisements, instead being sponsored by Paramount Pictures.
	www.awn.com /heaven_and_hell/PAL/GP1.htm (441 words)

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		The Puppetoon Movie is a 76 minute film, bringing together ten short films from the forties and other extracts from the fabulous work of George Pal, animator of the wooden puppets called Puppetoons.
		In 1939, he was contracted to the Paramount studio in the USA to make forty short films with his famous wooden puppets.
		The producer and writer of The Puppetoon Movie, Arnold Leibovit, has brought together George Pal's best puppet shorts, along with an original 10-minute film where the characters Gumby and Pokey present the marvelous world of the Puppetoons.
	www.annecy.org /home/index.php?Page_ID=1046 (280 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - The Puppetoon Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Puppetoon Movie is a tribute to the genius of special-effects maven George Pal.
		Utilizing as many a five thousand separate wooden figures for each of his short subjects (variously titled "Puppetoons" and "Merry Madcaps"), Pal turned out such gems as Tubby the Tuba and John Henry and the Inky Poo.
		The Puppetoon Movie is hosted by a star who can truly say that he owes his very existence to the standards set by George Pal: Art Clokey's whimsical "eraser boy" Gumby.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/28014/plot.jhtml (219 words)

	The Time Machine Project-George Pal -Birth- 1949
		It was here that George began the concept of the Puppetoons.
		Arriving in New York, George met an executive from Paramount who had seen one of the Puppetoons and offered him a job producing Puppetoons for them.
		The last Puppetoon was Romeow and Julicat in 1949.
	www.colemanzone.com /Time_Machine_Project/pal_aa.htm (371 words)

	Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation » 1943 article on Pal’s Puppetoons
		By the time they were being shot in Technicolor, Puppetoons just looked great –being the insanely meticulous undertakings that they were.
		I’d like to think some of them survived and are sitting in a collection that could be put on display.
		Love to see another compilation of Puppetoons on DVD to compliment the Puppetoon Movie disc.
	www.cartoonbrew.com /classic/1943-article-on-pals-puppetoons (758 words)

	TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the 1941 "Hoola Boola" we glimpse the nude backside of the sexy heroine as she swims underwear a la Jane in Tarzan and His Mate (1934) and in "Together in the Weather," a case of unrequited love between two weather dolls culminates in a blissful sexual union.
		Typical of the period in which they were made, some of the Puppetoon shorts, particularly the ones featuring Jasper, contain racial stereotypes but despite this, Pal's approach is a celebration of fl culture, one which he felt was possibly the richest in the world.
		The good news is that the extras include 12 unedited Puppetoon shorts including Pal's first, "Ship of the Ether" (1934), created entirely with glass miniatures, plus an interview with Puppetoon animator Bob Baker, production stills and silent color footage of Pal outside of his studio in Eindhoven, Holland.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /movienews/index/?cid=114526 (1173 words)

	The Puppetoon Movie (1987) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But now I see the man turning in his grave along with Disney, Fritz Ferling, Tex Avery, Max and Dave Flechier, and Chuck Jones.
		Because of CGI, the wacky cartoon craze, and stuff like CELEBRITY DEATH MATCH (Remember that Mountain Dew connerical with Davey and Goliath you know that cartoon under the same name, I thought it was immitating George Pal's Puppetoons.
		The point I'm trying to make is that those sweet La-la-land Cartoons are extinct, washed up, out of fashion, you look like a loser when you watch that kind of stuff (sorry no offense to people who grew up with that kind of stuff).
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0127745 (428 words)

	Business Wire: Image Entertainment Announces DVD Releases of T... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Considered to be the father of the modern sci-fi film, George Pal created more than 40 "Puppetoons" for Paramount Pictures in the 1940s, utilizing thousands of individually carved puppets, animated in stop-motion, to produce each short film.
		Pal was an admitted influence on filmmakers ranging from Gene Roddenberry to Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
		"The Puppetoon Movie" is also a special edition DVD, featuring previously unavailable supplemental material including trailers, a dozen bonus Puppetoons and a new Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:65270150&refid=holomed_1 (554 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : The Puppetoon Movie : Main
		The Puppetoon Movie is a tribute to the genius of special-effects maven George Pal.
		The Puppetoon Movie will have a special attraction to animation aficionados, but even those with no particular interest in the art form should be entertained by these col...
		Long before assembling such dynamite feature films as The War of the Worlds, tom thumb and The Time Machine, Pal was top man in the field of stop-motion photography.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/28014/moviemain.jhtml (155 words)

	The George Pal Site: Horlick's Malted Milk
		The product was a "tonic" which would make the drinker "energetic." This premise opened the door for some very entertaining Popeye-esque Puppetoons, in which someone drinks Horlick's to overcome otherwise insurmountable odds.
		A native man is merrily chasing his girlfriend through the jungle, but she's too fast for him.
		the parts of her body which are above the water are the usual Puppetoon wood.
	www.awn.com /heaven_and_hell/PAL/GP5.htm (492 words)

	DVDtoons.com - Puppetoon Movie, The DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The fluid movement, set pieces and painstaking craft witnessed in this film can only be emulated but never duplicated.
		The Puppetoon Movie features such classics as Tubby the Tuba, Jasper in a Jam, John Henry and the Inky-Poo, The Sleeping Beauty, Tulips Shall Grow, The Philips Broadcast of 1938 and many more!
		And now with this Digitally Enhanced, Expanded Release are added Puppetoons not seen in half a century!
	www.dvdtoons.com /database/540 (194 words)

	AMCTV.com SHOW - The Puppetoon Movie
		In the 1930s and 1940s, innovative animator and filmmaker George Pal created his own inventive film genre called Puppetoons by combining stop-frame animation of three-dimensional figures with standard cartoons.
		In this charming, entertaining look back at Pal's brilliant work and influence on today's animation (particularly the claymation in films like Chicken Run), writer/director Arnold Leibovit compiles a dozen of Pal's most unforgettable short films.
		A celebration of visual magic and sound innovation--Pal was one of the first filmmakers, even before Disney made Fantasia (1940), to integrate orchestral music into an animated movie--The Puppetoon Movie is a loving tribute to one of film's great pioneers.
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=59933-1-UTC (113 words)

	The Puppetoon Movie - Rotten Tomatoes
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for The Puppetoon Movie to receive a rating.
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	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/puppetoon_movie (288 words)

	Image Entertainment / Special Interest / George Pal: Flights of Fantasy: Box Set (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal: This expanded director's cut collector's edition explores Pal's life and work from his ground-breaking Puppetoon shorts to his sci-fi milestones The Time Machine and War of the Worlds.
		Included are rare interviews with Pal and reminiscences from many of Hollywood's brightest stars and great filmmakers, including Ray Bradbury, Tony Curtis, Joe Dante, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Russ Tamblyn, Robert Wise and many, many more.
		Starring Jimmy Durante in one of his most memorable screen performances, this is the heart-warming tale of a lovable trained squirrel, a puppet animated through Pal's Academy Award-winning Puppetoon technique, who inadvertently helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck.
	www.image-entertainment.com /detail.cfm?productID=39358 (252 words)

	aboyd.com The Stop-Motion Flimography Book Review
		For the purposes of this book, the author narrows the definition of a stop-motion film to those films where the use of the stop-motion technique interacts with live-action photography so that the audience might believe that the stop-motion miniatures are real.
		With this restriction in place the book doesn't cover puppetoon films that really are a different kind of animation (Although, he does review "A Nightmare Before Christmas".)
		Pettigrew takes each film and rates its overall appeal separately from its stop-motion effects.
	www.aboyd.com /kong/pettigrew.html (555 words)

	The Puppetoon Movie Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
		DVD > The Puppetoon Movie: Standard Release DVD > Features
		This compilation contains nine shorts, some produced while Pal was still working in the Netherlands (he barely escaped Hitler's deadly wrath after producing a potent anti-Nazi parable), others while he was releasing his films through the facilities of Paramount Pictures in the 1940s.
		Cartoons That Time Forgot: The Ub Iwerks Collection, Vol.
	movieweb.com /dvd/release/68/5368/features.php (264 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Puppetoon Movie, The / DVD-Video
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		First he released his wonderful documentary about the life and works of George Pal on DVD, "The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal", with almost two extra hours more of interesting facts, films, and fantasy.
		Now, he's following up this release with his fabulous and heartfelt tribute to Pal's works of Puppetoon short films, with the release of "The Puppetoon Movie" on DVD!
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=18830&partner_id=29346865 (180 words)

	The Puppetoon Movie Movie: The Puppetoon Movie DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		The Puppetoon Movie Movie: The Puppetoon Movie DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		A full-length compilation of first-rate film footage of George Pal's early work, including the legendary shorts of "Tubby the Tuba," "John Henry and the Inky Poo," "Sleeping Beauty" and more.
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	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/014381586527IE (115 words)

	The George Pal Site: "-Ographies"
		Tubby the Tuba (1947) The last Puppetoon short.
		Variety Girl (1947) Pal appears with Puppetoons in one sequence
		Pal made countless other advertising films for such clients as Shell Oil and Alka-Seltzer.
	www2.awn.com /heaven_and_hell/PAL/GP2.htm (896 words)

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