You Know What I'd Like to See?

[Oscarfan]

Like the Pixar Shorts Collection. I'd enjoy a Bud Lucky one, and especially a Sally Cruikshank one; her cartoons look great and the songs are some of the best animated ones they've had.

 

[Drtooth]

Something like that. As many significant shorts per animator as they possibly can, all labeled with title cards that names them and names the animation in question.

Muppets are a significant part of Sesame Street, but we always forget the animators.

 

[minor muppetz]

I've liked the idea of a Sesame Street DVD collection of animated and live action shorts for years. In fact, that was the topic of my first April Fools thread on the forum back in 2006. It'd be great to have one themed around either animation or animation and films, though I doubt a set themed around just the film inserts would sell well.

I wonder if it'd be better for the animated segments to be themed around studio/animator or if they should go in a chronological if not random order. I guess whether such a set would have the complete works of each animator would depend on how much they contributed to the show (though the average classic animated segment is shorter than the average classic Mupet segment), not to mention how redundant it would be in some cases to have everything. Like the various number segments where the only difference is literally where the counting stops (it'd be more practical to just have the segment with the highest number, as opposed to the redundancy of having each individual segment). I wonder if anybody would want to sit through every Sand Animation segment, as the only difference is the letter (though they are al just a few seconds long. They could all be presented together as a lesson on the alphabet). I'd like to have all the Jazz Numbers segments, but are they all different enough?

Imagination, Inc. in particular seems to have contributed to a lot of segments, including The Typewriter, Pinball Number Count, and The Ringmaster (I think all of Bud Luckey's segments were prodced by Imagination). It might be redundant/tiring to have all the Pinball segments back-to-back (besides, all of them are on the Elmo's Magic Numbers DVD, though I'm sure more of us would rather have an animation collection). It'd be great to have some of Bud Lucky's segments that AREN'T Ladybug Picnic, Alligator King, or Martian Beauty. I feel like That's About the Size of It and Candy Man are classic enough yet haven't been released on DVD.

And I doubt there'd be any problem releasing all of Jim Henson's animated pieces. I wouldn't be surprised if such a set included the segments with animated versions of the Muppets, like Abby's Flying Fairy School, Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures, and the anime-style Cookie Monster and Elmo bits. Though I wouldn't want all of those included in a collection on the show's animation, due to length and amount of each segment.

If there was an animation collection, I doubt it'd have anythign animated by Owe Gustofson, since his segments were cut from Old School Volume 3. If all the segments were arranged by animator, then it'd be good to FINALLY know who animated the "detective series" cartoons.