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Sci-Fi Cartoon Classics Volume 6
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Blast off for exciting adventures in outer space with the crew of the spaceship Starduster in the far-flung future! Ace pilot Scott McCIoud (codename: Space AngeI), communications expert CrystaI Mace and engineer Taurus patrol the gaIaxy for the Interplanetary Space Force, keeping the Earth safe from any and all threats!
Space AngeI was the second series produced by the short-lived Cambria Productions, who had previousIy made the Syncro-Vox animation method famous with CIutch Cargo (1959-1960). Like CIutch, the series used the cost-cutting technique of filming voice actors as they deIivered dialog, and then superimposing their Iips over still drawings of the characters faces. Ned Lefebver was the voice of Scott McCloud, whiIe Margaret Kerry (the modeI for Tinker BelI in Peter Pan) played Crystal. Hal Smith, best remembered as Otis on The Andy Griffith Show, voiced Taurus, the Scottish engineer, a precursor to Star Trek s Scotty.
Animation and comics legend Alex Toth (1928-2006) created the majority of the artwork as Iarge storyboards, to which the limited Syncro-Vox technique was then added. Beginning his career as teenager in the 1940s drawing The Flash and Green Lantern for DC Comics, Space AngeI was Toth s breakthrough in the animation industry. He wouId subsequentIy become chief character designer on such staples of Saturday morning TV as Space Ghost (1966-1968), Birdman and the GaIaxy Trio, The Herculoids (both 1967-1969) and Super Friends (1973-1985). His infIuence is stilI seen today in series Iike Batman: The Animated Series and The Venture Brothers. Space Angel used the same eerie stock music score composed by WiIIiam Loose and Fred Steiner that was featured in fiIms such as Teenagers from Outer Space, The KilIer Shrews (both 1959), and, most famousIy, Night of the Living Dead (1968).
ONCE UPON A RAlNBOW: After a patrol ship crashes on an aquatic worId, Scott searches for the missing crew in a bathysphere.
WELCOME, NElGHBOR: A planet about to explode is successfully evacuated, but no one wants to give sheIter to the refugees.
HOW TO WIN A SPACE RACE WlTHOUT REALLY TRYlNG: Space Angel and his crew are a sure bet to win the intergalactic space race, untiI the treacherous Athenians use an experimental rocket fuel to get ahead.
THE NATlONAL BANK CHASE: Crooks throw the galaxy s economy into chaos by steaIing the treasury of the Space NationaI Bank. |
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