Quite a few years ago, I bought the cartoon version of “The Hobbit” on what was called a CD back then. It was actually a really big record which was totally enclosed by it’s plastic container until you inserted it into the player.
The player actually worked by a needle just like a vinyl LP record album. The quality was no where near the modern Btu-ray or even a video tape but was still good enough to watch.
The cartoon version was actually very good. My little daughter really liked sting. I had a Gerber Mark II knife and she would call it “sting”. It did actually look a bit like that small sword.
The music was pretty good too. It will be interesting to watch the new movie.
“Quite a few years ago, I bought the cartoon version of “The Hobbit” on what was called a CD back then. It was actually a really big record which was totally enclosed by it’s plastic container until you inserted it into the player.”
LOL. Our ages are showing. I remember the short-lived video discs well.
Lol.. I still have the VHS of that cartoon/movie..
Wow, that brings back memories! RCA SelectaVision video discs, or CEDs as they were called, had great technical promise. Unfortuneately, RCA’s market timing was poor - delays caused them to go head-to-head with Laser Disks, which had the “wow” factor of being read by an ultra-cool device, a laser (OMG!!), as well as video tape, which offered home recording along with playback, and had a small but rapidly growing infrastructure of video tape rental businesses. CEDs just couldn’t compete.
Jackson's movie reminded me how much the old Rankin-Bass cartoon managed to fit into just 77 minutes. And how very well it did it, too.