Betty Boop - The Vintage Cartoon Collection (Remastered Edition) 2-DVD Set

Shame on these bumbling, amateur DVD producers. Do not waste a penny on this shoddily manufactured 2-disc set compiled from damaged, inferior source materials.At least one of the episodes ("I Heard") appears to have been sourced directly from a low-res file on YouTube. It would barely be watchable on a tiny iPhone screen. Viewing it on your family's television will make you nauseous.Episodes not sucked down from YouTube stutter horribly, as if copied directly from sources with non-US frame rates, or grabbed from copy-protected discs via a poorly implemented, legally questionable process that left visible artifacts. The video stuttering is not something you can get used to or overlook: watching more than a few episodes induces eye fatigue and headache.But wait, there's more! Audio volume from one episode to another has not been normalized and fluctuates wildly. Set the volume adequately for one episode, and you can't hear the next. Turn up the volume so you can hear that one, and the one that follows blows out your speakers.There are no liner notes, and there is no button to "Play All." After each five minute cartoon finishes, you are dumped back to menu where you must manually select another cartoon.The menu contains a needle-drop jazz-blues audio track that is easily twice as loud as any of the cartoons, blasting you out of your seat. The blues-jazz track, complete with 1960s-style Fender bass, has absolutely nothing to do with the early 1930s jazz that the Betty Boop cartoons were designed around, but you get the feeling that the incompetents who hastily banged together this shoddy collection thought they were matching the feeling of Betty Boop when they dumped this crummy track on their menu.The menu itself appears to have been designed for a unique aspect ratio having nothing to do with the 16:9 or 4:3 standards. Its badly selected straight-from-the-DVD-pressing-desk typeface stretches and breaks like Comic Sans on Silly Putty. When you finish watching a cartoon and are dumped back into the loud, ugly menu, the cartoon you just watched is still selected in the menu. The notion that you might wish to advance to the next cartoon seems not to have occurred to the wizards who designed the user interface.Betty Boop is an iconic character from the early days of sound animation, and the cartoons (when properly reproduced) still make great viewing for kids, parents, and grandparents. Alas, this barely watchable 2-disc collection is not the place to discover Betty Boop. I hope that Turner Classic Movies, Warner Bros, or another reputable company that actually cares about preserving our film heritage will create the lovingly crafted (or at least professionally mastered) collection Betty and your family deserve.Until then, avoid this collection like you'd avoid exposure to smallpox. It is the worst designed, worst produced, worst mastered, worst manufactured DVD set I have ever seen.

I was hugely disappointed in this collection. I found the quality to be no better than much cheaper Betty Boop PD sets, and "I Heard" has such huge pixels that it looks like it could have been downloaded through You Tube. Prospective buyers will have to decide for themselves whether "Minnie the Moocher" and "Snow White" (both Fleischer masterpieces) are worth the price of the set. The cartoons don't play one after the other, but, rather, throw you back to the menu after each one.Betty Boop is a cultural icon. I don't know why the owners of the original 35mm materials refuse to release a high-quality complete collection.

I love Betty Boop and I wish I could say something meaningful about the two-disc set I just bought, but all I can say is wha?????!!! I can't even play the discs. They just spin. Where were these recorded? Why can't I view them. When did Amazon start selling poor quality dvds? These are just a few of the questions I have about this particular product. The Vintage Years, HA!, should be called the Prehistoric Years, because a Neanderthal must have recorded these discs prior to sending them to unsuspecting buyers. It would have been nice to know that the product wasn't the best prior to buying it. BUYER BEWARE!

Excellent DVD! Kids love it.

I got the impression that this would be a top quality, digitally remastered set of Betty's finest cartoons. In reality, one or two of the tracks wouldn't play at all, and most of them are somewhat pixelated. I attribute some of that to low quality DVD burning, and the rest to it being a really, really old cartoon. Some of the original tapes must have been sitting in a wet basement or something, next to a magnet factory. Anyway, there are still some good episodes on here. I especially like the first one, when Betty is at home with her parents. I'm not sure I'd recommend this purchase though, unless you really, really love Betty and can't get enough of youtube-quality, grainy images of her. For me, in the end her lovable cuteness still shines through!

This dvd set is most likely just pulled from the internet archive collection. It has either a faulty 3:2 pull-down flutter or the wrong interlacing order applied to it. Either way, the image is stuttering here and there as it plays, which makes it a useless dvd set. Don't buy it.

It was in cartoon form. I was probably mistaken and thought it was actors and actresses which it was not.

This is not an official release. For whatever reasons the 8-volume  Betty Boop - The Definitive Collection [VHS ] released 11 years ago on VHS & Laserdisc formats, the (so far) ultimate and remastered collection, remains unreleased by the copyright holder, Republic Pictures Home Video. People are reporting problems with these discs, hardly suprising, since they're buying them from pirates, and not the copyright holder.Do yourself a favor-- buy the video box set, and if you really *must* have them on DVD transfer them to DVD yourself, most new computers with a DVD burner can do this with a minimum of fuss and effort.