The Adventures Of
Huckleberry Finn + Black Beauty
(Animated/Koch Vision)
Picture: C
Sound: C Extras: D Main Programs: C
Two very simple-but-child-safe adaptations of two literary
classics have been issued by Koch Vision just to have them on the market in
inexpensive basic DVD editions. Mark
Twain’s The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (from 1984) and Anna Sewell’s
Black Beauty (from 1978) remind us of the basic state of
then-very-expensive animation. The Beauty
case misidentifies it as a Hanna-Barbera production. It is not. They would
never do something this color-poor and that catalog is owned by Warner Bros.
anyhow.
The 1.33 X 1 image in both cases is even more color poor
than expected and to say both productions chop the classics is putting it
mildly, but along with the aged Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono in both cases with some
background noise throughout, no one is expecting a masterwork. There are no extras except other Koch Vision
previews at the beginning of the DVDs unless you go to the menu.
- Nicholas Sheffo
