I feel bad digging into Warner Home Video, the company
pretty much accountable for the success of DVD. Alas, they're
up to their old trickery once more.
(Magnified to 200% with Pixel Resize to maintain clarity).
The fact that the canary is shaking around due to Tom & Jerry's
off-screen beatings mean that his (her?) face is completely screwed
up. More choice images:
On the bottom right - a frame less affected by DVNR,
for comparison.
Tom slams into the wall, causing the screen to shake
around, and the DVNR gets confused. Such defects make the cartoons
quite hard to watch to those with trained eyes. I'd rather just
watch the cartoon rather than Pausing, rewinding, and saying "What
was that?"
Flapping wings + DVNR? Nope:
Jerry now looks like a warped oil painting: (In case you're wondering about the irregular/wobbly shape of the mouse-hole, it's supposed to be like that. But hey, perhaps they'll release a new system in a few years that'll accidentally try and correct 'errors' like this, too!)
This one deserves a close-up, click:
And here's the oil-painting effect again, since we
all loved it so much the first time. Makes the whole thing look extra-sinister.
It was really hard deciding what pictures to include
here. The whole cartoon is pretty messed up. You feel quite sorry
for animation historian Jerry Beck, when at the start of the audio
commentary for this episode, he mentions that it's his favourite
Tom & Jerry cartoon.
You would think that since they are such fast-paced
cartoons, extra care would be taken to correct any instances where
the computer made a mess. Thankfully, this is the most extreme
example, and the rest of the set seems to be largely free of these
sort of problems.
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