Next, I pulled THE DAYDREAMER off the to-watch shelf and viewed it.
Having taken some flack earlier this week for ragging on Rankin-Bass's RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEEER, imagine my surprise to be reminded that this feature film was made by the same Rankin-Bass responsible for RUDOLPH.
Of course, they had a feature film budget and talented folks like Ray Bolger and Jack Gilford and Boris Karloff and Margaret Hamilton to voices by folks like Burl Ives, Hayley Mills, Patty Duke, Tallulah Bankhead, Ed Wynn, and others. The songs were lovely (was that REALLY Hayley Mills singing that song; I know she gets credit on the soundtrack album) and while the animation had that jumpiness and poor lip matching just like RUDOLPH had, a bigger budget made for more settings and fancier effects.
All in all, I liked it but mostly for the songs. The DVD looked just fine. I was afraid it was going to be from a tape master because it began looking a little soft, but it quickly sharpened up and was fine looking. The PatheColor might have been just a touch faded, but nothing terribly awful. Anchor Bay did the transfer, so they probably didn't break their necks looking for the highest quality materials.
