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   COMPACT DESIGNS' QUICKTOONSª   Volume 2, What's up, disc?

Welcome to a nostalgic compilation of some early and timeless classic 
cartoons.  Enjoyable for their artistic value and slapstick humor, 
these QuickTime movies will make you laugh again and again.  
QuickToons Volume 2 contains six cartoons in both 1/8 and 1/4 
screen sizes, for a total of 74 minutes of content.

The Movies are:
FileName            Title
Bugs.Mov             "Falling Hare"
BugsBny.Mov        "The Case of the Missing Hare"
Popeye.Mov          "Parlez Vous Woo"
Sailor.Mov           "Cooking with Gags"
Toyland.Mov        "Toyland Caper"
WhoZoo.Mov         "Who's Who at the Zoo"

The 1/4 screen sized movies are found here with the Read Me.
The 1/8 versions are in the folder/directory "Small_Movies".

This series of QuickToons volumes was produced to provide pre-
digitized and pre-compressed QuickTime movies for your education, 
entertainment, personal library and potential multimedia projects.  
For the first time the technology of yesteryear meets the state-of-
the-art in desktop multimedia.  We hope these early examples of 
American animation will in some small way help you combine 
education, nostalgia, and multimedia in potentially new and 
innovative ways.

The original films were converted to video and then digitized with 
the very latest hardware and software technology available. Each 
digital version of the original film required substantial amounts of 
disk space.   With the best video compressors currently available and 
maintaining the highest quality video, sound and large screen size, 
each movie would require significant space on a CD-ROM and would 
not be playable without transfer to your hard disk.  Compact Designs  
has compressed each film for optimal playback directly from the CD-
ROM.  The 1/8 screen movies were optimized for playback on CD-
ROM drives that can only output a data rate of 90-150 kb/s.  The 1/4 
screen movies were optimized for playback on CD-ROM drives that 
can output a data rate of 150-300 kb/s or better.  The sound for the 
1/8 screen movies was sampled at 11khz, while the sound for the 
1/4 screen movies was sampled at 22khz.  None of the sound files 
are in stereo, since stereo did not exist at the time of the original 
films.  The playback performance of these QuickTime movies is 
highly dependent on the transfer speed of your CD-ROM drive and 
the speed of your Macintosh or PC.  For the best performance, you 
can copy any movie from the CD-ROM to your hard disk.

The original films were transferred with Rank-Cintel equipment, 
using scene-to-scene correction whenever possible and a wet-gate 
was used to conceal scratches.  Many of these early original films 
were of marginal quality.  Compact Designs has done everything 
possible to maintain the best quality, given the slow speed of most 
CD-ROM drives.  For best viewing, we suggest that you change your 
monitor setting to thousands of colors for color cartoons and 256 
grays for the black and white cartoons.  

While the original films contained on this CD-ROM are in the public 
domain, certain trademarks, trade names, service marks and 
characters may still be active.  Therefore, you may not use the 
Software, or any part thereof, to advertise, connote sponsorship or 
act as an attention-getting symbol to promote products or services.  
Additionally, State law requirements with respect to the Right of 
Publicity may be applicable to the use of this Software in some 
states.  Any use of this Software which does not conform fully to 
state law requirements is strictly prohibited. 

Look for additional volumes of QuickToons featuring: Bugs Bunny, 
Popeye, Betty Boop, Superman, Porky Pig and others.  Also look for 
Compact Designs' QuickLaffs series featuring Charley Chaplin, Buster 
Keaton, W.C. Fields and more.