On a recent DVD purchase.
Aug. 22nd, 2008 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsidheMim and I went shopping last weekend.
We bought a DVD set. We couldn't resist. It called to both of us from deep in our childhoods.
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
6 DVDs containing all 39 episodes, including the little featurette after each one.
And watching the first few on Sunday, they were in a lot of ways really low-budget. The animation was competent, but not inspiring (the story, that's another thing...), and the audio -- listening with older ears, it has a Vangelis tribute for a soundtrack, and a fairly ordinary attempt to have sound effects. (On board ship, for instance, I was actively distracted listening in vain for creaking ropes and timbers, the slap of waves against the ship.)
And yet... Susi and Abi sat in rapture for four episodes straight. They love it.
And so another part of my childhood becomes part of that of my children.
We bought a DVD set. We couldn't resist. It called to both of us from deep in our childhoods.
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
6 DVDs containing all 39 episodes, including the little featurette after each one.
And watching the first few on Sunday, they were in a lot of ways really low-budget. The animation was competent, but not inspiring (the story, that's another thing...), and the audio -- listening with older ears, it has a Vangelis tribute for a soundtrack, and a fairly ordinary attempt to have sound effects. (On board ship, for instance, I was actively distracted listening in vain for creaking ropes and timbers, the slap of waves against the ship.)
And yet... Susi and Abi sat in rapture for four episodes straight. They love it.
And so another part of my childhood becomes part of that of my children.
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Date: 2008-08-24 04:12 am (UTC)-- mpp
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Date: 2008-08-26 11:38 am (UTC)