They are usually as you pass towards the checkout aisle on top of the ice cream cooler. I bought 4 totally different 2 hour DVDs with old Max Fleschier jewels. One had a 15 minute color Betty Boop “Cinderalla” feature. My Godchild loves old animation, in particular Betty Boop. She can see that it is better than the crap they have today, and you needn’t worry about smarmy content. Betty Boop always preaches tolerance and good will. So get you boo-boo-be-doo’s into Wal-Mart and get the “Toon Factory” videos, while they last, and introduce your ankle biters to the classics!
Not only classic animation, but a couple live action classics in there too: I picked up a disc that had three Hitchcock pieces on it. All early British period, but at least one bona fide classic on the disc: “The 39 Steps” – can’t beat that price!
Sometimes they’ll also have episodes of the “Jack Benny Show” for sale.
I got the complete documentary series Victory at Sea on two discs for two dollars.
I picked up a DVD with a bunch of old John Wayne movies for my husband. And I’ve got old Superman cartoons, and Casper the Friendly Ghost, and Felix the Cat, and Molly Moo-Cow, and Hitchcock movies, and The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, and Dementia-13, and the Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame, and I don’t know what all else. Yeah, I’m all about the dollar DVDs.
Check back by the Halloween section, they usually have classic (and cheesy) horror movies stacked there for a buck about this time of year.
'Tis true. I picked up 1932’s **White Zombie ** (with Bela Lugosi) last year. I’d been wanting to see that ever since I’d glimpsed a poster of it in a Movie Monsters-type book I read back when I was a kid.
Still haven’t watched the sucker, though. But, hey, only a dollar…
I picked up Santa’s Slay on the cheap one day on impulse. I haven’t watched it and may never do so - but it amused me when I saw it.
The same ones show up at my local dollar stores so I can snag them without supporting the evil that is Wal-Mart. I got the Felix cartoons, the Fleischer Supermans, some of the horror DVDs last Halloween, some Hitchcocks and what-not. I was a little annoyed that some of the cartoon discs were “and Friends” with a bunch of really inferior filler material but, you know, for a dollar it’s hard to complain too loudly.
As we get closer to the holidays, Target starts stocking $1 DVDs in front, in their dollar section. Two years back I picked up two separate discs with 16 out of the 17 existing Max Fleischer Superman cartoons, and the packaging is somewhat cooler (and possibly a little better) than the $1 Wal-Mart DVDs in the flat envelopes. I also got a disc of old Gumby cartoons as a complete impulse buy, but haven’t gotten around to watching it.
Whoa…that is a great buy. I didn’t know it was public domain yet – I came this close to shelling out $60 for that at Barnes and Noble the other day.
I picked up some Dick Van Dyke shows.
Also $1.
I have often said that the public domain is America’s greatest resource. The fact that you can easily pick up out-of-copyright material for cheap due to the invention of DVDs is proof of this.
No, but there is some casual racism in some old public domain cartoons- negative portrayals of blacks, etc.
I love public domanin dvds. They’re great for the nights I can’t fall asleep. Since tv stations don’t run old movies at night anymore, I’ve used some of these dvds for my late night fix. I’ve got a bunch of the early Hitchcock as well as some old John Wayne movies. I’m looking to get some of the horror movies as well.
I got several Toon Factory discs, a disk of 3 full-length sci-fi movies, two different versions of The Wind in the Willows, some kids show called The Roswell Files that actually turned out to be decent, and a few others I can’t think of at the moment.
I haven’t been able to find the $1 DVDs since that trip, probably ~6 months ago. I thought it was a one-time promotion.
I snagged the old animated version of “Animal Farm” for $1 from the big Dubya. Good stuff.
~ IG
Those Max Fliescher Superman cartoons are the bomb. $1 well spent!
I’ve been wanting to go and buy a bunch of the cheesy B rated movies so me and my friends can sit around and do some Mystery Science Theater on them. I’ve done that with really bad movies before and it’s a BLAST !
‘snipe out’
I’ve always wondered where the hell you people find these friends who are willing to do this stuff. In fact, I’m convinced you’re making them up.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to do something that geeky, but if I ever mentioned it to any of my friends they’d look at me like I’m from another planet.
I got a dollar set of Betty Boops and also ‘Tom Somethingorother: Space Cadet’ serial that is da bomb. I especially like the one where they find a race of tiny, technologically advance aliens living on an asteriod. You know, B-movie babe type aliens. What a hoot!
Not Tom Somethingorother – Rocky Jones!
A very strong-jawed guy you bet!