History of Re-Animation

The Mind's Eye: A Computer Animation Odyssey released in 1990 by Odyssey Productions and Miramar Productions on VHS (this is a medievalish plastic film type of recording medium somewhat akin to parchment and recorded by nerds (a modern sect of monks)) and laserdisc which is the T-Rex ancestor to modern cds and dvds.  Seriously, they were the size of a small house and ancient.  I actually watched this movie on a friend's laserdisc player (it came with the player) because he wanted to show off the "intense resolution of his laserdisc player" and actual laserdisc version of movies were insanely expensive. I remember being not overly impressed, and thinking to myself that computer generated graphics were so inferior to other types that there would be no way this would ever catch on.  In my defense technology greatly improved and the creators greatly improved their skill sets as time went on. I would imagine most people watching this today would be similarly unimpr...

Science Ninja Team Gatchaman  released in 1972 by Yoshida and the Americanized version Battle of the Planets is one of the first two Japanese anime series I remember watching as a kid (the other one being Star Blazers an Americanized version of Space Battleship Yamato). I identified with Gatchaman the most because one of the Americanized names of the lead characters was Jason. So in episode 1 there's this guy who appears to get the team together (it was in Japanese without subtitles so I'm guessing) who looks a lot like Magnum P.I. Science Ninja Team Gatchaman defeat a guy who looks very effeminate (I think the villain was revealed to be a woman later in the series if I remember correctly) and the villain takes orders from a superior whose screen com image looks like a crow (very bird themed animation series). Some of the more unique things I remember about the series was the bird theme, the ship was the Phoenix, could become the Fiery Phoenix and had a solar powered weap...