Introduction: Burbank Film's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1986)

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Burbank films Australia specialized in animated adaptations of classic novels geared towards children. Hunchback was one of several of these films, made in 1985 but not released until 1986.

In the United States, it mostly aired on obscure cable channels, like the then new Nickelodeon. This was before the started having original programming.

The film was subsequently rebranded as more cutesy and family friendly after the Disney movie came out. There are about a  dozen versions on DVD from endless companies. Many of them, like the one I own, don't seem legitimate. The files literally say that the DVD is a "DVD-r." Some guy probably made this in his basement, which would explain the poor video quality.

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