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Woos Whoopee 35mm (Reissue)

This is one of four Felix the Cat 35mm prints I acquired earlier in the year at an estate sale. It's a reissue of Woos Whoopee that was done in the 1950s for viewing in England. 

As is typical of reissue prints, the original title card ...

1939 35mm Cartoon Scan

This is another get by Jerico. I noted last week that Antonio had this on his Patreon as well. 

In the passing week, I was able to adjust the colors to improve it. I had never realized that the copy that is currently available for this ...

1931 16mm Film Scan

This is a 16mm dupe of this cartoon. It is not great quality, but is better than what is otherwise available.

New 35mm Scans

Thanks to a collaborator (& supporter here), Jerico, some cool scans from 35mm nitrates have recently been obtained. The first ever Looney Tune Sinkin' in the Bathtub some of you are already aware.

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1937 Cartoon 16mm Scan

One project that I'm working on is to obtain as many possible scans of this character and obtain updated scans of the cartoons. 

1940 Cartoon Scan

This is a recent scan I had done of a very good LPP version of this cartoon. Enjoy.

Vote for the Next Restoration Project

I have a lot on my plate right now, so I want to know what you want prioritized in terms of the project that I will make time for between my other restor...

Mechanical Monsters Update

I'm approximately 70% through the film in terms of principle clean up. Afterwards, there are a number of frames that needed to be fixed in photoshop (e.g., splices). Once that is done, I can focus on the color. Here's a brief video of the progress...

1942 Cartoon Scan

This is the second cartoon in this series (although a later reissue print lacking original title cards). At this time, he was actually named Super Mouse, which was later changed in The Wreck of the Hesperus. You can see that the character design f...

Hi-De-Ho (1934)

I was able to get this 16mm scan despite losing the auction for the print.

This is Cab Calloway's second non-animation theatrical appearance. During this era, in addition to being featured in three Betty Boop cartoons, Calloway was frequentl...

Scan of 1949 cartoon in black and white w/original titles

This was a print that a group of us wanted to get and pooled resources to obtain.

This particular film has been restored by WB, but they used reissue BR titles. Here is what the rings and title cards looked like (minus color) when this title...

2022 Restoration #2

It's finally here. 

This is from a 35mm safety print that was acquired by Antonio Fiori (patreon.com/cartoon98100). 

This particular project started around February, but I needed to take a hiatus from it to finish a Betty Boo...

Mechanical Monster's Update

As I write this, I've gone through approx. half of the film in the clean up process. Because of how the film was scanned and initially encoded, I've had to transform it in order to better visualize the dirt, scratches, etc; so you can ignore the g...

1937 Cartoon 16mm Scan Preview

This comes courtesy of Thad Komorowski who was kind enough to lend me his print to have it scanned. 

Part of my mission to obtained as many of the MGM Happy Harmonies and have updated scans. 

1946 Cartoon 35mm Scan

From the aforementioned estate sale, this is another 35mm film print that I purchased. I ended up being somewhat disappointed as there are major splices in the beginning and end of the film; plus it is a BR reissue, not with original titles. Those...

Mighty Mouse in Wolf! Wolf! (1942) Preview

My partner over at Rockinpins.com was able to obtain nice scans of some 35mm nitrate prints, including the only Mighty Mouse cartoon that is in the public domain. 

It's generally in good shape, but has a few splices, most of which are f...

Teaser Trailer 2

Almost here.

1949 Cartoon 35mm scan

As the pictures below will demonstrate, the official restoration of this film is awful. 

There is extensive damage done throughout by the DVNR process.

The unfortunate reality is that automatic dust/scratch removal is necessary wh...

Supporter Landing Page

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