![]() ![]() That said, a set scanned from the original negs on these would be nothing less than a revelation. With their almost all- Public Domain status, it’s clearly not a priority for an ‘official’ release of these shorts. If this could happen, of course, it would be great to add all the other Columbia shorts after this.ģ) Fleischer’s Color Classics. The negs on these shorts are, for the most part, in remarkably good shape, at least the ones I’ve seen. While some people like the Krazy Kats even more, I have a soft spot for Scrappy and Oopy (as if that wasn’t apparent here). I’d even more like to see the surviving ‘Time for Beany’ puppet shows- the more the better!Ģ) Columbia’s Scrappy Cartoons. Here are my top that I’d like to see as a Blu-ray release:ġ) Beany and Cecil – I’d love to see the cartoon series available on Blu-ray in its entirety. I wish the list below all had that status! I’d love to hear what everyone is wanting to see. There are some other things that we are doing that would be on this list if we weren’t working on them. Heck, maybe at some point we’ll be able to. THESE are what I’d put high priority on given the ability to do so. So, I thought I’d ask a question that I usually ask around this time – what films are high on your want list? And, to add, what would you like to see Thunderbean do? Since it is the beginning of the year, I can probably get away with musing about what I’d like to do beyond what we actually are doing. One of the reasons to have so many titles in a short period of time is to get “Hoppity” further along. Until “Thunderbean” is a bit bigger (and can offer more substantial guarantee money) it looks like this project is staying in a holding pattern. We have a tentative license deal that got muddied up in the business office. The project that is in limbo at the the moment is Mr. ![]() So, happily I can set aside talking about these for a minute! While there are a lot of projects on deck here, as I was sitting down and looking through each project’s binder (and digital files), it’s clear that they’re all in really good shape, except for one (!). One of the “Fleischer Rareties” on my forthcoming set.Īs I write this on the 3rd day of 2018, I’m largely thinking about all the possibilities of the year. It has turned out to be a pretty cool set, consisting of the Poetic Gems series. ![]() This one has been in progress off and on since May – so I’m happy to get it all set! It’s a special project for Dennis Atkinson, a great film collector and friend and the top donor of all time of films to the Library of Congress. But heck, it’s still early in the year, and soon I’ll be able to show a lot of this stuff and talk about them here.Įarlier today, I finished working on the master for a project of films featuring the poetry of Edgar Guest. In the world of Thunderbean, some of the things I’d *really* like to talk about are the things that are moving along like molasses at the moment. The reality is I’ve been basically doing nothing else but working on this stuff I’m looking forward to getting back to the school year and being able to draw a little more. In theory, the break from school should give me a lot more time to work on Thunderbean stuff that has *sort of* been true, but progress while you are touching lots of projects never feels like much is happening, at least not right away. ![]()
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