Let’s Watch a Cal Dunn Commercial Reel
Here’s part of a reel of commercials that showed up today, produced by Cal Dunn studios. I’m guessing its from the late 50s and you can join me as I watch it for the first time. I hope its good!
Category Archives: THUNDERBEAN THURSDAY
From Best to Worst: Working With The Best Film Elements That You Have
I thought I’d pull a few examples from my projects to demonstrate some of the issues involved in trying to make the best versions of these things possible.
Popeye… and Those Paramount Peg Bars
I transferred a work print of The Crystal Brawl in standard def a few years back, with the full frame showing, to capture the peg bars. I thought you’d like to see it.
Ub Iwerks “Baby Checkers” (1940)
It’s pretty cute and has some nicely executed animation at times. As far as I know, a color print has yet to show up on this title, although it does appear that 16mm prints were made in the mid-40s.
A Thunderbean ‘Fireside Chat’ (without the fire since nitrate is involved)
This ‘chat’ is about film collecting, digital cleanup, Vinegar Syndrome, and even a little 9.5mm and 28mm thrown in for good measure.
Your Top Five Essential Films from Five Series
Here, in no particular order, are 5 ‘essential’ films from various animated theatrical and TV series. Would love to see five of yours – and why!
“The Doings of Turp and Tine” (c.1923-26)
This tidy little one-reeler features our two heros, Turp and Tine, animated workmen, explaining the process of creating this magical liquid with nifty animated diagrams.
A Charley Bowers Cartoon Detective Story
While I continue to fulfill Thunderbean back orders, my friend Eric Grayson writes about his heroic efforts to research and restore a rare Mutt & Jeff cartoon.
Max Fleischer’s “Modeling” (1921)
This heavily Amber-tinted print is now nearly 100 years old, but Max Fleischer and a young Roland (Doc) Crandall are still very much alive on these frames.
“The Magic Slipper” (1948)
Some good, pure cartoon escapism is on the plate for this week’s cartoon – take a little break and enjoy a Terrytoon in HD, from a rare, spliceless Kodachrome! print.
