Nitrate Unboxing, April 17, 2019
Forget the Mueller Report! Today Steve Stanchfield received a box of nitrate cartoons from UCLA and we are there to watch him unbox them!
Category Archives: THUNDERBEAN THURSDAY
The Flip the Frog Project, part 2: Clean-up & the term “Restoration”
So many of the Flip The Frog master elements look really excellent, and the restoration effort on this particular set is perhaps my biggest. Here’s an update.
Anatomy of A Project: Behind the Scenes on a Thunderbean DVD
I thought I’d write a little this week about the basic stages of producing a Thunderbean title, using the Flip the Frog Blu-ray set as an example.
Larry Larson (1946-2019)
Last Friday, we lost Larry Larson, an incredible instructor in stop motion. I thought I’d use today’s Thunderbean Thursday to pay a mini tribute to this wonderful soul.
What Would Your Dream Animation Showings Consist Of?
I thought it would be fun to see what *you* would curate for one of your own ‘dream shows’. Here’s mine!
“The Caveman” (1934) starring Willie Whopper
I thought it would be a nice thing to share this jaw dropping restoration of The Caveman with Willie Whopper, from the Willie Whopper Blu-ray project a few years back.
Scrappy in “The Pet Shop” (1931)
The Pet Shop continues Scrappy’s tendency to own businesses that are clearly beyond his own capability. It’s a good thing there are no customers on this particular day.
“The Ski’s the Limit” (1949) – and projects in progress
I wonder how many people sang along to these films; does anyone remember going to a theatre and seeing one with a singing audience?
Working with the Animated Films of George Pal and “The Puppetoon Movie 2”
One of the other major side projects I’ve been working on is digital restoration/cleanup for a second volume of George Pal’s Puppetoons.
Finding Frames For “Flip The Frog”
Here are some frames from the beginning and ending leader of Flip prints that are amusing to see (and of course were never intended to be seen by an audience).
