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\nIn ‘Snappy Video’ news, we did manage to get Vintage Education<\/em> finished (and the pre-orders going out). It\u2019s a pretty fun set, and available here on Amazon<\/a>. <\/p>\n The Snappy Video Party Disc<\/em> (featuring Reefer Madness<\/em> and shorts) is almost done- it looks like it will wrap up in the coming few days. We\u2019ll offer it on Amazon, but it will likely not be available for very long.<\/p>\n Other projects are ongoing. <\/p>\n In going out of print news: Thunderbean is retiring (for now) many of the older DVD titles this week as well; these titles were ones only available in DVD-R editions. They include: The Strangest Cartoons Ever Made, Cultoons Volume 2 and 3, Return of the 30s Characters, Makin\u2019 \u2018Em Move, The Complete Animated adventures of Tom and Jerry, Aesop\u2019s Fables Volume 2, Classics from the Van Beuren Studios<\/em> and Complete Adventures of The Little King<\/em>. The last handful copies are available on Amazon. <\/p>\n The More Stop Motion Marvels<\/em> DVD\/ Blu-ray Combo is also coming right along. I get lots of requests for the original, often every day. The first set was released in 2010 and has been out of print since we ran out of stock in 2015. I\u2019ve been regathering and scanning materials for it since 2014.<\/p>\n Another pre-order: The Stop Motion Marvels<\/em> Blu-ray upgrade!<\/strong><\/p>\n The new Blu-ray edition will feature the original booklet (with updates) by Stewart McKissick as well as his original package art. All the commentaries and bonus materials will be included on the new set as well. It\u2019s available in pre-order for a week only and includes with another \u2018special\u2019 disc of things that won\u2019t be on the final set. It\u2019s available here<\/a>. <\/p>\n While it\u2019s been fun to work on the upgrade, there\u2019s been some setbacks as well. One of the biggest bummers in the past few months was borrowing back the only print I know exists of a little stop Motion short \u2018George Washington in Clay\u2019 only to find it was now curled (badly) from Vinegar Syndrome\/ Acetate deterioration. I\u2019m soaking it in Film-guard right now in hopes to get a decent 2k scan from it. <\/p>\n The sort of \u2018unofficial\u2019 beginning of the upgrade started with this scan of \u2018Hector the Pup\u2019, from a beautiful 35mm print at the Library of Congress. We\u2019ve cleaned this up since, but here is the raw scan we did in 2014. 35mm material on Pepper the Pup<\/em> (1931), the pre-curser to this short, has also surfaced.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Vintage-Ed-cover-600.jpg\")
<\/a>So many projects! I haven\u2019t had much of a chance this week to sit down and spend a lot of time in cleanup or edit personally for a handful of days- it\u2019s been three solid days of packing things and catching up, but, happily, most every disc that is completed has the orders all out now and I can get back to more time finishing sets. I hope to bring on several more people to help with digital cleanup in the coming weeks, and very much looking forward to seeing the little company growing. <\/p>\n
\n<\/a>This was one of the favorite sets to work on, and the Blu-ray update is coming together really well. For the new Blu-ray edition, we\u2019ve been able to come closer to obtaining *all* of the Kinex Stop Motion shorts produced between 1928 and 1930 (largely thanks to Tommy Jose Stathes), an ongoing project since 2007. <\/p>\n