{"id":42494,"date":"2018-07-19T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=42494"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:53:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T04:53:52","slug":"a-visit-with-bob-koester-and-a-good-print-of-merry-kittens-1935-and-sassy-cats1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/a-visit-with-bob-koester-and-a-good-print-of-merry-kittens-1935-and-sassy-cats1933\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit with Bob Koester – and a Good Print of “Merry Kittens” (1935), and “Sassy Cats”(1933)"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

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First, the usual Thunderbean news!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019d really like to take a road trip this summer that *isn\u2019t* Thunderbean-related, but I have a feeling that most of them this year just will be!<\/p>\n

The little machine that is Thunderbean is running a little smoother each day. With help putting together sets, packing orders, digital restoration and other tasks, it\u2019s been a little easier to concentrate on getting films together, working on edits and working on organizing upcoming projects. It\u2019s exciting to see all these things happening, although I\u2019m still going through the growing pains of trying to delegate a little more a things move forward. We\u2019re working on dubbing\/shipping the finished special sets as well as the Snappy Video Party<\/em> disc and other stuff\u2026<\/p>\n

\"\"Both Technicolor Dreams<\/em> and Willie Whopper<\/em> ran out of stock this week; thanks to everyone for supporting these titles. We\u2019ll get them right back in print soon. Mid Century Modern, Volume 2<\/em> Blu-ray is back from replication, so we\u2019ll be sending them out to the pre-orders before Mid Century Modern Volume 1<\/em>. That title will be in replication within the week. Grotesqueries is coming together really fast right now as well.<\/p>\n

I was advised earlier in the week that the Telecine at the production house in Detroit is still a tentative situation; at this point in time Thunderbean is nearly the only client using it. As I\u2019ve been getting all these various projects scanned, it\u2019s been a combination of the telecine in Detroit, some scans in LA, and some out in Toronto. The price of the scans in Detroit made it possible to do the little \u2019special\u2019 sets. Since that\u2019s coming to an end, I\u2019m trying still to get as many things scanned that I can there. There\u2019s been a bunch of them, but I know they just can\u2019t continue much longer if at all. I\u2019ve put another special set up on the IAD forum called \u2019Terry\/Lantz\/Famous<\/em>\u2019 with rare cartoons from these three studios including some Little Lulu’s\u2014 a series I\u2019ve never scanned anything from up to this point. Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On the Rainbow Parades<\/em> set, we\u2019ve scanned nearly all of the first half of the series and have started working on the second half. There have still been a few hold-outs. One of those was Merry Kittens<\/em> (1935).<\/p>\n

The print that you usually see on youtube (that appeared on the Thunderbean Rainbow Parades<\/em> DVD) was a telecine scan done back in 1989. It first appeared on a VHS set we did called in 1990. Here is that scan (from youtube\u2014 with my inaccurate replacement titles on the head and tail)<\/p>\n