{"id":55388,"date":"2019-11-21T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T08:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=55388"},"modified":"2019-11-23T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T17:59:39","slug":"a-presentation-on-film-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/a-presentation-on-film-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Presentation on Film Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

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I\u2019m quite positive of only a few things; one of them is that there is now a much great appreciation for golden age animation than there ever has been, and that the information and the films are now much more readily available for those that are interested than ever before. I wish there was an even correlation between interest and studio interest in releasing things, but that will just have to wait, for now anyway. At least it\u2019s leading to many things becoming available in one form or another. The bigger mission is in the hands of those that love these old cartoons, and that’s to share them, enjoy them, let other people know something about them. They’re enjoying a new life each time you do.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019m both incredible happy (and, some days, burdened) by all the Thunderbean titles in some sort of process right now, both \u2018official\u2019 and \u2018special. I\u2019ll be glad when December is all done and a chunk of these projects are out the door. Each of these things takes a bunch of time and energy, but I\u2019m pretty happy with how things are currently moving forward overall. The last few weeks have been a new learning curve in color correction on the Rainbow Parade<\/em> set (the first half of the series). All the work and racking down material has taken way, way longer on this project than I ever thought it would, but I can honestly say that we\u2019ve gotten the best of the best material that exists (that we know of!) at this point, so I have no real regrets in that way. Same with the Flip the Frog’s<\/em>.<\/p>\n

These days have been filled with keeping up with orders and trying really hard to get all the special and pre-orders to everyone. We\u2019re still working on that but thankfully almost caught up.<\/p>\n

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Last week I gave a presentation as part of the Baltimore AMIA conference as a member of The Reel Thing<\/a> technical symposium. It was the first time I\u2019ve talked in front of an audience to any extent about some of the process and challenges involved in golden age cartoon restoration. I was a little less than fully polished and organized, but I think it still came out overall ok. Talking with some folks working in preservation was the real highlight for me though \u2014 and the great hope of future projects working with some of them. Here\u2019s some of the powerpoint slides (click to enlarge<\/em>) from the presentation to give you an idea of the flavor and contents- I think they give some indication of the process (documented here as well over the course of these Thursdays):<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\n\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\n\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

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It was really fun being able to talk a little about this stuff to an audience that deals with a lot of these things on a day to day basis.<\/p>\n

Here is a comparison I put together of the work in progress on Parrotville Old Folks<\/em>. I selected some clips from this and showed them during the presentation. While not quite final, it gives a pretty good idea of what steadying, deflickering and dust\/dirt cleanup look like. I know I said I wouldn\u2019t talk about Rainbow Parades any more. I\u2019ll try to keep to that until we\u2019re done with this one\u2026<\/p>\n