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\nVikki, an artist\/ animator that has been working at Thunderbean, spent the better part of Wednesday working on more cleanup on the Flip the Frog cartoon The New Car<\/em>. It\u2019s actually one of the ones that was done, but it just needed a *little* more care to get it where it needed to be for the set. Most of the set is in that stage, with 3 films getting major work here at home.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll be traveling this week to scan more things, wrapping up a few projects and filling in gaps in others. As the list of older projects gets smaller, the more we\u2019ve been looking to the next challenges. Even though most everything always takes longer than I planned, there\u2019s now more than just me planning now. <\/p>\n Since we\u2019ve got Rainbow<\/em> out the door and other things about to be, we decided to do another \u2018special\u2019 Halloween set. It\u2019s called, Spook-O-Rama<\/em>. The pre-order is at the Thunderbean shop<\/a>. We\u2019ll be sending it by the beginning of October in time for Halloween.<\/p>\n I spent part of the afternoon today working on lining up elements from various Iwerks Comi-Color<\/em> cartoons. In may ways, this wasn\u2019t a final effort – just a sort of first effort to determine further why several films we\u2019ve scanned don\u2019t align and keep going off count. They\u2019re all 4k files, and really really pretty dog slow sometimes even on my faster computer as I\u2019m working on combining layers. It\u2019s one of those kinds of tasks that gives you some time to think about other things as you\u2019re working. <\/p>\n Adjusting color on ‘Jack Frost’<\/p><\/div>\n \n What I thought I\u2019d talk a little about is how, now, in this age of digital information and communication, we\u2019re really all participating in this effort to save things that otherwise may not be, and how easy it becomes for some things to be scattered to the wind. <\/p>\n A quick thought of \u2018saving\u2019 in general: In animation, there\u2019s a *lot* of things that are saved that we don\u2019t know about. These things are all over the place. Some are stored in a big archive\u2019s collection, some are mixed into little collections and libraries all over the world. Some are in people\u2019s basements or with a substantial collection. Some are in the one box that wasn\u2019t opened when Jerry was moving. Some are in a giant stack of stuff that may never be anything but a giant stack until its too late to save. Many of these things will still be in those collections the rest of our lives, longer, and never, ever shared, never sought, and therefore, in a very real sense, basically the same as lost. They are all in need of a champion\u2014 someone to actually go through whatever they need to do to make them viewable and accessible. <\/p>\n The way we all participate in actually making this happen is by wanting it to happen, and being vocal about wanting it to happen by studying these things, absorbing and collecting information, and sharing. The most important aspect to motivate the champions for any one thing is knowing that there\u2019s a crowd of people behind them, standing by the gates, willing things to happen and helping to make them known when they now exist in the public view. With the smallest of these things, the least sought of these things, it\u2019s a smaller crowd, but still, people wanting it to happen\u2014 and often that is enough. In a very real way, they are as much of a champion as the champion that is doing the legwork, because they help show that there\u2019s a good reason to do it beyond just personal curiosity.<\/p>\n The whole journey of the things we\u2019ve been doing with Thunderbean keeps opening a series of additional doors. I\u2019d *want* to go through a lot of them no matter what- in fact, going through many of them has been a dream of mine for most of my life. I know that there\u2019s a lot of people who wanted these things to happen too, so at least, collectively, we\u2019ve been able to do just that. In other words, none of the things we\u2019ve done would have happened if it was just me.<\/p>\n Exporting a 4k cinecolor combination of ‘Puss In Boots’<\/p><\/div>\n \n Doing these projects has led to others wanting to do things like this. I\u2019m in my early 50s right now, and I feel like I really didn\u2019t start to figure out what I was really doing until about ten years ago or so\u2014 or, maybe I didn\u2019t start getting *better* at it until then. As I\u2019m seeing younger folks interested in doing projects like these or using footage we put up to put together different things, I\u2019m actually pretty heartened- and am hopeful that some of them *will* follow in the same footsteps, learn a little from the stumbling and successes that we\u2019ve had, and maybe, just maybe, crack some of the eggs that had a little too tough of a shell for us to. I like that the community is trying to help them find their ways to do it. They won\u2019t have to figure out some of the things I got stuck on.<\/p>\n In some ways, no matter what, we\u2019ll never have a complete picture of the golden age at our fingertips. We have to be grateful to those who have collected the films and written about them in books, articles in magazines and zines, and on line. They\u2019ve given us the ability to both learn more and enjoy the films as they were meant to be enjoyed, often with additional insights we may not have thought of or seen. I feel like filling in some of those missing pieces is a little easier now though since there is a way to share information instantly and get nearly immediate feedback.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spooks3-600.jpg\")
<\/a>All the Rainbow Parades<\/em> blu-ray discs have been going out the door, so if you ordered it a while back or recently thanks much again. Most are on their way, with the last of the pre-orders will be going in the next day or so. More special sets are getting finished and dubbed as well. I got a chance to see a bunch of cleanup on Aesop\u2019s Fables<\/em> a little earlier today, and was happy to see a few more prints show up too. <\/p>\n
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