{"id":72015,"date":"2022-05-12T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T07:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=72015"},"modified":"2022-05-11T22:42:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T05:42:11","slug":"kinex-hindu-magic-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/kinex-hindu-magic-1929\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinex “Hindu Magic” (1929)"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

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Reviews and then the student show have had me working around the clock, and I wasn\u2019t able to get really anything done with Thunderbean this past week – but that is life! I was going to talk about the Betty Boop<\/em> set we put together this week, but I\u2019ll leave that to next- along with the Aesop\u2019s Fables<\/em> set. They\u2019ll likely ship next week as the Aesop\u2019s<\/em> set gets back from replication.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In other Thunderbean news, the Stop Motion Marvels 1 Blu-ray<\/em> upgrade is doing really good – with most of the films not the set now cleaned up. When I have to chance to see how they\u2019re looking I\u2019ll be able to tell how close it is to a finish. Looking at things now it seems pretty close. This seems to be a whole period of wrapping up long-in-production projects. Next week is super exciting diving back into just Thunderbean.<\/p>\n

The Eyvind Earle project we\u2019ve been finishing up is looking great. It\u2019s a collaboration between ASIFA-Hollywood, Thunderbean and the Earle estate, involving scanning, digital cleanup and restoration of two of Eyvind Earle\u2019s 35mm shorts in 4k. The longest is 24 minutes, the other about 8. More on this project next week as we finally deliver the masters on these shorts.<\/p>\n

\"\"Since it\u2019s late as I write this and I\u2019m still at the school setting up the student show (for tomorrow\u2019s graduation) I decided to keep things simple and show one of the Kinex shorts we\u2019ve been working on cleaning up. Here\u2019s Hindu Magic<\/em>, one of the many Kinex shorts on the Stop Motion Marvels<\/em> blu-ray set. I\u2019m looking forward to the set being done in that we\u2019ve managed to find nearly all of them now, largely thanks to the Library of Congress as well as lots of colleagues. This one either comes from Tommy Stathes or Chris Buchman \u2014 I\u2019ve scanned this one from both their prints and honestly, at this late hour, can\u2019t remember what print we used! So thanks to Chris and Tommy!<\/p>\n

The Kinex shorts were clearly meant to be fun little entertainment distractions for the home screen – and they really work well as that. There\u2019s nothing really Hindu about Hindu Magic<\/em> honestly, but there\u2019s some fun combinations of clay and puppets and really nice sets. I feel like the whole Kinex project exists so that these obscurities have a home somewhere, together in a watchable form. We\u2019re closer to that goal with the Blu-ray.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t have time to set some music behind these shenanigans tonight, so whistle your favorite tune or have Siri play something appropriate along with it if that\u2019s an option.<\/p>\n

Have a good week all! <\/p>\n