{"id":78754,"date":"2023-03-30T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T07:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=78754"},"modified":"2023-03-29T20:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T03:59:11","slug":"famous-studios-much-ado-about-mutton-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/famous-studios-much-ado-about-mutton-1947\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Studios “Much Ado About Mutton” (1947)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s short this week since the school’s ‘Industry Day’ is sort of owning a lot of the time right now. I have fingers and toes crossed for success on several fronts right now– so feel free to cross some fingers for Thunderbean too if you can! <\/p>\n\"\"\n

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The quietness of this little office is actually pretty comforting right now; it\u2019s been a really busy year, full of all sorts of projects and extra things. I try to stay pretty positive here for Thunderbean Thursdays<\/em>, but at times trying to move things forward faces a series of headwinds. I definitely enjoy some aspects of adversity, sometimes, but at other times it\u2019s pretty challenging to not hear back about things you had great hopes for. Still, hope springs eternal, and maybe I\u2019ll get lucky enough to move at least see of the rocks that appear to be blocking the paths! More are open than closed, honestly…..<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Last week\u2019s list of films that you all posted was really great\u2014and has inspired me to show some of your suggestions to my class on Thursday morning. Watching them enjoy so many of these films is the really great part of teaching the class\u2014 and I especially love when they take a deeper dive into history of one aspect or more. Where else would I ever see a paper on Monkey Doodle or any of the strange things I get to show?<\/p>\n

On the KING front:<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m told the one missing title sequence for the Little King<\/em> set will be scanned late this week, completing the entire project. It\u2019s been lovely to work on and review the progress on the project over these past few months. Working on porting all the bonus features up to HD that Chris Buchman prepared back in 2006 has been incredibly fun – and they\u2019re just as much at home on the Blu-ray as they were when produced for the DVD all those years back. <\/p>\n

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On the FROG front:<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m still keeping my fingers crossed that the final piece for Flip the Frog<\/em> will be delivered this week as well. It exists at least and as soon as we have it the masters will be sent out. I\u2019ve love to be able to say it\u2019s a complete wrap by this time next week. We\u2019re so *close*\u2026. <\/p>\n

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On the ‘Dick and Larry’ front (!):<\/strong>
\nThree more Van Beuren Tom and Jerrys<\/em> were finished in cleanup this week along with some Flip the Frog<\/em> tweaks. 17 of the 26 are now pretty close to being in their final Blu-ray form. We\u2019ve been steadily working on materials for the Fleischer restoration project too. Ciara, Becca and myself have been using the workstation almost around the clock to get things ready. I’ve never seen so many things get finished in such. short period of time, and they’re looking super nice. Thanks everyone for helping make these things possible.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>On the ‘waking up to a random cartoon’ front:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was a thinking about the great music cues from the article yesterday, and some of the music from Much Ado About Mutton<\/em> (1947) kept running through my head. So it’s this week’s pick. This is a pretty fun cartoon to just listen to the track on – and is a great reminder of how nicely composed the tracks are on Famous Studios films. Watching it from this upload made me think about why others don’t have a good copy available, anywhere. Maybe a project in the near future should be to finally track down the other Famous studios cartoons in 35mm just so there’s at least a decent representation of them all available – but wouldn’t it be better just having them available for streaming from the negatives? One can wish….<\/p>\n