At the end of the restored print of “Milk and Money”, and in particular, the last scene (“here’s your money, Mister”), there is a noticeable drop in print quality. This is extremely similar to the drop in print quality in the last scene of the Popeye cartoon, “The Hungry Goat”, due to the ending having to be recreated. My question here is this: does anyone know why this drop in print quality occurs?

At the end of the restored print of “Milk and Money”, and in particular, the last scene (“here’s your money, Mister”), there is a noticeable drop in print quality. This is extremely similar to the drop in print quality in the last scene of the Popeye cartoon, “The Hungry Goat”, due to the ending having to be recreated. My question here is this: does anyone know why this drop in print quality occurs?

It could have been a situation where the original negative was damaged, but it's hard to say. Often, the heads and tails of a film reel are the most affected.

This is extremely similar to the drop in print quality in the last scene of the Popeye cartoon, “The Hungry Goat”, due to the ending having to be recreated.

This is extremely similar to the drop in print quality in the last scene of the Popeye cartoon, “The Hungry Goat”, due to the ending having to be recreated.

Interestingly enough according to Jerry, they had to go with a copy from The Popeye Show to make a long story short. As a result since it came from either tape or standard def digital, there will be a HUGE quality drop there at the end of The Hungry Goat.