In case you folks missed it the first time, here are the 2015 animation related inductees of "The National Film Registry":

Dream Of A Rarebit Fiend (1906):




John Henry and the Inky Poo (1946):




The Old Mill (1937):




The Story of Menstruation (1946):

Hope you had a great birthday, Toadette!]

Same from me,too,Toadette.

A friend alerted me to this youtube channel  -- tons of rare independent animation, including "Everybody Rides the Carousel!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrZfMMpakGU

Nice to see George Pal in 2D! Also like the second ad's use of "The Merrry Wives Of Windsor Overture" in some sections. Been tracking cartoons with that piece........

As a tribute to Pat Harrington Jr., here's one of the earliest Vlasic Pickles ads which features the stork who was originally voiced by Harrington Jr. I should note I was planning to post one of "The Inspector" cartoons, but I couldn't find a good clip on Youtube (at least in English):

http://www.britishpathe....man-cops-is-always-right 

Not YouTube, but British Pathe has a copy of Cops is Always Right with original titles, although you can only see a second of the opening just before it fades to the shipdoor titles.

(Note: Cops is Always Right is also one of my favorite Fleischer Popeyes, that's why I'm posting it here.)



Still a million times better than the copy that Turner has, which is just a blatant mash-up of the A.A.P. broadcasting print slapped with a random Paramount logo...

They actually used that print for the opening titles (look at the scratches and the different contrast from the rest of the cartoon), but messed up the opening logo in editing. That whole first disc is riddled with bad (and sometimes silly) editing choices.

different contrast from the rest of the cartoon

For a bunch of cartoons, the restoration team tended to swap out the original negatives (or whatever print with full titles was used) for an A.A.P. or low-quality print after the titles ended, probably because of the nitrate damage the print with titles used suffered.

This is clearly noticeable in A Hull of A Mess and "Shiver Me Timbers!"

That whole first disc is riddled with bad (and sometimes silly) editing choices.

Even I could do better than Turner with simple timing, masking and cropping skills.

A copy of Greek Mirthology, with original titles-- but horrible DVNR. Aside from the intro's audio, the rest of how the cartoon sounds seems to be extremely crystal clear in this transfer.

Also some loot from applepitz:



"Mattel Toymakers" 16mm ad for the "Funday Funnies" block from the 1960s. It seems to have Harveytoon characters.



Also some ancient animated Milky Way promo.

Felix in Exile, by South African animator William Kentridge!

Useful information here !

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(I'm posting too much on here. 😗 ) Here is a copy of Popeye's Pre-Hysterical Man that doesn't sound horrible:



Unfortunately it's Turner's Hungrarian dub, from what I can make out, but all unmodified background audio does atleast sound better than the currently floating copy on YouTube.

Interestingly the A.A.P. cue is different in this one. It fades in, pauses for a moment, then the background starts zooming out, unlike the typical A.A.P. cue where background immediately zooms out at start of film. Musical cues were also left intact.

ibcf's friend magnil has put up a reel of great Chinese animator Pu Jiaxiang!

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Unfortunately it's Turner's French dub, from what I can make out, but all unmodified background audio does atleast sound better than the currently floating copy on YouTube.

Actually the dub heard there is not French, but Hungarian.

Anyway here's the redrawn version of "Popeye the Sailor", also in Hungarian:

(Note, how the framings obscure "BETTY BOOP CARTOON" parchment, but at last the Korean animators kept the Paramount mountain in background).

Unfortunately it's Turner's French dub, from what I can make out, but all unmodified background audio does atleast sound better than the currently floating copy on YouTube.

Actually the dub heard there is not French, but Hungarian.

Anyway here's the redrawn version of "Popeye the Sailor", also in Hungarian:

(Note, how the framings obscure "BETTY BOOP CARTOON" parchment, but at last the Korean animators kept the Paramount mountain in background).

I still don't understand why Turner decided to have these shorts redrawn in color when computer colorizing was already happening by this time.

Here's a curosity I didn't knew about until today. Long before "Bolek and Lolek" was distributed as "Jym and Jam" by VGI Entertainment (now V&S Entertainment) between years 1999-2013/2014 (non-exclusively and only selected 58 episodes from "Przygody Bolka i Lolka" and "Bajki Bolka i Lolka" with changed soundtracks), and even before it aired in USA during "Pinwheel" in 80s, the first few series (at least "Bolek i Lolek" and "Bolek i Lolek na wakacjach") of this Polish cartoon were once distributed by an American (?) company called Fleetwood Films under the umbrella title "The Adventures of Tim and Tom" (every episode began with modified version of "Bolek i Lolek na wakacjach" opening).

Here's the English print of the first "Bolek and Lolek" episode "The Bow and the Apple" (original Polish title - "Kusza") with added narration by Hans Conried (not all episodes in Fleetwood Films' version had added narration)


Here's the episode's original Polish print:

Interestingly the A.A.P. cue is different in this one. It fades in, pauses for a moment, then the background starts zooming out, unlike the typical A.A.P. cue where background immediately zooms out at start of film. Musical cues were also left intact.

"Pre-Hysterical Man" was filmed in Polacolor. The aap prints of all of the Polacolor (and Cinecolor) Popeye cartoons have their original opening and closing music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_BEbo7RbLc 

"Pre-Hysterical Man" is another case of someone at aap being sloppy. It stays on the aap title card too long, and doesn't cut to the credits until just before the credits start to dissolve to the main title card. (This is more noticable on the English version I have.)

SUFFER, MORTALS...

Looks like someone's been hanging with Thad too often...


To block our minds from that ghastly CGI movie, here's a memorable 1974 commercial for Coco Wheats that Mark Kausler worked on: