Some Thunderbean updates:
Snafu is looking great, and almost done. NARA just allowed us to use the negs on of two of the films (Goldbrick and No Buddy Atoll) and a better FGMP (fine grain) on one of the others- that's a good upgrade; this should be transferring early next week. That was some serious arm twisting, but the National Archive folks are pretty wonderful. These titles were from the 16mm materials on the DVD version because the 35mm fine grains were damaged. The rest of the set is assembled now, happily, save one fix on a commentary track. We'll have it sent to replication at some point this month, along with Willie Whopper (that set is also almost done).
Thunderbean is a tiny operation, and I do hope to be better at release dates and communication. I finally have much more time to work on the sets since I don't teach right now, so major progress is made without me bottlenecking things in details. These days, we have a small part-time crew working on cleanup and restoration on the various titles, and there are six in some progress right now (Willie, Flip the Frog, Abbott and Costello rarities, Snafu, the Lou Bunin puppet set and one I can't talk about yet).
We have one of the 'Special' discs on the IAD forum right now, with only a few more days left if anyone is interested. These are a BDR/DVD combo set of rare cartoons, unrestored, in excellent telecine transfers. It's probably the last of these side projects, and they usually have a run of about 60 copies- you can find information about that on the IAD (animation internet database) forum... if someone wants to put a link feel free!
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