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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted March 12, 2007 12:49 PM
I just recieved a Blackhawk print (LPP film stock, great colour), of "Rabbit Stew", a cartoon made the Eric Porter studio in Australia. While it dfoesn't merit a full fledged review, it is of slight interest.
As always, Blackhawk did an outstanding transfer, with beautiful colours. Eric Porters studio did two cartoons for Columbia pictures way back in 1951 (or 2?) and never did anymore cartoons for any american studio's. It becomes apparent as to why.
The animation, though 1951, looks like early 1930's animation, very poor and quite jerky. At first, i thought that this was done in someones garage, (maybe so), but it was done by a studio. It really doesn't measure up well in almost any department. (There are two at least decent gags in the film, but there are so poorly timed that they are an embarressment.)
Still, it is interesting to have a print of an almost completely unseen cartoon.
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Osi Osgood
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posted March 13, 2007 09:34 AM
Winbert, I'm sorry that I can't post the photo, I probably have the capability, but I just don't know how. Suffice to say, this was issued in the later beautiful silver boxes stating "From the Blackhawk collection" (with the "medal" enscribed with a big "B". On the side of the box, it states
"Blackhawk : films, sound, video" and then the address for the company, so this verifies the lateness of this release.
The earlier colour releases by Blackhawk were sadly on Eastman's bad stock, so they are subject to fade, but the last year or two's one of prints were on Eastman LPP, and these prints are absolutely brilliant in colour, and nearly no noe could be the sharpness of thier colour prints. I also have a late LPP print of the 15 minute animated short "The Littlest Angel" in colour from Blackhawk and the same is true of it, brilliant!
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Osi Osgood
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posted March 14, 2007 10:18 AM
It's an interesting thought, that it was made in the 1930's. The only problem is that, while the character design and animation look like 1930's stilted animation, the clothes design, as well as background design has a 1950's appearance to it. If you look at the design level of your average 1930's cartoon, (even Disney), the background design wasn't that elaborate. The cartoon database says 1952. You may be right however.
Yes, the Warners cartoons, (black and white) were re-colored by a film company in Korea in the 1970's and they did leave out numerous film cels in order to re-color them in quick sucession, and the results were horrifying. The Betty Boop as well as Krazy Cat's of the thirties were re-colored as well, and these re-colored cartoons are not even a good comparison to the original masterpieces.
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