From the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:
"Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy) is teaming up with famed filmmaker Martin Scorsese to fund the restoration of historically significant animated shorts from the 1920s to 1940s, through their Seth MacFarlane Foundation and Film Foundation respectively. This includes works from Max and Dave Fleischer (creators of “Betty Boop” and “Koko the Clown”), George Pal (creator of the stop-motion “Puppetoons”), and Paul Terry (of “Terrytoons”).
Currently twelve such animated films have been restored, using unique original pre-print elements and/or print sources, mostly nitrate, held at UCLA Film & Television Archive. The films were selected by UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation, in collaboration with Paramount Pictures Archives. The Fleischer movies in particular, were selected both because of use of jazz in their soundtracks, and because of their humor and distinctive style, which are a few of MacFarlane’s favorite things. A sample of how such a restored cartoon can look like, is featured below in the article."
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"Seth MacFarlane and Martin Scorsese Team Up To Restore Classic Animated Films"
"Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy) is teaming up with famed filmmaker Martin Scorsese to fund the restoration of historically significant animated shorts from the 1920s to 1940s, through their Seth MacFarlane Foundation and Film Foundation respectively. This includes works from Max and Dave Fleischer (creators of “Betty Boop” and “Koko the Clown”), George Pal (creator of the stop-motion “Puppetoons”), and Paul Terry (of “Terrytoons”).
Currently twelve such animated films have been restored, using unique original pre-print elements and/or print sources, mostly nitrate, held at UCLA Film & Television Archive. The films were selected by UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation, in collaboration with Paramount Pictures Archives. The Fleischer movies in particular, were selected both because of use of jazz in their soundtracks, and because of their humor and distinctive style, which are a few of MacFarlane’s favorite things. A sample of how such a restored cartoon can look like, is featured below in the article."
Read the full article here.
