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Classic Cartoons Marred by Digital Restoration
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "When classic animated films undergo digital restoration, key features can get lost in translation. The Wall Street Journal reports that the process meant to smooth over scratches and dirt specks on old film "can also remove some of the lines that make up the animation -- for example, blurring Tom's face in a Tom and Jerry cartoon, or erasing lines in Woody Woodpecker's fast-moving beak." "
you're still going to be turned on by Buggs Bunny dressed in drag.
But the process can also remove some of the lines that make up the animation -- for example, erasing lines in Woody Woodpecker's fast-moving beak.
This problem isn't limited to cartoons - I hear that they're running into to similar problems during the restoration of early Ron Jeremy videos.
"for example, blurring Tom's face in a Tom and Jerry cartoon, or erasing lines in Woody Woodpecker's fast-moving beak."
Or making one character seem to fire their blaster first when you were sure that the other fired first last time your watched it.
So now Tom shoots first in the cantina scene and jerry is carrying a walky-talky instead of a giant mallet?
Starsucks
Of course.
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"But in cartoons, the process gets sketchier. "
Couldn't have said it better myself!
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
I agree.
On a related note, we should start a petition to keep the topless woman frame in The Rescuers.
Don't worry too much, they still have the original. When the tech comes along they'll do it right and be happy to sell them again. After a little more time they will repackage the first version again as 'classic cut version, the original footing'
Stop invalid scientific research. Ask your local scientists to feed their lab rats with a phytoestrogen-free chow.
If Michelangelo had provided key frames to his Korean tweeners I'm sure it wouldn't be quite to blasphemous to paint over the problem areas.
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The scratches encode secret messages from the rebellion against the aliens who control our governments. DON'T YOU PEOPLE KNOW THESE THINGS?!!!!1112
neither shalt thou count two, unless thou preceedest directly to three. Five is right out.
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I only need one brain cell to watch cartoons and it's obscured with a canabis haze or I'm half asleep on saturday am anyway....
Rick B.