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Classic Cartoons Marred by Digital Restoration

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the technology-works-for-good-and-evil dept.

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." "

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  1. Smoothing effects by fronthead · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... or glossing over the racist stereotypes of Heckle and Jekyll.

  2. i have a huge pecker of wood... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    .... hard as wood, or even better, hard as iron...

    a good source of iron....

    my pecker is an unfuckingbelievably gorgeous monster.

    them ladies are craving for more and more of it.

    gotta keep goin, bbl, gotta get em stuffed...

  3. Re:1984 and chaning history? by tomstdenis · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah seriously! I mean next thing you'll know Yoda was actually blue....

    Please someone mod down the parent as "newbie paranoid who doesn't make sense, -1"...

    Who cares if they change the cartoons. You think your shakespear reader in Grade 9 was the original? You think your Bible is the original? etc...

    Things change as people evolve. Cartoons from the 30s were stupid war propaganda crap anyways. Personally I say good bye. If they can sneak a few [more]corporate logos in there all the better.

    Tom

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    Someday, I'll have a real sig.