1961 16mm Restoration (mostly) (Patreon)

Last week I posted my initial color correction of this cartoon. While I was working on that, I discovered that the cartoon is almost entirely shot of 2s (that means each frame repeats twice before the next new frame appears). This is the ideal situation for a cartoon clean up as computer programs look at the frames ahead and behind to determine what is dirt vs motion.

When a film is shot on 1s, a lot of mistakes are made. See the examples below.

Above, the animation of the hammer is shot on 1s and below, Rocky running is also on ones. I had to go frame by frame to undo the damage seen here. Luckily, on 7 scenes of 80 frames or less were shot on ones so I was able to do all this in one day.

If you go onto the 2023 downloads page, you'll be able to down the full cartoon there. Click Here (for $20 suppers and up).