How a 100-Year-Old Animated Film Is Restored!

Watch restored Fleischer cartoons at youtube.com/@FleischerToons/ www.fleischertoons.com/ Mauricio Alvarado - www.rockinpins.com/ instagram.com/RockinPins Steve Stanchfield - Thunderbean Animation thunderbeanshop.com/ Film Preservation Associates, Inc. Blackhawk Films - www.fpa-blackhawk.com/ Mark Kausler - www.imdb.com/name/nm0442483/

I love how, while discussing how rare and fragile the film is, he's just casually unraveling it into a pile.

Thank you Tested team!!!🎞️💜

Thank you for sharing this. My grandmother was one of the ink girls at Fliescher animation in Miami Beach in the 1930s. I’ve been a fan since I was a kid. These restorations are amazing. I love sharing this stuff with my own son. My grandmother passed away at 101 a 2 years ago.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about film collecting is finding any lost material not found in other archives. (Could be original titles, lost scenes, or full lost cartoons even)

If you can smile while talking about the monotony of your job, in describing the pain-staking process and minute time-consuming details then this is a job you love!

Thanks for making the efforts of Steve Stanchfield go viral. He is one of the true heroes of animation history, the guy who’s in the trenches and doing the actual work that should’ve been done years ago. Ditto for Mark Kausler.

Steve was one of my animation professors, great guy, loves animation and his passion and energy is infectious haha!

It's amazing seeing old films being restored and then being made available for people to watch again.

These animators ought to be preserved in the highest regard. They brought entertainment through a painstaking art.

You couldn't know how good the timing of this video is!!!! Some weeks ago, I watched a compilation/pseudo-documentary about early animation my mom had saved on her DVR for me at her house, much of which was about Max Fleischer's early work (Folks, regardless of resolution, some of the work is STUNNING!). Any day now I'll be setting up her new cable box which {fingers crossed} is supposed to enable streaming content, and this will be one of the first videos I'll go to in her training of how to navigate YouTube. Blessed be and Happy Yule!

I'm old enough to remember watching these cartoons on local TV stations, in black and white, back in the 1960s. Then, they were 'only' 40 years old. Even to a little kid, the flow and variety of animation techniques in Fleischer cartoons was mesmerizing to my siblings and I. Even then, the copies that got shown were in rough shape when compared to Warner Brothers and others, but they were somehow more alive. I'm really glad to know they're bring restored, and restored with love.

"Accessibility is everything." Really some words to live by.

Those restos look so great, they deserve broadcast on TV because they completely overturn the assumption that old toons were fuzzy and rough things. The public needs to know.

Years back I wrote a dissertation about remastering animated films to HD, with a particular focus on how Disney were approaching it. Researching about all their colour correction and digital noise reduction and seeing how much they reselling films where they'd just butchered the picture quality... it was pretty depressing.

My grandad was a cinema projectionist when he was young. He said that he had to quickly repair film by gluing it back together and keep the film running.

Wow I never knew old cartoons were supposed to look that good, I always just thought the quality we saw was how they were originally drawn. That perspective change of the orphanage at 0:53 is just stunning.

It's insane how detailed each frame was after being cleaned

I enjoy watching Film Restorations as much as I enjoy watching the Films. Thank you for this video.

The clarity and detail difference between the original and the restoration is insane. Looks like new =o