tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post185340184960686959..comments2024-03-28T11:45:24.378-07:00Comments on Tralfaz: Into the InkwellYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-56338011622946248872012-10-19T17:18:58.512-07:002012-10-19T17:18:58.512-07:00Growing up with color TV, it was so terrible.Growing up with color TV, it was so terrible.Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-37111951672210072052012-10-19T17:18:24.244-07:002012-10-19T17:18:24.244-07:00They were just downright awful.They were just downright awful.Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-37838249862363007832012-10-19T16:12:52.245-07:002012-10-19T16:12:52.245-07:00The re-traced Fleischers didn't air in my area...The re-traced Fleischers didn't air in my area, Tymine, but the Warners cartoons did. We had a black and white set. I couldn't figure out why :Porky Pig cartoons I had seen before suddenly looked jerky and downright ugly in some places.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-70883969735516215552012-10-19T14:12:13.889-07:002012-10-19T14:12:13.889-07:00I always wondered why I didn't like Popeye car...I always wondered why I didn't like Popeye cartoons when I was younger. But now I see why- all that they played on TV then was the colorized versions. Seeing the originals on YouTube is a heck of a lot more enjoyable.<br /><br />The way every other frame seems removed and the tracings are done so badly made the movements look jerky and uninteresting.tymimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01565854395188018355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-92209150223156448582012-10-19T12:21:23.461-07:002012-10-19T12:21:23.461-07:00On the AAP prints, I found it interesting to learn...On the AAP prints, I found it interesting to learn that Max Fleischer had filed a lawsuit in 1955 over the removal of his name from the credits of the films. But his name wasn't removed on the TV prints; in the case of AAP, they made a concerted effort to retain his name on the post-39 shorts when they cropped the original title cards to remove the "Paramount Presents" identifier (since Max's legal action was against Paramount and not AAP, I may be mis-reading this and the suit may be connected to the original Famous Studios theatrical releases, while Dave Fliescher's ensuing 1956 lawsuit was targeted at AAP and the money they were earning from the cartoons).<br /><br />Overall, AAP's crops were annoying, but slightly less annoying than the UM&M/NTA title editing, and certainly less irritating than Ted Turner's 1987-88 colorizations (the first three of those -- "Axe Me Another", "Be Kind to Aminals" and "Alona On the Sarong Seas" are particularly heinous, being redrawn at the same miserable levels of the Looney Tunes and Betty Boop colorizations 20 years earlier). Warners' decision to computer colorize their B&W Looney Tunes just 2 1/2 years after the Korean Popeye redrawns made the quality level look even worse by comparison.<br />J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.com