Very strange, I was in a room filled with a great many animation history heavy weight cartoon buffs and we were watching cartoons that none of us had seen. It was like some surreal dream in more ways than one.

I told you, you should have made a point of coming out to the AFI screening of the Mintz Karzy Kats. Rare, surreal, off the wall bazaar cartoons unseen in 70 years.

The place was packed with animation buffs, film people, amateur and professional animation and film historians. Leonard Maltin, Mark Kausler, Milton Gray, Joe Dante, Ray Pointer, Jerry Beck, the list goes on and on.

I only got there a half hour early and I had to park on the hill and walk down the funky blacktopped steps of death. Heaven knows when these films will see the light of projector again. Big thanks to Jerry Beck who put together a great show, Michael Schlesinger who lent the restored prints, and the folks at Sony that did the restoration.



There is some talk of a second showing of some of the other restored Karzy Kat cartoons. I truely hope that this will come to pass.  ¶ 6:21 AM