Once More Into the Stacks, My Fiends:



It has been 5 or 10 years since I hit that mark in cartoon collection known as too many damn cartoons! I have been mucking around for years pulling videos and DVDs for classes and screenings. Not really sure where anything is. And losing other suff as I sometimes find what I am look for.

This week, at long last, I decided to do something about it. No, not thin the collection. That is not an option no matter how many copies of Pantry Panic I end up with. There is always something I don`t have on the disk that means I have to keep the whole thing.

I created a data base at the beginning of this week and have started to catalog every cartoon I own. I have been putting if off for the last 3 or 4 years. I have known all along that this is what I would have to do some day, just not today. The giant looming work load has kept me hunting through the stacks.

Now that I have finally started on my journey I will take you along for the ride with posts on gems I rediscover as I cut my way though the jungle.



Here is a 1991/2003 Disk from Thunderbean (love those guys) that has a 1926 Fleischer Bros. Studio Koko the Clown bouncing ball sound cartoon that is a full year before Steamboat Willie.





The sync of sound to movement is very good but then the bouncing ball comes on the screen and nobody pays attention to the new technology. They have pretty much proved that a guy in Australia flew a heavier-than-air plane before the Wright Bros. he just didn`t have a good PR agent.

Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy)  ¶ 5:57 AM