Short Summary
Overview
Our goal is to scan and preserve over 300 16mm and 35mm animated shorts held in private collections and archives to new 2k and 4k digital scans and restore each short.
We have recently found a large collection of early silent films such as Felix the Cat and Jerry on the Job and a large number of Popeye, Bosko, and other rare animation on 35mm Nitrate and a small amount on 16mm and 35mm Safety.
Quite a few of these shorts are original 35mm Nitrate prints that are over 80 years old. Nitrate film stock is flammable and over time deteriorates.
These shorts have fallen into the Public Domain and as such they are being neglected.
Goal - We raise $45,000
With the large amount of prints we are dealing with we would like to raise enough funds to scan each print and do professional restoration work for each animated short we have listed in HD.
Depending on if we hit our full goal will determine how many shorts from the list we can scan.
If we raise anything above this goal it will be applied to future 35mm film scanning projects of other rare animation
Risks & Challenges
Nitrate film stock is a 35mm film gauge used by most major motion picture studios up through the early 1950's before the switch to Safety film stocks. Nitrate after time deteriorates and is very flammable. As such we are on a race against time to scan all these animated short subject films before they become unusable and lost to time.
If we reach our you will be helping us preserve a large collection of American Animation for all to enjoy.
What your money will finance
New transfer of the original 35mm prints or rare animation
Dust and scratch cleanup and removal of damage
Full color grade
Blu-ray printing and artwork
Breakdown of funding - $45,000
5% Indiegogo fees - $2,250
3% Bank transfer fees - $1,350
22% Taxes on funding - $9,000
Leaving us $31,500 to use towards print loan fees and Scan/Lab Work for each print
List of prints:
Felix's Eventful Journey - 35mm Safety
Felix's Fish Story - 35mm Nitrate
Felix in the Swim - 35mm Safety
Felix, Knight Errant - 35mm Nitrate
Felix Revolts - 16mm
Felix Gets Broadcasted - 16mm
Felix Laughs Last - 16mm
Felix 'Hyps' the Hippo - 16mm
Felix Tries to Rest - 16mm
Felix Finds 'Em Fickle - 16mm
Felix Brings Home the Bacon - 16mm
Felix Wins and Loses - 35mm Nitrate
Felix Meets Calamity Jane - 35mm Nitrate
Felix Follows the Swallows - 16mm
Felix Full O' Fight - 16mm
Felix Done Again - 35mm Safety
Felix Tees off for the Big Game in Africa - 35mm Safety
Felix Goes to Russia - 16mm
Felix Picks a Flower - 16mm
Felix the Cat Shatters the Sheik - 35mm Nitrate
Draggin' the Dragon - 35mm Nitrate
Bold King Cole - 35mm Nitrate
Felix Goose that Laid the Golden Egg - 35mm Nitrate
Neptune Nonsense - 35mm Nitrate
Alice's Egg Plant - 35mm Nitrate
Steamboat Willie (2024 release after Copyright expires) - 35mm Nitrate
The Four Musicians of Bremen - 35mm Acrylic
Cartoons by Hy-mayer - 35mm Tinted
Ant and the Grasshopper - 35mm Tinted
Sammie Johnsin Strong Man - 35mm Tinted
Bobby Bumps' Tank - 35mm Tinted
Them Were the Happy Days - 35mm Acrylic
Box Car Bill Falls in Luck - 35mm Acrylic
Mr. Fuller Pep, He Goes to the Country - 35mm Tinted
The Sinking of the Lusitania - 35mm Tinted
How Could William Tell? - 35mm Safety
Us Fellers "A Chip off the Old Block" - 35mm Tinted
Flip's Circus - 35mm Acrylic
The Flying House - 35mm Acrylic
All aboard for the Moon - 35mm Acrylic
The Rhyme That Went Wrong - 35mm Acrylic
Mopping up a Million - 35mm Acrylic
The Frogs That Wanted a King - 35mm Nitrate
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse - 35mm Positive
The Farmer and the Ostrich - 35mm Positive
The Woman and the Hen - 35mm Negative
Andy & Min Have a Caller - 35mm Positive
The Fashionable Fox - 35mm Tinted
The Dog and the Thief - 35mm Tinted
The Fable of the Eternal Triangle - 35mm Positive
The Spendthrift - 35mm Tinted
Colonel Heezaliar's Mysterious Case - 35mm Nitrate
Colonel Heezaliar - 35mm Acrylic
Hunting Lions in Africa - 35mm Tinted
The Cat's Whiskers - 35mm Positive
Trapped - 35mm Tinted
Cracked Ice - 35mm Tinted
Mose and Funny Face Make Angel Cake - 35mm Acrylic
The Magic Lamp - 35mm Tinted
Morning Judge - 35mm Tinted
Little Lambkin - 35mm Nitrate
Mommy Loves Puppy - 35mm Nitrate
Twinkletoes in Hat Stuff - 35mm Safety
Copy Cat - 35mm Safety
Gabby Goes Fishing - 35mm Nitrate
Sneak, Snoop and Snitch in Triple Trouble - 35mm Nitrate
I Never Changes My Altitude - 35mm Nitrate
Little Swee' Pea - 35mm Nitrate
Poopdeck Pappy - 35mm Nitrate
Quiet! Pleeze - 35mm Nitrate
Out to Punch - 16mm
Spree Lunch -16mm
Nearly Weds - 16mm
Parlez-vous Woo - 16mm
Penny Antics - 16mm
Car-azy Drivers - 16mm
A Job for a Gob - 16mm and 35mm
Taxi Turvey - 16mm and 35mm
Private Eye Popeye - 16mm
Shaving Muggs - 16mm and 35mm
Popeye, The Ace of Space - 16mm
Toreadorable - 16mm
Popeye's Mirthday - 16mm
Baby Wants a Battle - 16mm and 35mm
Ancient Fistory - 16mm and 35mm
Musikal Nephews - 35mm Nitrate
Stupidstitious Cat - 35mm Nitrate
A Haunting We Will Go - 35mm Nitrate
Lumber Jack and Jill - 16mm
Sinkin' in the Bathtub - 35mm Nitrate
Hold Anything - 35mm Nitrate
The Booze Hangs High - 35mm Nitrate
Box Car Blues - 35mm Nitrate
Ain't Nature Grand! - 16mm
Dumb Patrol - 35mm Nitrate
Yodeling Yokels - 16mm
Bosko's Holiday - 16mm and 35mm Nitrate
The Tree's Knees - 16mm
Bosko Shipwrecked - 16mm
Bosko the Doughboy - 16mm
Bosko's Fox Hunt - 35mm Nitrate
Bosko at the Zoo - 16mm
Big-Hearted Bosko - 16mm
Bosko and Bruno - 16mm
Bosko's Dog Race - 16mm
Bosko at the Beach - 16mm
Bosko the Lumberjack - 16mm
Ali-Baba Bound (Redrawn) - 16mm
Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee - 16mm
Daffy's Southern Exposure - 16mm
I Love a Parade - 16mm
Impatient Patient - 16mm
Inki and the Minah Bird - 16mm
Falling Hare - 35mm Nitrate
Sittin' on the Backyard Fence - 16mm
The Isle of Pingo Pongo - 16mm
Wake up the Gypsy in Me - 16mm
And many more rarities
Other Ways You Can Help
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