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New Scan Tin Pan Alley Cats (1943)

Added 2022-02-12 14:11:00 +0000 UTC

Tin Pan Alley Cats is Bob Clampett's follow up to Coal Black. Both were released in 1943 and are apart of the canonical Censored 11 owing to their objectionable visual depictions of American blacks. This short also focuses upon themes of African-American culture ( religion, and jazz music). The central character is a cat designed after Fats Waller.

A few months ago, this print was on eBay, and as you can see from the left most picture, it is very red. Based on my experience with the very red Coal Black print I restored, I decided to take a risk with this one as well.

I just received back a number of new scans, all Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies related (other posts to follow), and this was one of them.

What's above is only a demonstration of what's possible with a restoration. I won't get to this film until the second quarter of the year (April-June), but I am anxious to get to it as soon as I can. It's not as good as CB, and re-uses animation from earlier films, but is still enjoyable.