Original Title Card for "The Bear's Tale"

[Javeman]

Dunno for how long it's been there, but Jerry Beck's Cartoon Research site now features a good-quality picture of the original title card of Avery's "The Bear's Tale".

http://www.cartoonresearch.com/warner.html

Hope this means the cartoon will have its full opening sequence qhen it's released on LTGC Vol. 5.

[Sean Gaffney]

Awesome! This is one of my favorite WB cartoons directed by Avery, a true Fairy Tale classic. It'll be wonderful to see it with original titles (assuming this is the case).

[Leviathan]

Wasn't that one of the WB titles Soggy won many moons ago?

[Duck Dodgers]

Dunno for how long it's been there, but Jerry Beck's Cartoon Research site now features a good-quality picture of the original title card of Avery's "The Bear's Tale".

http://www.cartoonresearch.com/warner.html

Hope this means the cartoon will have its full opening sequence qhen it's released on LTGC Vol. 5.

Thanks a lot, Javeman!
So that will be one of the restored titles on the LTGC!
I wonder if Soggie is behind this;)

[Mark J]

That title card has been there for a long time - it also shows the original title cards for Pigs in a Polka and Katnip College which were not restored when they were released on DVD, so there is no way to be sure that The Bear's Tale will be restored.

[Duck Dodgers]

That title card has been there for a long time - it also shows the original title cards for Pigs in a Polka and Katnip College which were not restored when they were released on DVD, so there is no way to be sure that The Bear's Tale will be restored.

There is. If you look carefully you'll see that it is actualy a screenshot from the dvd that I suppose Jerry already got in his hands. It looks restored so it is from the copy that will be in the set.

[Tom Stathes]

That title card has been there for a long time - it also shows the original title cards for Pigs in a Polka and Katnip College which were not restored when they were released on DVD, so there is no way to be sure that The Bear's Tale will be restored.
Strange, if these cards are out there and WB with its nice check book needs these things, why were they not restored? :confused:

[Mark J]

There is. If you look carefully you'll see that it is actualy a screenshot from the dvd that I suppose Jerry already got in his hands. It looks restored so it is from the copy that will be in the set.

How do you know it is a screenshot from a dvd? It is a rather hazy image about 1 1/2 inches wide on my screen and it doesn't blow up. Katnip Kollege, Pigs in a Polka and the rest on the page look the same or better. I guess you know because Jerry told you, but there is no way to know that from looking at the tiny image on the website.

[Mark J]

Strange, if these cards are out there and WB with its nice check book needs these things, why were they not restored? :confused:

Good question!!!

[Snowpeck II]

According to the Web Archive (http://web.archive.org/web/20061006173239/http://www.cartoonresearch.com/warner.html), that image was not there as of October of last year, and the image location doesn't turn up any results, so the inaccessable pages from earlier this year didn't have it either.


Greg

[Greg Method]

IIRC, the "Katnip Kollege" image on the site is really a photograph of the actual title card itself, not a frame from a print.

[Duck Dodgers]

How do you know it is a screenshot from a dvd? It is a rather hazy image about 1 1/2 inches wide on my screen and it doesn't blow up. Katnip Kollege, Pigs in a Polka and the rest on the page look the same or better. I guess you know because Jerry told you, but there is no way to know that from looking at the tiny image on the website.

No. Jerry didn't tell me anything.
I have some eye for these kind of things and it is pretty clear that the image, even if little, is from a restored copy.

[wundermild]

A Google cache (http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:cAk8EUyFNNUJ:www.cartoonresearch.co m/warner.html22&hl=de&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=en) file of Jerry's WB original titles website from Aug. 26, 2007, does not include the images, so they are indeed very recent additions.
As I understand, some of the original titles are found only as stills (or celluloid fragments, like the Sogturtle ones), and without the musical score it is not possible to properly include them and thus restore the opening. However, I would heartily appreciate the inclusion of the images anyway, someday, perhaps as a gallery of image stills what "has been".

[Mark J]

No. Jerry didn't tell me anything.
I have some eye for these kind of things and it is pretty clear that the image, even if little, is from a restored copy.

Thanks! I don't have that kind of eye, so to me it was not obvious. I know you have a good eye for those things - I've seen your excellent blog! :)