The original negatives to the Paramount toons

[Argus Sventon]

What is the status of the original negatives to the Paramount cartoons as well as the live action shorts?

[Nelson]

Several of the Paramount cartoons that I own on video, have the original Paramount titles....
*Indicates newly restored film prints
WINNER BY A HARE *
THE PLOT SICKENS
A LAMB IN A JAM *
IN THE NICOTINE
STUPIDSTITIOUS CAT
THE INQUISIT VIST
MUCH ADO ABOUT MUTTON *

Now regarding the Harveytoon library (1950 -1961) now that the company is history, I would believe whoever are the new copyright owners just might fully restore the cartoons, back to the original Paramount titles...

[Argus Sventon]

The original negatives should be taken care of, and for the record, I believe they should be placed in the Paramount film vaults.

Is anyone at Viacom working on getting the restoration started yet?

[Thad Komorowski]

There's also two Herman & Katnip cartoons that have their original titles. They're "Rail-Rodents" and "Hide and Peak". These were also restored prints.


-Thad

[BobChief]

www.harvey.com, which my favorite search engine still comes up with when I ask for "Sunland Entertainment", the company's most-recently-reported name, is still around, but have apparently closed their press-release area, leaving no clues there. Doesn't King Features still hold partial merchandising rights to their characters?