Daffy - The Commando

[Jave]

Some years ago, I rented a Public Domain Daffy Duck tape, which had many classic cartoons plus the rare "Daffy - The Commando". I remembered that in this tape, the text featured in the translation cards (during the "Telefon" scene) was in perfect condition and perfectly readable.

A couple of weeks ago, I saw this cartoon on Local Chilean TV, and noticed the text was there, but it was barely visible and hard to read.

Recently, I downloaded the realvideo copy from "Public Domain Cartoons in Realvideo" and noticed the text was completely missing.

Does anyone knows (or at least has a theory) why the quality of this particular scene changes so much between prints? I'm sure most of you folks have noticed.

[cabe624]

Because diffrent prints vary in how bright and dark they are, a brighter print would surely white out the thin lettering on the translation cards. The print on the laser disc of Bugs and Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons from MGM didn't really suffer from this problem, but the cards were still kind of bright.