Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts
A program of newly restored, rarely screened treasures from animation’s Golden Age.
Film/Theater
Back From the Ink is the first ever curated restoration of historically significant animated shorts from the 1930s to 1940s. This new restoration project was completed through an unlikely collaboration between Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation and animator, director, and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. Highlights of the program include Betty Boop in So Does an Automobile, the charming George Pal Puppetoon Wilbur the Lion, the surreal Fleischer Studio’s The Fresh Vegetable Mystery, and much more! Don’t miss this chance to see these cartoon rarities on the big screen! (51 mins., DCP)
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Program lineup
Wilbur the Lion (George Pal, 1947)
An Elephant Never Forgets (Dave Fleischer and Seymour Kneitel, 1934)
The Three Bears (Mannie Davis & Connie Rasinski, 1939)
The Fresh Vegetable Mystery (Dave Fleischer and Dave Tendlar, 1939)
Peeping Penguins (Dave Fleischer and Myron Waldman, 1937)
Greedy Humpty Dumpty (Dave Fleischer and Dave Tendlar, 1936)
So Does an Automobile (Dave Fleischer and Roland Crandall, 1939)