Uploading this for those of you who are really into different film prints, title cards, and stuff like that! This is the beginning of an 8mm silent B+W film print of Honeyland. It's a home movie print that was released by Pictoreels, an early distributor of Happy Harmonies cartoons.
After the fade into black at the end of this video, the cartoon starts. Since it's silent, there are added dialogue cards here and there. I'm not sure if I can upload the entire cartoon or not without getting a copyright strike, so just use your imagination. I imagine the 16mm home movie version of this has color and a sound strip. If you happen to own any 16mm Pictoreels Happy Harmonies cartoons, please let me know.
As a side note, I was doing research for work a few months ago on copyright statuses of every Terrytoons cartoon. As I was doing that, I saw the copyright renewal entry for "The Discontented Canary", so that cartoon IS copyrighted and is not public domain like everyone thinks. HOWEVER, the Pictoreels print of that cartoon has NO copyright notice, making that version public domain. (Because of laws at the time, film distributors had to put a copyright notice on everything or else it would automatically be public domain.) So ooo, Pictoreels screwed up! It looks like they remembered to put a copyright notice on this print here.
As you can see, folks, I got a film scanner! I can only scan 8mm & super 8 films right now. For 16mm, I have to send them off to get scanned by a photo lab or record them playing on my wall lol.
Enjoy enjoy!
7 сен 2024
