{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"025: Preserving the Roots of Animation","description":"Tommy Stathes has been drawn to classic animation for as long as he can remember. Really classic, as in pre-Disney, pre-sound, even... As a child, he regularly scoured local stores in search of obscure animation treasures on VHS. You've seen them - those poorly produced, haphazardly programmed, cheaply packaged cassettes that fill pharmacy bargain bins.\r\nYoung Tommy saw something through the grain and blur of these shoddy releases - he saw history, and a unique aesthetic that has never been, and never can be, truly recreated. Tommy's childhood love of vintage film has led him to become one of the world's  foremost animation archivists, with a personal library of thousands of original reels dating back nearly a century.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIn this interview, we discuss his collection, his restoration efforts, and his new Blu-Ray release, Cartoon Roots (available at Amazon).\r\n\r\n\r\nWe also discuss:\r\n\r\nthe earliest days of animation history\r\nhow he obtained 16mm and 35mm copies of these obscure films\r\nthe nature and legal status of "orphaned films"\r\ndigitizing and restoring vintage reels\r\nprepping the Blu-Ray\r\nself-distributing\r\nadvantages of selling niche-interest material on Amazon\r\n\r\n ","author_name":"Anywhere But Hollywood: Working in Film, Living in the World | Filmmaking,Crowdfunding,Animation,Screenwriting","author_url":"http:\/\/anywherebuthollywood.com","html":"