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Mutt And Jeff (Radio & Television Packagers redrawn and colorized versions)
About this film
In the early 1970's, a company named Radio & Television Packagers commissioned Fred Ladd and his colorization company Color Systems Inc. (later named Entercolor Technologies Corp.) to colorize various cartoon shorts that had just fallen into the public domain at the time, mostly silent era cartoons. Among the batch of shorts selected were several silent era Mutt and Jeff cartoons made by Charles Bowers and Raoul Barre. The original music score of these shorts was replaced with an entirely new soundtrack comprised of new music and sound effects, which was the same process all cartoons done under Radio & Television Packagers went through. The Radio & Television Packagers versions also renamed the majority of the shorts, usually to titles that had nothing to do with the shorts themselves. These shorts shared the same animation flaws as other redrawn shorts did, with every other frame being retraced and colorized, resulting in the loss of the original shorts' animation quality. However, the redrawn shorts under Radio & Television Packagers gained more negative reception and criticism than the other redrawn shorts did due to the animation quality, odd color choices, and replaced soundtr…
Directors & creators
Radio & Television Packagers, Entercolor Technologies Corp.
Subjects
mutt and jeff, colorized, redrawn, redrawn colorized, fred ladd, radio and television packagers
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