The good word about Inkwell Images’ excellent series of animation anthology discs keeps spreading, as Del Walker at DVD Toons takes a look at Max Fleischer’s Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes (1925-1927). Though the series has been put together by an independent producer, you’d never know from the quality that the discs were created without big studio money behind them. “As with his other Inkwell Image productions, Ray Pointer has done a magnificent job of restoring and adding a bit of ‘polish’ to these rare film relics”, says Del. “Pointer was able to locate and purchase the only existing 35mm picture and sound negatives to the 12 ‘sound’ films from the New York-based ‘Movietronics’ film library [and] has meticulously restored 6 of the 12 prints, which make up the main body of [the] DVD. The Ko-Ko Song Car-tunes are an integral part of animated film history, if not particularly well known, and are certainly deserving of further attention”.

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