File:Seymour Kneitel - Noveltoons - Hep Cat Symphony (1949) (with France 5 on-screen variant).webm

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Seymour_Kneitel_-_Noveltoons_-_Hep_Cat_Symphony_(1949)_(with_France_5_on-screen_variant).webm ‎(WebM audio/video file, VP9/Opus, length 6 min 8 s, 640 × 480 pixels, 1.39 Mbps overall, file size: 60.91 MB)

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English: "Hep Cat Symphony" is an American traditional animated short film part of the Noveltoons series directed by Seymour Kneitel, written by Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer, and produced by Famous Studios.

The original description of the video by MihaiChetreanu17 provided from the source:

One day I just blink and out of nowhere, I have these venerable oversees copies of Paramount animated shorts, that are obviously restored to the best color saturation. If you were following blogs like http://classiccartoons.blogspot.com/ or the old (now-archived) pages of Cartoon Research, you may get a better sense of the things going on. If @Matt Skwarek is currently spreading all the Jerry Beck Garage Sales DVDs shorts copies that until now you were lucky if some animation historian or archivist barely uploaded some at any period, then why shouldn't I do the same for these rare TV recordings? As they were kept as safe as the Jerry Beck DVDs rips in the "special vaults", at this point I don't see why they shouldn't be spread as well. Something which users like @Uncutcartoons247 could have kept on going with, if he had more time, but now, here I am.

These remasters appear to have been done in the late 90s or early 2000s. Neverthless, they look way better than the public domain VHS transfers that have obvious picture wear, splices or bad color saturations. The thing is, Viacom (or whoever owned these cartoons back then that made the restorations) never released these masters in the USA, mainly because these shorts were never aired on official TV stations there. It was a kind of big loss for the Americans not to get to see these shorts officially, especially since I am sure there were a lot of them that got this treatment, more than I received.

As for this particular short, it does look considerably better than the public domain bootleg copies that keep circulating online, and you can see that.

  • Video source: France 5 - recorded around 2006 by a guy known as Hammerson, while Chase Pritchard was the one who shared me the copy from him (all these recordings are dubbed in French, so yeah, I have to sync and fix parts with external sources to have a good English audiotrack)
  • Audio source: VHS public domain master (alternating with the original France 5 audio on parts where no voice-over or FR dub interferes)
Date
  • 31 December 1948 (registration)
  • 4 February 1949
Source YouTube: "Hep Cat Symphony" (Noveltoons, 1949) (with France 5 on-screen variant) – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today
Author Famous Studios (later known as Paramount Cartoon Studios before 1956) (1942-1967)
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    TV print; France 5
  • Info Black-and-white
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  • Jayvee Enaguas (The Harvett Vault) reviewed the copyright for the animated short film on January 8, 2022, which includes most materials and elements.
    • A copyright notice seems present, which reads:
      Copyright 1948 by Paramount Pictures, Inc. All rights reserved.
      • In NTA print, it was blacked out on the title card and replaced with the different claimant of rightsholder on the closing logo card.
    • Paramount filed an entry for the animated short film as published before the release date.
    • National Telefilm Associates, who acquired U.M. & M. for their library containing pre-October 1950 titles produced by Fleischer/Famous Studios, didn't renew an entry for the animated short film within the required 28-year period between 1975 (1, 2) and 1976 (1, 2).
    • After the failure of copyright renewal, the animated short film entered the public domain on the first day of January 1977 and is freely available and distributable in both physical and digital formats.

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