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Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts

New Restoration

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Three images of cartoons: a standing elephant wearing overalls, a king counting coins, and Betty Boop working at a garage.

Feb 22, 2025 12:30 PM

Film/Video Theater

$8 members and adults 55 and over
$10 general public
$5 students

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Admission to all Cinema Revival screenings
$30 members and adults 55 and over
$42 general public
$15 students

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A program of newly restored, rarely screened treasures from animation’s Golden Age.

Back From the Ink is the first ever curated restoration of historically significant animated shorts from the 1930s to 1940s. This new restoration project was completed through an unlikely collaboration between Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation and animator, director, and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. Highlights of the program include Betty Boop in So Does an Automobile, the charming George Pal Puppetoon Wilbur the Lion, the surreal Fleischer Studio’s The Fresh Vegetable Mystery, and much more! Don’t miss this chance to see these cartoon rarities on the big screen! (51 mins., DCP)

See the complete 2025 Cinema Revival lineup.

IMAGE CAPTION
Back From the Ink, courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Program lineup

Wilbur the Lion (George Pal, 1947)
An Elephant Never Forgets (Dave Fleischer and Seymour Kneitel, 1934)
The Three Bears (Mannie Davis & Connie Rasinski, 1939)
The Fresh Vegetable Mystery (Dave Fleischer and Dave Tendlar, 1939)
Peeping Penguins (Dave Fleischer and Myron Waldman, 1937)
Greedy Humpty Dumpty (Dave Fleischer and Dave Tendlar, 1936)
So Does an Automobile (Dave Fleischer and Roland Crandall, 1939)

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Restored animated shorts courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Seth MacFarlane Foundation.

FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Mellon Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
Nationwide Foundation
Lois S. and H. Roy Chope Fund of The Columbus Foundation
The Columbus Foundation
Axium Packaging