To get to the trailer, you have to move around the button's on Benny's dashbord. You should highlight an arrow over some meter and click it. It's not in the best condition, but it's a good trailer. If you want, I can include it on the Animating Art restoration DVD.
FYI, the first disc isn't a total loss. The documentary for kids on RR has some more Richard Williams interviews, as well as all three RR cartoons released afterwards (Tummy Trouble in front of Honey I Shrunk the Kids... forgot the other two). In fact, all three cartoons are 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and have 5.1 sound! Not that it means anything for this project since they're not RWS productions. Still, it's nice that they kept the excellent production values and fluid animation style.
If you haven't seen the making-of on the 2nd disc yet, you'll love it. Williams has some interviews and you get to see a lot of raw animation. They would use B&W blow-up photographs to use as layout when animating so everything would line up.
Oh, also, I'm going to be a little busy this week, but I should get Animating Art finished by the end of the week. I'm having to re-do a few clips because I forgot to turn off cropping settings meant for Moving Day (it was windowboxed, unlike any of the other film clips).
I picked up the new remastered DVD for The Return of the Pink Panther and if you don't have it already, I can capture the opening animation. Same thing for Strikes Again if you want. Both of which are the great 16x9 remasters on disc.
And I tried to find out what the source was for the opening workprint music... I ran it by my uncle, who has a music major... he suspected it was Ralph Vaughan Williams (I thought this too), but it didn't match any works he could find! After seeing the Thames doc, perhaps it's possible that Williams had original music composed and orchestrated as he went? I mean, he was supervising effects mixing for individual scenes in 1982!
I also ordered The Animator's Survival Kit in paperback. Only $19 on Amazon.com!