Gamewiz has let me borrow his copies of the books The Animated Raggedy Ann & Andy by John Canemaker, which is a major illustrated coffee table book all about the Raggedy Ann film (which is a shock, since the film is seen as a failure today), the Exploits of the Incomparable Mullah Nasrudin which is the first two Nasrudin book and even has a story about what became Princess MeeMee and Prince Bubba in it ... Goblet and The Thief are in there too as usual .... plus two issues of FPS and one of Animato, which talk about the film. One interviews Fred Calvert, one has a lovely sad article by Tony White, one has a positive review of the Princess version of the film ...
I'll be scanning all of these .... as much as I can ... this is gonna take forever ... The Raggedy Ann book has artwork and discussion of The Thief in it, and lots of information about Richard and his work, as well as obviously great images of all the Raggedy Ann characters and those who animated them. A lot of caricatures of the animators as their characters, which seems to be de rigeur for these films.
I want copies of these books.
There is so much printed material, so many quotes that appear in printed sources ... I've realized that along with a documentary it would be a good idea to do a book, if I have time ... I could go into a lot more detail about the making of this film given a few hundred pages to play with.
I've self-published books before (like my Tao of Cow) so it's no hassle really.
If anyone wants to help with either the documentary or the book, let me know. What I could REALLY use ... it would be difficult, but if someone could transcribe some of these interviews I've done as I post them ... DAMN, would that be helpful.
Anyone know any good text-reading OCR programs for Mac?