Toward a More Perfect Truth:

Minor correction. The other day Steve thanked Jerry Beck in these pages for providing the Black and White Terrytoon cartoons for the ASIFA Archives. And in truth the cartoons in question did come from Jerry`s collection but before they came from Jerry`s collection they came from Mark Kausler`s collection.

These Terrytoons, just like so many other cartoons today, are here for us to enjoy only because Mark Kausler hunted them down one by one over the years, bought them with his own money, paid out of his own pocket for the film storage facilities for the past 35 plus years, lovingly maintained the films by hand, and then made them available to the public by freely lending them to Jerry and others like him to be copied.

So maybe it is not a minor correction, maybe it is a major correction. I for one thank the forgotten shades of Emile Cohl and J. Stuart Blackton for the likes of Mark Kausler and the thousands of cartoons he has saved.  ¶ 4:52 AM