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Jeff Missinne is, even though he wouldn\u2019t have admitted it, important in the emerging fandom and subsequent revival of classic animation in the 70s, 80s and 90s. <\/p>\n

I knew Jeff since he was 32. That was nearly 40 years ago now. I was a teenager then, collecting cartoons, and we often exchanged cartoons as well as many years of phone calls and letters. He was essential in helping me start \u201cSnappy Video\u201d the pre-curser to the things we do now at Thunderbean<\/a>. I\u2019ve kept all of Jeff\u2019s letters, and rather me pontificating about Jeff, I thought I would be fun to put some of these up for you folks to get a flavor of what it was like knowing him.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In the bigger picture, I\u2019m continually grateful for the generation of animation fans that are just a little older than I am. They kept the faith and did the research at a time where there just wasn\u2019t much academic interest in such things. I\u2019ve been lucky enough to meet and know quite a few of the people who I really looked up to as a teenager first discovering 16mm film collecting, and soon after it old issues of little \u2018zine Mindrot \/ Animania<\/em>. <\/p>\n

The high school I went to was a few blocks from downtown Ann Arbor, and during lunch I\u2019d often head into town, right after school, to my favorite used book shop. At first I was buying issues of Funnyworld<\/em>, then asked the shop to do a search for a few particular books- that was the way you found a particularly rare book. I got Field\u2019s Art of Walt Disney<\/em> and two copies of The Fleischer Story<\/em> that way, at a time where you just couldn\u2019t find those. <\/p>\n

At some point, someone sold them a big pile of Mindot\u2019s<\/em>, and I\u2019d buy them for a dollar each or so, usually with lunch money. I still cherish those issues. Jeff wrote an column called \u2018The Catbird Seat\u2019<\/em> for many issues. Here\u2019s one from Mindrot, issue 15, from 1979:<\/p>\n

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When I started to get to know Jeff a little better and as he started helping me navigate the particulars of figuring out how to transfer films, I was delighted to find that he would often write a personalized \u2018Catbird Seat\u2019<\/em> to me, helping with copyright searches especially since he had the much coveted \u2018Film Superlist\u2019 book that could be used to determine what films for Public Domain:<\/p>\n

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Sometimes Jeff would update me on the latest things he\u2019d watched or what was happening in the news about new shows. Here\u2019s an especially interesting one from 1990:<\/p>\n

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The letters would often have added drawings, like this example from early 1990:<\/p>\n

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He joked at one point about Snappy Video, my little company, releasing a set of PD Disney cartoons. Here was his joke cover. I actually used a few years ago as a reversible cover on PD mouse Adventures:<\/p>\n

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Jeff and I didn\u2019t always see eye-to-eye, and he let me have it several times over the years. One of those times I credit as actually forcing the teenager I was at that time to put serious work into what I was pursuing. That particular \u2018tough love\u2019 was a difficult lesson, but lead to much better grounding for the company (more on that sometime soon). <\/p>\n

We always managed to stay good friends and chat here and there. It was Jeff that first showed me many of the Van Beuren cartoons I\u2019d never seen, including Piano Tooners<\/em>, a majority of the Cubby Bears and Ted Eshbaugh\u2019s Wizard of Oz<\/em> (1933) in black and white. This led me on a lifetime pursuit to see Eshbaugh\u2019s films in color. That is, of course, now old history. <\/p>\n

I loved chatting with him all those years, and was very lucky to have had him as a friend. <\/p>\n

Have a good week all,<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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