Did anyone save any screenshots of the auction?
Need to know if the titles were one of the two variants: generic Audio-Cinema titles with three cartoon animals playing instruments or the Educational Pictures titles that show a lamp.
I'm starting to believe that there were alternate issues of Terry-Toon titles during Paul Terry's time spent with Audio-Cinema as their financial backer, specifically produced for theaters that picked up Educational Pictures packages. While I do not have anything to confirm this, I am willing to say something else:
The 35mm nitrate answer print elements for 'Caviar', according to Jerry Beck, as to be expected show titles only crediting Audio-Cinema; the opening title card has the animals I mentioned above. Thomas Stathes' 16mm element of 'Monkey Meat' also shows Audio-Cinema titles with said animals, and so do Steve Stanchfield's 35mm element for 'Hungarian Goulash'. Mark Kausler's 16mm element of 'Salt Water Taffy' shows Educational Pictures titles crediting Audio-Cinema; these have different, plain title cards in their entirety, and are the basis of later title cards after the Audio-Cinema era.
If I am correct, Ideal Films Ltd., an overseas Educational Pictures outlet, appeared to have sourced elements out of random, evidenced by the end title cards shown for the surviving British 35mm nitrate elements for 'Club Sandwich' and 'Popcorn'; the former, of which Ideal Films used an Audio-Cinema issue, and the latter which used an issue from Educational Pictures.
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