{"id":5664,"date":"2025-01-09T18:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T01:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=5664"},"modified":"2025-01-09T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T02:00:13","slug":"rip-michael-schlesinger-a-true-friend-of-scrappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/09\/rip-michael-schlesinger-a-true-friend-of-scrappy\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Michael Schlesinger, a True Friend of Scrappy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was sorry to hear\u2014via Mark Evanier\u2014of the passing of Michael Schlesinger, a film fan, film preservationist, and filmmaker<em> par excellence<\/em>. Almost 20 years ago, when Mike was at Sony\/Columbia, he provided the beautifully restored prints of Scrappy cartoons for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/hollywood\/\">Jerry Beck&#8217;s memorable Scrappyland event<\/a>. (Here&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/09\/the-long-lost-scrappyland-video\/\"> video of the festivities<\/a>.) I wish everyone could see for themselves how good those shorts looked on the big screen. But it&#8217;s reassuring to know they exist, even if they spend most of their time locked up in the Columbia vault. I&#8217;m forever grateful to Mike for his role in protecting our Scrappy heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/2025\/01\/09\/michael-schlesinger-r-i-p\/\">post<\/a> covers some of Mike&#8217;s other activities in the film world, which were many and varied. My condolences to his family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sorry to hear\u2014via Mark Evanier\u2014of the passing of Michael Schlesinger, a film fan, film preservationist, and filmmaker par excellence. Almost 20 years ago, when Mike was at Sony\/Columbia, he provided the beautifully restored prints of Scrappy cartoons for Jerry Beck&#8217;s memorable Scrappyland event. (Here&#8217;s video of the festivities.) I wish everyone could see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/09\/rip-michael-schlesinger-a-true-friend-of-scrappy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP Michael Schlesinger, a True Friend of Scrappy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D9Zl-1tm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}