Tommy José Stathes is an internationally recognized archivist, historian, distributor, and educator in the realm of early animated and silent films.
A compilation of early Walt Disney animated silent shorts restored by Thomas J. Stathes.
Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue pre-sound cartoons from obscurity and screen them to new, appreciative audiences.