I watched The Cocoanuts last night. There are some scenes that are clear, clean, and upconvert nicely, but there aren't many of those. The film is alive with scratches: some that run the length of the frame and some that are small and appear all over the scenes in small places. On some scenes that were missing from the source used for the transfer, a lower generation of the scene had to be used, and those scenes are abysmal. But The Cocoanuts being so old is never going to look any better, I fear. It's still hilarious for the Marx madness and entertaining for the Harp and Chico instrument solos.
