And of course re-film the paper animation. The last time I did this, when I was in college, I sat for two days on the floor filming the animation ... two .. frames ... at a time. The Bolex camera was c clamped to my drawing table with two lights attached as well. Taped to the floor was a piece of poster board with a rectangle cut out. I would place the drawing in the corresponding rectangle and use a piece of glass as a pressure plate. 
Pretty crude. Animation stands ... on the professional level are pretty complicated. And even simple ones were better than the Mickey Moused system I used. I was not much better off that Windsor Mccay used in 1911. He used a measured series of registration marks and wooden frame to steady the picture. What Mccay did was utterly amazing. So much that it took a dinosaur named Gertie, to convince audiences that this was not a trick. This amazing to me, since he took great plains to show just how much work animation really is. Later on peg systems were used to steady the shot, both on animation table and on the camera.
With my current system, the scanner serves as a camera. And with out this set up of the Wacom tablet on the Ergrotron arm I would have to get up and place the picture in the scanner. After walking back to the computer and using the software to scan the drawing, it then needs to be manipulated in Photoshop. All and all, I estimate each drawing will take 2 minutes to get camera ready. Then it will be imported into a video program. Obviously there is more involved than the old school method. More time as well. So re-doing a 5 minute cartoon is a hell of a project.
Maybe there's an episode of Matlock on TV.
So below is my test of scanner registration. The piece is an animation I did for the film "Rituals" with Walt and Mike Mazzone.
And for those who haven't had enough punishement here is Windsor Mccay's Little Nemo.
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