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> the (legal) access I have to essentially any film or TV show I can imagine My imagination runs amok.. There is a Disney+ but https://disney.fandom.com/wiki

by chx 5y ago

> the (legal) access I have to essentially any film or TV show I can imagine My imagination runs amok.. There is a Disney+ but https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Little_Dog_Lost https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Little_Dog_Lost is not on it. Nor is any other Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color or whatever name the anthology ran on television since 1954 but to me this is the only one that matters, what can I do, I love corgis :) The Mists Of Avalon mini series from 2001 is nowhere to be found. Many, many movies have been made out of the novel The Count of Monte Cristo but what many consider the closest to the book, Robert Vernay's version from 1954 with no less than Jean Marais in the lead is impossible to find these days. This was Vernay's second Cristo movie, the vision he always wanted to make but couldn't in 1943 when he made the first. But no one knows of it because streaming, DVD, whatever you want just doesn't exist. Rare Films And More sourced a high quality 16mm print (it's in German) and digitized it and wrote English subtitles for it -- but it's a pirated copy, I don't think it entered the public domain yet.

dave5104 5y ago
About your Disney+ example, I do wonder why it seems that a lot of content like that isn't available on the platform. Are there streaming rights issues? Are they holding back content to drip feed content drops for as long as they can? Did they determine that some content isn't worth digging up the tapes and preparing for streaming?
- foobarian 5y ago
  I wonder also how much of the older content is self-censored for e.g. political correctness reasons.
  - TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
    This is indeed true of movies such as Disney’s Song of the the South. You won’t find that anywhere;; even eBay prevents sale of the DVD. Cartoons have also been censored: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven https://deadline.com/2021/03/pepe-le-pew-space-jam-2-new-york-times-rape-culture-controversy-1234708688/amp/ https://deadline.com/2021/03/pepe-le-pew-space-jam-2-new-yor... Many cartoon shorts from the 30s and 40s with blackface and other offensive material has been edited. I can’t find references right now, but have noticed this personally.
  - Lio 5y ago
    That’s certainly seems to be true for Kundun (1997). The Chinese Communist Party wasn’t happy the film was made in the first place and would probably ban Disney from their market if it was available for streaming in the USA. It’s quiet, limited sale on DVD is still tolerated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundun https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundun
- danaris 5y ago
  Disney has always made a big deal out of the "Disney Vault"—back in the VHS days, they tried to replicate the scarcity of waiting until a movie was showing in a local theater by arbitrarily refusing to sell copies of some of their movies for years at a time. I believe they continued this practice with DVDs and Blu-Rays, though not nearly as widely. This seems likely to be part of the same philosophy.
Thorrez 5y ago
Yeah, it's sad some stuff isn't available. I think it was worse in the past though.

by chx 5y ago

dave5104 5y ago

About your Disney+ example, I do wonder why it seems that a lot of content like that isn't available on the platform. Are there streaming rights issues? Are they holding back content to drip feed content drops for as long as they can? Did they determine that some content isn't worth digging up the tapes and preparing for streaming?

foobarian 5y ago
I wonder also how much of the older content is self-censored for e.g. political correctness reasons.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
  This is indeed true of movies such as Disney’s Song of the the South. You won’t find that anywhere;; even eBay prevents sale of the DVD. Cartoons have also been censored: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven https://deadline.com/2021/03/pepe-le-pew-space-jam-2-new-york-times-rape-culture-controversy-1234708688/amp/ https://deadline.com/2021/03/pepe-le-pew-space-jam-2-new-yor... Many cartoon shorts from the 30s and 40s with blackface and other offensive material has been edited. I can’t find references right now, but have noticed this personally.
- Lio 5y ago
  That’s certainly seems to be true for Kundun (1997). The Chinese Communist Party wasn’t happy the film was made in the first place and would probably ban Disney from their market if it was available for streaming in the USA. It’s quiet, limited sale on DVD is still tolerated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundun https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundun
danaris 5y ago
Disney has always made a big deal out of the "Disney Vault"—back in the VHS days, they tried to replicate the scarcity of waiting until a movie was showing in a local theater by arbitrarily refusing to sell copies of some of their movies for years at a time. I believe they continued this practice with DVDs and Blu-Rays, though not nearly as widely. This seems likely to be part of the same philosophy.

Thorrez 5y ago

Yeah, it's sad some stuff isn't available. I think it was worse in the past though.