On Jul 27, 7:03 pm, "Patrick McNamara"
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>>>>Some things I remember were the 1940 live-action "L'il Abner," "Mutt &
>>>>Jeff" cartoons, Warner Bros.' 1942 "The Dover Boys of Pimento
>>>>University" cartoon, 1940s "Superman" cartoons, a B&W clip of a man
>>>>singing "My Old Pal" to a little dog, some "adult" 1990s independent
>>>>cartoon shorts, and maybe Hedy Lamarr's movie "Ecstasy."
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>>> You might find some of those things on the Internet Archive
>>> (
archive.org).
>>> There's a number of Superman cartoons there. I've also been running
>>> across
>>> some interesting stuff on YouTube. I found one TV special last week that
>>> I
>>> haven't seen since it aired around the early 70s.
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>> The internet is practically the best way to find any of it nowadays.
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> I think a lot of stuff was run on those stations because it was either
> public domain or just plain cheap because it was so old. Back in the good
> old days of independant stations (before FOX, WB, UPN and an assortment of
> stations in Canada statched everything up) there was need to find daytime
> filler so a lot of old stuff like old TV shows and movies wound up airing in
> the afternoons. Now they tend to run specialty channels for those things or
> sell DVDs and it's harder for stuff to fall into public domain, which is a
> shame since many shows are just likely to disappear under copyright
> protection.
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> --
> Patrick McNamara
Course then you get stuff like "Retro Television Network" which shows
off a number of classic shows for free to anyone who can pick up the
DTV signals or through their cable service. I'm typically not into
stuff going into the public Domain as it would mean less care in doing
a decent job on releasing any of it in an official way though a bit of
it has over time (like WB's DVD release of the Fleischer Superman
cartoons).
