On Jul 28, 8:12 am, Joe
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>>>> On Jul 27, 12:48 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
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archive.org).
>>>>> There's a number of Superman cartoons there. I've also been running
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>>>>> some interesting stuff on YouTube. I found one TV special last week that
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>>>>> 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
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>>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).
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> There are tons of cartoons out there not in release and not really
> shown on TV either. One wonders why. Would rather see stuff on TV
> than pay the outrageous prices that companies ask for some stuff and
> they wonder why people dont pay $20 for three episodes of an old
> cartoon show
I feel better off getting stuff on disc rather than to watch it on TV
given the way things are going to nowadays.
