wonderlandmusicfan
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Disney fans have a right to get upset about the lack of releases in the music and movie categories.
Just take an online stroll through Amazon to see just what DOES get released - silent films from the 1920s, obscure titles and bona fide bombs along the lines of "Killer Tomatoes," to long-forgotten full-length seasons of TV series such as "Isis."
"So Dear to My Heart" is not available on DVD? "The Light in the Forest"? On Disney's 40th anniversary TV special back in 1994, Glenn Close noted that "The Littlest Outlaw" was one of her favorite films from her childhood. Surely there are others that would like to own that?
I can buy a full-season of "Jason of Star Command," yet the Disney anthology series - 29 seasons, in the top 10 or top 20 of the ratings for many of those years - is off-limits and unavailable? And not only is it unavailable, but it's not even seen anywhere on television to reinforce demand! Would "The Andy Griffith Show" or "Bewitched" remain popular today if their studio owners had withdrawn them from the market 30 years ago, never to be seen again?
Even more insulting - if Walt Disney himself, the creator of the company that enables 30-year-old "geniuses" with MBAs to have a job there today - deemed it ok to greenlight and produce films like "Tonka" or "Emil and the Detectives," it's a crying shame that these films remain locked away when we have some disposable income and WANT to buy these things.
"Zorro" was a popular TV show, and Disney has taken to selling it and some of the older live-action films through their Disney Movie Club. I've had friends visit my house and see these titles and want to know where I got them, why they'd never heard about their release, and moreover, I've even seen resales on eBay get questioned as to their authenticity and if they're "bootlegs" or not.
And as for the economic reasons about a vintage Disney record on iTunes not selling as much as "High School Musical," if pure profit is the SOLE motive, then why pay people to work in the Disney Archives? Shut them down and sell it all off.
Just take an online stroll through Amazon to see just what DOES get released - silent films from the 1920s, obscure titles and bona fide bombs along the lines of "Killer Tomatoes," to long-forgotten full-length seasons of TV series such as "Isis."
"So Dear to My Heart" is not available on DVD? "The Light in the Forest"? On Disney's 40th anniversary TV special back in 1994, Glenn Close noted that "The Littlest Outlaw" was one of her favorite films from her childhood. Surely there are others that would like to own that?
I can buy a full-season of "Jason of Star Command," yet the Disney anthology series - 29 seasons, in the top 10 or top 20 of the ratings for many of those years - is off-limits and unavailable? And not only is it unavailable, but it's not even seen anywhere on television to reinforce demand! Would "The Andy Griffith Show" or "Bewitched" remain popular today if their studio owners had withdrawn them from the market 30 years ago, never to be seen again?
Even more insulting - if Walt Disney himself, the creator of the company that enables 30-year-old "geniuses" with MBAs to have a job there today - deemed it ok to greenlight and produce films like "Tonka" or "Emil and the Detectives," it's a crying shame that these films remain locked away when we have some disposable income and WANT to buy these things.
"Zorro" was a popular TV show, and Disney has taken to selling it and some of the older live-action films through their Disney Movie Club. I've had friends visit my house and see these titles and want to know where I got them, why they'd never heard about their release, and moreover, I've even seen resales on eBay get questioned as to their authenticity and if they're "bootlegs" or not.
And as for the economic reasons about a vintage Disney record on iTunes not selling as much as "High School Musical," if pure profit is the SOLE motive, then why pay people to work in the Disney Archives? Shut them down and sell it all off.
