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richwicks says

stereotomy says

I hope he sells of the FOX back catalog, which Disney is currently holding hostage.

What do you mean? What's the "FOX back catalog"?

I think the days of film and television shows is really coming to an end.

Music is pretty much over if you think about it. I mean, who are the superstar bands? There really aren't any. Miley Cyrus and Justin Beiber was basically the last. They corporatized music so much, people just get fed up with the ENTIRE art form. They've done the same with film and television.

20th Century Fox has a mammoth catalog of films dating back to the silent era. There are too many films to list; check out imdb or somesuch. Off the top of my head - Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, The King And I and the rest of the Rogers and Hammerstein musicals, the Martian, most of the X-men franchise.

stereotomy says

20th Century Fox has a mammoth catalog of films dating back to the silent era. There are too many films to list; check out imdb or somesuch. Off the top of my head - Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, The King And I and the rest of the Rogers and Hammerstein musicals, the Martian, most of the X-men franchise.

Take it from me, if Fox holds back on releasing what the public wants, it's Ahoy Matey!

Disney pulled this shit with their "classic" films and the "Disney Vault". There's always that one technical person in the family that can get anything.

I have no interest in fiction now, but I do have an interest in preservation. I have so many banned Looney Tune's cartoons, you can't imagine. I still have to organize them. I was last trying to get all the Dr. Seuss books, his output is much more impressive than I ever knew. He wrote a LOT OF BOOKS. I have no intention of profiting off them or even giving them away, I'm just preserving. The amount of data a single person can store is easily a lifetime of anything they would ever want to read, see, or listen to now.

Some stuff I CAN share:

https://samoyed.dynu.net/~public/

Check out the MindWebs radio series. The *.zip file contains the entire set. About 1/3rd are great, 1/3rd are mediocre, and 1/3rd are terrible. They are in public domain now, or at least I have the permission of the copyright owner to share them.

Here's one: I Kill Myself - by Julian Kawalec.mp3 - it's about a "well meaning"(?) man that becomes a maniac.

richwicks says

Take it from me, if Fox holds back on releasing what the public wants, it's Ahoy Matey!

Disney pulled this shit with their "classic" films and the "Disney Vault". There's always that one technical person in the family that can get anything.

Sinatra did that with "The Manchurian Candidate" - withdrew it from circulation for over 20 years. Some asshole at Abkco did that with Jodorowsky's films for 30 years.

richwicks says

I have no interest in fiction now, but I do have an interest in preservation. I have so many banned Looney Tune's cartoons, you can't imagine. I still have to organize them. I was last trying to get all the Dr. Seuss books, his output is much more impressive than I ever knew. He wrote a LOT OF BOOKS. I have no intention of profiting off them or even giving them away, I'm just preserving. The amount of data a single person can store is easily a lifetime of anything they would ever want to read, see, or listen to now.

Similar story here. I waited 20 years for high definition to arrive, then started collecting what is the best and possibly most fucked up shit on film. I'm glad I did now in retrospect, because shit is being either perverted or banned at a rate I can still barely imagine.

stereotomy says

Similar story here. I waited 20 years for high definition to arrive, then started collecting what is the best and possibly most fucked up shit on film. I'm glad I did now in retrospect, because shit is being either perverted or banned at a rate I can still barely imagine.

I would suggest an exchange, but... I'm starting to think fiction isn't worth preserving.

Just don't let your HDD die, because it will, eventually. 5 year lifespan of drive, copy, preserve old drive - if there's an early failure, you have that backup.

Certain things SHOULD die. Cannibal Holocaust is something I don't think should be preserved. I associate animal killings on film as sadistic and I abhor sadism. It's a mental disease and that's what runs our country now, sadists.

richwicks says

stereotomy says

Similar story here. I waited 20 years for high definition to arrive, then started collecting what is the best and possibly most fucked up shit on film. I'm glad I did now in retrospect, because shit is being either perverted or banned at a rate I can still barely imagine.

I would suggest an exchange, but... I'm starting to think fiction isn't worth preserving.

Just don't let your HDD die, because it will, eventually. 5 year lifespan of drive, copy, preserve old drive - if there's an early failure, you have that backup.

Certain things SHOULD die. Cannibal Holocaust is something I don't think should be preserved. I associate animal killings on film as sadistic and I abhor sadism. It's a mental disease and that's what runs our country now, sadists.

I don't know - some of the silent films are really cool. Cohen is now putting out the Buster Keaton films with 4K resolution scans. "The General" is a true tour de force in physical comedy. My son loved that film - Keaton does some absolutely crazy dangerous stunts that are real, and there is no protection in case shit goes sideways.

I do agree that in the modern era of CGI six ways from Sunday, that fictional narratives are really getting lame.

Most of my stuff is blu-ray disc. I'm waiting for 50 TB capacity HDD so I can set up a RAID5 array to do something for my movie collection that I did for my audio library - in that case, rip it lossless to a thumb drive.

I'll say this much, having massive, calibrated bass does wonders to reduce young children's appetite for violence. Most movies of this nature use low bass cues (bass drops) to indicate when something nasty is about to happen. Young children are very sensitive to loud low noises (in a lot of ways they are like dogs in this respect), and when they want to watch a scary movie, the bass usually gets them running out of the room. Who knew?

Disney stock is at a 5 year low, does it make sense to buy and hold it?

Disney has revenues of about $83 billion with outstanding liabilities of about $74 billion. As their debt rolls over to higher interest rates, it'll make the executives squirm. They have to massively re-do their approach to films, their TV programming is on the decline and Verizon just stopped requiring Disney+ as a must have for their higher tier Unlimited Plans *this will reduce the number of Disney+ subscribers).

Looks like they are gonna try to sell, spin-off major parts of the entertainment portfolio to reduce their debt load.

stereotomy says

I don't know - some of the silent films are really cool. Cohen is now putting out the Buster Keaton films with 4K resolution scans. "The General" is a true tour de force in physical comedy. My son loved that film - Keaton does some absolutely crazy dangerous stunts that are real, and there is no protection in case shit goes sideways.

I don't mind historical preservation, and I'm not against it. In fact, you might as well save everything, since it's so easy to do.

I have all the Ed Wood films..

I think film is like paintings and photographs and will go the same way. I really think they are going to die out. Reality is far more interesting than a story. If you think about it, all the classic works were false history. The Bible, Roman Mythology. We can get real history today. Maybe for the first time ever.

Nobody depends on an "authority" to tell them what is going on, and all of our authorities in just the last 20 years have shown they are unreliable narrators.

Misc says

ooks like they are gonna try to sell, spin-off major parts of the entertainment portfolio to reduce their debt load.

Exactly, they need to sell off the perpetual revenue vampires like ABC.

And they need more rounds of layoffs. Maybe also reduce park prices by 5 to 10% to entice more guests back.

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