A long overdue question

[Vdubdavid]

Here's something I want to know: how has Columbia House been able to swing those original-credit versions of such cartoons like "Scaredy Cat", "The Foghorn Leghorn", or "Kit for Cat", not to mention the original B&W version of "Daffy's Southern Exposure"! At a time when WB is being very stingy about what they do with their cartoons, why are they letting Columbia House have cartoons THEY should be releasing on VHS/dvd

[Tintin]

I believe Columbia House release Looney Tunes videos juast on VHS. Sorry! :(

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by Vdubdavid
Here's something I want to know: how has Columbia House been able to swing those original-credit versions of such cartoons like "Scaredy Cat", "The Foghorn Leghorn", or "Kit for Cat", not to mention the original B&W version of "Daffy's Southern Exposure"! At a time when WB is being very stingy about what they do with their cartoons, why are they letting Columbia House have cartoons THEY should be releasing on VHS/dvd

Answer... Columbia Mouse ;) is actually owned by AOL-Time-Warner!!! (One of their many purchases/absorptions...)

[BobChief]

Martin's right. No disques, just tapes.

[Mibbitmaker]

Which begs another question ... WHY are they so PC and scissor-happy with classic cartoons on CN, but much more fearless with Columbia House and TCM? ...Keeping in mind Turner-related tapes have been increasingly less fearless over the years.

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by Mibbitmaker
Which begs another question ... WHY are they so PC and scissor-happy with classic cartoons on CN, but much more fearless with Columbia House and TCM? ...Keeping in mind Turner-related tapes have been increasingly less fearless over the years.

The Warner Bros. corporation (AOL-Time-Warner) and Turner are of course modern-day colossae, operating in a gazillion markets of varying degrees of sensitivity. So to thrive they BELIEVE they need to be utterly non-controversial (in a bad way) in their mass distributed cable programming (and tapes). This could be termed "the bland leading the bland" ;)

Warner's fearlessness with the Columbia House tapes REALLY has to do with that output being NOT available in stores ( where somebody MIGHT in theory be offended by it). This being the case we should all support them and buy every last Columbia House cartoon tape and holler for more with more banned toons...

(The net of this is kinda like somebody selling videotapes from the trunk of their car, which aren't available anywhere else:)).

[chuckamuck43]

Originally posted by Sogturtle
"the bland leading the bland" ;)


Great line! And your assessment of the situation is right on the mark. I'd never thought of it that way! Thanx for the insight...

Hmmm...guess I'm gonna have to contact Columbia House...