"Porky's Railroad" on CN and at Grand Central Terminal.

[William Padron]

On this morning's "Looney Tunes" 4-hour telecast seen on Cartoon Network (Saturday, May 12, 2001), the color-computer version of "Porky's Railroad" (Tashlin, 1937) was played. With the restored W-B logo and closing "That's all folks!" cards, I believe this particular copy is intact with the "Wood Pile" and railroad tunnel turned inside out gags as seen on CN.

I bring this fact now because currently playing at the New York Transit Museum's gift shop, located inside Grand Central Terminal, is a video tape loop seen on a TV monitor featuring a public domain B&W print (with the Guild Films/Sunset Productions cards) of this same cartoon, but without those two gags mentioned above. Admission is free in seeing this cartoon (when the tape is rolling), and the gift shop is open until 8:00pm weeknights and 4:00pm Saturdays, but closed all day Sundays and holidays.

By the way, J&R Music World on Park Row in lower Manhattan still has several *new* copies in stock of MGM/UA Home Video's "Bugs Bunny Superstar" priced at $9.99 each plus tax.

[BobChief]

I bring this fact now because currently playing at the New York Transit Museum's gift shop, located inside Grand Central Terminal, is a video tape loop seen on a TV monitor featuring a public domain B&W print (with the Guild Films/Sunset Productions cards) of this same cartoon, but without those two gags mentioned above.


Honestly, this is New York!! Somebody at Warners should know about this, and
send Larry Reuter (chief of MTA-NYC Transit) a legit copy!!


By the way, J&R Music World on Park Row in lower Manhattan still has several *new* copies in stock of MGM/UA Home Video's "Bugs Bunny Superstar" priced at $9.99 each plus tax.


New? The shrink wrap must be evaporated on those puppies...:p

[J Lee]

Since it has been put together, combined, split apart and been moved around that block on Park Row for so many years (I can remember when they only had the tiny little store next to Blimpie on Beekman St. where I bought my Technics turntable in 1977), you can often find little surprise treasures at J&R in the music or video sections if you look around long enough. So it's not surprising they'd have a few old "Bugs Bunny Superstar" copies around.