Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ian J. Ball" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-16 (Saturday) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 13:39:53 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <1907360783.732394184.314160.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 20:39:53 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4c271012dfb3d4c865b77b8c07397186"; logging-data="3920864"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Q96hjO5Y9ZYhp2lSjaw5N" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:mZgr3QOdG0IqANW2oFE2hkBWQIk= In-Reply-To: <1907360783.732394184.314160.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3741 On 3/17/24 12:38 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: > The Horny Goat wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 04:30:40 -0400, Ubiquitous >> wrote: >> >>> DR. SYN: THE HISTORY OF THE LEGEND (THE SCARECROW OF ROMNEY MARSH BONUS): >>> Historians and Disney personalities share some behind the scenes footage >>> and secrets of the making of the 3-part mini-series: The Scarecrow of >>> Romney Marsh. Patrick McGoohan also appears and shares his memories of >>> making the pictures with Walt Disney and director James Neilson! >>> https://youtu.be/41Pdy4thpbY?si=kh1QpCSbqbSx_q4y >>> This appears to be a live action show set in the American Revolution >>> based on Zorro, except he disguises himself as a scarecrow (and shoots >>> people?). >> >> In my opinion this was the best ever work shown on the Wonderful World >> of Disney and while it was in the same historical era as the >> Revolution was DEFINITELY in Kent in the UK. And showed in 1963? >> 1964? (I would have been 8 or 9 at the time and we watched The >> Wonderful World of Disney faithfully in those years) >> >> The Scarecrow was McGoohan's next Disney lead a year after he played >> the male lead in The Three Lives of Tomasina which was another Disney >> flick showed on the WWoD but totally different and starred a cat >> (Tomasina - if you think of it as a feline Black Beauty you'd not be >> far off) and remains one of those shows I'd love to see again if it >> were shown. > > Disney+ claimed they put all that stuff up to get us to get long-term > subscriptions but they were lying and then hit us with no refunds. So far > none of the world of Disney stuff is available as such and almost nothing > that’s in 4:3 is available. Yep. Just checked - neither of the above films is on Disney+. > The first exception was steamboat Willy, > although they put crap on the sides anyway, and the first real exception > was the first two seasons of the Zorro series. Season three, which aired on > world of Disney, is nowhere to be found except on DVD. All that vault > Disney stuff which is what we used to get the service for is being withheld > as well. > > Scarecrow was put out on a special edition treasures DVD, and for some > bizarre reason they only printed a handful of them, which were sold out > instantly, and then commanded ridiculously high prices on the secondary > market. I don’t understand why this does Disney any good. > > Tomasina is available on the gray in 856x480 although I have no idea what > the source is