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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-16 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 13:39:53 -0700
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On 3/17/24 12:38 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>> On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 04:30:40 -0400, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
>> 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