Thank you for posting.
I downloaded a similar link a year ago, saved to multiple devices in multiple locations, and distributed to many friends with young children.
This American classic must NEVER be “cancelled”!
Thanks-I always figured I could watch it somewhere like that, but I was talking about the way it was simply removed from the currents of commerce.
- Movie theaters.
- Video Rentals/Streaming
- DVD purchases in stores (I assumed it could be found on eBay and such)
- Rental from libraries (NOTE: My wife and I rent a lot of movies and such from a library network of near fifty libraries in the state. It is great-you electronically find it and rent it, and they will ship it to any library for you to pick it up. You get an email when it arrives and is ready. So, I found in (this very large and well-stocked library network) a single copy of "Song Of The South" in VCR format, and it was listed as "Unavailable" which means it won't be offered anymore for rental.)
I have to say-that concerted disappearance from all those places really stood out to me.
It seemed very Soviet to me, very much in the spirit of the photograph of Josef Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov walking together on a bridge, and was subsequently edited to remove Yezhov out of the official photograph when he fell into disfavor and became an "unperson".