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Post by I Love Melvin on Apr 24, 2024 12:59:21 GMT
This is kind of tangential to kim's question, but I recently watched the rebroadcast of the old Robert Osborne tribute at the 2015 TCM Film Festival and one of the guests was an early programmer (I'm sorry; I forget the name.) who remembered meeting with Robert just before the channel launch and how they both marveled at everything they'd have access to since Turner had bought the MGM library, mentioning, as well as the movies, contracts, promotional material like lobby cards, etc, and screen tests. Since there's a fun screen test thread here, I was just wondering whether TCM has ever made use of their access to them (I'm not aware, if they have.) and whether it's standard for all that ancillary stuff to be part of "ownership" deals or is it generally just for the movies themselves? Does a studio's entire archive, not just films, go with each new deal as these things increasingly change hands? If so, I can imagine lots of valuable stuff getting lost in the shuffle. Just curious, especially about the screen tests.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 24, 2024 15:52:05 GMT
This is kind of tangential to kim's question, but I recently watched the rebroadcast of the old Robert Osborne tribute at the 2015 TCM Film Festival and one of the guests was an early programmer (I'm sorry; I forget the name.) who remembered meeting with Robert just before the channel launch and how they both marveled at everything they'd have access to since Turner had bought the MGM library, mentioning, as well as the movies, contracts, promotional material like lobby cards, etc, and screen tests. Since there's a fun screen test thread here, I was just wondering whether TCM has ever made use of their access to them (I'm not aware, if they have.) and whether it's standard for all that ancillary stuff to be part of "ownership" deals or is it generally just for the movies themselves? Does a studio's entire archive, not just films, go with each new deal as these things increasingly change hands? If so, I can imagine lots of valuable stuff getting lost in the shuffle. Just curious, especially about the screen tests. |
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