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echo: disney
to: JOHN GIANNINI
from: RICH KOSTER
date: 1997-08-03 09:02:00
subject: re: Song of the south

Yoo Hoo, John!
On July 25th '97 you wrote to Carol Koster:
 JG> On 01 Jul 97, Carol Koster wrote to David Mehrmann:
 JG>
 JG>  CK> Yes, similar to Mary Poppins but the movie pre-dates Mary Poppins
 JG>  CK> by a good 20 years (was made in the late 1940s, Mary Poppins is
 JG>  CK> mid-1960s). I've heard that SotS is available on VHS PAL format in
 JG>  CK> Europe.  So perhaps a German Disney Store or mass-market home video
 JG>  CK> chain store will have it currently in stock.
 JG>
 JG> Hi Carol - I had heard it was released ONLY on Japanese laserdisc.  And
 JG> even then, it was available only for a limited time, and then it was
 JG> pulled at the request of Buena Vista here in the USA.  I have never
 JG> heard of any copy being available on videotape in any format.
John, Carol's right:  It is available on video in Europe, *but* only in
the PAL format, not NTSC like we use here in the U.S. (as well as NTSC
being used in Japan).
-Rich Koster             Moderator, FidoNet Disney Echo   ()_()
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