OT: Who Killed the Red Baron on PBS Nova - Tuesday

Pronoun trouble!

Bill Banaszak, MFE

saturday late night.....

Hm ... Sure you're not thinking of "Woof! Woof!" -- the Sopwith Camel belonging to Squadron Commander Lord Flasheart? What I've been told is it actually was he who shot and killed the dreaded Red Baron with his sidearm, in a German prison cell no less, while on a rescue mission to free a fellow british officer and a private who had been taken captive by the Baron himself ...

It was the Al Qaeda. ;-)

WmB

Not here anymore.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Yeah, and they were unable to come up with a picture of the guy either. Well, I hope I get to tape it this time so I can remember the guys name. Cheers,

The Keeper (of too much crap)

And the bullet will take two hours to pass through him. The plane will crash because of the weight of the bloodsoaked wings.

you don't get the cool three from cartoon network sat night?

no trouble at all :)

Interesting, that...

As I recall, Ted Turner actually owns and controls all of the Warner Bros. cartoons made before 1968 or '69. Warner Bros. sold all of it's pre-1948 cartoons to Allied Artists (an investor-owned holding company) in the early '50s when it was in dire financial straits brought about by Television and the then-collapsing Studio System. The rest of the library was sold to Turner in the early '70s when the actual Warner Bros. Studio collapsed. (Turner, never one to let an opportunity or a reputable name slip through his fingers, kept the "Warner" name.) A few years ago, Allied Artists sold the pre-'48 library to Turner, thus reuniting them. My understanding is that the resurrected Warner Bros. still owns the characters (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, etc.) and all shorts and Features ("Space Jam", etc.) made *after* 1971.

As to Tom & Jerry; the shorts *and* the characters -- and, indeed, all cartoons made by MGM -- are also owned by Turner, who bought the entire MGM film library in the early '70s and; IIRC; Time-Warner bought Hanna-Barbera Productions sometime in the mid-'80s.