[HN Gopher] Black Bart - The Buried TV Sequel to Blazing Saddles
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Black Bart - The Buried TV Sequel to Blazing Saddles
Author : rbanffy
Score : 135 points
Date : 2021-01-31 09:42 UTC (13 hours ago)
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| ryanmarsh wrote:
| Blazing Saddles is my cancel culture canary. When they pull it
| off of the streaming platforms I'll consider it a bellwether
| moment. I'm not defending the film, it is what it is. I find it
| funny that the cancel mobs haven't discovered it. Hell, Swiss
| Family Robinson has a disclaimer you can't skip on Disney+.
| [deleted]
| schwartzworld wrote:
| Why would anybody cancel it? For the N word? It's a period
| piece about racists, satire but nevertheless.
| baggy_trough wrote:
| You do have to endure a social justice lecture before watching
| it, though.
| rbanffy wrote:
| I've been introducing my daughter to some vintage TV series
| and I often have to explain how racist, LGBTphobic,
| xenophobic, and misogynistic the 60's world was.
| cglace wrote:
| Just the 60s?
| bootlooped wrote:
| Fitting that I see this article when I'm almost done with the
| book Bullshit Jobs. Working on a TV series that was only made to
| fulfill a contractual obligation; talk about a bullshit job.
| lumpa wrote:
| Here's the pilot, for as long as it lasts:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ywpyIRVH8
| steviedotboston wrote:
| So does this mean that somewhere in the Warner Brothers archives
| there are dozens of episodes of this show that nobody has ever
| seen?
| ashtonkem wrote:
| Maybe.
|
| As other people have mentioned, film can degrade over time, and
| can be destroyed via negligence or accident. Archives
| occasionally catch on fire, destroying old masters.
|
| It also depends how it was produced. In the 1970s some shows
| were recorded directly onto tape for the sake of cost and
| convenience. It wasn't uncommon for tapes to be wiped and
| reused to save more money, which is why a bunch of original Dr
| Who episodes are missing. If the show was shot on film, then
| it's more likely that masters or high quality prints survived,
| since it's not possible to reuse the film.
| rbanffy wrote:
| As others pointed out, film degrades over time if not carefully
| preserved (and there is little reason to believe they cared
| past giving up on Blazing Saddles 2) and videotape is sometimes
| reused. They may also not be completely finished past a least-
| plausible-effort.
| bigmattystyles wrote:
| Likely, unless they degraded and were dismissed - there is also
| a mountain of pilots of shows that have never seen the day.
| SuoDuanDao wrote:
| What a strange story. I feel as though Mel Brooks' life must have
| seemed as bizarre to him as some of his movies at times.
| [deleted]
| bigmattystyles wrote:
| I'm still waiting for History of the World part II.
| DoktorDelta wrote:
| What about Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money?
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