*And if not Criterion/Janus, how about Shout! Studios/Shout! Factory, Kino Lorber, VCI/MVD, Arrow, Indicator, Vinegar Syndrome or ClassicFlix to license from Shields/release the classic 1930s/40s " #PopularScience" and/or " #UnusualOccupations" theatrical shorts on Blu-Ray and/or DVD? #PhysicalMedia
"Now on the Screen! 'Popular Science..' Alive, Colorful, Exciting.. Produced in Cinecolor by (Robert) Carlisle & (Jerry) Fairbanks with the co-operation of Popular Science Monthly. Late 1930s advertisement published in "Popular Science." "Popular Science" Historic Short Subject Series: Shields Pictures, Inc.
1948 Opening title card for Jerry Fairbanks' "Unusual Occupations" short subject series. Sidebar: The custom "print variant" of that now-disgraced "mountain with stars" film studio has been omitted. "Unusual Occupations" Historic Short Subject Series: Shields Pictures, Inc.
Short subjects that deserve to be released on Blu-Ray and/or DVD in the future:
Carlisle & Fairbanks' " #PopularScience" & " #UnusualOccupations."
Many of the shorts haven't been seen since they last aired on the old AMC network in the mid-to-late 1990s.
How about it, Criterion*? #PhysicalMedia
Customized 1940s Paramount Pictures opening/closing "A Paramount Pictures/Paramount Mountain" logo for Jerry Fairbanks' "Popular Science" and/or "Unusual Occupations." And I recall my Late Mother's mentions of one of the vintage Paramount closings for Fairbanks' 1940s "Popular Science" and/or "Unusual Occupations" short subjects during a viewing on the old AMC network in-between feature films sometime around 1998/99: "That 'Paramount Mountain' looks like it was made out of Chocolate!" Source of Paramount Logo: via Shields Pictures, Inc.- owners of the classic mammoth Jerry Fairbanks/Paramount short subject masterpiece series, "Popular Science," "Unusual Occupations" & "Speaking of Animals:" https://shieldspictures.com/unusualoccupati1.html
^And I recall my Late Mother's mentions of one of the vintage #Paramount closings for Fairbanks' " #PopularScience" and/or " #UnusualOccupations" shorts on the old AMC network in-between classic feature films ca. 1998/99:
"That 'Paramount Mountain' looks like it was made out of Chocolate!"
I still recall the vintage AMC cable network and their airings of the vintage Jerry Fairbanks/Paramount " #PopularScience," " #UnusualOccupations" & partially-animated " #SpeakingOfAnimals" short subject series years ago.
