TV cartoons

[Brian Vita]

Doug Drown wrote:
> This thread about Uncle Gus and Big Brother Bob Emery has made me wonder about something (this is a layman's question):  What did television stations commonly do with the cartoon and movie archives they had when we were little?  Did they show them for several years and sell them to other stations, did they toss them in the trash after so many years, or what?  There are cartoons I remember that I haven't seen in forty-five years or more.
>
> -Doug
>   
Most of the cartoons were 16mm from that period.  They used to show up 
in the 16mm film collector's market regularly.  I bought my share of 
"Wally Gators" and such.  I just got rid of a bunch of "Underdog" and 
"Bullwinkles" on 16.

If you can find a collector's magazine called "The Big Reel" you will 
find pages of this stuff along with a ton of old TV shows.

Brian