Shout Factory has been sublicensing a lot of studios lately. Why not Paramount Pictures? They've got a WHOLE LIBRARY OF UNDERRATED CARTOONS THAT WERE MADE BEFORE THE GULF-WESTERN AQUISTION (allthough Columbia and Terrytoons are really the rarest studio cartoons). Let's see....

From Paramount's Fleischer/Famous Studios/Puppetoons library comes:

 Puppetoons/Madcap Models?

Noveltoons?

 Color Classics?

Betty Boop?????

Screen Songs?

Modern Madcaps?

Animated Antics?

Inkwell Imps?

Little Audrey?

Baby Huey?

Casper the Friendly Ghost (the original)?

Kartunes?

Go Go Toons?

Swifty and Shorty?

Comic Kings?

Talkartoons?

Unearth these aging cartoons and restore them to Technicolor, Cincecolor, Polacolor, Magnacolor, and B&W glory!

Try splice back in the Paramount titles from UM&M negative cutting in the B&W shorts as hard as you can!

Reply if you want to share memories of any of these series!

Harvey/Classic Media and Paramount's Republic division own the rights to the films. Paramount's best classic work is owned by those companies. Also, the current home video rights for the pre-'50 shorts are sub-licensed to Lionsgate (not to be confused with MGM).

So pretty much you'd only have to license to use the Majestic Mountian.

But do give 'em credit in the covers and advertisements by putting in the Paramount print logo.

So, it could happen.

According to someone on the GAC forums that listened to Jerry Beck's recent radio appearance:

"Shout Factory is still in talks with columbia Universal doing cartoon related products. Not sure if they are in talk with Parmaount over Betty Boop (along with rest of the Fleischer/Famous library) or Terrytoons but my streem was shaky at when Jerry was discussing this so I could be wrong."

Let's get this thread alive. The more we keep this thread alive, the more likely Shout Factory will release the classic Paramount cartoons restored.

And as for you, B Ward, contact Paramount, CBS and Lionsgate.

And also the intellectual property owners (Harvey, Fleischer Studios Inc./KFS, Arnold Lebovit Entertainment)

Convince that we want uncut cartoons!

Let's keep this thread alive people! This thread won't close until we, the united Paramount cartoon fans, have gotten our wish! Let B Ward convince the bigwigs at Viacom/Paramount! Get Jerry Beck, Ray Pointer, and Leslie C. to help! Come on people, we can do this!

Convince B Ward to stand up to Paramount!

If you love Paramount cartoons, do it!

actually, I was reccomeneded by Jerry Beck to do Shout Factory!

This will link to a restoration thread

Sorry to double-post, but let's keep moving!

Maybe start a group on the official Paramount Pictures Facebook page, B Ward.