Looking for Crusader Rabbit The other day I found a Crusader Rabbit VHS from the mid 70`s. I checked the box back and it raved about Jay Ward`s first creation (Sorry Alex, they forgot about you). At last, I think, the black and white masterpiece. But no it was the TV Spot color piece of crap again. They just packaged it to make people think it was the real thing.

Who owns what is always strange in Hollywood. Jay and Alex got screwed when Jerry Fairbanks folded. Then they got blackmailed out of the master copyright. Now after all these years it has passed to Fox. So Fox owns the rights to the first every made for TV animation and they have it locked up it a vault somewhere and could care less about people that would love to see it, show it to my students.

Some time ago Rhino brought out some VHS Crusader Rabbits, thinking it was in public domain. Fox cared enough about their property to stop them cold. Made them pull them from from the shelves. So why don`t they care enough to put them out themselves?

If anybody from Fox is reading this. Come on guys, DVD`s are cheap. Give us a break. Open your vaults. I promise to push it for all I am worth and buy the complete set. And if anybody has a copy of the Rhino VHS my birthday is coming up.

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