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A Very Special Warner Archive 15th Anniversary Celebration
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George Feltenstein joins the podcast for a celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Warner Archive. George retraces the early history and honors several Warner Bros executives who initiated the concept and development of WAC. He recalls the launch event on March 23, 2009 with Debbie Reynolds. And he shares his gratitude for the devoted fans who have championed Warner Archive's mission, propelling it from a fledgling DVD on-demand service to an industry leader revered for its Blu-ray collections and commitment to restoration excellence.
We then end the podcast with some of the many heartfelt phone calls left by Warner Archive devotees sharing what the archive means to them, and their appreciation of George Feltenstein and the staff at the Warner Archive.
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Hey, this is Kerr from Maryland wishing a happy 15th anniversary to the Warner Archive.
Speaker 2Hello, I am Kevin from Valley Stream, Long Island, and I have to tell you the Warner Archive is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Speaker 4Good morning, george, this is Frank from near Philadelphia, PA. I'm just calling to congratulate you on your 15th anniversary.
Speaker 5Hi George and the Warner Archive. My name is Sandy. I'm calling all the way from Australia. I love you guys and appreciate all that you do.
Speaker 6Hello there, I'm Lloyd from California and I just wanted to call in and say thank you to the Warner Archive for the wonderful work they do.
Speaker 4Yes, my name is.
Celebrating Warner Archive's 15th Anniversary
Speaker 3John and I'm from Oklahoma. I'd like to give thanks to Warner Archive for all the work they've done these last 15 years. Hi, this is Rich in New Jersey and I just want to say what would we do without the Warner Archive?
Speaker 7Hello and welcome to the Extras, where we take you behind the scenes of your favorite TV shows, movies and animation, and they're released on digital DVD, blu-ray and 4K or your favorite streaming site. I'm Tim Millard, your host, and joining me today for our special Warner Archive 15th anniversary podcast is, of course, george Feltenstein of the Warner Archive. Hi, george.
Speaker 8Hello, Tim, and happy anniversary to us at Warner Archive.
Speaker 7Yes, happy anniversary. You know it's a date on the calendar, but it's a special date today because 15 years ago you launched what has become a service and a boutique so important to so many people, and it's great to celebrate this milestone with you. But here it is 15 years. What's kind of going through your mind today, this week, this month, as you think back on this journey?
Speaker 8back on this journey. The first word that comes to my mind unequivocally is gratitude. Gratitude to all the people, the consumers, who have supported our efforts from the early inception years, which were limited in terms of what packaging looked like and what kind of things we could release. The business kept growing and changing and evolving. Within three years, we started Blu-rays.
Speaker 8Blu-ray would eventually become our prime focus, which it is now, and I'm just overwhelmed by what the team of people involved and many people have come and gone, and so many people contributed to making this business the success that it is, to the success than the customer base of film fans and cinema enthusiasts and television enthusiasts and animation enthusiasts and DC enthusiasts and everything that mixes those things together.
Remembering the Launch
Speaker 8There are so many different groups of fans and what we're trying to do is please everyone, which is a public company, is a profit generating revenue source for incremental revenue within Warner Brothers Discovery and that's my primary job is to earn my keep by making a business that is profitable. In the process, we have been able to achieve things we haven't thought we would be able to do in the past, and I can see a future with broader growth, and particularly at this point now, as we're nearing the end of the first quarter of 2024, I still maintain that the quality and diversity of our releases this year is going to really hit home. What I hoped we would be able to do, which was to hit the broadest possible swathes of fans within the audience.
Speaker 7Well, I know we've talked about the early days back in March of 2009 when you launched, and I couldn't help but think back to that a little bit, and I think we probably have some listeners, though, that haven't heard a little bit of that story. What do you recall about that week? I know you had some special guests that were part of the launch and help you bring that to the press and other outlets. What do you recall about that day and maybe remind us who was involved in the launch?
Speaker 8Well, getting to the launch was a multi-year process and that in and of itself is quite huge in how much went into the planning of creating something like this. That didn't exist and defied a lot of the rules that were basically obstructionist to making more films and television programs and animation available Once we were planning to launch. The day started with Debbie Reynolds making a live appearance in the third hour of the Today Show from New York previously available on DVD, and several of them at least three or four were films that Debbie Reynolds was in and she was delighted to be a spokesperson on our behalf, and I was delighted. I didn't ask her personally, even though she's a good friend. It was done by another staff member here who approached her professionally so that it would not be oh, debbie, you're George's friend. Will you do this as a favor for George? No, it wasn't like that at all. It was something where we compensated her for her work in flying to New York and promoting our new business, and then later that night it was a Monday, I believe, if I'm remembering correctly we had a live chat on the Home Theater Forum, which was something we used to do every year, and with the changing of the internet and the importance of social media chats like that, where it takes you know you get a question and then you wait five minutes to read the whole question and then you have to type an answer and it's slow as molasses. It's a product of its time. It was a great way to connect with our consumers and our fans and our loyal group of really supporters, and that group of people has broadened as our release schedule broadened and we were releasing more and more different things. So that night it was like a bombshell and we were, at the very beginning, just operating through a now long defunct inner e-commerce site that ran on our own website and it was the WB shop. Very quickly it was discovered that the only thing that was profitable within the WB shop was Warner Archive and it was sliced out of that conjoined operation and eventually we made deals with every retail account that had an online presence and the industry and the accounts have changed quite a bit since 2009.
Speaker 8I think everyone is aware of that for physical media and making it available in the way that we choose to do, which is to try to take the very best approach, and now we have set a standard for ourselves that is very constricting in that we're insisting on perfection and there shall be no specks, no dirt, nothing detracting from the presentation being anything but pristine. That's very, very hard to do and the thanks to that and I say this over and over again go to Warner Brothers Motion Picture Imaging. The staff there is amazing, the colorists we work with there are incredible, the people that scan the film and Warner Brothers Archival Mastering that works on the audio. All these people need to be applauded. I can't mention them all by name because we would be here all night. But without the support of such wonderful colleagues who are so dedicated, we wouldn't be able to do what we do.
Memorable Achievements
Speaker 8So, looking back 2009, we were kind of lone gunmen in a sense, because we weren't getting the support internally, because no one was recognizing the need. We weren't remastering. Originally we were using things that were shelf masters, but I insisted they had to be the proper aspect ratio, they had to be from digitally progressive sources, and then it became very obvious to us that we needed to get to Blu-ray. But how? Because it was so much more expensive and the quality level had to be higher. But eventually we did. Had to be higher, but eventually we did, and we're still, I think we're continually reaching new levels of ability to restore and present things in a very fine way. That makes me very proud and makes me very grateful to everybody that we work with.
Speaker 7I'm sure there have been many gratifying moments over the last 15 years, but I thought I would ask you if there were any things that kind of stand out as you think back. I know it's all gratifying and the response and everything, but is there anything that kind of comes to mind?
Speaker 8There are several things, and I have to say that one of the greatest vindications was being able to release Batman Mask of the Phantasm on Blu-ray when no one here I had to ask permission, because the DC animation was kind of under the control of other people and there was no Blu-ray. The fans were dying to have it in high definition, to have it in high definition. So I asked. We were able to do it and, knowing that that film had an iteration initially of being intended as a direct to video and television project and then halfway through they changed their minds to make it a theatrical release. The animation was designed in certain cases for full aperture, 137 aspect ratio or 133 for television, I should say. So what we did was we made the blu-ray have both versions so the fans could choose which way they wanted to see.
Speaker 8The film thing was made in 1993. Our release was 2017. A lot of people grew up seeing it on vhs and on 4x3 televisions with an open mat and seeing that animation on the top and the bottom that would be cropped. So we gave them a choice. What was so incredibly successful on a financial basis as well as a critical basis? That that led to, more recently the DC marketing team electing to put it out in 4k, which is wonderful.
Speaker 9Right.
Speaker 8I had nothing to do with that, but I did manage to remind people that this was not like the current made for video DC animation, where it's basically digitally oriented. I had to explain this was film. They needed to go back to the original negative and do this 4k the way we do every 4k that is film based and that is, by scanning the original negative. That brings up, of course, the eternal question why isn't warner archive releasing in 4k? And the reason is very simple it is four times the cost to do color correction, most importantly, cleaning up the image and manufacture. Everything is so much more expensive and we are still in a very constricted budget. But I feel that most of what we release could not be improved with a 4K presentation, because within the photography there may not even be more than 2K's worth of information. So by scanning in 4K with our new releases, as we often do not always, but often we're creating something really terrific. Now, back in 2009,. To go to your question, tim, originally, you know, I never dreamed we'd be able to get to Blu-ray and it took three years and it was an innovation created by a former colleague who was really one of the architects of the growth of the Warner Archive. I don't think there's any problem in mentioning his name. His name is Michael Cardulo and he was definitely a had an enormous impact in growing the business and I loved working with him and he's been away from us for many years now but he's very successful where he is now and I'm very happy for him. But talking about the 15th anniversary, I have to talk about Mike's contribution. He got us to Blu-ray. I would be remiss if I also didn't mention the true father of the Warner Archive, the man that came up with the idea of manufacturing on demand to make more content available in a cost-effective manner, and that's Jim Wetheridge, our former president of content sales, former president of Home Entertainment Worldwide and a dear friend and a wonderful guy. He started brainstorming this in 2002, wrote me in 2006, and got promoted two days before the launch of the Warner Archive. So he was there for preparing for the birth of the baby, but on the actual birthday he was beginning his first day as president of International Home Entertainment and Digital Distribution but remained a stalwart supporter of Warner Archive through all his years and very, very grateful to him along those milestones.
Speaker 8Certainly the Batman Mask of the Phantasm release was a big deal. But also I will look to more recent events. We were told that we couldn't do anything with Looney Tunes and I got a special dispensation to come up with this wild project for DVD Porky Pig 101, where we would get all the Porky Pig Looney Tunes. Basically there were 101 of them and there was one color, merry Melodies in their old glory and then an early appearance he made, also in color, but it was basically black and white and we had no budget. There was no remastering, some of the cartoons didn't have proper music, the elements had been all screwed up. But 98% of the people that bought it loved it and found it very entertaining. But that kind of cracked open the door a little bit to what we hoped for, which was to be able to continue to do what had been stopped, which was release more looney tunes on blu-ray, and that finally began with the collector's choice, volume one, which just happened last year, and volume three was just released a week and a half ago. As we record this and we are assuming that volume four is following we're looking at the sales of volume three to make sure they support it, but I'm 99 sure volume three is in the off. Volume four excuse me is in the offing and so many animation projects and television projects that seemed out of our reach, as well as some really impressive feature films as well.
Speaker 8The support from the company and my colleagues has been really wonderful and that's going to make it a better experience for consumers as they start to have more and more of what they want. We have a goldmine of a library, and that in and of itself creates a dilemma. We only have so many resources of people that have to put these things together, and the slim resource support is something that most people wouldn't believe if they knew. Years ago, when we started Warner Archive and it was just a DVD manufacturer on demand business we had people visit us from a competitive studio. They wanted to see the floor where all the Warner Archive people were, and we introduced ourselves as a group of maybe you know 10 people at the time and they thought, oh my gosh, you have to have like, don't you have like 40, 50 people working on this. It was like no, it's just us and there's much less now than there were.
Speaker 8But we're moving along and getting great support internally from the company and from our colleagues, so the future is looking very bright, and none of this would be possible not only, of course, with the support of consumers, who buy our product and support our product, but also to you, tim, because when we lost our Warner Archive podcast, I had no way of being able to communicate to consumers what our product is really about, what our titles are about, what these releases are about, what went into them, how they came to be, why they're important, why they're not important but essential to own, because they are whacked. I mean, we have everything you could think of and by being a guest on the Extras, tim, you have enabled us at Warner Archive to get our message to the consumer and hopefully illuminate, educate and enlighten the audience to what all these releases are about and why they should be part of a serious collection. Depending on taste, not everything is for everyone, but that's why we try to be diversifying our release schedule so it isn't too heavily leaning in any one direction.
Speaker 7Yeah, and I've said this on Facebook and other places.
Speaker 7Yeah, and I've said this on Facebook and other places. But I think there's no better way to find out about what's being put out by the Warner Archive than to hear it directly from you. The advantage of that is that you can talk about the history, you can talk about the remaster, you can talk about the extras in a way that doesn't come across just in a, you know, press release type of announcement, and those are great for a quick look. But to hear you, you know, and all you have to say about it, that was the magic of the old podcast and I just wanted to have that chance to work with you to get that out there to the fans. So it's been fun.
Speaker 7We've been doing this now for two, three years, so I appreciate the opportunity to kind of go along with you on that and enjoy the Warner Archive and all the great titles that have come out over the last three years and the last 15 years, of course. But I'm not the only one that's grateful. We actually had fans, members of our Facebook group and others who are so loyal to the Warner Archive call in and leave a message of appreciation for you and the work you do in the Warner Archive, and I know you had a chance to listen to most of those messages and I thought we would end here with just your thoughts after listening to them and your thoughts and words to the fans.
Speaker 8I was first of all, tim. That was a wonderful idea you came up with. And listening to all those messages so many of them were, frankly, emotionally moving to me, because several people mentioned that they are aware of. You know my days hawking laser discs and fighting for aspect ratio being correct. In those days I refer to that as my youth and it was. But I've basically been fighting the same battle for many, many years and that's to get the films off the vault shelf and onto people's home shelf. And to hear some of the things people said moved me practically to tears tears of gratitude and grateful for the ability to because of the work that we do.
Speaker 8This introduces a whole new world to people that aren't familiar. If you're a diehard film buff and you've been living amongst the classic film world and were, like me, a film collector as a kid, before there were videos and then, when I was an older kid, there were videos and it was only $100 to buy a movie. But like, wow, you know everything has changed so dramatically. But what it all comes down to and I know I sound like a broken record is nothing beats physical media. You own it. Nothing beats physical media. You own it. No one can take it out of your digital locker if rights change.
Listener calls
Speaker 8If you subscribe to a streaming service, that movie that you like, that you've watched there, may not be there in a year because of licensing issues, and that's no knock on any other business or service or company or anything else. Those businesses have a business model that works for them. But having physical media and seeing within the scope of the whole industry scope of the whole industry, particularly in work with some of our partners, especially the Criterion Collection the reason why we partner with a very limited group of people is that the people that we choose to work with really bring something remarkable to the table. They don't just willy-nilly release 25 films at a time and have you get lost among the shuffle. They make events out of what they release, and we try to do that in our way as well. So it complements the business tremendously and helps get more product into the hands of people that want it, and that is something I am most grateful and enthusiastic about.
Speaker 10Hello, I'm Louis from Miami. I want to give my appreciation to Warner Archive and George Faltenstein for all the great classic movies that you have brought us in Blu-ray, movies that are from the, in my opinion, the greatest era in movie history, namely from the 30s to the 60s. There's still a number of movies from that era, a number of great movies left to be released on Blu-ray. Hopefully we can continue this great work, and I appreciate it so much. I try buying every one that comes out that I can. I have a collection of over 4,000 movies as it is, but I look forward to adding my favorites to Blu-ray and thank you for helping me do that. Have a good day.
Speaker 11Greetings. My name is David and I'm currently living in West Haven, utah. I have been a classic film buff for many years, and particularly of classic Hollywood animation like the Looney Tunes and Popeye, and I remember when I first heard of the Warner Archive starting up many years ago, I thought it was an absolutely brilliant idea of how to get so many of the wonderful yet obscure Warner, mgm and RKO films out to the public who wanted them. And since then I think they have just gotten better and better with the transition to Blu-rays. I've bought, maybe not as many as others, but as many as I can.
Speaker 11I am particularly impressed with restorations like Dr X, Mystery of the Wax Museum, safe in Hell and Things from Another World, to say nothing of now, the Looney Tunes and the Popeye collections. I wish them every success in the future. Long may they continue to produce great work, and I can only hope that the rest of Hollywood finally decides to take a page from the Warner Archive and set up programs of their own, because there are a lot of other studios with vast archives that I think would really benefit from the flattery of imitating the Warner Archive. Thank you and have a good evening. Bye.
Speaker 12Hi, it's Mike from Chattanooga, tennessee, and I just want to say how much I appreciate the release of the Warner Bros Westerns that you've been releasing on Warner Archives, and when I say Westerns, I mean specifically the TV series. I am so excited that I've been able to see all the episodes of Maverick, sugarfoot, bronco, cheyenne, the Dakotas and now Code 45, which I never thought ever would be released, and it's on Blu-ray. It's on order right now and I expect to get it on Thursday, and I am so grateful for you to allow me to see some of the shows that I heard about and wanted to see as a youngster, but they were up too late for me to view, and now I've been able to see just about all of them, including Lawman, which I forgot to say, which I think is a terrific Western. So thank you so much for bringing these gems back to my living room.
Speaker 5Bye-bye. Hi, george and the Warner Archive. My name is Sammy. I'm calling all the way from Australia. I love you guys and appreciate all that you do. The Warner Archive means so much to me because I've been obsessing over classic films since 1991, when I was nine years old. Also, I'm a massive Marlowe Brown fan. As such, you brighten my world by making so many classic films available via Blu-ray and DVD. In particular, your Blu-rays are in a class by themselves. My top favorite purchases include Waterloo Bridge, that's the Vivien Leigh version. My top favorite purchases include Waterloo Bridge, that's the Vivian Leigh version, and the most perfect film ever One Way Passage starring Kay Francis. Having spent most of my working life as a film archivist, I understand just how much effort goes into your exquisite product.
Speaker 1Keep up the great work, george and co. You guys are the best. Hey, this is Kerr from Maryland, wishing a happy 15th anniversary to the Warner Archive, which has provided such a marvelous service for film buffs and film history buffs. It's really really irreplaceable, really irreplaceable, and we're all grateful for George Feltenstein's careful and devoted caretaking, curation of this library and making restored versions available. It's absolutely extraordinary and what I note is that not only are many of these releases just bringing favorites back to people that they appreciate and enjoy, but in some cases actually triggering re-evaluations of films.
Speaker 1I know, to cite one example, that Westward the Women was not really given much attention, directed by William Wellman. It's another Robert Taylor Western for a lot of people. Well, the fact is it's an extraordinary film, not just a great Western, but one of the finest films of any kind made by an American studio and really unavailable and unknown until the efforts of the Warner Archive. And I think more and more people are becoming aware of it and I'm sure other people have other great examples how the Warner Archive is really changing what our list of the canon of great film is, and we're grateful for all of it. So, happy anniversary and looking forward to more great film. Thank you.
Speaker 6Hi Tim, this is Wes. I was an employee of Turner Classic Movies for 20 years, and George and I have a couple of really good mutual friends from TCM. The thing I particularly like about Warner Archive in addition to the pristine restorations that they do, especially with the three-strip Technicolor films, is that George and his team has also been able to restore some of the films to the original running lengths, you know, films that had been cut, and particularly I'm referencing 1941's, the Seawolf and 1947's. They Won't Believe Me. So I don't think anyone appreciates the archive and the work George does any more than I do, and I just look forward to many more exciting releases this year. Take care, Tim, Bye-bye.
Speaker 14Hello Justin from Illinois, hey, george, Hello Tim, hey through the universe to Mr Jerry Beck. I want to thank the Warner Archive for releasing Blu-rays of movies that I've been requesting and wishing for years now, and especially for you, george, and probably also Mr Beck. I want to thank you for releasing good, scrappy, due content on Blu-ray. I know he's kind of a controversial character, but I thank you for remembering his good releases. Thank you.
Speaker 1My name is Thomas, from Germany. My message is thank you, George, for your phenomenal work. I will continue with importing Warner Archive Blu-rays literally forever.
Speaker 13Greetings from Germany.
Speaker 2Hi everybody. It's Austin from Manhattan, new York. This is just a general appreciation message. Mr Felton's fan and as well, jerry Beck Mr Beck have impacted my lives in more ways than they know, obviously, because I am a huge animation fan and nerd and my shelves are just lined up with all kinds of stuff that Warner Archive has put out.
Speaker 2I have been such a fan of the lineup and it really felt like it was for us, the nerds, the collectors that wanted weird stuff like Peter Potamus, and it was great to have that always on DVD and now going to Blu-ray. I mean, like one of the best things I own is Johnny Quest on Blu-ray and now going into the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice, which are just wonderful. I own all three of those and can't say every single list going on. But George, jerry, I want to thank you guys so much for making my childhood so memorable.
Speaker 2I am just a high school senior, but it's been basically my whole life that Warner Archive has been around and the impact has been pretty big. I mean, even in fifth grade, when I was writing big essays to my family on why they should buy me Porky Pig 101 for Christmas gifts, I just admitted to NYU as a cinema studies major and I was talking with one of the heads of the program and he was saying we have a lot of students go off to work as film catalog experts at places like Warner Archives and I was just like, wow, I could end up at Warner Archives someday, which is sort of a surreal thought. But George, jerry, tim, thanks for everything. It's been a great 15 years and I'm looking forward to another 15 and many more. Thanks again.
Speaker 13Yes, I would like to say that to me, the Warner Archives. My name is John and I'm from Washington State. My appreciation for the Warner Archives is really based on two different things. First of all, the older DVD-Rs. In that context several really rare films were released, such as the Black Zoo, which looked good enough really to be a restoration. The archives were, you know, at that point they were releasing films that maybe a lot of people hadn't heard of, but they were giving them first class treatment, and so that was always a joy.
Speaker 13But more recently the Warner Archives has come to become the Blu-ray platform, and some of the work they're doing there is amazing, in particular one film that was reputed for many decades to be lost, namely Helen of Troy, and perhaps it wasn't really lost, but the negative was in horrible condition. But I think with just the improvements of technology in the later years, when I saw the Warner Archives Blu-ray of Helen of Troy, I felt that I was almost seeing the film for the first time, because I saw it back in the late 50s and I saw colors and shades in the Warner Archives Blu-ray that I hadn't seen in the film probably since 1960 when it was ending its run on local TV stations, things alone, primarily just for George, has been. George's long career, which dates all the way back I'm not sure if he was around for VHS, but he was definitely a proponent of Laserdiscs. He's done a great deal for film fans and I treasure what he's done. Thank you.
Speaker 3Hi, this is Rich in New Jersey and I just want to say what would we do without the Warner Archive? So many things would just get subpar releases or be left to languish and eventually deteriorate to the point of nonexistence. And I want to thank George Feldstein for everything he's done, especially in the field of preserving animation, and for harping so insistently on the fin man release that was coming out just just verbally, haranguing the audience until I forced myself. Fine, george, I'll buy it, and I love, uh, all of the movies I've seen so far. I own them all. I've just finished the fourth and I thank you for allowing me to open my mind to much older movies than I was used to, and I am now spreading the gospel of the thin man. Thanks again, george.
Speaker 9Hi, I'm Jim from Wisconsin and this message is for Mr Feltenstein. Thank you so much for your passion for film and for your dedication and meticulous work in preserving our film heritage. The pristine quality of your Warner Archive releases are second to none. Thanks to you and your team, we can enjoy works of cinematic art whose reproduction is often better than the original theatrical showing. All the best to you for many years to come.
Speaker 4Hello, my name is Dan, I'm calling from central Massachusetts and I'm a huge fan of both the podcast and just everything the Warner Archive does. George Feltenstein does incredible work with the restorations and working on all the extras, and Tim Millard does a fantastic job bringing it all together, contextualizing everything, and it's just such a joy for me every month to see what new titles they come up with. And then when you listen to the podcast, it kind of gets you excited for some releases that you might not have otherwise given a second thought about because you get stuck in your own biases. But then once you hear how much work and love george has put into it and how tim packages it all and presents the information to the adoring audience, it just makes it a lot more fun and it's such good work that they do.
Speaker 4I love physical media. Streaming is great. I do watch streaming, but physical media to me is extremely important. And anytime an older film, I love older films. Anything shot on film pre 1970s. I would say I just absolutely love it when there's a restoration and it's great. We get a lot of extra features. But even if we just get a few contextual pieces and old Warner arc cartoons, those are awesome too, so anyway, I'll stop dabbling, but keep up the great work, guys, and happy 50th anniversary.
Speaker 7Well, George, this was fun. It was great to celebrate with you this 15th anniversary and, on behalf of the fans and myself, I just want to thank you for all you do for the Warner Archive and for the history of film, film preservation and getting that vast library out to the fans so that they can buy that physical media Absolutely.
Speaker 8Yeah, absolutely. And, tim, thank you again for everything you're doing on the extras. Done with the extras, I am so grateful that I was able to be with you as you started it and to see it grow beyond talking about Warner Archive, but multiple studios, multiple creative people, all with the same dedication to bring their passion and enthusiasm to the world of physical media. It's a terrific thing. Thanks, george.
Speaker 7Well, I hope you enjoyed this episode and our modest little celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Warner Archive. It's a joy and a thrill to have George on the extras and to be able to share with him the special milestone. And thanks again to everyone who left a message and participated in our little experiment, as I'm calling it, because we have not used call-ins in the podcast before. This is probably only one-third of the messages that were left, so what I'm going to do is have a bonus episode where it's pretty much just dedicated to your calls. So look for that coming soon. I think you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 7It's always great to hear from everybody and their own personal stories. So if you enjoyed this episode, think about following or subscribing to the show at your favorite podcast provider. And if you want to join us on Facebook, there's a link in the podcast show notes or you can search Facebook for the Warner Archive and Warner Brothers catalog group. Thanks again for listening and thanks for supporting the extras and thanks for supporting the Warner Archive Until next time. You've been listening to Tim Millard. Stay slightly obsessed.