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Typical. So much for 2023 being a return to normal. Also, if there's only gonna be six releases in March, that means February was going to be barren.

Also, Paramount, Fox and Sony don't have employees going on podcasts talking how the year will be back to normal.

It's the radio silence that irritating. Someone could very easily contact you guys and say what's what, like they did with the December 2022 releases. Instead, we're left to guess for ourselves after podcasts heralding 2023 as being "back to normal".

No announcements yet. Not a good look when you're talking about one release a week on podcasts, and February is looking barren.

Yeah, the lack of WB titles for WB's 100th is very suss. Makes one want to call the plans into question.

Cause if you're going on podcasts talking up a big game about how 2023 is going to be so great and a return form and wonderful for classic film fans and all that, extended radio silence is not something inspires a vote of confidence.

Did you really?

They sure are taking their dear sweet time with January announcements. Let's hope George didn't make promises he couldn't keep again.

We got one measly classic animation release in 2021. Saying 2023 will be back to 2021 levels is not encouraging there.

Where?

I'm glad that you are getting your wish granted, but classic cartoon fans are still stuck with bad discs and evasive non-answers.

Yeah, we know something concrete is planned, as opposed to the usual "more classic animation is coming" runaround. I'm glad you, as a silent film fan, got a "hard" answer that 3 or 4 silents are planned for the next couple of years.

Not based on what I listened to. It was lumped into the vague "Stuff is happening" line we hear every time classic animation comes up, in spite of so many specific classic cartoon questions asked. It's also good to know Ghost Ship and Opposite Sex are being rectified but Tex Avery #2 isn't.

But not a studio, not a "Really anticipated title" like silent films got. Not specific goals like the Hammer films. Since there's going to be a minimum of 18 months between classic cartoon releases, something a bit more specific would be nice, especially given all the questions asked.

This is so vague and cryptic compared to the other updates.

Will the final podcast be available soon?

Yeah, too bad they only come two at a month now.

Only two releases per month, and even then, they had to skip a month. That sure seem precarious to me.

Practically a whole year with only two releases apiece. They're on life support at this point.

It looks like WAC are not only not going back to normal, they're coming to a complete halt. Worried about the program.

So this really is the new normal. I guess its better than the WAC being shut down entirely, but not by much.

The whole first half of the year has been light. The At&T layoffs really did a number on things.

Wasn't the release schedule supposed to eventually pick up once things got resituated? OR is this just the new normal?

It was also one of the launch programs for HBO Max.

How does bombshell look?

What's going on with their pipeline? The second Tex Avery volume has been put on hold because of COVID-19, but based on what you're saying, it sounds like that hasn't impacted live-action releases much, if at all.

HBO Max seems to be a case-by-case sort of deal. The 1940's Popeye cartoons are most definitely using the WAC's restorations.

The Tom and Jerry cartoon OCNs suffered the same fate (destroyed in a vault fire) and they were able to get good restorations out of most of the ones on the first Blu Ray

Yeah, WAC is falling back on their standby of cheap-and-easy-to-restore 50's and 60's films. You can't even say they'd sell to an enthusiastic niche like the horror titles.

When are we going to get more animation? George Feltenstein said more was forthcoming on one of the September podcasts, but the Archive has kept completely mum about it.