Ghostbusters (was ig farben)

[dennis grace]

Dexter opines:

>	But we all know the real reason you posted your message to this
>list is because you desperately wanted to discuss the long-dormant but
>endlessly complex "Real Ghostbusters" vs. "Original Ghostbusters"
>controversy. If one of the two were going to be a legitimate extension of
>the Ghostbusters franchise, it'd *have* to be the Real Ghostbusters,
>seeing as how that other knock-off was put out by Filmation, a seriously
>penny-pinching company that brought television animation to new lows from
>which it has not since recovered, and pioneered new methods of creating 23
>minutes of "animation" while using as few frames as was humanly possible.
>They haven't put any good stuff out since they went into business, going
>all the way back to "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe," and that
>pathetic animated version of "Star Trek" where they used three frames of
>animation for Mr. Spock whenever he talked. As I remember, the only body
>movements he could execute when he was on the bridge were turning his
>head, and pushing a couple of buttons on the console in front of him. I
>doubt Filmation would have paid the cash it would have taken to obtain
>license to the Ghostbusters name. God those guys sucked. There.  I've said
>my piece on that.

Well, I gotta admit from the git go, I never saw the Original Ghostbusters,
and I only vaguely remember the Real Ghostbusters, but I have to question
your logic on some of this.  The fact that Filmation skimps on quality and
still sells their shtuff actually allows MORE available revenues than would
a more fully realized animation technique in which the production costs
would suck down the resources. You give the exmple of the Star Trek
animation series, which works well to demonstrate your point about the
shoddiness of their animation quality but otherwise kinda confutes your
point.  That animated Star Trek managed to pull scripts from the biggest SF
names of the day.  So as for paying the price of a license, I guess that
depends how much value the owner thought the name still held.

dgg
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Dennis Grace
University of Texas at Austin
English Department
Recovering Medievalist

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