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1->''"It should be so simple. Technology exists to distribute old movies, and there are people out there who want to see them. And yet every movie buff has had the experience of reading up on some great film or filmmaker, then hitting the video store and discovering that for one reason or another -- rights issues, perhaps, or lack of broad public interest -- the movies they want to see are unavailable on DVD."''
2-->-- '''[[Website/TheOnion The AV Club]]''', [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/noflix-23-great-movies-not-available-on-region1-dv,16754/ NoFlix: 23 great movies not available on region-1 DVD]] (eleven of those have been released since the article came out in 2008)
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14* The sooner after theatrical release a film is released on VHS with certain tracks altered for copyright issues, the less likely they are to see a DVD, let alone Blu-ray, release any time soon.
15* This is not uncommon with silent films in general. Some films get poor-quality DVD distribution, others never see the light of day -- even ones registered with the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry. Good luck finding ''Film/TheWind1928'' or ''Film/TheCrowd'' on a physical format that isn't [=LaserDisc=] or VHS; Creator/TurnerClassicMovies shows them occasionally.
16* 3D films get this a lot in their original versions, unfortunately. For example, the left eye of ''Spacehunter: Adventure in the Forbidden Zone'' has never been officially released to the public itself, only the right eye. ''Film/FridayThe13thPartIII'' was a bit luckier, though; both the left eye and the right eye have seen release individually in some form.
17* At the end of the 1980s, the home video market collapsed due to an overabundance of low-quality products, resulting in the collapse of many independent VHS companies along with their libraries, some substantial and hosting many sought-after cult items. While a few of these libraries have been purchased (such as Media Home Entertainment and Vestron Video), more often than not the new parent companies simply clamp down on the rights and keep potentially successful cult films out of circulation for unknown reasons.
18* When a director's cut of a film is released, the older theatrical release of the film is usually taken out of circulation, regarded as an inferior version by the distributor(s) and director. Sometimes this can anger fans, and only occasionally have DVD companies wised up and included both versions on new DVD releases. An awful lot of movies, though, still have theatrical versions that have been left in the dust without the consent of fans.
19** This the case for ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''; the Academy Award-winning theatrical cut was released on DVD in 1997, but all subsequent DVD releases, and the Blu-ray edition, include only the director's cut. Despite that, the 1997 theatrical cut DVD is fairly easy to find. A 4K restoration of the original cut - which is actually the one director Milos Forman preferred - has been promised for 2024.
20** This was the case for many years with Creator/RidleyScott's ''Film/BladeRunner'', as the theatrical version's VHS was steadily rising in price for collectors. With the 2007 release of the Final Cut box set, all the cuts of his masterpiece came together at last. However, it went out of print during TheNewTens, in favor of releasing the Final Cut by itself. [=iTunes=] does carry the US Theatrical Cut as well as the Final Cut, and Amazon Video also sells the first Director's Cut, but neither carry any of the other versions.
21** UK and Australian releases of ''Film/PicnicAtHangingRock'' have included both the director's cut and the theatrical version, but US releases from Creator/TheCriterionCollection have only included the director's cut (to the frustration of some fans).
22** Creator/GeorgeLucas hasn't released the theatrical version of ''Film/THX1138'', his debut feature on DVD and Blu Ray, nor, reportedly, has he allowed any new official releases of the theatrical version, much to the frustration of many fans.
23* A lot of classic European movies from the 1930s through the 1950s have never been officially released on VHS ''or'' DVD in the United States. Case in point: Sara (Sarita) Montiel and Maria Felix; these two actresses are regarded worldwide as among the giants of Spanish-language cinema, but most of their classic films from the 1940s through the 1960s have never been released in the USA except by small labels which may or may not own the license to reproduce them commercially. Basically, the only way for an American fan to get ahold of these movies is to either order whatever [=DVDs=] may be available from foreign vendors (you'd better have a DVD player capable of playing discs from regions other than 1) or download them from more-or-less dodgy online sources as mentioned above.
24** Very few of the films of Creator/DanielleDarrieux (one of the acknowledged ''grande dames'' of French cinema, with a career spanning nearly 80 years) are legitimately available in the United States. The same goes for Creator/BrigitteBardot and Creator/DianaDors (called, respectively, France's and Britain's answers to Creator/MarilynMonroe during the 1950s) or the Italian bombshell Silvana Pampanini.
25** Many of the movies of Italian legend Creator/GinaLollobrigida - ''La Donna Più Bella Del Mondo'' (''The Most Beautiful Woman in the World''), ''La morte ha fatto l'uovo'' (''Film/DeathLaidAnEgg'', La Lollo's only excursion into the {{Giallo}} horror genre), ''Un Bellissimo Novembre'' (''That Splendid November''), ''Stuntman'', ''Hotel Paradiso'' (with Alec Guinness), ''Woman of Straw'' (with Sean Connery), ''Anna di Brooklyn'' (''Fast and Sexy''), ''La Romana'' (''Woman of Rome''), ''Le Infedeli'' (''The Unfaithfuls'') and ''Les Belles de Nuit'' (with Gerard Philippe and the aforementioned Martine Carol) have never, ever been released on DVD in the U.S.
26** Creator/RomySchneider's ''Sissi'' trilogy (which established her as an international star and contributed hugely to the postwar revival of German film) was long unavailable on DVD or VHS in its full form in the United States; those wishing to see the movies had to order them from Canadian vendors, without any guarantee of getting a version dubbed or subtitled in English. Koch Lorber finally did fill the gap, however, with a box set containing not just the three full-length films but also the edited version released in America in the 1950s and Schneider's companion piece "The Young Victoria", which had never before been released in the U.S. Several of her other 1950's [[PeriodPiece Period Pieces]] are still unavailable in America, however.
27** A significant chunk of Creator/PeterSellers' British/European-produced output still isn't available on DVD in Region 1, including star vehicles ''Only Two Can Play'', ''Waltz of the Toreadors'', ''Ghost in the Noonday Sun'', and ''Soft Beds, Hard Battles''. ''The Millionairess'' was briefly available on [=DVD=] in 1999, but it's long out of print. To make matters worse, the VHS releases of these films were mostly on independent labels and date back to the 1980s. Turner Classic Movies has occasionally aired a few of the 1960s titles, but the downtime between airings can be years.
28** In a related issue, American performers sometimes suffer this when they appear in foreign-produced films, TV movies, and/or independent productions, as they easily fall out of print. For instance, Creator/JeffGoldblum did several star vehicles in Europe at the turn of TheNineties. On Region 1 [=DVD=], ''Film/TheTallGuy'' is long out of print and ''Twisted Obsession'' is only available in some of Mill Creek Entertainment's bargain basement 50-movie packs; ''The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish'' and ''Shooting Elizabeth'' '''occasionally''' pop up on B-list streaming services, and ''Film/MisterFrost'' is completely unavailable to those who can't import the Region 2 DVD release or track down the VHS from the early '90s.
29* Regarding Usefulnotes/AcademyAward for Best Picture nominees, only one is truly lost, ''The Patriot'' (not to be confused with the 2000 film). Two of them, coincidentally both from Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox predecessor Fox Film, ''Film/EastLynne'' and ''The White Parade'', have their only surviving print in the UCLA archives, where at least an appointment for them to be screened can be done.
30* In general, VHS demo tapes and screeners. These are promotional advance copies of films (or television episodes) not intended for the mainstream home video market; instead prepared for video stores, professional critics, or awards voters[[labelnote:*]]Screeners aimed at the last group are colloquially known as "For Your Consideration" screeners or "Academy" screeners.[[/labelnote]], among others. Screeners for video stores in particular usually contained advertisements for upcoming releases in the home video market and information on how to order these movies (and their associated merchandise). The film itself would usually have disclaimers of the copy not intended for public release (with a number to call for reporting accidentally-obtained screeners). These copies were made on a small production run with the intent of eventually being disposed of by the distributor or the recipients; however, a select few of these copies have managed to turn up unscathed, usually in local video stores. As a result, they are considered extremely hard to come across; despite being regularly considered as virtually worthless in most cases.
31** Some VHS screeners are notable for containing material that wasn't included in the official subsequent releases on VHS and/or DVD, such as original promotional spots, different box art/packaging, and even entire film footage. There also exist VHS screeners for films that were planned for release on both VHS and DVD, [[{{Vaporware}} but had the VHS release cancelled]]; leaving only the VHS screener available. Of course, these types of screeners are considered even harder to find than the regular screeners, and they are among the few screeners that are considered to be especially valuable.
32* This can extend to special features from special or collector's edition sets that aren't ported over when the movie is released in a new format. If you don't have the out-of-print older version, you'll miss out on (sometimes very important) footage and material related to the film. These include:
33** The ''Franchise/{{Alien}} Anthology'' Blu-Ray set has pretty much everything and the kitchen sink in terms of extras from the previous DVD and VHS releases from the film...except for the Alternate Production Audio & Music track from the 1999 ''Alien Legacy'' DVD release of the original film, making it a valuable commodity. Also, the now-out-of-print ''Alien Saga'' DVD contains vintage featurettes from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and uncensored screen test footage of Creator/SigourneyWeaver that weren't included on the Blu-Ray set.
34** Many laserdiscs from Creator/TheCriterionCollection, which contain features which haven't been released on any other medium. Notable examples include:
35*** ''Film/{{Evita}}'', which had a director commentary, TV spots, a music video, promotional footage, documentaries, interviews and archival footage of the real Evita that were never released again. It's easily the most complete package of the film. Some of those features (but not all) are on the newly released UsefulNotes/BluRay.
36*** ''Film/TheFisherKing'' was last released on DVD in 2003 (sans extras). The Criterion laserdisc had a commentary track with Creator/TerryGilliam, deleted scenes, costume tests and a scene-by-scene analysis of the entire film using storyboards, screenplay excerpts and behind-the-scenes photos. Though since then, Criterion re-released the movie on Blu Ray with a majority of the laserdisc extras.
37*** The first three Film/JamesBond films (''Film/DrNo'', ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''), which had commentaries (featuring the producers and creators of the series) that were subsequently banned from every printing after their first releases because they contained an excessive number of disparaging and inflammatory remarks, and are pretty much the reason why all DVD and Blu-ray releases with a commentary track include a disclaimer regarding the commentaries featured on disc. (In other Bond news, [=MGM/UA's=] Ultimate Edition of ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' doesn't have most of the extras from the original 2-disc release.)
38*** Criterion's [=DVD=] edition of ''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth'' was apparently so popular that it was one of their '''first four''' Blu-Ray releases! Both versions of the set are out of print. A 2011 Region 2 release from another company did port over some Criterion features...but ''not'' the commentary track originally recorded for the 1992 laserdisc featuring lead actor Music/DavidBowie (along with director Nicholas Roeg and co-star Buck Henry), which was the ''only'' special feature he participated in. ''And'' the first-pressing of the Criterion Blu-Ray is particularly rare, as it was in paper packaging that was eventually replaced with the now-standard clear Amaray cases once fans complained. Unopened copies can fetch $150 or more.
39*** In 2021, six Paramount titles (''Film/DontLookNow'', ''Film/{{Nashville}}'', ''Film/DaysOfHeaven'', ''Film/LaDolceVita'', ''Film/RosemarysBaby'', and ''Film/HaroldAndMaude'') were taken out of print so Paramount could release them on their new home video line. The ''Nashville'' Blu-Ray included a new scan but not all of Criterion’s extras. (Criterion would revisit ''Days of Heaven'' in November 2023 as a 4K Ultra HD release.)
40*** This also happens when a film's license holder takes a film away from Criterion to make their own (often inferior) DVD release. For example, Creator/AkiraKurosawa's ''Film/{{Ran}}'' was set to receive a Criterion Blu-Ray release in 2010 with new features in addition to the features on the DVD. However, its license holder requested that the Blu-Ray release be nullified and the DVD set be discontinued. They then released a Blu Ray of ''Ran'' with only a few of the DVD's special features. Fan response to the quality of the Blu Ray transfer varies, with some claiming it is inferior to the DVD release. The new home video rights holder also didn't bother to release a new DVD, making ''Ran'' one of only a few films that only has a Blu-Ray release currently in print. Thankfully, rights holders asking Criterion to pull their set off the market is rare, but its happened at least a dozen times in the past decade.
41*** ''Film/{{Se7en}}'', which has a multi-commentary exploration of the title sequence, outtakes, Canadian TV spots and an isolated score that weren't included on the subsequent New Line Platinum Series edition.
42*** ''Film/ShesGottaHaveIt'', which has been released in barebones editions for years. The Criterion laserdisc version had an exclusive director's cut version, deleted scenes, commentary, outtakes, music videos, still photo galleries and tie-in TV ads. Criterion doesn't own the rights to the film, and its DVD distributor (MGM) doesn't see fit to release a special edition for it, so you'll have to hunt for anything more than the barebones release.
43*** The current in-print DVD & Blu-Ray of ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' was released by MGM in 2000, but the movie had originally been released first on home video by Criterion on UsefulNotes/LaserDisc in 1994, and then on DVD in 1998. The special features are substantially different in tone between the different releases - the two commentaries from the cast and crew on the Criterion version are as themselves, while on the single commentary on MGM version, the cast do the commentary while in character. The Criterion release also has several deleted scenes, performance footage and three short promotional films which were not included on the MGM release, including most notably, the PilotMovie they shot when they were trying to secure a backer for the film.
44*** The movie was also published on a pair of ''[=CD-ROMs=]'' in 1994 by Criterion's publisher, The Voyager Company, who also created enhanced [=CDs=] for other films like ''Comic Book Confidential'', ''Film/ForAllMankind'', and ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', which Criterion released a restored print of in 2014.
45*** For a while, Criterion stopped producing separate DVD releases and would only put out dual format editions containing both the DVD and blu-ray. Fan backlash reversed this trend, but as a result, the dual format editions have slowly been going out of print.
46* The ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'' has numerous examples of content that were never ported to later releases, despite the constant popularity of the franchise for the better part of three decades. Among them, the original mono sound mix from ''Film/MissionImpossible'' has been missing since its original Laserdisc release, even though the disc is still routinely held up as a reference-quality audio presentation for the film that greatly enhances the film's bass levels. Several of the films have had major extras or entire bonus discs fail to be reprinted since their original distribution, including a video film-within-a-film commentary between Creator/TomCruise and Creator/JJAbrams in ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' (of which only the audio commentary has been re-released) and a separate bonus disc with additional featurettes, bonus discs for ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' and ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' that were tied to specific retailer releases (Best Buy and Target, respectively) that were never reprinted, and the IMAX presentation for ''Ghost Protocol'' that has never been officially released, and is only circulated via fanedits that mockup portions of an open matte digital copy to replicate the experience. Luckily, the Best Buy[=/=]Target-exclusive version of ''Ghost'' and ''Rogue'' are still cheap enough to buy on the secondhand market, despite being discontinued.
47* Any film starring Rolf Harris is very unlikely to get a home release or re-release after he was charged with child sex offenses.
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51* The only way one can be able to view the original version of Creator/JohnWayne's ''Film/{{The Alamo|1960}}'' is through the out-of-print VHS and Laserdisc releases from the early-90s and screenings on Creator/TurnerClassicMovies. DVD and Blu-ray releases contain the commonly-seen shorter version, which was edited by a half-hour by the film's producer (Wayne's son Michael) only a few weeks after its initial release to correspond with city bus schedules. In the meantime, the uncut version has fallen into disrepair and Creator/{{MGM}}, which owns the negatives, hasn't really yielded much towards financing restoration projects for their film catalog, due to their occasional run-ins with financial troubles. Luckily, it ''is'' available on Blu-ray, but as a standard definition special feature, and only on a single overseas release.
52* A handful of Creator/RobertAltman movies are very difficult to find on video, if not impossible. His extraordinary 1972 horror film ''Film/{{Images}}'' never got proper theatrical distribution in the U.S. and was long thought lost until MGM printed a DVD of it in 2003 -- which is now OOP and very expensive, though the film has since made it to free-with-ads streamers like Tubi. That's a tremendous success compared to his 1980 satire ''HEALTH'' which has never seen a video release of any kind in any country. Also, because of music licensing issues, ''Film/CaliforniaSplit'' has never been released on video with its original soundtrack intact, meaning you have to seek out a bootleg of a cable TV airing for that.
53** In a related issue, his protege Alan Rudolph's well-regarded thriller ''Remember My Name'' (starring Creator/GeraldineChaplin and Creator/AnthonyPerkins) has never had a home media release. It occasionally airs on Creator/TurnerClassicMovies and in Fall 2022 started appearing on the Tubi streaming service.
54* In 2023 movies on Amazon Prime for the Literature/AmericanGirl characters Maryellen, Melody, Ivy and Julie, and Z were removed from the service. Since they were all only released on the service, this makes them unavailable through common means.
55* ''Film/ArseneLupin2004'', starring Kristin Scott Thomas as the FemmeFatale who interacts with the title character, has never been released in the U.S. for unknown reasons. However, Warner Brothers did release the movie on DVD in Canada with English subtitles.
56* Most prints of Creator/BruceLee's first film ''Film/TheBigBoss'' are missing several scenes that were in the original Mandarin version shown in theaters in 1971. Whilst some scenes were cut for being violent there are others which were removed strictly for pacing reasons, such as some which were featured in some of the film's trailers. Apparently the uncut version still exists, circulates amongst collectors, and was even touted for an official release at one point, but nobody knows for sure.
57* The ''[=Bigfoot=] vs. Snake Bite'' direct-to-video movies released free with some Hot Wheels toys in the early 90's are this. Only Volume 2, The Snake Bites Back, has been uploaded to [=YouTube=] (via a very bad transfer from a VHS release), and Volume 1, The Ultimate Battle, is unaccounted for.
58* The notorious 1976 version of ''Theatre/TheBlueBird'', in spite of having Creator/GeorgeCukor as director and an AllStarCast headed up by Creator/ElizabethTaylor, has never had a legit video release beyond Russia (the film was a U.S./U.S.S.R. co-production). For a few years in TheNewTens it occasionally turned up on FX Movies in off hours, but no more.
59* The [[Film/TheBlueLagoon1949 1949 version]] of ''Literature/TheBlueLagoon'', a [[StarMakingRole star-making vehicle]] for Creator/JeanSimmons, became this after conflicts between Creator/TheRankOrganisation and the estate of Henry De Vere Stacpoole over the movie rights prevented it from having a legitimate home video release. ''The Blue Lagoon'' entered the public domain in 2022 in the country where it was published, England[[labelnote:*]]Stacpoole died in 1951[[/labelnote]], which could enable the 1949 film to have a proper home video release.
60* ''Film/ByTheSword'', a film about fencing and revenge, completed in 1991, wasn't released until 1993 when it bombed horribly at a box office of just above $6,000. The film was then released on a VERY limited VHS run, and never released on DVD in the United States. In order to have a copy today, you would have to pay over $45 for a VHS or DVD. It can be found on the internet, however.
61* ''Cocksucker Blues'', the infamous Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} documentary about the band's 1972 U.S. tour supporting ''Music/ExileOnMainStreet'' (featuring lots of profanity, sex, and general mayhem). The band sued over the content of the film, so it can't be shown in public without director Robert Frank being phyiscally present, and while the director did hold yearly screenings he died in 2019. (One screening was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a retrospective of Frank's photography career: the presenter of the screening noted that the legal settlement said that Frank had to be "physically in the building" for the screening to be official. Frank was not at the screening, but he was giving an interview in another part of the museum, [[Main/LoopholeAbuse and this meant it was okay for the screening to continue because he was still technically in the building]]) This hasn't stopped it from being a mainstay on the bootlegging scene for many years.
62** Ten minutes of excerpts from ''Cocksucker Blues'' eventually found their way into 2010's ''Stones in Exile'', but obviously it isn't anywhere near the same experience.
63* The non-Three Stooges Columbia short subject comedies not starring Creator/BusterKeaton or solo members of Film/TheThreeStooges (which have seen DVD releases) are only available through private collectors (and even then, not all the shorts are available).
64* The 1998 film ''Conquest'' is nigh-impossible to find online.
65* ''Film/DaftPunksElectroma'' is a midnight movie classic played in independent theaters the world over. Watching it at home? That's a different story. Most of the times, you'll find the out-of-print DVD going for hundreds of dollars on Amazon or eBay. If you want to watch it on Blu-Ray, you'll have to look even harder: the only Blu-Ray releases were in Russia and the Czech Republic, and those are just as hard to find and may not even be official. Want to stream it? The only official streaming releases were for the now defunct Lycos Cinema (a short lived experiment in "simulstreaming") and a limited time release on Tidal (making it one of the few movies to have been streamed on a platform primarily for music and podcasts). And to top it all of, the Tidal release had rare behind the scenes footage that was never officially released before or since. Your best bet is to find an upload on [=YouTube=], but they often get taken down because of the music. (The behind the scenes footage from Tidal has been archived by fans, thankfully)
66* The original ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' has been legally unavailable in English-speaking territories since around 2012. It's actually owned outright by producer Richard P. Rupinstein, who funded a $6 million [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie 3D conversion]] in 2013 that has, to date, never seen the light of day, meaning that he lost a lot of money on it and, in the hope of recouping the cost, is reportedly asking any publisher that wants to show or release the film to pay an exorbitant fee. It's telling that Scream Factory actually released a collector's edition for the [[Film/DawnOfTheDead2004 2004 remake]], but not the original. Anchor Bay did release a (sub-par) Blu-ray in 2006, but it is long out-of-print and going for high prices on eBay. Collectors are otherwise forced to buy one of the Region B releases (Second Sightfilms put out a 4K release in the UK that’s become very popular) or stick with the ancient DVD if they don’t have a multi regional blu ray player.
67* ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' has been stuck in limbo for years. The film is currently owned by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, who were forced to purchase the film when Disney refused to release it through Miramax amidst protests from Catholic groups; the film was then licensed to Creator/{{Lionsgate}} for theaters and Creator/SonyPictures for home video. Those deals have long since expired and didn't account for digital distribution, and the film has fallen out of print since its 2008 Blu-ray release, leading to inflated prices on the secondhand market. Don't expect a future release anytime soon; the Weinsteins still own the movie, director Kevin Smith wants nothing to do with them (he'd been on bad terms with Harvey even before his long history of sexual abuse was exposed), and even if he did, negotiations are effectively impossible due to Harvey's conviction and imprisonment in 2020. It still does air on cable.
68* ''Film/{{Dragonworld}}'' was only released on VHS by Paramount Home Video in the `90s and ''never'' released on DVD. It's so obscure, Website/ThisVeryWiki didn't have a page for it for quite a while. The same goes for all of the Moonbeam titles; current rights holder Full Moon seems to reissue ''Film/PuppetMaster'' every few years but continues to screw their family-friendly Moonbeam line. It's especially daunting given that Courtland Mead (a.k.a. [[WesternAnimation/{{Recess}} Gus Griswald]]) is the main character.
69* There was a movie in 1981 called ''Earthbound'' that only had a VHS release, & no, it is not to be confused with ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound|1994}}'' for SNES.
70* Want a copy of ''Film/ElectricDreams'' on Blu-Ray or DVD? Well, today is your lucky day, since it ''does'' exist and is still in print... but only in Europe. The film was only released on VHS (with a reprinting in 1991) and [=LaserDisc=] in the United States in the mid-1980s. The film's North American rights distributor as of 1991 was Turner Entertainment (who inherited it from MGM), but their rights to the film lapsed years later and the rights holders have yet to make a new deal for those territories. There was also a Video CD version released in Singapore in 2001, but those are hard to find in their own right.
71* ''Eyes of Fire'', an amazing 1983 horror film set in colonial America about a religious splinter cell trekking into the wilderness only to encounter a powerful forest witch, was almost totally ignored during its theatrical run and didn't fare much better when released on VHS in the late '80s by Vestron Video. Aside from a suspicious Brazilian DVD there's been no reprint on video for over 25 years and Lionsgate, the company that bought out Vestron Video's library, has yet to reissue the film in any form (that is, if the rights haven't reverted back to the producers).
72* Alex Winter's ''Film/{{Freaked}}'' had a deluxe edition DVD and a very, very rare Blu-ray release came out from Anchor Bay in the mid-aughts - and nothing since. It's also impossible to find on any streaming service. There are some region-free Blu-rays that were released [[NoExportForYou in Europe]].
73* A number of Creator/WilliamFriedkin films have had minimal releases over the years, outside of VHS. His 1987 crime drama ''Rampage'' has only received a DVD release in Poland, and the director's cut of ''Film/{{Jade}}'' only ever saw a VHS release (it is, however, available on Amazon Video and VUDU).
74* For decades, the Japanese versions of the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' films were unavailable in the U.S. Thankfully, most have seen a release, but a few (mostly due to different companies holding the rights) have slipped through the cracks. Of those, most (''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'', ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah'', ''Film/GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth'', ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'', and ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'') are available on [=DVD=], but dubbed into English. Luckily, the latter three films would eventually have their original Japanese cuts released on Blu-Ray in 2015. The Japanese cut of ''King Kong Vs. Godzilla'' also received an overseas release on Creator/TheCriterionCollection’s Godzilla Showa Era box set in 2019.
75** ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante'' suffers from a triple whammy of this. For years, the only home video release was the 1992 [=VHS=] release from Creator/{{HBO}}. In 2012, it finally got a DVD and Blu-Ray release from Creator/{{Miramax}}...only for that release to eventually go out of print as well and start fetching high prices on the second-hand market. In 2014 it was re-issued by Creator/{{Lionsgate}}...and ''that'' promptly went out of print too, becoming just as rare and pricey as the Miramax version.
76** ''Film/ItalianGodzillaKingOfTheMonsters'' only got released in Italy (and reportedly Turkey as well) and is now rare there and practically nonexistent everywhere else.
77** Before 2016, ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'' had not seen a DVD release in any form, and was only available dubbed on an old VHS tape that's been out-of-print since TheNineties. In October 2016, [=Section23=] Films, under its Kraken Releasing sub-label, released ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'' on blu-ray and DVD in North America for the first time. This is also the first time ever that the original, unaltered Japanese version of the film is available to western fans. The movie still manages to invoke this trope though, as the original western re-cut titled ''Godzilla 1985'' and featuring added scenes with Raymond Burr reprising his role from ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1956'' is not included on the DVD and still hasn't been available outside the aforementioned out-of-print VHS version.
78* Creator/ErichVonStroheim's ''Film/{{Greed}}''. While the long-lost nine-hour Director's Cut has disappeared from the face of the Earth, so has any home video release of the currently existing versions. A four-hour reconstruction was released on VHS in 1999; this is the last known release on video outside of a possibly legal Region 2 DVD from Spain.
79* ''Film/GuestHouseParadiso'', the film semi-adaptation of ''Series/{{Bottom}}'', received a very limited release in America and was never released to home video there. This was likely due to the film being a BoxOfficeBomb in its native UK, and the series itself being relatively obscure in America (although the show saw an American DVD release in 2005).
80* In 1993, actress Susan Hart inherited the rights to 11 films released in the 1950s and 1960s by American International Pictures because she was the widow of AIP co-founder James Nicholson. Most notably, this includes ''Film/IWasATeenageWerewolf'', ''I Was a Teenage Frankenstein'', ''Film/TerrorFromTheYear5000'', ''Film/TheAmazingColossalMan'', and ''Film/TheEyeCreatures'', and none of them have seen the light of day since. Attempts have been made to license them for television broadcast and DVD/Blu-ray, but Hart notoriously asks for exorbitant amounts of money when anyone is interested in utilizing the films for any purpose. They haven't even received new transfers since the late 80s/early 90s, meaning they can't even be bootlegged in decent quality. Some of these films were featured on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' before Hart claimed the rights, and they're among the few episodes from that series not available on DVD because the footage can't be cleared. It may change, however, amid reports that Hart and Shout Factory are working towards a licensing deal in the midst of a FrivolousLawsuit Hart had filed over the use of ''stills'' of those films in a documentary about AIP.
81* The Director's Cut of ''Film/HellraiserBloodline''.
82* The original theatrical cut of ''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening'' (which featured the [[DoingInTheWizard infamous origin]] that the eponymous Highlander was really an alien from the Planet Zeist) has never been released on DVD in the United States, though a Region 2 French DVD of this cut was released. A longer cut released in some foreign countries has ''never'' been available on DVD or Blu-Ray; it includes some key footage later reinstated in the Director's Cut, as well as an alternate ending not seen in any other version. As of April 2020, the theatrical cut can be viewed in the U.S. on the Roku Channel, albeit in 4:3 standard definition and pan-and-scan.
83* ''The House Of The Wolf Man'' doesn't seem to currently have any legal channels through which it can be watched, other than buying a $50 used DVD off Amazon.
84* ''I Am Not a Hipster'', the first movie directed and written by Creator/DestinDanielCretton (who would later go on to direct ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' for Creator/MarvelStudios), unexpectedly disappeared from digital retailers in September or October 2021, despite ''Shang-Chi'' proving very successful at the box office upon its release around that very time. The DVD and Blu-ray apparently went out of print even earlier, with the Blu-ray fetching prices around $100 on its scant secondhand listings.
85* ''I Woke Up Early the Day I Died'' is a mild example. It was a film produced and starring Creator/BillyZane based on a script Ed Wood (yes, that Ed Wood) wrote but never filmed. It only ever played at a few film festivals and was not released to the general public. Still, it's fairly easy to find it online now.
86* The infamous 1982 Korean War movie ''Film/{{Inchon}}'' is only available on bootlegs, another case of an AllStarCast film going missing in action (it featured Creator/LaurenceOlivier -- this was the film that named the trope MoneyDearBoy when he was asked about why he signed on -- as General Douglas [=MacArthur=], shored up by Jacqueline Bisset, David Janssen, and others). A BoxOfficeBomb comparable to ''Film/HeavensGate'', it apparently sucked so much that it was pulled from theaters as fast as it came in, and the production company -- which got most of its finances from religious leader Sun Myung Moon -- won't even give it the dignity of a home video release. The now-defunct [=GoodLife=] TV, which was owned by Moon, played the film a few times, but it has not been seen since. Notably, it is the only Worst Picture [[Usefulnotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie]] winner to not be available outside of bootlegs.
87** However, Music/JerryGoldsmith's score to the film was popular enough to warrant a few releases (including a special edition CD from Creator/{{Intrada}} in 2006. This was the second release of the score from the label - the first was an expanded release, the second was a 2-CD set featuring the original album presentation on one disc and the complete score on the other). And ''then'' there was a ''3-CD'' set in 2020. the original 1982 album on CD 1, the 2006 expanded presentation on CD 2, and the complete and chronological score (and a few extras) on CD 3.
88* The David Lynch DVD box set titled ''The Lime Green Set'', collecting various films and projects by Lynch, is long out of print and goes for over a hundred dollars online. While most of the films on the set are readily available elsewhere, other inclusions in the set, such as the webseries ''Rabbits'' and the short film/music video ''Industrial Symphony No. 1'', have had no home video release since then.
89* ''It Came from Hollywood'' (1982) was a sort of proto-[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]], with popular comedians from the late '70s and early '80s (Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/JohnCandy, Creator/CheechAndChong, Creator/GildaRadner) paying tribute both mockingly and lovingly to old B-movies. The one VHS release goes for a minimum of $25 on Amazon, and laserdiscs go for $50. It had a VERY, VERY brief DVD release, the ''cover'' of which is easily found online, but finding an actual copy of it generally costs (literally) thousands of dollars.
90* MGM's 1965 film ''Joy in the Morning'' starring Creator/RichardChamberlain and Creator/YvetteMimieux has never seen a release on VHS, DVD, Laserdisc or any other media, anywhere in the world. Hard to believe, as the film was heavily promoted, widely released, moderately successful, and stars Chamberlain, who, as ''Series/DrKildare'', was one of TV's biggest stars at the time. Save for the occasional television airing, it has rarely been seen since. Warner Bros. once stated that the film is not cleared for distribution, so a chance for release in the near future is minimal. Some bootlegs of questionable quality and resources exist, however, your best bet is to try and catch it on Creator/TurnerClassicMovies, where it is shown every once in a while.
91* ''Film/KeepOffMyGrass'' was extremely hard to track down. The version currently available on DVD was sourced from a VHS tape of a projection and required a great deal of restoration to achieve even a poor image quality.
92* Music/TheBeatles' documentary film ''Film/LetItBe'' has remained out of print for decades, but fans have continued to distribute it themselves for almost as long. The film was commissioned as a documentary about the recording of what ended up being the band's final album, but it ended up putting a spotlight on the many personal conflicts that led to their breakup. Since showing such an ugly side of The Beatles was not in the best interest of Apple Corps, the movie is considered to never be released in its original form again. (This makes it an unusual example of a film that won an Academy Award -- "Best Music, Original Song Score" for 1970 -- going out of print.) Creator/PeterJackson announced his intention of releasing a remastered version of the film, following the release of his own documentary of the recording sessions (''The Beatles: Get Back'', released in 2021); which so far has yet to happen.
93** If you get the chance to watch it via some bootleg, illegal download, or legal 1981 Magnetic Video tape or disc, you might wonder what the fuss is about. The little sniping argument between Harrison and [=McCartney=] aside--"Whatever it takes to please you, I'll do it"--it really isn't that bad.
94** Music/PaulMcCartney was often asked about the film's reissue in interviews, and even he has wondered why it hasn't been released. In [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/paul-mccartney-looks-back-the-rolling-stone-interview-w433437 a 2016 interview]] with ''Rolling Stone'', he said that he has campaigned for the film's release to the Apple Corps board, but nothing ever comes to fruition. He had no objections to a re-release of the film, even though he admits he came off poorly in it.
95* ''Long Gone'', the Creator/WilliamPetersen Cult-Baseball Movie. Currently the film is unavailable in any format. Previously there was a DVD but it is now long out of print, and copies fetch about $200 on Amazon alone.
96* ''Looking for Mr. Goodbar'', despite being a box office success and getting Golden Globe and Oscar nominations, has ''never'' been released on DVD nor Blu-ray, due to music rights restrictions. Paramount only managed to get the rights for VHS, vinyl soundtrack, and television[[note]]the film does occasionally air on Creator/TurnerClassicMovies[[/note]], making a DVD and Blu-ray release unlikely.
97* The 1977 Italian movie ''[[https://lostmediawiki.com/Maldoror_(lost_unreleased_Italian_film;_1977) Maldoror]]'', which is a very loose adaptation of ''Literature/LesChantsDeMaldoror'', has been put out of circulation due to its explicitly anticlerical message (rumor has it that one of the surviving copies was sold to a private collection for 20000 Euro). The director Alberto Cavallone attempted to reuse footage from the movie in another project of his, a flick called ''Blue Ecstasy'', which also hasn't been found so far.
98* The indie film ''Literature/{{Maradonia|Saga}} and the Shadow Empire'' was never re-released -- neither on DVD nor digitally -- after its premiere. Presumably, the creators couldn't find anyone willing to distribute it, and couldn't afford to self-publish it after sinking a lot of money into the film itself and renting out a theater for its premiere. As a result, the ''only'' way to watch it is a bootleg screener (complete with a watermark) that someone put online.
99* A parody of ''Film/TheMatrix'' commissioned by Microsoft featuring Steve Ballmer as Neo and Bill Gates as Morpheus was shown at Comdex 2003, then shelved. It was only licensed from the production company for one showing. The beginning is available as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86j8zOsmNFE a camcorder recording]], as well as some spoilers made by those attending the showing.
100* ''Maxie'', a 1985 screwball-comedy throwback starring Creator/GlennClose, Creator/MandyPatinkin, and (in her last film) Creator/RuthGordon, had a blink-and-you'll-miss-it DVD release in 2003, and since it went out of print, has fetched hefty prices online (often in the $100-150 range).
101* The original theatrical version of ''Million Dollar Mystery''. Since it was originally created as part of a contest on the part of Gladlock bags, the original cut featured direct allusions to said contest and clues to where the studio had hidden the cash prize (which turned out to be in the Statue of Liberty's nostrils), complete with rules and regulations at the very end. During the transition to home video, most of that was cut and the ending was even revised. Good luck finding the theatrical version now; the soundtrack album at least came with contest clues.
102* Flemish movie ''Misstoestanden'' was only ever shown in cinemas and has never gotten a home media release, likely due to it being considered one of the worst Flemish movies ever.
103* The direct-to-video ''Film/MuppetClassicTheater'' has never been released in America on DVD, or any format since the initial VHS release (which is of course long out of print). It can be found on the Internet, though, and it appears (although split in half) on [[NoExportForYou the UK "The Best of the Muppet Show DVD's]]
104* ''Murder Death Koreatown'' was a found footage film by an anonymous director [[note]] (according to [[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e6c64af0f525367f08392e4/t/6010c9aec531fe0cee0cb52b/1611712942802/JiBak_Resume.pdf the resume]] of an actress who was in the movie, his name is Jesse Berger) [[/note]] that became famous on 4chan's /x/ (the paranormal and conspiracy board), purporting to be a true crime documentary about a real murder in Los Angeles's Koreatown neighborhood that turns into a bizarre story about the director starting to believe that the [[MilkmanConspiracy the murder was tied to a secret society of church pastors]] and [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness gradually going insane]]. It was a hot commodity on the film festival circuit and on 4chan, with many people theorizing which parts were real and which parts were staged, but it divided general audiences once it hit streaming platforms as to whether the director was right to even try wrapping the story around a real-life murder. The film ''used'' to be available to stream on Amazon Prime and Tubi, but it's been taken down. The only official physical releases were a limited print-on-demand "Bootleg Edition" Blu-Ray that was sold on the now-defunct official website, three alternate edits released exclusively on VHS that was also sold on the website for an extremely limited time [[note]] (one of which was a "Found Footage Purist" edition that removes the score and [[spoiler: the scene where a voice in a sewer drain talks to the director]], another was dubbed over a tape with news reports of 9/11) [[/note]] and a Blu-Ray that was released in Japan [[note]] (where [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff it became an unexpected viral hit]]) [[/note]] with burned in Japanese subtitles. Even the social media accounts that promoted the film have been deleted. Pirated copies on streaming sites and torrents are now the only way to watch it. Since the director chooses to remain anonymous ([[OpenSecret aforementioned resume notwithstandng]]), it's unknown why everything about the film was taken off the internet, but it can be theorized that [[OvershadowedByControversy the questions by critics of whether or not it was unethical to make the film in the first place]], [[note]] In particular, a scene where the director interviews a mentally ill homeless person who witnessed the real life murder led to people wondering if the witness could even legally consent to being filmed [[/note]] along with [[MisaimedFandom conspiracy theorists thinking that the fictionalized parts were real]], may have led to the director developing CreatorBacklash and choosing to [[BuryYourArt take the film offline to stop profiting off of a real life murder]]
105* None of [=BabyFirst's=] ''My First Movies'' (''Harry's Big Birthday Countdown'', ''Tilly's Big Camping Adventure'' or ''Shushybye: My New Best Friend'') have seen a release on DVD. They're also not available on Tubi, which is where most [=BabyFirst=] content currently streams.
106** ''Harry's Big Birthday Countdown'' and ''Tilly's Big Camping Adventure'' are now available on the [=BabyFirst=] app and the Roku channel, although it requires a subscription. Those 2 movies have also been uploaded on [=YouTube=].
107* The full-length version of Toho's 1973 disaster epic ''Nippon Chinbotsu'' (Japan Sinks), which was released in the U.S. in severely edited form as ''Tidal Wave'', has never been released in America in any format. (Not even following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which, while making the movie HarsherInHindsight, would certainly have made it of considerable topical interest). The 2006 remake has also never been released in America.
108* Tom Schiller's only feature film, ''Nothing Lasts Forever'', has assumed near-legendary status both for being extremely rare and extremely odd (it includes Creator/BillMurray as the conductor on a bus ride to the moon, Creator/LaurenTom as an alien, and a political coup by the Manhattan Port Authority - all rendered with pseudo-1930s stylings). For unclear reasons, it received only a limited cinema release and has never been available on video or DVD. A January 2015 screening on Creator/TurnerClassicMovies stirred speculation about a legitimate release finally being in the works; but nothing has come of it since.
109* ''Film/{{Oklahoma}}'' became harder to find in its original TODD-AO format after the 2023 expiration of Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios' license required them to stop selling it on DVD, Blu-ray, or digital, and for Creator/DisneyPlus to remove it from their service. After Samuel Goldwyn Films obtained streaming and Blu-ray rights, they only distributed the [=CinemaScope=] version; even though it boasts inferior picture and sound quality, and arguably weaker performances.
110* The 1988 [[MadeForTVMovie Made for TV]] sequel to ''Film/AChristmasStory'', ''Film/OllieHopnoodlesHavenOfBliss'' was only ever available as a now rare and expensive VHS release.
111* The director's cut of ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica'' is missing a controversial but important scene. For a while, it could only be found on a special edition DVD set...[[NoExportForYou in Brazil]]. And that STILL isn't the complete version of the movie, but the one that premiered at Cannes and was subsequently released in Europe. Creator/SergioLeone's original version ran forty minutes longer. A restoration which includes about twenty minutes of additional footage premiered at Cannes and has been released on Blu-Ray (known as the Extended Director's Cut), but there's been no word about the rest of the footage.
112* ''The Owl and The Pussycat'' has not been available in its uncut form[[note]]It was originally rated R by the MPAA due to a PrecisionFStrike, which was cut in a reissue to secure a PG rating.[[/note]] since at least the start of the DVD era. The only known home video release was from Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment in 1980, and that's nigh impossible to find.
113* The SurrealHorror film ''Paper House'' is a victim of Lionsgate's apathetic attitude towards 1980s films, but it is available on DVD in the UK.
114* The 1959 film version of ''Theatre/PorgyAndBess'' has not been in release since the early 1970s. Sam Goldwyn leased the film rights for only 15 years, and renegotiating them with the Gershwin and Heyward estates has proved impossible.
115* The 1981 Polish arthouse horror flick ''Film/{{Possession}}'' is rather hard to find, having only been released on an out-of-print DVD by Anchor Bay and a Blu-Ray in the UK by [[http://www.secondsightfilms.co.uk/cat.php?a=223&p=-1714 Second Sight]] (a label that specializes in cult films) in the fall of 2013.
116** Rescued after Umbrella Entertainment, an Australian home video label, released a restored 4k in 2023 that can be easily found.
117* ''Film/PromNightIIITheLastKiss'' was released direct-to-video in 1990, and it hasn't been released unedited since. A DVD popped up in 2003 from Artisan as a double-feature with ''Film/PromNightIVDeliverUsFromEvil'', but only an edited-for-television cut was used for ''III'', containing poorly-dubbed censorship for profanity, as well as cuts and alternate takes used for violence and nudity. The disc is now long out-of-print, not that anyone's really clamoring for that butchered version anyway. The rest of the series is on DVD from Echo Bridge (with Synapse releasing a Blu-ray for the original ''Film/PromNight'') and can be streamed on Amazon Prime, but for some reason, ''III'' remains completely unavailable outside bootleg VHS rips.
118* Creator/{{Toho}}'s original cut of ''Film/PropheciesOfNostradamus'' has never been released on home video, even in Japan, due to pressure from Hiroshima survivor's groups. Even the heavily edited American version (''The Last Days of Planet Earth'') is only available on long out-of-print VHS tapes from the turn of TheNineties.
119** Toho's ''Half Human'' also remains unreleased for a similar reason — Ainu rights groups considered the film's depiction of their culture offensive.
120* The 1957 Civil War epic ''Raintree County'' (starring Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/MontgomeryClift)[[note]]This film is well known as a TroubledProduction provoked by a near-fatal car accident that left Clift's face disfigured for the rest of his life[[/note]] has never been released in a format other than VHS and UsefulNotes/LaserDisc, though it could be seen on Turner Classic Movies from time to time and was broadcast on some PBS stations in March 2018. A random check on [[https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/forums/blu-ray-and-uhd.88/ Home Theater Forum]] (a website that major studios use to analyze demand for an older movie on video) shows that this film is very popular amongst the site's members. What Warner Bros. is arguing in terms of why they are holding an eventual release back is that a proper restoration is too costly, especially for a movie that only has niche appeal and would be relegated to a burn-on-demand Warner Archive Collection release.
121* The 1996 HBO film ''Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny'' has never been released on DVD in Region 1, although a fairly rare Region 2 DVD and an even rarer VHS version do exist. The film stars Creator/AlanRickman in the wonderful scene-chewing titular role. It also features Creator/IanMcKellen and Greta Scacchi in solid performances as Nicholas II and Alexandra as well as some excellent cinematography.
122* Music/BobDylan's epic documentary/concert film/experimental drama ''Renaldo and Clara''. After the original four hour version was lambasted by critics upon its 1978 release and a two hour recut failed to stir up interest, it's been more or less kept out of circulation by Dylan, who holds the distribution rights. It did slightly better business in Europe and has been shown on TV a few times there. A multi-generation dub of a British TV broadcast of the longer version circulates among Dylan fans. A bonus DVD with two songs from the movie was included with the ''Live 1975'' Bootleg Series album, but there's never been any sign that Dylan will ever release the whole movie on DVD. It didn't help when some critics used their reviews of ''I'm Not There'' to retroactively bash ''Renaldo'', including critics who had never seen ''Renaldo''.
123** In a similar vein to ''Let It Be'', the Dylan documentary called ''Eat The Document'' that's built from unused footage from the famous doc ''Don't Look Back''. Dylan himself edited the excess footage together. The result was considered too surreal (read: incomprehensible) for mainstream audiences, and was thus never given official release. The film will likely never see a proper release, but bootlegs are handed around madly to this day.
124* A modern adaptation of ''Theatre/RichardIII'', produced by and starring Creator/DavidCarradine, has its own wiki article and Website/IMDb page ... but good luck finding anything else about it, let alone a copy, digital or not.
125* If for some insane reason you want to watch the infamous ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' parody movie ''Ricky 1'' (a.k.a. ''Heart to Win''), look hard. There is a DVD release, but it's in poor quality from a distributor notorious for similarly bad releases of other hard-to-find movies, and VHS copies are obscenely hard to find, though copies have been known to turn up with an even lower price tag than is usual for a hard-to-find title. However, it is on [=YouTube=].
126* The theatrical cut of ''Film/ScaryMovie'' contains some dialogue that makes fun of the relationship between Creator/BradPitt and Creator/GwynethPaltrow that was cut from all of the home video versions as producer Harvey Weinstein felt that the dialogue towards Paltrow was less humorous and more of an outright attack towards her (since the dialogue referred to her as a "freak"). To date, the last time a version contained this dialogue was in a late 2000 theatrical reissue (though bootlegs of the rough cut do have the dialogue).
127* The 1993 occult thriller ''Shining Blood'' by [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot the aristocrat, alchemist, musician, pop singer, playboy, actor, and filmmaker]] Stanislas ("Stash") Klossowski de Rola (who is also the son of the famous painter Balthus) is currently impossible to buy or watch online. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rcmBw-cmHY Only]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShgb0b-42c a few]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wC3KZNUrFk fragments]] can be found on the Net.
128* ''Film/{{Sleuth}}'', it's been out of print on Region 1 for quite some time; used [=DVDs=] are very expensive.
129* The 2004 TV film ''Strip Search'' (starring Creator/GlennClose and Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal and directed by Creator/SidneyLumet) ended up this way due to HBO wanting to avoid controversy over its scathing account of the U.S. post-9/11. Not only was the film heavily cut (Lumet's original cut ran two hours, HBO cut it down to under an hour) but HBO even went out of their way to pull future airings of the film (this stance was later reversed after subscribers complained and a few more airings were scheduled).
130* ''The Substitute'', a 1993 made for the USA Network film would have been likely forgotten...if not for the fact that it contains the acting debut of Creator/MarkWahlberg (then known as Marky Mark).
131* ''Superstar: The [[Music/{{Carpenters}} Karen Carpenter]] Story'' is a short biographical film directed by Creator/ToddHaynes unique in that all the people shown in the film are played by Barbie dolls. However, despite being a CultClassic, it has not seen an official release on DVD or VHS, and was blacklisted from distribution by Richard Carpenter. He sued the creators over the film’s unlicensed usage of his group’s music, and was unflattered by claims the film made (among other things, the movie claimed he went gay). Fortunately, you can see it on [=YouTube=] and Platform/{{Vimeo}}.
132* The fondly-remembered 1995 TV movie ''Film/SusieQ'' has never seen a VHS or DVD release. Contrary to popular belief, it was not a Disney Channel Original Movie, though it aired on the channel frequently from 1996-2000 and Disney still owns the rights to it today.[[note]]The film was produced by Libra Pictures, which was Creator/SabanEntertainment's film production studio. It was formed to produce films for older audiences but occasionally branched out into family films like this one. Disney got all the rights to the movie after Saban sold its library and Fox Family Worldwide to them in 2001.[[/note]] It likely stopped airing because of its more mature themes, such as the title character dying in a drunk-driving car accident. It exists through torrents and bootleg DVD's of various VHS recordings of its Disney Channel broadcasts. These low-quality recordings can also be found on [=YouTube=]. It also aired on German network Super RTL in English in 2008. More bootleg DVD's were made from this broadcast which were much clearer in quality despite the movie's German title being displayed and a "Super RTL" bug present throughout. The film is sometimes made available on Disney Family Movies On-Demand, usually once a year around Halloween.
133* The 1998 network TV film of ''Theatre/TheTempest'', made during the wave of made-for-TV fantasy films and miniseries' that included Hallmark's ''Merlin'', has never been released on video in the US. A radical reimagining of Shakespeare's play, the movie transplants the plot and characters to the Civil War South, where Gideon Prosper, played by Creator/PeterFonda, is an ex-slave owner hiding in the bayou and using voodoo magic. The film dispenses with all of Shakespeare's dialogue and uses the film medium to beef up the plot, and matches its striking concept with a rich score by Terence Blanchard and for-the-time advanced special effects. It was poorly received when it originally aired and to this day the only video release is a German DVD.
134* No DVD releases of ''Film/ThatLadyInErmine'' outside of Europe.
135* ''The Thorn'', formerly known as ''The Divine Mr. J'', is only available as out-of-print videocassettes from Magnum Entertainment due to Creator/BetteMidler liking absolutely none of its titles, [[HairTriggerTemper and we do indeed mean absolutely none]].
136* According to That Other Wiki, the Italian version of ''Film/{{Threads}}'' (under the title ''[[CompletelyDifferentTitle Ipotesi sopravvivenza]]'') was broadcasted only once on Italian state television, on August 7, 1985, one day after the anniversary of the nuclear bombardments of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It has never been released in any form.
137* Good luck trying to find a copy of ''Theatre/TwilightLosAngeles'' (a cinematic adaptation, produced for ''Great Performances'', of not just a one-woman show about the Los Angeles Riots of '92 but also a work that caused a minor controversy involving custom titles on Website/ThisVeryWiki--long story). It was only released ''once''--on VHS, in 2001. With rebroadcasts in 2012 and 2015, you'd think PBS would have the sense to re-release it on DVD by now.
138* ''Music/{{U2}} 3D'' is only available for screening at 3D theatres, since the band will only allow a home video release when 3D home video technology reaches a satisfactory state for them. Over a decade since the film's release, 3D TV and Blu-Ray have come and gone without ever reaching widespread support, making the likelihood of a home video release extremely low.
139* ''We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n Roll'', a documentary by Creator/PenelopeSpheeris, has never seen a home video release. The reason is entirely due to music rights clearances.
140* The 1987 film ''Weeds'' has nothing to do with pot or [[Series/{{Weeds}} the later TV series about pot growers]], but is instead a drama starring Creator/NickNolte about injustice in the prison system. It was released on VHS, but has never been released on DVD, Blu-Ray, or even digital, despite Nolte's presence. According to director John D. Hancock (not ''that'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock John Hancock]], of course), it's because the original camera negatives have gone missing.
141* The original version of ''Welcome to 18'' may never see the light of day again due to [=JoAnn=] Willette using an ethnic slur at one point in the film, resulting in many of her scenes being removed from current prints by the copyright holder, Green Griffin, decades later. That she's presently entangled in a copyright dispute with Green Griffin over piracy of that very film only makes it a sure deal.
142* The 1984 teen comedy ''The Wild Life'' has never received an uncut DVD release because of music licensing (the film featured many classic hits from the 1950s to the 1980s). Creator/{{Universal}} used to offer an on-demand DVD, albeit with many of the songs removed.
143* The 1989 Creator/JohnBelushi biopic ''Film/{{Wired}}'' only had one official release on VHS shortly after its theatrical run and hasn't been touched since. Given its notorious reputation as being a reductive and heavy-handed hackjob that completely undermines the real Belushi's generous and loving personality in favor of focusing on the fallout of his drug addiction, in addition to being utterly reviled by everyone who actually knew him ([[CreatorBacklash and even star]] Creator/MichaelChiklis), it's highly unlikely that this state of affairs will change anytime soon.
144* The 1988 feature-length version of Mike Jittlov's ''Film/TheWizardOfSpeedAndTime''. Fans have been distributing copies of the film online since it came out. The story of how Mike got nearly immediately screwed out of the rights to his own movie is depressing. Many of the tapes have been ''n''-th hand VHS copies of an extremely-rare laserdisc copy owned by someone who was probably single-handedly keeping laserdisc repair shops in business. There are a couple of unofficial (but endorsed by Jittlov) high-quality DVD transfer "releases" floating around the net in download-and-burnable formats, though, which will hopefully allow the owner of the laserdisc to finally retire and move up to newer technology.
145* Timothy Carey's infamous self-directed film ''The World's Greatest Sinner'' was never given an official release. The film has been broadcast a few times on TCM, from which bootlegs have circulated.
146* Cult director Jim [=McBride's=] ''The Wrong Man,'' starring Creator/RosannaArquette and Creator/JohnLithgow. It received a theatrical release in Europe, while it premiered on Showtime in America. Released once on VHS, never re-released on DVD and not available on Netflix or other streaming services.
147* ''Zatoichi's Pilgrimage'' (#14) is apparently not available on DVD (at least in Region 1) because the rights are separate from the rest of the series.
148* Creator/KarelZeman's work has been stuck in circulate-the-tapes limbo for a long time, although the Czech DVD releases approved by the Zeman family and produced by Prague's Karel Zeman Museum are beginning to change matters some. The English-speaking world still hasn't gotten its own proper DVD releases of most of the films, however, aside from Creator/TheCriterionCollection's box set containing ''Journey to the Beginning of Time'', ''Invention for Destruction'', and ''The Fabulous Baron Munchausen'', released in 2020.
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152Disney has a significant track record of alternative scenes, alternative cuts of films, or entire films never seeing the light of day following their initial release:
153* In June 2023, Disney removed dozens of underperforming titles from Creator/DisneyPlus and Creator/{{Hulu}}. For example, ''Film/{{Crater}}'' was taken down from Disney+ less than two months after its release! Other titles affected included the film adaptations of ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'', ''Literature/{{Stargirl}}'', ''Literature/TheOneAndOnlyIvan'', ''Literature/TimmyFailure'', and ''Film/FloraAndUlysses''.
154** In October 2023, [[https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/disney-quietly-adds-original-movies-164532783.html a few of the removed titles]] reappeared for digital purchase on stores such as [=iTunes=], Amazon Prime, Vudu and Google Play.
155* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'''s original theatrical version remains exclusive to theatrical prints from the original run. The 1993 Walt Disney Classics VHS and 1994 laserdisc dubbed over a body mutilation reference in "Arabian Nights" that sounded offensive to Arab viewers, so that both the lyrics and the voice sound completely different. Plus, the 2004 Platinum Edition DVD and VHS, and 2015 Diamond Edition Blu-Ray, DVD, and Digital HD versions use a master for a cancelled IMAX re-release. While none of the visual alterations look as distracting as those made for ''Beauty and the Beast'' and ''The Lion King'' (see below), it does retain the dubbed-over version of "Arabian Nights"; the Platinum Edition also removed some dialogue that sounded like someone asking teenagers to take off their clothes, but it came back for the Diamond Edition.[[note]]Although some fans have re-created at least the original opening credits reel by dubbing in audio of the old lyrics, which Disney included on initial releases of the ''Aladdin'' soundtrack.[[/note]] The 2019 Signature Collection UHD, digital copy Blu-ray, and DVD undo the changes the IMAX version made to the animation, but not the changes made to "Arabian Nights".
156* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'':
157** The original theatrical cut has only received an official home video release in 1992, as part of the Walt Disney Classics line, in either {{Letterbox}} or PanAndScan on Laserdisc, and P&S only on VHS. The reissue in 2002 on VHS and DVD under the Platinum Edition series restored the CutSong "Human Again" -- with the VHS release re-integrating it into the film, and the DVD release provided the option to either add it or keep it cut -- and lightened the colors to match the 2002 IMAX rerelease. Among other detractions, this made the Beast visible in shadow when he first appears (the original 1991 cut has the Beast completely concealed in the darkness until he has to reveal himself to Belle at the close of the first act). The Platinum Edition also worked some tweaks made for the IMAX version's soundtrack into both cuts (among other changes, the addition of the sound of the Beast destroying furniture after Belle leaves the castle). Beginning with the Diamond Edition 2010 Blu-Ray and DVD, Disney undid the changes to the original cut's soundtrack, but used a darker version of the new color scheme instead of that from the premiere, and also suffered from a glitch that temporarily shows a bit of the extended version's animation in the "original" cut. The 3D version has also only come to home video only one time, as a 3D Blu-Ray[[labelnote:*]]Incidentally, this disc and the 2020 Signature Collection UHD came closer than any other ''[=BatB=]'' DVD or BD did to matching the original colors; the 3D Blu-ray also didn't suffer from the glitch that plagued the other Diamond Edition or Signature Collection releases.[[/labelnote]] included with some 2011 repackagings of the Diamond Edition combo pack.
158** The Work in Progress version hasn't received a proper home media release since the 2010 Diamond Edition DVD, as an alternate viewing option for the movie. The corresponding Blu-ray shrunk it down to a picture-in-picture comparison with the finished film, requiring viewers to pop in the combo pack's enclosed DVD if they wanted to watch it at full size. Across the various formats of the 2016-20 Signature Collection releases, only the [=iTunes=] digital copy includes the Work in Progress version, again shrunken down for a picture-in-picture comparison.
159* ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks''' 25th Anniversary Edition {{Recut}} received a high-definition release as an [=iTunes=] digital copy, but it disappeared from the [=iTunes=] Store when the US theatrical cut came to Blu-Ray, DVD, and Digital HD. Since the Blu-Ray only presents the movie in its US theatrical cut, the only way to watch the 25th Anniversary Edition in HD would involve contacting someone fortunate enough to have downloaded it from [=iTunes=] in time. Fans who can't contact such a person have to settle for one of the Recut's [=2000s=] DVD releases. The Blu-Ray does include the scenes added to the Recut as bonus features, as well as, strangely, a Creator/DisneyChannel documentary[[labelnote:*]]previously included on the first ''Bedknobs'' DVD, the 2001 30th Anniversary Edition[[/labelnote]] about their restoration back into the film.
160* The UK edition of ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', which had guest spots from Dan Howell and Phil Lester, didn't see a home media release. Fortunately, the scene they voiced characters in was posted on Howell's [=YouTube=] channel danisnotonfire.
161** Similarly, the UK edition of ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', known in the UK as ''[[MarketBasedTitle Zootropolis]]'', featured the moose newsreader renamed as "Moosos Alexander", a pun on his UK voice actor, Vassos Alexander, at the time the sports reporter on the ''Radio/ChrisEvans Breakfast Show'' on BBC Radio 2. However, his cameo was left out for the UK home video release and broadcasts on UK television, this print retains Peter Mansbridge's character "Peter Moosebridge", but with the UK script.
162* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'''s first home video release, in 1991, is the only version that retains any of [[UsefulNotes/NoteWorthyDisneyStaff Deems Taylor]]'s original narration for the interstitials. When the film was re-edited for the 60th Anniversary Edition DVD, Disney could not find all of Taylor's recordings, so they had Creator/CoreyBurton re-record all of Taylor's lines.
163* ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' premiered in two different versions: One animated in widescreen (a first for the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon), for theaters equipped to show movies in [=CinemaScope=], and one animated in 4:3, for theaters that still only showed movies in the Academy Ratio. For the second home video release, as a 1998 addition to the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection, some copies contained the Academy version, while others presented the movie in {{Letterbox}}. Later reissues offered the movie in either widescreen only, or with a choice between widescreen and PanAndScan, apparently keeping the Academy version in the Vault for good.
164* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' also underwent some alterations for its IMAX rerelease and home video reissues. The most easily explainable concerns a sequence where Simba flops down onto some grass, which upon impact emitted dust particles that spelled "SFX" in the night sky. Some viewers [[TheProblemWithPenIsland saw the text as]] [[InnocentInnuendo a certain other word]] and decried Disney for what they perceived them to be sneaking subliminal messages past the censors. The IMAX version removed the letters and made many other changes (such as re-designing some crocodiles and birds in "I Just Can't Wait To Be King", and re-animating the waterfalls in "Can You Feel the Love Tonight"). All later home media releases retained these modifications, meaning the only way to see the original scenes is through an original theatrical print or a 1995 Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection Laserdisc.[[note]]Similar to the ''Beauty and the Beast'' example above, the original scenes are preserved on the 1995 WDMC VHS, but the tradeoff of the film is presented in the PanAndScan format.[[/note]] Additionally, if any kids of the 2000s introduced to ''TLK'' through the 2003 Platinum Edition VHS or DVD considered "The Morning Report" -- a number that didn't exist until after Sirs Elton John and Tim Rice added it to the Broadway version -- their favorite song, they'd feel disappointed to know that copies from the 2011 Diamond Edition onwards cut it back out of the movie.
165* ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'' had only one official Region 1 release on VHS and DVD in 2000. Its first segment "The Martins and the Coys" was removed because it features massive gunplay. Another segment, "All the Cats Join In", had the lead girl's bust digitally censored in her opening scene. Other countries, such as the UK and Japan, were lucky enough to receive an entirely uncut version. The full movie also exists in fan recordings off the Disney Channel in the 80s and 90s. It's the only film in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon to be absent from Creator/DisneyPlus, and no plans have been announced to stream it.
166* ''Northern Lights'', the Creator/DisneyChannel's first Original Movie back in 1997. Don't expect it to be reaired anytime soon, as they seem to have a low opinion of the film.[[note]]It was tellingly excluded from the 100 DCOM marathon, suggesting that they [[CanonDiscontinuity removed it from canon]].[[/note]] It did get a VHS release...in Canada (from Alliance Communications), but that's long out of print and nigh impossible to track down (it fetches a pretty penny on Amazon). It was up on [=YouTube=] for a while, but the channel that posted it was terminated. Still, you can find it elsewhere online but that will require some digging.
167* ''Film/TheParentTrap1961'' and ''The Parent Trap II'' both have official DVD releases, with the original also available on digital and Blu-ray. However, ''The Parent Trap III'' and ''The Parent Trap IV: Hawaiian Honeymoon'' only came to VHS.
168* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' had the deleted FinalLoveDuet "If I Never Knew You", and a reprise of it, reinstated on its 2005 10th Anniversary Edition DVD. While most reviews, and the directors, praised the emotional resonance these scenes added, the 2012 2-Movie Collection Blu-Ray and DVD cut them out again. Worse, while the Blu-Ray includes "If I Never Knew You" as a bonus feature, the reprise remains exclusive to the 10th Anniversary Edition DVD. The audio for both scenes did make it onto the Walt Disney Records Legacy Collection's 2015 re-release of the ''Pocahontas'' soundtrack (timed with the movie's 20th anniversary).
169* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', while otherwise largely complete, has had a minor alteration on most of its home video releases. During Bianca and Bernard's flight across New York City, a topless woman once appeared in the background for a few frames. This slipped by on the big screen, only because the impracticality of pausing or rewinding a film made the woman difficult to catch. The 1992 VHS and [=LaserDisc=] used a censored print of the movie, but somehow the woman reappeared in copies released in January 1999. After an uproar from eagle-eyed viewers, Disney recalled over three million tapes in a matter of days, and subsequently put out an issue that again removed the woman. This version has appeared in all DVD and Blu-ray releases, meaning the version with the topless woman can only be found in some videotapes and [=LaserDiscs=] put out after its 1999 return to stores but before the recall.
170* ''Film/TheSantaClause1'' has a scene at the beginning of the film in which Scott Calvin sarcastically responds to a phone number given to him with the remark "1-800-SPANK-ME", which was actually being used for a phone sex hotline at the time. This scene survives only on the original 1995 VHS and [=LaserDisc=] release; following complaints from parents about their children dialing the number and discovering the hotline, Disney changed the phrase in network TV airings to "1-800-POUND", and removed the scene completely in the following DVD/Blu-Ray releases. However, Vudu and Amazon Video reinstated the original scene.
171* ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'' was pulled out voluntarily by Disney from theatrical distribution, with its last theater reissue in 1986, it has never been legally released on home video in the USA, and it hasn't been shown on television since 2001 (albeit with the tar baby scene removed), and Disney CEO Bob Iger has stated that the film will not be added to Creator/DisneyPlus as long as he's with the company. It had a few foreign VHS releases [[https://www.songofthesouth.net/memorabilia/year.php as late as 2000]] and aired on TV as late as 2006. Bootleg copies may be found at video game stores or other online shops. The closest Disney has come to releasing the movie itself on DVD involves burying some clips on other programs' discs. ''How'' dire is the film's situation? ''Series/TheAmericanExperience'''s two-part biography of Walt Disney, first broadcast in 2015, used clips that had been pre-subjected to PAL speedup, when all other film footage featured was presented at the usual 24 frames per second.
172* ''Take Down'', the studio's first PG-rated film.[[note]]Though Disney would [[UnPerson want you to think]] it's ''Film/TheBlackHole'' that's their first, probably because, unlike ''Take Down'', Disney produced that movie.[[/note]] The copies that are seen in internet stores tend to be obscenely expensive, but that's your only hope of seeing this unknown film. It's quite possible that the situation isn't Disney's fault; it was an independent film merely distributed through Buena Vista, Disney's distribution company, and was released on video by another company.
173* As a matter of fact, this trope is a reality for Australians following Disney's 2023 decision to stop making [=DVDs=] for the market.
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177* ''The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland'' only scrounged up a DVD release in Australia, with the only video release in America being the 1995 [=GoodTimes=] Entertainment VHS, possibly due to the fact that the film wasn't distributed by a big movie company, but rather a movie theater chain, in this case, the Canadian Cineplex Odeon Films. It is available on [=YouTube=], particularly due to Nostalgia Critic reviewing it.
178* While the English dub of the 1978 Japanese animated film ''Chirin no Suzu'' (''Anime/RingingBell'') by Creator/{{Sanrio}} is easier to find thanks to Creator/DiscotekMedia giving the film an official DVD and Blu-ray release in 2014, the Latin Spanish dub with Helena Rojo voicing the title character is very difficult to find due to the VHS tapes falling out of print. As of 2022, no video uploads of the Spanish dub have surfaced online.
179* Some international dubs of [[Creator/{{Sanrio}} Sanrio Animation's]] ''Anime/TheFantasticAdventuresOfUnico'' and its sequel ''Anime/UnicoInTheIslandOfMagic'' (based on Creator/OsamuTezuka's Manga/{{Unico}} manga series) has become difficult to find online. While the Spanish dub of the first movie can be found on low-quality uploads, the German dub for ''The Fantastic Adventures of Unico'' isn't so lucky.
180* The 1980 animated feature adaptation of ''Literature/{{Gnomes}}'' languished in copyright limbo after the production company wound up. CCV of Norway released the film on DVD in 2010, [[NoExportForYou but only in Sweden]].
181* ''Grendel Grendel Grendel'', a 1981 Australian animated film presenting a PerspectiveFlip on ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' and featuring the voice of Creator/PeterUstinov as the monster, saw one VHS release in the mid-1980s. It is on Website/YouTube, however.
182* The 2005 film adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' has never seen a DVD release outside of the UK and France. Its Americanization, ''Doogal'', is the only version fully available.
183* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'' is relatively much harder to find nowadays, due to the film no longer being available on streaming, and the [=DVDs=] all now out of print.
184* The 1978 English dub for the Italian AnimatedAdaptation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio_%281972_film%29 Pinocchio]] from 1972 called ''WesternAnimation/UnBurattinoDiNomePinocchio'' is currently out of print. The English dub has been uploaded on Website/YouTube a few times in the past. The English dub was never released on home media, compared to Italy where it was released on VHS and DVD.
185* The original Canadian version of ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'', which featured the original voice actor for Omar, a few extended scenes, and some dialogue not present in the theatrical version was never released on DVD. Neither was the soundtrack. There are fan edits using transfers from the VHS release that recreate the film, but they are of varying quality.
186* ''[[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1998 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie]]'': While the classic 1964 stop-motion film by Rankin/Bass has been released and re-released several times over the years, the 1998 Creator/GoodTimesEntertainment animated film has only ever had a single VHS release, shortly after its theatrical premiere, much to the dismay of those who prefer it over the Rankin/Bass adaptation.
187* The United States English dub of ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute'' from 1983 has never gotten an official release on DVD as of now. (The Shout Factory DVD release uses the United Kingdom version instead, which has also been released on DVD by Fabulous Films in the UK.) This version was released on VHS by Vestron Video during its original release and then again by Goodtimes Entertainment during the 1990s. The film was originally planned to be released on DVD by Morningstar Entertainment in 2008 but ended up getting canceled, though Televista ended up with a limited unofficial DVD release during the same year. This edition is currently out of print.
188** There have also been a few different versions of the U.S. dub with Johan sometimes being called "John" and two different voice actors for Papa Smurf. A TV version of this film has also moved the Smurfs' party scene to the beginning of the film with narration added.
189* The only way to see the original version of ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' is to bootleg it. VHS copies of it have circulated for ages among animation fans and professionals. The reason for its popularity is that it is the only way to see Creator/RichardWilliams' vision in its original form: The final released versions of the film had huge changes ({{Disneyfication}} and FillingTheSilence, among others) due to ExecutiveMeddling. The "Recobbled Cut" surfacing on the Internet is a fan-made effort to restore the workprint to higher quality, replacing storyboards with the lower-quality Fred Calvert animation when it didn't differ too much.
190* The 1999 and 2012 re-releases of ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' cut out a twenty-second scene of the Beatles repelling a Blue Meanie resurgence (leading to Ringo being reunited with the Boob) and replaced it with the long-missing scene of the Beatles discussing the situation with Sgt. Pepper's band and the "Hey Bulldog" segment. The movie was first released in 1987 on VHS and Laserdisc; anyone who still has them will have the original twenty-second sequence but they won't be able to make copies if they have the VHS, which is copy-protected.
191* ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'' has languished in copyright limbo for a decade, and has never seen a home video release past the VHS generation (mainly due to the current owners of the property allegedly not being interested in making the investment to locate a print and put it out on DVD or Blu-ray). The only way to see it is through bootleg copies, unofficial [=YouTube=] uploads, or tracking down a VHS release.
192* ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie'' is only known to have had ''one'' official Region 1 DVD release in the early 2000s by one Top Ten New Media Production Limited [=HKSAR=], however it went out of print fast and most second-hand copies go for outrageous prices online. The only other ways to view it are to either view a bootleg copy, to try to track down a [=VHS=] copy of the film, or to import the Australian or British [=DVD=] releases. On November 17, 2023, the film was uploaded in HD, albeit cropped to widescreen, to the official Felix the Cat [=YouTube=] channel, but it was privated no more than a couple months later.
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