Public Domain Highlights: Star Classics
There seems to be a lot of talk of public domain these days with Mickey Mouse. Therefore it's time to mention a company that has released Mickey Mouse at one point and had a slight impact on me, and that is Star Classics. The actual origins to the company is unclear, but it's believed to have started in the mid 80's. The original purpose of the company was to release old public domain content to VHS. These include movies, TV shows, and cartoons. It is believed that this was done for the collector's market since none of the tapes were targeted towards kids and many of these at the time had not yet been on home video. They were, however, done cheap. When the series of tapes began, they were all in generic boxes with an image and title of whatever was on the tape. As time progressed they began adding putting in some effort with art covers. Though each tape was generic, there was a series of tapes that read Color Cartoon Festival, but by...