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:[[Special:Contributions/47.17.104.88|47.17.104.88]], Rankin/Bass' "The Little Drummer Boy" was also released on VHS by 21st Genesis Home Video's Happy Face Home Video division, also in 1988, which AFAIK, the Happy Face/21st Genesis release was unauthorized. The print used for the special itself on the Happy Face/21st Genesis release had the jingle for the 1966-1975 NBC Television Network bumper played over the Rankin/Bass logo at the end (Apparently the same error also occurred on lots of older broadcasts of the special, especially early '90s broadcasts that used a then-recent syndication print from Viacom). And for the record, Broadway Video held the copyrights to the pre-1974 Tomorrow Entertainment library, including the pre-1974 Rankin/Bass library, at the time (Rankin/Bass was a division of Tomorrow Entertainment from 1971 to 1974; at the time, Tomorrow Entertainment was a subsidiary of General Electric. General Electric kept the rights to the pre-1974 Tomorrow library after Tomorrow was sold to Dancer Fitzgerald Sample and Rankin/Bass was sold back to its namesake founders (Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass). Viacom held the television syndication/distribution rights to both the pre-1974 and post-1974 libraries of Tomorrow Entertainment from the late 1970s to sometime in the mid-1990s). Eventually, Broadway sold its family entertainment division to Golden Books Family Entertainment in 1996.

 

 

:[[Special:Contributions/69.85.235.47|69.85.235.47]] 17:23, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

:At least the print that Viacom issued for syndication in the early 1990s was slightly better than the prints that Happy Face/21st Genesis and Trans-Atlantic

 

 

:[[Special:Contributions/69.85.235.47|69.85.235.47]] 16:40, 8 April 2024 (UTC)