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picturebookshelf · 1 year

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Winnie the Pooh and His Friends: Night Time Mystery (1994)

Story: Unknown -- Art: Atelier Philippe Harchy

#Atelier Philippe Harchy #winnie the pooh #pooh #90s #1990s #winnie the pooh and his friends #night time mystery #piglet #eeyore #tigger #rabbit #kanga and roo #disney #board books #picture books #kid books #children's books #kidlit #children's literature

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skwtches · 1 year

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i personally love how rabbit’s size in juxtaposition to tigger’s is most exaggerated whenever the latter just scoops him up. anyways, i drew em being tender again bc i’m a menace on a rampage at this point

#u could fill a scrapbook with the amount of times these two pick each other up in new adventures ALONE im just saying #also trying to get better at drawing tigger i think i’m somewhat succeeding #also trying to perfect my rabbits some more #a friend sent me a vid of eric goldberg talking abt animating rabbit n the backson in the 2011 movie and it’s doing wonders 4 how i draw-#his arms n hands #wtp #winnie the pooh #tigger #rabbit #wtp rabbit #winnie the pooh rabbit #winnie the pooh tigger #the many adventures of winnie the pooh #the new adventures of winnie the pooh #rabger #skwtch art

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disneytva · 5 months

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Disney Networks February 2024 - Highlights

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur

The Great Beyond-er! SEASON PREMIERE 2/2

Suit Up! 2/2

Belly of the Beast 2/10

Ride or Die 2/10

Kid Kree 2/17

Wish-Tar 2/17

Make It, Don't Break It! 2/24

The Devil You Know 2/24

Kiff

Fun Uncle Pat; Kiff Escape 2/3

Beach Day ; Sun's Out Buns Out SEASON FINALE 2/10

Chibiverse

The Chibi Couple Game 2/14

Playdate With Winnie The Pooh

Tigger and the Bouncy Hunt 2/10

Piglet, Rabbit and the Picnic 2/24

Pupstruction

Pizza-struction ; Baby Builders 2/2

Firebuds

Balancing Act ; Monster Truck Piston 2/9

Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures

AfterShock ; Feather Frenzy 2/7

Best Friends ; Happy Trails, Nubs 2/9

The Tale of the Short Spire ; The Team Up 2/10

The Caves of Batuu / Finders Keepers 2/24

Spidey And His Amazing Friends

Now You See Me, Now You Don't ; Meet Squirrel Girl 2/16

Car-Tastrophe ; Sandman and the Tortoise 2/23

Alice's Wonderland Bakery

A Heart-Filled Harmony ; Happy Cheshire Day! 2/12

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laz-kay · 1 year

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“Tie them together, Piglet. Can you tie a knot?” ~ Rabbit

Winnie the Pooh (2011) 🐻🍯🥕

#the greatest scene in cinematic history #and it’s just a camp old man stuck in a hole with his fellow neurodivergent mentally ill friends #always thought Rabbit was a stick in the mud kind of character as a child #now I relate to him on some sort of spiritual level as a tired adult #things change #rabbit (wtp)#winnie the pooh #winnie the pooh 2011

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winslowat3am · 2 years

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WINSLOW! 😃😁😄 If Winnie the pooh did cottagecore things what would it look like? House decor, hobbies, cooking, and stuff like that what stuff would he like and the visuals?

Oh my fuck, I love this question! So glad you asked. 😏🐻

If Winnie was a cottagecore king, he would live in a small, wooden style cottage, similar to his own, but maybe he has a little rose/flower bush outside his bedroom window where he tends to his flowers in the morning. Maybe some small fruit & veggie bushes & trees too (strawberries 🍓, grapes 🍇, squash, bananas 🍌, carrots 🥕 etc) that he uses to prepare food for his other animal friends. 🐷🐯🐴

I'm thinking the interior would have wallpaper since he has a happy personality. He would love floral or any kind of bright vintage wallpaper to add some color. I can definitely see him wearing a little garden hat that Piglet made for him & maybe he hangs it on a wall like this when he's done picking berries & veggies. Lol. He'd also have pictures of his friends/family hung on the walls & bits of nature photography hung that he took himself.

Bedroom! Same as before, it would be colorful & bright, florals, vintage, handmade items by himself & his friends. Quilts. He would LOVE quilts! Warm colored afghans & quilts would replace the summery thin sheets during the colder months. Various fabrics & designs. Some stuffed plushies to make it more cozy & homey. A hand painted dresser that's chipping because he's had it for eons, but refuses to replace it. On the walls is where he keeps more framed photos of art they made, & on top of the dresser is a lamp, journal & vintage knickknacks.

In the kitchen he has wooden furniture, those old school curtains that you hang up by hand, he collects teacups, table cloths & honey jars, flower vases (that he actually uses), decorative plates, maybe some china, & pots from hand-me-down thrift stores. The curtains are always drawn to allow sunlight in for the flowers. He kind of has kind of, like, a grandmacore vibe going. I could see him being hella into grandmacore, art, sewing, scented candles & interior design, lmao. Perhaps he's sewn more cute belly shirts all in different colors for when his iconic red one gets dirty. He totally still wears pajamas & sits next to the fireplace during the winter, btw. Everything is a little mix & match, but pleasing & to his liking. He has small rugs here & there, & in his bathroom is probably a bowl sink, more wallpaper, with acorn designs, too. There's an old couch, coffee table, display tables in corners, tall glass cabinets for his china display & tv set in the living room that connects to the kitchen.

& yeah! I think that's about it for our tour. Unless I forgot something? I don't think I did. His hobbies would be handmade art of sorts, cooking, gardening, nature walks, sleeping, eating honey & enjoying time with his friends.

Edit: Oh, & he uses the veggies he harvested to make pot pie in his tiny old style kitchen, eeee! ❤️

It's old, it's vintage, it's home. ☺️🏡🌿

#basically his house would be cozy as fuck & you would want to live there #he'd invite his friends over for dinner & they'd cook together & eat from his harvest #honey is for dessert of COURSE! DUH! 🍯😊#everything would feel lived in & there's little chips of wallpaper or paintings cause it's all a bit old but still in good condition!#ask #ask box #📬#inbox 💌#winnie the pooh #cottagecore #grandmacore #cozycore #oh & I forgot he loves picnics! he makes the food for the rest of em most of the time

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robotpussy · 10 months

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i just know if hello kitty ever went into the public domain somebody would immediately make some violent edgy movie about her. just like what they did to winnie the pooh 💔💔

#WINNIE THE POOH IS NOT A MURDERER! HE WOULD NEVER SEND BEES TO KILL PEOPLE! HES JUST A #YELLOW BEAR WHO LOVES HIS FRIENDS AND WANTS SOME HONEY!!!! STOP!!!!#hello kitty would never hold a knife fir any other reason other than for cutting cake for her friends #or chopping up fruit!!!! NO!

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sweetdreamer215 · 1 month

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Crochet: Winnie the Pooh in a Tigger Outfit (pics under the expand)

So my mentor teacher from when I was student teacher is married to a wonderful person. She and I became friends while working together and also while I was student teaching. They are both teachers I look up to but also very much respect. My friend is also a giant Disney nerd like I am. She is starting to do a part time business where she is a travel agent for Disney. This is not including her normal every day job of being an English teacher at a high school.

While my mentor is not a Disney person he does indulge in going to Disneyland and Disneyworld with her and their two kids. I have made both of their children baby blankets and I even made one of the youngest one a stuffed dog when she was pregnant with him.

He is turning 2 this year! How time flies! And she wants to take him to Disneyworld to get his first haircut. I was told stories of how last time he went he wasn't fond of any of the characters except Minnie Mouse which made my friend laugh. I asked his favorite character and was told either Mickey or Tigger. Unfortunately while I had a shit ton of yellow I didn't have enough orange to make a Tigger (which I have made before) but I did have enough yellow to make a pooh bear and I could put him in a Tigger t-shirt!

So I got to work. I also decided while I was at it that I was going to add to this gift. I went and bought the complete collection of Winnie the Pooh Stories (picture below) which I knew existed from my time working as a pre-school teacher.

So I got to work making Winnie the Pooh and It took about 3 maybe 4 days of working a couple hours of day. According to the pattern Pooh Bear should stand at about 18 inches. In reality he's more about 2 feet maybe a little more.

I gave it to her today and she loved it, and I told her my one request is that she takes the book with Pooh Bear and gets it signed from Pooh and Tigger and the gang. My thought process is 1. its something more substantial than an autograph book that he can keep as a memory growing up. 2. It'll mean more having the characters sign it and having Pooh to tell the stories with and hopefully have his own adventures with Pooh Bear.

Now I'm waiting to see her kids reactions (she said she would record it). This is my second time making Pooh, I originally made Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, and Tigger for my baby cousin and have photos of her with them if anyone wants to see them (and I get permission from her parents to post the pictures).

#Winnie the pooh #Gifts for friends #crochet #fiber arts #disney #disney trip #teaching #teachers #Complete Collection of Winnie the Pooh #A boy and his bear adventures

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foreshvdowing · 10 months

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itsahotminuteinbetween · 4 months

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wait what would happen if pooh and moon get seperated in the hallways during a chase and pooh accidentally finds bonnie beaten up in the back of the bowling alley (i honestly don't remember where bonnie was but anyways) and goes oh another one of rabbit's relatives but what happened to this one? and then the bunny starts twitching and spitting out broken speech and though pooh doesn't quite understand what is being said he decides to sit there and keep him company while he waits for moon to find him

#winnie the pooh au #fnaf au #this would be such a sad scene tho #cuz i mean pooh has the thought process of a child and bonnie hasn't talked to anyone in who knows how long so #pooh sitting there beside him and bonnie asking him to indulge him in what's been going on in the outside world #and so pooh's telling him all about the hundred acre wood and all his friends #and at some point bonnie starts spasming and pooh asks whats wrong #and bonnie tells him that nothing's wrong he just has some broken parts #and pooh says he's sorry he can't fix him cuz he's a bear of very little brain but he could try?#or maybe moon could try when he finds them?#but bonnie says it's alright and he's learned to accept it and asks pooh to continue his story #and so he keeps does #and at some point bonnie powers off again and pooh's left alone with a couple cleaning bots...#making myself cry dammit

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picturebookshelf · 1 year

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Winnie the Pooh and His Friends: Roo's Big Adventure (1994)

Story: Unknown -- Art: Atelier Philippe Harchy

#winnie the pooh #pooh bear #pooh #tigger #kanga and roo #piglet #christopher robin #Atelier Philippe Harchy #winnie the pooh and his friends #roo's big adventure #1990s #90s #picture books #kid books #children's books #children's literature #kidlit #board books

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skwtches · 11 months

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“Absolutely not. I mean, well, after all, he… It was not my… He wanted to leave. Didn't he?”

Reading through this line, something about Rabbit in The Tigger Movie occurred to me: the plan that the gang comes up with in order to spare Tigger’s feelings is one of the few instances where Rabbit isn’t present to take on the leader’s role. Throughout the movie, Rabbit is preoccupied with winter preparations, so much so to the point that he, unlike the others, fails to identify the weight of Tigger’s familial dilemma. When he walks in on the gang dressing up as Tiggers in the “How To Be a Tigger” sequence, he questions what they are doing, but does not stick around for an answer, or even try to take up the leadership mantle like he normally would. In an act that is both unorthodox and so completely in-character, he storms off and away from his companions' harebrained scheme to complete his preparations, but not before ironically proclaiming, “at least I haven't lost sight of what’s important.”

To no one’s surprise, the plan falls through. But to everyone’s shock, Tigger runs away that same night.

“It was not my fault,” is what Rabbit wants and starts to say after hearing of his friend’s disappearance. The members of the group who congregate at Rabbit’s to request his help don’t blame him for Tigger leaving, and Rabbit knows them well enough to understand they wouldn't suggest such a thing by arriving at his house all at once. But Rabbit still has the reflex to defend himself; to confirm that Tigger leaving was indeed not his doing. The one time Rabbit isn't there to lead his friends–believing they all had “lost sight of what’s important,”–the friend whose crisis the lagomorph missed completely had run off into the cold, dreary night. But it wasn’t his fault. It couldn’t have been his fault.

“He wanted to leave,” Rabbit says, trying to reason with himself. He tries to justify Tigger leaving, searching for a reason–any reason at all–that doesn’t loop right back around to it being his fault. Because it wasn’t. If Tigger had wanted to leave, what good would it have done for Rabbit to have been present? If the bunny had been there alongside his friends to aid their striped pal in his time of need? Whether or not he could have come up with a different, possibly better plan that didn’t result in the heartbreak of the usually bouncy Tigger did not matter here. Of course Tigger would have left anyway in search of his supposed family. He was simply unpredictable that way, and nobody could predict and stop something unpredictable–not even Rabbit. Tigger had most certainly wanted to leave from the start. “Didn’t he?”

As the members of the gang try to convince a hesitant Rabbit to leave with them in search of Tigger, the guilt racks up. He finds himself struggling more and more to excuse himself from the situation as his friends go on about Tigger whilst he fixes up his winter-proofed home, the sadness visibly present amongst them making it even harder for him to dismiss them. As a look of unease–a flicker of guilt–graces his face, he asks, “what do you need me for? Why don't you go find him yourselves?”

Pooh simply and earnestly responds with, “but we're just not clever enough, Rabbit.”

A huge facet of Rabbit’s self-appointed leadership role is that it comes from a place where the persnickety critter truly believes himself to be smarter than the majority of his peers in the Wood. He sees himself as the most capable and responsible, and so takes it upon himself to lead whenever he gets the chance. Here however, he tries to deny the opportunity to take charge of the search party. Perhaps it is mostly due to fear of his already fragile shelter coming apart at the seams while he isn’t around. But perhaps it’s also thanks to the aforementioned guilt that he can’t bring himself to diligently lead his friends in searching for the one who he’d inadvertently let slip away.

Before he can respond to Pooh, a small voice makes itself heard. Rabbit catches sight of Roo, who just tells him that he misses Tigger. The final nail in the coffin. Here is where Rabbit truly can’t bring himself to deny them his help anymore. Here is where the guilt is finally too profound to excuse.

Here is where Rabbit decides to lead his friends again.

#Remy try not to analyze every single line uttered in The Tigger Movie challenge (failed miserably)#anyways imagine if after this entire fiasco Rabbit's overprotective nature kicks back in with soft punches as he's tempted to always keep a #eye on his friends as well as just check up on them frequently (esp Tigger) bc he's worried about smth like this going unnoticed by him and #it leading to yet another disaster that he feels responsible for- (gets dragged off the stage kicking n screaming)#wtp #rabbit (wtp)#tigger #pooh #piglet #eeyore #roo #vid #rema.txt #rema.mov #ttm #winnie the pooh #the tigger movie

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disneytva · 6 months

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Disney Network Highlights - January 2024

The Ghost and Molly McGee

Jinx vs. The Human World 13/1

The End - SEASON FINALE 13/1

Kiff

Kiff Is Good At Sports ; Mushroommate 20/1

Principal Helen ; Dial B For Butt 27/1

Spidey and His Amazing Friends

The Friendly Neighborhood ; Flight Of The Butterflies SEASON PREMIERE 8/1

Ock's Obey Ray ; Lemur At Large 9/1

Tree Trouble ; Stuck In Space 10/1

Antarctic Adventure; Let It Snowball, Let It Snowball, Let It Snowball 11/1

Bubble Trouble ; Rainy River Run 12/1

The Rhino And The Goose; Dog Vs Cat 19/1

Journey Through Zola; Villaintines Day 26/1

Playdate with Winnie The Pooh

Tigger And The Bouncy Ball 10/1

Piglet, Rabbit And The Picnic 18/1

Pupstruction

Valentine's Day Dogs; The Petsburg Power-Out 12/1

SuperKitties

Vanishing Valentines ; Golden Gift SEASON FINALE 19/1

Mickey Mouse Funhouse

There's Something About Teddy ; Finders Keepers? 5/1

Majestica's New Troubadour!; Minnie's Pod Mod 12/1

Low-Key Coqui ; Pinky And The Bees 19/1

Crystal Clearwater Vs. The Annoying Algae ; Trolland's Big Adventure! SEASON FINALE 26/1

#The Ghost and Molly McGee #Ghost and Molly McGee #Kiff #Disney Kiff #Spidey And His Amazing Friends #Spiderman #Playdate with Winnie The Pooh #Winnie The Pooh #Pupstruction #SuperKitties #Mickey Mouse Funhouse #Disney Channel #Disney Junior #Disney Jr

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allbeendonebefore · 2 years

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“a gentle destination, a confluence, a meeting place - Calgary is a conundrum. There are those who haven’t a good word to say about this brash young city and scoffing at Calgary has long been a national pastime.”

FINALLY representation here we come

#this book repeatedly refers to calgary as brash and thats exactly the kind of word i would use lol #also earlier referred to calgary Thumbing its Adolescent Nose at edmonton and yeah #friggin annoying since day one #and you must understand this to write calvin properly: he is 1000% aware of how people think of him and he would Never Acknowledge it lol #you could openly hate his guts and he would still refer to you as My Good Friend :)#not out of any winnie the pooh politeness purely out of leaning directly into everything he knows you hate about him lol #oh they thought i was stupid and ignorant BUT I PROVED THEM!!

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merp-blerp · 4 months

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Tell me why I rewatched The Piglet Movie for the first time in 15 or so years and almost cried...

#it's weird because i don't cry at movies I've never done that before #but there's something about carly simon's songs and piglet being sad and his friends being sad when they can't find him that just...#i don't know it got me close to crying at a movie for the first time ever #nice to know i have a soul... almost 😅#the piglet movie #winnie the pooh #disney #carly simon

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batboyblog · 5 months

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Copy Right and Public Domain in 2024

Happy 2024 all! its also Public Domain Day! a magical holiday here in America where things enter the public domain. Works published in the year 1928 (or 95 years ago!) have entered the public domain, which means they belong to us, all of us, the public!

Mickey's Back!

Yes! I'm sure you've heard, but Mickey Mouse (and Minnie Mouse too) is entering the Public Domain today. This has been news for a few years and indeed Disney's lobbying in the late 1990s is why our copy right term is SO long. So what exactly is now public domain?

Most people know about Mickey's first appearance Steamboat Willie, but a second short film, Plane Crazy was also released in 1928 so will also be public domain. So what's public? well these two films first of all, you're allowed to play them, upload them to YouTube or whatever without paying Disney. In theory you'll be allowed to cut and sample them, have them playing in the background of your movie etc. Likewise in theory the image of Mickey and Minnie as they appear (thats important) in these films will be free to use as well as Mickey's character as he appears in these works will be free to use. Now Mickey's later and more famous appearance

will still be protected. Famously the Conan Doyle Estate claimed that Sherlock Holmes couldn't be nice, smile, or not hate women in works because they still held the copyright on the short stories where he first did those things even though 90% of Sherlock Holmes stories were public domain. It's very likely Disney will assert similar claims over Mickey, claiming much of his personality first appeared in works still copyrighted.

Finally there's copyright vs trademark. Copyright is total ownership of a piece of media and all the ideas that appear in it, copyright has a limited set term and expires. Trademark is more limited and only applies to things used to market and sell a product. You can have a Coke branded vending machine in your movie if you want, but it couldn't appear anywhere in the trailer for your movie as thats you marketing your movie.

Where trademark ends and copyright begins and how trademarked something in the public domain is allowed to be are all unsettled areas of law and clearly Disney in the last few years as been aggressively pushing its trademark not just to Mickey in general but Steamboat Willie Mickey in particular

Ultimately the legal rights and wrongs of this might not matter so much since few people have the money and legal resources of the Walt Disney corporation so they might manage to maintain a de facto copyright on Mickey through legal intimidation, but maybe not?

And Tigger Too!

All the talk about Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie has sadly overshadowed other MAJOR things entering the public domain today. Most people are aware Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain in 2022, but they might not realize his beloved friend Tigger didn't. Thats because Tigger didn't appear till A. A. Milne's second (and last) book of Pooh short stories, The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

Much like Mickey Mouse only what appears in The House at Pooh Corner is public domain so the orange bouncy boy from the 1960s Disney cartoon is still on lock down. But the A. A. Milne original as illustrated by E. H. Shepard is free for you to use in fiction or art. His friend Winnie the Pooh has made a number of appearances since being freed, most notably in a horror movie, but also a Mint Mobile commercial so maybe Tigger too will have a lot of luck in the public domain.

Other works:

Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up

Peter Pan is a strange case, even though the play was first mounted in 1904, and the novelization (Peter and Wendy) was published in 1911, The script for the play was not published till 1928 (confusing!) meaning while the novel as been public domain for years the play (which came first) hasn't been, but now it is and people are welcome to mount productions of it.

Millions of Cats

The oldest picture book still in print, did you own a copy growing up? (I did)

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The iconic porn novel that was at the center of a number of groundbreaking obscenity cases in the 1960s and helped establish your right to free speech.

All Quiet on the Western Front and The Threepenny Opera in their original German (but you can translate them if you want), The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, and Orlando by Virginia Woolf will also be joining us in the public domain along with any and all plays, novels, and books published in 1928

for Films we have The Man Who Laughs who's iconic image inspired the Joker

Charlie Chaplin's The Circus, Buster Keaton's The Cameraman, Should Married Men Go Home? the first Laurel and Hardy movie, Lights of New York the first "all talking" movie, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Wind, as well as The Last Command and Street Angel the first films to win Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively will all be entering public domain

For Musical Compositions (more on that in a moment) we've got

Mack the Knife by Bertolt Brecht, Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) by Cole Porter, Sonny Boy by George Gard DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson, Empty Bed Blues by J. C. Johnson, and Makin’ Whoopee! by Gus Khan are some of the notables but any piece of music published in 1928 is covered

Any art work published in 1928, which might include works by Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexej von Jawlensky, Edward Hopper, and André Kertész will enter the public domain, we are sure those that M. C. Escher's Tower of Babel will be in the public domain

Swan Song, Public Domain and recorded music

While most things are covered by the Copyright Act of 1976 as amended by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, none of the copyright acts covered recordings you see when American copyright law was first written recordings did not exist and so through its many amendings no one fixed this problem, movies were treated like plays and artwork, but recorded sound wasn't covered by any federal law. So all sound recordings from before 1972 were governed by a confusing mess of state level laws making it basically impossible to say what was public and what was under copyright. In 2017 Congress managed to do something right and passed the Music Modernization Act. Under the act all recordings from 1922 and before would enter the public domain in 2022. After taking a break for 2023, all sound recordings made in 1923 have entered the public domain today on January 1st 2024, these include.

Charleston by James P. Johnson

Yes! We Have No Bananas (recorded by a lot artists that year)

Who’s Sorry Now by Lewis James

Down Hearted Blues by Bessie Smith

Lawdy, Lawdy Blues by Ida Cox

Southern Blues and Moonshine Blues by Ma Rainey

That American Boy of Mine and Parade of the Wooden Soldiers by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra

Dipper Mouth Blues and Froggie More by King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, featuring Louis Armstrong

Bambalina by Ray Miller Orchestra

Swingin’ Down the Lane by Isham Jones Orchestra

Enjoy your public domain works!

#Copyright #public domain #public domain day #2024 #happy new year #Disney #mickey mouse #minnie mouse #Tigger #Winnie the Pooh #Peter Pan #Charlie Chaplin #buster keaton #cole porter #louis armstrong #M. C. Escher

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elodieunderglass · 14 days

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On the topic of the monarchist animals I'm just really curious. What makes the winnie pooh real animals bourgeois? It's not like they own much more than the others. Do they just have bourgeois energy?

(In reference to my addition on this post; https://www.tumblr.com/elodieunderglass/748488762087047168/hold-on-lets-do-this-properly-paddington)

In the post I state that none of the stuffed/toy animals in the Winnie the Pooh series are monarchists, but that the real animals are bourgeoisie. Obviously this is tongue in cheek, but it’s still politically interesting to me because nobody ever reads Winnie the Pooh as an actual book. They just draw depressed Disney Eeyore and think they’ve done something.

Owl and Rabbit are real wild animals that live in the Hundred Acre Wood. The other characters in the story are Christopher Robin’s stuffed animals.

The “real” animals (reasonably) consider themselves to be separate from the stuffed ones, but where it becomes unreasonable is how they assume superiority and how they use this to exert authority.

(A charming response about how the stuffed animals view this: Piglet points out that Rabbit is both clever and Has Brain, and Pooh replies that this is why Rabbit “doesn’t understand anything.”)

Owl is characterised by being a bit of a fraud. The stuffed animals respect him for his presumed education and literacy, but even a preschooler understands that Owl can’t actually read. he actively deceives the other characters in order to maintain a higher social status over them. (Actually, Rabbit’s the most literate character in the Wood.) Owl gains relatively little advantage from this status, apart from his belief that he is superior and the pleasure in everyone deferring to him. A notable theme throughout the written series involves characters approaching Owl for advice, based on his self-made reputation of being wise and thoughtful, and him giving explicitly bad advice, rather than admit that he has no idea how to help. Also, they forcibly give him someone else’s house, in such a way that the actual possessor of the house (Piglet) feels he can’t speak up. Pooh immediately offers to Piglet that he move in with him, which even as a kid felt like an incredibly unsatisfactory solution to having the shyest character’s actual house given away to the character who casually lies about everything just to feel superior.

Rabbit is a grown-ass adult real wild animal. He is the social leader of a massively large family and an extended group of hangers-on (he has fifteen or seventeen close relatives, and the extended Friends-and-Relations are a sort of army); he is the only actually literate person in the narrative, so it is understandable that he feels this (although he also believes Owl can read.) literacy and Brain are considered very important in the Wood.

Rabbit believes in his own superiority and believes himself to serve as a sort of cadet to Christopher Robin. In the series Christopher Robin is the ultimate judge, and a kindly ruler; Rabbit positions himself constantly at Christopher Robin’s right hand and wants to be his enforcer. Christopher Robin, who is five and a fairly distracted God, does not really enforce anything. This does not stop Rabbit from trying to organise the entire Wood. It’s frequently mentioned that Rabbit wants to feel important, he wants to be the Boss. A beautiful, beautiful commentary on his character is when he wakes up feeling “important, as if everything depending on him… it was a Captainish sort of day, when everybody said “Yes Rabbit” and “No Rabbit” and waited until he had told them.” Fantastic!

However, we can see where this leads him. In the first book Rabbit is shown being hostile and actively anti-foreign in his approach to other people. When kanga and roo arrive in the forest - sanctioned by Christopher Robin who has received new toys - Rabbit instantly says they have to get rid of them. Like there is NO friendship in Rabbit’s heart here. There is no “god has placed a new friend in the wood so we have to get on with it.”

Rabbit’s anti-immigration stances are funny, and in-character, and shown by the narrative to be wrong and unfair. But they’re pretty unleashed.

His plan is to kidnap the baby and hold it hostage until the mother agrees to “leave the forest forever and never return.”

This is not a normal response to a new character. It is in fact fucking unhinged. Coming from the most normal-adult real animal in the story, it comes out of nowhere. “We have to eliminate them instantly. Take the baby hostage, blackmail the parent and deport them” Rabbit these are war crimes.

Anyway it’s all very heartwarming as Rabbit learns that he likes Baby Roo. (Their relationship grows warmer as Baby Roo says “yes rabbit” and “no rabbit” better than anyone else.) We never really learn why Rabbit is so violently anti-immigration that he instantly jumps to doing crimes, but it’s possible that he doesn’t like the threat to the status quo. Baby Roo, by deferring politely, thus turns out to be a valuable social inferior for Rabbit’s power base.

But in the next book we also get another new character introduction: Tigger. rabbit does not like tigger. In fact, he stops visiting Roo because Tigger lives with them. Rabbit, frustrated by Tigger’s bounciness, also decides to deliberately trick and bully Tigger in order to make him “small and sorry.” The fact that this comically backfires on Rabbit is part of the Pooh-lore storytelling style, of course, but it’s still something obvious even to the preschool audience - that isn’t how you treat your friends.

In conclusion, due to their hoarding of (social) capital and behaviors that prop up an unjustly unequal social system, I think the real animals in Winnie the Pooh are a bit bougie.

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