Beethoven the new Neverending story?

[Just Plain Horse]

Scottie Wrote:
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> I think we can take lesson from history to answer
> this question. Let's go all the way back to 1920
> when Warner Brothers Studios was struggling to
> make a profit. It wasn't making very good cartoons
> as that wasn't where the real money laid, rather
> the minor studio specialized in making the "b"
> pictures of a double bill, and serials. It was in
> the search of a new and profitable serial when
> they stumbled upon a gold mine in the form of a
> dog named Rin Tin Tin. Rin Tin Tin was so popular
> and so successful that incarnations of the dog
> have been reappearing in film and television even
> today ever since its inception. I remember
> watching a series called The Adventures of Rin Tin
> Tin where Rin Tin Tin was a police dog owned by a
> cop with a son who had his own school problems in
> the early 1990's. In fact, there's a Rin Tin Tin
> in training right now. Rin Tin Tin actually saved
> the Warner Brothers studio from ruin when the
> serial proved so profitable, they were able to
> bankroll further feature length films and go on to
> become the reason Vitaphone and the sound on disc
> processes were to dominate the industry at the
> beginning of the sound era. The Beethoven
> franchise might in fact be saving Universal
> Pictures in popularity of DVD sales.

That's a scary thought... Jaws and King Kong bowing to Beethoven.