This isn't a huge problem, since the Stooge shorts have been restored on DVD -- but it's bizarre and confusing. Over the last several months, the Stooges shorts on Me-TV and Me-TV Plus occasionally have some weird end title edits -- it's not on every film, but often a 1930s short will play, and then at the end, there is a sudden edit cutting to the end title of a late 1940s short. Then the Sony TV logo appears. Like I said, it's not on every film, and the last couple of shorts I saw altered like this were done a little more "professionally" as the picture portion had a circa 1948 end title card with the original 1930s end title music accompanying it.
It doesn't matter -- I have the DVDs -- but I just wonder why someone is even bothering to mess with them like this. The only thing I can think of that makes any sense is, I note the 1940s end title being subbed onto these shorts has no reference to Columbia Pictures. Maybe Sony wants to phase out the Columbia name? (But again, why?)
I guess I'm just puzzled about this and curious about the reasoning behind it, because it seems not to make any sense.
