# DVD Transfer 146 (Pluto TV Plus October 1985 VHS Recordings)

DVD Transfer 146 contains a mix of Pluto TV recordings from June 2023 along with the contents of an eBay purchase that is the oldest VHS tape I've acquired yet, a recording of contents taped in Chicago sometime in October 1985. This upload is also my 400th overall upload. CONTENTS 1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (the 1939 film was this particular evening's Weekend Theater for Chicago independent station {and at that time, superstation} WGN-TV 9 {now the Windy City's CW affiliate, what had been the superstation feed was later converted to regular cable network WGN America before ultimately being retooled into NewsNation}. This film {the 2nd of 14 films featuring the famed detective as portrayed by Basil Rathbone - and the last released by 20th Century Fox, as all of the remaining films in that series were released by Universal and set in the then-present day \[vs. the first two films being set in the Victorian period matching the original Arthur Conan Doyle books\]} also starred Nigel Bruce {as Dr. Watson}, George Zucco as Professor Moriarty alongside Alan Marshal as Jerrold Hunter and Ida Lupino as Ann Brandon {an early role for Lupino, who later gained fame as one of the first prominent female directors}) 2. Minnie the Moocher and Many, Many More (documentary {presumably PBS} featuring jazz great Cab Calloway returning to Harlem in this Manny Pittson production featuring Calloway revisiting Harlem. In addition to Calloway, other jazz greats of the Harlem Renaissance era…

- Kind: Documentary
- By: Pluto TV-Paramount Global; WGN-Nexstar Media Group
- Genres: Documentary, Children's
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/dvd-transfer-146)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/dvd-transfer-146?play=1)