Sparse availability....

You can buy Sunrise on Amazon or Ebay, or from Masters Of Cinema. You could buy it in stores in Quebec (so I've heard). Apparently, Sunrise sits on shelves of stores in Germany too (again, so I've heard). But why such limited availability here in the US? Sunrise is public domain, yet it is not on archive.org. As far as the Best Picture Collection is concerned, Sunrise is the only one which is not available from Fox stand alone. As far as being able to rent it, no dice. Unless you have a membership with Blockbuster Online. In which case, you can only get it by putting the Best Picture Collection in your queue. Netflix can find it in a search, but they do not carry it in any way. And forget about finding it in your local video store. Unless you're lucky. Same goes for libraries.

I guess what I'm getting at here, is I don't understand why Sunrise was never made available more widely from Fox. It's almost as if Fox gives you the opportunity to buy it, but ONLY if you buy it with those three other movies which happen to be for sale on their own. Or you USED to be able to obtain it for free, but ONLY if you bought X number of other movies first. Is it because Fox realizes the beauty of Sunrise, that they some how want to keep it less ordinary, by making it more difficult to get than other movies? I hope so. I sure hate to think that Fox is doing this just to do it. If I'm wrong, and it's not up to Fox, then who is it up to?

I still am grateful for it's availability. The problem is, for people who are unable to rent it, and don't have TCM, Sunrise is still hard to get.

Your thoughts?