A couple of folks have written to ask why I'm not outraged that Gone With the Wind is being withdrawn from someplace in reaction to something having to do with Black Lives Matter. I love the history and majesty of film (and other art forms) as much as anyone but I can't summon up any dudgeon, high or otherwise, about this or about how Disney won't release Song of the South or Warner Brothers won't put out fancy Blu-rays of cartoons with racial stereotypes. None of this stuff has ceased to exist. It is at worst, mildly inconvenient to view and sometimes, the copies are not pristine.
You want to see Gone With the Wind or show it to someone? You can rent it on Amazon for $3.99 or better still, buy a copy. Then they can never take it away from you.
I cannot right now think of a single movie that I would like to see but can't. If I come up with one, it's probably unavailable because there's been so little interest in it (i.e., so little financial incentive) that whoever has a copy has it deep in some vault 'cause there ain't no money in hauling it out. Before home video — which wasn't that long ago — it was difficult to see a lot of movies. Now, it's difficult to think of one you can't see. I think we have bigger problems in this world to think about.