Much as we’re on the same page, it’s interesting to note a couple of things…

1. Turner was absolutely right about (at least) one thing, which has become much less a problem in modern times: why didn’t anyone “make a fuss” about chopping up films on American network television to make them fit a time slot or for (worse yet) content? Yes, it’s a rhetorical question but still a legitimate question.

2. The major movie studios’ line of thinking then as now hasn’t changed one bit and is exactly in line with Turner’s reasoning: it’s their product and will do as they please with it. It was and still are the artists, not the studios, that, as you stated, worked towards the making of the National Film Preservation Act of 1988. Now the artists are working for, among other things, not having their identities digitized and robbed from them.

3. Insightful observation on your part about Jane’s influence. Bravo!

4. “Clueless philistine”! I can’t find the quote at the moment but if memory serves, a mentor to E. Graydon Carter once told him more or less to never waste a good epithet. My compliments!

Edit: minor typos