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The 1950 production program of the RD-DR Corporation (Reader's Digest-deRochemont) has been expanded to include six hour-length “featurettes” in addition to two longer pictures, it was announced yesterday by Louis de Rochemont, the producer.

With DVDs steadily joining VHS cassettes as extinct technology, what has become of the fun, insightful mixed bag that movie fans came to know as bonus features — the audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternate endings?