Gone with the Wind (film) 1978, CBS signed a deal worth $35 million to broadcast the film twenty times over as many years. Turner Entertainment acquired the MGM film library in 1986, but the deal did not include the television rights to "Gone with the Wind", which were still held by CBS. A deal was struck in which the rights were returned to Turner Entertainment and CBS's broadcast rights to "The Wizard of Oz" were extended. It was used to launch two cable channels owned by Turner Broadcasting System: Turner Network Television (1988) and Turner Classic Movies (1994). It debuted on videocassette in March 1985,
The Wind Done Gone original's title. Cynara's name comes from the Ernest Dowson poem "Non sum qualís eram bonae sub regno Cynarae", a line from which ("I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind") was the origin of Mitchell's novel's title. "Gone with the Wind" revolves around Scarlett O'Hara, a pampered Southern woman, who lives through the American Civil War and Reconstruction. "The Wind Done Gone" is the same story, but told from the viewpoint of Cynara, a mulatto slave on Scarlett's plantation and the daughter of Scarlett's father and Mammy. Sold from the O'Haras, Cynara eventually makes her way back to Atlanta