Pretty amazing stuff: In a large mahogany box embellished with silk pockets and Cyrillic lettering, 10 lost pieces of America’s cultural heritage recently landed in Culpeper, Va. – thanks, in a roundabout way, to the Soviet Union and a bureaucratic penchant for filing. The box, a gift from the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library to the […]
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Now if it was a Disney movie that was being ripped off…
You can bet a big dollar lawsuit would have been in the works, real quick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4GR0DconsU&feature=player_embedded Kimba The White Lionvs. The Lion King
Continue readingPortal to public domain videos online
This website provides nice orderly links to streaming videos of old films that reside at Google Video, Dumpalink, iFilm, and YouTube. The collection is a combination of works that are out-of-copyright (public domain), orphaned (obscure videos that are still under copyright but probably forgotten by their owners), and some that are more recent and possibly […]
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This is a link to about 100 public domain newsreels produced by NASA,United Newsreel, and Department of the Interior. They range in length from 10-30 minutes. There’s a lot of interesting stuff here. Examples include 1930s titles from the Dept of Interior, 1940s war newsreels, and “Who’s out there?” a 1975 film narrated by Orson […]
Continue readingA few cult movies now in the public domain and on Google video
Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968)Reefer Madness (Gasnier, 1936)Plan 9 from Outer Space (Wood, 1959)
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Yes, given that F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) is now in the public domain, Google video is hosting a digital copy. For those who may not know about this film, it is the first popular telling of the Dracula story on film. Though a silent film, its haunting gothic imagery and the other-worldly creepiness of […]
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