There are lots of great films in the public domain and many of them are online.
OpenFlix has 600, including a
bunch of Chaplin,
sci-fi and
horror B-movies,
film noir and HD versions of
The Kid, M and Night of the Living Dead.
Drelb has 400, including Buster Keaton's
The General and
Steamboat Bill Jr., episodes of
Bonanza and
Dragnet and
Three Stooges shorts.
Crazeclassics has over a 100, including
The Third Man, Roger Corman's
The Little Shop of Horrors,
Bringing Up Baby and
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Ampopfilms has 80, including
His Girl Friday,
Reefer Madness,
Destination Moon and the 1954 animated version of
Animal Farm.
Gravitas Ventures has 35, notably
Vampyr,
Death Rides a Horse and
Borderline.
posted by Kattullus
on Dec 23, 2010 -
19 comments
I'm sure you remember the time-travelling hipster photographed in
1940, and discovered in April of this year (
MeFi). Well now there's been a new time traveler sighting - in the film "
The Circus", by Charlie Chaplin a woman appears to walk by the camera talking on a cellphone.
In 1928.
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posted by dirtdirt
on Oct 25, 2010 -
135 comments
Al Hirschfeld passed away today at 99. He was probably one of, if not the, most famous caricaturists in history, drawing an enormous range of stars, from Chaplin and Bergen to Seinfeld and Benny.
The Line King was a '96 documentary about his work and the stars he drew in an 70+ year career as an illustrator. Very sad to think that the popular pasttime of counting the Ninas in the drawings has ended.
posted by PeteyStock
on Jan 20, 2003 -
13 comments
