Finnish YouTube user
Ishexan has uploaded seven English subtitled movies in parts:
Broken Blossoms (
1919),
Aelita (
1924),
The Gipsy Charmer (
1929),
The Tragedy of Elina (
1938),
The Activists (
1939),
The Wooden Pauper's Bride (
1944), and
Sampo (
1959), which is based on the epic poem
The Kalevala. The films are mostly Finnish, though
Aelita is a silent Russian sci-fi film, and
Sampo was a joint Finnish and Soviet production. More film clips inside (mostly Finnish documentaries and "dorky musical numbers").
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posted by filthy light thief
on Apr 30, 2011 -
12 comments
Captain Video and his Video Rangers was a television series that was staple of the
DuMont Television Network. The series first aired in the middle of
Golden Age of Science Fiction, and with an initial air date in 1949, it was the first science fiction television series in the United States, complete with
futuristic gadgets. The series was aimed at children, with
public service announcements for kids,
the a special ring (
or three). Recorded and broadcast live five to six days a week, the series had a run of thousands of episodes, though most are now considered lost.
24 episodes are in the
UCLA Film and Television archive, and a few episodes have made their way into public domain compilations, and online (
three random episodes episodes on Internet Archive; and
same three episodes on YouTube). Continue in for more on the good Captain, and the network he called home.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Mar 21, 2011 -
19 comments
Metafilter's Own Charlie Stross asks the question; " You, and a quarter of a million other folks, have embarked on a 1000-year voyage aboard a hollowed-out asteroid. What sort of governance and society do you think would be most comfortable, not to mention likely to survive the trip without civil war, famine, and reigns of terror?"
engrossing commentary follows. (
via)
posted by The Whelk
on Dec 11, 2009 -
156 comments
