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Jasper in a Jam
The legendary JASPER IN A JAM, though stunning to look at in all of its George Pal stop-motion glory, also plays fast-and-loose with stereotypes (both in its African-American protagonist but also with subplot involving a Native-American character). The animation is remarkable. The music is fantastic. But the storyline, as in...Start your free trial to watch
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Jasper and the Haunted House
George Pal eventually became famous as the mastermind behind big-budget, wildly imaginative live-action features like TOM THUMB, THE TIME MACHINE and THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO. But he drew industry esteem earlier as an innovative animator, including this entry in a successful "Puppetoon" series starring...Start your free trial to watch
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Bimbo's Initiation
One of the all-time-great commercial cartoon mixes of the surreal and the silly, this Fleischer Studios short featuring Betty Boop's canine friend Bimbo has been a longtime favorite amongst animators, cinephiles and lovers of the simply strange. Minding his own business while walking down the street, Bimbo...Start your free trial to watch
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Wot a Night
Tom and Jerry (not the later cat-and-mouse duo but a Mutt and Jeff-type pair of button-nosed, humanoid pals) are taxi drivers who pick up a couple of beardos at the train station. They take these passengers to a creepy castle where they end up trapped themselves as skeletons cavort and spirits sing spirituals. This haunted...Start your free trial to watch
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Peeping Penguins
A Fleischer Brothers "Color Classic" with a notably swinging soundtrack, this 1937 cartoon short features a bunch of the naturally tuxedo'd Far Southerners being warned off snooping around human habitats by a Mama Penguin who sings "Curiosity Killed the Cat." Once inside somebody's shuttered winter cabin,...Start your free trial to watch
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Peeping Tom
An early use of vignette masking shows a clownish servant peeking through several keyholes in what might be a brothel. He spies natural and artificial beauties alike but comes a cropper when he looks through the wrong keyhole. The glory that is the first woman's hair is a sight for the ages. - Marilyn FerdinandStart your free trial to watch
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Newark Athlete
An unnamed man (a local recruit from Newark) juggles Indian clubs in one of the first of W.K.L. Dickson's many films shot to demonstrate the possibilities of the young medium. Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2010 for perpetual preservation, its blink-and-you'll-miss-it fragmentary status belies its extreme...Start your free trial to watch
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American Pluck
A princess visiting the US is saved from being arrested in an illegal speakeasy by a prizefighter. They fall in love, but she must go back to her nation to become queen, and can't marry a commoner. Complications ensue in this Chadwick Pictures comedic melodrama from 1925. Please excuse the poor source quality of this film....Start your free trial to watch
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Trinidad
Rudy Burckhardt shot plenty of film while he was stationed in Trinidad with the Signal Corps in the early 1940s. This short film compiles some of the choicest bits. Burckhardt samples architectural detail and delves into street-side commerce with a curiosity reminiscent of the earliest Lumière films. Montage sequences...Start your free trial to watch
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The Mirrored Curtain
"Let's See It" on this brand new episode of TAKE ME THERE. Experience the duality of a singular location anywhere and all over the world where there's always something to see and almost everything to imagine. This is a travel show, marking an adventure to a place, a non-space, an unnamed border. Another...Start your free trial to watch
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Embrace of the Irrational
EMBRACE OF THE IRRATIONAL begins as what appears to be an hour long educational video written and directed by the fictitious Martin Thebes. It centers around a meditation on the Romantics' ideal of emotional confusion as a way to find truth. Then the film slowly unravels as the production becomes mired in...Start your free trial to watch
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Tea Break
British filmmaker Sam Walker spares not even himself in this macabre look at assembly-line work, as he is one in a long line of widgets to be processed by a large, middle-aged man dangling a cigarette and waiting for his 11:00am break to arrive. Britain's medieval past pervades this film's mechanized mayhem. - Marilyn FerdinandStart your free trial to watch
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Dewar's
In 1897, two years after they expanded out of Scotland and opened their first New York office, Dewar's Scotch commissioned the Edison Manufacturing Company to produce this advertisement to be projected onto the roof of a building in Herald Square. Featuring a single shot of kilted men dancing a happy jig (perhaps due to the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Fiend
There's a sickness in the house on Burbott Road; a sickness not of the body, but of the soul! For several years the sinister Minister (Patrick Magee) and the religious fanatic, Birdy Wemys (Ann Todd) have warped the mind of her psychotic, sexually confused son, Kenny (Tony Beckley). But now Kenny has grown up into a big boy...Start your free trial to watch
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Spaced Out
When three voluptuous female aliens crash-land in a quiet English park, the result is close encounters of the sauciest kind! Three hapless men witness the UFO's arrival and are kidnapped by the sexy extraterrestrials who soon discover the joys of "first contact"! From cult director Norman J. Warren (SATAN'S SLAVE, PREY and...Start your free trial to watch
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The Raw Ones
In 1957 the Supreme Court ruled that nudity in and of itself is not obscene. This decision opened the door to nudist camp "documentaries." This one is filled to the sprocket holes with nude figure models jumping rope, bouncing on the trampoline, snapping each other with towels and lots more of what was formerly forbidden fruit!Start your free trial to watch
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The Boot Factory
In a factory bunker on the outskirts of Krakow, a group of punk outsiders live by their own rules, bobbing their heads to the sound of their favorite bands while hand stitching leather boots labeled "hand stitched in Poland." The crisp charcoal-like images are framed and edited to vibrate along with the...Start your free trial to watch
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Outfoxed
OUTFOXED examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.Start your free trial to watch
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Iraq for Sale
Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE, OUTFOXED and UNCOVERED) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. IRAQ FOR SALE uncovers the connections between private...Start your free trial to watch
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Choose Your Weapons
Returning from war something less than a hero ("he saved a second lieutenant from fainting"), our humble protagonist Bobby Vernon nonetheless gets sucked into some very farcical post-combat politics involving Mittle-European royalty, Teutonic ruffians, forced marriage, much sword-fighting and mass...Start your free trial to watch
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Won by a Fowl
This Keystone-Triangle three-reeler, produced by silent comedy maestro Mack Sennett's company and the shorter-lived major studio that briefly flourished in the late-1910s, features a cast of lesser-remembered players. It's a sunny day, which some choose to spend at the park kissing babies or flirting inappropriately with...Start your free trial to watch
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The Tin Hoss
A neighborhood kids' club stretching across races and classes (but no girls allowed) hears "President" Denny's summoning bell and tumbles into the top-secret clubhouse for their latest round of (mis-)adventures. This time they get into hot water including Plaster of Paris ingestion, invading females and the attempted...Start your free trial to watch
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Finances of the Grand Duke
In one of the most eclectic films of the German silent era, visual stylist F.W. Murnau (SUNRISE) broke away from the dark, foreboding dramas for which he was known to explore the realm of light comedy. Working from a screenplay by Thea von Harbou (METROPOLIS), Murnau crafted a playful thriller reminiscent...Start your free trial to watch
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The Public and Private Care of Infants
In a Saturday Evening Post article that appeared as this film was going into production, Thomas Edison called for motion pictures to replace text books in the schools. Meanwhile his company made films meant to educate adults about health-related issues. This one advocates strongly for private childcare and...Start your free trial to watch
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La révolution en Russie
Produced shortly after the events it portrays, this 1905 short may not be as visually rich or emotionally stirring as Sergei Eisenstein's BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN but it shows more accurately the role that the ship played in inciting the Russian Revolution (as a narrator helpfully explains in the introduction)....Start your free trial to watch
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Nero, or the Fall of Rome
Luigi Maggi's 1909 dramatization of the downfall of Nero comes off as steamy melodrama in more ways than one. The full-screen green tint matches the green-eyed monster that enters the opening scene, as Nero's wife Octavia notices the look that passes between her husband and Poppea. Although the women's...Start your free trial to watch
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Radar Secret Service
It's science versus crime when agents of a foreign power working with local gangsters (including Tom Neal) steal a truck loaded with secret atomic materials, and the members of Secret Service's new "radar unit" (including John Howard and Ralph "Dick Tracy" Byrd) use the latest technology to run down the...Start your free trial to watch
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Motor Patrol
Roaring down America's highways in the pursuit of justice, motorcycle policeman put the heat on a car theft ringleader who uses a legitimate garage as a front. When officer Bill Henry is killed in the line of duty, rookie Don Castle, the fiancée of Henry's sister, gets himself assigned to the case and infiltrates the gang.Start your free trial to watch
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Roaring City
Private eye Dennis O'Brien (Hugh Beaumont) will do anything for a dame or a dollar, tackling two more assignments filled with pistol-point suspense. The first involves a "fixed" fight, double-crosses and, of course, murder. Later, his reward for hiring out to pose as a young beauty's husband is a knockout blow to the head and...Start your free trial to watch
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Sky Liner
Attention, Homeland Security! It's GRAND HOTEL in the air as the usual wild assortment of travelers (movie actresses, eloping couples, child singers, spinsters, crooks and more) board a LaGuardia Airport flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counter-spies, complete with secret documents, poison and...Start your free trial to watch
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The Rebel's Son
In the 1500s, the land of the Cossacks is ruled by Poland, prompting the Cossack leader Taras Bulba (Harry Baur) to send his son Andrei (Anthony Bushell) away to learn how to defeat their occupiers in battle. The accent is on action and romance in this stirring English film adaptation of the Nikolai Gogol novel.Start your free trial to watch
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The Quare Fellow
Zealous rookie prison guard Thomas Crimmin (Patrick McGoohan) arrives at a crumbling correctional facility where inmates and turnkeys alike anxiously await a man's imminent trip to the gallows. Though the condemned (called the "quare fellow" in Hibernian jailhouse slang) remains unseen, the cruelty of the...Start your free trial to watch
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Father
Ever since the death of his father, young Tako (Dani Erdélyi) has filled the paternal void with a series of fantasies in which his father (Miklós Gábor) is envisioned as a partisan freedom-fighter, a cultured world traveler and a decorated hero. When he reaches manhood, Tako (now played by András Bálint) struggles to live up...Start your free trial to watch
