Links to Classic Films

For those of you who wanted the list compiled, here you go.

Thanks to Patrick, Jon, Jim, Shawn, Terry, Tony and Seth for all of your wonderful links to finding old movies/classics. Don’t forget to archive this one:)

Jackie

http://www.telestream.net/wire-cast/overview.htm

http://Archive.org

http://www.archive.org/details/movies

Get this one as a podcast:

http://www.archiveclassicmovies.com/index.php

NETFLIX

For restored films and rare finds:

http://www.criterion.com/library/dvd

These are to purchase...but if you are looking to see if a TITLE even exists..

http://www.imdb.com

http://geektyrant.com/2009/08/5-historic-films-that-helped-pave-the-way-for-filmmaking/

http://mic.loc.gov/public_portal/public_collectionsexplore.php

Cool and old (lots of Chaplin):

http://www.pdcomedy.com/index.html

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=chaplin&emb=0&aq=f#

You can find 55 of Edisons “actuality” films 1897-1905 here:

http://celluloidskyline.com/main/home.html

You can find some of the more popular Lumiere Bros. Films 1895 on Youtube here:

    * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xOLwbG7l0U

   * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk&feature=related

Edwin S. Porter's film right before he made The Great Train Robbery, Life of an American Fireman 1903:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4C0gJ7BnLc

A must-have for showing turn of the century film is "Landmarks of Early Film, Vol. 1":

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/630507559X/ref=ox_ya_oh_product

This DVD features early Muybridge Films, old Kinetoscope films, other Edison Films, a large collection of Lumiere Bros. films, and DW Griffith's amazing film, The Girl and Her Trust.

DW Griffith's Collector set is a great one, too.