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Post by ando on Dec 29, 2022 0:11:46 GMT
Internet Archive is a great source for obscure, unavailable and/or out of print media of all kinds, including of course, movies! "An American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge", it provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. As of September 10, 2022, the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine.
The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures. The Archive also oversees one of the world's largest book digitization projects." -Wiki.org
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Post by ando on Dec 29, 2022 0:20:01 GMT
Happy 100th Birthday Stan Lee! Spider-Man '67 (1967, Stan Lee) Original cartoon series based on the web-slinging Marvel comic book character, Peter Parker, who, after being bit by a radioactive spider, assumes extraordinary powers. Free on the Archive.
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Post by ando on Dec 29, 2022 3:03:44 GMT
Love the original cartoon. Don’t know if I can sit through the entire live action franchise but I’ll try the first 2002 film. Poster has the series up on the Archive. Wonder what Stan Lee thought about any of the new millennium interpretations.
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Post by ando on Jan 2, 2023 20:46:43 GMT
Watching THE WIZ again this afternoon. I was never crazy about Ms. Ross as Dorothy but I love the artful variation on the 1939 original - and especially the Charlie Smalls musical score. Found a great free copy on the Internet Archive and "10 Things You Didn't Know About The Wiz" (above), which is impressive (stuff I didn't even know - and I saw the original Broadway play!). Anyhoo, enjoy the flash back to the funky 70s.
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Post by Wizzer White on Jan 2, 2023 21:16:06 GMT
Watching THE WIZ again this afternoon. Whenever this comes up I always remember some movie guy talking to Larry King on the radio about how this pitch man came into his office all excited saying, "Let's to The Wiz white!"
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Post by ando on Jan 2, 2023 22:05:02 GMT
Whenever this comes up I always remember some movie guy talking to Larry King on the radio about how this pitch man came into his office all excited saying, "Let's to The Wiz white!" Ha. The ghetto fabulousness isn't the problem. The film has all the ingredients for a classic except the abysmal script. Just sinks it. Luckily the source material (original book from the Broadway play) is great and the performers were game.
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Post by ericj on Jan 2, 2023 22:24:52 GMT
One YouTuber's analysis nailed the big, big problem: In addition to having no vibe for directing musicals in the first place, Sidney Lumet was so amazed by Tony Walton's fantasy NYC Oz set/matte design, he keeps wanting to show us ALL of it from ten miles away, and if we squint really, really closely, we can just barely make out Diana and Michael doing their dance moves: And besides, The Wiz keeps showing up on and off Tubi and Amazon so frequently, it's not worth delving into the Archive to find it-- The Archive is for the TRUE Lost Arks of lost media that only the crazy fringe of the Internet would be talented enough to unearth from their burials, like, say...that cool lost 60's "Lone Ranger" cartoon that wanted to be a comic-book sci-fi Wild, Wild West: archive.org/details/LoneRangerCartoon1966CrackOfDoomOr all 39 episodes of the King Features "The Beatles" Saturday-morning cartoon (that later spawned "Yellow Submarine" as a bigscreen spinoff), that an embarrassed Sir Paul wants to keep buried in music rights: archive.org/details/beatles-saturday-morning-cartoons-ep.-33
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Post by Unwatchable on Jan 22, 2023 1:31:12 GMT
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Post by ando on Jan 23, 2023 0:21:56 GMT
The Archive is for the TRUE Lost Arks of lost media that only the crazy fringe of the Internet would be talented enough to unearth from their burials, like, say...that cool lost 60's "Lone Ranger" cartoon that wanted to be a comic-book sci-fi Wild, Wild West: archive.org/details/LoneRangerCartoon1966CrackOfDoomOr all 39 episodes of the King Features "The Beatles" Saturday-morning cartoon (that later spawned "Yellow Submarine" as a bigscreen spinoff), that an embarrassed Sir Paul wants to keep buried in music rights: archive.org/details/beatles-saturday-morning-cartoons-ep.-33Those are great examples of hard-to-find series that the Archive features but it's great for whatever touches your fancy that isn't immediately available at the moment. The thread was really created for suggestions based on your current viewing interest not what what others may find impressively obscure.
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Post by intrepid37 on Aug 22, 2023 8:28:16 GMT
I remember watching that cartoon on Saturday mornings from time to time. Cartoon George sang "Do You Want to Know a Secret". I think it may have been the only time cartoon George got to sing lead.
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