Posted on 10/06/2017 2:26:39 PM PDT by V K Lee
A variety of shows, movies AND Radio
Surely, something for everyone
Great!
I’m watching Napoléon right now....
mark
Found some old Carol Burnett shows. I miss those.
Thanks. There’s a few good sites like this that are nice to check out. Though I think most of them are using free videos from the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/television%26tab=forum?and[]=subject%3A%22Classic+TV%22
https://archive.org/details/moviesandfilms
I loved Carol Burnett (and Cher) and their Bob Mackie gowns. So glamorous in the 1970s.
Thanks!
Wow, ‘50s Dragnet. Only a fraction of the nearly 300 made, but still.
bkmk
And -
http://retrovision.tv
One last one -
http://www.liketelevision.com
Nothing funnier than the skits where Harvey Korman is trying not to laugh at deadpan Tim Conway.
Do all of them still exist? How do they compare to the radio show?
Why, thank you :-)
TV of old is remembered as being so much better than tv today. FWIW - so did the movies being released.
“Wow, ‘50s Dragnet. Only a fraction of the nearly 300 made, but still.”
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Those would be episodes that fell out copyright protection for one reason or another, same with the other classic shows (and movies) there. Either a proper copyright was not affixed to the original media or the copyright expired & was not renewed. They became public domain.
For example, the classic horror “Night Of The Living Dead”, as Wikipedia explains:
“Night of the Living Dead entered the public domain in the United States because the original theatrical distributor, the Walter Reade Organization, neglected to place a copyright indication on the prints. In 1968, United States copyright law required a proper notice for a work to maintain a copyright.”
I LOVE Wallace and Gromit
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“Do all of them still exist?”
This kinda explains it -
http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=14743
“How do they compare to the radio show?”
Pretty much the same format through all series - radio, 50s and 60s TV versions. Here’s the radio versions:
https://archive.org/details/Dragnet_OTR
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