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These vintage government films try to convince the average citizen that nuclear war is no big deal. After you get over that pesky radiation sickness, you'll be back to work in no time, at least until the next major nuclear exchange. THE DAY CALLED 'X' (1955): Glenn Ford hosts this chilling vision of what could happen on the day the bomb falls...The Day Called 'X'! For this Civil Defense documentary, 10,000 people in Portland, Oregon ("more or less the size of Hiroshima", according to Ford)...
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With the advent of sound, the world's leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his fortunes. His thin, reedy voice was not suited to the talkies, his marriage to Mary Pickford was on the outs, and his son, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., had replaced him as a major box-office draw. Faced with the Hollywood equivalent of a mid-life crisis, Doug called up three of his best friends - director Victor Fleming, cinematographer Henry Sharp, and production manager Charles Lewis - and...
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Canadian-born Bobby Breen (1927-2016) became a sensation as a boy soprano on '30s radio programs. In an era when Shirley Temple ruled the box-office, it wasn't long before Hollywood came calling. Breen established himself as a young performer with presence, charm and talent in nine feature films made over a six-year span, most of them released by RKO. Upon reaching adolescence, Breen's voice changed. Although he quietly retired from the screen shortly thereafter, he continued to make nightclub...
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Behold the Man chronicles Jesus's life from his triumphal entry into Jerusalem until the time of his Resurrection. Originally entitled Golgotha when it premiered in France in 1935, it is famous for its shockingly graphic depiction of the Crucifixion. Director Julien Duvivier employs many of the same close-up techniques used by Carl Theodor Dreyer in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) for maximum effect. At the time, depicting Jesus on film was considered taboo, so much of Behold the Man is...
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Easy, sleazy, and dirty. That's what the short movies you could see in a peep machine were. For the cost of a few coins, a variety of beautiful babes undressed before your eyes. They weren't always glamorous, but they were always stacked. And if you were lucky, maybe they had a little fun with themselves. In the 1950s and 60s these little films were commonplace, but now they're part of a bygone era. This collection brings together over an hour of those short subjects, and take you back to the...
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For years, film historian John K. Carpenter ('The Movie Man') has been one of the most dedicated supporters of the art of silent comedy. Now he presents this collection of the rarest of the rare from his archives. "I have compiled from my 16mm film prints an assortment of shorts that are not only rare, but unseen for decades! All the big studios were trying to outdo each other back then when it came to comedy. The unbridled creativity on display in these films makes them seem just as new as...
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Art Linkletter (1912-2010) was one of the most beloved television personalities of the 20th century. For decades, he was the host of House Party, an anything-goes variety show that aired weekday afternoons. The show's most well-remembered segment was "Kids Say the Darndest Things", in which Art would engage in off-the-cuff interviews with children between the ages of 2 and 10. It was so popular that in 1952, Art Linkletter and the Kids began airing in syndication, featuring three of Art's...
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Having just signed to First National Pictures, Charlie Chaplin was anxious to turn his satirical eye on World War I. The studio insisted that the conflict was no laughing matter, but Chaplin persisted, finally directing the movie himself (his first time behind the camera). In Shoulder Arms, Charlie is the clumsiest soldier in his company, dubbed "The Awkward Squad". Once in the trenches, Charlie becomes a hero, capturing German soldiers and rescuing a pretty French girl (played by Edna...
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Beautiful blonde flapper Gertie Darling keeps all the men at arm's distance...but she does accept gifts. One of her admirers, high-powered attorney Ken Walrick, presents Gertie with what he thinks is a necklace bearing his portrait, but is, in fact, a very expensive garter. The lawyer eventually tires of Gertie's fickle nature and proposes to wholesome Theodora Desmond. Realizing his new fiancee would never understand why he gave lingerie to a promiscuous girl-about-town, Ken attempts to...
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RESCUE FROM GILLIGAN'S ISLAND (1978): It's been 14 years, and Gilligan, the Skipper, millionaire Thurston Howell III and his wife, movie star Ginger Grant, the Professor, and Mary Ann are all still stranded on that uncharted desert isle. Salvation arrives in the unlikely form of a little metal disc that falls off a high-tech Russian spy satellite and lands right in Gilligan's lap. The Professor uses it to power a navigational device that finally brings the crew of the S.S. Minnow back home!...
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In 1949, audiences delighted to Buster Keaton's cameo in the Judy Garland musical In the Good Old Summertime, reigniting interest in "The Great Stone Face of Comedy." It wasn't long before the burgeoning new medium of television came calling. On December 22, 1949, The Buster Keaton Show began airing live on KTTV in California, sponsored by the Studebaker Dealers of Los Angeles County. Every week, Keaton revived the deadpan pantomimes that made him one of the greatest comedians of the silent...
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Tom Mix was the undisputed "King of the Cowboys" during the early silent era of Western films. Born in Pennsylvania in 1880, Tom headed west early on, mastering horsemanship and serving as Sheriff-Marshal in Dewey, Oklahoma by 1904. He also performed in Wild West shows until he got his first movie job with the Selig Polyscope Company in 1910. After signing with Fox Films in 1917, his fame skyrocketed, eclipsing other stars such as Hoot Gibson and William S. Hart. Along with his famous steed,...