An advice for a good old movie to watch on YouTube?

teckk · 02-03-2022, 10:10 AM

In the US, copyrights last for 60 years. Then the work changes into public domain. It's still owned, still is intellectual property, but it's not unlawful to download it and watch it without the consent of the property owner. You can't sell it, or make money off of it.

That is the way I understand that. So anything before 1960 is in the public domain now. I don't think that it is unlawful for youtube to have it, and for you to watch it.

Anyone else know more on this topic?

Edit:
Netflix is renting those DVD's, but, I'm sure that Netflix has an agreement with the intellectual property owner to rent it. And that's because the owner is getting a cut of the rental.

ondoho · 02-03-2022, 10:33 AM

^ makes sense. I had a look at the uploader for Rio Bravo, It's "Grjngo - Western Movies", there's plenty more old movies.
It does look like they're all from the 40s/50s.
They also have a website, and a German company behind it.

grumpyskeptic · 02-19-2022, 01:36 PM

The Kiss Before The Mirror 1933

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e1qVUibVRg

The Most Dangerous Game 1932

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzv2MbIdEwY

I trust and hope people are posting links to films they have seen themselves AND would recommend to others, not just a list of movies.

grumpyskeptic · 02-25-2022, 06:16 AM

Kind Hearts And Coronets 1949. Comedy.

https://archive.org/details/KindHeartsAndCoronets1949

The Black Cat 1934. Karloff.

https://archive.org/details/1934blackcatthe

sundialsvcs · 02-25-2022, 09:38 AM

US copyrights can be renewed. And, they can be owned by corporations. For instance, the courts rightly decided that the rights to "Mickey Mouse®" did not expire with Walt Disney (RIP), even though he was the artist who originally drew him. They belong to "The Walt Disney Company, Inc."

As for good movies to watch –*I recently watched an A&E special, "Ike – Countdown to D-Day." An excellent nine-part film that is historically accurate.

teckk · 02-25-2022, 03:15 PM

grumpyskeptic · 03-20-2022, 07:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

Tons of movies on Utube. Just do a search.

.....lots of links.....

Sorry I should have titled this thread "Links to good movies I have watched from end to end and would recommend to others". There's no point in just providing the links that a YouTube search would find, because that will give movies mostly of poor quality. Apologies, I should have made that clearer beforehand.

It's like asking someone to recommend a good book to read, but they deliver the contents of a whole bookshop to your home - so you are back to square one.

grumpyskeptic · 03-20-2022, 07:48 AM

Brazen beauties beguile bashful bankers

No More Orchids 1932

Video 306.mp4 from here:
https://archive.org/details/rog561b_netzero_305/306.mp4
https://archive.org/download/rog561b_netzero_305
Edit: The first link plays the wrong movie, but the second link plays the movie when 306.mp4 is clicked. Try this: https://ia800401.us.archive.org/22/i...ro_305/306.mp4

Hot Saturday 1932

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpH90rOMx0E
This video is titled "HOT SATURDAY (Drama, USA 1932) 720p; Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott". There are other easier to find "Hot Saturday 1932" videos on YouTube that have been distorted and so are definitely not recommended.

Baby Face 1933

https://archive.org/details/baby-fac...s-283708426915

grumpyskeptic · 03-27-2022, 11:07 AM

Violent Saturday 1955
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYKpSIPOLY8
Technicolor crime heist. Edit: not Technicolor, but De Luxe.

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 1957
https://archive.org/details/mary59_gmx_860
https://ia803205.us.archive.org/10/i...mx_860/860.mp4
Technicolor advertising industry comedy.

grumpyskeptic · 04-01-2022, 08:45 AM

This Gun For Hire 1942

https://archive.org/details/this-gun-for-hire-1942

Psycho-loner with a gun.

Pickup On South Street 1953

https://archive.org/details/pickupon...eet1953_202001 Better quality image?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmgEytYLH7A

Pickpocket with moral limits.

Foreign Intrigue 1956

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhItAgX8kPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_WZX-drmWQ

Eastmancolor. The image quality is not so good. Same quality and probably exactly the same video file in both links.

Update: a link to a better quality image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xab-VkVLkjw The webpage is in Greek but the film is in English. The Greek subtitles are optional and can be clicked away.

grumpyskeptic · 04-10-2022, 08:18 AM

Shadow Of A Doubt 1943

https://archive.org/details/shadowofadoubt1943_202003

Is he a criminal?

The Little Giant 1933

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5CKbWN7j_Y

Comedy. Gangster has been reading books.

teckk · 04-10-2022, 08:46 AM

Code:

yt-dlp -F https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ui19MwNK10k

You see that the best video for that one is 135. The audio to go with that is 140 (aac goes with mp4)

Code:

yt-dlp -f 135 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ui19MwNK10k -o reb.mp4
yt-dlp -f 140 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ui19MwNK10k -o reb.m4a

ffmpeg -i reb.mp4 -i reb.m4a -c:a copy -c:v copy Rebecca.mp4

And before you waste you time, you could preview that video with:

Code:

yt-dlp -f 135 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ui19MwNK10k -o - | mplayer -

grumpyskeptic · 04-18-2022, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

@grumpyskeptic
All of these old movies are good.
......

Excellent! I shall have a look at them. I was getting lonely on this thread. And thanks for the useful advice about off-line viewing.

Technicolor sexist fantasies

The sexism, racism, coercion, and so on in all these old movies is shameful and totally unacceptable today.

Kismet 1944 - Harems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGL2LCTGDvQ Edit: the link has very recently stopped working.

The Black Swan 1942 - Pirates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwEG8sEscBQ

A much better definition image can be seen on a Portugese webpage, although unfortunately the Portugese translation of the title is offensive.

https://archive.org/details/o-cisne-...-1942-v.-menor

Also -

Arabian Nights 1942

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0ULqfoKXVk

A Thousand And One Nights 1945

https://archive.org/details/A.Thousa...ne.Nights.1945

grumpyskeptic · 04-24-2022, 07:56 AM

Rebecca 1940

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1uvgx3NUR0

Shadow of a romance
Edit: Sorry I had not realized I had duplicated Teckk's link.

His Girl Friday 1940

https://archive.org/details/HisGirlFriday-1940 Better quality image?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUct7Gdt-Gc

Not getting much work done

The Bride Comes Home 1935

https://archive.org/details/rog561b_netzero_514
https://ia600401.us.archive.org/2/it...ro_514/515.mp4

Comedy, but I only laughed out loud once.

grumpyskeptic · 05-01-2022, 04:54 AM

Lost Horizon 1937

https://archive.org/details/lost-hor...t-horton-thoma

Shangri-La

The Palm Beach Story 1942

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2riir_T41k

Comedy

The Spiral Staircase 1946

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFR_0NZ8bQg

https://archive.org/details/tss32236 Slightly better image?

Creepy, with good cinematography.