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Free legal movie and cartoon downloads
hanslope
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Before you all get too excited, this is about exactly what the subject says "Free legal movie and cartoon downloads" and unfortunately, you'll never get that with current mainstream movies, I'm talking about movies that have had their copyright expire.
After about 70 years (I'm not sure the exact time frame) copyright expires and the piece of work comes into the public domain, so it's free to be copied, distributed and altered in anyway you want. There have been efforts by the estate of Elvis and the Disney Corporation to change the law, as most their catalogue will go the same way soon, so I'm not whether more recent works will follow the same fate.
You may see the cartoons on DVD's in places like Tesco's selling for 99p, for some Bugs Bunny or Woody Woodpecker cartoons, these are prime examples and can be sold or copied by anyone, there is no permission to ask.
Now with the rapid take up of broadband and the falling price of storage space, these films and cartoons are now being collected in easy to access public websites, for anyone to download. Most are stored in a variety of formats and there are vast collections on all different subjects.
A good staring point:-
http://emol.org/movies/
Cartoons
Betty Boop
Bugs Bunny
Caspar the Friendly Ghost
Felix the Cat
Guilliver's Travels
Mighty Mouse
Popeye the Sailor Man cartoon series
Porky Pig's "Midnight Matinee"
Superman Cartoon Series
Tom and Jerry (not the cat and mouse)
Woody Woodpecker
Merrie Melodies
(and many more...)
Films
FLASH GORDON Series (1940)
Jungle Book (1942)
Tarzan movies
!!!!!! Tracy series
Keystone Cops
Buster Keaton
(and many more...)
Interesting titles
"The Fast and the Furious" (1954) (not the recent one)
"Santa Clause Conquers the Martians" (1964)
more can be found at....
http://www.archive.org/details/classic_cartoons
http://www.archive.org/details/feature_films
After about 70 years (I'm not sure the exact time frame) copyright expires and the piece of work comes into the public domain, so it's free to be copied, distributed and altered in anyway you want. There have been efforts by the estate of Elvis and the Disney Corporation to change the law, as most their catalogue will go the same way soon, so I'm not whether more recent works will follow the same fate.
You may see the cartoons on DVD's in places like Tesco's selling for 99p, for some Bugs Bunny or Woody Woodpecker cartoons, these are prime examples and can be sold or copied by anyone, there is no permission to ask.
Now with the rapid take up of broadband and the falling price of storage space, these films and cartoons are now being collected in easy to access public websites, for anyone to download. Most are stored in a variety of formats and there are vast collections on all different subjects.
A good staring point:-
http://emol.org/movies/
Cartoons
Betty Boop
Bugs Bunny
Caspar the Friendly Ghost
Felix the Cat
Guilliver's Travels
Mighty Mouse
Popeye the Sailor Man cartoon series
Porky Pig's "Midnight Matinee"
Superman Cartoon Series
Tom and Jerry (not the cat and mouse)
Woody Woodpecker
Merrie Melodies
(and many more...)
Films
FLASH GORDON Series (1940)
Jungle Book (1942)
Tarzan movies
!!!!!! Tracy series
Keystone Cops
Buster Keaton
(and many more...)
Interesting titles
"The Fast and the Furious" (1954) (not the recent one)
"Santa Clause Conquers the Martians" (1964)
more can be found at....
http://www.archive.org/details/classic_cartoons
http://www.archive.org/details/feature_films
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Comments
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Great find. Some movies not currently available for download but there's still plenty available.
I'm currently downloadng "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians". ;-)Cut price signatures.
Get yours by calling 0845 845 845 845....NOW!0 -
mucker wrote:Great find. Some movies not currently available for download but there's still plenty available.
I'm currently downloadng "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians". ;-)
I think I'm being a bit thick here but how do I download these? My kids will love them!!0 -
The sites are pretty similiar, but may not be too helpful for people not familiar with the web, for example:-
To Download "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians", go to the below link
http://emol.org/movies/santaclaus/index.html
... and you should see on the right hand side at the top "Select A Modem Speed", with a few options, if the link says "Modem" or "Cable" it will "stream" through the page you on, if it says MPEG1 then it may need to download before you can play it.
Downloading may be the best bet, as it's a full length movie it can be saved for later viewing, and you can resize the window to fill the whole screen.:think:0 -
Awesome find, well done.
Getting Nosferatu now \m/0 -
Are there any other sites?
I'm looking for a particular cartoon, but it's not on either of the links.
It's called Bottles, and was either a Silly Symphony or Merrie Melody (can't recall which)
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There are plenty of other site around, can't think of any off hand, best to google for "public domain" cartoons.:think:0
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Here's another link (http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/) which is more help if you know how to use BitTorrent, if not a few films have links to Google videos.:think:0
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There is even a version of Star Wars out there http://www.archive.org/details/LegoStarWars:think:0
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thankyou for all the links!
There was even a John Wayne on one of them. My OH loves westerns.0 -
Love the Vincet Price one... The Last Man on Earth... same thing as the Omega Man... only better!Competition Addict!:wave:
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