Considered THE archetypal sensationalized anti-drug movie, but it's really an exploitation film made to capitalize on the hot taboo subject of marijuana use. Like many exploitation films of the time, "Reefer Madness" tried to make a quick buck off of a forbidden subject while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930. The Code forbade the portrayal of immoral acts like drug use. (The illegal drug traffic must not be portrayed in such a way as to stimulate curiosity concerning the use of, or traffic in, such drugs; nor shall scenes be approved which show the use of illegal drugs, or their effects, in detail.) The film toured around the country for many years - often being re-edited and re-titled ("Tell Your Children", "Dope Addict", "Doped Youth", "Love Madness", "The Burning Question"). It was re-discovered in the early 1970s by NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and screened again as an example of the government's demonization of marijuana. NORML may have been confused about the film's sponsorship since one of the film's distributors, Dwain Esper, testified to the Arizona Supreme Court that "Reefer Madness" was not a trashy exploitation film but was actually sponsored by the U.S. Government - a convincing lie, but a lie nonetheless. That being said, the film is still quick enjoyable since it dramatizes the "violent narcotic's ... soul destroying" effects on unwary teens, and their hedonistic exploits enroute to the bottom. Director: Louis J. Gasnier Producer: George A. Hirliman Production Company: G and H Production. Audio/Visual: sound, b;w

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Tags: marijuana, weed, prohibition, exploitation, cult, film
Date: 2008-10-14

Another episode of the 50's infomercial/Game Show "Beat The Clock". Audio/Visual: Sound, Black and White

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Tags: Beat, the, Clock, Classic, TV, 50s, infomercial, Advertising, 1950s, Television, Game, Show, Fifties
Date: 2008-08-27

In this classic yet still creepy horror film, strangers hold up in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse and battle constant attacks from dead locals who have been brought back to life by mysterious radiation. Note: This item contains a user-contributed srt subtitle file. To use this file you must download an srt compatible player and point it at the correct video and srt files (google for srt subtitles). We include this file for advanced users who may wish to use it, however the Archive does not support any player that displays subtitles stored external to the video they are intended to be used with, nor can we vouch for the quality or completeness of the subtitling effort. WARNING - This is a graphic horror film with some gory special effects. This movie is part of the collection: Sci-Fi / Horror Director: George A. Romero Producer: Karl Hardman, Russell Streiner Audio/Visual: sound, b;w

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Tags: Night, of, the, Living, Dead, Horror, Classic, movies
Date: 2008-08-16

"Blood On The Land" Season 1 Episode 22 A sheepherder and his men try to drive their sheep across the Ponderosa. Ben and Adam disagree about how to stop them. Ben wants the Cartwrights to handle their own matters, Adam wants to let the law handle the situation. After Adam is taken hostage, Ben starts to see things Adam's way. Set in Nevada in the 1860s, Bonanza chronicled the adventures of the Cartwright family who owned a large ranch called The Ponderosa. Ben Cartwright and his three sons, Adam, Hoss, and Joe fought for what was just and decent in a time where lawlessness was common. The widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright had three sons, each by a different wife: the oldest was the urbane architect Adam Cartwright, who built the ranch house. The second was the warm and lovable giant Eric, better known by his nickname "Hoss." And the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or "Little Joe." They all lived and worked on The Ponderosa. Nearby Virginia City helped populate the episodes with guest starring characters from all over America. Broadcast between September 1959 and January 1973. Filmed by the National Broadcasting Company at Paramount Studios.

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Tags: Bonanza, Classic, TV, Television, Westerns, Color
Date: 2009-11-13

No Time For Sergeants chronicles the comedic misadventures of a country bumpkin named Will Stockdale, brilliantly protrayed by Andy Griffith, who is drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II and assigned to the United States Army Air Forces. Andy Griffith went on to play the same character in the Broadway version and in a movie of the same name, which he became famous for and made him a star. No Time For Sergeants The U.S. Steel Hour March 15th, 1955 Starring: Will Stockdale......Andy Griffith Sgt. King...........Harry Clark Major...............Robert Emhardt Ben Whitledge.......Eddie Le Roy Captain.............Alexander Clark Irvin...............Arthur Storch Lucky...............Bob Hastings Colonel.............G. Albert Smith Infantry Sg.t.......Joe Brown, Jr. WAF Captain.........Adnia Rice Pfc.................Thomas Volk Soldier.............George Kilroy Based on the novel by Mac Hyman, copyright 1954 Written for television by Ira Levin Produced by The Theatre Guild Directed by Alex Segal Editor..................S. Mark Smith Story Department........Dorothy Hechtlinger Design..................E. Albert Heschong Art Director............James McNaughton Costume Designer........Gene Coffin Audio...................William Blumel Video Engineer..........Rolf Drucker Lighting................Imero Fiorentino Composer-Conductor......Glenn Osser Technical Director......George Weber Associate Producer......John Haggott Suggested by............Armina Marshall

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Tags: No, Time, For, Sergeants, 1955, Andy, Griffith, US, Steel, Hour, Public, Domain, Classic, TV, Kinescope, Live
Date: 2008-08-27

Episode of the popular game show "What's My Line" with guest Lucille Ball. This is classic TV! Complete with Original commercials.

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Tags: Whats, My, Line, Lucille, Ball, Classic, TV
Date: 2008-08-31

Episode of the popular 50's TV series, "Mama", starring Peggy Wood. This light-hearted Classic TV series was about a immigrant family in 1910's America. The shows mix of drama and Comedy proved popular with both the critics and the American public. Sadly, Most episodes of this show are lost. This is a kinescope of a 1950 episode, Complete with original Maxwell House Coffee commercials.

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Tags: Mama, 1950, Classic, TV, comedy, drama
Date: 2008-08-27

Stan Laurel And Oliver Hardys' Theme Tune..Cookoo Song

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Tags: Laurel, Hardy, Theme, Tune, Cookoo, Song, original, comedy
Date: 2009-05-16

Compilation of images and sequences from the Ford Film Collection, with excellent footage of United States history, culture, industry and daily life between about 1915 and 1930. Highlights include Coney Island, the increasing pervasiveness of the automobile in American life, and early manufacturing footage. This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives Producer: U.S. National Archives and Records Service Audio/Visual: Sd, B;W Keywords:

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Tags: Henry, Fords, Mirror, of, America, 1962, U.S., History, 1900-1927, Car, culture, Automobile, Design, manufacturing
Date: 2008-09-02

Classic TV comedy with the Three Stooges

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Tags: Three, Stooges, Sing, Song, of, Six, Pants, Classic, TV, Comedy
Date: 2008-08-16

Three Stooges episode

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Tags: Three, Stooges, Malice, Palace, classic, tv, comedy
Date: 2008-08-16

Hollywood Offbeat (Steve Randall) - The Trial - Episode 13 (1953) In this filmed series, screen star Melvyn Douglas appeared as a disbarred lawyer who had turned sleuth in an attempt to regain his right to practice law. A suave, mustachioed detective, he greased his way through assorted cases of blackmail and murder before finally reaching his goal - reinstatement as a lawyer - in the final episode. There this short series ended. Prior to it's network run, some episodes of Steve Randall were seen locally under the title of Hollywood Offbeat. Starring: Melvyn Douglas........Steve Randall Olive Deering.........Eve Neil Fitzgerald.......Bender Andrew Carleton.......Steve Gethers District Attorney.....Melville Ruick Judge.................Harry Sheppard Defense Attorney......Ed Peck Directed by M. Milton Schwarz and Frederick Stephanie Executive Producer...........Marion Parsonnet Produced by..................Theodore Lewis Original story by............Frederick Stephanie Screenplay by................James Cavanaugh Production Supervisor........Walter Blake Director of Photography......J. Burgi Contner, A.S.C. Assistant Director...........Ben Berk Supervising Film Editor......M. Milton Schwarz Film Editors.................Frank W. Madden, Morrie Roizman Sets by......................Aldrich Special Effects..............Hugo Casolaro, Milton Gottlieb Special Recorder.............Addison Tice Make-Up......................Eddie Senz Filmed at Parsonnet Studios, Inc. Long Island City, New York. Audio/Visual: sound, black and white Language: English

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Tags: Classic, TV, Television, 1953, Steve, Randall, Detective, Drama, DuMont, CBS, Commercials
Date: 2008-09-01

Episode of the Classic TV game show "I've Got a Secret" with Lucille Ball ; Desi Arnaz. Features original commercials for Winston Cigarettes, With the host and Desi Arnaz both plugging the product. Production Company: Goodson-Todman Audio/Visual: Sound, Black and White

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Tags: Ive, Got, Secret, Classic, TV, Lucille, Ball, Desi, Arnaz, Love, Lucy, Game, Show, 50s, Television, Fifties, 1950s
Date: 2008-08-27

"The Battle of Britain," Chapter IV of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series, begins after Hitler's conquest of Western Europe. Once firmly in control of the parts of France and Norway closest to Great Britain, the Nazis commence their massive air assault on the British isles. Outnumbered six to one, the fighters of the Royal Air Force defend their skies against the Luftwaffe for close to four months. Capra embellishes the British successes, for example the film claims the RAF fought 200 dogfights in the first thirty minutes of the battle alone, and that by the end of the first month they had destroyed 900 German planes. (In truth, the number is closer to 260). However, the success of the British defenses forced the Germans to change strategies, switching to more frightening night raids that terrorized London. But the British resolve won the day, in grand fashion. The film claims total German losses of more than 2,700. The real number is closer to 1,600. The number of downed British planes equaled approximately half that of Germany. Producer: Frank Capra Audio/Visual: sound, color

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Tags: Cinemocracy, Battle, of, Britain, WWII, Frank, Capra
Date: 2008-10-14

compilation of three Laurel ; Hardy clips; - Lonesome Pine (Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia) - Harvest Moon - Bed Harp

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Tags: laurel, hardy, lonesome, pine, blue, ridge, mountains, of, virginia, shine, on, harvest, moon, bed, harp
Date: 2009-05-16

How exercise will make you healthy and popular. ================================================================ Shows that exercise aids in health, co-operative activities and opportunities for recognition. Ken Smith remarks: Ernie, Jean, and Hal are three teens who have problems: Ernie is in "a run down condition," Jean is "shy and withdrawn," and Hal is "tense and irritable." But then all three join the Acrobatics Club at school and get into shape. Now Ernie, Jean and Hal "make friends easier" and have "outlets for their emotional tensions." But they're still painfully dull.

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Tags: Exercise, Health, Fitness, Acrobatics, Human, body
Date: 2009-10-23

Excerpt from the TV series "Art Linkletter's House Party", featuring guest Lucille Ball.

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Tags: Art, Linkletters, House, Party, Classic, TV, Television, 60s, 1960s, Sixties, Lucille, Ball, Kinescope, Kinescopes
Date: 2008-09-01

"Divide and Conquer," Chapter III of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series, begins with Britain and France's declaration of war on Germany after Hitler's invasion of Poland. The film covers the Nazi capture of Denmark and Norway, steps necessary to mount a future attack on Britain, then describes in detail Hitler's strategy as he conquers Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. Special attention is paid to Nazi atrocities. Dead and injured children are shown en masse and the film explains how the bombing of Rotterdam leads to "thirty thousand men, women and children killed in ninety minutes." The narrator tells how the Luftwaffe bombs small villages so that refugees clog the highways, and how it uses precision machine gun fire to herd the survivors toward the allied armies, who find their progress severely constrained as a result. An American military officer details the Nazi plan for an invasion of France, which Hitler conquers in just over a month. The Germans bludgeon the French armies into surrender, then "enslave" much of the local population to service the German military regime. Producer: Frank Capra Audio/Visual: sound, color

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Tags: Cinemocracy, Frank, Capra, WWII
Date: 2008-10-14

Compilation of images and sequences from the Ford Film Collection, with excellent footage of United States history, culture, industry and daily life between about 1915 and 1930. Highlights include Coney Island, the increasing pervasiveness of the automobile in American life, and early manufacturing footage.

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Tags: Henry, Ford, Mirror, America, 1962, automobile, u.s., history, car, manufacturing, and, design
Date: 2008-09-02

Un chien andalou (English: An Andalusian Dog) is a 1928 short surrealist film made in France by two Spanish auteurs: the Aragonian director Luis Buñuel and the Catalonian artist Salvador Dalí. It was Buñuel's first film and was initially released in 1929 in Paris only for a limited showing, but became popular and ran for eight months.[1] It is one of the best-known surrealist films of the avant-garde movement of the 1920s. The film has no narrative, in the conventional sense of the word. There are two central characters, an unnamed man and woman, who seem to be having an affair. The film could be seen as a symbolic study of the emotions and societal pressures that cause their separation and the ending of their affair, and the fateful consequences of their discovery by the man's "father" and the woman's "husband". The chronology of the film is disjointed, jumping from the initial "once upon a time" to "eight years later" without the events or characters changing that much. It uses dream logic that can be described in terms of then-popular Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes that attempt to shock the viewer's inner psyche.

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Tags: Surrealism, Salvadore, Dali, Luis, Buñuel
Date: 2008-10-14