Free Internet Movie Archive

Posted by Hemos on Friday February 16, 2001 @06:25PM from the lotsa-good-movies dept.

Andy Tai writes: "In sharp contrast to the music and movie industries' attempts to control access to content, the Internet Moving Image Archive aims to keep movie content freely available to the public. It provides 359 movies online and will add 642 more. The content is encoded in MPEG2 format and can only be converted to Open Source MPEG4 formats. The content is either public domain or owned by Prelinger Archives. So come and get your free movie now!" This reminds me of Project Gutenberg - anyone else know of good repositories around the Web? Post 'em below.

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Yeah but... by krmt · 2001-02-16 13:29 · Score: 5

When are they going to make a subsection of adult film archives? ;-)

"I may not have morals, but I have standards."

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"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
for the sake of history by Barbarian · 2001-02-16 14:12 · Score: 5

The most important reason for these sort of archives is to show history that many would like to pretend did not exist or simply erase.

For example, #19585, a WWII era propaganda film on Japanese internment.