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Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! After a three week break, we’re finally … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: House on Haunted Hill (& “The Plumber”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! If you’re reading this, that means you’re not out … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Mark of Zorro (& “The Mechanical Monsters”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! Today we present to you, the 1953 … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Hitch-Hiker (& “Scrap Happy Daffy”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! Today we present to you one of … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Gulliver’s Travels (& “Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! Today we present to you quite possibly … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Night of the Living Dead (& “Booby Traps”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This week, we have a picture from … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Buster Keaton’s The General (& “All This and Rabbit Stew”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This week, we have a film directed … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Stranger (& “A Date to Skate”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This week, we present a . . … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (& “Porky Pig’s Feat”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This week, we’re presenting a film noir … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: D.O.A. (& “The Dover Boys at Pimento University, or, The Rivals of Roquefort Hall”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This week is a special one … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Safety Last! (& “Felix in Hollywood”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This Saturday, in honor of the Holiday … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: It’s a Wonderful Life (& “Spies”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This Saturday, we’re presenting the screwball comedy … Continue reading Public Domain Theater Presents: His Girl Friday (& “Superman”)
Raph’s the leader of the group, Leonardo is the party dude? Continue reading Turtles Rise in First Trailer for Ninja Turtles Reboot
It’s Frosty the Snowman meets 1984! No, seriously, this exists. Continue reading Good God, The Legend of Frosty the Snowman is Weird
“Dying is one of my least favorite things to do” Short films, even when they breakthrough to viral status, never achieve the kind of attention that feature length films do. With the exception of Pixar and the rare other example, … Continue reading Movie Reviews: World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts (2017)
One of the nicest things about Christmas is that it’s an ideal time to tell your friends to seek out holiday specials which you find rewarding that they may have never heard of before. Now, there’d be no point in … Continue reading A Very Merry Cricket is a Yuletide Chuck Jones Classic
By now, there have been more adaptations of A Christmas Carol than anyone can count. In addition to the straightforward takes on the story, there have been so many parodies of the classic holiday tale that taking any form of … Continue reading But Seriously, Barbie in A Christmas Carol is Pretty Good
As some of us gather round to watch The He-Man & She-Ra Christmas Special (something which should be a tradition for all of you if it isn’t already), we’ve been given an early Christmas present with the news that our favorite Princess of Power … Continue reading She-Ra is Coming Back, and That’s Pretty Sweet
2017 has been a pretty bleak year in many ways, but one of the brighter spots of it has been Disney XD’s much-hyped DuckTales reboot, which has gotten almost universal acclaim. With plenty of sharp humor and a bold animation … Continue reading The New DuckTales Might Have One of the Best Opening Title Sequences Ever for a Cartoon
There’s a reason you’ve probably never seen Cricket on the Hearth. At the very least, you’ve almost certainly never seen it on television. Airing only once as an episode of The Danny Thomas Show in 1967, the Rankin/Bass special fell into obscurity afterwards, … Continue reading Cricket on the Hearth is a Bad Cartoon from Rankin/Bass’s Golden Age
Few holiday specials are odder ducks than Frosty Returns in terms of how they are consumed by the general public. No one seems to particularly “like it,” yet its been airing on CBS every year for more than two decades alongside its … Continue reading Why the Heck Do We Watch Frosty Returns Every Year?
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