Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 9: Hemp For Victory!
An odd short film from 1942 produced by the US Army and the Department of Agriculture where they actually encouraged farmers to grow hemp! Admittedly it was for the war effort since the Japanese had occupied most of the territory that produced other fibers.
It makes for a great how-to on how to grow your own hemp.
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 7: Night of the Living Dead!
The film that is singularly responsible for starting the zombie apocalypse genre. Turning the zombie from a mindless slave of Voodoo legends into a flesh-eating plague! This film makes many top 10 lists of some of the scariest and most influential horror films of all time. The film is a perfect piece of satire about race ( the fate of Ben) and the Vietnam War (just listen to Ben describing what happened at Beakman’s Diner. He sounds like a war shocked veteran retelling and reliving a horrific battle).
It was also among only a small number of films in the 60s that added blood and gore to the mix ( others being “Blood Feast” and “2000 Maniacs” to name a few).
Unfortunately, the distributor changed the films title card and forgot to put the copyright on ( according to the copyright laws at the time, the copyright info had to be displayed with the title card). The film then lapsed into the public domain and George A. Romero and company barely saw any money from it.
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 6:The Street Fighter!
starring Sonny Chiba
“If you have to fight, FIGHT DIRTY!”
Sonny Chiba in an awesome martial arts film! Terry Tsurugi is a hired gun and bodyguard. When he refuses a job on principle he finds himself on the opposite side of the yakuza and protected the woman he was supposed to kidnap for them!
This is one of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite films and appears prominently in “True Romance”. And video game fans will recognize it from the game “The Darkness”.
“You beat a man, they call you tough! You beat an army, they call you THE STREET FIGHTER!”
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 3: The Satanic Rites of Dracula
starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing
The only Hammer Films movie that is in the PD. It is a direct sequel to “Dracula 1972 AD” with Count Dracula resurrected in modern day London. Dracula is the leader of a satanic cult made up of Britain’s wealthy and powerful. Dracula’s master plan involves wiping out all human life on Earth with a powerful strain of Black Plague his minions created for him.
It is easily available online and on DVD. The best is a double feature DVD with “Dracula, Prince of Darkness” published by Anchor Bay.
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage.
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 1: Horror Express (aka Pánico en el Transiberiano/Panic on the Trans-Siberian Express)
Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas
In 1906, a British anthropologist finds an ape-like creature in a cave in northern China. He ships it on the Trans-Siberian Express where it comes to life and starts killing passengers. Whats worse is that it is not the creature itself but a malevolent entity that possesses it. Its sort of like “John Carpenter’s The Thing” set on a train in Czarist Russia.
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage.
Public Domain
The following films are considered public domain in the US (the copyright protection has lapsed) and can be downloaded, sold and exhibited by anyone.
The Driller Killer
Lady Frankenstein
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Horror Express
Drive-In Massacre
Sisters of Death
Messiah of Evil
Nightmare Castle
Incredible Two-Headed Transplant
Mutant (1984)
Grave of the Vampire
Savage Weekend
Silent Night, Bloody Night
Don’t Look In The Basement
Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages
Bride of the Monster
Glen or Glenda
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Beast of Yucca Flats
Dominique (aka Dominique is Dead)
Scream Bloody Murder
Reefer Madness
Marihuana
Cocaine Fiends
Assassin of Youth
Carnival of Souls
Last Man On Earth
The Trial (1962)
A Bucket of Blood
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
M (1931)
Nosferatu (1922)
Embryo
Little Shop Of Horrors (1960)
Dementia 13
The Terror
Freaks
Bloody Pit of Horror
Atom Age Vampire
Death Rides A Horse
The Battle of El Alamein
Horror Hotel
White Zombie
A Trip To The Moon
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave
Images of Bruce Lee
Black Fist
The Street Fighter (1974)
Return of the Street Fighter
The Street Fighter’s Last Revenge
The Real Bruce Lee
Battleship Potempkin
Blood Tide
Eegah
Faust (1926)
Greed (1924)
Jail Bait
The Violent Years
Metropolis (1927)
Planet of Dinosaurs
Spider Baby
Mad Dog Morgan
Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks
Frankenstein ‘80
Free Halloween Movies!
Halloween is coming up and many people want to watch a good horror flick to get into the mood for the season. Also, it can be a good way to raise some money.
One way to avoid being slapped with copyright violations if you want to show a movie for free or charge admission to a crowd of people is two beautiful words: PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Movies lapse into the public domain for a number of reasons including their copyrights expiring or not being copyrighted in the first place. You can show these movies and charge admission or even make your own DVDs of them! They can be found at sites like Internet Archive or downloaded off of youtube with “Easy Youtube Downloader”. Use them to fund raise or to just entertain at a public viewing.
Here are some examples:
Hardcore horror and gore;
Night of the Living Dead
Lady Frankenstein
The Driller Killer
Frankenstein ‘80
Horror Express
Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks
Silent Night, Bloody Night
Grave of the Vampire
Drive-In Massacre
Bloody Pit Of Horror
Don’t Look In The Basement
Leptirica
Carnival of Souls
Spider Baby
Dominique is Dead
Savage Weekend
So bad they awesome
Glen or Glenda
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Manos, The Hands of Fate
Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
The Violent Years
Night of the Blood Beast
Terror In The Midnight Sun
The Galaxy Invader
Snow Beast
The Beast of Yucca Flats
Reefer Madness
Marihuana
The Cocaine Fiends
Embryo
Assassin of Youth
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
Jail Bait
Bride of the Monster
-Martial Arts Mayhem!
Black Fist
The Street Fighter
Return of the Street Fighter
The Street Fighter’s Last Revenge
The Real Bruce Lee
Images of Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave
Laser Mission
Kaiju! (Note: only the 'Americanized’ versions of Gamera are PD)
Pulgasari
Gamera The Invincible
Gamera vs Viras
Gappa: The Triphibian Monster/ Monster From a Prehistoric Planet
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