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Some people are ecstatic over action movies. They are glued to the screen watching things explode. They get heavily into watching people hunt down killer tornados. Watching people get sucked into a void on video games makes their adrenaline flow. But when it comes to choosing between the latest Hollywood hit and curling up before the fire with a fine classic film before them right on their television screen, they just may go with the classic.

Am I a film buff? I don’t think I’d go that far. The classics I’ve seen to date have all been pretty mainstream. Casablanca. Romance on the Orient Express. The Maltese Falcon. But that doesn’t stop me from getting excited when I stumble across them. Or when I stumble across websites taking advantage of the fine print in copyright laws to bring films out into the public domain.

Just What is the Public Domain?

There are actually websites out there specializing in digging out classic films that have newly wended their way into the realm of the public domain. Such sites have set these films before the public so they now have a place to go to find these films to rent or buy and once again bask in their glory. These are films that you probably heard about from your grandparents who saw them on the silver screen way before there was a television set in every den in America. There really, really was such a time, trust me.

The neat thing about this newly resurrected power of public domain is not just that you can see these films only heard about from people living in the days of yore, but you now have the opportunity to show them to your kids so they can get to see what happened on film before the Twilight series and the latest in video games.

What’s the Big Deal About Introducing Classics to Your Kids?

With the huge number of films that Hollywood releases every year, you could reasonably ask, “Why do I care whether my kids get to see the classics or not? Isn’t it enough that they’re going to slog through thousands of pages of classic literature in high school before it’s all said and done? Now I have to worry about forcing them to sit through ancient films too?”

Alright, so if you’re interested enough in classic films to be checking this article out you probably aren’t asking yourself any of those questions. Why? Because you know what it is about classic films that’s so amazingly awesome. It’s the fact that when they were made film makers didn’t have all of the tools at their disposal that they have now. If you’ll remember, early movies had neither color nor sound, much less giant walking robots. As a result, script writers, directors and actors had to work three times as hard to bring their ideas to life.

What these film makers gave us was entertainment as an art form. An art form that made us think thoughts that never struck us before, just like classic literature does.

Public Domain

Ah, the last big feature of this whole classic film on the web thing. The fact that they’re out playing in the public domain.

Public domain is where films go when either they’re not eligible for copyright protection or their copyright has expired, and the lack of distribution restrictions makes it much, much easier for lovers of classic film to get their hands on the motion pictures they’ve been waiting for.

Classic film. Public domain. Check it out.

If you were interested in the preceding post, you may go and look at more similar items at Loving the Classics or this Loving the Classics Reviews Post.

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