Anyone interested in really old movies?

[RonB]

The Library of Congress has digitized it's film collection and has made it available to the public for free. The films date from 1890 up to 1999. Here's the story:

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-stream...ess-1829985655

[Steve R.]

I don't consider myself a movie buff, but that's pretty cool!

[CaptainMike]

Ah, from back when they would simply tell a story.

[gcdmd]

Speaking of old movies, on a church mission trip to Navajoland this past summer we visited Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly. Another visitor pointed out to me that the rock was featured in an old Gregory Peck movie called "Mackenna's Gold." I got it on Amazon and got a big kick out of watching it. They called Spider Rock "Shaking Rock" in the movie. It ended with an exciting event that was very reminiscent of one of the Indiana Jones movies.

[Huskee]

Includes 90s movies eh? My faves from that general era are Kuffs, Breakfast Club, Ace Ventura and Austin Powers.

[Buck Flicks]

I was a film major for a short time. My favorite part was the intro to film class where we watched a movie every class period, usually classic/groundbreaking flims. Some really old stuff like Metropolis and Birth of a Nation, then some Chaplin flicks which were outstanding. I love old movies. Some aren't so impressive. Many are. But the way films were made before 1970 is just different and interesting to me.

As impressive as today's film making is, I'm far more impressed with old school film making, when they didn't have computers and digital sound and green screens. To me, The Ten Commandments and Jason and the Argonauts are far more impressive displays of special effects than Lord of the Rings (which is still awesome and among my favorite movies) or Avatar or Ready Player One.

I'm going to enjoy checking this out. Thanks for the link!