Meet John Doe (1941)

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Directed by: Frank Capra. Produced by: Frank Capra. Screenplay by: Robert Riskin. Story by: Richard Connell. Robert Presnell, Sr. Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck. Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin. Cinematography: George Barnes. Editing by: Daniel Mandell. Distributed by: Warner Bros. Release date(s): May 3, 1941. Running time: 122 minutes. Country: United States. Language: English

After being laid off from her job as a newspaper columnist , Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) prints letter from a fictional "John Doe," threatening suicide in protest of society's ills. When the note causes a sensation and the paper's competition suspects a fraud investigates, her boss is forced to rehire Mitchell who comes up with a scheme of hiding the fictional nature of "John Doe" while exploiting the sensation caused by the letter to boost the newspaper's sales and her own salary. After reviewing a number of derelicts who have shown up at the paper claiming to have written the original suicide note, Ann and Henry Connell (James Gleason) decide to hire John Willoughby (Gary Cooper), a former baseball player, now tramp who needs money to repair his injured arm, to play John Doe.

This movie is part of the collection: Comedy Films. Director: Frank Capra. Producer: Frank Capra. Production Company: Warner Brothers. Audio / Visual: sound, black & white, Keywords: Comedy; Romance; Drama.

Creative Commons license: Public Domain.

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Frankenstein (1910)

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Frankenstein is the 1910 film made by Edison Studios, written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. It was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The unbilled cast included Augustus Phillips as Dr. Frankenstein, Charles Ogle as the Monster, and Mary Fuller as the doctor's fiancée.

Shot in three days, it was filmed at the Edison Studios in the Bronx, New York City.

This is Edison's COMPLETE 1910 silent Frankenstein film.
This movie is part of the collection: Silent Films
Producer: Thomas Edison
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Edison; Silent; Horror; Frankenstein

From The Edison Kinetogram:

Frankenstein, a young student, is seen bidding his sweetheart and father goodbye, as he is leaving home to enter a college in order to study the sciences. Shortly after his arrival at college he becomes absorbed in the mysteries of life and death to the extent of forgetting practically everything else.

His great ambition is to create a human being, and finally one night his dream is realized. He is convinced that he has found a way to create a most perfect human being that the world has ever seen. We see his experiment commence and the development of it. To Frankenstein's horror, instead of creating a marvel of physical beauty and grace, there is unfolded before his eyes and before the audience an awful, ghastly, abhorrent monster.

As he realizes what he has done Frankenstein rushes from the room, only to have the misshapen monster peer at him through the curtains of his bed. He falls fainting to the floor, where he is found by his servant, who revives him.

After a few weeks' illness, he returns home, a broken, weary man, but under the loving care of father and sweetheart he regains his health and strength and begins to take a less morbid view of life. In other words, the story of the film brings out the fact that the creation of the monster was only possible because Frankenstein had allowed his normal mind to be overcome by evil and unnatural thoughts. His marriage is soon to take place. But one evening, while sitting in his library, he chances to glance in the mirror before him and sees the reflection of the monster which has just opened the door of his room. All the terror of the past comes over him and, fearing lest his sweetheart should learn the truth, he bids the monster conceal himself behind the curtain while he hurriedly induces his sweetheart, who then comes in, to stay only a moment. The monster, who is following his creator with the devotion of a dog, is insanely jealous of anyone else. He snatches from Frankenstein's coat the rose which his sweetheart has given him, and in the struggle throws Frankenstein to the floor, here the monster looks up and for the first time confronts his own reflection in the mirror. Appalled and horrified at his own image he flees in terror from the room. Not being able, however to live apart from his creator, he again comes to the house on the wedding night and, searching for the cause of his jealousy, goes into the bride's room. Frankenstein coming into the main room hears a shriek of terror, which is followed a moment after by his bride rushing in and falling in a faint at his feet. The monster then enters and after overpowering Frankenstein's feeble efforts by a slight exercise of his gigantic strength leaves the house.

When Frankenstein's love for his bride shall have attained full strength and freedom from impurity it will have such an effect upon his mind that the monster cannot exist. The monster, broken down by his unsuccessful attempts to be with his creator, enters the room, stands before a large mirror and holds out his arms entreatingly. Gradually, the real monster fades away, leaving only the image in the mirror. A moment later Frankenstein himself enters. As he stands directly before the mirror he see's the image of the monster reflected instead of his own. Gradually, however, under the effect of love and his better nature, the monster's image fades and Frankenstein sees himself in his young manhood in the mirror. His bride joins him, and the film ends with their embrace, Frankenstein's mind now being relieved of the awful horror and weight it has been laboring under for so long.

Alice in Wonderland (1903)

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Alice in Wonderland (1903), is a British silent film directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, it was the first movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The film is memorable for its use of special effects, including Alice's shrinking in the Hall of Many Doors, and in her large size, stuck inside of White Rabbit's home, reaching for help through a window.

Only one copy of the film is known to exist with a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive). The British Film Institute has partially restored the movie and its original film tinting on February 24, 2010.

This Image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1923 are copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 (in this case 1911) are now in the public domain.

Directed by: Cecil Hepworth, Percy Stow
Written by: Lewis Carroll (book), Cecil M. Hepworth
Starring: May Clark, Cecil M. Hepworth, Mrs. Cecil Hepworth, Norman Whitten
Cinematography: Cecil M. Hepworth
Distributed by: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, Edison Manufacturing Company, Kleine Optical Company
Release date(s): October 17, 1903
Running time: approx. 8:19 minutes
Country: United Kingdom United Kingdom
Language: Silent film

This movie is part of the collection: Short Format Films
Director: Cecil Hepworth
Producer: Cecil Hepworth
Production Company: Hepworth Manufacturing Co.
Audio/Visual: silent, b/w
Keywords: Alice in Wonderland, silents, BFI, British Film Institute, Lewis Carroll, Tim Burton, Disney, Silent Movie, Cecil Hepworth, Percy Stow, Cheshire Cat, White Rabbit, Hole Queen of Hearts, Frog Footman, Mad Hatter, March Hare.

The Last Man on Earth (1964) VIDEO

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Based on the Richard Matheson science fiction Novel "I am Legend" and later remade as "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston and "I am Legend" with Will Smith. Vincent Price is scientist Robert Morgan (Robert Neville) in a post apocalyptic world, that has been consumed by a plague that has transformed humanity into a race of bloodthirsty vampires. Only Morgan proves immune, and becomes a solitary vampire slayer.

It was filmed in Rome, Italy, and was later released theatrically in the United States by American International Pictures. The film was directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, It has since fallen into the public domain.

Director: Ubaldo Ragona
Audio/Visual: Mono, Black and White
Keywords: horror; Sci-Fi; Drama
Creative Commons license: Public Domain