How many times have you heard 'they don't make 'em like that anymore' concerning movies? Golden Oldies they are called. The Golden Age of Cinema usually refers to the 1930s but we're adding 30 years or so to that and adding some years before them, if possible.
Movies you could bring the whole family to. Movie Stars were larger than life and nobody really cared or knew about their social life. Lines of people were drawn for every John Wayne movie at the theater. People ran to a Jimmy Stewart/Humphrey Bogart/Charlie Chaplin picture. Before the Production Code really splintered America and movies became very explicit, restrictive, parental guided.
These are all trailers, teasers, re-issues, maybe a few clips. They will be labeled. And all movies are available online or at your local vidoe store. It's a history of the movie industry - when it counted. Before the muti-plexes and instant video trivialized it all.
We are ending it in the 1960s when the counter-culture set in and movies were stretching the bounderies of taste and what could be shown. Not that these movies were bad but you had to be careful as to what to go and see. Remember, Midnight Cowboy was the first X-rated movie to win a Best Picture Oscar, and that was 1969! Nowadays, that movie would be rather tame in today's standards.
Here is our first video. A collage of Alfred Hitchcock thrillers making their reapperance to the big screen. Narrated by Mr. James Stewart and brought to you be Universal Pictures. Click here for a bigger presentation. All movies mentioned in this video should have their own trailer
Also, it's your site for showings of movie serials of the past - before the advent of television in the 1950s. Not movie movies but movie shorts, as it were. They are about 15 - 40 minutes in length are in a series, hence it's name - SERIALS.
That is, in general, they end in a cliff hanger and give you a desire to go to the next. We hape to have all of them in a series to show you. Not to download for youself, which you could do here. And we thank them for their rich supply. But we have them here in a Flash format for your viewing enjoyment.
They all should be public domain, meaing owned by no one. But if they are or are more out there that we missed, please zip us an e-mail and we'll promptly act on it.
So sit back and enjoy, if you're into serials and trailers of classic films. We will continue adding videos as long as possible. All in glorious black and white and technocolor.