Every movie in existence (on IMDB) on the net

[tazber]

Posted: 3/18/09 at 9:19am

Sounds like a dream, right?

Besty, you could finally watch Lost Horizon all day, every day!

Borstal, imagine a never-ending supply of cheesy 70s & 80s movies!



It's coming

Updated On: 3/18/09 at 09:19 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/18/09 at 1:03pm

Oh, WOW. Yeah, that would be very cool. I definitely think that once you take the distribution and packaging costs away from the studios, they will likely dig into their vaults and encode some of their lesser known or lesser viewed titles. Whether or not they invest in quality transfers, would depend on the audience, and if they could cover the cost of that effort.

I also know that some of the movies listed on IMDb.com aren't known to exist anymore. I'm referring to many silent films and early talkies. Fox Studios used to have their negatives on nitrate (highly flammable and they decompose quickly) and kept them in a huge vault in NYC. And sometime years later, there was a huge fire. It destroyed most of those older films. I had a dear friend out here in L.A. --- Joe Wagstaff. He passed away not to long ago (close to 100!). Joe was a Broadway hoofer and a protege of George M. Cohan. He was featured in several of his shows as a juvenile and then went off to Hollywood. Joe then starred in some early movie musicals "A Song of Kentucky" and "Let's Go Places." Both films (and another early Irving Berlin film he did) are believed to be lost now, due to that fire.

So sad. But Internet distribution should make the daunting task of presenting all films "known to exist today" more possible. And even likely, given time.

Oh, and ... nice av, by the way, tazzy!



A big "merci!"

[KrissySim]

Posted: 3/18/09 at 3:06pm

"Developing a relationship with rights owners also could prove to be challenging"

This could be an understatement.

However, many of the early films are probably in the public domain, if they can just get ahold of a good copy, which also may prove challenging.

Interesting idea, though.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/18/09 at 7:21pm

This is of no interest to me unless it includes the complete filmography of The Other Hollywood. The one that featured the work of stars that would have been household names were it not for Jack Valenti's vicious Puritanical streak:

Annette Haven, Samantha Fox, Richard Locke, Marilyn Chambers, Harry Reems, Casey Donovan, Al Parker, Annie Sprinkles, Jack Wrangler...

The list goes on. If their movies aren't included, the story is abridged.