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31Jul
British Intelligence (1940)
I finally got a chance to watch this last night since the cable decided to go out, taking the internet with it. This one has been sitting on my iPod for just such an emergency. The film features Boris Karloff as
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22Jun
The Inventor Crazybrains and his Wonderful Airship
My previous post about early color films reminded me of this little jewel I came across some time ago. Unlike the Technicolor wonders that would come decades later, this Georges Méliès film from 1905 achieved its color the old-fashioned way; they
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