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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557
title: Scarlet Street (1945)
uri: Scarlet-Street-(1945)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/21/scarlet-street-1945/
content:
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Widely regarded as one of Fritz Lang&#8217;s best films, Scarlet Street is based on the French novel La Chienne (The Bitch) by Georges de La Fouchardière. Somewhere between film noir and black comedy, the plot revolves around a man in mid-life crisis who befriends a young woman whose fiancé persuades her to con him out of some of the fortune she thinks he has.<br />
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25 secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1"></td><td class="column-2"></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4"></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552
title: Are You Popular? (1947)
uri: Are-You-Popular-(1947)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/21/are-you-popular-1947/
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One of the best examples of post-World War II social guidance films &#8211; jam-packed full of useful tips. From the <a href="http://www.prelinger.com/">Prelinger Archives</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/AreYouPo1947">Download from Internet Archive</a>
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25 secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1"></td><td class="column-2"></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4"></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547
title: Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901)
uri: Trapeze-Disrobing-Act-(1901)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/21/trapeze-disrobing-act-1901/
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A naughty little skit from 1901 filmed by the Edison company.<br />
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<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/SF120">Download from Internet Archive</a>
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		<th class="column-1">CLIPS</th><th class="column-2">SHORT</th><th class="column-3">FULL LENGTH SILENT</th><th class="column-4">FULL LENGTH TALKIE</th>
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25 secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4"></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1657
title: Men in Wigs
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/24/men-in-wigs/
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1288"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6209/6023844250_a340b6cfc8_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Spirit Photographs of William Hope<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1301"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6021/5963926880_6796ce887a_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Maps of Piri Reis<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1315"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6025/5963926888_f9a9db72f1_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1330"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6007/5963926890_2141effc6c_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Art in Art<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1359"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6192/6024864047_73cc2bce65_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Huexotzinco Codex<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1373"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6187/6024864049_7667e37edc_o.jpg"></a><br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/09/sessions-for-the-blind-at-sunderland-museum/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6075/6024903179_9793619652_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Eugène von Guérard's Australian Landscapes<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1468"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6193/6045423237_850760a2a1_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Landscape and Marine Views of Norway<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1513"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/6049185090_2740e7c0e7_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Mechanism of Human Physiognomy<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/19/the-mechanism-of-human-physiognomy/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6059149653_5b7e4f63e0_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Space Colony Art from the 1970s<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1643"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6063/6072822813_748425d648_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Men in Wigs<br />
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title: Space Colony Art from the 1970s
uri: Space-Colony-Art-from-the-1970s
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/23/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/
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In the 1970′s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University held a series of space colony summer studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed and a number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. (More images and higher resolutions are available from <a href="http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sArt/art.html">here</a>).
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1288"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6209/6023844250_a340b6cfc8_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Spirit Photographs of William Hope<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1301"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6021/5963926880_6796ce887a_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Maps of Piri Reis<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1315"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6025/5963926888_f9a9db72f1_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1330"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6007/5963926890_2141effc6c_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Art in Art<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1359"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6192/6024864047_73cc2bce65_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Huexotzinco Codex<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1373"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6187/6024864049_7667e37edc_o.jpg"></a><br />
</td><td class="column-3">Sessions for the Blind at Sunderland Museum<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/09/sessions-for-the-blind-at-sunderland-museum/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6075/6024903179_9793619652_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Eugène von Guérard's Australian Landscapes<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1468"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6193/6045423237_850760a2a1_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Landscape and Marine Views of Norway<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1513"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/6049185090_2740e7c0e7_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Mechanism of Human Physiognomy<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/19/the-mechanism-of-human-physiognomy/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6059149653_5b7e4f63e0_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Space Colony Art from the 1970s<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1643"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6063/6072822813_748425d648_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Men in Wigs<br />
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703
title: Faust (1926)
uri: Faust-(1926)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/26/faust-1926/
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F.W. Murnau&#8217;s telling of the classic German legend, starring Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her mother, Wilhelm Dieterle as her brother and Yvette Guilbert as Marthe Schwerdtlein, her aunt. Murnau&#8217;s film draws on older traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on Goethe&#8217;s classic version. Considered by many to be his best film, outshining even his more well known &#8220;Nostferatu&#8221;.
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		<th class="column-1">CLIPS</th><th class="column-2">SHORT</th><th class="column-3">FULL LENGTH SILENT</th><th class="column-4">FULL LENGTH TALKIE</th>
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs<br />
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<img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/20/items/AnnieOakley/AnnieOakley.thumbs/AnnieOakley_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 13min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1719"><br />
<img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/4/items/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz.thumbs/WizardOfOz1910_000720.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1715"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6090641136_9922b754c8_o.jpg"></a></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1679
title: Antony’s Address Over The Body of Caesar (1914)
uri: Antony-s-Address-Over-The-Body-of-Caesar-(1914)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/26/antonys-address-over-the-body-of-caesar-1914/
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Marc Antony&#8217;s famous speech from William Shakespeare&#8217;s Tragedy of Julius Caesar, performed by Harry E. Humphrey in 1914
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		<td class="column-1">Beela Boola by the Electric City 4 (1920)<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/beela-boola-electric-city-4-1920/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6009/5984449950_1837afe78f_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Hungarian Rag -  Pietro Deiro (1913)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=880"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6008/5984449948_3ebd04de8b_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">As a Porcupine Pines for its Pork - Billy Jones &amp; Ernest Hare<br />
(1925)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/as-a-porcupine-pines-for-its-pork-billy-jones-ernest-hare-1925/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6028/5984449946_52bcbdf103_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Popeye, the Sailor Man - Al Dollar &amp; His Ten Cent Band with Billy Murray (1931)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/popeye-the-sailor-man-al-dollar-his-ten-cent-band-with-billy-murray-1931/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6012/5984449942_e7c19a2fdc_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Chopins Funeral March - The Edison Concert Band (1906)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/chopins-funeral-march-the-edison-concert-band-1906/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6138/5998067338_c167fce69d_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Houdini on his Water Torture Cell (1914)<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/houdini-on-his-water-torture-cell-1914/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6009/5998067350_7d43c56428_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Lomax Collection Recording of English, Sample 8<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1067"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6020/5998067356_9b9ae1d919_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Enrico Caruso - A Dream (1920)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1074"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/5997518817_b6d0667f34_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">La Paloma (1903)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1240"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6135/6016850955_d7c0df1a2c_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Orson Welles Show (1941)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1225"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6027/6017404284_da30a310cc_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Tokyo Rose (1944)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1243"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6125/6016850941_a2c4a9bb4f_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Fats Waller and His Orchestra live at The Yacht Club (1938)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1247"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6005/6016980547_ddd9858761_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Very early recording of George Gershwin's  Rhapsody In Blue (1924)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/15/rudolph-valentino-1923/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6046238300_1a8bf811d7_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Aiaihea - The Hawaiian Quintette (1913)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1614"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6069171663_28964f0117_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Antony's Address Over The Body of Caesar (1914)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1679"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6064/6082150301_30f4211e29_o.jpg"></a></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1771
title: Charlie and his Orchestra
uri: Charlie-and-his-Orchestra
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/01/charlie-and-his-orchestra/
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1. Indian Love Call 3:19
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2. Japanese Sandman 3:16
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3. Makin Whoopee    3:07
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4. Nice People (incomplete) 1:30
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5. South Of The Border  2:55
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6. Stardust 3:26
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7. Tea for Two  2:56
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Charlie and his Orchestra (also referred to as the &#8220;Templin band&#8221; and &#8220;Bruno and His Swinging Tigers&#8221;) were a Nazi-sponsored German propaganda swing band, who were broadcast by Joseph Goebbels on short-wave to British listeners every Wednesday and Saturday at around 9pm. As an official Reichsministerium band, the group made over 90 recordings between March 1941 and February 1943. The purpose of the band was to stir pro-Nazi sympathy, draw attention to World War II Allied losses, convince listeners that Great Britain was a pawn for American and Jewish interests, and carry German dictator Adolf Hitler&#8217;s messages in an entertaining form. The songs stressed how badly the war was going for the target audience, and how it was only going to be a matter of time before they would be beaten. American swing and popular British songs were initially performed true to the original, until about the second or third stanza where pro-German lyrics and monologues would be introduced. Apparently, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill enjoyed the broadcasts, finding the lyrics hilarious.


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		<td class="column-1">Beela Boola by the Electric City 4 (1920)<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/beela-boola-electric-city-4-1920/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6009/5984449950_1837afe78f_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Hungarian Rag -  Pietro Deiro (1913)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=880"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6008/5984449948_3ebd04de8b_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">As a Porcupine Pines for its Pork - Billy Jones &amp; Ernest Hare<br />
(1925)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/as-a-porcupine-pines-for-its-pork-billy-jones-ernest-hare-1925/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6028/5984449946_52bcbdf103_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Popeye, the Sailor Man - Al Dollar &amp; His Ten Cent Band with Billy Murray (1931)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/popeye-the-sailor-man-al-dollar-his-ten-cent-band-with-billy-murray-1931/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6012/5984449942_e7c19a2fdc_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Chopins Funeral March - The Edison Concert Band (1906)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/chopins-funeral-march-the-edison-concert-band-1906/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6138/5998067338_c167fce69d_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Houdini on his Water Torture Cell (1914)<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/houdini-on-his-water-torture-cell-1914/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6009/5998067350_7d43c56428_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Lomax Collection Recording of English, Sample 8<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1067"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6020/5998067356_9b9ae1d919_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Enrico Caruso - A Dream (1920)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1074"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/5997518817_b6d0667f34_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">La Paloma (1903)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1240"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6135/6016850955_d7c0df1a2c_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Orson Welles Show (1941)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1225"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6027/6017404284_da30a310cc_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Tokyo Rose (1944)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1243"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6125/6016850941_a2c4a9bb4f_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Fats Waller and His Orchestra live at The Yacht Club (1938)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1247"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6005/6016980547_ddd9858761_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Very early recording of George Gershwin's  Rhapsody In Blue (1924)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1493"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6206/6046238304_f151e60106_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Rudolph Valentino singing (1923)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/15/rudolph-valentino-1923/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6046238300_1a8bf811d7_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Aiaihea - The Hawaiian Quintette (1913)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1614"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6069171663_28964f0117_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Antony's Address Over The Body of Caesar (1914)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1679"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6064/6082150301_30f4211e29_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Charlie and His Orchestra<br />
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1760
title: Giambattista della Porta’s De humana physiognomonia libri IIII (1586)
uri: Giambattista-della-Porta-s-De-humana-physiognomonia-libri-IIII-(1586
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Giambattista della Porta (1535–1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta and John Baptist Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Scientific Revolution and Reformation. These are pages from his book on physiognomy De humana physiognomonia libri IIII. (Photos courtesy of the <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/porta_home.html">National Library of Medicine</a> via <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:De_humana_physiognomonia_libri_IIII">Wikimedia</a>). 
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		<td class="column-1">Operation Doorstep<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1288"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6209/6023844250_a340b6cfc8_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Spirit Photographs of William Hope<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1301"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6021/5963926880_6796ce887a_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Maps of Piri Reis<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1315"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6025/5963926888_f9a9db72f1_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1330"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6007/5963926890_2141effc6c_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Art in Art<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1359"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6192/6024864047_73cc2bce65_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Huexotzinco Codex<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1373"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6187/6024864049_7667e37edc_o.jpg"></a><br />
</td><td class="column-3">Sessions for the Blind at Sunderland Museum<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/09/sessions-for-the-blind-at-sunderland-museum/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6075/6024903179_9793619652_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Eugène von Guérard's Australian Landscapes<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1468"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6193/6045423237_850760a2a1_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Landscape and Marine Views of Norway<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1513"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/6049185090_2740e7c0e7_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Mechanism of Human Physiognomy<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/19/the-mechanism-of-human-physiognomy/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6059149653_5b7e4f63e0_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Space Colony Art from the 1970s<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1643"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6063/6072822813_748425d648_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Men in Wigs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1657"><br />
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		<td class="column-1">De humana physiognomonia libri IIII (1586)<br />
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1754
title: Pirates (1922)
uri: Pirates-(1922)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/30/pirates-1922/
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<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Pirates, The Lives and Adventures of Sundry Notorious Pirates, by Captain Charles Johnson and C. Lovat Fraser; 1922; Robert M. McBride and Company, New York.</span>

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Published in 1922, based on the writings of Captain Charles Johnson from 1735, with additional foreword and illustrations from C.Lovat Fraser. 
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		<td class="column-1">Letters From a Cat (1879)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/letters-from-a-cat/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/5926255857_dd107bbcd5_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Castaway on the Auckland Isles: A Narrative of the Wreck of the "Grafton," (1865)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/castaway-on-the-auckland-isles-a-narrative-of-the-wreck-of-the-grafton-1865"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6014/5963292991_2926d4d77d_o.jpg"><br />
</a></td><td class="column-3">Infant's Cabinet of Birds and Beasts (1820)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/infants-cabine…-beasts-1820-2/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6137/5963292985_e427baf1da_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Old French Fairytales (1920)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/old-french-fairytales-1920/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/5963292975_0047a86d70_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Armata: a fragment (1817)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/armata-a-fragment-1817/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5977796996_e0a0fc40cd_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism (1803)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/an-account-of-the-late-improvements-in-galvanism-1803/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6027/5977796994_62597592db_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Medical Aspects of Death, and the Medical Aspects of the Human Mind (1852)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-medical-aspects-of-death-and-the-medical-aspects-of-the-human-mind-1852"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6122/5977796990_d34ea609b4_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quarles' Emblems (1886)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/quarles-emblems-1886/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6129/5977796992_cda35bfc9d_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Cat and bird stories from the "Spectator" (1896)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1198"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/6011153785_75aab450ee_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1200"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/6011153783_3c0847e432_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Book of Topiary (1904)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1202"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6145/6011153777_a727143f9d_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (1899)<br />
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		<td class="column-1">English as She is Spoke (1884)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1431"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6083/6046055812_6639c33965_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Danger of Premature Interment (1816)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1503"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6062/6046366952_ba41be4694_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Last American (1889)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/19/the-last-american/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6066/6059266721_1e7b1015c2_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Pirates (1922)<br />
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1701
title: Geronimo: The Warrior
uri: Geronimo-The-Warrior
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/29/geronimo-the-warrior/
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<p><strong>In 1906 Geronimo published his autobiography recounting the fascinating story of his life, from his years as a resistance fighter, to his capture and subsequent period of celebrity in which he appeared at the 1904 St Louis World Fair and met President Roosevelt. Edward Rielly, author of Legends of American Indian Resistance, tells of the tragic massacre which underpinned his life.</strong></p>

<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 550px"><img alt="" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6069/6085578370_6b12815076_o.jpg" width="540" height="720" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Photograph of Geronimo kneeling with his rifle, taken in 1887 by Ben Wittick (1845–1903)</p></div>

<p>Geronimo (1829-1909), whose given name was Goyahkla, sometimes spelled Goyathlay, is one of the most famous figures in the history of the American Indian resistance effort. His name is virtually synonymous with that of a warrior, so much so that his name has been appropriated for a wide range of military (or simply adventuresome) endeavors. Geronimo’s reputation is well deserved, for his very name excited fear in settlers both north and south of the U.S-Mexican border. He was hated by Euro-Americans and even by some Apaches, who blamed him for continuing to stoke the fires of warfare after ultimate defeat of the Apaches seemed inevitable. In addition, he lacked the social and political leadership skills of a Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce and the multidimensional qualities (including the spiritual character) of a Sitting Bull, the great Lakota leader who served as the magnet attracting huge numbers of Plains Indians to him, a force that would secure the most famous resistance victory ever against the U.S. military &#8211; at Little Bighorn in 1876.</p>

<p>Geronimo was primarily a fighter, a lasting reputation that led American paratroopers in World War II to call out the name “Geronimo” before plunging from their planes. Schoolchildren, for decades after Geronimo’s death, would similarly yell his name before undertaking a real or imagined feat of bravery, such as leaping from a swing into a river. A much more recent, and highly controversial, use of Geronimo’s name was its employment by the U.S. military as a code name linked to the 2011 operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.</p>

<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 550px"><img alt="" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6088/6085578368_7474f0f147_o.jpg" width="540" height="329" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Geronimo (right) with his warriors in 1886. (Source: Arizona Historical Society)</p></div>

<p>The association of Geronimo’s name with that of the hated terrorist elicited considerable resentment by a wide range of organizations and individuals, including the National Congress of American Indians, the Onondaga National Council of chiefs, Native American publications, Fort Sill Apache Tribal Chairman Jeff Houser, and Geronimo’s great-grandson Harlyn Geronimo. Their response was so intense that the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs took up the issue at a hearing previously scheduled to discuss use of Indian names and images as sports mascots and in other areas of popular culture. Defense Department officials argued that they had intended no disrespect to Geronimo and had named the total operation against bin Laden Operation Neptune Spear, further naming each step alphabetically. The “G” step involved the capture or killing of bin Laden and was coded with the Indian leader’s name, an explanation that did not do much to satisfy those who had raised objections to the use of Geronimo’s name.</p>

<p>So what led Geronimo onto the path that would lead from the battlefields of Mexico and the Southwest to a raid into Pakistan? Although it would be serious oversimplification to reduce all of Geronimo’s public life to one incident, certainly his life as a warrior was deeply influenced by a very personal event — an attack on an Apache camp by a Mexican general, José María Carrasco.</p>

<p>For years, Apaches had been both trading with and fighting Mexicans. As soon as he reached adulthood, at about the age of seventeen, Goyahkla, who was not yet known as Geronimo, was accepted as a warrior and entered into this dual relationship with Mexicans. About two years earlier, around 1844, Goyahkla’s father, Taklishim, had died of an illness, and Goyahkla assumed responsibility for his mother, Juana (Juanita). Geronimo’s autobiography &#8211; dictated to Stephen M. Barrett, superintendent of schools in Lawton, Oklahoma, with Asa Adklugie, a former student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, translating, and published in 1906 &#8211; shows a son deeply committed to his mother.</p>

<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 550px"><img alt="" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6184/6090072027_e458d4f8f8_o.jpg" width="540" height="353" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Geronimo with Stephen M. Barrett and Asa Adklugie dictating his auto-biography, as pictured in the book itself.</p></div>

<p>Shortly after becoming a warrior, Goyahkla married a young Nednai Apache, Alope, giving a herd of ponies — a substantial sum — to her father, Noposo, for the privilege of wedding her, the price, according to his autobiography, set so high because she was a good daughter and her father perhaps wanted to keep her with him. Goyahkla and Alope had been lovers for some time, and he records in the autobiography that his greatest joy upon arriving at adulthood was that he could marry her. Goyahkla took Alope to live near his mother. His bride decorated their tipi with beads and pictures drawn on buckskin. She was a good wife, he notes, and they were happy together with their three children.</p>

<p>When Goyahkla crossed into Mexico again around 1850 (Geronimo in his autobiography cites 1858 but is often off in his dating), he had no reason to suspect anything out of the usual. Traveling in a large group under Mangas Coloradas, the Apaches — including members of the Bedonkohe band to which Goyahkla belonged and the Nednai band, both subdivisions of the Chiricahua Apaches — passed through Sonora on their way to Casas Grandes. They camped at what is generally believed to be Janos (but referred to as Kaskiyeh in the autobiography), and many of the men went into town to trade. This went on for several days, each time a guard of men staying behind to protect the women, children, and supplies.</p>

<p>One afternoon, however, as the men were returning to camp, they met some women and children fleeing from Mexican troops who had attacked the camp, killing the guards as well as many of the women and children, destroying supplies, and stealing the Apaches’ ponies. When Goyahkla reached the camp, he discovered his wife, mother, and three children all dead. He tells in his autobiography of going off by himself and standing by a river. Geronimo, so many years after the event, does not say what he was feeling at that river, but his understated description clearly speaks powerfully to a great grief and sense of loss.</p>

<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 562px"><img alt="" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6085090617_590ab4e80e_o.jpg" width="552" height="475" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Photograph of Geronimo taken by Frank A. Rinehart in 1898. (Source: Rinehart Indian Photographs collection, Haskell Indian Nations University)</p></div>

<p>Without supplies and with most of their weapons and ponies lost, the survivors turned back toward Arizona. The elderly Geronimo recalls how he was unable to pray or devise any plan of action at the moment — devoid of purpose, he followed his comrades silently, staying by himself just within hearing of the now much smaller group.</p>

<p>Arriving at his home, Goyahkla gazed, certainly with great sorrow, at Alope’s decorations and their children’s toy before burning them, along with his tipi and his mother’s. Never again, Geronimo notes in his autobiography, would he feel content in his own home. Then, turning from his immediate grief, he vowed revenge on the Mexicans. A year later, Goyahkla returned to Mexico within a large war party and began to exact that revenge. It reportedly was during this excursion into Mexico that his enemies began calling him Geronimo, although no definitive explanation for the naming has ever been given. The name stuck, and Geronimo would continue his battles against Mexicans and, before long, settlers and soldiers of the United States who invaded his homeland, earning the warrior’s reputation that would stay with him throughout his life and into the twenty-first century, even into places that Geronimo could never have imagined, such as Pakistan.</p>

<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 550px"><img alt="" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6198/6085090623_67305f29a5_o.jpg" width="540" height="409" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Left: Photo taken by WH Martin of Geronimo as a US prisoner in 1905 (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress). Right: Photo by Edward S. Curtis of Geronimo at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1905, the day before the inauguration of President Roosevelt, and the inaugural parade of which Geronimo was to take part (Source: Northwestern University Library, The North American Indian: the Photographic Images, 2001)</p></div>

<p>At first glance, Geronimo seems an unlikely candidate to compose his life story and be willing to share it with those whom he had been fighting for most of his adult life. There is a great desire, however, in many people, perhaps in most, to want to set the record straight and be understood and Geronimo seems to have been no different in this regard. He also expressed his hope that his story might persuade the government to allow him and other Apaches to return to their native Southwest to live. In addition, Geronimo saw his autobiography as a way to make money; during his late years as a prisoner, he had learned the power of money and had taken to selling photographs, buttons, and other souvenirs. Consequently, when Barrett raised the possibility of telling his story, Geronimo insisted that he be paid for doing so. Geronimo&#8217;s occasional suspicions that Superintendent Barrett may have wanted his story in order to do him harm were softened by the presence of translator Asa Adklugie, who was a son of Juh (also spelled Whoa), a longtime Geronimo friend, ally, and cousin by marriage.  Fully aware that he was hated by many and at the mercy of the government, Geronimo was politically astute as he narrated his exploits, focusing in detail on his battles with Mexicans but remaining generally reticent concerning encounters with the U.S. military.</p>

<p>Still, the autobiography probably would never have been published without the support of President Theodore Roosevelt. Barrett&#8217;s request to write Geronimo&#8217;s life was rejected by the military, but an appeal to the president brought the desired permission. Responding later to the complete manuscript, President Roosevelt again offered his support but with the suggestion that Barrett clarify that opinions expressed in the book were Geronimo&#8217;s alone.  Roosevelt was not hard to convince. Prior to Barrett¹s request, Roosevelt had himself made a request that Geronimo ride in his inaugural parade in March 1905, which the Apache leader did. Before leaving Washington, Geronimo met with the president and made a plea to be permitted to return to his homeland.  Roosevelt listened compassionately but refused, explaining that he feared reprisals against the Apaches by area residents if they returned. When the autobiography was published in 1906, Geronimo, still trying, and apparently believing that the president might relent, dedicated his narrative to President Roosevelt.</p>

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<p><em>Edward Rielly is a professor of English at Saint Joseph¹s College of Maine. He has published about two dozen books, including several volumes of his own poetry.  His nonfiction works include Sitting Bull: A Biography (Greenwood, 2007) and Legends of American Indian Resistance (ABC-CLIO, 2011).  The latter includes a chapter on Geronimo.</em></p>

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<li><em>Geronimo&#8217;s Story of his Life</em> (1906)

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title: Annie Oakley (1894)
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/28/annie-oakley-1894/
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Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison&#8217;s Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Barely five feet tall, Annie was always associated with the wild west, although she was born in 1860 as Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee (or Moses)in Darke County, Ohio. Nevertheless, she was a staple in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and similar wild west companies. Because of her diminutive stature, she was billed as &#8220;Little Sure Shot.&#8221;

The man assisting her is this appearance is probably her husband, Frank E. Butler. Annie had outshot Butler (a famous dead-eye marksman himself) in a shooting contest in the 1880&#8242;s. Instead of nursing his bruised ego because he had been throughly outgunned by a woman, Butler fell in love, married Little Sure Shot, and became her manager. Theirs was a solid and happy marriage that lasted 44 years, and when Annie died on November 3, 1926, at age 66, a heartbroken Butler followed her to the grave 18 days later.

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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min<br />
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title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
uri: The-Wonderful-Wizard-of-Oz-(1910)
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This is the earliest surviving film version of L. Frank Baum&#8217;s 1900 novel, made by the Selig Polyscope Company but without Baum&#8217;s direct input. It was created to fulfil a contractual obligation associated with Baum&#8217;s personal bankruptcy caused by The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, from which it was once thought to have been derived. It was partly based on the 1902 stage musical, though much of the film deals with the Wicked Witch of the West, who does not appear in the musical.
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		<th class="column-1">CLIPS</th><th class="column-2">SHORT</th><th class="column-3">FULL LENGTH SILENT</th><th class="column-4">FULL LENGTH TALKIE</th>
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1721"><br />
<img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/20/items/AnnieOakley/AnnieOakley.thumbs/AnnieOakley_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 13min<br />
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<img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/4/items/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz.thumbs/WizardOfOz1910_000720.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1715"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6090641136_9922b754c8_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Operation Cue (1955) 52sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1812"><img src="http://ia700301.us.archive.org/5/items/CEP_00_071/CEP_00_071.thumbs/CEP_00_071_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Never Weaken (1921) 28min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1827"><img src="http://ia600309.us.archive.org/22/items/Never_Weaken_1921/Never_Weaken_1921.thumbs/Never_Weaken_1921_001260.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Intolerance (1916) 2hr57min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1820"><br />
<img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/11/items/Intolerance/Intolerance.thumbs/Intolerance_010500.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quicksand (1950) 1hr18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1816"><img src="http://ia700406.us.archive.org/14/items/Quicksand_clear/Quicksand_clear.thumbs/Quicksand_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1715
title: The Last Man on Earth (1964)
uri: The-Last-Man-on-Earth-(1964)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/28/the-last-man-on-earth-1964/
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Based on the chilling Richard Matheson science fiction classic &#8220;I am Legend&#8221;.  This classic, much more faithful than later film versions (such as the recent effort starring Will Smith), features the excellent Vincent Price as scientist Robert Morgan in a post apocalyptic nightmare world. The world has been consumed by a ravenous plague that has transformed humanity into a race of bloodthirsty vampires. Only Morgan proves immune, and becomes the solitary vampire slayer.
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1721"><br />
<img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/20/items/AnnieOakley/AnnieOakley.thumbs/AnnieOakley_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 13min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1719"><br />
<img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/4/items/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz.thumbs/WizardOfOz1910_000720.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min<br />
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1812
title: Operation Cue (1955)
uri: Operation-Cue-(1955)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/04/operation-cue-1955/
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Original color version of the 1955 atom bomb test in Nevada, showing the effects on test houses and utilities located at various distances from the blast. Operation Cue was one of a myriad of smaller tests conducted under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission&#8217;s (AEC) developmental program, Operation Teapot.

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		<th class="column-1">CLIPS</th><th class="column-2">SHORT</th><th class="column-3">FULL LENGTH SILENT</th><th class="column-4">FULL LENGTH TALKIE</th>
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1721"><br />
<img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/20/items/AnnieOakley/AnnieOakley.thumbs/AnnieOakley_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 13min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1719"><br />
<img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/4/items/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz.thumbs/WizardOfOz1910_000720.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1715"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6090641136_9922b754c8_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Operation Cue (1955) 52sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1812"><img src="http://ia700301.us.archive.org/5/items/CEP_00_071/CEP_00_071.thumbs/CEP_00_071_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Never Weaken (1921) 28min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1827"><img src="http://ia600309.us.archive.org/22/items/Never_Weaken_1921/Never_Weaken_1921.thumbs/Never_Weaken_1921_001260.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Intolerance (1916) 2hr57min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1820"><br />
<img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/11/items/Intolerance/Intolerance.thumbs/Intolerance_010500.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quicksand (1950) 1hr18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1816"><img src="http://ia700406.us.archive.org/14/items/Quicksand_clear/Quicksand_clear.thumbs/Quicksand_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1"></td><td class="column-2"></td><td class="column-3">The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 1hr46min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1943"><img src="http://ia700208.us.archive.org/23/items/ThePhantomoftheOpera/ThePhantomoftheOpera.thumbs/Phantom_of_the_Opera_001320.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Suddenly (1954) 1hr16mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1279"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/10/items/suddenly/suddenly.thumbs/suddenly_004320.jpg"></a><br />
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title: Quicksand (1950)
uri: Quicksand-(1950)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/04/quicksand-1950/
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Film noir directed by Irving Pichel starring Mickey Rooney, in what many consider to be the best performance of his career, Peter Lorre, and Jeanne Cagney. Needing money for a date, Rooney borrows $20 from the cash register, starting a chain of events that includes car theft, burglary, and possibly murder. 

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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1721"><br />
<img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/20/items/AnnieOakley/AnnieOakley.thumbs/AnnieOakley_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 13min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1719"><br />
<img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/4/items/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz.thumbs/WizardOfOz1910_000720.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1715"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6090641136_9922b754c8_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Operation Cue (1955) 52sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1812"><img src="http://ia700301.us.archive.org/5/items/CEP_00_071/CEP_00_071.thumbs/CEP_00_071_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Never Weaken (1921) 28min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1827"><img src="http://ia600309.us.archive.org/22/items/Never_Weaken_1921/Never_Weaken_1921.thumbs/Never_Weaken_1921_001260.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Intolerance (1916) 2hr57min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1820"><br />
<img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/11/items/Intolerance/Intolerance.thumbs/Intolerance_010500.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quicksand (1950) 1hr18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1816"><img src="http://ia700406.us.archive.org/14/items/Quicksand_clear/Quicksand_clear.thumbs/Quicksand_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1"></td><td class="column-2"></td><td class="column-3">The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 1hr46min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1943"><img src="http://ia700208.us.archive.org/23/items/ThePhantomoftheOpera/ThePhantomoftheOpera.thumbs/Phantom_of_the_Opera_001320.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Suddenly (1954) 1hr16mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1279"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/10/items/suddenly/suddenly.thumbs/suddenly_004320.jpg"></a><br />
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1827
title: Never Weaken (1921)
uri: Never-Weaken-(1921)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/04/never-weaken-1921/
content:
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American comedian Harold Lloyd&#8217;s last short film before he moved permanently into feature-length production. It is one of his trademark &#8220;thrill&#8221; comedies, featuring him dangling from a tall building, `a technique which he was to perfect two years later in his classic Saftey First! from 1923. The plot revolves around his attempts to commit suicide after he finds out the woman he loves will marry another. Available also with an added soundtrack <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/NeverWeaken">here</a>.
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1721"><br />
<img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/20/items/AnnieOakley/AnnieOakley.thumbs/AnnieOakley_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 13min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1719"><br />
<img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/4/items/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz.thumbs/WizardOfOz1910_000720.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1715"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6090641136_9922b754c8_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Operation Cue (1955) 52sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1812"><img src="http://ia700301.us.archive.org/5/items/CEP_00_071/CEP_00_071.thumbs/CEP_00_071_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Never Weaken (1921) 28min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1827"><img src="http://ia600309.us.archive.org/22/items/Never_Weaken_1921/Never_Weaken_1921.thumbs/Never_Weaken_1921_001260.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Intolerance (1916) 2hr57min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1820"><br />
<img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/11/items/Intolerance/Intolerance.thumbs/Intolerance_010500.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quicksand (1950) 1hr18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1816"><img src="http://ia700406.us.archive.org/14/items/Quicksand_clear/Quicksand_clear.thumbs/Quicksand_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1820
title: Intolerance (1916)
uri: Intolerance-(1916)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/04/intolerance-1916/
content:
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Director D.W. Griffith is perhaps most know for his groundbreaking but controversial film &#8220;Birth of Nations&#8221; (1915), but his follow up Intolerance (1916) (which can be seen perhaps partly as a response to accusations of perpetuating racial stereotypes and glorifying the Klu Klux Klan in Birth of Nations) is considered by many to be his masterpiece, and indeed the greatest film of the whole silent era. Griffiths mammoth film, also subtitled: &#8220;A Sun-Play of the Ages&#8221; and &#8220;Love&#8217;s Struggle Throughout the Ages.&#8221;, consists of four distinct but parallel stories that demonstrated mankind&#8217;s intolerance during four different ages in world history. Intolerance was a colossal undertaking filled with monumental sets, lavish period costumes, and more than 3,000 extras.

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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-5">
		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-6">
		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-7">
		<td class="column-1">Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1721"><br />
<img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/20/items/AnnieOakley/AnnieOakley.thumbs/AnnieOakley_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 13min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1719"><br />
<img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/4/items/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz.thumbs/WizardOfOz1910_000720.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1715"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6090641136_9922b754c8_o.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-8">
		<td class="column-1">Operation Cue (1955) 52sec<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1812"><img src="http://ia700301.us.archive.org/5/items/CEP_00_071/CEP_00_071.thumbs/CEP_00_071_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Never Weaken (1921) 28min<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1827"><img src="http://ia600309.us.archive.org/22/items/Never_Weaken_1921/Never_Weaken_1921.thumbs/Never_Weaken_1921_001260.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Intolerance (1916) 2hr57min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1820"><br />
<img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/11/items/Intolerance/Intolerance.thumbs/Intolerance_010500.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quicksand (1950) 1hr18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1816"><img src="http://ia700406.us.archive.org/14/items/Quicksand_clear/Quicksand_clear.thumbs/Quicksand_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1737
title: Dog Stories from The Spectator
uri: Dog-Stories-from-The-Spectator
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/05/dog-stories-from-the-spectator/
content:
<p><strong>Dogs who shop, bury frogs, and take 800-mile solo round trips by rail &#8211; writer and broadcaster Frank Key gives a brief tour of the strange and delightful <em>Dog Stories from The Spectator</em>.</strong></p>

<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 550px"><img alt="" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6208/6095545793_826dee3037_o.jpg" width="540" height="489" /><p class="wp-caption-text"><em>Dogs Belonging to the Medici Family in the Boboli Gardens</em> by Tiberio Di Tito (1573–1627)</p></div>

<p>Here is a puzzle:</p>

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  <p>[Feb. 2, 1895.] I venture to send you the following story I have lately heard from an eye-witness, and to ask whether you or any of your readers can throw any light upon the dog’s probable object. The dog in question was a Scotch terrier. He was one day observed to appear from a corner of the garden carrying in his mouth, very gently and tenderly, a live frog. He proceeded to lay the frog down upon a flower-bed, and at once began to dig a hole in the earth, keeping one eye upon the frog to see that it did not escape. If it went more than a few feet from him, he fetched it back, and then continued his work. Having dug the hole a certain depth, he then laid the frog, still alive, at the bottom of it, and promptly scratched the loose earth back into the hole, and friend froggy was buried alive! The dog then went off to the corner of the garden, and returned with another frog, which he treated in the same way. This occurred on more than one occasion; in fact, as often as he could find frogs he occupied himself in burying them alive. Now dogs generally have some reason for what they do. What can have been a dog’s reason for burying frogs alive? It does not appear that he ever dug them up again to provide himself with a meal. If, sir, you or any of your readers can throw any light on this curious, and for the frogs most uncomfortable, behaviour of my friend’s Scotch terrier, I should be very much obliged. – R. Acland-Troyte.</p>
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<p>It appears in a curious volume entitled <em>Dog Stories From The Spectator : Being Anecdotes Of The Intelligence, Reasoning Power, Affection And Sympathy Of Dogs, Selected From The Correspondence Columns Of The Spectator by J St Loe Strachey</em> (1895). Strachey&#8217;s purpose, as given in his introduction, is to provide “no little entertainment for all who love dogs”, and in this he surely succeeds. Indeed, one may have no liking for dogs whatsoever, yet find many of these stories oddly compelling.</p>

<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 550px"><img alt="" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6202/6093624870_663f965c70_o.jpg" width="540" height="355" /><p class="wp-caption-text"><em>A Poodle after Matham</em> by Wenceslas Hollar (1607-1677)</p></div>

<p>There are tales of syllogistic dogs, sermonising dogs, hospital dogs, parcel-carrying dogs, and purchasing dogs – that is, dogs which “understand the first principles of the science of exchange”. We learn of dogs with a sense of humour, dogs&#8217; talent for friendship with hens, rabbits, and pigeons,  dogs that foretell death, and dogs that recognise themselves in the mirror. By the time we get to the end of the book we may agree with Strachey that “a single story of a clever dog may amuse, but&#8230; if we have half a dozen illustrating the same form of intelligence, the value of the evidence is enormously increased”.</p>

<p>An added pleasure of the book is, of course, its age. This was a time when the correspondence columns of a general interest magazine were filled with letters written in formal, elegant, crafted prose. The sense of a lost world of good manners and civility could not be better expressed than in Strachey&#8217;s apology, worth quoting in full:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Before I conclude this Introduction, I should like to address a word of apology to the correspondents of the Spectator whose letters form the present volume. Though the copyright of the letters belongs to the editors and proprietors of the Spectator I should have liked to ask the leave of the various writers before republishing their letters. Physical difficulties have, however rendered this impossible. In the case of nearly half the letters the names and addresses have not been preserved. In many instances, again, only the names remain. Lastly, a large number of the letters are ten or twelve, or even twenty years old, and the writers may therefore be dead or out of England. Under these circumstances I have not made any effort to enter into communication with the writers before including their letters in this book. That their permission would have been given, had it been asked, I do not doubt. The original communication of the letters to the Spectator is proof that the writers wished a public use to be made of the anecdotes they relate. As long, then, as the letters are not altered or edited, but produced verbatim, I may, I think, feel assured that I am doing nothing which is even remotely discourteous to the writers.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 550px"><img alt="" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6078/6093624840_624dbaae31_o.jpg" width="540" height="372" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Detail from <em>Venus and Cupid with an Organist</em> (1548) by Titian, depicting what looks to be some breed of Bichon in the bottom righthand corner.</p></div>

<p>As for that Scotch terrier fond of burying frogs, Frances Power Cobbe suggested an explanation a week later:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>[Feb. 9, 1895.] I think I can explain the puzzle of the Scotch terrier and his interment of the frogs, for the satisfaction of your correspondent. A friend of mine had once a retriever who was stung by a bee, and ever afterwards, when the dog found a bee near the ground, she stamped on it, and then scraped earth over it and buried it effectually -presumably to put an end to the danger of further stings. In like manner, another dog having bitten a toad, showed every sign of having found the mouthful to the last degree unpleasant. Probably Mr. Acland-Troyte’s dog had, in the same way, bitten a toad, and conceived henceforth that he rendered public service by putting every toad-like creature he saw carefully and gingerly “out of harm’s way,” underground.</p>
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<p><br />
<em><a href="http://hootingyard.org/">Frank Key</a> is a writer and broadcaster best known for his self-published short-story collections and his long-running radio series Hooting Yard on the Air, which has been broadcast weekly on Resonance FM since April 2004.</em></p>

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<h1>Links to Work</h1>

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<li><em>Dog stories, from the &#8220;Spectator&#8221;</em> (1896)

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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/dogstoriesfromsp00straiala">pdf online</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/dogstoriesfromsp00straiala/dogstoriesfromsp00straiala.mobi">kindle</a></li>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1834
title: Napoleon’s Oraculum (1839)
uri: Napoleon-s-Oraculum-(1839)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/05/napoleons-oraculum-1839/
content:
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<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Napaleon&#8217;s Oraculum and Dreambook; 1839; S.N., New York.</span>

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The Oraculum had been originally discovered in one of the Royal tombs of Egypt during a French military expedition of 1801, and at Napoleon&#8217;s request was translated by a famous German scholar and antiquarian. Apparently consulting it &#8220;before every important occasion&#8221;, the book became one of the emperor&#8217;s most treasured possessions. It was found among his personal possessions after the defeat of his army at Leipzig in 1813 and translated into English in 1822.
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<a href="http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24650149M/Napaleon%27s_oraculum_and_dreambook">Open Library link</a>
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There is also this more elaborate edition from 1923, which gives lots more information in its introductory pages, as well as a transcription of a note apparently found with Napoleon&#8217;s copy in his own handwriting detailing the answers he recieved from the Oraculum to a series of questions:
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<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">The Book of Fate, formerly in the possession of and used by Napoleon rendered into the English language by H. Kirchenhoffer, from a German translation of an ancient Egyptian manuscript found in the year 1801 by M. Sonnini in one of the royal tombs near Mount Libycus in Upper Egypt; 1923; H.S. Nichols, New York.</span>
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<a href="http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24617340M/The_book_of_fate">Open Library link</a>
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		<td class="column-1">Letters From a Cat (1879)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/letters-from-a-cat/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/5926255857_dd107bbcd5_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Castaway on the Auckland Isles: A Narrative of the Wreck of the "Grafton," (1865)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/castaway-on-the-auckland-isles-a-narrative-of-the-wreck-of-the-grafton-1865"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6014/5963292991_2926d4d77d_o.jpg"><br />
</a></td><td class="column-3">Infant's Cabinet of Birds and Beasts (1820)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/infants-cabine…-beasts-1820-2/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6137/5963292985_e427baf1da_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Old French Fairytales (1920)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/old-french-fairytales-1920/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/5963292975_0047a86d70_o.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-2">
		<td class="column-1">Armata: a fragment (1817)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/armata-a-fragment-1817/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5977796996_e0a0fc40cd_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism (1803)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/an-account-of-the-late-improvements-in-galvanism-1803/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6027/5977796994_62597592db_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Medical Aspects of Death, and the Medical Aspects of the Human Mind (1852)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-medical-aspects-of-death-and-the-medical-aspects-of-the-human-mind-1852"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6122/5977796990_d34ea609b4_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quarles' Emblems (1886)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/quarles-emblems-1886/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6129/5977796992_cda35bfc9d_o.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-3">
		<td class="column-1">Cat and bird stories from the "Spectator" (1896)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1198"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/6011153785_75aab450ee_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1200"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/6011153783_3c0847e432_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Book of Topiary (1904)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1202"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6145/6011153777_a727143f9d_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (1899)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1204"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6013/6011153791_7fcdcb3356_o.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-4">
		<td class="column-1">English as She is Spoke (1884)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1431"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6083/6046055812_6639c33965_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Danger of Premature Interment (1816)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1503"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6062/6046366952_ba41be4694_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Last American (1889)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/19/the-last-american/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6066/6059266721_1e7b1015c2_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Pirates (1922)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1754"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6187/6096675914_450e941c10_o.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-5">
		<td class="column-1">Napoleon's Oraculum (1839)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1834"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6185/6115393587_cbe52c98ab_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Horse Laughs (1891)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1918"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6156/6143175901_cfaa8bb5f7_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3"></td><td class="column-4"></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1875
title: Robert Fludd and His Images of The Divine
uri: Robert-Fludd-and-His-Images-of-The-Divine
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/13/robert-fludd-and-his-images-of-the-divine/
content:
<p><strong>Between 1617 and 1621 the English physician and polymath Robert Fludd published his masterwork Utriusque Cosmi, a book split into two volumes and packed with over 60 intricate engravings. Urszula Szulakowska explores the philosophical and theological ideas behind the extraordinary images found in the second part of the work.</strong></p>

<p><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6061/6130654360_aa9d962aa1_o.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Robert Fludd was a respected English physician (of Welsh origins) employed at the court of King James I of England. He was a prolific writer of vast, multi-volume encyclopaedias in which he discussed a universal range of topics from magical practices such as alchemy, astrology, kabbalism and fortune-telling, to radical theological thinking concerning the inter-relation of God with the natural and human worlds. However, he also proudly displayed his grasp of practical knowledge, such as mechanics, architecture, military fortifications, armaments, military manoeuvres, hydrology, musical theory and musical instruments, mathematics, geometry, optics and the art of drawing, as well as chemistry and medicine. Fludd used the common metaphor for the arts as being the “ape of Nature,” a microcosmic form of the manner in which the universe itself functioned.</p>

<p>Fludd’s most famous work is the History of the Two Worlds (Utriusque Cosmi &#8230; Historia, 1617-21) published in five volumes by Theodore de Bry in Oppenheim. The two worlds under discussion are those of the Microcosm of human life on earth and the Macrocosm of the universe (which included the spiritual realm of the Divine).</p>

<p>Fludd himself was a staunch member of the Anglican Church. He was educated in the medical profession at St. John’s College in Oxford. In 1598-1604/ 5 he set out for an extended period of travel on the continent. He spent a winter with some Jesuits, a Roman Catholic order deeply opposed to Protestantism who, nevertheless, tutored Fludd on magical practices. Fludd, however, always claimed to have worked out the theological and magical systems in his first volume of the Utriusque Cosmi &#8230; Historia, concerning the Macrocosm (1617), during his undergraduate days at Oxford. In this work Fludd devised a lavishly illustrated cosmology, based on the chemical theory of Paracelsus, in which the materials of the universe were separated out of chaos by God who acted in the manner of a laboratory alchemist.</p>

<p><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6198/6130074261_fb0eba8834_o.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Fludd was a deeply convinced adherent of the medical and magical practice of the German doctor, surgeon and radical theologian, Theophrastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim. This loyalty led Fludd into severe conflicts with the established British medical profession. His later publications described a medical practice, almost devoid of chemical remedies but which depended almost solely on prayer and the use of the name of Jesus on the model of the first apostles of Christ. This devotional medicine was supported by a theology derived from the secret mystical teaching of Judaism, the kabbalah, which Fludd employed in a Christianised form derived from the ideas of the German philosopher, Johannes Reuchlin.</p>

<p>In his medicinal incantations Fludd used the Hebrew form of the name of Jesus which, he claimed, possessed immense magical potency. He equated Jesus Christ with the kabbalistic angel Metattron, the heavenly form of the Jewish Messiah, (UCH, 2 1621: 2-5). He was said to be the soul of the world, pervading it through-out (&#8220;anima mundi&#8221;), or Anthropos (UCH, 2 1621, Tract II, Sect I: 8-9).  Fludd states that &#8220;Hochmah&#8221; (Wisdom in the kabbalistic Tree of Life) is the same as the &#8220;Verbum&#8221; (the “Word” in the Christian Gospel of John who is identified with Jesus Christ). The Christian “Word” is the same as the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, &#8220;Aleph. This Christian Messiah is the most potent medicine for all human ills. The &#8220;Verbum&#8221;, or Metattron-Christ-Messiah, is the form of God himself, residing in the the sun.</p>

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<p>In Fludd&#8217;s medical theories the operation of the aerial nitre, or quintessence, in the human body was of critical importance to health. It was said to originate in the tabernacle of the aerial spirit which was the sun. The essence of the aerial nitre was celestial light. It was breathed in by the lungs and carried to the heart, where it was separated from the air and dispersed as the vital spirit through-out the body. In his short text, the &#8220;Tractatus de Tritico&#8221; (the “Tractate on Wheat”) , which re-appeared in his Anatomiae Amphiteatrum (1623) and also in the Philosophia Moysaica (1638), Fludd described the distillation of the aerial nitre from the wheat using the heat and light of the sun’s own rays. Fludd claimed that this distilled spirit was the universal panacea, whose generative celestial fire had been drawn out of the sun.</p>

<p>All of Fludd’s treatises were lavishly illustrated with extraordinary engravings, unique in their form and subject-matter, which have the visionary quality of a genuine spiritual seer and which exerted an influence on his contemporary occultists such as Michael Maier, Jacob Boehme and Johannes Mylius. Fludd himself designed these images and they were engraved by the artisans employed at his publishers. (Some of his own original drawings still exist for the first volume of the Utriusque Cosmi &#8230; Historia, 1617).</p>

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<p>Fludd&#8217;s concepts of the creative and healing forces of light were illustrated by diagrams, the principles of light and darkness being represented by two intersecting cones, or pyramids. The base of the &#8220;pyramidis formalis&#8221; was placed in the Empyreum of God, signifying rays of divine light, while the base of the &#8220;pyramidis materialis&#8221; was located on the earth pointing upward towards God. Fludd described these diagrammatic forms as &#8220;pyramides lucis&#8221;, “cones of light,” claiming to have invented them himself, although they seem to be based on antique and medieval optical theory. Within the lozenge shape created by the intersection of the downward and upward pointing cones, Fludd placed the sun, since the nature of this sphere balanced the oppositions of spirit and matter, male and female, sulphur and mercury.</p>

<p>From the outset in the &#8220;Macrocosm&#8221; (UCH, 1617) Fludd&#8217;s cosmogony was based on the three generative principles which were those conceptualised by Paracelsus in his own alchemy, namely, those of light, darkness and water, from which emerged the three primary elements that constituted matter, that is, Salt from darkness (as the &#8220;prima materia&#8221;), Sulphur from light (as the soul) and Mercury from water (as the spirit). These, in turn, produced the four qualities of antique and medieval physics, the qualities of heat, cold, dryness and moistness. Fludd&#8217;s alchemical cosmology was explained by a series of intricate geometrical diagrams of great power and beauty.</p>

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<p>In the third book of the &#8220;Macrocosm&#8221; Fludd also offered another interpretation of the structure of the universe, complementing his earlier alchemical visualisations, but expressed musically. He analysed what he claimed to be the &#8220;Musica Mundana&#8221;, the musical forms that pervaded and structure universal creation based on the musicology and mathematics of the ancient Greek, Pythagoras (UCH, 1, 1617, pp. 79-81). The fifth chapter of the &#8220;Musica Mundana&#8221; included an illustration of a cosmic lyre.</p>

<p>Fludd achieved a certain notoriety in his own time for his early support of the “Rosicrucian Manifestos” in his treatise the Apologia (1616) (expanded into the Tractatus Apologeticus, 1618). The two texts, which came to be called the Rosicrucian Manifestos, consisted of the Fama which appeared in 1614, followed by the Confessio in 1615. They were published anonymously in Kassel and they have been the subject of extensive debate in regard to their origins and authorship (see Donald R. Dickson, The Tessera of Antilia (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp. 32-36). The authors never revealed themselves but they called for supporters to join the Rosicrucian movement, claimed to have been in existence for centuries. Those who responded by publishing letters to the Rosicrucians were a heterogeneous group of Protestants, mostly of a radical reformist character, as well as adherents to antique philosophy and magic (kabbalists, followers of Hermes Trismegistos – a mythical Egyptian sage, as well as practitioners of magic on the model of Cornelius Agrippa (a sixteenth century German sage) and of Paracelsus.v The Manifestos seem to have been written to counteract the re-conversionary activities of the Jesuit order in central Europe. Said to be supporters of a legendary figure of the fourteenth century, Christian Rozenkreutz, there never did exist in reality any such entity as the Rosicrucian Order in the seventeenth century. It could be said, however, that there did exist a popular Rosicrucian movement whose supporters developed the original ideas of the founders and in which Fludd’s influence was a dominating factor.</p>

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<p><em>Urszula Szulakowska has been a lecturer in the History of Art at Sydney University, Queensland University, Bretton Hall College and the University of Leeds (1977-2011). Currently she is Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. She has published extensively on the history of art and alchemy including monographs: The Alchemy of Light (Brill: 2000), The Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom (Brill: 2005) and Alchemy in Contemporary Art (Ashgate: 2010), as well as many learned articles and papers in scholarly sources.</em></p>

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<li><p>Images from <em>Utriusque Cosmi</em></p>

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<li><p><em>Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atqve technica historia : in duo volumina secundum cosmi differentiam diuisa</em> (1617)</p>

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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/utriusquecosmima02flud">pdf online</a></li>
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title: Excerpt from Handel’s Israel in Egypt (1888)
uri: Excerpt-from-Handel-s-Israel-in-Egypt-(1888)
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Until the discovery of an 1860 recording of “Au clair de la lune” in 2009, this haunting excerpt from Handel&#8217;s oratorio recorded in 1888 was the oldest known recorded human voice in existence. A note on the cylinder reads: &#8220;A chorus of 4000 voices recorded with phonograph over 100 yards away&#8221;. It was recorded by Col. George Gouraud, a foreign sales agent for Thomas Edison on June 29 at The 1888 Ninth Triennial Handel Festival at Crystal Palace, London, only a few days after the death of the German Emperor, Friedrich III. The conductor is August Manns.
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=880"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6008/5984449948_3ebd04de8b_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">As a Porcupine Pines for its Pork - Billy Jones &amp; Ernest Hare<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/as-a-porcupine-pines-for-its-pork-billy-jones-ernest-hare-1925/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6028/5984449946_52bcbdf103_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Popeye, the Sailor Man - Al Dollar &amp; His Ten Cent Band with Billy Murray (1931)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/popeye-the-sailor-man-al-dollar-his-ten-cent-band-with-billy-murray-1931/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6012/5984449942_e7c19a2fdc_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Chopins Funeral March - The Edison Concert Band (1906)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/chopins-funeral-march-the-edison-concert-band-1906/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6138/5998067338_c167fce69d_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Houdini on his Water Torture Cell (1914)<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/houdini-on-his-water-torture-cell-1914/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6009/5998067350_7d43c56428_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Lomax Collection Recording of English, Sample 8<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1067"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6020/5998067356_9b9ae1d919_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Enrico Caruso - A Dream (1920)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1243"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6125/6016850941_a2c4a9bb4f_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Fats Waller and His Orchestra live at The Yacht Club (1938)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/15/rudolph-valentino-1923/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6046238300_1a8bf811d7_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Aiaihea - The Hawaiian Quintette (1913)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1614"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6069171663_28964f0117_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Antony's Address Over The Body of Caesar (1914)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1771"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6199/6096637423_9f34721c23_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Excerpt from Handel's Israel in Egypt (1888)<br />
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title: Horse Laughs (1891)
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<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Horse laughs, by Chas. H. Marshall; 1891; Bemrose &#038; Sons, London.</span>

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Remarkably strange little book on account of much of the humour being lost over the passage of time &#8211; often resulting in surreal, if not somewhat disconcerting, little scenes.
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/letters-from-a-cat/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/5926255857_dd107bbcd5_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Castaway on the Auckland Isles: A Narrative of the Wreck of the "Grafton," (1865)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/armata-a-fragment-1817/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5977796996_e0a0fc40cd_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism (1803)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/an-account-of-the-late-improvements-in-galvanism-1803/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6027/5977796994_62597592db_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Medical Aspects of Death, and the Medical Aspects of the Human Mind (1852)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-medical-aspects-of-death-and-the-medical-aspects-of-the-human-mind-1852"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6122/5977796990_d34ea609b4_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quarles' Emblems (1886)<br />
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		<td class="column-1">Cat and bird stories from the "Spectator" (1896)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1198"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/6011153785_75aab450ee_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1200"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/6011153783_3c0847e432_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Book of Topiary (1904)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1202"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6145/6011153777_a727143f9d_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (1899)<br />
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title: Field Columbian Museum (1894-1920)
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Opened in 1984, the Field Columbian Museum was located in the Palace of Fine Arts building on the grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition, and was made up of the artefacts from the anthropology, botany, geology and zoology collections from the Fair. (More images can be seen <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/field_museum_library/sets/72157615151790988/with/3349699278">here</a>) 
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		<td class="column-1">Operation Doorstep<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1288"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6209/6023844250_a340b6cfc8_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Spirit Photographs of William Hope<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1301"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6021/5963926880_6796ce887a_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Maps of Piri Reis<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1315"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6025/5963926888_f9a9db72f1_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1330"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6007/5963926890_2141effc6c_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Art in Art<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1359"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6192/6024864047_73cc2bce65_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Huexotzinco Codex<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1373"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6187/6024864049_7667e37edc_o.jpg"></a><br />
</td><td class="column-3">Sessions for the Blind at Sunderland Museum<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/09/sessions-for-the-blind-at-sunderland-museum/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6075/6024903179_9793619652_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Eugène von Guérard's Australian Landscapes<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1468"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6193/6045423237_850760a2a1_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Landscape and Marine Views of Norway<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1513"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/6049185090_2740e7c0e7_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Mechanism of Human Physiognomy<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/19/the-mechanism-of-human-physiognomy/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6059149653_5b7e4f63e0_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Space Colony Art from the 1970s<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1643"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6063/6072822813_748425d648_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Men in Wigs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1657"><br />
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		<td class="column-1">De humana physiognomonia libri IIII (1586)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1760"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6023/6097105906_f3615427ca_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Field Columbian Museum<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1898"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6186/6143148873_0d68233381_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3"></td><td class="column-4"></td>
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title: Suddenly (1954)
uri: Suddenly-(1954)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/17/suddenly-1954/
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Frank Sinatra stars as John Baron, a psychopathic killer, who along with two other men, has been hired to assassinate the President, and holds a family hostage while waiting for his target. It was long thought that Lee Harvey Oswald actually saw Suddenly on television in October 1963 (one month before the assassination of Kennedy), but an investigation of the claim eventually proved it to be untrue.
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1721"><br />
<img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/20/items/AnnieOakley/AnnieOakley.thumbs/AnnieOakley_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 13min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1719"><br />
<img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/4/items/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz.thumbs/WizardOfOz1910_000720.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1715"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6090641136_9922b754c8_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Operation Cue (1955) 52sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1812"><img src="http://ia700301.us.archive.org/5/items/CEP_00_071/CEP_00_071.thumbs/CEP_00_071_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Never Weaken (1921) 28min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1827"><img src="http://ia600309.us.archive.org/22/items/Never_Weaken_1921/Never_Weaken_1921.thumbs/Never_Weaken_1921_001260.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Intolerance (1916) 2hr57min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1820"><br />
<img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/11/items/Intolerance/Intolerance.thumbs/Intolerance_010500.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quicksand (1950) 1hr18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1816"><img src="http://ia700406.us.archive.org/14/items/Quicksand_clear/Quicksand_clear.thumbs/Quicksand_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Dutch Fashion Reel (1969) 1min50sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1954"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6200/6158664220_2d772d57d5_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher (1932) 7min46sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1965"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/2/items/bb_minnie_the_moocher/bb_minnie_the_moocher.thumbs/bb_minnie_the_moocher_000390.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 1hr46min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1943"><img src="http://ia700208.us.archive.org/23/items/ThePhantomoftheOpera/ThePhantomoftheOpera.thumbs/Phantom_of_the_Opera_001320.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Suddenly (1954) 1hr16mins<br />
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1943
title: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
uri: The-Phantom-of-the-Opera-(1925)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/17/the-phantom-of-the-opera-1925/
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First film adaptation, directed by Rupert Julian, of Gaston Leroux&#8217;s novel. The film features Lon Chaney in the title role as the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star. It is most famous for Lon Chaney&#8217;s intentionally horrific, self-applied make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film&#8217;s premiere.
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1954
title: Dutch Fashion Reel (1969)
uri: Dutch-Fashion-Reel-(1969)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/18/dutch-fashion-reel-1969/
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Strange little fashion film from 1969 courtesy of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision via <a href="http://www.openimages.eu/">Open Images</a>. From the site: &#8220;Dressed in a circle shaped plastic cape, model Joke de Kruijf gets on tram line 8 to The Hague at the Gevers-Doynoot square in Scheveningen. Somewhat later a similiar tram rides through Madurodam, where De Kruijf walks between the minature houses as part of a fashion show with clothing by designer Pierre Cardin. Also with a woman&#8217;s suit, jersey men&#8217;s wear, woollen checked men&#8217;s wear and evening gowns. Cardin looks on.&#8221;

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title: Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher (1932)
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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		<td class="column-1">Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1827"><img src="http://ia600309.us.archive.org/22/items/Never_Weaken_1921/Never_Weaken_1921.thumbs/Never_Weaken_1921_001260.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Intolerance (1916) 2hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1954"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6200/6158664220_2d772d57d5_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher (1932) 7min46sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1965"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/2/items/bb_minnie_the_moocher/bb_minnie_the_moocher.thumbs/bb_minnie_the_moocher_000390.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 1hr46min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1943"><img src="http://ia700208.us.archive.org/23/items/ThePhantomoftheOpera/ThePhantomoftheOpera.thumbs/Phantom_of_the_Opera_001320.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Suddenly (1954) 1hr16mins<br />
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title: Aspiring to a Higher Plane
uri: Aspiring-to-a-Higher-Plane
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<p><strong>In 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbott published <em>Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions</em>, the first ever book that could be described as &#8216;mathematical fiction&#8217;. Ian Stewart, author of <em>Flatterland</em> and <em>The Annotated Flatland</em>, introduces the strange tale of the geometric adventures of A. Square.</strong></p>

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<p>Edwin Abbott Abbott, who became Headmaster of the City of London School at the early age of 26, was renowned as a teacher, writer, theologian, Shakespearean scholar, and classicist. He was a religious reformer, a tireless educator, and an advocate of social democracy and improved education for women. Yet his main claim to fame today is none of these: a strange little book, the first and almost the only one of its genre: mathematical fantasy. Abbott called it <em>Flatland</em>, and published it in 1884 under the pseudonym A. Square.</p>

<p>On the surface — and the setting, the imaginary world of Flatland, is a surface, an infinite Euclidean plane — the book is a straightforward narrative about geometrically shaped beings that live in a two-dimensional world. A. Square, an ordinary sort of chap, undergoes a mystical experience: a visitation by the mysterious Sphere from the Third Dimension, who carries him to new worlds and new geometries. Inspired by evangelical zeal, he strives to convince his fellow citizens that the world is not limited to the two dimensions accessible to their senses, falls foul of the religious authorities, and ends up in jail.</p>

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<p>The story has a timeless appeal, and has never been out of print since its first publication. It has spawned several sequels and has been the subject of at least one radio programme and two animated films. Not only is the book about hidden dimensions: it has its own hidden dimensions. Its secret mathematical agenda is not the notion of two dimensions, but that of four. Its social agenda pokes fun at the rigid stratification of Victorian society, especially the low status of women, even the wives and daughters of the wealthy.</p>

<p>Flatland’s inhabitants are triangles, squares, and other geometric figures. In the planar world’s orderly hierarchy, one’s status depends on one’s degree of regularity and how many sides one has. An isosceles triangle is superior to a scalene triangle (all sides different) but inferior to an equilateral triangle. But all triangles must defer to squares, which in turn defer to pentagons, hexagons, right up to the pinnacle of Flatland society, the Priestshood. Referred to as ‘circles’, the priests are actually polygons with so many sides that no one can distinguish them. The sons of squares are usually pentagons, the grandsons hexagons, so there is a general progression along the greasy pole (there is no ‘up’ in Flatland).</p>

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<p>But what of the wives and daughters? Flatland’s women are mere line segments, actually very thin triangles, whose social standing is zero. Their intelligence is little greater. They are required by law to wiggle from side to side so that they can be seen, and to emit loud cries so that they can be heard, because a collision with a woman is as fatal as one with a stiletto. Abbott took a bit of stick from some of his female contemporaries, who failed to appreciate his irony. But we know from his own life, including his daughter’s education, that he did a lot to improve the status of women and to ensure they received the same level of education as men.</p>

<p>Abbott wasn’t particularly good at, or keen on, mathematics, but his book tackled an issue of great interest in Victorian times, the notion of four (or more) dimensions. This idea was becoming fundamental in science and mathematics, and it was also being invoked in areas like theology and spiritualism, because an invisible extra dimension was just the place to locate God, the spirit world, or ghosts. Charlatans like the American medium Henry Slade were exploiting conjuring tricks to claim access to the Fourth Dimension. Legitimate hyperspace philosophers were speculating about the role that additional dimensions might play in illuminating the human condition.</p>

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<p><em>Flatland</em> approaches this topic by way of a dimensional analogy, widely used ever since, and not entirely Abbott’s own invention. The difficulties facing a three-dimensional Victorian attempting to grasp the geometry of four dimensions are similar to those facing A. Square attempting to grasp the geometry of three. Among Abbott’s sources for this analogy were frequent social encounters with eminent scientists such as the physicist John Tyndall, whom he met at George Eliot’s house in 1871. Tyndall may have told Abbott about the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, who gave public lectures on non-Euclidean geometry using the image of an imaginary two-dimensional creature living on a mathematical surface. Another likely source is the outrageous Charles Howard Hinton, who wrote his own book about a two-dimensional world in his 1907 <em>An Episode of Flatland: How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension</em>.</p>

<p>Abbott’s mathematico-literary legacy is a series of Flatland spin-offs: Dionys Burger’s <em>Sphereland</em>, Rudy Rucker’s short story ‘Message Found in a Copy of Flatland’ and his novel <em>The Fourth Dimension</em>, Alexander Keewatin Dewdney’s <em>The Planiverse</em>, and my own <em>Flatterland</em>. But what he was really trying to tell his readers was more subtle. Just as a humble square can transcend his plane world and aspire to the Third Dimension, so the women and the lower classes of Victorian England could transcend the confines of their stratified society and aspire to a higher plane of existence. More than 120 years later, it is a message that has lost none of its urgency.</p>

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<p><em>Ian Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and the author of numerous popular mathematics books, including Flatterland and The Annotated Flatland. His most recent book is Mathematics of Life.</em></p>

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<li><p><em>Flatland : a romance of many dimensions</em> (1884) by Edwin Abbott Abbott</p>

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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/flatlandromanceo00abbouoft">pdf online</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/flatlandromanceo00abbouoft/flatlandromanceo00abbouoft.pdf">pdf download</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/flatlandromanceo00abbouoft/flatlandromanceo00abbouoft.mobi">kindle</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/flatlandaromance00097gut/flat11.txt">text</a></li>
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<li><p><em>An Episode of Flatland: How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension</em> (1907) by Charles Howard Hinton</p>

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<li><a href="http://www.forgottenfutures.org/forgottenfutures.co.uk/flat2/flat2-00.htm">html</a></li>
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title: Hydriotaphia/Urn-Burial and The Garden of Cyrus (1658)
uri: Hydriotaphia-Urn-Burial-and-The-Garden-of-Cyrus-(1658)
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<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Hydriotaphia, urne-buriall, or A discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with The garden of Cyrus, or The quincunciall lozenge, or network plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered. With sundry observations, by Thomas Browne; 1658 (1927); Hen. Brome, London</span>

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<br />Sir Thomas Browne (19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682), an English author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric, conceived of these two books as a diptych. The nominal subject of the first book, Hydriotaphia (Urn-Burial), was the discovery of a Roman urn burial in Norfolk which prompts Browne to deliver, first, a careful description of the antiquities found, and then a careful survey of most of the burial and funerary customs, ancient and current, of which his era was aware. The most famous part of the work, though, is the fifth chapter, where Browne quite explicitly turns to discuss man&#8217;s struggles with mortality, and the uncertainty of his fate and fame in this world and the next, to produce an extended funerary meditation tinged with melancholia. A piece of exquisite baroque prose that George Saintsbury called &#8220;the longest piece, perhaps, of absolutely sublime rhetoric to be found in the prose literature of the world,&#8221; Hydriotaphia displays an astonishing command of English prose rhythm and diction. It has been admired by Charles Lamb, Samuel Johnson, John Cowper Powys, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who said of it that it &#8220;smells in every word of the sepulchre.&#8221; The Garden of Cyrus is Browne&#8217;s mystical vision of the interconnection of art, nature and the Universe via numerous symbols including the number five, the quincunx pattern, the figure X and Network pattern. Its slender but compressed pages of imagery, symbolism and associative thought are evidence of Sir Thomas Browne&#8217;s complete understanding of a fundamental quest of Hermetic philosophy, namely proof of the wisdom of God. 
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<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">(Note: this text taken from the excellent Wikipedia articles on the two books, see them <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydriotaphia,_Urn_Burial">here</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Cyrus">here</a>)</span>
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</a></td><td class="column-3">Infant's Cabinet of Birds and Beasts (1820)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/infants-cabine…-beasts-1820-2/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6137/5963292985_e427baf1da_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Old French Fairytales (1920)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/old-french-fairytales-1920/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/5963292975_0047a86d70_o.jpg"></a></td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="row-2">
		<td class="column-1">Armata: a fragment (1817)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/armata-a-fragment-1817/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5977796996_e0a0fc40cd_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism (1803)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/an-account-of-the-late-improvements-in-galvanism-1803/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6027/5977796994_62597592db_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Medical Aspects of Death, and the Medical Aspects of the Human Mind (1852)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-medical-aspects-of-death-and-the-medical-aspects-of-the-human-mind-1852"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6122/5977796990_d34ea609b4_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quarles' Emblems (1886)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/quarles-emblems-1886/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6129/5977796992_cda35bfc9d_o.jpg"></a></td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="row-3">
		<td class="column-1">Cat and bird stories from the "Spectator" (1896)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1198"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/6011153785_75aab450ee_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1200"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/6011153783_3c0847e432_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Book of Topiary (1904)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1202"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6145/6011153777_a727143f9d_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (1899)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1204"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6013/6011153791_7fcdcb3356_o.jpg"></a></td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="row-4">
		<td class="column-1">English as She is Spoke (1884)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1431"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6083/6046055812_6639c33965_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Danger of Premature Interment (1816)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1503"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6062/6046366952_ba41be4694_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Last American (1889)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/19/the-last-american/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6066/6059266721_1e7b1015c2_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Pirates (1922)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1754"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6187/6096675914_450e941c10_o.jpg"></a></td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="row-5">
		<td class="column-1">Napoleon's Oraculum (1839)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1834"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6185/6115393587_cbe52c98ab_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Horse Laughs (1891)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1918"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6156/6143175901_cfaa8bb5f7_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Hydriotaphia/Urn-Burial and The Garden of Cyrus (1658)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1999"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6162/6169326032_8dbf4d10aa_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Across the Zodiac: the Story of a Wrecked Record (1880)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2129"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6123/6197358087_8ed89391e6_o.jpg"></a></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2041
title: Gurdjieff’s Harmonium Improvisations (1949)
uri: Gurdjieff-s-Harmonium-Improvisations-(1949)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/24/gurdjieffs-harmonium-improvisations-1949/
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Recordings from the mystic and spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff&#8217;s &#8220;last musical period&#8221;; improvised harmonium music which often followed the dinners he held in his Paris apartment during the Occupation and immediate post-war years, to his death in 1949.
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		<td class="column-1">Beela Boola by the Electric City 4 (1920)<br />
<br />
<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/beela-boola-electric-city-4-1920/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6009/5984449950_1837afe78f_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Hungarian Rag -  Pietro Deiro (1913)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=880"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6008/5984449948_3ebd04de8b_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">As a Porcupine Pines for its Pork - Billy Jones &amp; Ernest Hare<br />
(1925)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/as-a-porcupine-pines-for-its-pork-billy-jones-ernest-hare-1925/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6028/5984449946_52bcbdf103_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Popeye, the Sailor Man - Al Dollar &amp; His Ten Cent Band with Billy Murray (1931)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/popeye-the-sailor-man-al-dollar-his-ten-cent-band-with-billy-murray-1931/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6012/5984449942_e7c19a2fdc_o.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-2">
		<td class="column-1">Chopins Funeral March - The Edison Concert Band (1906)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/chopins-funeral-march-the-edison-concert-band-1906/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6138/5998067338_c167fce69d_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Houdini on his Water Torture Cell (1914)<br />
<br />
<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/houdini-on-his-water-torture-cell-1914/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6009/5998067350_7d43c56428_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Lomax Collection Recording of English, Sample 8<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1067"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6020/5998067356_9b9ae1d919_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Enrico Caruso - A Dream (1920)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1074"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/5997518817_b6d0667f34_o.jpg"></a></td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="row-3">
		<td class="column-1">La Paloma (1903)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1240"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6135/6016850955_d7c0df1a2c_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Orson Welles Show (1941)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1225"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6027/6017404284_da30a310cc_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Tokyo Rose (1944)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1243"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6125/6016850941_a2c4a9bb4f_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Fats Waller and His Orchestra live at The Yacht Club (1938)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1247"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6005/6016980547_ddd9858761_o.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-4">
		<td class="column-1">Very early recording of George Gershwin's  Rhapsody In Blue (1924)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1493"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6206/6046238304_f151e60106_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Rudolph Valentino singing (1923)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/15/rudolph-valentino-1923/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6046238300_1a8bf811d7_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Aiaihea - The Hawaiian Quintette (1913)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1614"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6069171663_28964f0117_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Antony's Address Over The Body of Caesar (1914)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1679"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6064/6082150301_30f4211e29_o.jpg"></a></td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="row-5">
		<td class="column-1">Charlie and His Orchestra<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1771"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6199/6096637423_9f34721c23_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Excerpt from Handel's Israel in Egypt (1888)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1925"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6081/6143260449_303a539aa3_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Gurdjieff's Harmonium Improvisations (1949)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2041"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6173/6177782102_d042aebbfd_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">General Pershing March - Imperial Marimba Band (1918)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2186"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6156/6215163671_7712110727_o.jpg"></a></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2011
title: Maps from Geographicus
uri: Maps-from-Geographicus
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/22/maps-from-geographicus/
content:
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In March this year, <a href="http://www.geographicus.com/">Geographicus Rare Antique Maps</a>, a specialist dealer in fine and rare antiquarian cartography and historic maps, donated their collection of over 2000 digital images to Wikimedia Commons. Here is just a small selection of a really great collection. Explore more, and help Wikimedia to categorise them, <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geographicus">here</a>. Each map shown below is linkable to the Wikimedia Commons page with more info about the map and higher resolution images. Huge thank you to Geographicus for sharing these amazing images!

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 760px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1650_Jansson_Wind_Rose,_Anemographic_Chart,_or_Map_of_the_Winds_-_Geographicus_-_Anemographica-jannson-1650.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/1650_Jansson_Wind_Rose%2C_Anemographic_Chart%2C_or_Map_of_the_Winds_-_Geographicus_-_Anemographica-jannson-1650.jpg/750px-1650_Jansson_Wind_Rose%2C_Anemographic_Chart%2C_or_Map_of_the_Winds_-_Geographicus_-_Anemographica-jannson-1650.jpg" width="750" height="599" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica Ventorum Nomina Sex Linguis Repraesentans (1650) by Jan Jansson or Johannes Janssonius (1588–1664)</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 715px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1685_Bormeester_Map_of_the_World_-_Geographicus_-_TerrarumOrbis-bormeester-1685.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/1685_Bormeester_Map_of_the_World_-_Geographicus_-_TerrarumOrbis-bormeester-1685.jpg/705px-1685_Bormeester_Map_of_the_World_-_Geographicus_-_TerrarumOrbis-bormeester-1685.jpg" width="705" height="599" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula (1684) by A. J. Bormeester</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 810px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1702_Visscher_Stoopendaal_Map_of_Israel,_Palestine_or_the_Holy_Land_-_Geographicus_-_PerigrinatiaeVeertich-stoopendaal-1702.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/1702_Visscher_Stoopendaal_Map_of_Israel%2C_Palestine_or_the_Holy_Land_-_Geographicus_-_PerigrinatiaeVeertich-stoopendaal-1702.jpg/800px-1702_Visscher_Stoopendaal_Map_of_Israel%2C_Palestine_or_the_Holy_Land_-_Geographicus_-_PerigrinatiaeVeertich-stoopendaal-1702.jpg" width="800" height="542" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Perigrinatie ofte Veertich-Iarige Reyse der Kinderen Israels (1702) by N. Visscher and D. Stoopendaal</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 755px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1739_Bretez_-_Turgot_View_and_Map_of_Paris,_France_(c._1900_Taride_issue)_-_Geographicus_-_Paris-turgot-1909.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/1739_Bretez_-_Turgot_View_and_Map_of_Paris%2C_France_%28c._1900_Taride_issue%29_-_Geographicus_-_Paris-turgot-1909.jpg/745px-1739_Bretez_-_Turgot_View_and_Map_of_Paris%2C_France_%28c._1900_Taride_issue%29_-_Geographicus_-_Paris-turgot-1909.jpg" width="745" height="599" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Plan de Paris, the c. 1900 Taride edition of Louis Bretez and Michel-Etienne Turgot&#039;s monumental 1739 map of Paris.</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 810px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1747_La_Feuille_Map_of_Catalonia,_Spain_(Barcelona)_-_Geographicus_-_Catalogne-ratelband-1747.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/1747_La_Feuille_Map_of_Catalonia%2C_Spain_%28Barcelona%29_-_Geographicus_-_Catalogne-ratelband-1747.jpg/800px-1747_La_Feuille_Map_of_Catalonia%2C_Spain_%28Barcelona%29_-_Geographicus_-_Catalogne-ratelband-1747.jpg" width="800" height="545" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Principaute de Catalogne et Partie du Rous sillon Echelle de Lieux, a stunning map of Catalonia, Spain first drawn by Daniel de la Feuille in 1706</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 754px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1750_Schley_Map_of_Ormus,_Persian_Gulf_-_Geographicus_-_Ormus-schley-1750.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/1750_Schley_Map_of_Ormus%2C_Persian_Gulf_-_Geographicus_-_Ormus-schley-1750.jpg/744px-1750_Schley_Map_of_Ormus%2C_Persian_Gulf_-_Geographicus_-_Ormus-schley-1750.jpg" width="744" height="600" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Eiland Ormus, of Jerun, engraved by Jacob Van der Schley under the supervision of J. Bellin for the c. 1750 edition of Provost&#039;s L`Histoire Generale des Voyages</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 810px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1756_Bellin_Map_of_Kollam_Fort,_Kerala,_India_-_Geographicus_-_Coylan-bellin-1756.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/1756_Bellin_Map_of_Kollam_Fort%2C_Kerala%2C_India_-_Geographicus_-_Coylan-bellin-1756.jpg/800px-1756_Bellin_Map_of_Kollam_Fort%2C_Kerala%2C_India_-_Geographicus_-_Coylan-bellin-1756.jpg" width="800" height="562" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Plan de la Forteresse de Coylan, a rare 1756 map of the fort of Kollam, Kerala, on India’s Malabar Coast by French cartographer N. Bellin</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 810px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1768_James_Craig_Map_of_New_Town,_Edinburgh,_Scotland_(First_Plan_of_New_Town)_-_Geographicus_-_Edinburgh-craig-1768.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/1768_James_Craig_Map_of_New_Town%2C_Edinburgh%2C_Scotland_%28First_Plan_of_New_Town%29_-_Geographicus_-_Edinburgh-craig-1768.jpg/800px-1768_James_Craig_Map_of_New_Town%2C_Edinburgh%2C_Scotland_%28First_Plan_of_New_Town%29_-_Geographicus_-_Edinburgh-craig-1768.jpg" width="800" height="561" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Plan of the New Streets and Squares intended for the city of Edinburgh, drafted for the city planning committee in 1768 by James Craig</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 791px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1775_Bonne_Map_or_Chart_of_the_Spheres_and_Compass_Rose_-_Geographicus_-_Spheres-bonne-1775.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/1775_Bonne_Map_or_Chart_of_the_Spheres_and_Compass_Rose_-_Geographicus_-_Spheres-bonne-1775.jpg/781px-1775_Bonne_Map_or_Chart_of_the_Spheres_and_Compass_Rose_-_Geographicus_-_Spheres-bonne-1775.jpg" width="781" height="600" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sphere de Ptolomee, a beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne&#039;s curious decorative chart of the Spheres (1775)</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 810px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1784_Map_of_the_Battle_of_Plataea,_Greece_-_Geographicus_-_BattleofPlataea-bocage-1784.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/1784_Map_of_the_Battle_of_Plataea%2C_Greece_-_Geographicus_-_BattleofPlataea-bocage-1784.jpg/800px-1784_Map_of_the_Battle_of_Plataea%2C_Greece_-_Geographicus_-_BattleofPlataea-bocage-1784.jpg" width="800" height="498" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Essay on the Battle of Plataea for the Travels of Anacharsis, 1784 color map showing the Battle of Plataea by Barbie du Bocage</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 722px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1794_Samuel_Dunn_Wall_Map_of_the_World_in_Hemispheres_-_Geographicus_-_World2-dunn-1794.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/1794_Samuel_Dunn_Wall_Map_of_the_World_in_Hemispheres_-_Geographicus_-_World2-dunn-1794.jpg/712px-1794_Samuel_Dunn_Wall_Map_of_the_World_in_Hemispheres_-_Geographicus_-_World2-dunn-1794.jpg" width="712" height="600" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A General Map of the World, or Terraqueouis Globe with all the New Discoveries and Marginal Delineations, Containing the Most Interesting Particulars in the Solar, Starry and Mundane System; an absolutely stunning and monumental double hemisphere wall map of the world by Samuel Dunn dating to 1794</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 762px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1823_Darton_and_Gardner_Comparative_Chart_of_World_Mountains_and_Rivers_-_Geographicus_-_MountainsandRivers-darton-1823.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/1823_Darton_and_Gardner_Comparative_Chart_of_World_Mountains_and_Rivers_-_Geographicus_-_MountainsandRivers-darton-1823.jpg/752px-1823_Darton_and_Gardner_Comparative_Chart_of_World_Mountains_and_Rivers_-_Geographicus_-_MountainsandRivers-darton-1823.jpg" width="752" height="599" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">New and Improved View of the Comparative Heights, of the Principal Mountains and Lengths of the Principal Rivers in the World. A groundbreaking convention establishing map of extreme scarcity, this is William Darton and W. R. Gardner’s 1823 comparative mountains and rivers of the world chart.</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 465px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1826_Finley_Comparative_Map_of_the_Principle_Mountains_of_the_World_-_Geographicus_-_Mountains-finley-1826.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/1826_Finley_Comparative_Map_of_the_Principle_Mountains_of_the_World_-_Geographicus_-_Mountains-finley-1826.jpg/455px-1826_Finley_Comparative_Map_of_the_Principle_Mountains_of_the_World_-_Geographicus_-_Mountains-finley-1826.jpg" width="455" height="600" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Table of the Comparative Heights of the Principal Mountains in the World; Finley’s attractive c. 1826 map of the comparative heights of the principal mountains of the world.</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 810px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1839_Black_%5E%5Ex2F,_Hall_Map_of_the_Mountains_%5E_Plants_of_America_-_Geographicus_-_AmericaMts2-black-1839.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/1839_Black_%5E%5Ex2F%2C_Hall_Map_of_the_Mountains_%5E_Plants_of_America_-_Geographicus_-_AmericaMts2-black-1839.jpg/800px-1839_Black_%5E%5Ex2F%2C_Hall_Map_of_the_Mountains_%5E_Plants_of_America_-_Geographicus_-_AmericaMts2-black-1839.jpg" width="800" height="565" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Physical Geography. Humboldt’s Distribution of Plants in Equinoctial America, According to Elevation Above the Level of the Sea (1839) </p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 738px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1845_Mitchell_Wall_Map_of_the_United_States_(partial_Republic_of_Texas)_-_Geographicus_-_USAwall-mitchell-1844.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/1845_Mitchell_Wall_Map_of_the_United_States_%28partial_Republic_of_Texas%29_-_Geographicus_-_USAwall-mitchell-1844.jpg/728px-1845_Mitchell_Wall_Map_of_the_United_States_%28partial_Republic_of_Texas%29_-_Geographicus_-_USAwall-mitchell-1844.jpg" width="728" height="600" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mitchell’s National Map of the American Republic or The United States of North America. Together with Maps of the Vicinities of Thirty-Two Principal Cities and Towns in the Union (1845)</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 582px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1846_-_1879_Colton_Map_of_New_York_City_%5E_Vicinity_(33_Miles_Around)_-_Geographicus_-_NYC33Miles-colton-1879.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/1846_-_1879_Colton_Map_of_New_York_City_%5E_Vicinity_%2833_Miles_Around%29_-_Geographicus_-_NYC33Miles-colton-1879.jpg/572px-1846_-_1879_Colton_Map_of_New_York_City_%5E_Vicinity_%2833_Miles_Around%29_-_Geographicus_-_NYC33Miles-colton-1879.jpg" width="572" height="599" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Map Of The Country Thirty Three Miles Around The City Of New York (1879), by  Joseph Hutchins Colton</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 810px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1847_Levasseur_Map_of_Africa_-_Geographicus_-_Africa-levasseur-1847.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/1847_Levasseur_Map_of_Africa_-_Geographicus_-_Africa-levasseur-1847.jpg/800px-1847_Levasseur_Map_of_Africa_-_Geographicus_-_Africa-levasseur-1847.jpg" width="800" height="577" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Afrique; a stunning c. 1847 map of Africa by French cartographer Victor Levasseur</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 810px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1853_Kaei_6_Japanese_Map_of_the_World_-_Geographicus_-_ChikyuBankokuHozu-nakajima-1853.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/1853_Kaei_6_Japanese_Map_of_the_World_-_Geographicus_-_ChikyuBankokuHozu-nakajima-1853.jpg/800px-1853_Kaei_6_Japanese_Map_of_the_World_-_Geographicus_-_ChikyuBankokuHozu-nakajima-1853.jpg" width="800" height="466" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Shintei - Chikyu Bankoku Hozu (Square Map of all the Countries on the Globe); a very interesting 1853 (Kaei 6) Japanese world map by Suido Nakajima.</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 728px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1854_Colton_Pocket_Map_of_Ohio,_Michigan,_Wisconsin,_Iowa,_Illinois,_Missouri,_Indiana_and_Kentucky_-_Geographicus_-_WesternStates-colton-1854.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/1854_Colton_Pocket_Map_of_Ohio%2C_Michigan%2C_Wisconsin%2C_Iowa%2C_Illinois%2C_Missouri%2C_Indiana_and_Kentucky_-_Geographicus_-_WesternStates-colton-1854.jpg/718px-1854_Colton_Pocket_Map_of_Ohio%2C_Michigan%2C_Wisconsin%2C_Iowa%2C_Illinois%2C_Missouri%2C_Indiana_and_Kentucky_-_Geographicus_-_WesternStates-colton-1854.jpg" width="718" height="600" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Colton&#039;s Railroad &#038; Township Map of the Western States compiled from the United States Surveys (1854)</p></div>

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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 552px"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1856_Burritt_-_Huntington_Map_of_the_Constellations_or_Stars_in_October,_November_and_December_-_Geographicus_-_DecNovOct-burritt-1856.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/1856_Burritt_-_Huntington_Map_of_the_Constellations_or_Stars_in_October%2C_November_and_December_-_Geographicus_-_DecNovOct-burritt-1856.jpg/542px-1856_Burritt_-_Huntington_Map_of_the_Constellations_or_Stars_in_October%2C_November_and_December_-_Geographicus_-_DecNovOct-burritt-1856.jpg" width="542" height="600" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Constellations (December November October); this rare hand coloured map of the stars was engraved by W. G. Evans of New York for Burritt’s 1856 edition of the Atlas to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens.</p></div>



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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1315"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6025/5963926888_f9a9db72f1_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera<br />
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2047
title: A Few Words about F. Scott Fitzgerald
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url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/26/a-few-words-about-f-scott-fitzgerald/
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<p><strong>In most countries around the world, 2011 saw the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald enter the public domain. Scott Donaldson, author of the biography <em>Fool For Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald</em>, explores the obscuring nature of his legend and the role that women played in his life and work.</strong></p>

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<p>With Fitzgerald as with no one else in American literature save Poe, the biography gets in the way. Never mind that F. Scott Fitzgerald is the author of one exquisite short novel as perfect as anything in our literature and of another longer, more chaotic novel of tremendous emotional power. Never mind that he has written a couple of dozen stories that by any standard deserve the designation of “masterful.” Ignoring those legacies, much of the general public still tends to think of him in connection with the legends of his disordered and difficult life, and to classify him under one convenient stereotype or another. So diminished in stature, Fitzgerald becomes the Chronicler of the Jazz Age, or the Artist in Spite of Himself, or – most prevalent stereotype of all – the Writer as Burnt-Out Case: a man whose tragic course functions as a cautionary tale for more commonsensical aftercomers. His saga offers an almost irresistible temptation to sermonizers, overt or concealed. It is not right to ride on top of taxicabs or disport oneself in the Plaza hotel’s fountain, not right to drink to excess or abuse a “lovely golden wasted talent.” Go thou and do otherwise.</p>

<p>This warning usually remains implicit, of course. It is not the homily but the tale of star-crossed lovers that commands attention – handsome brilliant erratic Scott married for good or ill to beautiful willful unstable Zelda. There is an arresting poignancy in the way the two of them – Scott more than Zelda, perhaps – considered the alternatives and chose the sweet poison. Somehow, in the repeated retellings of this tale, the Fitzgeralds have come to stand for a kind of generic nonspecific glamour, now sadly departed. In 1980 the opening party for an exhibit of Fitzgeraldiana at the National Portrait Gallery drew an enormous crowd determined to celebrate a vanished past. The band played Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman numbers from the 1940s, the decade following Fitzgerald’s death. A few women attempted flapper costumes, but for the most part the clothes were as anachronistic as the music. One chap, aiming for colonial elegance, danced in a pith helmet. The details that mattered so much to Fitzgerald, a man precisely in tune with his times, mattered very little to those come to the party to memorialize his legend. Zelda and Scott, Scott and Zelda – they are fixed so securely in the collective mind as lovable reckless youths for whom it all went disastrously wrong that it has been difficult to set that image aside and concentrate on the work that established him as one of the major literary artists of the twentieth century.</p>

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<p>Henry James, himself a biographer as well as a novelist, understood that the entire truth about anyone could never be told. “We can only take what groups together,” he said. What most grouped together in Fitzgerald’s work and life, I came to realize over several decades in the classroom and five years of intensive research, was an overweening compulsion to please. He wanted to please other men, but did a poor job of it. His Princeton classmates considered him over-inquisitive and frivolous. Zelda’s father thought him unreliable. Ernest Hemingway, the closest of friends in the mid-1920s, eventually came to regard him with something like scorn. Fitzgerald was far more successful in pleasing women. Readers of his fiction might expect as much, for he is one of our more androgynous writers, with a rare capacity to put himself in the place of characters of either sex. “All my characters are Scott Fitzgeralds,” he acknowledged. “Even my female characters are feminine Scott Fitzgeralds.” The set of instructions Fitzgerald drew up, at 18, for his younger sister Annabel provides convincing evidence along these lines. In this remarkable document he coached his sister in the finer points of attracting boys: how to groom herself, how to dance, what to talk about, how to flatter. And the androgyny is everywhere evident in the stories and novels, too, which is probably why most female college students are attracted to his fiction.</p>

<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 550px"><img alt="" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6162/6184299387_262482da77_o.jpg" width="540" height="301" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Left: Image of Zelda published in Metropolitan Magazine in June 1922, accompanying her piece &quot;Eulogy of a Flapper&quot;. Right: A study of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Gordon Bryant, published in Shadowland magazine in 1921.</p></div>

<p>Equipped with this sensitivity, Fitzgerald played the game of courtship well. As a youth he was a notoriously successful flirt. “I’ve got an adjective that just fits you,” he would tell a dancing partner early in the evening, and then withhold the laudatory word to build up her expectations. He was good-looking, and at ease in the company of girls. He listened to them as few other boys did, and made it clear that he cared tremendously what they thought of him. Later, as a married man, he continued to woo women. He couldn’t help it. He needed their approval, which is to say their love and adoration. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald may have been the most important woman in his life, but she was not and could not be the only one.</p>

<p>Fitzgerald suffered a tremendous setback when Ginevra King of Lake Forest, north of Chicago – one of the wealthiest and most beautiful debutantes of her day – spurned him in order to marry a young man of her own class. The rejection devastated Fitzgerald, even as it supplied him with the basic subject matter of much of his fiction. There are probably more characters in his stories and novels modeled on Ginevra than on Zelda Sayre, who caught him on the rebound. By altering the circumstances of the plot, Fitzgerald played variations on the age-old theme of the battle of the sexes.</p>

<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 550px"><img alt="" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6178/6184767522_01f9dc3ff7_o.jpg" width="540" height="394" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Left: Fitzgerald reading alone in 1920. Right: Fitzgerald reading aloud to his friends in 1917, left to right, Helen Floan, Sidney Strong, Grace Warner, and Lucius P. Ordway, Jr. (Source: Minnesota Historical Society)</p></div>

<p>What is unusual about Fitzgerald’s treatment of this theme is its escalation – in the work as in the life &#8212; from the courting game of his adolescence to the fierce battle of his young manhood to the outright war of his maturity. Perhaps, we are inclined to think, Amory Blaine will not suffer unduly from his jilting by Rosalind Connage in <em>This Side of Paradise</em> (1920), Fitzgerald’s first novel. But Gatsby dies for Daisy in his 1925 masterpiece, and Dick Diver is stripped of his vitality and tossed aside by Nicole and her family in 1934’s <em>Tender is the Night</em>. In Fitzgerald’s fictional treatment of the war between the sexes, it is almost always the man who ends up defeated. By repeatedly depicting the downfall of his male figures, Fitzgerald was imagining what might well have happened (had not Zelda been afflicted with schizophrenia) and also – it seems to me – excoriating himself for his weaknesses. <em>Tender</em>, in particular, is a novel about the enervating effects of charm. Compelled to please everyone around him (and particularly women), Diver dissipates away his life’s work and his usefulness as a human being. The real Fitzgerald, like his invented protagonist, came to despise himself for this “fatal pleasingness,” a self-disgust that characteristically emerged under the influence of alcohol. Drinking runs like an inner malaise through Fitzgerald’s life and that of many of his male characters. His triumph came in the last years of his life, when – supposedly down and out in Hollywood – he cast aside this obsession, quit drinking, and went back to being what he called “a writer only.”</p>

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<p><em>One of America&#8217;s leading literary biographers, <a href="http://www.scottdonaldson.org/">Scott Donaldson</a> has written eight books about 20th century American authors. These include Poet in America: Winfield Townley Scott (1972), By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway (1977), Fool for Love, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1983), John Cheever: A Biography (1988), Archibald MacLeish: An American Life (1992), winner of the 1993 Ambassador Book Award for biography, Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship (1999), Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet&#8217;s Life (2007), named the best biography of the year by Contemporary Poetry Forum, and Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days (2009). This present article is excerpted from the preface to a new paperback edition of his <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fool-Love-F-Scott-Fitzgerald/dp/0595181708">Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald</a> from the University of Minnesota Press.</em></p>

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<h1>Links to Works</h1>

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<li><em>This Side of Paradise</em> (1920)

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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924096224682">pdf online</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/cu31924096224682/cu31924096224682.pdf">pdf download</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/805.kindle.noimages">kindle</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/805/805-h/805-h.htm">html</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/805/pg805.txt">text</a></li>
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<li><em>Flappers and Philosophers</em> (1921)

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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/flappersphiloso00fitzrich">pdf online</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/flappersphiloso00fitzrich/flappersphiloso00fitzrich.pdf">pdf download</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4368.kindle.noimages">kindle</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4368/4368-h/4368-h.htm">html</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4368.txt.utf8">text</a></li>
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<li><em>The Beautiful and Damned</em> (1922)

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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/beautifuldamned00fitzuoft">pdf online</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/beautifuldamned00fitzuoft/beautifuldamned00fitzuoft.pdf">pdf download</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9830.kindle.noimages">kindle</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9830.html.gen">html</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9830.txt.utf8">text</a></li>
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<li><em>Tales From the Jazz Age</em> (1922)

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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924104781368">pdf online</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/cu31924104781368/cu31924104781368.pdf">pdf download</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6695.kindle.noimages">kindle</a></li>
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<li><em>The Great Gatsby</em> (1925)

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<li><em>Tender Is the Night</em> (1934)

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<li><em>The Complete Pat Hobby Stories</em> (1962)

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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2148
title: Thief of Bagdad (1924)
uri: Thief-of-Bagdad-(1924)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/10/02/thief-of-bagdad-1924/
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This swashbuckler film, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph. The film, strong on special effects of the period (flying carpet, magic urn and fearsome monsters) and featuring massive Arabian-style sets, also proved a stepping stone for a scantily-clad Anna May Wong, who portrayed a Mongol slave. Fairbanks considered this to be his personal favorite of all of his films, according to his son.
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs<br />
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<img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/4/items/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz.thumbs/WizardOfOz1910_000720.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1715"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6090641136_9922b754c8_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Operation Cue (1955) 52sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1812"><img src="http://ia700301.us.archive.org/5/items/CEP_00_071/CEP_00_071.thumbs/CEP_00_071_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Never Weaken (1921) 28min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1827"><img src="http://ia600309.us.archive.org/22/items/Never_Weaken_1921/Never_Weaken_1921.thumbs/Never_Weaken_1921_001260.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Intolerance (1916) 2hr57min<br />
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<img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/11/items/Intolerance/Intolerance.thumbs/Intolerance_010500.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quicksand (1950) 1hr18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1816"><img src="http://ia700406.us.archive.org/14/items/Quicksand_clear/Quicksand_clear.thumbs/Quicksand_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Dutch Fashion Reel (1969) 1min50sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1954"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6200/6158664220_2d772d57d5_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher (1932) 7min46sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1965"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/2/items/bb_minnie_the_moocher/bb_minnie_the_moocher.thumbs/bb_minnie_the_moocher_000390.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 1hr46min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1943"><img src="http://ia700208.us.archive.org/23/items/ThePhantomoftheOpera/ThePhantomoftheOpera.thumbs/Phantom_of_the_Opera_001320.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Suddenly (1954) 1hr16mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1279"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/10/items/suddenly/suddenly.thumbs/suddenly_004320.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">Buffalo Dance (1894) 14sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2135"><img src="http://ia600301.us.archive.org/10/items/SF126/SF126.thumbs/SF126_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Cook (1918) 18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2139"><img src="http://ia600501.us.archive.org/18/items/TheCook/TheCook.thumbs/TheCook_000300.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Thief of Bagdad (1924) 2hr20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2148"><img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/25/items/ThiefOfBagdad1924/ThiefOfBagdad1924.thumbs/ThiefofBagdad1924_008280.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Five Minutes to Live (1961) 1hr14min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1683"><img src="http://ia700508.us.archive.org/7/items/Five_Minutes_To_Live.avi/Five_Minutes_To_Live.avi.thumbs/Five_Minutes_to_Live_002880.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">VD is for Everybody (1969) 1min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2280"><img src="http://ia600508.us.archive.org/0/items/vd_is_for_everybody/vd_is_for_everybody.thumbs/vd_is_for_everybody_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2"></td><td class="column-3">For The Term of His Natural Life (1927) 1hr33min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2288"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/1/items/ForTheTermOfHisNaturalLife/ForTheTermOfHisNaturalLife.thumbs/ForTheTermOfHisNaturalLife_004980.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4"></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1683
title: Five Minutes To Live (1961)
uri: Five-Minutes-To-Live-(1961)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/10/02/five-minutes-to-live-1961/
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Bank heist movie starring Johnny Cash as a guitar playing, sadistic psycho-killer, as well as Vic Tayback, a young Ron Howard, and country music great, Merle Travis.
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1721"><br />
<img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/20/items/AnnieOakley/AnnieOakley.thumbs/AnnieOakley_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 13min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1719"><br />
<img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/4/items/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz.thumbs/WizardOfOz1910_000720.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1715"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6090641136_9922b754c8_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Operation Cue (1955) 52sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1812"><img src="http://ia700301.us.archive.org/5/items/CEP_00_071/CEP_00_071.thumbs/CEP_00_071_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Never Weaken (1921) 28min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1827"><img src="http://ia600309.us.archive.org/22/items/Never_Weaken_1921/Never_Weaken_1921.thumbs/Never_Weaken_1921_001260.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Intolerance (1916) 2hr57min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1820"><br />
<img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/11/items/Intolerance/Intolerance.thumbs/Intolerance_010500.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quicksand (1950) 1hr18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1816"><img src="http://ia700406.us.archive.org/14/items/Quicksand_clear/Quicksand_clear.thumbs/Quicksand_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-9">
		<td class="column-1">Dutch Fashion Reel (1969) 1min50sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1954"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6200/6158664220_2d772d57d5_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher (1932) 7min46sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1965"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/2/items/bb_minnie_the_moocher/bb_minnie_the_moocher.thumbs/bb_minnie_the_moocher_000390.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 1hr46min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1943"><img src="http://ia700208.us.archive.org/23/items/ThePhantomoftheOpera/ThePhantomoftheOpera.thumbs/Phantom_of_the_Opera_001320.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Suddenly (1954) 1hr16mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1279"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/10/items/suddenly/suddenly.thumbs/suddenly_004320.jpg"></a><br />
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	<tr class="row-10">
		<td class="column-1">Buffalo Dance (1894) 14sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2135"><img src="http://ia600301.us.archive.org/10/items/SF126/SF126.thumbs/SF126_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Cook (1918) 18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2139"><img src="http://ia600501.us.archive.org/18/items/TheCook/TheCook.thumbs/TheCook_000300.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Thief of Bagdad (1924) 2hr20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2148"><img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/25/items/ThiefOfBagdad1924/ThiefOfBagdad1924.thumbs/ThiefofBagdad1924_008280.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Five Minutes to Live (1961) 1hr14min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1683"><img src="http://ia700508.us.archive.org/7/items/Five_Minutes_To_Live.avi/Five_Minutes_To_Live.avi.thumbs/Five_Minutes_to_Live_002880.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-11">
		<td class="column-1">VD is for Everybody (1969) 1min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2280"><img src="http://ia600508.us.archive.org/0/items/vd_is_for_everybody/vd_is_for_everybody.thumbs/vd_is_for_everybody_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2"></td><td class="column-3">For The Term of His Natural Life (1927) 1hr33min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2288"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/1/items/ForTheTermOfHisNaturalLife/ForTheTermOfHisNaturalLife.thumbs/ForTheTermOfHisNaturalLife_004980.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4"></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2139
title: The Cook (1918)
uri: The-Cook-(1918)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/10/01/the-cook-1918/
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Starring Roscoe &#8220;Fatty&#8221; Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, a slapstick comedy focusing on goings-on at a high-end restaurant with Arbuckle as the Cook and Keaton as the Waiter.
The film is notable for a scene spoofing the 1918 Theda Bara film Salomé, with Arbuckle dancing around in drag. Three years later &#8220;Fatty&#8221; would be mired in scandal, being accused of raping and accidentally killing Virginia Rappe, enduring three widely publicized trials for manslaughter. His films were subsequently banned and he was publicly ostracized. He was eventually acquitted by a jury, received a written apology,  and the ban on his films was lifted, however the scandal overshadowed his career and he only worked sparingly through the 1920s. In 1932 he began a successful comeback, which he briefly enjoyed before his death in 1933.
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		<th class="column-1">CLIPS</th><th class="column-2">SHORT</th><th class="column-3">FULL LENGTH SILENT</th><th class="column-4">FULL LENGTH TALKIE</th>
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-3">
		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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	<tr class="row-4">
		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-5">
		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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	<tr class="row-7">
		<td class="column-1">Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1721"><br />
<img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/20/items/AnnieOakley/AnnieOakley.thumbs/AnnieOakley_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 13min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1719"><br />
<img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/4/items/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz.thumbs/WizardOfOz1910_000720.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1715"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6090641136_9922b754c8_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Operation Cue (1955) 52sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1812"><img src="http://ia700301.us.archive.org/5/items/CEP_00_071/CEP_00_071.thumbs/CEP_00_071_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Never Weaken (1921) 28min<br />
<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1827"><img src="http://ia600309.us.archive.org/22/items/Never_Weaken_1921/Never_Weaken_1921.thumbs/Never_Weaken_1921_001260.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Intolerance (1916) 2hr57min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1820"><br />
<img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/11/items/Intolerance/Intolerance.thumbs/Intolerance_010500.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quicksand (1950) 1hr18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1816"><img src="http://ia700406.us.archive.org/14/items/Quicksand_clear/Quicksand_clear.thumbs/Quicksand_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Dutch Fashion Reel (1969) 1min50sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1954"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6200/6158664220_2d772d57d5_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher (1932) 7min46sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1965"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/2/items/bb_minnie_the_moocher/bb_minnie_the_moocher.thumbs/bb_minnie_the_moocher_000390.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 1hr46min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1943"><img src="http://ia700208.us.archive.org/23/items/ThePhantomoftheOpera/ThePhantomoftheOpera.thumbs/Phantom_of_the_Opera_001320.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Suddenly (1954) 1hr16mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1279"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/10/items/suddenly/suddenly.thumbs/suddenly_004320.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">Buffalo Dance (1894) 14sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2135"><img src="http://ia600301.us.archive.org/10/items/SF126/SF126.thumbs/SF126_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Cook (1918) 18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2139"><img src="http://ia600501.us.archive.org/18/items/TheCook/TheCook.thumbs/TheCook_000300.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Thief of Bagdad (1924) 2hr20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2148"><img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/25/items/ThiefOfBagdad1924/ThiefOfBagdad1924.thumbs/ThiefofBagdad1924_008280.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Five Minutes to Live (1961) 1hr14min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1683"><img src="http://ia700508.us.archive.org/7/items/Five_Minutes_To_Live.avi/Five_Minutes_To_Live.avi.thumbs/Five_Minutes_to_Live_002880.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">VD is for Everybody (1969) 1min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2280"><img src="http://ia600508.us.archive.org/0/items/vd_is_for_everybody/vd_is_for_everybody.thumbs/vd_is_for_everybody_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2"></td><td class="column-3">For The Term of His Natural Life (1927) 1hr33min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2288"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/1/items/ForTheTermOfHisNaturalLife/ForTheTermOfHisNaturalLife.thumbs/ForTheTermOfHisNaturalLife_004980.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4"></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2135
title: Buffalo Dance (1894)
uri: Buffalo-Dance-(1894)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/10/01/buffalo-dance-1894/
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Short Edison film featuring Native American Indian dancers from Buffalo Bill&#8217;s Wild West show. The first appearance of Native Americans on film.
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<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/SF126">Download from Internet Archive</a>
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		<th class="column-1">CLIPS</th><th class="column-2">SHORT</th><th class="column-3">FULL LENGTH SILENT</th><th class="column-4">FULL LENGTH TALKIE</th>
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		<td class="column-1">Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/princess-nicotine-1909/"><img src="http://ia700502.us.archive.org/1/items/princess_nicotine_1909/princess_nicotine_1909.thumbs/princess_nicotine_1909_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Gertie the Dinosaur  (1914) 12min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/gertie-the-dinosaur-1914/"><img src="http://ia600300.us.archive.org/11/items/Gertie/Gertie.thumbs/GertietheDinosaur_000330.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/last-of-the-mohicans-1920/"><img src="http://ia700300.us.archive.org/24/items/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans.thumbs/Last_of_the_Mohicans_000300.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/meet-john-doe-1941/"><img src="http://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/meet_john_doe_ipod/meet_john_doe_ipod.thumbs/meet_john_doe_002127.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min<br />
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<a href=" http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-unappreciated-joke-1903/"><img src="http://ia600200.us.archive.org/5/items/TheUnappreciatedJoke/TheUnappreciatedJoke.thumbs/TheUnappreciatedJoke_000035.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Frankenstein (1910) 13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/frankenstein-19/"><img src="http://ia600306.us.archive.org/9/items/FrankensteinfullMovie/FrankensteinfullMovie.thumbs/Frankenstein1910_000270.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The General (1926) 1hr19min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-general-1926/ "><img src="http://ia600604.us.archive.org/8/items/TheGeneral1926/TheGeneral1926.thumbs/The_General_1926_720p_001554.jpg" alt="" /></a></td><td class="column-4">Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/plan-9-from-outer-space-1959/"><img src="http://ia600401.us.archive.org/19/items/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959.thumbs/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_1959_001260.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-execution-…-of-scots-1895/"><img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/33/items/Execution_of_Mary_1895/Execution_of_Mary_1895.thumbs/Execution_of_Mary_1895_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-great-train-robbery-1903/"><img src="http://ia700504.us.archive.org/7/items/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912.thumbs/Europeanposte-theGreatTrainrobbery912_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/wolf-blood-1925/"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/8/items/WolfBlood1925/WolfBlood1925.thumbs/WolfBlood_002940.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1281"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/1/items/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.thumbs/reefer_madness1938_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">The Kiss (1896) 25secs<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1421"><img src="http://ia700204.us.archive.org/23/items/CEP00115/CEP00115.thumbs/CEP00115_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1417"><img src="http://ia700500.us.archive.org/19/items/Experime1940/Experime1940.thumbs/Experime1940_000360.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1413"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/BattleshipPotemkin/BattleshipPotemkin.thumbs/Battleship_Potemkin_000780.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1425"><img src="http://ia700402.us.archive.org/23/items/Kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.thumbs/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_006300.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1547"><img src="http://ia600308.us.archive.org/15/items/SF120/SF120.thumbs/SF120_000040.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Are You Popular (1947) 10min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1552"><img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/17/items/AreYouPo1947/AreYouPo1947.thumbs/AreYouPo1947_000240.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1560"><img src="http://ia700309.us.archive.org/32/items/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579/TheLodgerAStoryOfTheLondonFog_579.thumbs/TheLodger-AStoryOfTheLondonFog1927AlfredHitchcock_001800.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1557"><img src="http://ia700202.us.archive.org/16/items/ScarletStreet/ScarletStreet.thumbs/Scarlet_Street_005460.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1721"><br />
<img src="http://ia600202.us.archive.org/20/items/AnnieOakley/AnnieOakley.thumbs/AnnieOakley_000020.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 13min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1719"><br />
<img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/4/items/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz.thumbs/WizardOfOz1910_000720.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Faust (1926) 1hr55min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1703"><img src="http://ia600409.us.archive.org/15/items/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421.thumbs/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Faust1926421_002160.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1715"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6090641136_9922b754c8_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Operation Cue (1955) 52sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1812"><img src="http://ia700301.us.archive.org/5/items/CEP_00_071/CEP_00_071.thumbs/CEP_00_071_000030.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Never Weaken (1921) 28min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1827"><img src="http://ia600309.us.archive.org/22/items/Never_Weaken_1921/Never_Weaken_1921.thumbs/Never_Weaken_1921_001260.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">Intolerance (1916) 2hr57min<br />
<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1820"><br />
<img src="http://ia700303.us.archive.org/11/items/Intolerance/Intolerance.thumbs/Intolerance_010500.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quicksand (1950) 1hr18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1816"><img src="http://ia700406.us.archive.org/14/items/Quicksand_clear/Quicksand_clear.thumbs/Quicksand_001860.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Dutch Fashion Reel (1969) 1min50sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1954"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6200/6158664220_2d772d57d5_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher (1932) 7min46sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1965"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/2/items/bb_minnie_the_moocher/bb_minnie_the_moocher.thumbs/bb_minnie_the_moocher_000390.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 1hr46min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1943"><img src="http://ia700208.us.archive.org/23/items/ThePhantomoftheOpera/ThePhantomoftheOpera.thumbs/Phantom_of_the_Opera_001320.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Suddenly (1954) 1hr16mins<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1279"><img src="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/10/items/suddenly/suddenly.thumbs/suddenly_004320.jpg"></a><br />
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		<td class="column-1">Buffalo Dance (1894) 14sec<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2135"><img src="http://ia600301.us.archive.org/10/items/SF126/SF126.thumbs/SF126_000005.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Cook (1918) 18min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2139"><img src="http://ia600501.us.archive.org/18/items/TheCook/TheCook.thumbs/TheCook_000300.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Thief of Bagdad (1924) 2hr20min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2148"><img src="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/25/items/ThiefOfBagdad1924/ThiefOfBagdad1924.thumbs/ThiefofBagdad1924_008280.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Five Minutes to Live (1961) 1hr14min<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1683"><img src="http://ia700508.us.archive.org/7/items/Five_Minutes_To_Live.avi/Five_Minutes_To_Live.avi.thumbs/Five_Minutes_to_Live_002880.jpg"></a></td>
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2129
title: Across the Zodiac: the Story of a Wrecked Record (1880)
uri: Across-the-Zodiac-the-Story-of-a-Wrecked-Record-(1880)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/30/across-the-zodiac-the-story-of-a-wrecked-record-1880/
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<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Across the Zodiac: the Story of a Wrecked Record, deciphered, translated and edited by Percy Greg; 1880; Trübner, London</span>

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Centering around the creation of a substance called &#8220;apergy&#8221;, a form of anti-gravitational energy, Percy Gregg&#8217;s novel details a flight to Mars taken in 1830. They discover the planet to be inhabited by diminutive beings who, convinced that life couldn&#8217;t exist any where else apart from on their world, refuse to believe that the unnamed narrator is actually from Earth &#8211; deciding instead he is an unusually tall Martian from some remote corner of their planet. The book is notable as containing what is probably the first alien language in any work of fiction to be described with linguistic and grammatical terminology. It also contains what is possibly the first instance in the English language of the word &#8220;Astronaut&#8221;, which features as the name of the narrator&#8217;s spacecraft. In 2010 a crater on Mars was named Greg in recognition of his contribution to the lore of Mars.
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<a href="http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24225806M/Across_the_zodiac">Open Library link</a>
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		<td class="column-1">Letters From a Cat (1879)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/letters-from-a-cat/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/5926255857_dd107bbcd5_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Castaway on the Auckland Isles: A Narrative of the Wreck of the "Grafton," (1865)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/castaway-on-the-auckland-isles-a-narrative-of-the-wreck-of-the-grafton-1865"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6014/5963292991_2926d4d77d_o.jpg"><br />
</a></td><td class="column-3">Infant's Cabinet of Birds and Beasts (1820)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/infants-cabine…-beasts-1820-2/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6137/5963292985_e427baf1da_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Old French Fairytales (1920)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/old-french-fairytales-1920/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/5963292975_0047a86d70_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Armata: a fragment (1817)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/armata-a-fragment-1817/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5977796996_e0a0fc40cd_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism (1803)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/an-account-of-the-late-improvements-in-galvanism-1803/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6027/5977796994_62597592db_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Medical Aspects of Death, and the Medical Aspects of the Human Mind (1852)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/the-medical-aspects-of-death-and-the-medical-aspects-of-the-human-mind-1852"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6122/5977796990_d34ea609b4_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Quarles' Emblems (1886)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/quarles-emblems-1886/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6129/5977796992_cda35bfc9d_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">Cat and bird stories from the "Spectator" (1896)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1198"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/6011153785_75aab450ee_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1200"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/6011153783_3c0847e432_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Book of Topiary (1904)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1202"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6145/6011153777_a727143f9d_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (1899)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1204"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6013/6011153791_7fcdcb3356_o.jpg"></a></td>
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		<td class="column-1">English as She is Spoke (1884)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1431"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6083/6046055812_6639c33965_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-2">The Danger of Premature Interment (1816)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=1503"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6062/6046366952_ba41be4694_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-3">The Last American (1889)<br />
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<a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/19/the-last-american/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6066/6059266721_1e7b1015c2_o.jpg"></a></td><td class="column-4">Pirates (1922)<br />
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2108
title: Arnoldus Montanus’ New and Unknown World (1671)
uri: Arnoldus-Montanus-New-and-Unknown-World-(1671)
url: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/29/arnoldus-montanus-new-and-unknown-world-1671/
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Images from De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (1671), a book by the Dutch explorer, missionary and theologian Arnoldus Montanus (1625–1683). The full title of the work in English is &#8220;The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland, Containing the Origin of the Americans and South-landers, remarkable voyages thither, Quality of the Shores, Islands, Cities, Fortresses, Towns, Temples, Mountains, Sources, Rivers, Houses, the nature of Beasts, Trees, Plants and foreign Crops, Religion and Manners, Miraculous Occurrences, Old and New Wars: Adorned with Illustrations drawn from the life in America, and described by Arnoldus Montanus&#8221;. <br />
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Images via the excellent and highly recommended <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/01/americas-of-1671.html">Bibliodyssey</a>. The full 800 plus pages of the book in high-res scans are housed <a href="http://international.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?intldl/awkbbib:@OR%28@field%28NUMBER+@band%28rbkb+0003%29%29%29">here</a> on the website of the Library of Congress project The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands.
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feed_id: http://publicdomainreview.org/?p=2151
title: Slavery in North Africa – the Famous Story of Captain James Riley
uri: Slavery-in-North-Africa-the-Famous-Story-of-Captain-James-Riley
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<p><strong>When Captain James Riley published in 1817 the account of his and his crew&#8217;s capture and enslavement at the hands of a group of North African tribesmen it became an immediate hit, readers being enthralled by this stark reversal of the usual master-slave narrative they were all so used to. Robert C. Davis, author of <em>Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters</em>, looks at the story in the context of other similar tales of Europeans being taken as slaves on the North African coast.</strong></p>

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<p>In 1817, the American sea captain, James Riley, published <em>An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig “Commerce,” Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa , in the Month of August, 1815, with an Account of the Sufferings of the Surviving Officers and Crew, who were Enslaved by the Wandering Arabs of the Great African Desert or Zahahrah</em>. More recently, Captain Riley’s memoire has been reprinted, though with a title that better fits modern sensibilities: <em>Sufferings in Africa: the Incredible True Story of a Shipwreck, Enslavement, and Survival on the Sahara</em> (New York: Skyhorse, 2007). This edition, along with a fictionalized version by Dean King, called <em>Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival</em> (New York: Back Bay Books, 2005) enjoy respectable sales for reprints of a book nearly two centuries old.</p>

<p>Captain Riley’s story is pretty well summed up by the original title of his book. While sailing from Gibraltar to the Cape Verde Islands, Riley’s mid-sized merchant ship got lost in the fog and wrecked on the west Moroccan coast. Trapped on shore and having run out of both food and water, Riley and the surviving crew threw themselves on the mercy of some passing Berber tribesmen, who promptly enslaved and carried them off into the desert. Abused, underfed, and overworked, the captives were nearly dead when their masters sold them to an Arab trader, who bought the Americans on Riley’s promise of ransom if they returned to the coast. The rest of <em>An Authentic Narrative</em> recounts the survivors’ slightly less brutal journey over desert and mountains to the port city of Mogador (modern Essaouira) and their eventual freedom.</p>

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<p>Like many another adventure story, Captain Riley’s tale was essentially ghost written. The real author was Riley’s “respectable friend, Anthony Bleecker [or Bleeker], Esquire of New York,” called in as Riley himself put it, “to smooth down the asperities of my unlearned style.” Starting with Riley’s logbook, notes, and recollections, Bleecker applied his own “talents, judgements, and erudition,” and in under a year came up with a narrative rich in emotional, and even spiritual themes. In the process, Bleecker spun what had actually been a fairly short adventure – the whole story, from the shipwreck until the survivors’ return to Mogador, lasted barely two months, of which only the first three weeks were spent as slaves of the Berbers – into an epic tale of survival against both human and natural odds.</p>

<p><em>An Authentic Narrative</em> was hardly the first Christian enslavement account – though it was nearly the last to be set in North Africa. Other unlucky travellers had also been shipwrecked on the wild Atlantic coast of Africa, south of Agadir, and a few of them survived to produce similar accounts. Paul Baepler, in <em>White Slaves, African Masters</em> (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), offered several tales of brutal treatment by such slaves, made worse, if possible, by the terrifying and bleak Saharan landscapes and by the desperate conditions they were forced to share with the nomadic Berbers, who themselves lived on the margins of survival. One was by Robert Adams, an African-American sailor whose ship ran aground in the fog in 1810, several hundred miles south of where Riley came ashore. Adams was a slave for over three years and with his wandering masters made it as far as Timbuktu. Another castaway, the American woman Eliza Bradley, supposedly spent eight months in Berber hands, though some have questioned her account as “a work of anonymous fiction that also plagiarizes large sections from James Riley’s best-selling account”.</p>

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<p>The captivity accounts of Riley, Adams, and Bradley (if indeed she existed) were not typical examples of the genre, however. Far more common were the stories of European and American Christians who fell into the hands, not of nomadic Berbers but of Barbary corsairs. Of these we have scores of examples, published and unpublished, in languages ranging from Latin and Spanish to Italian, French, Portuguese, English, Dutch, German, and Icelandic. The earliest date back to Miguel de Cervantes, a slave in Algiers from 1575-80; among the last was the Italian poet Filippo Pananti’s <em>Narrative of a Residence in Algiers</em>, published the same year as Riley’s <em>Authentic Narrative</em>. The corsairs who captured them were professional slavers, ranging the entire length of the Mediterranean and (after 1600) out into the Atlantic, as far afield as the Cape Verde Islands and Iceland. These freebooters took their captives from merchant ships, fishing boats, and any village they could sack, selling them in the slave markets of Salé on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, or in Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, on the Barbary Coast. Some captives – the very wealthy and many women &#8212; were bought by dealers who specialized in ransoming and were often well treated, more as hostages than as slaves. The great majority were properly enslaved, though, worked hard by their masters, regularly beaten and sold when they were no longer fit or profitable. At least an eighth of the captives were allocated to the state, its share in recompense for supporting the corsairs. They were set to work on state projects – building the harbor, or fortifications, digging in quarries, serving as longshoremen; or rowing in the galleys. Those sold to private masters were either used as house servants or farm laborers or rented out to potters, tanners, construction bosses, or water sellers. A lucky few managed run shops or taverns, paying their masters a monthly fee for the privilege. Women not suitable for ransoming generally ended up in the harem of wealthy corsairs or the ruling pasha, either as serving maids or concubines.</p>

<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 550px"><img alt="" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6133/6207265502_a031f1f094_o.jpg" width="540" height="413" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Illustration from William Okeley&#039;s <em>Ebenezer: or, a Small Monument of Great Mercy</em> (London, 1675).</p></div>

<p>Whereas Captain Riley experienced his captivity within the confines of a small and socially simple nomadic band, those Europeans taken to Barbary were thrown into crowded cities that teemed with myriads of slaves, free Christians, renegade Christians (who had “taken the turban”), Turkish janissaries, Jews, Arabs, Berbers, Greeks, and black Africans. In its heyday Algiers was immensely powerful, one of the richest cities on the Mediterranean, and, like Salé, a kind of merchant republic, run by the same corsairs who had grown rich through slaving. Each of those Barbary slaves who wrote about it portrayed different aspects of captivity &#8211; Francis Knight and João Mascarenhas portrayed life as galley slaves; Emanuel d’Aranda and Chastelet des Boys described many other kinds of slave labor, plus the daunting task of arranging their own ransom. Louis Marot and William Okeley, on the other hand, were fairly successful slave entrepreneurs, who also managed to escape from their bondage; the American Joseph Foss and the Italian Filippo Pananti wrote at length about the conditions of slavery during the institution’s last years. Many of these captivity narratives are now being republished. Those that have not are often available on line, for anyone who knows where to look.</p>

<p>Nevertheless, it is James Riley’s spare account of slavery and in its barest and bleakest terms that has consistently outsold all the rest of these narratives combined. Its American debut was soon followed by a British edition and within a year a French translation, titled <em>Naufrage du brigantin américain El commerce, perdu sur la côte occidentale d’Afrique, au mois d’août 1815</em> (Paris: Le Normant, 1818); the following year saw a German version. Back home, <em>An Authentic Narrative</em> was republished no fewer than eighteen times by 1860. Like any best seller, the book also accrued its share of celebrity blurbs. Henry David Thoreau and James Fenimore Cooper both praised it, and, above all, Abraham Lincoln included it in his 1860 campaign biography – along with <em>Pilgrim’s Progress</em> and <em>The Bible</em> – as one of the books that had shaped his youthful development.</p>

<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 550px"><img alt="" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6152/6206750953_e37cce381d_o.jpg" width="540" height="355" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Detail of an illustration of a slave market in Algiers from Pierre Dan&#039;s <em>Historie van Barbaryen en des zelfs Zee-Roovers</em> (Amsterdam, 1684)</p></div>

<p>The modern appeal of <em>An Authentic Narrative</em> certainly stretches beyond its illustrious American readership – there have been two French re-publications in just the last two years. Its popularity says a great deal about the public’s new fascination with the Muslim world and the whole “clash of civilizations” thesis, which has so dominated political discourse since 9/11. Perhaps it is no surprise Riley’s story has taken a greater hold on the modern imagination than those set in the cities of Barbary. His austere and desperate tale revolves around a restricted cast of characters, like a Chekhov play &#8211; Riley himself and his few American comrades; their nameless handful of Berber tormenters; the Arab, Sidi Hamet, who effectively rescued them; and the English consul, William Willshire, who redeemed them and set them free. The simplicity and intimacy of Riley’s story &#8211; which closely resembles contemporary American captivity accounts, where settlers fell into the hands of American Indians – presents an uncluttered narrative arc, a Dantean tale of the descent of a lost wanderer into the hell of bondage and despair, only to rise again through a redemption earned by steadfastness. It is a tale fit for the movies (Dean King made a documentary), which may explain its enduring popularity in comparison with the more complex and subtle Barbary enslavement narratives, where victims and persecutors, the damned and the saved, the righteous and the foolish are often so much harder to tell apart.</p>

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<p><em>Robert C. Davis is a professor of Italian Renaissance and pre-modern Mediterranean history at Ohio State University. He has appeared in a number of television documentaries, on shipbuilding, Carnival, and the Mediterranean slave trade, in addition to authoring numerous books including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Slaves-Muslim-Masters-Mediterranean/dp/1403945519/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1">Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800</a> in 2004</em>.</p>

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<li><em>An authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce, wrecked on the western coast of Africa, in the month of August, 1815, with an account of the sufferings of the surviving officers and crew, who were enslaved by the wandering Arabs, on the African desart, or Zahahrah; and observations historical, geographical, &amp;c. made during the travels of the author, while a slave to the Arabs, and in the empire of Morocco (1817)</em> by Captain James Riley

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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/authenticnarrati00rile">pdf online</a></li>
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<li><em>The narrative of Robert Adams : an American sailor who was wrecked on the western coast of Africa, in the year 1810, was detained three years in slavery by the Arabs of the Great Desert, and resided several months in the City of Tombuctoo (1817)</em> by Robert Adams

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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/narrativeofrober00adamrich">pdf online</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/narrativeofrober00adamrich/narrativeofrober00adamrich.pdf">pdf download</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/narrativeofrober00adamrich/narrativeofrober00adamrich_djvu.txt">text</a></li>
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<li><em>An authentic narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of Mrs. Eliza Bradley, : the wife of Capt. James Bradley of Liverpool, commander of the ship Sally which was wrecked on the coast of Barbary, in June 1818 &#8230;</em> (1820) by Eliza Bradley

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<li><em>Narrative of a residence in Algiers: comprising a geographical and historical account of the regency; biographical sketches of the dey and his ministers; anecdotes of the late war; observations on the relations of the Barbary States with the Christian powers</em> (1818) by Filipino Pannetti

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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/narrativeofresid00pana">pdf online</a></li>
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<li><em>Eben-ezer, or, A small monument of great mercy [electronic resource] : appearing in miraculous deliverance of William Okeley, William Adams, John Anthony, John Jephs, John &#8212;, carpenter, from the miserable slavery of Algiers, with the wonderful means of their escape in a boat of canvas &#8230;</em> (1675) by William Okeley

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<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/ebenezerorsmallm00okelrich">pdf online</a></li>
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<li><em>The adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, mariner, three and twenty years in captivity among the Moors</em> (1890) by Thomas Pellow</li>
<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/adventuresofthom00pelliala">pdf online</a>

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