Public Domain
I have just realised how much I don’t read pages I am linked to. I’ve been to The Internet Archive (aka the WayBack Machine) many times, mainly to get older pages of websites. Now I know that the pages can be used for so much more.
The Moving Image Archive has a huge number of public domain films. A large number of these are old black and white movies that you often hope will be shown, but never are. Cary Grant, with his “English” charm and wit is one of my favourite actors. The Moving Image archive has several of his films that are definitely worth watching. Charade with Audrey Hepburn is public domain because of “the failure to put the then required copyright notice in the released print.” Their loss is our gain :)
Texts brings together a number of projects to provide public domain textual works. Think Project Gutenberg, but bigger.
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