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Disneyland - 3.14 - Our Friend the Atom


Disneyland - 4.12 - Mars and Beyond


Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (Fred F. Sears, 1956) Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor


Disneyland Goes To The World's Fair (1964)

Around 30 minutes in it demonstrates remote controlled animatronics which was kind of unexpected (though perhaps cutting edge in 1964; the previous videos were from around 1955)

This probably now looks more like the Epcot Center than the original locale at the time (or they arranged for the scenes to depict traditional folk arts in Germany and elsewhere?)

https://archive.org/details/0731_Wonder ... 9_01_23_00



A TON of various films (many of which are very low quality, both in resolution as well as content, but it is worth checking out.) I just wish it was more organized and had the Director's name added to it.

Drive-in and B Movie Sci-Fi
https://archive.org/details/mutant-chronicles

Grindhouse and Exploitation Movies
https://archive.org/details/a-clockwork ... 971_202401

Exploitation, Slasher (a Peter Jackson film. . .,) and B-Movie Horror
https://archive.org/details/blood-cult-1985

Giallo & Euro Horror
https://archive.org/details/absurd-1981-full-movie

Public Domain (basically old) Movies
https://archive.org/details/publicmovies212

V (Dystopian alien invasion reflecting fascist Italy and Germany) original miniseries (2 ep, etc), Final Battle, and TV series,
https://archive.org/details/v-the-final-battle-part-1

Post Apocalyptic and Zombie Movies
https://archive.org/details/1990-the-br ... riors-1982

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005, 9 seasons)
https://archive.org/details/its_always_ ... te_archive

Some other ones:
https://archive.org/details/@bri118
https://archive.org/details/@lost_soul1982

I wish I could be as haphazard in file collecting as I tend to take a different approach with some of this and categorize it much differently (and sometimes will just find alternative videos to what is shown, and try to add a poster or some other way to make the videos stand out.)



163 Deaths From Bull Fighting (163 Muertes del 2000) (Jaripeo, Mexico) Producciones JC films


I was trying to find the cover image for for a 100 deaths versions, but have only found this music video. . .

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A military aircraft maintenance guy accidently pushed a lever too far and had to take off in the 1950s. No helmet, no canopy, no parachute, and no flying experience. He landed safely. To skip background story, go to 10 min 46 sec.

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One of the above links had Vol 1 and 3 in lower rez (and admittedly, these are probably only watchable in small segments highlighting the actual movie.) These are "Grindhouse" or B-Movie trailers and excerpts.

42nd Street Forever Vol.2 - The Deuce (Jeff Dolniak, 2006) by Synapse Films


Electronic Jihad Presents: Grindhouse Forever (Volume One)
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicJ ... One_201402





Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, 1978-1980) Pet Cemetery documentary
(Werner Herzog movie idea where he promised he would eat his own shoe if someone made it)



Censored 11 - A collection of BANNED cartoons by Warner Bros.






The Menu movie comes to mind. . .



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Macario (Roberto Gavaldón, 1960) Pina Pellicer (Mexico) UNAM restoration (colorized)
https://www.gaceta.unam.mx/la-muerte-mi ... e-macario/


One of the few color image advertisements for the movie was this poster, which worked well for the MKV file.
https://www.sensacine.com.mx/peliculas/ ... e=21431886

a download with links is in the YT description, and original B&W alt version with sub:
https://archive.org/details/@el_keamo

I was thinking about the lead actress who later costarred with Brando (who infamously had butter on set in his 1972 film Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972) with Maria Schneider. . . And Coppola has turned out to be a bit of a weirdo (though so has most of Hollywood.)

Remembering ‘One-Eyed Jacks’ and ‘Macario’ Actress Pina Pellicer 60 Years After Her Death
https://variety.com/2024/film/actors/re ... 235916215/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pina_Pellicer

One-Eyed Jack is a euphemism afterall. . .

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'We Call It Toonami' - An Unofficial Documentary by Matt Elias

https://archive.org/details/PeerTube-75 ... ee9c83e44e


Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity (1995 PC game that works with SCUMMVM supposedly)

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/mtv- ... pidity-a1c





From that era, a significant number of well known actors cameod in this:




I thought it was mostly casting of friends, but it was people like Mike Meyers, Will Ferrell, David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, and probably more than I'm familiar with.

List of caste
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Pink_Line

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Movies:

True Stories (David Byrne, 1986)



Quentin Tarantino - 20 Years of Filmmaking


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindhouse_(film)
Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez, 2007) Machete trailer https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/planet_terror
Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007) Kurt Russell https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/death_proof


The speed seems a bit off and it seems to be running a little faster (I attempted to add subtitles in but they drift off quite a bit every minute of run time.)


WHY QUENTIN TARANTINO SUCKS ACCORDING TO SCIENCE (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Admit Tarantino is Grossly Overrated)
https://toiletovhell.com/why-quentin-ta ... overrated/

Blood in Blood Out (1993 Directors Cut at 3hr 10m)

Theatrical cut at around 2hr 50m (and a 30 gig mkv file)
https://archive.org/details/blood-in-bl ... l-hd-1080p

The actors recall the movie in a recent interview


The uncut version which has not seen the light of day was 5hr 30mins, though little mention of it was made here, so it might just be a rumor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_In_Blood_Out


Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (Vadim Jean, 2006)





Jesus of Nazareth (Franco Zeffirelli, 1977) co-written by Anthony Burgess. . . (probably for languages?)

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More than 100 airplanes involved.

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Recorder - The Marion Stokes Project (Matt Wolf, 2019)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorder: ... es_Project

Some notes and junk she also had left
https://archive.org/details/marionstoke ... sort=-date

Someone took sound clips from some of the video recordings as a form of comedy.


The uploader had a bunch of stage plays (including a Driving Miss Daisy (David Esbjornson, 2014) Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones)
https://archive.org/details/@luthien3720?page=4

Something else I found was some recordings from this weird advertisement for one of many forgotten franchises.





Dickety-Dee, RIP
https://www.theamericanconservative.com ... cious-rax/


It kind of seems like a modern take on marketing with satire in social media (or perhaps I'm just forgetting how tongue-in-cheek a lot of advertisements have always been, but I don't recall Dave Thomas leaving more questions than answers.) Dickety-Dee and Rax, and a guy named Mr. Delicious with his creepy briefcase. . . For adults, of course. . .


R.O.T.O.R. (Cullen Blaine, 1987) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098156/?ref_=tturv_ov_bk


The re-release looks a lot better than it has any reason to be (that above video is pretty crappy.)

One of the lead actresses had an article written about her (I think she died of unnatural causes, and recall seeing a mention of her in 2003.)
https://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/features/n_10282/

Margaret Trigg (1964-2003) https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0872745/?ref_=tt_cst_t_1

Seems it was a heart attack brought on by amphetamines.
https://www.thelist.com/1456788/tgif-stars-passed-away/




Robo Vampire (Godfrey Ho, 1988) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121694/


The Blazing Ninja (Godfrey Ho, 1973



More crap
https://archive.org/details/@qaweldon

Badi (Zafer Par, 1983) Turkish


Another Turkish "ET knock-off" (they also had a Star Trek one in the 1970s. . .)

Homoti (Mudget Gezen, 1987)


I guess the Turkish cinema industry never quite made it. . .

Black Rage (Chris Robinsonm 1972) (aka Catch the Black Sunshine, aka Sunshine Run, aka Charcoal Black) Chris Robinson, Ted Cassidy


Details
https://www.daaracarchive.org/2012/07/c ... -1972.html
https://shockcinemamagazine.com/catchth ... shine.html

Joshua and the Promised Land (2003) by Jim Lion


It looks like a joke; but is it? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464073/

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Dragonball The Magic Begins (Chen Chun-Liang, 1991) Live Action


Some more stuff
https://archive.org/details/@qaweldon
https://archive.org/details/@anarchivism



One of them features Jesse Ventura. . . Whose acting career up until this point in time was in Predator, saying, he didn't have time to bleed. . . That and wrestling.
Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (1990)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101264/





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Much of these look like what I saw (and I'm not sure the 2nd clip wasn't fake, but it could be what some refer to as the TR-3B. As for why any top secret craft would be flying like that, and yet people are seemingly oblivious or not loudly ecstatic, seems kind of hard to believe.)


From what I know of the subject, I'm pretty sure they aren't manmade, even if that would be the "most likely" explanation. I don't believe that the majority of humanity could wrap their mind about what they are seeing, and too often they follow whatever bullshit consensus they would rather agree with, because conforming with the common thinking of fools is far more acceptable in our society.

I still believe stuff like this is nonsense (and if their experience is real, they could just be conveying what they genuinely believe is the case, which could be far more complex; such as people are being manipulated by some kind of intelligence that wants' someone to believe they are humanoid because it is easier to not be traumatized by.) That or they are insane.



Most of the people on the UFO circuit are grifters.

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The whole narrative of Nordics is confabulations by George Adamski. I'm pretty sure he's either making this up, or he was being lied to. Billy Meier is also a known con.

I say this as someone that considers themselves a bit more involved with the phenomenon, having witnessed crafts and having some of the more unusual experiences, enough to convince me we aren't dealing with human technology, and that whatever is behind the phenomenon is indeed telepathic (though such experiences are more like impressions that can sometimes be corroborated by using technology or recording evidence of things that enlarge in the sky and show shapes, or disappear after being seen in the sky for prolonged periods of time, that when driving out to the objects, will start to move and upon being followed shrink up into a ball and rotate on the access as though making it known that you had spotted it before vanishing entirely.) Much of these kinds of sightings are somehow "known" by you in advance of the sighting, and there are times I wish I was able to record more of what I witnessed, because it was very visible to me; though I tend to believe such encounters are intended as a very personal connection. I did get an initial "audible" phrase that I "heard" upon my initial experience, such as the words, "come closer" upon waking up, which would have come 2 years after spotting a very massive triangle shaped craft in the sky, and which followed the night after having spotted an object in the sky that was close up, after I felt compelled to step outside before a night shift (though since tobacco smoking had been a new hobby, it's also known to cause what for awhile I wasn't sure wasn't a hallucination, which is what I wondered about for some 4 years after that encounter, and which I wanted to prove to myself that this phenomenon was real so I kind of entertained the thought that such a thing as my car radar's detector acting odd or the signal arm of the train tracks going down without a train out of the numerous years I had driven over it, coincidentally on the night after hearing that "come closer." It was a bit surreal, and I've finally come to terms that it was a real experience.

I was using a phone app to experiment and confirm some of the impressions, and some of the words that popped up while the screen was turned off were things like "rocket," "bread" when picking up a sub sandwich, but some of the more unusual things were when telling someone who claimed to be an abductee (which I don't believe in) had downloaded the same app (basically an IOS version of what on android is called Ghost Radar Classic or Legacy which is what I used to email the results to myself to keep a record) and I was thinking of how the phenomenon resembled the IT book/movie character of Pennywise the Clown, the interdimensional demon that manifests into various forms depending on how it might want people to believe it's benign; which was the general thinking I had of the phenomenon at the time, which I'm still not 100% convinced isn't some possible truth to how the technology or UFO presence exists as, since it might not even be physical to how we see it (we just think it's a physical presence.) Anyway, she was screen capturing the results and sent me an image of the words, "Malicious" and "Penny." It would also pop up on my app with things that were basically not very nice when I thought to myself what it thought of her (things like "fat" or "cow.") I have time stamps of when this stuff was happening (if I could keep it organized. . .)

Whether the app was just happening upon the word bank and that popped up, or something was interacting with our phones (and our minds in order to respond) from some miles away from each other, I will never really know. Some believe that what we believe to be an alien presence is just advanced AI that has managed to find its way to earth, from potentially millions of years, and millions of miles away (if not from another dimension or universe that we can't comprehend.)

I also was using night vision goggles, but mostly to star gaze.




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1:00:00 unaccountable means being beyond scrutiny and checks-and-balances. For a business owner to lie about being in the Tesla factory (which he is admitted to only being available for a few hours out of a week and only lies to keep the stock value up so that he doesn't default on his loans and stock investors) while being proven beyond a doubt to be high most of the time, and to never live up to his promises beyond stealing other people's designs and patents (the only ones Elon himself has patented are redesigns of plugs and things that gives him proprietary control that benefits Tesla, and are nothing innovative.)

Putting teenagers known to leak data and have racist tendencies are not beyond scrutiny, the same as having to show responsibility for all of the mistakes and deaths he should be held liable for, due to negligence and silencing those by firing people who point out the evident mistakes (hence the rocket explosions he's known for, on tax payer dollar, while they get their Medicaid and USAID benefits that are now responsible for tens of thousands (+) of deaths.

Elon musk will crash and burn the same as Theranos. He deserves worse.

Pam Bondi is a gaslighting piece of shit.


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I picked up a Gaggia Academia (Super-automatic) that I knew had some issues (and considering it was $100 I figured even if I got it working and didn't want it, I could still sell it for more than I spent trying to get it working again. Most of the issues stem from the brew unit device inside the door panel from not being cleaned and greased to function, but I believe the main issue stems from the gear motor that would power the device, which may have become stressed overtime. Since many of the Saeco and Phillips machines have interchangeable parts, got one that from all indications seems like it might work, along with a sensor switch that might be malfunctioning (the machine appears to have some internal water damage, so I don't know if it's the software or the equipment, since it doesn't seem to register that the gears are in the "home" or "work" position for the tamping press, and it seems to be causing extensive stress on the brew unit, while also it seems incapable of resetting to the "Home" position correctly (though the gears themselves didn't seem to show damage, I might not have been looking at it closely enough."

Also, I believe too much cheap grease such as petroleum jelly could cause some kind of electrical short, so I'm not sure I didn't fry it, only that it shows excess current in resting stage from the tech menu (which would only show excess current when it seemed to go past the perimeters of the home or work position.

I knew super-automatics were dumb to begin with, though I was kind of getting bored, and I should be getting the parts I need to (within 24 hours) to mess with it.

I was still waiting on some thermal probes since I couldn't yet find o-rings that either fit or were safe to use for the boilers on a Breville machine (bought from Australia where even Aliexpress ships from to avoid tariff duties, and I'm more convinced will get here sooner some days after ordering o-rings from.) Many aspects of the Gaggia just look incredibly cheap and tacky, such as the cheap plastic steam wand that seems like it would break just by moving it 45 degrees to the side, while the entire front of the machine is a thick heavy steel, and a funky cover that comes off to allow access to a milk carafe (and steamer) that nevertheless seems to have a nearly non-existent source of the original chrome version (and for whatever reason was discontinued.) Nearly any troubleshooting is non-existent for anything beyond greasing and cleaning, while oblivious to issues such as what I describe with it getting jammed up due to how it recognizes where it is functioning from.

In all, the machine was $100, the motor and sensor replacement (which might not even resolve much of the issue) is about $30, and the milk carafe with shipping $60 with some prices appearing to go up much higher than that, which I'm not sure will even be useable, or even used since I honestly never use any milk products for coffee; so a bit dumb to also have a dual boiler Breville, since most of the issues it has comes exclusively from having the steam boiler. . . hence the thermal probes are known to leak from the bottom of the ceramic, from an o-ring that is difficult to remove and install. or find the correct sizing.)


Anyways, this is the reason people prefer more simplified and basic devices, since they don't take control away from what you can do with them. . .




I like to think the "Slayer (machine design imitation) Mod" would be cool, but I would just opt for a manual press espresso. . . Which although you aren't using a pump, you still would control how it is released in the final pressing, and much of it could result in a more rich flavor. The Gaggia super-automatic also has some customizable features, some of which are locked away in the tech menu, which are mostly designed to compensate for the inadequacies and lack of reliability of the unit, such as the grind fineness and how it is timed to fill the "portafiliter" inside the brew unit, since whoever had it before me literally had it set for a very course grind (which was also clogged up and appeared to have stale old beans that just spun around at the bottom perhaps for as long as 10 years by the look of it,) and if you had adjusted the fineness, it doesn't compensate for how much it fills, and only the duration of time it fills it. The actual design is rather irrational from the perspective of what you can mess up with the unit, and I'm not sure I didn't actually permanently change how it understands the perimeter (since the tutorials describing it don't really go into detail other than state that you can allow the machine to reverse position if it doesn't recognize it's seized up,) while it seems to consistently over-stress the brew unit.

I might have to get a new brew unit if it's somehow more worn out than I realize and would need to be replaced, and those really aren't worth buying. These machines are generally regarded as a money pit.


Update: I attempted to change the motor with what should have been an identical one, and for some weird reason it wouldn't work, so I replaced it with the original, and everything started working for the first time since owning it. . . Go figure. I plan on listing it for sale once the milk carafe for the latte feature comes in (as the machine itself is just a glorified diluter for the coffee, and makes an inferior coffee to a 58mm portafilter. . . Though I've not attempted to use my better coffee grinder to tamp it for the espresso, it's still a much smaller dosage than a more serious machine (and one which it's extremely easy to create a crappy espresso if you aren't paying attention to how it's tamped.) The coffee comes out okay as far as puck shaped, but they still look really small compared to a larger dosage, even if you set the dosage at it's maximum. It also produces a lot of water as a byproduct, and I don't consider it a very good design from a moisture buildup perspective. The entire inside and bottom had tons of moisture corrosion, and I doubt the original owner was particularly careful about ensuring it was well kept (just judging from the nasty beans that were left in it, this seems pretty obvious.) The finest grind setting still doesn't seem good enough, though it does function better than I expected from initial testing. I did about 6 rounds of coffee, and was able to get it from what looked mushy to an ideal setting, and will try to do a premeasured dosage at some point, preferably to experiment with the latte feature (which I'm not particularly fond on though consider it important to test prior to selling it. I might try it for $600, and may leave out the motor that didn't work for it, since it will just leave more questions than answers. I doubt most buyers will try to work with it.) The other machine was an easy swap of the thermal probes.

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Some well known actors such as (a guy that looks like Shaun Penn but whose IMDB profile doesn't list the movie for some reason,) Jet Li, and that Cobra Kai Instructor from Karate Kid that is always holding the corners of his outfit.


Some Kung Fu movies (including that one) can be found here:
https://archive.org/details/@konstantine_kelepouris
https://archive.org/details/@castries219

Also, it's worth looking into the Shaw Brothers Studio, a Hong Kong based production company that was very active during the 1970s-80s
https://movieweb.com/greatest-shaw-brot ... -all-time/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Brothers_Studio
https://archive.org/search?query=creato ... rothers%22


List of Shaw Brothers movies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S ... hers_films

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A movie that seems to be an accurate depiction of Japan during the 1970s (though more of the western region)

The Far Road (Sachiko Hidari, 1978) (Hashima Island used for coal1887-1974) Toi ippon no michi


Not depicted was the topic of Korean forced labor (and possible sex slavery) which Japan tries to deny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashima_Island

Japan’s legacy of forced labor haunts ties with neighbors
https://apnews.com/article/world-war-ii ... 5778ac22c3




Some parallels with Hong Kong


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I was noticing a cartoon looked very similar to the art style of Duckman, which incidentally also had a Hungarian artists heavily influencing the art style.

Bubble Bath (Habfurdo) (György Kovásznai, 1979) aka Foam Bath


While looking for:
Son of the White Mare (Marcell Jankovics, 1981)

Found what some refer to as the "Hungarian Yellow Submarine" and it's easy to see why.

János vitéz (Johnny Corncob) (Marcell Jankovics, 1973)



Another worth checking out is Yuri Borisovich Norstein (1941- Russian animator)
https://archive.org/details/norsteinhd

Though the playable video is contains all of his work and is around 400 mb, it seems the 24 gig Matroska format would have English subtitles (for the intertitle.) Only the first video has his animations, the second is an interview, and the rest are menu videos, and it's rare to find any HD quality videos (and the blu ray this would have come from is a very rare Japanese one.)

Alternatively (playlist has subtitles, though lower quality)


And to note: This does not include the infamous The Overcoat animation that he has been working on for several decades. . .

5 minutes of 25 he completed in 2004 (with a documentary of him and his wife who have worked on it)
https://www.openculture.com/2024/02/the ... rcoat.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Norstein

Some of his style reminds me of the stop-motion animator Wladyslaw Starewicz (1882-1965 Pol-Rus) Ladislas Starevich





https://archive.org/details/a-chinese-t ... mber-story

A bunch more Chinese stuff:
https://archive.org/details/@hbghlyj8343


A good one (which will need subtitles)
To Live (Zhang Yimou, 1994)
https://archive.org/details/to-live-1994_202312/


And I just realized that Jackie Chan made a movie based on a manga (by Tsukasa Hojo,) adapted into a 1990s Turbografx game.

City Hunter (Wong Jing, 1993) Jackie Chan (based on Tsukasa Hojo manga)


(Don't) The 13th video is the best version and needs a subtitles file.

--> EDIT: Just get the 800-900 mb one and add the subtitle. . . The other one had about 6 shitty Russian dubs, and unless you get the 20 gb file, has basically the Chinese. None have the unmolested English (such as the Russian dubbing over actual English dubs, and sounding unbearable.