What are you watching?

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The majority of music is from Scott Joplin player piano reels, contemporary to the time period the video was made, and the ending song is an old shellac record from not long afterward.

I'll upload another Charlie Chaplin movie shortly (though that one might run into copyright issues, even if it's another record from the 50s.




The other one:




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The Damnation of Faust (Georges Melies, 1903) (Faust aux Enfers) Bobby Beausoleil (1980) Lucifer Rising (Manson Family)



The King and the Jester (Georges Méliès, 1908) Stelvio Cipriani and Ennio Morricone music



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Segundo de Chomón - 1901-1906 (Wychhazel - Akashic Dreams)


Segundo de Chomón - 1907 (Wychhazel - In Search of Lemuria and Beneath An Autumn Moon)


Segundo de Chomón - 1908 (Wychhazel - Mystique and Temple of Light)


Segundo de Chomón - 1909-1912 (Wychhazel - Tears From the Moon, Beltane Moon, Healing Light of Isis)

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This took quite a bit of time to get the subtitles to match, in part because it's a 6-7 hour movie, but also because the only English ones available were also mismatched (and I felt the way it was localized took away from much of the original intertitles, as well as context of what the story was.) Make sure the CC (subtitles) are activated to understand it, unless you know French.

The audio comprised of the original soundtrack when it was found, but a lot of it had to be added using things found on Archive Org.

The movie seems to be ahead of it's time in many ways (though I would recommend playing it as 2-4x the speed, and Youtube only allows 2x.)





Little Nemo 1905-1914 by Winsor McCay
https://archive.org/details/LittleNemo1 ... 3/mode/2up


I believe this is when HBO was involved in parodies:

Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind (Rick Harper, 1980 short film parody)







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Logan's Run (1976 movie with Michael York) had some sections cut out with the only indication of it's full length hinted at by still images and a recording someone snuck in to the preview screening, which afterwards when cut down following a new MGM Executive requesting the workprint or original copies to be destroyed, have little more to go buy other than these reconstructed scenes:

Opening differs just slightly with transitional elements in the editing.


10 in all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLwEzmR ... E7&index=2

I'm kind of undecided if it's really any better in it's original format. A series came out the next year which attempted to tell the full story of the book, though was also cancelled.

Logan's Run 1977 series
https://archive.org/details/LogansRunSeries

Someone was supposedly making a fanedit that reconstructed it it but I'm not seeing any evidence of progressed made form 2017, and the closest will probably be the above audio filler. It's possible full copies exist as purportedly extended versions were broadcasted in the 1980s, and it's possible it is; the laserdiscs had a special edition that only makes reference to deleted scenes, but that was basically just snapshots, I'm assuming.


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James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong, was published in a magazine mentioning storing freshly harvested tomatoes in his basement, yet the news would go onto say they never had a basement?



Here's All The Pizzagate Evidence They Tried To Erase From The Internet
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/here- ... e-internet

Regarding the basement and what this guy knows about James Alefantis (short video testimony)
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2356693638113845

Also, the Epstein bullshit (where you could literally just copy and paste the blacked out text and it would show up what they wanted to censor.)

https://krassencast.com/p/breaking-we-j ... irect=true




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Inside CECOT - CBS 60 Minutes December 2025 (blocked by Trump) El Salvador

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I was searching for the Castlevania anime from 2017 and happened to have this page open:
https://archive.org/details/@madhatter_ ... 2movies%22

While watching a video about Trump declaring war (attacking 'Terrorists' in Nigeria who are purporting to be attacking Christians; supposedly with the assistance of Nigeria's intel) where I noticed the next video on the side about a movie prop for a drivable bus, called the Cyclops (which I had no idea about though figured I would look into) not realizing I had the movie within that above link, without realizing it.)




The Big Bus (Cyclops) (James Frawley, 1976)


Either our browsers are always picking up on random data we vaguely look into, or my cell phone was literally picking up on the discussion of Biden being friends of Senator Byrd who was a Grand Cyclops of the KKK? Supposedly cell phones in proximity to other people will also pick up on what they actively search for and create suggestions of what you are into?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-soci ... aul-rpf1c/

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New upload


Jiri Trnka influenced Rankin/Bass, but he was amongst many that pioneered stop motion animation, so you might see parallels to Wladyslaw Starewicz (1882-1965,) Segundo de Chomón (1871-1929,) George Pal whose Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from 1936 holds up remarkably well when compared to 3D animation.


A sci-fi horror

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Playlist (starting with Varginha, Brazil close encounter case with James Fox the documentarian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBrfe4h ... uN&index=1

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LUPIN THE 3rd PART 2 series (Playlist)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwJbP_m ... dex=1&t=1s

A better alternative without odd censorship and watermark logo, though because they also overlooked a Nazi episode (3 in the original lineup, moved to 26 or something before it) all of the episodes are in the wrong order. I ended up screen capturing 1-20 as they played, while I was recompiling the remainder of these.)
https://amasian.tv/video/series/lupin-t ... nglish-dub

Alt
MKV (missing Ep 1-20) 21-40 (DUB) 41-79 (Dual) 80-155 (SUB)
https://archive.org/details/@ateawong

It's possible the ones after 80 differ from SUB only, though I have yet to confirm. I might have to use video capture for Ep 1-20, as I attempt to recompile the MKV using Handbrake to encode (since I'm forced to get the MKV in order to even find the subtitles or audio options, since they aren't easy to find and would be a bigger hassle or impossible to match up.) It looks like the series was only dubbed up to Ep 79, as isn't uncommon for most anime brought over to the US or any English speaking country, and it appears to be the case that 80-100 was believed to have had some dubs made, but clearly only about half was ever done.




I was kind of surprised when I found out Maison Ikkoku had a much bigger series and was completely dubbed into English, since the series was practically overlooked in comparison to many other anime (and Lupin seems mostly recognized for the movie done by Hizao Miyazaki pre-Studio Ghibli, aside from the very evident success of the TV series on it's own right (the movies are fairly extensive, and a crazy amount of both TV shows and movies exists.) I believe most of these dubbings were in the early 2000s.

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Lost (forgotten) media that was found, including a South and North Korean animation collab that was rediscovered after it bombed (chuckles) terribly.

Empress Chung (Nelson Shin, 2005) (왕후심청) previously lost Korean film

Some background info on a person who was searching for it and turned up empty handed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS4HSsdWQPI



Oswald The Lucky Rabbit in SUICIDE SHEIK by Walt Disney, Pre 1929 (1927-28) Winkler production (that was believed to be lost until 2019 but not released until it became public domain? https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comm ... sheik1929/


You can see clear parallels to what Disney was known for.



The Adventures of R.F. Ant (Dr. Kim Edward Light, 1991) on Drugs (crack) (Arkansas)


Surprisingly decent but I'm wondering if this is partially the reason Arkansas had such a bad meth epidemic (or was that a result of people looking up to the Breaking Bad series?) Could it also explain why Walmart is known to have "Walmartians?" and they simply haven't found their "spaceship"/crack-mobile to get them back to their home planet?


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On the topic of Trump and Venezuela, et al. . . Even when asked following the attack, someone brought up the topic of Putin, where he says he wasn't too pleased with him, and this might even be a direct attack on Putin. Little mention was it that Putin put $9 billion and has a track record of setting up dictators who could arm themselves, as was the case with Venezuela. . .



Regarding China and Korea(s)



Just a month ago this was posted of Brits in Venezuela, on the island of Margarita, off the coast (which is near Trinidad and Tobago)


I believe my brother had went to that island but it looked a bit different, and was probably the equivalent of going to Cozumel and thinking it reflects much of Venezuela.

Alternatively, regarding the government.


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One of the films I overlooked is a Voltaire inspired.

Mondo Candido (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco E. Prosperi, 1975)
https://ok.ru/video/4703959321191


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--> Go to bottom *************** for a video uploaded with all known film portions (to my knowledge)
Since these require age verification they can only be used with screen capture:

Goodbye, Uncle Tom (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi, 1971) extended compilation (much longer than other ones possibly with re-recorded footage in an attempt to fill in missing footage.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8FXRaacCEs

Some additional (original) portions were rediscovered in a rare VHS (discussed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comm ... scene_and/)
(CC generated with auto-translate) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUtVixd0kiI
alt https://archive.org/details/addio-onkel-tom-vmp?s=03

When compared to the longer version, you could add these sections into that one:



This may have longer video segments than indicated from the extended version, though I believe these are probably the closest approximations, and I am creating a version using theses edits interspersed, where they cut away from sound sequences to form somewhat greater cohesion with the overarching narrative)

And used () where it could be inserted in Extended video

26:47 – 27:18 Johnny's comeuppance (49:52 Ext)
- (27:19-27:50 band sequence ties into 42:01 EXT though irrelevant) Band later shows 1:38:32 Ext

40:56- 42:20 The underground railroad (1:06:43 in Ext)
- alternatively after 23:01 or before 1:58:43 Ext?

54:42-55:05 Slave Escape 2:07:20 Ext (1:55:31 or Possibly 1:04:18 Ext)(Not 55:07– 55:32 from video)

1:18:24 - 1:26:33 Slave revolt and plantation burning (Possibly 2:26:46 in Ext before it ends with the modern equivalent followup)


It's safe to say that is brings the tone of this closer to the pre-censorship version into comparison of what was omitted, though when deciding on what worked best I kind of fell asleep numerous times, since I wasn't too sure I wanted to do it (though finished it without much intent of uploading it anywhere.) I might see if Youtube is a good idea. . . though probably not, even if a similar version was uploaded.


I just resolved some audio syncing issues but am noticing some more, which probably came from how it compiled it during the edit, if not unique to the original upload, which was fragmented for whatever reason.

(Matroska might be getting converted to an mp4 to make it playable, though if not, download. . . I'm actually wondering if the anthropology aspect as well as sensationalism constitutes kiddie stuff, but also it's still copyright protected, even if this version is altered in ways that makes it a "fan edit." I doubt Creative Commons applies.


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Inequality and slavery

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I'll update this later when it generates the mp4 to make the video here, though basically it's a collection of silent films that have music added to them, in addition to subtitles.


I also found the original audio to Tih Minh, and may upload a version that contains the original one with an alternate variation of the original (which makes it interesting at key moments, though the original is also synced to the gunfire sound in the movie which has about 4 separate times, which might be beneficial to the story.)

Or basically, I just copied the audio from this video which has some funny looking subtitles that clash with the video.


In contrast, mine is much cooler. . .




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The most I remember about this movie was the reference of fry bread (and I believe I got distracted by looking into the historical reasons for why this particular bread became a staple of Native American diets, and a lasting tradition.)

Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre, 1998)

Download: https://archive.org/details/smoke-signals-1998




God Bless America (Bobcat Goldthwait, 2011)



The uploader also has the Rick and Morty comics which have a slight alternative direction from the shows.



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I uploaded these here (to clear up the Gdrive)





And this is some good perspective on the kinds of creepy weirdos that profit off social media (The 'Soft White Underbelly" known for the inbred Whittaker family.)




I've seen this argument before (China's population is much lower than claimed= estimated to be about 800 million.)