Notices by kino.social 🎞️ 🍿 (kinosocial@mamot.fr)

It's almost 2019, which will bring the first new batch of US public domain works in over 20 years:

https://law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2019/

This "public domain day" used to happen every year until 1998, when 20 years was added to copyright terms for no real reason other than that large companies like Disney wanted it.

Copyright currently lasts 95 years in most countries, but until the late 1970s it was 56 years, or even shorter if copyright wasn't actively renewed.

#PublicDomainDay #Copyright

...then you might like to know that archive.org has "The Star Wars Holiday Special" (1978):

https://archive.org/details/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial1978

In case it's new to you, this was a bizarre TV variety show featuring the original cast including Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill etc in action/comedy/cartoon/musical skits, but mainly starring other people who had nothing to do with Star Wars.

It was shown once, and never repeated or released in any format.

p.s. This is also the 100th film on Kino.social 💯 🍾 🎉

Added "Beat The Devil" (1953), you can watch it here:

https://kino.social/beat-the-devil-1953/

Very strange film, not because anything surreal happens, but because the whole tone is very... odd.

The cast and crew are A-list: directed by John Huston, screenplay by Truman Capote, starring Humphrey Bogart etc.

In theory it's a comedy about grifters waiting for a ship to leave an Italian port, but in practice it's extremely dialogue-heavy and off-beat. Almost experimental.

#BeatTheDevil #Film #Movies

Added "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship" (2018), you can watch it here:

https://kino.social/paywall-the-business-of-scholarship-2018/

Feature-length documentary about the parasitic publishing companies that syphon off billions of dollars of public money by pointlessly charging scientists to read each other's research.

The film is brand new and released under #CreativeCommons Attribution 4.0 licence. You can find out more at https://paywallthemovie.com/

#Paywall #Research #Scholarship #Publishing #Documentary #Film

Added "Afternoon Class" (2014), you can watch it here:

https://kino.social/afternoon-class-2014/

Korean short animation set in a classroom 🎓

#Animation #Animated #ShortFilms #Shorts #Film

Kino.social is a quiet site where you can watch nice films without any distractions or tracking:

https://kino.social

All of the movies are creative commons or public domain titles, embedded from either PeerTube or Archive.org. (There are no YouTube titles due to YT's invasive privacy policies.)

The selection is still very small as we've just started, and we're trying to avoid the "firehose" approach of archive.org.

Post a reply if you have suggestions for films to be added.