<story><title>Public Domain Movies</title><url>http://publicdomainflix.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Most of those are on the Internet Archive.[1] Often in better versions. The Private Snafu cartoons are from some commercial DVD with watermarks. The originals are online from the National Archives, and they&amp;#x27;re better.&lt;p&gt;A useful project would be to take the MPEG 2 versions from the Internet Archive, apply modern cleanup, scratch removal, frame alignment, and exposure equalization techniques, and put those up. The MPEG 2 versions have no frame to frame compression, which is good for archival purposes. Cleanup technology has improved since most of those were scanned.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;feature_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;feature_films&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Public Domain Movies</title><url>http://publicdomainflix.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blauekapelle</author><text>To add to this; all of the Soviet films are available on YouTube with good subtitles from an official channel. A really great one is &amp;quot;Ivan vassilievich changes occupation&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;mosfilm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;mosfilm&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>