The Classics - Film & Radio From the 1930's-60's

[johncorosz]

Are you the mood for classic movies?
Give this a try and enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicDomainFlix/videos?view=0
http://www.youtube.com/user/TonightOnTheRadio/videos?flow=grid&view=1
http://www.youtube.com/user/LoveTheOConnor/videos?view=0
http://www.youtube.com/user/STEPCHILD240/videos?view=0
Concerts but you will need to search the whole archive as he has other non-interesting stuff tossed in the with the good files.
http://www.youtube.com/user/onemediamusic/videos?view=0​

 

[johncorosz]

one more - musicals - http://www.youtube.com/user/MUSICALSBLOG/videos?view=0​

 

[lankfordjl]

Awesome! Thanks! All I've been watching for the past couple of months are TV shows and films before 1960.

 

[numbersix]

Nice links - thanks!

 

[wagnon85]

Nice links...thanks. Always fun to watch classic stuff.
Just to further this, I've gotten a veritable s-load of old time radio shows for download and for my iPod off of http://archive.org/index.php under the Audio area. They have video, live music, and text areas as well.
All good stuff.

 

[voorhees]

these days I love to watch movies in black and white, especially mid 40's to 50's.

 

[colcolt]

How I long for the day of better TV and the great programming with little commercials. Now days you can't watch anything without being bombarded with a commercial about an upcoming movie in the upper left or lower section of the TV while you're trying to watch something else. I'd like to strangle the idiot that allowed that on TV. Even on the Internet if you click on a mini clip on CNN you'll have to wait 10-30 seconds till the commercial gets through.
I enjoyed to old radio programs when I was a kid/teenager. When I was growing up TV went off at 11:00 and then they played the national anthem. If it was Friday or Saturday night you could subsidize your entertainment with radio. Programs like The Shadow, The Whistler, Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Suspense, and different westerns or comedy. Some of those programs were quite scary to a 10-12 year old. You had to use our imagination a lot but you knew what was going on. Squeaky doors being opened, screams and the voice of Vincent Price would scare anyone! I'd love to see them bring back the good ol' TV shows and radio programs like it use to be.
If anyone is into or would like to see/hear what some of those old radio programs was about, there's a smorgasbord of CD's you can get that have all of them that once entertained us. Anyone remember Charlie McCarthy?
http://radiospirits.com/

 

[wagnon85]

Hey colcolt, you mention all those shows, which I've downloaded from the previous link I put up...I only mention it because when I first started with the OTR stuff the only options were to "buy these big CD collections" or find individual shows here and there for download.
But, using Suspense for example if you go to the page curated by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group, you can download EVERY episode for free http://archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_Suspense
Not all OTR shows are as complete or lucky, but a lot of them are. And no this isn't a commercial for archive.org it was just a very happy discovery I made! hehe Thanks to archive.org I was able to delete some of my older, bad quality versions and get higher bitrate stuff, and complete sets...for free, which is ALWAYS nice.
And you can cross reference them at sites like http://www.otrsite.com/radiolog/ and http://www.old-time.com/otrlogs2/

 

[colcolt]

Some of those I didn't know were on TV as I only heard them on radio...line Inner Sanctum and Suspense. Gang Busters is another I listened to on radio. We only had three TV stations and as most old timers will remember, you had to keep getting up adjusting the "horizontal" a lot as the picture would roll up and down with the vertical. Adjusting the rabbit ears was a constant thing.
I have a modern version of a Philco Cathedral radio that looks old but has modern resistors and capacitors in it and no tubes. It has a slot in the side you can't see from the front and you can pop cassettes in it. Nothing like listening to The Shadow with the lights out or just a night light with all that suspense coming through what looks like a 1930's radio. I've probably got a dozen or more old radio programs on cassette but the ones in the link I provided are on CD and naturally will sound much better. Speaking of lights out, that was another radio program.

 

[johncorosz]

Ya know it seems some of you guys might know a bit about hooking up your technology. But boy oh boy was I shocked in 2004 to be working for a security company where we mostly worked on electronics and high tech. gear. As I met folks who would often want to stop by my place on their way home I was shocked when they were like "how the hell did you get your computer to appear on your TV?" I would laugh and say any modern TV can do this. What about the stereo? I would reply "it's as easy as spending a few bucks at Radio Shack on an adapter cable!
So if anyone has any questions about this stuff just shoot me a PM. But I have nothing in my living room except and Amplifier, Plasma Screen TV, Computer and Speakers. That is my game system, stereo, TV, movie theater, DVD player, Jukebox, Internet, etc. All just sitting there without a bunch of wires and useless boxes that all do what one computer can do.
When it comes to the old time radio shows. I usually will wait until it's around midnight. After a few drinks, turn out all the lights, light a few candles and then relax with a few bowls of my best blends and just listen as I gaze out the windows at the stars or sit on the stoop outside and hear what I can from my window.

 

[colcolt]

I had ran across a totally restored model 33 Atwater Kent Radio from the mid 30's on ebay and as I asked a few questions to the owner he talked about playing some of the old radio programs through one of his older radios. I had never tried that before and in fact, didn't know how. He said all that was needed was an SSTran AMT3000, plug it in and hook up a CD player or MP3 or whatever and broadcast your own AM programming. He said just find and empty dial spot (no station) and set it to broadcast on that frequency. I'm afraid he lost me but it sounded like a great idea. This is the AM3000 he spoke of and what I found.
http://www.sstran.com/pages/AMT5000/AMT5000_overview.html

 

[johncorosz]

Ah yes. There are cheaper methods for doing the same thing and you can find them on Amazon or Newegg.com - Basically it is a transceiver. You can buy one for your car that plugs into the cigarette lighter. You pop a USB card or flash drive into the transceiver and set it for an unused radio station. Then tune your car radio into that station. Now you hear what is on the flash drive/USB card. I have one and I listen to mostly swing music, big band and jazz with it. The home versions cost a little more but do the same thing. If you own a house it's a great way to setup the unit and then from your car to the radio in the garage you can tune into your own private radio station!

 

[colcolt]

You lost me. How do you set a flash drive to a radio station area that's unused? Basically, I'd like to do what he said he does and that's listen to old radio programs though an old tube radio, such as an old 30-ish Zenith, Atwater Kent or Philco. i wouldn't use the transceiver in the car-just in the house through the old radios I have. I had thought of getting his Atwater Kent since I use to want one back in the day I was rebuilding those types of radios but that was 25 years ago and I've forgotten a lot. You can still get(I think) Rider schematics/wiring diagrams for them, however.

 

[colcolt]

Speaking of old TV programs, the one that use to freak me out as a kid was Night Gallery, especially one I still remember today as scaring the crap out of me. It was called "The Escape Route". Watch it and you'll agree.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdeMjLJ6qxw

 

[tanless1]

Night gallery would linger in my mind.
I do miss the million dollar movies.
I do get a lot from amzon.

 

[johncorosz]

Love Night Gallery, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, etc...all of them were great, we need more shows like that to come back and for Real TV to die off!
Here is the car version I mentioned - http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Modulator-Transmitter-Players-Control/dp/B0012399AG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348799789&sr=8-1&keywords=usb+flash+drive+to+radio
This thing is great for finding music to save - http://www.amazon.com/Aluratek-AIRJ01F-Internet-Radio-Jukebox/dp/B001CK9760/ref=sr_1_3?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1348799849&sr=1-3&keywords=usb+flash+drive+to+radio+home

 

[fnord]

Colcolt:
The episode that preceded "Escape Route" still haunts me today. I was never a Joan Crawford fan but, man, did she ever carry the heavy water in that one particular episode!
Fnord

 

[jaywellington]

I'm sure in the mood!

Will check the links...
By the way, one of my favs : 'Citizen Kane'!

 

[colcolt]

Another that scared the pants off me at about 14 years old was "The Grim Reaper". I think that was Thriller with Boris Karloff.
http://monstergirl.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/the-grim-reaper-essay-on-thriller-with-boris-karloff/

 

[ghost]

Thanks for the links!