Welcome to Vintage Classic Movies. My name is Tom and I am an official classic film junkie! This site went live back in June, 2007 as the result of friends, associates and other movie collectors asking me to post a site containing a year by year list of my ever growing classic movie collection. So listed here are approximately 8,500 classic movies from the early 20's through 1969. I have included full length classic films as well as short films. Although I do have some films post-1969, I find that the classic movies made between 1925-1969 are, in my humble opinion, the best movies ever made and thus I have concentrated on listing only those films here with a few exceptions. You will find some 1970's films also listed at the following link: "The Entire Collection"
I started collecting classic movies quite a few years ago. Many of the classic movies in the collection have been recorded from the wonderful, and not to be taken for granted, Turner Classic Movies! What a treasure we have in TCM. I have also recorded quite a few classics from the Fox Movie Channel. My other classic movie sources have been fellow collectors, and friends throughout the world! All of my classic films are on DVD-R and I have had no problems whatsoever with the DVD technology. Films I recorded almost 7 years ago on DVD-R are holding up perfectly.
I am constantly asked the following questions....."how many of your 8,500 classic films have you actually watched? and "why do you record all those movies?....you'll never watch them all!" I think I have watched around 2,900 out of the 8,500. Will I ever watch every single one of them? No.......but when I'm in the mood for some crazy black & white b-movie from 1937 - I can probably find one I've never seen!!
Check out the new Warner Brothers Archive Collection...
As of March, 2009 Warner Brothers announced the exciting new WB Archives Collection - they have basically committed to releasing everything (YES - I said EVERYTHING!) in their vast archives. They are releasing a certain amount of movies each week on DVD-R which is a more cost effective way of distributing the films compared with remastering, mass pressing and printing which has long been the standard practice of releasing classic movies to the public. I'm not sure as to what their criteria is in regards to choosing what gets released and in what order but I am looking forward to see how it plays out.
Among some of the fantastic titles that have already been released are Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, The Enchanted Cottage, Hollywood Revue of 1929, I Take This Woman and so many more. They are kind of pricey ($19.95) but I've been told they have occasional sales. They are also offering cool sets like all the Robert Benchley shorts on 3 DVDs and the complete Joe McDoakes shorts on 6 DVDs!
I'm excited about this move and hope that someday Sony/Columbia, Universal/Paramount will follow suit and offer some of these movies that haven't been seen or available in so many years....if ever!
Click here to see my entire collection of films on one page!
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A fantastic classic movie blog: Rupert Alistair is a classic movie lover who writes an incredibly entertaining blog on classic movies and the wonderful stars that appeared in them. I met Rupert recently through MySpace and was intrigued by his refreshing look at the movies and stars we love! You can find Rupert's blog here: www.classicmoviesdigest.blogspot.com/
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My favorite source for finding out information about individual films is www.IMDB.com.