• Out-of-Copyright Australian Movies

    From not@not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) to aus.films,aus.computers on Sat Sep 20 11:07:42 2025
    From Newsgroup: aus.computers

    I like to look through lists of movies online and see what out-of-
    copyright ones (released before 1955) are downloadable from the
    Internet Archive.

    It's hard to find Australian ones though. Anyone have some
    pointers? Ideal would be a site like Project Gutenberg Australia,
    but for movies. The government runs all these film collections, but
    I guess it would serve the public too well to offer full downloads
    instead of just the clips I can find on their websites?

    Wikipedia has their lists of Australian films. I'm struggling to
    find downloads for most of them though, even looking on BitTorrent
    and Edonkey.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_films

    Some like The Sentimental Bloke (1919), Robbery Under Arms (1920)
    and In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) are at the Internet Archive.
    But not much luck with other ones.

    Note that streaming services are of no interest to me unless I can
    rip videos files from them using youtube-dl/yt-dlp. I guess I
    should have checked YouTube but I keep getting tricked by
    deceptively named videos when looking on there these days, so I've
    gone off it a bit.
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