The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Greatest Cartoon of All Time, Is Now within the Public Area (1929)

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The July 17, 1929 problem of Vari­ety automotive­ried a discover a couple of laugh-filled new quick movie during which “skele­tons hoof and frol­ic,” the height of whose hilar­i­ty “is reached when one skele­ton performs the backbone of anoth­er in xylo­telephone fash­ion, utilizing a pair of thigh bones as ham­mers.” The ultimate traces of this robust…

What’s Getting into the Public Area in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Early Hitchcock Movies, Tintin and Popeye Cartoons & Extra

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Every Pub­lic Area Day appears to convey us a wealthy­er crop of copy­right-lib­er­at­ed books, performs, movies, musi­cal com­po­si­tions, sound file­ings, artworks, and oth­er items of intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty. This yr hap­pens to be an espe­cial­ly notable one for con­nois­seurs of Bel­gian cul­ture. Among the many char­ac­ters enter­ing the Amer­i­can pub­lic area, we discover a cer­tain boy…