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Taking a cue from Kent, here are some other public domain movies that should not be missed.

[As for Plan 9 From Outer Space, definitely try to find Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion. Don't miss Brad Linaweaver coining Ed Wood's use of symbolic effects.]

Le Voyage dans la Lune

The Great Train Robbery

The Birth of a Nation

Nosferatu

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

Night of the Living Dead

Some other great film classics (pardon me while I revert to Film 100 mode):

• Mother
• Alexander Nevsky
• The Third Man
• Anything Hitchcock (and just a reminder for myself: Shadow of a Doubt is the Hitchcock movie I can never remember the name of. Plus, it’s the Merry Widow Waltz, not the Blue Danube Waltz. I know they sound nothing alike, but I always make the same mistake as Uncle Charlie. How ironic is that?)
• Some of D. W. Griffith’s other works (in case The Birth of a Nation was a little too much for you, you might like Intolerance). This guy was making long movies long before Kenneth Branagh and Peter Jackson were a glint in their respective mothers’ eyes.

And just for kicks:

• Any Universal monster flick
• 1940s Batman serials
• Any Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, or Laurel and Hardy

You can tell the guy is having a bad day before he even gets through the door, but geez, lighten up. At least the one further in the office, Tommy Preston, is having a good laugh about it. More about it here. As someone pointed out in one of the comment sections, Holt’s email address on his campaign site is “presof2020 at aol dot com,” which shows a little bit of his ambition.

Good luck, America.

This is something that I have been wondering about for a while now. As photography as a hobby continues to grow, and cameras are getting smaller and more affordable, what rights do photographers in Canada have exactly? I’m aware of this guide by Bert P. Krages II, which has info for the US and the UK, but I’ve not seen a definitive guide for Canada. I’m getting into photography, but I’ve mainly been taking pictures of sporting events. I have a deep-rooted problem of shyness that I still haven’t quite shaken off, and carrying around a camera puts me on edge (I’d likely turtle at the slightest confrontation). Me not knowing my rights would just compound my worry.

I’ve only seen various blogs and discussion groups such as here, here, here, here, here, and here (which currently seems to be Quebec-specific).

And that’s the underlying problem. Everyone’s conjecturing, but no one seems to really know. As good as the references about the issue are for the US and the UK, it doesn’t help that they’re muddying up what people think is legal here in Canada. Are there no lawyer-photographers using the Internet in Canada that could look into it and chime in?

I wonder if Tim Bray has ever run into any problems. Although I believe he pretty much sticks to scenery.