An Historical View of Hollywood Stars and Movies 1925

Hollywood Studios 1922 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Let's take a trip back in time.  The year is 1925.  What was Hollywood like during that time?  What were the big movie hits and who were the big Hollywood names?  What was the gossip going on about the stars?  Let's take a look shall we?  Motion Picture magazine for the month of May, 1925.  You have gotten all this information for a mere quarter.

Motion Picture - Magazine, May 1925 from Chuck Thompson

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And Then There Were None - Classic Movie For Friday

And Then There Were None.  Agatha Christie movie from 1945 is our classic movie selection for this Friday. Enjoy.

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The Green Hornet Serial Episode 1 Sunday Classic Movies

This is episode one of the original Green Hornet Serial movies.  From what we see, this particular serial series has a total of 6 episodes to it.  Catch a classic movie each Sunday right here on GVLN.

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Cleopatra - Sunday Movies

Cleopatra is our selection for our Sunday movies this week.  It's the full movie that is nearly 3 hours long.  Produced by Hallmark, you can watch the entire movie

Cover of Cleopatra

 right here on GVLN.  Catch a full movie each week right here.

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Friday Classic Movie - Blondie - Blondie On A Budget (1940)

Today's classic movie is Blondie in Blondie on a budeget.  Blondie was a very popular series in film, radio and comics during the 1940's and 1950's.  The Sunday comic strip ran for years.  The comic series started in 1930 and is still produced today.  Blondie was also turned into a TV series back in 1957 but was short lived.  The Dagwood sandwich is famous throughout the world and even a recipe book was created around the famous Dagwood high stacked sandwiches.

GVLN - New Programming Guide - Free Download

programming-guide" title="GVLN Programming Guide" target="_blank">GVLN Programming Guide from Chuck Thompson

We are moving to a new programming format starting on June 10th, 2013 that is similar in nature to a TV guide style program.  Each day we will feature a new episode of a classic TV show except on Friday's, Saturday's and Sunday's.  On those days we will be featuring classic movies or cartoons.  See the above programming guide to see what is new.

  You can download a copy of the new programming guide from our SlideShare site.  Just click on the link above to go to the site for the download.  This will give the site a very consistent look and feel.  You know what to expect each and every day and week.  In the future, we will change some of the classic TV shows and may add or remove certain features, when this happens, we will make the proper changes to the programming guide so that everyone can stay up with the new changes.  We hope everyone enjoys these new features.

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Gloucester, VA - The Fight To Control Your Mind - Zeitgeist Revisited

English: A photo taken of Peter Joseph as he answers questions at the Q&A session after the Zeitgeist: Moving Forward screening the day before Zday 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Zeitgeist, Zeitgeist Addendum and now Zeitgeist Moving Forward.  Films by Peter Joseph.  He is also creating new films that are about a half hour long and hosted on You Tube.  His new works contradict his earlier works in several areas.

  It all boils down to Peter Joseph promoting idealistic forms of communism. On paper and in films, it all sounds good and we would not have an issue with it if it could possibly be implemented, however, history has already shown us that it is not sustainable and has serious flaws.  There are no real plans in communism, even in it's idealistic state, for incentive rewards.

The guy is obviously very bright and talented as well as very well funded.  The question is what is his real agenda?  Is he trying to get people to switch their thinking to the communist agenda?  The above film is 2 hours and 42 minutes long and we have yet to get through it all but have downloaded a copy to dig deeper into it.  CLICK HERE to go to the Zeitgeist site to see all the films by Peter Joseph.  Some of the serious flaws in communism is that it attacks religion and does not allow for it.  Peter Joseph makes constant attacks on religion throughout all of his films.  Hard for the masses to take him seriously when he is blatant about attacking religion.



  When you use some strong research and are on the money in some areas and then attack the masses at core values, it does not matter how good of a job you do in most of your work, you lose people altogether when you attack their core beliefs and then they are just turned off by anything you even try to do in the future.

   There are real wars going on for your mind and it's coming from the highest levels imaginable.  Zeitgeist is just one of the many films out there fighting for some of that control.  We have enjoyed a great deal of Peter Joseph's works, but in the end for our own opinion, we do not agree with his ultimate agenda.  We will continue to watch his productions as they are very well done, but he has lost us on the mind control front.

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GVLN - Are Torrents Killing Hollywood? Part 3

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In our last article, we asked the question about how films are getting on the Internet before they are even out on the retail shelves?  Here we are going to partially answer that question.  From what we have learned there are legitimate reasons for sending files of any film over the Internet.  Hollywood film executives, producers, promoters and others share films before they are even released on the Silver Screen.  Sometimes it is to get professional comments, get extra financial backing, further promotions, planning cover or poster design art work and or graphics and many other reasons.  These folks will also send out copies of the films as part of a resume,  to raise financing for their next film, even thank you's to friends and plenty of other fair reasons.

  Now what happens all to often, is those who receive these copies also share them with their friends, family and others.  Eventually these earlier releases find their way to sites that are more than happy to share these films with the world.  What is interesting is that intellectual property rights is a western civilization concept.  It is not shared by a great majority of the world.  Even many in western civilization do not share or understand the concept.  Therefore there are many people who do not consider sharing a copyrighted film to be of any issue.

  A great case in point is the country of China.  The vast majority of China has no concept at all of intellectual property rights which is why copycat items flood so many markets that come out of China.  China is a mecca for forged items of every sort.  Even with over 20 years of western influence now having raged over China, this is still a major issue that all western companies face and will continue to face.

  Are torrents the only way that films are being violated?  Not at all.  There are now a host of new ways that films are being exploited for illegal downloads all over the Internet and the wave is growing.  We have recently learned of some new software that will download a copy of any streaming film.  Films are being hosted on more illegal sites everyday.  You Tube now hosts more TV shows and movies on the site.  Many of them are copyright violations.  The movies on the site are usually legal, the TV shows are not unless uploaded by the studios if they feel that the retail market is not longer there for DVD sales.

   On recent reviews throughout the You Tube site however, we found numerous TV shows that were all uploaded by independent individuals not authorized to upload these shows.  In You Tubes defense?  It is the job of the executives to police the site for violations and ask You Tube to block and prevent further uploads of the copyright owners works.  There are so many ways to download content from You Tube these days that it has become ridiculous.





  It is estimated that the number one way for getting video through 2015 is illegal downloads.  But there is a new battle now being waged that will catch a lot of people by surprise.  A new technology that is now about 2 years old developed by a one of our nations leading technology universities has developed a high frequency identification technologies that can not be stripped out by copying or transcoding videos.  The high frequency is not audible to the human ear, but is able to be tracked throughout the Internet.

  If a film has the technology loaded onto it and the film is put up for file sharing or playing on another site, the copyright owners can track exactly the originating source and all sources that have both downloaded and further uploaded that film. CLICK HERE for some general information on how this works.  The process described on the site is not the exact technology being used now in films and music, but is similar in it's nature and structure.  Each legal digital download can now have these signals built into them that identifies the purchaser, so if you upload the video onto another site or through a torrent, the copyright owners are able to track it instantaneously.

  For DVD and Blu Ray disks, a generic version is being implemented that identifies the title of the film as well as tracking technology.  So even when one breaks the encryption on these disks, the software used to break the encryption does not remove the high frequency tracking codes.  The new technology will end up short lived however as developers of software will eventually implement a two phase system of stripping out the frequency and then loading a scrambled frequency back onto the cracked encrypted files.

  So how does Hollywood fight these new threats?  This is exactly what destroyed the music industry and now it looks to destroy Hollywood films as well.

In part 4 of this series we will cover what is legal and what is not and we will end the series with answering the question, is the disk really dead?

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Gloucester, VA - Project Free TV Stream Free TV Shows

The Miami Vice intertitle. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Project Free TV, watch TV shows over the Internet for free.  We just went through their website and found a huge list of TV shows on the site that will keep anyone entertained for months to come.  Everything from newer sitcoms to older TV episodes.  They have Miami Vice seasons one through five.  You have the option of watching them on-line or downloading the individual shows.  The site does not stop at just TV shows.  They also have a very large list of movies.  On the top of the list on the site right now is Battleship.  And again, you have the option to either download the video or watch it on-line.  We checked out their download software which seems decent and it's free, however we were concerned with it being ad supported.

  With ad supported software, you end up having to view ads on the Internet that could make your Internet experience a real nightmare so we did not opt to load the software onto our systems.  We have book marked the site however as the video quality is more than decent and the speed is fine.  The videos we watched did not seem jumpy as can often happen for on demand streaming.  It's not to say that all the videos will be trouble free.  They seem to have multiple feeds for videos on the site and there is a rating system as to whether or not the feeds work properly.

  We have seen a number of free streaming TV sites in the past that were more of a joke than anything else.  This one seems like it's on target though.  You can't go wrong with free however, so it's well worth a look.

CLICK HERE to go to the site and check it out yourself.

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