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The unmistakable face of Bela Lugosi Although most famous for his Dracula roles this clip is from the 1932 chiller “White Zombie” Directed by Victor Halperin.  

This clip of Laurel & Hardy is taken from a rare charity film called “The Stolen Jools” (1931). More than 50 hollywood stars of the early 30’s made cameo appearances in this film made to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanitarium

Classic Sci-Fi Serial with Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon.  This extract is from an episode of “Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe”  (1940).  Flash & his friends battle the evil Emperor Ming to save the Earth from the Purple Death.

Still creepy after all these years - “Nosferatu” (1922)
A Classic first version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.  Director F.W. Murnau used every photographic trick in the book to keep the chills going. Title character played by Max Schreck who’s last name translates as “Scream of Terror” !

Lon Chaney as “The Phantom of the Opera”  (1925)  the mysterious, diabolical fiend who terrorises the Paris opera house. Chaney is at his best - terrifying the viewer, yet making him sympathetic as the bizarre Phantom

Buster Keaton - the master of comedy stunt work in a clip from “Steamboat Bill Jnr”  (1927).  The climax of the film is considered to be one of the wildest ever made - the famous “cyclone” sequence featuring a dangerous building collapse over Buster himself.

An early collection of cartoons featuring the worlds greatest super-hero, Superman.  Made by the Fleischer Studios (1941 - 1943)
These cartoons are extremely well drawn and delightfully dark in character.

This footage of the collapse of the Tacoma bridge in 1949 comes from our Newsreel Collection.  A new suspension bridge accumulates so much movement caused by wind that it literally shakes itself to destruction.

Hair raising stuff from Harold Lloyd . This clip from
“Haunted Spooks”  (1918)

The Lost World (1925) - starring Wallace Beery & Bessie Love. The greatest of the silent films dealing with prehistoric monsters and featuring an early attempt at stop frame animation.

Gung Ho!   (1943) - starring Randolph Scott & Robert Mitchum.  WW2 action celebrating the bloodthirsty misfits of the  “Gung Ho” squad as great American patriots.

Two stunts and two crashes from our collection recounting all the thrills and spills of the daredevils of the 1920’s and 30’s

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