Some people are ecstatic over action movies.
They are glued to the screen watching things explode.
They get heavily into watching people hunt down killer tornados.
Watching people get sucked into a void on video games makes their adrenaline flow.
But when it comes to choosing between the latest Hollywood hit and curling up before the fire with a fine classic film before them right on their television screen, they just may go with the classic.
Are these people film buffs? Maybe.
Maybe not.
All movie fans love the more mainstream classics like Casablanca, The African Queen or Key Largo and they may have seen them several times each.
But excitement still runs in their veins when they come across them.
They may also feel the excitement when they come across a website with films for sale or rent that have just now come out into the public domain.
Just What is the Public Domain? There are actually websites out there specializing in digging out classic films that have newly wended their way into the realm of the public domain.
Such sites have set these films before the public so they now have a place to go to find these films to rent or buy and once again bask in their glory.
These are films that you probably heard about from your grandparents who saw them on the silver screen way before there was a television set in every den in America.
There really, really was such a time, trust me.
The really cool thing about the new-found power of the public domain isn't just that it's reintroducing you to all of the films you and your parents loved when you were a kid.
It's also giving you the opportunity to introduce your kids to something outside of the realm of "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games".
What Can the Classic Movies Possibly do for your Kids? With the huge number of films that Hollywood releases every year, you could reasonably ask, "Why do I care whether my kids get to see the classics or not? Isn't it enough that they're going to slog through thousands of pages of classic literature in high school before it's all said and done? Now I have to worry about forcing them to sit through ancient films too?" The fact is if you are interested enough in classic films to read this article as far as you have, you are probably not one who is asking those types of questions.
You already know how worthwhile these awesome classics are.
You know how wonderful films were before high tech special effects, color and even sound took over and films were left with the pure talents and hard work of the script writer, director and actors to pull off the nuances of the film.
And what we got, in my personal opinion, is a product that was well worth the time it took to watch it.
Public Domain The reason you can find classic films on the web at all is that they have at long last made their way into the public domain.
Public domain is the world where films go when they are either ineligible for copyright protection laws or they have outlived them.
This releases them from the tight rules of distribution that apply to films that are not in the public domain thereby making them available to viewing by the public at large.
Classic films coming into the public domain? Check it out.
You will be a better person for it.