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An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market.
Jan 1966
8-minute shortened version of Tod Browning's 1931 classic "Dracula."
Jan 1963
Lew Hearn and Phyllis Kenny perform "Deep in the Heart of Texas"
Mar 1942
Shortened home-movie version of the 1945 feature film “ House Of Dracula” from Castle Films.
May 1998
A live-action visualization of the poem, blended with animation.
Dec 1946
Santa visits some kids and tells them a story in the form of a cartoon in this Castle short.
Dec 1945
This 1960s instructional film released by Castle Films for the home market, demonstrates various camera tricks performed by “Wee Gee,” or “Weegee,” the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, a famed photographer and cinematographer who worked in Manhattan and New York City’s Lower East Side.
Jun 1960
Bixby College needs to win the girls' basketball tourney prize-money in order to survive, but a pair of gamblers have brought in some Amazonian ringers to play for the opposition and Lou, in drag, is playing for the Bixby team.
Aug 1949
Watch and enjoy the large variety of acts in an old-fashioned circus! The film was made available in sound and silent versions.
Jan 1946
Lou and Bud start their new job as live-in caretakers on a college campus by trying - very trying - to get their own quarters cleaned up.
9 minute home-movie version of the 1957 feature film “The Deadly Mantis” from Castle Films.
Mammy gives Little Black Sambo a quick scrub on the washboard, then pats him down with baby powder, black baby powder, before sending him off to play. She warns him about the tiger...
Feb 1935
Larry goes driving... and flying... and falling....
May 1922
Adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of a destitute little girl who sells matches, and uses them to escape the cold on Christmas Eve, whisking her into fantasies of seeing Santa Claus and her lost mother.
Dec 1954
A silent short film promoting the United States Citizens Defense Corps, a group in which civilians served locally to aid in the war effort and to prepare their cities for possible military attacks.
Jan 1942
A tour through the South Sea islands including Tahiti, New Zealand, Fiji, Pago Pago, Papua and Kalabahai
Jan 1944
Kaye Lorraine singing "I Don't Want to Walk Without You".
Sep 1942
A short look back on the legacy of Rudolph Valentino, produced by Castle Films for the home gauge market. Multiple versions of the short film exist- one with spoken narration and music, and one in silent form. Reportedly a big moneymaker for Castle-- and proof of Valentino's lasting appeal.
Jan 1965
Santa Claus arrives at the home of two children and proceeds to tell them stories about monkeys and the nature of his existence.
Early documentary on the island of Bali.
Nov 1939