Castle Films

Santa visits some kids and tells them a story in the form of a cartoon in this Castle short.

An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market.

8-minute shortened version of Tod Browning's 1931 classic "Dracula."

A live-action visualization of the poem, blended with animation.

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.

Watch and enjoy the large variety of acts in an old-fashioned circus! The film was made available in sound and silent versions.

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.

See the variety of water-skiing in beautiful Cypress Gardens, Florida!

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...

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.

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.

Two couples go fishing in Florida during the 1950s.

Shortened home-movie version of the 1945 feature film “ House Of Dracula” from Castle Films.

Castle Films 1939 holiday offering wrapped up to make a Merry Christmas merrier. A visual kaleidoscope of the toys from all over the world from the cuddly to the curious and beyond...with an emphasis on mechanical dolls, monkeys, bears, rabbits popping up out of cabbages and choo-choo trains. And there is a rich sampling of animated displays that once graced department store windows - of story-book tales and operettas... and animated stop-motion toy soldiers, The musical track is drawn mostly from Van Beuren Studio's "Pastrytown Wedding."

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.

9 minute home-movie version of the 1957 feature film “The Deadly Mantis” from Castle Films.

The Nativity story, retold via puppetry and narration.

Larry goes driving... and flying... and falling....

Kaye Lorraine singing "I Don't Want to Walk Without You".