The Mystical Movie Guide: Links and More

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I are very grateful to major internet film sites for providing many raw facts, and I have recommended these links below for further research, discussion, and locating of titles. All of my prose is copyright and can only be quoted non-commercially in fair use when full reference is made to this website and author, unless other permissions have been granted specifically in writing from me (see also the link-to-me below).

BUY LINKS: If you are looking to purchase a movie, please start your buying through the bolded affiliate links which go to Amazon.com . These links will not cost you any extra, but the vendor will be splitting some of their profits with the MysticalMovieGuide in exchange for the referral. In this way you can show us your support and help the MysticalMovieGuide continue to be a great free resource for you. There are many many more links to try below, and most are decent folks but we can't be held responsible for your experiences with them. If you're in the U.S. and having difficulty finding a film that you think may be in the public domain (very old or never released in this country) you may email me to see if I can refer a good source or if I'm able and willing to sell you a collector-only copy (that means no rights granted or implied, fees cover duplication/shipping/handling only).
** PLEASE HELP THE GUIDE GROW BY CONTACTING US WITH YOUR TIPS ON GOOD TITLES AND WHERE TO FIND FILMS THAT WE LIST AS UNLOCATED **. many thanks and best wishes, Carl J. Schroeder    

Buying Advice: STANDARDS - Make sure that your standards are compatible. A tape format can be made for a TV signal that's NTSC (North America and most vendors), PAL (Europe and Australia vendors), SECAM, or others. Multisystem VCRs and conversion services are expensive, so get it straight. A DVD can have the same signal encoding issue, plus if it's not all-region then it will only play for certain artificially enforced regions (1 US, 2 Europe, 3 Asia, 4 Australia, etc). Some regional DVD players can be tricked into becoming international. Multi-region DVD players are not in most stores but should be found for less than $200 on the internet. Computer software based viewing/ripping is another route. VCDs are movies on CDs which don't have the capacity and quality of DVDs (some splotchy pixelization results) and VCDs can't be played on all players. RARITY - A foreign, special interest, or antique film may be rare only until you find the right distributor. TV movies are often printed in smaller quantities than theatre releases, making even a well-known title unexpectedly rarer and collectible. Short films must be sought on anthologies or viewed in festivals and websites. BOOTLEGGING - There are some distributors and collectors who sell home-made copies of unreleased or out-of-print movies. I do not do this, but if you follow links you can find them, and they usually say things like "collector's copy", "no box art", and "vhs sp mode". Films never released in the US are public domain, otherwise the copying is not completely legal, but bootlegging is certainly a kind of important service that helps to keep rare films alive in the public's mind until they are officially re-released. So I think if done sparingly bootlegging/trading should be tolerated and cautiously supported. ADVICE - If you need or have leads on rare movies, you can email me. Good luck everybody, let's hope that someday everything becomes fully available in the best formats possible!
Internet Movie References

Mystical Genre Research

Other websites by Carl Schroeder
  • SoulStirring.org - The Mystical Art and Talent Shows! They're a magical reality for the Boston area, and a concept to share. Much inspirational art and info online. Shows take place at the progressive and intriguing Cambridge Swedenborg Chapel.
  • AstralResearch.org - Carl's personal essays and art online. A launching pad for many mystical projects for years to come.

Web tools
  • PicoSearch.com - Add a general text search engine to your own website projects! If you don't know how to or don't need to make your own searching tools (as MysticalMovieGuide has), PicoSearch is the easy and fast way to go.
 
Link to the Mystical Movie Guide! We sincerely appreciate links to us, since this will bring us more visitors and better rankings on search engines like Google.com. To be most helpful we ask that you refer to our name clearly, and use the linked text of the following example so that our site will come out on top when people search for these words. Of course you can say more about us too if you like.
MysticalMovieGuide.com - The Mystical Movie Guide reviews hundreds of metaphysical and spiritual movies!
Here is the code to cut-and-paste for that link:
<a href="http://www.MysticalMovieGuide.com" target="_blank"><b>MysticalMovieGuide.com</b> - The Mystical Movie Guide reviews hundreds of metaphysical and spiritual movies!</a>
Further, we're working on buttons for the site. Here's our first design:
Mystical Movie Guide
If you want to add the button to the text link (we really need both so that search engines will find us correctly) here is the code to cut-and-paste. Please be sure to copy the button to your own server so our website doesn't go down from everyone else's web traffic too!
<a href="http://www.MysticalMovieGuide.com" target="_blank"><img src="mlogo1.gif" alt="Mystical Movie Guide" border=2> <b>MysticalMovieGuide.com</b> - The Mystical Movie Guide reviews hundreds of metaphysical and spiritual movies!</a>
Thanks, and enjoy!



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