Memory Collection 16 - Cocoanuts
This pack is very special to me as it
includes “The Cocoanuts” (1929), the first Marx
Brothers film. It entered the public domain on January
1, 2025.
I’ve been a huge fan of them since my childhood in the
early 1960’s. I was very happy to work on that movie
and share the results with you.
Sound quality of “The Cocoanuts” varies as no complete
original print survived. The version that we now have
was edited together in the 1950's from three partial
prints.
The second movie is a SciFi/Whodunnit movie from 1936
with Bela Lugosi. It’s a bit corny but still
interesting. I think its dialogs sound better once
extracted from the movie and out of context.
There’s also an episode of Space Patrol (if you like
this, there are four more in MC 12 and one in MC 15),
one from a police show and two TV ads, from 1965 and
1970 respectively.
Samples include
voice/spoken word/dialogs, sfx/foley and music.
This pack is very special to me as it includes “The Cocoanuts” (1929), the first Marx Brothers film. It entered the public domain on January 1, 2025.
I’ve been a huge fan of them since my childhood in the early 1960’s. I was very happy to work on that movie and share the results with you.
Sound quality of “The Cocoanuts” varies as no complete original print survived. The version that we now have was edited together in the 1950's from three partial prints.
The second movie is a SciFi/Whodunnit movie from 1936 with Bela Lugosi. It’s a bit corny but still interesting. I think its dialogs sound better once extracted from the movie and out of context.
There’s also an episode of Space Patrol (if you like this, there are four more in MC 12 and one in MC 15), one from a police show and two TV ads, from 1965 and 1970 respectively.
16
bits, 44.1 kHz
- 746 samples unmapped one-shot wav, 817 MB
Complete list of samples
MC 16 demo pack (41
samples)
Includes additional info
Coming
soon!
More examples and video demos:
https://www.youtube.com/user/productionszvon
Some
samples may reflect stereotypes and prejudice of
their times and original creators. They may
express racial prejudice, sexism, social
stereotypes, ignorance and/or poor knowledge of
other cultures (for instance accents that are
deemed insulting today).
The views and opinions expressed in these are
those of their original creators and do not
necessarily reflect my opinions.
I verify that the source videos are in the Public
Domain by searching the web, there are lists of PD
movies and websites dedicated to them. Before I
decide to use a video, I find at least 2 sources
that say it is Public Domain. Of course I try to
avoid errors but I am not giving any legal
guarantees about the PD status of any source video
either.
Also, here in North America, there are
bargain-price DVD labels that offer PD movies.
Many of the movies I have used come from my
personal collection of such DVDs.
