Screamstress: "Benefit Project" Keeping Horror Culture Alive (Part I)
Old monster films don’t die, they go to public domain according to nldfilm.com. Unfortunately, if the work is televised or sold on DVD, the creators of these films don’t get compensated. Films such as Nosferatu, Der Golem, and Roger Corman movies are an ingrained part of our horror and film culture, and we’d be lost without them.
So the dilemma is how do we get to keep these films and make sure the actors, crew and surviving creators get compensated? The answer is called the Benefit Project. It is a media distribution organization that pays tribute to creators of movies that have fallen into public domain.
Films such as Night of The Living Dead and others are redistributed, sometimes with a tiny bit of creative editing, or extra content, such as an actor interview. This allows the organization to register a copyright and then offer compensation to those responsible for the creation when the movie is sold or viewed.
The bottom line here is that all those old movies you loved are available again, and newly restored in a small way.
For more info, head over to nldfilm.com, or here to the NLD Benefit Project’s Official MySpace.
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