Old Time Movie Matinee Teaser - Fightin' Cock Flyer

Compiled from Public Domain files at Internet Archive.org and edited by our staff - this holiday season Movie Matinee features many old time favorite cartoons and original material about country folk. The featured full length motion picture included is "His Girl Friday" with Cary Grant and Rossaline Russell. Readers can order the full length DVD, (approximately 3hrs., 30min.) which includes a ten minute musical video "South Dakota Christmas 1938" with two songs by Lawrence, Kansas musician Bryan Newbury. His acoustic songs "Brewster County Breakdown" and "Beatrice" provide some contemporary melodies and words to Ivan Besse's classic silent amatuer film of life during America's Great Depression. The songs by Newbury accompany film clips of then local theater owner, Mr. Ivan Besse, Britton, S. Dakota during the holiday winter of 1938. Besse shot the clips from the main street sidewalk "to lure patrons into the theater" and Newbury's haunting songs seem to be from the perspective of a sidewalk musician performing during that tough time. The film is edited and produced by Michael Caddell, Jefferson county, Kansas who considers the included short music video "a reminder to people that there is joy to be found despite the hardship" of "everyday" people in small towns across America today. Theme song to this teaser is the "Missouri Dawg Song" (1912) Bryan G. Harlan and American Quartet (Public Domain). Stop motion animated Horse image is from Wickipedia Commons. We print and publish on our farm, in North Jefferson County, Kansas.