Here is a poster for the special Holiday Brunch of Santa Claus cartoons and shorts. You can read more about the show at my Café Roxy Blog. All films are in the public domain. This means nobody owns them and you can do anything you want with them, even show them on TV. The programs are intended to be shown in coffee houses, restaurants or bars while your patrons eat brunch on Saturday or Sunday. To help attract diner/viewers you can download and print the poster or display it on your own website. Some restaurants or an ice cream parlor could run the Santa Claus DVD round the clock through Christmas. I will be happy to make anyone a special poster that removes the word "Brunch" or put your name on the poster. Here are posters and programs for additional Cartoon Brunches.You do need a large screen TV or projection TV system in, say, a party room. Showing films to attract diners, like football in a sports bar, is not a new idea, but take care NOT to just run films. Audiences quickly tire of "Just Films" running. Our programs look fun from the poster and have been tested on audiences. You should also not run copyrighted films without permission or royalty payments. THE LITTLE MERMAID may be 20 years old but it is just as much a copyright violation as showing THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG.
You should run public domain films because....
In a recent, highly-publicized incident, a woman was caught shooting her daughter's birthday party in a movie theater and accidentally filmed 3 minutes of the new Twilight movie. She was arrested and faces 3 years in jail for copyright infringement. This is totally ridiculous! Even the film's director pleaded for leniency. But from time to time the film industry wants to make an example of someone. Don't let them make an example of you for showing a 1940s Donald Duck cartoon that is still fully owned and protected by Walt Disney. You may think that if you don't advertise specific films so you can show anything, but what if you have an enemy who makes a simple phone call. The FBI must investigate such reports. What if your cartoon brunch event becomes popular with good word of mouth and someone reviews it in the newspaper or online, and the review mentions Disney or Bugs Bunny or showing UP!
Cartoon Brunch is a very real idea that is proving quite popular with audiences. Please visit my Café Roxy website to see the many public domain programs and posters available for your use. I will send out the first show free, so you have nothing to lose giving it a try. Cartoon Brunch programs on DVD cost a mere $20. You can email me at ron@caferoxy.com or fesfilms@aol.com to receive a free sample show.Having said all that, which is hopefully useful information, let me add that this is not my main blog. Please visit
Café Roxy Blog where I write a weekly column about the progress of Cafe Roxy programs and public domain films. This is only my second rambling in Cartoon Brunch Blogspot. I started it to see if those search words "Cartoon Brunch" would show up in a google or yahoo search. So far not on Yahoo, but I spotted a Google link on Dec. 14 to this "Cartoon Brunch Blog."
So getting a free link from Google does work if you start a unique blog! However, who the heck is going to do a word search on Cartoon Brunch? It is not a term in general usage because few have heard of it as yet. People do search from time to time for public domain films which can be resold, shown on TV, used for stock footage, etc.
The Great Experiment
I have a second website for public domain films called Festival Films. I have often wondered if Festival Films would appear higher in the search results if I typed in "Public Domain Films" like a hundred time on my home page. I wonder if it works for blogs??? I wouldn't mind anyone clicking over to my website, so I'm going to try it here! You can stop reading now, or jump down to my earlier post. Only I will check in the weeks ahead to see if this blog post appears in a google search for public domain films. I suspect that it will based on the title of the blog entry: Public Domain Films. The question is whether it will appear high up in the search results because it contains "Public Domain Films" hundreds of times.
Public Domain Films are good. You can profit off using Public Domain Films. You do not need to pay royalties on Public Domain Films. No one owns Public Domain Films. The copyrights to Public Domain Films expired years ago. You may safely and legally show Public Domain Films from Festival Films and Café Roxy. Now lets get down to serious word repetition of, what was it again, oh yeah: Public Domain Films.
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That's enough for now............
Thanks for visiting.
-- Ron Hall
Café Roxy Blog.
