Many people don't realize that the classic English mermaid movie Miranda from 1948 is out of copyright, and it's perfectly legal to download it.
The UK's J. Arthur Rank film companies were failing, its assets were sold off in 1995, and copyright was not renewed for Miranda. Carlton Television (since merged with ITV London) bought Rank's film library, and presumably this is where prints of Miranda have been sourced for broadcast on TV. I don't know whether Original footage or a master negative still exists that could be remastered for a high-quality video release, and ITV London's owners London Weekly Television have never released an official DVD of the movie. All the copies you can obtain now are captured broadcast videos. (Even the DVDs you can buy on eBay from the UK are just video captures copied onto DVD-R discs in PAL DVD-video format.)
Well, I've found a place that has the best copy I've seen yet
https://free-classic-movies.com/movi...anda/index.php
better than the DVD-R from eBay.
So if you want to get the best copy of Miranda, head on over to Jimbo Berkey's site and download either the standard definition version or the 992x720p high definition version. His site also has gazillions of other out-of-copyright movies, starting with a film by Georges Melies from 1896.
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