Hi all, George Pierce here. I want to share that the loss of Cindy Williams saddened me.
She was best known as Shirley in the TV sitcom, Laverne and Shirley and for her roles in
the classic movies, American Graffiti, and The Conversation. She passed on Wednesday of last
week after a brief illness, she was 75.
Cindy and Penny Marshall, were Shirley and Laverne which was a spin-off from the TV show Happy Days.
They were writers for the Happy Days show when they were asked to appear on Happy Days. Their appearance
was a smash and soon the Laverne and Shirley show was born. It was, of course, an instant success.
After a long list of movies, TV shows, and commercials, in 2015, she published her memoir, Shirley I Jest.
In 2022, she toured the US with her one-woman show, Me, Myself, and Shirley, which shared memories of her past.
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American Graffiti Trailer ~ Public Domain Posted at https://cutt.ly/MrPsClassicTV
Something that I discovered, when putting this post together is that free-to-use videos and photos
of Cindy Williams are scarce, really scarce, almost none. This brings us to the second part of this post:
What do you do when you cannot find images or videos for your post or web page or blog, etc.?
First is that you DO NOT use images or videos without permission. Doing so is a copyright violation which
can be very expensive, and, I understand that in some countries it can include jail time.
There are many free sites that you can use for free images and videos, often with no attribution,
I have put together a list of really free sites for images, videos, and sound effects.
At the top of my list is a site called Openverse with over 600 Million images and videos.
If any site has it, Openverse will.
If Openverse does not have what you and I are looking for, it really is scarce.
We are not done YET!
There are a couple more tricks that sometimes work.
One is Wikipedia, actually Wikimedia.
Just about everything that you and I might search for is going to have a Wikipedia page.
If that page has NO image and if Openverse comes up empty, we may be out of luck.
However, if there is an image, we can usually use the image, but it still depends on copyright.
Wikimedia (this visual side of Wikipedia) will share the copyright details (see below).
Both images are by way of Wikimedia.
Our second option is a site called archive dot org. https://archive.org/
It is a huge resource that searches over 783 Billon web pages on the Internet!
Archive dot org is the source of the American Graffiti movie trailer above.
Every once in a while, we are not going to be able to find any image or video
that we can legally use, again, do not use one that you are not allowed to use.
On the other hand, Openverse, Wikimedia, and Archive are sites that usually
have what we are looking for.
Thanks for reading.
Much success,
George Pierce
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PPS. The copyright info from Wikimedia:
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1928 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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