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Think of an Old Film, And Chances Are Good You Can See It at Home - The Wall Street Journal

One way to measure the march of progress is to list the human needs that can now be obtained without leaving home. Heat, water, light: All can be produced on the premises with a flick of the wrist.

The same is coming true for higher aspirations such as, say, the sudden desire to watch “300.” Typically, you’d be expected to trudge down to the video store, as humans have been forced to do since what seems to be the dawn of time. But home movie viewing is being upended by the Internet, and it’s happening faster than anyone would have guessed just a year or two ago.

If you like movies but haven’t been following recent developments, you owe it to yourself to spend a few moments checking things out. Thousands of movies, many famous ones, are now available for your immediate viewing. Among them: “Bonnie and Clyde,” “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” “2001″ and “Stop Making Sense.”

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