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2008-12-06T14:15:00.000-08:00

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*Although Weirdo Video has moved, most video's posted at our Blogger location will still be accessible into the near future. However, to view our latest vintage films, stay up-to-date at our new and improved site, with more features and a finer experience, at www.weirdovideo.com.

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Thanksgiving Redux: Dining Together - 1950

2008-11-26T11:56:00.000-08:00

This is a story of a holiday and home. Helping make ready a celebration is part of the fun. Especially for one of the nicest days of the year - Thanksgiving. There is happiness in the air, and the smell of turkey. Mmmmm, that does look good. Thanksgiving is a day for the best of everything. And friends invited to dinner. We remember the pilgrims had only rough tables on which to serve the first Thanksgiving feast, yet it was shared with friendy indians. It is good to share a holiday with friends. And it is good to have friends who like to come to our home. Good manners make people happy, and good table manners make eating together a happy time. We are thankful for our home and our happy meal. We are glad we have good table manners and know what to do with a napkin, how to use a spoon in eating soup easily, without noise. It just wouldn't be Thanksgiving without turkey. We know mother knows how to cook it, and father knows how to carve it. It is fine to sit-up and watch it being carved. You would know this is a holiday plate. At the first Thanksgiving dinner the indians didn't eat turkey with a fork, but it is easy to learn to use one the right way to take small mouthfuls. And how to butter and eat bread in small bites so we never have to talk with food in our mouth. It is good to have learned to chew with lips closed and know when to take a drink. Good table manners keep our meals happy meals and those who eat with us happy. Learning to use a knife the right way takes practice, yet each time we do it becomes easier. What to do with a knife and fork even when finished using them is part of eating well. Holidays are days to be glad, and all good manners are ways to make people glad. We like to offer help, or to help when asked. It is nice to talk with others, and to know when to wait and listen. We are glad to eat neatly without ... [?] Holidays are fun. And it is good to be part of a celebration, it is fine to have learned so much, and to have so much in hour home to make holiday celebrations happy. Now could you wish for more? The End.

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NYSE: What Makes Us Tick - 1952

2008-09-30T14:33:00.000-07:00

An animated, idealized illustration of how the stock market works, produced lovingly by the New York Stock Exchange in 1952.

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Coney Island: In Memoriam

2008-09-10T13:39:00.000-07:00

Coney Island, "the place where merriment is king!"

Take a trip back in time 50 years before the Mermaid Parade.

See masses of old school New Yorkers beat the heat by hitting the beach.

See Side Shows! Carnies! Freaks! Thrill rides! Includes the original Coney Island Hot Dog, the Bathing Girl Review, and people getting sick on rides.

Not to mention the Tiger Rag, if 1940's Coney Island existed today an insurance agent would have a field day.

Still, 1940's Coney Island kicks Disneyland's ass any day.

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New Orleans, the Crescent City - 1930s newsreel

2008-08-30T16:28:00.000-07:00

Newsreel documentary from the 1920's with photography and animations illustrating old New Orleans, the Crescent City, at work and at play.

Duelling oaks. Influences of colonial France and Spain. Iron grille work. The old townhouses surrounding open courts.

New Orleans, the industrial city, where ports and depot junctions distribute throughout, and out from, the heart of America.

Culture shipped to & from the world.

And, of course, Mardi Gras, Jazz age style.

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Olympics in Tokyo - 1964

2008-08-11T19:34:00.000-07:00

A short newsreel recounting the Olympics held in China's uneasy neighbor Japan. Forty-four years ago, notice the absence of corporate sponsorship and the lack of steroid enhanced wins.

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Moonlight Cocktails - 1942

2008-08-11T19:19:00.000-07:00

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Kobe Beef - It's What's for Dinner

2008-07-28T22:18:00.000-07:00

Sure, Kobe Beef is considered some of the most delectable, succulent meat in the world. But have you ever wondered how it got that way? In this clip, we have an actual demonstration. Some might think it cruelty to animals, others might think they were being treated too well.

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Waterloo - Cliff Crofford & Billy Mize

2008-07-25T17:19:00.000-07:00

In this clip multi-instrumentalists and all-around talents Cliff Crofford & Billy Mize perform rollicking, stomping rendition of Waterloo. From 1959, this number is another prime example of the world famous Bakersfield Sound.

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Independence Day 1940

2008-07-03T00:44:00.001-07:00

Strike up the band.

Let's celebrate the great day on which the Declaration of Independence was signed ...

July 4, 1776 ...

Be happy ...
Be glad we are living in the good old USA
Land of the free ..
Home of fair play

July 4th, 1940.

PS: Get Well Soon.

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Iran - 1953

2008-06-22T15:15:00.001-07:00

A fascinating look at the nation of Iran before the 1979 revolution. This film is not merely a survey of Persian history, but examines a civilization undergoing a transition into 20th century modernity. Although made nearly sixty years ago, this short film portends the inevitable tension Iran is facing as it asserts its sphere of influence, empowered by its natural resources and geographical location.

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The Labor of Thy Hands - ca. mid-1950's

2008-05-18T12:02:00.000-07:00

In this vintage promotional film produced by the Jewish women's group Hadassah, viewers are reminded of the need to develop a skilled workforce in the young state of Israel. Interesting footage of early kibbutzim and Israeli industry are highlighted in this film, with a stress on modernizing the economy and culture, the stress is on becoming an equal in a technologically advancing world.

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Subject: Narcotics - 1951

2008-05-11T23:04:00.000-07:00

A declassified vice squad training film, Subject: Narcotics, produced in the 1950's, takes an unflinching look at the lifestyle of heroin users during. Made in the pre-rock & roll era, the junkie flophouse depicted here resembles a scenario more out of beatnik novel than the more glamorous goth-punk facade we've become accustomed to today.

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Dim Lights, Thick Smoke - 1959

2008-04-25T23:11:00.000-07:00

Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and live, live music) performed by Joe Maphis & wife Rose Lee, LIVE in 1959.

Maphis. known for the flatpicking style he developed in the 1930's, sings magnificent harmony with wife Rose in this 1950's crowd-pleaser.

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Marijuana aka "Marihuana!" - 1930's

2008-04-20T01:47:00.000-07:00

A trailer for a nudie film that masquerades as an anti-'marihuana' morality tale.

Watch wild & reckless youths lose their souls to the devil's weed.

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Incendio 1974

2008-04-16T23:16:00.000-07:00

A brutal documentary account detailing the infamous Sao Paolo high rise fire of February 1, 1974. With strange 1970’s era electronic music soundtrack, shocking photojournalistic footage, iconic animation, and a deadpan narration, the film deconstructs the deadly conflagration and what went wrong.

Warning: Some of the footage may be disturbing to some viewers.

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Century 21 Calling - Bell Labs promotional film for 1962 Seattle World's Fair

2008-04-09T23:52:00.000-07:00

Occassionally, people do get the future right, as they seem to have done in this film, Century 21 Calling, made more than 45 years ago to promote Bell Labs at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.

Call-waiting, call-forwarding, pagers, auto-dialing, news & weather info retrieval, central computer databases that log all of your private information (so that's where it came from).

Still waiting on that solar battery business, though.

Special mention goes out to the futuristic monorail opener (those never really did catch on, did they?), the perfectly kitsch soundtrack, and the climactic ending where the young couple shoot up the to the head of the Space Needle, as if they were bursting up and out into the future.

Is that Bill Murray singing in the background at the end?

You tell me ...

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Music: Bela Lam & Family - Poor Little Benny (1920's field recording)

2008-04-03T23:53:00.000-07:00

Virginia native Zanddervon Beliah Lamb, renamed Bela Lam by Okeh Records, performs the song Poor Little Benny with wife Rose Meadows.

With Bela’s brother-in-law Paul and son Alva, they became local favorites near the Blue Ridge Mountain region in the 1920’s, eventually being called to New York City to record six songs.

Influenced by the local religious music of the day, Bela Lam & the Greene County Singers, as they would come to be known, are notable for their shape-note harmonies, highly influential during the period

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Flagellants of Nocera Terinese - 1960's

2008-03-22T00:41:00.000-07:00

Every seven years in the town of Nocera Terinese, Italy, a mysterious rite hundreds of years old still takes place to this day.
On Good Friday, Flagellants from the surrounding villages perform the ritual of the battenti.

In this tradition, the participants embed shards of glass in pieces of cork, then forcefully drive the makeshift scourges into their bare legs. Bleeding, they jog the route of the Easter procession, enduring the pain and suffering of religious sacrifice in the name of spiritual cleansing.

How to Live in a City - 1964

2008-03-07T00:04:00.000-08:00

Have you ever wondered what makes some cities better than others? In public access television pioneer George C. Stoney's How to Live in a City, the argument is that it all depends on the quality of the public space.

New York City folk singer and architectural critic Eugene Ruskin guides us through unique locales which illustrate the fine line between organic and sterile urban spaces. It all depends on a place's ability to attract and sustain, even if only momentarily, a sense of community.

And while some spaces succeed and others fail, one may wonder whether if it was designer's intention to drive people away, or not.

Aside from amusingly hep score and the nostalgic longing for Old New York that the film leaves you with, Stoney & Ruskin's How to Live in a City presents a considerably modern approach to documentary filmmaking, especially when compared to other productions of the time.
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Propaganda: Propaganda Techniques

2008-03-01T10:05:00.000-08:00

Educational film to teach viewers about the dynamics of propaganda, made in the in the late 1940's or early 1950's.

A teacher dissects the processes in which propaganda works to an eager student.

In it are moments of classic hokum, but curiously many of the techniques ring true today.

Beware of Propaganda.

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Music: Hawaiian Hula Song with Steel Guitar

2008-02-17T00:41:00.000-08:00

Hawaiian Hula Song, a classic. A seductive beauty does the hula while a duo play on guitar and slide. During the last third of the song, the rhythm picks up, becoming swingy.

Where Hawaiian traditional and American Jazz meet, practically western swing.

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Black Music in America - ca. mid-1970's

2008-01-19T21:40:00.000-08:00

This tremendous educational documentary from the mid-1970’s examines the priceless contributions of African-Americans to musical heritage, so closely tied to their unique history in the United States. From Africa upon slave ships captive immigrants brought with them melodies, cadences and rhythms that inarguably gave rise to music considered ‘modern’ today.

Beginning with the genius Louis Armstrong’s triumphant return to Ghana in the late 1950’s, we trace the evolution of music from West Africa to the Virginia colonies of the early 1600’s. Over the next 400 years, as this distinct root of American culture takes hold, incredible clips of filmed performances by Mahalia Jackson, Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, and Duke Ellington illustrate the black experience.

Contemporary musicians such as Nina Simone, BB King, Cannonball Adderly (w/ Joe Zawinal - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy), and Sly & the Family Stone, along with a funky-ass filmed number from an as-yet-undocumented-on-the-internet off-Broadway production called “The Me Nobody Knew” punctuate the memory of the past, the spontaneity of the moment and determination for the future.

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Louis Jordan - You Gotta have a Beat

2008-01-08T00:15:00.000-08:00

Now, Louis Jordan is going to school you on the difference between now and then, between yesterday and today, between the modern and the antiquated.

Even back in the 1940's, this ingenious musician, lyricist and performer, Louis Jordan, had it right. To this day, no one still could disagree — Today You Gotta have a Beat!

"People today is full of rhythm, it's in their head or either in their feet. So you better wake-up and get with them, 'cause today you gotta have a beat."

Too right, too right.

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New Year Redux: Georgia Sothern

2008-01-01T20:37:00.000-08:00

Film Theatarettes presents Georgia Sothern in her dance from the musical hit Star and Garter.

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New Year Redux: Strange Rampage - 60's Blue Movie Trailer

2008-01-01T20:22:00.000-08:00

This mid-1960's era blue movie trailer is another example, like Smut Peddler, of what you would likely see at one of the many lurid Times Square theaters that existed in the days before Giuliani.

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New Year Redux: Chinese Joy Dance

2008-01-01T20:15:00.000-08:00

Miss Noel Toy ... Famous Chinese oriental dancer, known from coast to coast, and featured with the new Follies Bergere sensational nightspot in New York City.

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New Year Redux: Walkin' Home, Again - 1920's Girlie Film

2007-12-31T15:30:00.000-08:00

A bevy of flappers prances around the beach, having such a good time they can't help but strip to their skivvies. A ragamuffin, who watches them from behind a rock, swipes their clothes as they play carelessly in the waves.

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New Year Redux: Hot Number - Girlie Film

2007-12-31T15:25:00.000-08:00

You know how it is ...

You get home after a day out, and it's just so hot you feel the urge strip to your undergarments.

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New Year Redux: Fighten' Femmes of France - 1950's girlie film

2007-12-31T15:22:00.000-08:00

What happens when one roommate borrows another roommate's silk mini-robe without permission ...

Shot in a held-held verite style, this girlie film is evidently contemporaneous with the oeuvre of Bettie Page.

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New Year Redux: 20th Century Vamp strips

2007-12-31T15:14:00.000-08:00

In this stag film just hauled out of basement, a Twentieth Century Vamp strips to her knickers to a raucous early jazz score.

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Newsreel - Snowstorm strands dozens on Donner Pass (1952)

2007-12-26T21:45:00.000-08:00

Just because you're snowed-in here-and-now doesn't mean you wouldn't have been in similar circumstances there-and-then. In this case, the passenger train "City of San Francisco" has been stranded in over ten feet of snow after a blizzard within the legendary Donner Pass. The travelers survived this journey, unlike their fabled predecessors, the legendary Donner Party of the mid-19th century, who, when stranded, resorted to cannibalism.

Nonesuch vacuum-sealed, refrigerated Coffee

2007-12-10T16:07:00.000-08:00

After all, "The way to a man's heart is through his coffee."
By the way, does anyone know when movie week is?

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Dining Together - 1950

2007-12-08T09:51:00.000-08:00

Fiddlin' Man - Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys

2007-11-05T11:13:00.000-08:00

Bob Wills shows his master showmanship as both bandleader and musician in this short known as Fiddlin' Man.

Backing the king of western swing, the gum-chewing pianist, the expressionless guitarist, and the giddy drummer make playing with Wills look easy.

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Quiet Please, Attacking Leeches

2007-10-22T22:42:00.000-07:00

From murky underwater caverns ooze monstrous aqua-beasts! Hungering for human victims! "Attack of the Giant Leeches."

Then, out of the swamp's depths, again appears horrifying, mysterious creatures thirsting for lovers' blood. What are these giant mutations whose attack on people sends the whole countryside on an endless search?

And then, brings them back to life to gratify their distorted desires.

Fear will pierce your flesh ... Until every nerve in your body ... Explodes!

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It Ain't Right - Gordon Terry

2007-10-11T07:59:00.000-07:00

Gordon Terry performs his hit song 'It Ain't Right' live, backed by the great Billy Mize and the equally talented Cliff Crofford. Another clip documenting the birth of authentic rockabilly.

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California the Golden - 1930

2007-10-06T10:29:00.000-07:00

If you were taking a sea cruise from the Eastern Seaboard to the West Coast via the Panama Canal, this might be the film you'd see before disembarking in San Diego, Los Angeles, or San Francisco.

An exquisite travel film documenting the magnificent landscape and locales of pre-WWII California, this film showcases classic old school California, from the Spanish-styled haciendas overlooking the swelling Pacific to the vast interior of bountiful valleys and awesome peaks.

Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you California of the early 1930's.

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Martha Davis and Her Spouse - 1950's

2007-09-30T00:18:00.000-07:00

Pre-dating both Marty & Elaine and Millie Jackson, Martha Davis wears the pants in this relationship.

Influenced by the great Fats Waller, she and her husband, bassist Calvin Ponder, who would later play with Earl Hines, performed in nightclubs across Chicago.

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Don't Be a Sucker - 1947

2007-09-29T17:31:00.000-07:00

In this anti-fascist film produced by US Military in the wake of WWII, the producers deconstructs the politically motivated social engineering of Germany by the Nazi regime.

Its argument is just as timely and relevant today.

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Lady Life Guards - 1930's

2007-09-26T23:46:00.000-07:00

Though it's now Fall, Summer is just a click away with our next featurette, Lady Life Guards, produced during the 1930's.

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A Journey on a London Bus

2007-09-12T23:04:00.000-07:00

Say you're a native from a colony of the visiting the utopian Capitol of the Empire. How can you travel from one institution to another in a polite, efficient and civilized manner? Why, a journey on a London bus is the answer, of course. Produced by the British Colonial Unit's propaganda arm, this piece high-lights why London's traffic is some of the finest traffic in the world. Still, at least the black students did not have to sit in the back of the bus unlike their American counterparts.

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Bug-o-rama, Gag trailer, 1950's

2007-08-28T23:19:00.000-07:00

This is a humorous gag trailer with a for a movie that never existed, Bug-O-Rama ...

"Your skin will crawl, your flesh will creep, after you've seen our Bug-O-Rama. It's the show to recommend to your enemies. The unbearable terror may drive them MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD. A licensed exterminator will be on duty at all performances. But just in case, bring your own bug powder. Watch out! The bugs are coming."

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Ozark Jubilee Boys - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

2007-08-11T15:00:00.000-07:00

Ozark Jubilee Boys perform "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" live in this country tinged version of Big Joe Turner's rhythm & blues hit. Witness rockabilly in the making as this young western swing band goes rock & roll.

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Louis Jordan - How Long Must I Wait for You

2007-08-11T00:45:00.000-07:00

Louis Jordan performs "How Long Must I Wait for You" with his Timpany Five. Considered by some to be no more than a long running novelty act, back in the day he battled Chick Webb and conceived lyrics with wit that rivals Dylan or any modern-day rapper.

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Nettezza urbana - Michelangelo Antonioni

2007-07-31T23:47:00.000-07:00

In memory of the master filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, his 1948 short film Nettezza urbana, aka Dustmen.

The Towers - 1957

2007-07-31T23:38:00.000-07:00

A color documentary which examines the creation of the Watts Towers and the Sicilian immigrant and visionary Sabato Rodia who realized them. This film contains intriguing footage of mid-1950's Watts, the neighborhood where greats like Charles Mingus amongst many others grew up.

Calypso Blues - Nat King Cole

2007-07-16T13:26:00.000-07:00

Tremendous performance of Calypso Blues by one of the true originators of modern popular music, Nat King Cole.

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Independence Day 1940

2007-07-02T20:39:00.000-07:00

Foldin' Bed - Whistler & His Jug Band ca. 1930

2007-06-24T23:49:00.000-07:00

Whistler & His Jug Band came up out of Louisville, Kentucky, and became the first recorded jug band, according to R Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country. They recorded at least twenty-one songs between 1924 and 1931. The names of the musicians remain unknown.

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Greenwich Village Sunday - 1961

2007-06-18T10:41:00.000-07:00

Take a stroll through the streets, parks and neighborhoods that make up Greenwich Village. Before Washington Square became the NYU undergrad film school back lot, the area was known for it's street art, spontaneous hootenannies, poetry jam sessions and neighborhood fairs. Take a walk around the Village before it became too cool for you.

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To Hear Your Banjo Play - 1947

2007-06-16T17:50:00.000-07:00

Folk master Pete Seeger narrates Alan Lomax's documentary on the evolution and appreciation of American folk music. Special cameo performances include Woody Guthrie and Brownie McGhee, amongst many others.

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American Gothic Cornflakes

2007-06-07T19:51:00.000-07:00

Amazing to think that professional people got paid to cook up masterpieces such as Gothic American Cornflakes. But are times really different today, forty years later?

The recipe is quite simple, really. Take one part cornflakes, one part current youth culture cliché, throw in a little General Mills dough, then marinade in Madison Avenue saccarine and ... VOILA! the old-fashioned, half-baked Saturday morning scrapple of which almost anybody can reminisce.

In this case, the lyric "This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land" has been conveniently re-written as "Eat country cornflakes!" The repetition is enough is enough to make any sadistic psychological interrogator proud.

One wonders if this is the culmination of the visions of Grant Wood and Woody Guthrie. One wonders ...
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Ted Weems with Flappers

2007-05-02T00:10:00.000-07:00

You know you've made the Big Time when you're leading a band that's accompanied with a chorus line of perky flappers.

But then again, if you're Ted Weems in the late 1920's & early 1930's, this is the life of a famous radio bandleader.

It's just another day at the beach on the Eastern Seaboard during the Jazz Age, perhaps in Coney Island or Atlantic City.

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2007-04-23T19:00:00.000-07:00

Exotica: Lionel Hampton - Bongo Interlude

2007-04-14T13:47:00.000-07:00

Lionel Hampton performs Bongo Interlude, a number that oozes with the exotica motifs prevalent in American pop culture at that time.

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Flagellants of Nocera Terinese - 1960's

2007-04-09T19:06:00.000-07:00

Every seven years in the town of Guardia Sanframondi in Calabria, Italy, a mysterious rite hundreds of years old still takes place to this day.

On Good Friday, Flagellants from the surrounding villages perform the ritual of the battenti.

In this tradition, the participants embed shards of glass in pieces of cork, then forcefully drive the makeshift scourges into their bare legs. Bleeding, they jog the route of the Easter procession, enduring the pain and suffering of religious sacrifice in the name of spiritual cleansing.

Esso Extra

2007-04-07T01:35:00.000-07:00

"Everyone likes that little something extra …

A dozen rolls and the baker tosses in an extra one to make it a baker’s dozen.

The butcher throws in an extra bone for the bow wow.

Every locality has a different name for it.

Way down in east in New England they call it 'something to boot.'

In the Deep South they call it 'lanya'
At your neighborhood service station they call it Esso."

AKA Exxon.

And the little “something extra” today, in 2007?

The exorbitant price of gasoline, while the oil cartels make record profits.

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3rd Avenue El - early 1950's

2007-03-30T20:14:00.000-07:00

What is a 3rd Avenue El?

It's the elevated train that used to run up and down Manhattan until the mid-1950's, when it was decommissioned and turned into scrap metal.

Despite this, you can still experience the trip through New York City that vanished over half-a-century ago, not only from the overhead view of the train window, but through the actual neighborhoods and with the authentic people who road it daily.

A beatnik photographer with a tripod, a stumbling drunk from the old Bowery, a giddy little girl traveling with her father, and a couple on a romantic excursion help create a loose narrative.

For the soundtrack, a sprightly rendition of Haydn's Concerto in D for Harpsichord is accompanied by all of the real sounds of a metropolitan elevated subway trip. Along with it's superb photography and creative editing, a of viewing '3rd Avenue El' is like taking ten minute vacation to a place that is no more.

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Bill Powers - Caroline

2007-03-26T14:42:00.000-07:00

In this re-discovered clip, the classically trained Bill Powers sings an operatic rendition of the song Caroline. A performer with with few if any informative references online, he is accompanied by the similarly under-appreciated member of the Brown Sisters on piano.

A nice complement to the Brown Sisters.

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Newsreel: Anti-War March, 1967

2007-03-19T21:42:00.000-07:00

In this clip from 1967, newsreel reader Ed Herlihy narrates a cynical take on the anti-Vietnam War marches which took place in New York City, San Francisco, and across the US. Martin Luther King, Jr. petitions the UN, students burn their draft cards at demonstrations, and anti-anti-Vietnam protesters make their support of the conflict known.

Forty years later, we find ourselves in a similar scenario.

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Soundie: How to Yodel

2007-03-14T22:48:00.000-07:00

In this vintage performance, the yodeling is entirely live and more contemporaneous, with a decidedly rockabilly slant.

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Soundie: Rosalie Allen - Chime Bells

2007-03-14T19:59:00.000-07:00

Who doesn't love a great yodeler?

It's Rosalie Allen, who taught herself to play music as a child in Pennsylvania on her brother's guitar. Involving herself with radio, she scored her first hit covering Patsy Montana's "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart."

In this piece, Rosalie sees her beau off to war, a scenario the world has seen a little too much of lately ...

Later, Rosalie Allen would become a popular County & Western DJ in NYC through the 1950's, and later opened up her own retail C&W music shop.

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Propaganda: The Enemy Agent & You - 1960's Counterespionage Film

2007-01-28T14:12:00.000-08:00

Cold War counter-spy instructional film created to convince government officials traveling with top secret info to watch their backs.

Watch hapless G-men get seduced and setup for blackmail by treacherous Soviet she-spies.

Includes clandestine spy gadgets a la James Bond and jarring, film noir-esque music.

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Music: Skeets McDonald - What a Lonesome Life it's Been

2007-01-22T11:54:00.000-08:00

Skeets McDonald plays his classic country tune "What a Lonesome Life it's Been" in a rare televised performance from 1959.

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Burlesque: Fighten' Femmes of France - 1950's girlie film

2007-01-19T23:29:00.000-08:00

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - 1974 Trailer

2007-01-16T22:28:00.000-08:00

Trailer for Sam Peckinpah's 1974 surreal slaughter-piece 'Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,' staring the great Warren Oates.

Newsreels: Baghdad Pact - 1958

2007-01-16T22:16:00.000-08:00

50 years ago, an uncertain peace held the Mideast together, while 50 years later, an uncertain war pulls it apart.

The late great Ed Herlihy narrates this report from the Baghdad Pact conference in Ankara, Turkey in 1958.

The King of Kings - 1927 DeMille Film Trailer

2007-01-14T17:56:00.000-08:00

A preview of Cecil B. DeMille's upcoming film, The King of Kings ... "the picture that will live forever."

DeMille hypes his 1927 spectacle, "magnificently portrayed by an inspiring cast of 5000 players," by stressing the epic proportion of these biblical episodes rather than the story itself.

Both producer and director of King of Kings, DeMille also was a prolific editor, writer, and actor. With a larger than life persona, he was famous for being famous, often playing himself in other people's movies. You remember his cameo in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd ...

"Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."

Drugs: A Day in the Death of Donny B. - 1969 anti-heroin film.

2007-01-08T08:50:00.000-08:00

Poor Donny B. ... forever wandering the streets looking for that fix to end all fixes. Those around him, his family, people in the neighborhood, functionaries in the system, however, know what's in store ... the degradation of junkie-life.

A surprisingly non-sanctimonious anti-smack film, this 1969 cautionary tale uses a docudrama motif underscored by a groovy soundtrack the kids can dig.

'A Day in the Death of Donny B.' makes for a thoroughly entertaining short.

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Music: Four Woman - Nina Simone, early 1970's

2007-01-02T18:52:00.000-08:00

Nina Simone performs an abridged version of her song Four Woman.

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2007-01-01T04:48:00.000-08:00

Music / Newsreel: Louis Armstrong Goes to the Congo - 1960

2006-12-30T13:54:00.000-08:00

This newsreel from 1960 accounts of the genius Louis Armstrong's fateful trip to Africa.

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2006-12-29T21:09:00.000-08:00

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Music: Tell Him No - authentic Rock & Roll, 1959

2006-12-27T18:27:00.000-08:00

Billy Mize and Cliff Crofford's harmonies for "Tell Him No" typify the Bakersfield Sound.

From a local television broadcast out of Compton, California in the late 1950's.

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Music: Mahalia Jackson Sings - I Believe

2006-12-24T19:05:00.000-08:00

Mahalia Jackson sings a truly heartfelt and soulful rendition of the gospel song "I Believe."

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Animation / Propaganda: So They Tell Me - circa 1919

2006-12-23T17:46:00.000-08:00

So They Tell Me, circa 1919, skewers the top headlines of its day, the World War I era.

Crude animation attempts to punctuate the sardonic and off-color humor supplied by political raconteur Warren W. Brown(?). Though the jokes are somewhat esoteric by today's standards, the tone straddles between bombastic entertainment and nativist propaganda.

Targets include labor activist Eugene Debs, Prohibition, the League of Nations, the Wobblies, Russian & German instability, the Bolsheviks, and fat women in bathing suits and burnt Christmas pudding.

An interesting snapshot of the mood of the US during the war at the beginning of the last century, WWI.

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Music: 1940's Hollywood Pop - Jimmy Wakely

2006-12-23T11:25:00.000-08:00

In this clip, fictitious, watered-down pseudo-western-swing act Jimmy Wakely & the Sunshine Girls perform "You Are My Sunshine."

Jimmy Wakely was a Hollywood B-Western personality. With his career zenith during the studio system, Wakely would star in cowboy matinees and be featured in a comic book series.

"You are my Sunshine," one of the most covered songs of it's day, is arranged here with an early manufactured pop sensibility. Including a Western swing rhythm section, Andrews Sisters' styled harmonies, and a crooner leading a very stiff Hollywood studio orchestra, the arranger has achieved a quintessential triumph in banality.

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Burlesque: Walkin' Home, Again - 1920's Girlie Film

2006-12-10T19:54:00.000-08:00

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2006-12-10T18:43:00.000-08:00

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Music: Big Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle & Roll

2006-11-23T09:52:00.000-08:00

Master 'shout blues' artist Big Joe Turner marks another high point of his career here with "Shake, Rattle & Roll."

Although Bill Haley's later sanitized version became a top rock-n-roller hit, it's said many folks sought out Turner's version instead.

A pivotal figure in popularizing blues, jazz, classic R&B, and rock and roll, Turner's career lasted from the 1920's busking on the streets of Kansas City through the 1980's at the most lauded jazz festivals in America and Europe.

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Vaudeville / Music: A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor

2006-11-20T21:03:00.000-08:00

Stage, radio and film star Eddie Cantor puts on a classic vaudeville routine, including a few jokes sandwiched between breaking into song.

One of the biggest entertainers of the early 20th century, the type self-deprecating humor he helped define can still has influence today with comedians such as Letterman, Conan and Jon Stewart.

Musical numbers include the daffy "Oh, Gee, Georgie" and the irreverent "The Dumber They Come, The Better I Like 'Em," arguably a classic even by today's standards.

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Advert: Newport Menthols for Hunters

2006-11-16T19:34:00.000-08:00

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Animation / Music: Minnie the Moocher with Cab Calloway & Betty Boop

2006-11-15T23:27:00.000-08:00

Starting with a phenomenal live moment where Cab Calloway free-form dances to his orchestra swinging slow & sweet to St. James Infirmary. Then things get rolling.

Home life is tough for Betty, so she hits the road with her friend Bimbo. They venture into a haunted forest and seek refuge in a dark cave. Within, they encounter the alter-ego of Cab and his band, the ghost of walrus backed by a symphony of skeletons, monsters, and condemned ghouls.

The ending is quite spectacular.

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Americana / Advert: Travel Time: Freedomland 1963

2006-10-08T22:02:00.001-07:00

"Freedomland U.S.A. (usually just called Freedomland) was a short-lived, themed amusement park in the Baychester area in the northeastern part of the Borough of The Bronx, New York City. Its slogan was "The World's Largest Entertainment Center" (later, "The World's Largest Outdoor Family Entertainment Center").

Freedomland opened on June 19, 1960. It closed at the end of the 1964 season when it failed to make a profit."

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The former site of Freedomland is currently the gargantuan Co-op City and the Bay Plaza Shopping Center.

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Music: Delta Rhythm Boys - Dry Bones

2006-09-30T19:00:00.000-07:00

The Delta Rhythm Boys perform one of their most famous songs Dry Bones.

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2006-09-29T23:12:00.000-07:00

Music: A Jazz Etude - Serendipitously Surreal

2006-09-24T14:33:00.000-07:00

In this serendipitously surreal short "A Jazz Etude," tap dance extrordinaire Billy Burt dances up a storm in top hat, tuxedo tail and cane.

Is he floating?

And that screwy soundtrack ... a mishmash of 'Flight of the Bumblebee,' ragtime fills, and 1930's jazz cliches, is remeniscent of Carl Stalling or Raymond Scott.

Still, I doubt they ever arranged any composition to include a single piano accompanied by 4 double-basses and tap dancer.

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Music: Amos Milburn - Bad Bad Whiskey

2006-09-22T21:24:00.000-07:00

Originally from Texas, Amos Milburn moved to Los Angeles and soon became a fixture in the Central Avenue music scenes thriving in Watts during the 1940's and 1950's.

As you can hear from his piano style, Milburn would be a great influence on Fats Domino. He wrote many hits during his day, including "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer."

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Advert: 1960's Kodak Instamatic Flash Cubes

2006-09-22T16:47:00.000-07:00

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Music / Exotica: The Three Suns - Beyond the Blue Horizon

2006-09-19T22:27:00.000-07:00

On the other side of the musical spectrum, here is the organ-accordian-guitar combo The Three Suns.

Composed of Al & Marty Nevins on guitar & accordian and Artie Dunn on organ, this hot trio were one of the big 'exotica' acts of the mid-1940's.

Later, Al Nevins would go on to be one of the founders of Aldon Music, publishing and producing such pop acts as Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Neil Sedaka, and many more.

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Music: Underneath the Harlem Moon - The Brown Sisters

2006-09-15T17:37:00.000-07:00

In this clip, the undocumented Brown sisters sing the number "Underneath the Harlem Moon." The soulful trio starts the song slow and syncopated. But this gives way to an almost swingy up-tempo rhythm more than worthy of being captured on film. Wish there was more ...

A nice complement to the Mills Brothers.

Dedicated to Mary & Tony in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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Burlesque: Chinese Joy Dance

2006-09-11T12:30:00.000-07:00

Drugs / Propaganda: Flowers of Darkness - A History of the Poppy

2006-09-08T12:53:00.000-07:00

Flowers of Darkness is an unflinching, no-nonsense look at the opium trade - where it happens, how it is transported, and it's ultimate effects on the world community. With footage direct from the fields of Afghanistan to the streets of the ghetto, the reach and power of the poppy was as powerful in the early 1970's when this film was made, as it is now, with the comeback of the Taliban fueled by the bumper opium crop of 2006.

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Propaganda: Early 1970's Euro Modernity

2006-09-05T02:09:00.000-07:00

To the tune of Mozart’s A Little Night Music, we take a tour through the height of modernity in early 1970's Central Europe. This observational documentary about electricity and technology is quite artfully shot for an industrial film. A look at how modern Prague appeared in the early 1970's.

Drugs / Propaganda: The Terrible Truth - 50's anti-drug film

2006-09-05T01:48:00.000-07:00

In this Cold War era anti-drug film, the point is, if you smoke marijuana, you are destined to become a heroin addict, just like Phylis. Sticking to the principals of red-scare tactics, a Harry Truman-like, hard-nosed narrator leads us through a cautionary tale, where once you start, you are forever a member, just like the commies.

Shot in color in early 1950's Los Angeles.

Classic lines include, "They both 'smoked pot.' That's Jive talk for marijuana." ... Brilliant!

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Burlesque / Blue: Strange Rampage - 60's Blue Movie Trailer

2006-09-04T04:51:00.000-07:00

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Music: I Ain't Got Nobody - Mills Brothers

2006-09-01T13:48:00.001-07:00

An authentic, rare classic version of the standard "I Ain't Got Nobody," sung by the Mills Brothers, shot in the early 1930's.

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Burlesque / Drugs: Marijuana aka "Marihuana!"

2006-09-01T13:44:00.001-07:00

A trailer for a nudie film that masquerades as an anti-'marihuana' morality tale.

Watch wild & reckless youths lose their souls to the devil's weed.

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