Thanksgiving Redux: Dining Together - 1950

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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Subject: Narcotics - 1951

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

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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Propaganda: Propaganda Techniques

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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Louis Jordan - You Gotta have a Beat

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: Hot Number - Girlie Film

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

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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Dining Together - 1950

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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It Ain't Right - Gordon Terry

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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Martha Davis and Her Spouse - 1950's

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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A Journey on a London Bus

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

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

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

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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The Towers - 1957

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

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

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Exotica: Lionel Hampton - Bongo Interlude

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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3rd Avenue El - early 1950's

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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Soundie: How to Yodel

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

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

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

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