Giant Squid Kinetic Sculpture
I love the strange and wonderful work of sculptor Nemo Gould, who makes kinetic sculptures using found materials. My favorite is the Giant Squid, which you can see in all its moving glory on this...
View ArticleAny Bonds Today?
In honor of Memorial Day, I put together this little video of Any Bonds Today, a song by Irving Berlin, sung by Barry Wood, with images from the Library of Congress and National Archives. Just a first...
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Back of the Mike
Back of the Mike (1938) shows a young boy listening to the latest episode in an adventure radio program. Old Pete Belden and his niece Betty are driving the Flying B payroll across the desert when they...
View Article1981 TV Report about Online Newspapers
I love this 1981 news segment about how some people were dialing in to CompuServe to read newspapers on their home computers. According to the report, it took two hours to download the paper at a cost...
View ArticleRIP Gale Storm
Gale Storm, best-remembered from her 1950’s program “My Little Margie,” died on June 27 at the age of 87. Born Josephine Cottle, her career began in 1940 when she won a national talent contest called...
View ArticleChicago, Chicago…
Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin’ town Chicago, Chicago, I’ll show you around Bet your bottom dollar you’ll lose the blues in Chicago Chicago, the town that Billy Sunday could not shut down I’m off to...
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Caught Mapping
Caught Mapping — I’ve always loved maps, so I was happy to run across this short educational film from 1940 on the Internet Archive. It’s about how road maps were kept updated. Information was gathered...
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On the Air
On the Air is a 1937 educational film about radio broadcasting from the Jam Handy Organization. It opens with a studio radio performance by celebrated violinist David Rubinoff and his orchestra, all...
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Christmas Music and Memories
I’m working on my Christmas playlist, and I want to put in songs dedicated to family members no longer with us. For my mother, it’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” for my father, “Good King...
View ArticleClancy Hayes Campaign Song for Nixon/Lodge
You never know what you’ll find when you go searching around on YouTube. I have written here before about searching for the song Peoria. I was hoping to find a performance of the song by Bob Scobey’s...
View ArticleI Saw My Life
I saw my life flash before my eyes. I saw seasons come and go. I saw libraries and diners and dogs. I saw Jamaica and Italy, libraries, flowers, fruits and vegetables, historical markers, screenshots...
View ArticleThe Spaghetti Harvest Video
It wouldn’t really be April Fools Day without the 1957 Spaghetti Harvest video. I first saw this on American TV when I was around 12 years old (several years after it first aired!) and it really made...
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