This is a relatively long video, but if you've got 15 minutes, it's like time-traveling and totally worth it. You see long-vanished landmarks it's a romantic look at an almost quaint city, … [Read more...]
VHS Gold: Stay Young and Healthy By Making Faces, Breathing and Handstands!
Now that the binge eating has (supposedly) stopped, here comes the get-in-shape for the New Year deluge. So, I dare you to watch all three of these – your life will never be the same. Trust me. You're welcome. … [Read more...]
The Moment I Knew I Was Gay
I remember this like it was yesterday: Bert Parks singing "Let 'Em In" at the 1976 Miss America Pageant. Probably the campiest thing ever be broadcast on American television, swear to God. I remember sitting in front of the TV with my mouth agape. It was the moment I realized … [Read more...]
Vintage Turban Tutorial
Pathé Pictorial in conjunction with fashion expert Anne Edwards teaches WWII-era women to make turbans from scarves, as hats were being rationed. It starts off very basic but gets more and more complex as it goes along. "You can stab the knot with a couple of feathers or twist … [Read more...]
sad and creepy vintage Christmas videos
These relentlessly bleak 1951 stop-motion videos for "Suzy Snowflake" and "Hardrock, Coco, and Joe" are apparently beloved classics for people of a certain age who grew up in the Chicago or Pittsburgh areas, but they have me reaching for the razor blades. Definitely worth … [Read more...]
the viral video of 1907
"Le Cochon Danseur" (The Pig Dancer) features a giant pig person dancing a jig with a slatternly dancehall girl who shames him by ripping off his tuxedo and revealing his nakedness. Which was all relatively normal and par for the course in 1907, don't you know. It isn't until the … [Read more...]
FOD FAIL @ LAX
I've mentioned this classic Navy training video before, but I guess not everyone was paying attention. Someone who didn't hear Easy-E's 1985 anti-FOD rap [Read more...]
The Safety Officer is Going To Have His Ass
Tom Geddes' post of the horror corporate safety video reminded me of a very non-PC Navy training video that my father told me he'd seen. In a titillating example of a FOD (Foreign Object Detection) … [Read more...]
Rap your way to the perfect wendy’s hamburger
This is an amazing psychadelic hip-hop '80s training video from Wendy's. I wonder what else the people who made this piece went on to do. … [Read more...]
