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Category Archives: Video
I 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 and neon signs. It wasn’t a … Continue reading
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Clancy 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 Frisco Band that … Continue reading
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 Wenceslaus,” for my brother … Continue reading
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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 dressed in formal attire, showing the musicians but … Continue reading
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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 by pairs of men driving … Continue reading
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Chicago, 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 Chicago for the American Library Association … Continue reading
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RIP 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 Gateway to Hollywood. The official … Continue reading
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1981 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 of $5 per … Continue reading
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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 are attacked by … Continue reading
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Any 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 attempt at using … Continue reading
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