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Holidays Media Video YouTube 

The Spaghetti Harvest Video

April 1, 2012April 1, 2014 Elizabeth Thomsen 0 Comments

It wouldn’t really be April Fools Day without the 1957 Spaghetti Harvest video. I first saw this on American TV

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Flickr Photography Video YouTube 

I Saw My Life

December 16, 2010October 22, 2012 Elizabeth Thomsen 0 Comments

I saw my life flash before my eyes. I saw seasons come and go. I saw libraries and diners and

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Music Politics Video YouTube 

Clancy Hayes Campaign Song for Nixon/Lodge

January 27, 2010August 12, 2011 Elizabeth Thomsen 1 Comment

You never know what you’ll find when you go searching around on YouTube. I have written here before about searching

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Family History Holidays Memory Music Video YouTube 

Christmas Music and Memories

December 20, 2009December 13, 2012 Elizabeth Thomsen 0 Comments

I’m working on my Christmas playlist, and I want to put in songs dedicated to family members no longer with

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Internet Archive Jam Handy Video 

On the Air

October 18, 2009May 23, 2011 Elizabeth Thomsen 0 Comments

On the Air is a 1937 educational film about radio broadcasting from the Jam Handy Organization. It opens with a

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Internet Archive Jam Handy Maps Video 

Caught Mapping

August 11, 2009May 23, 2011 Elizabeth Thomsen 0 Comments

Caught Mapping — I’ve always loved maps, so I was happy to run across this short educational film from 1940

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Music Video 

Chicago, Chicago…

July 9, 2009May 23, 2011 Elizabeth Thomsen 0 Comments

Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin’ town Chicago, Chicago, I’ll show you around Bet your bottom dollar you’ll lose the blues in

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Internet Archive RIP Television Video 

RIP Gale Storm

July 7, 2009May 23, 2011 Elizabeth Thomsen 0 Comments

Gale Storm, best-remembered from her 1950’s program “My Little Margie,” died on June 27 at the age of 87. Born

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Journalism Video YouTube 

1981 TV Report about Online Newspapers

February 1, 2009May 23, 2011 Elizabeth Thomsen 0 Comments

I love this 1981 news segment about how some people were dialing in to CompuServe to read newspapers on their

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Internet Archive Jam Handy Old Time Radio Video 

Back of the Mike

January 31, 2009May 23, 2011 Elizabeth Thomsen 0 Comments

Back of the Mike (1938) shows a young boy listening to the latest episode in an adventure radio program. Old

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