So….tonight’s entry is perhaps a bit disturbing. Basically, in the 1940s, General Motors made a bunch of short films concerning animals doing funny things. I’m not real sure where th
Tonight’s film is the 1935 Duke Ellington vehicle Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life. Directed by Fred Waller, who was a director of short films, it highlights Ellington’s new com
As a labor historian and scholar of the timber industry, I’m fascinated with the self-documentation of work and especially logging. This is an edited version of The Incredible Forest, a document
One of our richer film collections is of rock stars being jerks. And therefore, I think it is well worth our time to watch this Lou Reed interview from 1975 in Sydney. Lou was a very nice man in the 1
The first presidential speech with synchronous sound was this address by Calvin Coolidge in 1924. It is astounding how boring this is. Now, if you had told me that a Calvin Coolidge speech would be bo
There are so many amazing clips of the last century plus of filmed material online and the news sucks so bad these days that I thought it would be a good idea to start having some evening thread exami