A tutorial on three different '40s hairdos: Victory Rolls, 'Ingrid Bergman', and Betty Page...all achievable in under 5 minutes!
Newsreels that used to play in movie theatres.
Fashion, Art and Style during the 1940s.
MUSIC FEATURED ON THIS VIDEO:
1) Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller
2) I'll Take Manhattan by Rosemary Clooney
Coney Island, "the place where merriment is king!"
Take a trip back in time 50 years before the Mermaid Parade.
See masses of old school New Yorkers beat the heat by hitting the beach.
See Side Shows! Carnies! Freaks! Thrill rides! Includes the original Coney Island Hot Dog, the Bathing Girl Review, and people getting sick on rides.
Not to ment...
This video presents a positive view of progressive education although it begins with a parent complaining that children are not learning the fundamentals. Various educators are seen including famed John Dewey. One skeptic asserts that ideas similar to progressive education caused a collapse of the ancient Greek civilization. Current debates abou...
After having seen King Kong for the first of many times in 1933, Harryhausen spent his early years experimenting in the production of animated shorts, inspired by the burgeoning science fiction literary genre of the period. After viewing Harryhausen's first formal demo reel of fighting dinosaurs from an abortive project called Evolution (an homage ...
Hibari Misora recorded a total of 2 songs in the 1940s, both of them in 1949. They were;
1. 河童ブギウギ(Kappa Boogie Woogie)
2. 悲しき口笛(Kanashiki Kuchibue)
(Which translates to "Sad Whistle")
I've uploaded both of them here. Kappa Boogie Woogie is her debut song of what is going to be a total of over 1500 songs she will record in t...
The great Duke Ellington and his Orchestra with their classic "Take the A Train" from an early 1940's Soundie.
A special historical photo album of world war two events, people and places from massena, new york. This photo album has over 40 pictures from my collection used in this movie. Music is by glenn miller and his band. Some items in this video are bobsledder pat martin winning gold medal at 1948 winter olympics, the first hospital, airport, fire depar...
Bob Crosby from a film in the 1940s featuring Muggsy Spanier, Eddie Miller and Hank dAmico. Does anyone know the name of the film?
I DREAMT I DWELT IN HARLEM, JACK YOU'RE PLAYIN' THE GAME, JUST A SITTIN' AND A ROCKIN'
To watch in HQ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fWE9MEdPR0&fmt=18
Paulette Goddard, born Marion Pauline Levy, (June 3, 1910 -- April 23, 1990) was an Oscar-nominated American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. She was...
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In this 1939 short, a suburban California family gets all dressed up to drive their new 1940 Chevrolet to see grandma and grandpa, who still live on the family farm. Dad's in a suit and tie, and Mom has on a dressy dress and chic hat. Are they dressed up to go see the grandparents or are they dressed up to ride in their ...
ThinkStream films simply thinks this film is just wrong on multiple dimensions. First off, there's this older dude who seems to have a highly suspect relationship with little boy Bob. He justifies it by saying that he knows Bob because he's an engineer and works in the same plant as his dad...." Hmmm... Well, anyway, he takes him to the "plant;...
This is an RCA Victor 78 RPM record of The Victory March of Notre Dame as performed by Tex Beneke with The Miller Orchestra. Its a very unique take on this classic fight song.
The record came in an "Album" (set P183), as many record sets of the era did (thus the term Record Album). The actual record number is 20-2340-B
Oddly enough, The set was c...
The is film number 2. I recently purchased a box of 16mm films at an estate sale. Mostly home movies circa WWII, however there was 1 film loaded on an unmarked reel inside an unmarked box. It consists of several 2 1/2 minute episodes of Bebe, Zona, and Lou. 3 naughty girls who love to show their underwear. This is NOT porn by any stretch of the ima...
A shot video of clips giving a flavour of the events at Kidderminster Town Station when the SVR hosted it's annual 1940's weekend. Despite heavy rain during the evening of Tuesday 19th June 2007. The event still went ahead albeit trains only ran between Kidderminster and Bewdley. The SVR is still open between Kidderminster and Bewdley; a full appea...
Please visit my card museum by clicking the blue creamofcardstv link above and the link on the left-hand-side of my profile page.
This video clip features the following set of cards:
http://stores.ebay.com/Creamofcards-Cigarette-Cards#bottom
ABC Cinemas, Film Stars, 1948 trading cards
Includes: Roy Rogers,Old Mother Riley ( Arthur Lucan ), Johnn...
These extraordinary scenes were filmed in Tibet in the 1940s and include shots of the current Dalai Lama (then still a very young boy) and his family. The opening scenes show the Dalai Lama's parents and siblings, and a procession of high-ranking men and women. This is followed by a clip of a procession with the Dalai Lama in a golden palanquin, hi...
Newsreel of model airplanes from the late 1940's
A tutorial on how to make the quintessential '40s cocktail, the daiquiri, in under one minute!
The original song is called "Give Me Some Skin," and was performed by the Andrews Sisters in the hilarious Abbott and Costello film, "In the Navy." There are no video copies available yet but you can download the song for free from my surgewakefield myspace page at www.myspace.com/filmscore
After having seen King Kong for the first of many times in 1933, Harryhausen spent his early years experimenting in the production of animated shorts, inspired by the burgeoning science fiction literary genre of the period. After viewing Harryhausen's first formal demo reel of fighting dinosaurs from an abortive project called Evolution (an homage ...
Jerry, Kenny, and Nithin's decade project on 1940s
This video was filmed in the 1940's in Bogota, NJ in Bergen County. It shows the day that a Movie star came home to Bogota to a town wide parade. She arrived on a passenger train, which today is a CSX commercial train line. Some great old footage!
The is film number 4 and is entitled "What the Bell Boy Saw". It had been run through a projector so many times that I had to piece it back together, it was very hard to run from start to finish -- obviously the original owner LOVED this little film.
This is NOT porn by any stretch of the imagination, but in the 1940s, this was considered adult ent...
Watch Elizabeth transform from a flawless beautiful child into a stunning woman. Dame Elizabeth Taylor was destined to do great things. Raising a half of a billion dollars for HIV/AIDS (thus far), is only one of her many exquisite accomplishments. She (from my book) gets a perfect 10 in every field that she competes in...and you cannot beat that! ...
Ford was considered the model of manufacturing technology in the 1920s. By offering the $5 day, and other benefits, Ford was also considered a model employer. The Great Depression changed that perception and worker unrest led to a unionization drive. Ford was more resistant than the other "Big-3" auto companies (GM and Chrysler) and was the last...
East Lancs Railway 1940's weekend
part 1or 2.
1940's film about lady lifeguards of Manhattan Beach.
