Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux: Happy I Am
Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux and Congregation sing Happy I Am in 1935 live on CBS radio.
MORE ...Betty Boop and the Little King
Is it any wonder that early alternative comic artists like R. Crumb and Kim Deitch tipped their hats to Max Fleischer? Fleischer’s animation universe was never quite stable. Rubber limbs stretched beyond physics. Backgrounds pulsed and warped. Characters slipped between innocence and mischief in the span of a single frame. In Betty Boop and the […]
MORE ...Damascus to Jerusalem
A journey from Damascus, Syria to Jerusalem shot in 1936 showing the holy land as it was then.
MORE ...Pencil Mania: Tom & Jerry
Produced by Amedee J. Van Beuren in 1932, Tom & Jerry alludes to the myth of Hephaestus, the Greek god who created automata, or self-operating machines, for his workshop. In this case, the animated characters become animators themselves, interacting with the drawings they created.
MORE ...Birds of Prey
In this documentary from 1938, examined are the various types of owls, vultures and hawks that inhabit North America. With footage in the field that any Audubon Society member would admire, observe birds of prey in their natural habitat as they hunt for food and feed their young. Often nesting in high places like trees […]
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