And now for something completely different … Enjoy Weirdo Video’s interpretation of Tom Waits’ “Pasties and a G-String (At the Two O’Clock Club)” from his 1976 classic album Small Change. Inspired by Waits’ Bukowski-infused lowlife lyrics, our editors have strung together authentic footage from actual vintage girlie films and real burlesque shows, evoking the whimsically […]
MORE ...It’s 1967. A classic Volkswagen Bug cruises the streets of Milan, Italy. It parks, and two smartly dressed business men get out. The narrator begins, “Some time ago, the Volkswagen people went to see one of Italy’s most famous automobile designers.” As if it were a moment lifted from a Federico Fellini film, a stylish […]
MORE ...Red leicester smelly cheese cream cheese. Jarlsberg fromage frais cow pepper jack chalk and cheese airedale fondue manchego. Brie parmesan port-salut croque monsieur bavarian bergkase.
MORE ...Port-salut pepper jack jarlsberg. Camembert de normandie cheese and biscuits danish fontina parmesan cheesy feet mascarpone cheese slices halloumi. Emmental boursin chalk and cheese.
MORE ...In this newsreel, the documentary crews from around the world wish their viewers a Merry Christmas. Ah, yes, Christmas 1950. It was remembered so well. As the spirit of Christmas unites all humanity men and women everywhere reaffirm their faith in the brotherhood of man. The News Magazine of the Screen presents, from around the […]
MORE ...An animated, idealized illustration of how the stock market works, produced lovingly by the New York Stock Exchange in 1952.
MORE ...Belo Horizante is short documentary produced by The Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs in 1949. The OCIAA, established by FDR in 1940, had a stated mission to focus on strengthening ties in defense, economics, policy, and culture between the United States and Latin America. In the film, Belo Horizante is heralded as one of […]
MORE ...Just because it’s a pie eating contest doesn’t mean there’s no conditioning involved. “That was pretty good pie for a change. What was it? Blueberry kind?” Down in the locker room, a neophyte on the indigestion scene has a heart-to-heart with a stomachache veteran. It’s all about the Alka-Seltzer. The medicine cabinet is stocked full […]
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