December 2009
Happy New Year 2010 with Moonlight Cocktails
Happy New Year 2010 with a round of Moonlight Cocktails for everyone!
Compliments of Weirdo Video.
Alaska: A Modern Frontier - 1948
Although overseen by an associate professor of geography at Indiana University back in 1947, one could easily be forgiven for making the mistake of coming away from Alaska – A Modern Frontier with the message "Drill, baby, drill." Nearly a decade before its annexation as a state, this short film professes the new land rush in post-WW2 Alaska, where if you don’t get a piece now, you’ll be left empty-handed. Much of the film shows very little of the colder, darker winter months. Some of the most interesting footage does not occur until near the end when encountering native Alaskans still practicing their traditional way of life.
Season's Greeting from Around the World - 1950
This documentary newsreel from Warner-Pathe in 1950 shows, perhaps for the first and only time, some of the newsreel cameramen and reporters behind the stories from around the world wishing everyone Season's Greetings.
Documentary filmmakers and reporters include Crawling Hand cinematographer Willard Van der Veer in Hollywood, Chicago sports cameraman Tony Caputo, news producer/director George A. Dorsey with ABC News presidential cameraman Murray Alvey, San Francisco filmmaker Frank W. Vail, granddaughter of Finnish writer Juhani Aho's and author in-her-own-right Claire Aho, and Flipper cinematographer Cliff Poland.
