Children
Ugandan Kung Fu
More information here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 31, 2015 -
Comments (3)
Category: Movies, Martial Arts, Children, Africa
The Fun That Builds Good Health
From an incredibly weird pre-internet, pre-cellphone, pre-cable-TV world! Limbs in actual motion--outdoors! Witness the horror of "free-range children!"
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 30, 2015 -
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Category: Family, Children, Parents, Sports, 1950s
Cheerful Dying Wish Fulfilled
I regret that I did not have this story ready for you for Christmas. Nonetheless, its spirit lives on through every season!
Thank God the kid didn't wish for the whole world to follow her!
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 23, 2015 -
Comments (4)
Category: Death, Children, Parents, 1940s
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Sample episode of Skippy below.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 09, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Television, Children, 1960s, Australia
Wood Apple Marriage in Nepal
This page semi-coherently explains: "...a ceremony in the Newar community in Nepal in which pre-adolescent girls are 'married' to the bel fruit (wood apple), which is a symbol of the god Vishnu, ensuring that the girl becomes and remains fertile. It is believed that if the girl's husband dies later in her life, she is not considered a widow because she is married to Vishnu, and so already has a husband that is believed to be still alive."
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 20, 2014 -
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Category: Food, Children, Foreign Customs, Asia, Weddings
Karlsson-on-the-roof
Karlsson-on-the-Roof from Maripuka85 on Vimeo.
Young boy subject to hallucinations is befriended by drunken fairy godfather. In Russian, but that hardly matters.
The German live-action version is even odder.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 28, 2014 -
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Category: Children, Cartoons, 1950s, 1970s, Fictional Monsters, Alcohol, Goofs and Screw-ups
Tarzan of the Canines
Original page here.
Do we dare to believe this Weekly World News article? Well, the case was reported a year prior in a reputable newspaper.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 22, 2014 -
Comments (6)
Category: Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Children, Parents, Dogs, 1980s
Chubbettes
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 02, 2014 -
Comments (9)
Category: Fashion, Advertising, Children, 1950s, Obesity
Lunchroom Manners
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 27, 2014 -
Comments (7)
Category: Education, Food, PSA’s, Children, 1950s
Pierre and Candy
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 10, 2014 -
Comments (1)
Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Movies, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Children, 1960s
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