Music
Johnny Preston: 2 Xmas Songs
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 21, 2008 -
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Category: Holidays, Music, 1960s
Red Peters: 2 Xmas Songs
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 20, 2008 -
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Category: Holidays, Music
Christmas in Jail
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 19, 2008 -
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Category: Holidays, Music, 1950s
Christmas in the Congo
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 18, 2008 -
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Category: Holidays, Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1950s
Iranian Rap by Gholi
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 18, 2008 -
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Category: Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, Foreign Customs, Middle East
Alexeieff’s NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN
The animation you are about to see was created entirely with pushpins in a board, by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker.Let's let my pal, author and art expert Luis Ortiz, explain:
During the 1930s animators Alexander Alexeieff and wife Claire Parker invented a push-screen frame, basically a board with thousands of pins embedded into it. The pins were pushed into the board at various heights, using specially shaped tools, and lighted from different angles to create shadow pictures that could be filmed one frame at a time. I saw their version of Night on Bald Mountain, which preceded Disney's, back in the 1980s at film historian Cecile Starr's home (she owned a 16mm copy) and I remember being very impressed. But this unique method was too labor intensive (even by film animation standards), and for most of their later work the Alexeieffs used object animation.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 17, 2008 -
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Category: Music, Cartoons, 1930s
Please Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 17, 2008 -
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Category: Holidays, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Music, Regionalism, Children, Husbands, 1970s
The Comedian Harmonists
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 09, 2008 -
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Category: Music, Foreign Customs, 1920s, 1930s, Europe
Schnappi
I feel bad that my Follies post today was somewhat lame. Therefore, I am making it up to our readers the only way I know how: with some juvenile German "humor."For more about Schanppi, visit his Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 08, 2008 -
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Category: Music, Television, Surrealism, Children, Foreign Customs, Asia, Europe, Fictional Monsters
She Doesn’t Have to Shave
Following up on Alex's "Couvade" post: here's a musical exegesis of the eternal tradeoff between daily facial shaving for men, and monthly menstruation for women.God, I miss Squeeze!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 04, 2008 -
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Category: Music, Video, Gender, Men, Women, Body Fluids, 1990s, Facial Hair
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