Scenes from Apocalypse Now by Stanley Kubrick and various documentary clips to include atomic tests, et al. The music by CCR is probably the best known anti-war song from the late sixties, an era remembered for the Anti-Viet Nam war movement and the Civil Rights movement. It is often, however, that despite the world turmoil and the often impending sense of doom, pop music had never been better. The music of that era has survived numerous fads and fashions. It is truly timeless in its message a...
Starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca captured an exotic atmosphere at the beginning of World War II.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb or better known as simply --Dr. Strangelove, satirizes the nuclear scare that literally defined the 'cold war'. Directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, it starred Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, and Slim Pickens as Kong, the bomber pilot who rides the bomb itself to nuclear destruction. The film, released at the height of the cold war, portrazs an unhinged USAF general who orders a...
'Popeye Makes a Movie' dates to 1950. Popeye and Olive prepare to make a movie and the nephews get to watch and learn how movies are made. This movie is a part of the longer 'Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves' of 1937 which makes up some 80% of this release. It includes the beginning in which Popeye and Olive are suffering from heat and lack of water in the desert. The nephews are involved at key plot points, primarily by tossing Popeye his spinach when he needs it most.
An original song written and performed by John Niems. The official version of 911 is impossible. The crime of 911 was never properly investigated in accordance with the law. There are numerous fatal flaws that prove beyond any doubt whatsoever that the so-called 'official conspiracy theory' of 911 is utterly false and could not possibly have happened. For one thing, it defies the always of causality and physics. The creator of Sherlock Holmes, Conand Doyle, wrote: "When you have eliminated the...
Ted Weems was born in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, learned to play the violin and trombone, and organized a band at Lincoln School in Pittsburgh. The Ted Weems Orchestra dates to 1923 when Weems was still attending the University of Pennsylvania. By 1925, Weems and orchestra had moved his band to Chicago where work was found in hotels and ballrooms. The Weems orchestra was among those playing for the inaugural of PresidentWarren Harding; it toured for the MCA Corporation in ;1923. The band's first ...
The scene is from the motion picture --Goodnight and Good Luck, a title inspired by Edward R. Murrow's famous 'sign off' to his broadcasts. ; The speech that is the subject of this scene and video never mentions the 'Fairness Doctrine' by name. But it remains the strongest argument for its restoration.
This C and W hit is the best soundtrack for a montage of kick ass martial arts, action sequences, and all 'round 'kick butt' movies clips including John Carpenter's contemporary classic: THEY LIVE
The very word 'Frankenstein' has come to mean 'monsters of our own creation' but more generally, monsters beyond our control. 'Frankenstein' has come to symbolize the Faustian bargain made by man with his own technology. The '50's Sci-Fi classic, ;Forbidden Planet, echoed Shakespeare's
Here's the Wikipedia entry for Nelson Riddle who composed the music for the TV series: ROUTE 66: "In 1962, Riddle orchestrated two albums for Ella Fitzgerald , Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson , and Ella Swings Gently with Nelson , their first work together since 1959's Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook . The mid-1960s would also see Fitzgerald and Riddle collaborate on the last of Ella's 'Songbooks', devoted to the songs of Jerome Kern (Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerom...