Here’s a drive around Burbank in 1958 shot on 2 inch Quad Videotape. The quality is excellent and the subject matter–a look at the area around NBC–is probably the most glamorous you’ll find in the otherwise arid, desolate and quite frankly depressing wilds of Burbank. A very smart YouTuber–a hell
The Youtube film/video artist named NASS has worked his magic on–get this–Burbank CA. in the 1940s! I’ve posted Nass’s extraordinary videos before–he/she/they specializes in taking old documentary footage of cities and colorizing them, stabilizing and bumping frame rates and adding ambient sound to give you a sense of actually been
Don’t worry, I’m not really going to tell the story of Burbank, CA. For one thing I don’t really know or care about it. But I do like old footage of L.A. And I’ve been revisiting and enjoying old Johnny Carson shows. And yesterday I killed a perfectly good Sunday
What was the purpose of this wonderful clip of Don Rickles roasting Clint Eastwood on the set of ‘Kelly’s Heroes’? Was it for TV? For the wrap party perhaps? (I prefer to think the latter). Rickles actually makes Clint double over with laughter at one point–something never previously seen before,
Here’s a five minute clip (made for TV I guess?) of Alfred Hitchcock giving us a little lesson in ‘cinematics’. The interviewer is Fletcher Markle who was largely known as a prestige dramatic radio producer/director of the 1940s. Hitch comes across as the hip professor who all the kids in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Nu93kB-Y0 Here’s a very well-done tribute-doc to my favorite Hitchcock film ‘Notorious’ (I know I’m far from alone in this opinion–it’s the one that, in my opinion, is much more emotional, better scripted and capable of being revisited than many others). Misleadingly titled ‘The Making Of…’ it’s more of a
Here’s a nifty little doc about Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941 semi-masterwork ‘Suspicion’ starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine who won an Oscar for her role as the deeply suspicious wife who suspects her husband of planning on murdering her. Much has been made over the years about the ending of this
For a good part of the 1930s and the first part of the 1940s Jack Benny’s radio show sponsor was Jello. Of course, the single-sponsor years required that the name of the program was the product and so the unlikely title became ‘The Jello Program Starring Jack Benny’. What an
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Gh7zs2RGI Here’s a Jello commercial from 1979. Plot: a family reunion briefly turns sour when the hostess says she hasn’t made dessert. But things change when she adds that she made Jello! Out comes a frightening round mass of red goo molded into the shape of a pie. People are
Johnny Carson’s longtime comedy hero was Jack Benny. And while their styles were entirely different, they did share one very specific thing. Jello was Benny’s signature advertiser through the 1930s and early 1940s and somehow Carson wound up doing a Jello commercial on a 1957 program he hosted. Here, Johnny