posted by choggie
1 decade 6 years 3 weeks ago • 1,529 views
1 decade 6 years 3 weeks ago • 1,529 views
I Love The '40s
Created: 1 decade 6 years 9 months ago
Updated: 1 decade 5 years 1 month 1 week ago
Views: 2,121
Updated: 1 decade 5 years 1 month 1 week ago
Views: 2,121
Ahhhh, the best of the best of Jazz, Swing, and Big Band lives here...there are or will be clips from the Silver Screen as well.
His Girl Friday is a 1940 screwball comedy, a remake of the 1931 film The Front Page, itself an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of their play of the same name. It was directed... continue reading
posted by 7977 1 decade 6 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,847 views
A vintage sing-along cartoon about Ireland. (sing-along starts about 4 minutes in, just follow the bouncing shamrock.)
posted by thegrimsleeper
1 decade 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 2,176 views • 6:59
YT description: Released on 7 July 1945 Country mouse Jerry takes a trip to New York. He admires skyscrapers, stumbles into a powder room, dangles over the city on a candle, and dances the night away.... continue reading
posted by Issykitty
1 decade 5 years 12 months ago • 2,125 views
One of Groucho Marx's best known songs, from 1939's "At the Circus."
posted by Spiff
1 decade 6 years 1 month ago • 1,855 views
posted by swampgirl
1 decade 5 years 12 months ago • 1,370 views
1 decade 5 years 12 months ago • 1,370 views
IMDB: "Marlon Brando's first scene test, made in 1947 for Rebel Without a Cause, a film made eight years later with James Dean in the starring role, has been discovered and will be included as an extra... continue reading
posted by ashes2flames 1 decade 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 6,486 views
This famous speech was given by Sir Winston just before the battle of Britain.
posted by rasch187 1 decade 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 2,436 views
This video is extremely illuminating about what it must have been like to have women suddenly enter the workplace in the 1940s, for both men and women. It's pretty hilarious, but it's horrifyingly sexist... continue reading
posted by thepinky
1 decade 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 4,811 views
"A Night in Venice costumes. Moe, Shemp, Curly Howard and families. Larry Fine. British Tour. Moe and Curly at the London Zoo." [YT]
posted by schmawy 1 decade 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 2,821 views
Taken from "Cookoo Cavaliers" (1940)
posted by schmawy 1 decade 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,752 views
From the movie "Stage Door Canteen".
posted by jonny 1 decade 5 years 11 months ago • 2,496 views • 2:30
Fearless Freep is delayed by storm, and Yosemite Sam tries to force Bugs Bunny to do the High Diving Act, but always winds up doing it himself. Honestly, these are the funniest things ever made. I... continue reading
posted by djsunkid 1 decade 5 years 11 months ago • 6,053 views
I don't know exactly how books are made today, but this educational film produced 60 years ago by Encyclopedia Britannica shows how it was done back in post-WWII America. The craftsmanship is pretty impressive,... continue reading
posted by kronosposeidon 1 decade 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 3,700 views
Harpo Marx, one of the towering greats of Vaudeville. "He was well known by his trademarks: he played the harp; he never talked during performances, although he often blew a horn or whistled to communicate... continue reading
posted by eatbolt 1 decade 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 4,393 views
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_okinawa#Sea
posted by thegrimsleeper 1 decade 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 2,037 views • 5:19
If you saw this movie when you were a kid, you were just scared to death. This scene is definitely the most effective anti-alcohol/tobacco thing ever written. If you drink and smoke, you will turn... continue reading
posted by Fjnbk 1 decade 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 6,065 views
Many of these were written by Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) and created by Frank Capra, this "Private Snafu" film was produced as an instructional short by the War Department during WWII.
posted by schmawy 1 decade 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,224 viewsWhile this film of one of the epic struggles of WWII is over 50 years old, it still delivers the drama of the battle fought by Russian soldiers and sailors to defend Leningrad. Codenamed "Operation Barbarrosa"... continue reading
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 1 decade 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 2,121 views
"My great uncle Harold "Al" Curry served as a storyboard artist under Capt. Theodor Geisel(Dr. Seuss) during WW2 and left me a lot of Private Snafu production art and this bound storyboard...thought it... continue reading
posted by schmawy 1 decade 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 2,754 views