Tags for this video have been changed from 'Tom, Jerry, Cat, Mouse, 1974, the invisible mouse, good episode' to 'Tom, Jerry, Cat, Mouse, 1947, the invisible mouse, good episode' - edited by Sarzy

Classic. Oh, and FYI, this is from 1947, not 1974.

I'm not going to saw how stupid I thought this was.

If he likes guns so much, he should learn proper handgun shooting technique.

Cradling the gun on the second hand is not proper. Pressing the palm of the second hand against the grip of the gun, and wrapping the fingers around the main hand then running both thumbs down the side rail offers the most supportive grip.


"Combat Grip" From http://www.handgunsmag.com/tactics_training/combatg_100306/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Technique_of_the_Pistol#Surprise_Break

Most gunfights last about 3 minutes with 3 to 5 shots fired.

Interesting Trivia:
"The Mozambique Drill - 1974": Is where the idea of two in the chest and one in the head came from.

A firearm is a tool used by trained individuals to stop a situation getting worse. It is not a tool meant to be used for personal power or material gain. Nothing is gained in the slaughter of anyone, even if they are a criminal. Regardless of what people say the idea is to save lives, even the criminal's.

The (actress) in this film married Peter Sellers-she was a gold digging bitch on par with the woman who took Paul McCartney for a ride....imdb and wiki both give her points for the succubus she was...pretty creepy flick, huh?

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Man, that ant is cute as fuck! Weird...posted this early this morning
http://www.videosift.com/video/Phase-IV-1974-Full-Film

Must be the ants are speaking to us....

"Throughout history, various societies have tried various methods of exterminating those members who have proven their inability or unwillingness to live sanely amongst their fellow men. The Zantis' tried merely one more method, nether better nor worse than all the others....neither more human nor less human than all the others....perhaps, merely..NON-Human." We sure showed them seven-dwarfs lookin' ants what for!!

>> ^SolomonG:
End of Golden-Era pop/country crossover...


Yeah, right? I think people think I'm being kitschy when I post this stuff, but it's really without peer in contemporary music.

Some athletes and physics say that a somersault would increase the max distance of the long jump, however the technique has been banned for safety reasons
Would make the sport a lot more interesting to look at.

Here is an article on it:

July 29, 1974
The Flip That Led To A Flap
The sport's august officialdom is alarmed by a new long-jumping technique that could endanger a few necks—and the 30-foot barrier

[...]

In contrast, Ecker points out that the flip enables the jumper to take off from the board almost at full speed and at a more desirable higher angle. When he tucks and rolls into a somersault, wind resistance is cut. And since rotation is working with him rather than against him, his feet will land—assuming correct execution—well ahead of his body, and the latter should follow on through so that he does not fall back in the pit. In practice, the hardest part of the new technique to learn is landing. "Wiping out in the flip," Delamere says painfully, "is coming down butt first." To preclude that dire end, the East Germans reportedly have theorized that a half-twist should be added to the flip so that the jumper lands facing the board.

Few things in sport prove as easy in competition as on paper, and the flip is no exception. While the dynamics of the new technique may satisfy the laws of physics, the danger factor is at least a worrisome possibility.

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The video is the opening credits from the Doctor Who TV show in the Tom Baker era, the 4th Doctor, from 1974-1981. I expect this is from the latter half of that run.

Oh, and this is pretty good when it gets going!

Great post. Young has been a maverick from the way back. Don't think you'd be able to sit through a full performance though.
("The Well-Tuned Piano (1964-73-81-present). Each realization is a separately titled and independent composition. Over 60 realizations to date. World premiere: Rome 1974. American Premiere: New York 1975 "Performances have exceeded six hours in length"-WIKI)

We are all, works in progress.

This has been sifted before, but that version lacks the interview and the song at the end:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Limbo-The-Organized-Mind-Jim-Henson-1974

This is a genuine, and for the most part, serious and excellent documentary on WW2, called "World at War" from 1974. This is Episode 6 - Banzai (Japan 1931-1942). I guess the creators got to a point where they ran out of ideas and just decided to take the chill pill and freestyle

"Wages" might have stagnated, but "compensation" is a more accurate narrative.

Although wages have fallen behind inflation for over a generation now, other nonwage components of worker compensation, particularly health care benefits, have grown more quickly than inflation. The graph below shows that in fact total compensation shows a steady long-term upward trend relative to inflation that has if anything accelerated in recent years. [Total compensation is up around 50% since 1974.] http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/12/declining_real.html

Also, if you factor in the things we take for granted today that couldn't have been bought for millions of dollars in 1974, like cures for previously fatal diseases, and a $200 iPhone with access to the internet and the sum total of human knowledge, it seems like total compensation is actually up more than 50% since 1974. (Possessing an iPhone makes you more than a millionaire by 1974 standards.)

An excellent reply, except there were no Great Depression style crashes or panics before the Great Depression, that's why it was called the Great Depression. It was extra-ordinarily severe and long lasting. I don't think it's an accident that it occurred after we started central banking.

The assertion that the kind of panics that happened so often back then were "great depression" style is completely unjustified. They weren't anywhere near the crashes we have today.

However for the sake of argument, let's say they were just as bad. Then the problem is we're only considering a small part of American history - one that had an abnormally large number of panics. Of course, even before then there were plenty of developed economies (in Europe) we could look at, relevant to this time period, going back to the 1600s, which did not have such frequent crashes.

Also assuming they were just as bad, such crashes were more often the result of "acts of god" - bad weather disrupting crops for long periods of time and similar things. Such crashes can not be blamed on monetary policy or lack thereof.

Getting back to the last few centuries....

It's a terrible mistake to point out the record from the GD to 1974 as being particularly good. As I said, the GD lasted for a very long time - the economy couldn't crash within that time frame because it was already dead. The "confluence of conditions" you speak of also swing the other way - after world war 2, infrastructure had to be completely rebuilt, resulting in measured economic growth (note: this is not a good thing. That would be the broken window fallacy. The economy really didn't have anywhere to go but up.) So it should come as no surprise that we were clear until around 1973 - but then again the 70s were also a time of atypically severe recession. There were also events during the 80s and 1990s you didn't even mention.

As for the crashes of 2001 and 2009: both were caused by pricing bubbles. Brought about from a "confluence of conditions" to be sure, but they couldn't have been made any better by an increase in the money supply, which is primarily what our central bank had been responsible for both times.

^ That's not the version of history I've read.

Most people say that we went from the Great Depression to 1973 without any real crashes or panics, and that that was a good thing. We then went from 1974 to now without any real crashes or panics (with a reasonable debate over whether 2001 counts as a real crash too, or if it's attached to 2009's crisis).

There's debate about the 1973 recession, but it seems reasonable to say that was a confluence of conditions that taught us something. Same with 1930. Probably the same will be true of 2009.

Before that, Great Depression-style crashes and panics were happening multiple times a decade (1907, 1901, 1896, 1893, 1893, 1890, etc.).

Most people consider centralized banking and banking regulation to have been at least part of the stabilization we saw in the 20th century, and that stabilization was a net benefit to the economy.

Since you're so curious, Schmawy, it's called "free plate tuning", and it was developed by the recently departed Carleen Hutchins...

Carleen Maley Hutchins (May 24, 1911 – August 7, 2009) was an American former high school science teacher, violinmaker and researcher, best-known for her creation, in the 1950s/60s, of a family of eight proportionally-sized violins now known as the violin octet (e.g., the vertical viola) and for a considerable body of research into the acoustics of violins. She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Hutchins’s greatest innovation, still used by many violinmakers, was a technique known as free-plate tuning. When not attached to a violin, the top and back are called free plates. Her technique gives makers a precise way to refine these plates before a violin is assembled.

From 2002 to 2003, Hutchins’s octet was the subject of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Titled “The New Violin Family: Augmenting the String Section.” Hutchins was the founder of the New Violin Family Association[1], creator-in-chief of the Violin Octet, author of more than 100 technical publications, editor of two volumes of collected papers in violin acoustics, four grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, an Honorary Fellowship from the Acoustical Society of America, and four honorary doctorates. In 1963, Hutchins co-founded the Catgut Acoustical Society, which develops scientific insights into the construction of new and conventional instruments of the violin family.

The Hutchins Consort, named after Hutchins, is a California ensemble featuring all eight instruments.[2]

In 1974, Hutchins and Daniel W. Haines, using materials supplied by the Hercules Materials Company, Inc. (Allegheny Ballistics Laboratory) of Cumberland, Maryland, developed a graphite-epoxy composite top that was determined to be a successful alternative to the traditional use of spruce for the violin belly.[3]

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Interesting anecdote about her is that she once stole a piece of perfect maple from a university phonebooth, replacing it with a replica. Cool lady.

Anyway, nice Sift there schawmy, keep up the good work.

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