Hard Luck”” – Starring Buster Keaton”
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HARD LUCK
(1920)
This Buster Keaton two reel comedy includes the “lost” final scene that was recently discovered in a French archive. It is low quality, but still reads.The final scene in this film was said to get the biggest laughs of any silent film. This closing scene was the brain child of the film’s director, E. Francis Cline.
Happy Newsreel Footage of VJ Day
You can’t but smile as you watch this assortment of clips depicting the improvised VJ Day celebrations filmed in various American cities on the last day of World War Two. As I watch this newsreel,I couldn’t help but remember what I heard a veteran once say about that day:
“The end of the war meant that we would be allowed to grow old.”,355,425,1.197183099,4 to 3,,https://www.youtube.com/v/HbyQ5oYP0CY,HbyQ5oYP0CY,You can’t but smile as you watch this assortment of clips depicting the improvised VJ Day celebrations filmed in various American cities on the last day of World War Two. As I watch this newsreel,I couldn’t help but remember what I heard a veteran once say about that day:
“”The end of the war meant that we would be allowed to grow old.””
Hamburg to Rio By Way of Zeppelin
Produced some time between 1932 through 1937, this is a British Pathe newsreel that shows the comfortable life on board the Graf Zeppelin as it crossed the Atlantic from Hamburg, Germany to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Golf Antics”” with Chaplin & Buster Keaton “
GOLF ANTICS is a compilation short film featuring “Buster” Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, “Fatty” Arbuckle, Laurel & Hardy, Larry Semon and “Dizzy” Daniels playing golf.
God Save the Queen
Assorted archival film and video images of Queen Elizabeth II set to the tune, “God Save the Queen”.
Germany Officially Surrenders
Supreme headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Reims: Nazi General Jodl, representing Admiral Doenitz, strides into the ‘war room’ where Allied Generals await him and his party. After the surrender terms are understood, Jodl fills a third of a page with his scrawly signature, this his associates sign. U.S. General W. B. Smith the Allied Chief of Staff signs as do the remainder of the Allied Generals. In an adjoining room, General Eisenhower, wreathed in smiles, forms the signature pens into a V for Victory sign. Unconditional surrender is an accomplished fact.”” scenes of peace signed at red scholhouse in Reims, France, by Gen Jodl and Gen. Smith”
German Submarine Footage in Color
Terrific and rare footage of German subs with that creepy Nazi Jazz band providing back-up. Take a look.
German Newsreel Footage of the Africa Korps in Color
German wartime newsreel filmed in living color…Includes footage of the explosion of the HMS Auckland..
German Modernism: Bauhaus
Coined by the architect Walter Gropius, Bauhaus combines the root of the German verb bauen (to build) with haus (house). It is the name given to the art school founded by Gropius under the original title of the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar. The Bauhaus, which lasted from 1919-1933, has come to represent the distillation of the Modern movement and the fundamentalist design ethic.Part of the Modernism Web site, featuring objects from the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and curator David Ryan, this video was originally produced in 1999.
George V
George V was the first British sovereign belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He was King of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth countries as well as the Emperor of India and the first King of the Irish Free State. George reigned through World War I. Video by author, Brian Kavanagh.
George Bernard Shaw’s First Visit To America
In this film clip, the great Anglo-Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw waxes poetic about I-know-not-what, but it certainly sounded pretty.Filmed in August 26th, 1928.