The Kid
A clip from Chaplin’d 1922 film, “The Kid”.
Movies
The Jolly Face of Guillaume Apollinaire
Not too long after this jolly 1914 scene featuring Guillaume Apollinaire and an unidentified friend was filmed, he was off to the French Army recruiting station. While serving in the military during the First World War he was recuperating from wounds in a field hospital when he fell victim to the Spanish flu pandemic and died a few days short of the 1918 Armistice.
The Japanese Surrender Proceedings
News reel of the surrender ceremony on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945. Background music is “With Honor Crowned”.
The Influence of Marcus Garvey””, Part I”
An informative PBS documentary depicting the rise and fall of “the Negro Moses”, Marcus Garvey. The documentary has been divided into five parts.
The Impossible Glamor of Paris!
1920s film footage illustrating the excitement of Paris (especially when America was dry).
The Heinkel HE 177 Bomber
A short British film clip about the German W.W. II bomber that bore the nickname, “Greif”: the Heinkel HE 177 Bomber.
The Harlem Hellfighters
The 369th may have been seconded to the French army, but it was up to the French how they would be used. And their need was for combat troops.The 369th was in combat longer than any US unit in WW1. They liberated towns. They were the first Allied soldiers to reach the Rhine. They won 171 decorations. Two Harlem Hellfighters were especially honored for fighting off an attack on their tiny outpost by 24 Germans.And that nickname, the Hellfighters? The Germans gave them that.
The Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators
A sequence constructed from still photos of the execution by hanging of the Lincoln conspirators.
THE GREAT WAR IN COLOUR: 1914
The first part in the series of World War One coloured films. Impressive re-fashioned coloured footage of scenes from the prelude and beginning of the war.
The Golem””
A clip from the classic 1920 German Expressionist silent horror film “The Golem” gets a new soundtrack by Hollywood composer Carvin Knowles”
“For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by Der Golem, the great Jewish monster of clay who only comes to life when Truth is in his breast”.
The Girl on the Magazine Cover”” 1940″
How professional models (and new automobiles) are photographed.””
The Gettysburg Address in the Computer Age,
(part II)
A clever clip using an animated 1860s photograph and text-to-speech software. Nice.
The Gettysburg Address in the Age of the Computer
This is what Lincoln’s dedication at the Gettysburg cemetery would have sounded like if he wished to use text-to-speech software…
The Gettysburg Address
A nice delivery of the address accompanied by a slide show of Civil War imagery.
The German Withdrawl of 1917
A moving interview with a British veteran is accompanied by informative historical audio and rare World War One footage of the unexpected German retreat of 1917.
The German Mauser Rifle
A segment from a documentary concerning the top ten infantry weapons of the world. In this clip, the Mauser K98 rifle was ranked number six; it was said to be Hitler’s favorite gun. The weapon saw heavy use during W.W. I and as this documentary makes clear, modifications were made for the second installment of that war.