‘The Snowman’ is a 1982 British television cartoon that has an introduction and narration by David Bowie. Thank you to Rob Smart.

Imagine yourself sitting in a finished basement room with wood panel walls, a nice thick shag carpet, and a long low console television. In the 70s, I remember running from house to house to see everyone’s color screens because I had a black & white at home. An episode of Star Trek in full color [...]

This is a five-part documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis about the rise of nuclear energy in the United States. These sections make up A is for Atom which is a 1-hour segment of a much longer science and politics television series called Pandora’s Box.  It chronicles the development of the nuclear power industry and [...]

This is raw and shocking video of the tsunami in Japan entering and destroying a town. It was posted by James MacWhyte on his Facebook page. Thank you to Paul Gallagher of Dangerous Minds for the find. CNN has a live blog following the quake and tsunami. The Huffington Post has live coverage. Here is [...]

Humorous, cheesy and somewhat difficult to sit through!  It’s got robots that are Dalek imitations, Gerry Anderson-style figures, vehicles and headquarters! This is the 1964 pilot episode for a puppet science fiction TV show that never aired. Paul Starr featured Ed Bishop, the actor who later played Commander Straker in the classic 70s UFO series, [...]

This is a preview for a television show from Yemen. It’s all shot on a Canon 7D digital SLR camera by Aimen Kasem who functioned as the show’s cinematographer.  The show is directed by Sameer Al-Afeef. People are making very beautiful things with these DSLR cameras. I’ve been using one recently for my own films [...]

Now that’s a future I can get into! Let’s do another ride like this today.

A collection of vintage toy commercials put together by Jon Behrens. Do kids play war anymore?

Filmmaker Evan Mather made this beautiful animation about the life and visions of St. Clare of Assisi.  I had no idea that television was divinely protected. Makes me miss that old cathode ray. Evan Mather produces films for his Hand Crafted Films company. This is a very sly and clever filmmaker who seems to enjoy [...]

Cartoonist Robert Crumb gets interviewed by a Los Angeles Times writer and talks about his living in France and his hatred for the pervasive corporate mono-culture that Americans seem unaware of.  He can’t stand it and chooses to live outside of it. Really good perspective. In a culture where you’ve got a Supreme Court actually [...]