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Eskimo Hunters - 1949 Film

Throbbin (http://history.videosift.com/member/Throbbin) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:50:17 -0800

(12 votes - 5 comments - 642 views)
A film from 1949 featuring an Eskimo family from Alaska. (Canadian Inuit prefer to be called 'Inuit' - Alaskan Inuit prefer being called 'Eskimos').

My father was born in 1950, and grew up in a way very similar to the lifestyle featured in this film.

Not crazy about some of the sound effects (caribou running on snow don't sound like horses on cobblestone, shooting caribou doesn't produce a ricochet sound, etc.), but otherwise this is a pretty accurate depiction of Inuit lifestyle during the period.

Joseph Pilates teaching Pilates in 1949

peggedbea (http://history.videosift.com/member/peggedbea) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:45:52 -0800

(13 votes - 4 comments - 357 views)
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The last Calligraphers

notarobot (http://history.videosift.com/member/notarobot) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:51:30 -0800

(14 votes - 2 comments - 594 views)
Trailer for a documentary about the last hand-printed newspaper in Asia. Printed with the art of Urdu calligraphy

Found at http://musalman.100hands.net

Broadway by Day (1930)

vinovin (http://history.videosift.com/member/vinovin) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:37:16 -0800

(15 votes - 6 comments - 492 views)
seems to be a promotional film for the great white way. quite a charming look back on NYC.

London in 1927 - Early Colour Silent Film

EndAll (http://jollyollie.videosift.com) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:01:51 -0800

(20 votes - 8 comments - 397 views)
London is the last stop in an epic trip across Britain filmed in remarkable early colour.

London was the final stop in a marathon journey around Britain filmed as a series of cinema travelogues. Pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene brought these picture-postcard scenes to life with a specially-devised colour film process. - From http://www.youtube.com/user/LondonsScreenArchive

The Decade in Seven Minutes

dotdude (http://dotdude.videosift.com) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:13:47 -0800

(48 votes - 15 comments - 1938 views)
Newsweek reviews the first decade of the 21st Century in seven minutes.

"Puttin' On The Ritz" / Protect and Survive mashup

calvados (http://history.videosift.com/member/calvados) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:47:20 -0800

(10 votes - 2 comments - 895 views)
Clever: clips of the (in)famous, scary "Protect and Survive" British civil defence films neatly edited in with an old-timey toe-tapper of a song.

House Minority Leader John Boehner quotes the "Constitution"

NetRunner (http://netrunner.videosift.com) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:10:03 -0800

(23 votes - 8 comments - 625 views)
11/5/2009

Edward Bernays and the Art of Public Manipulation

dystopianfuturetoday (http://history.videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:52:55 -0800

(28 votes - 1 comment - 524 views)
" [The] American business community was also very impressed with the propaganda effort. They had a problem at that time. The country was becoming formally more democratic. A lot more people were able to vote and that sort of thing. The country was becoming wealthier and more people could participate and a lot of new immigrants were coming in, and so on.
So what do you do? It's going to be harder to run things as a private club. Therefore, obviously, you have to control what people think. There had been public relation specialists but there was never a public relations industry. There was a guy hired to make Rockefeller's image look prettier and that sort of thing. But this huge public relations industry, which is a U.S. invention and a monstrous industry, came out of the first World War. The leading figures were people in the Creel Commission. In fact, the main one, Edward Bernays, comes right out of the Creel Commission. He has a book that came out right afterwards called Propaganda. The term "propaganda," incidentally, did not have negative connotations in those days. It was during the second World War that the term became taboo because it was connected with Germany, and all those bad things. But in this period, the term propaganda just meant information or something like that. So he wrote a book called Propaganda around 1925, and it starts off by saying he is applying the lessons of the first World War. The propaganda system of the first World War and this commission that he was part of showed, he says, it is possible to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments their bodies." These new techniques of regimentation of minds, he said, had to be used by the intelligent minorities in order to make sure that the slobs stay on the right course. We can do it now because we have these new techniques. " -Chomsky

Beynays' book 'Propaganda': http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html

Alaskan Adventure, 1959

Issykitty (http://issykitty.videosift.com) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:13:21 -0800

(10 votes - 2 comments - 277 views)
from travelfilmarchive on YT:

A tour of the state of Alaska in the late 1950s.