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- archive.org Bruiser DVD : BBC Worldwide : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The quickfire, weird and wonderful sketch show starring David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Matt Holness, Martin Freeman, Olivia Colman and Charlotte Hudson.Before...
- archive.org Computer Beach Party DVD (1988) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Computer Beach Party DVD (1988)
Warning: do not watch this movie. This is a terrible movie. It stars no one, it's boring, it has terrible music, and it's only barely shot competently. The only compliment I can give it is that it's only 55 minutes long.
> Greedy locals are trying to turn some beach property into a tourist attraction, and a computer expert sets out to use is knowledge of computers--along with the help of several local "beach bunnies"--to stop them.
This movie is only for people like me who absolutely have to watch a movie called Computer Beach Party. And if you're someone like me, you will not be disappointed.
Within the first 10 minutes, you get some of the worst acting you've ever seen, boobs, and a car shaped like a giant chicken.
Also, I'm going to tell my grandchildren that this was how we did social media:
There's a hair metal band that plays all the beach parties. They are Panther. They want to be Van Halen so badly. Here is their amazing hit, Hot Rockin' Beach Party:
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I'm not lying. This is an objectively horrible movie. The screenplay was written by someone who once walked past a movie theater playing a comedy movie and decided it meant they could write a comedy.
- archive.org Bah Humbug! The Story of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol : Charles Dickens : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
An abridged dramatic reading of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL, performed live and recorded for public television at the Pierpoint Morgan Library in New...
- archive.org The Constitution - That Delicate Balance ★ "Lost" Annenberg Series : Columbia University Seminars on Media and Society : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Constitution - That Delicate Balance ★ Lost Annenberg Series . More Series Information Page:...
These discussions were held in front of an audience at Columbia University Law School back in an era where you had to be cordial even if it's clear you hated each other, so it's a pretty interesting series of discussions.
They do a decent job of trying to balance voices from the left and right.
Warning, there are some super assholes who represent the right.
> 1. Executive Privilege and Delegation of Powers >Can the President's conversations with advisors remain secret when Congress demands to know what was said? Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski, former President Gerald Ford, and Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox bring first-hand experience to this topic. > >2. War Powers and Covert Action >If the president, as commander in chief, decides to declare war, can Congress restrain him? Debating the issue are Gerald Ford, former CIA deputy director Bobby Inman, former secretary of state Edmund Muskie, and others. > >3. Nomination, Election, and Succession of the President >A tangled web of issues is involved in electing a president. Edmund Muskie, former presidential press secretary Jody Powell, party officials, and others discuss the role of political parties, the electoral college, and what to do if a president becomes disabled. > >4. Criminal Justice and a Defendant's Right to a Fair Trial >Should a lawyer defend a guilty person? This and other questions are debated by Bronx district attorney Mario Merola, former New York mayor Edward Koch, CBS News anchor Dan Rather, and others. > >5. Crime and Insanity >Is a psychiatric evaluation precise enough to be allowed as testimony in a court of law? U.S. Court of Appeals judge Irving Kaufman, Hastings Center president Willard Gaylin, and others discuss the use of psychiatry in law. > >6. Crime and Punishments >Cruel and unusual punishment, from overcrowding in prisons to the death penalty, is debated by U.S. Court of Appeals judge Arthur Alarcon, Federal Bureau of Prisons director Norman Carlson, government leaders, civil libertarians, and journalists. > >7. Campaign Spending >Do limits on campaign spending infringe on First Amendment rights? Political consultant David Garth, Washington Post columnist David Broder, Bill Moyers, and others explore the issues. > >8. National Security and Freedom of the Press >What right does the public have to know about national security issues? Former CIA director and secretary of defense James Schlesinger, former attorney general Griffin Bell, and others debate the issue. > >9. School Prayer, Gun Control, and the Right To Assemble >A series of events embroils a small town in First and Second Amendment controversies. Featured are Griffin Bell, former secretary of education Shirley Hufstedler, and civil liberties counsel Jeanne Baker. > >10. Right To Live, Right To Die >Gloria Steinem, Joseph Califano, Rep. Henry Hyde, Phil Donahue, and others discuss the right to make intensely individual decisions about dying, abortion, personal freedom, and privacy. > >11. Immigration Reform >The rights of legal and illegal aliens to employment and to medical and educational services are debated by U.S. Court of Appeals judge Arlin Adams, Notre Dame president Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, and immigration officials and journalists. > >12. Affirmative Action Versus Reverse Discrimination >Are quotas based on sex or race unconstitutional? Participants include Ellen Goodman, former EEOC chair Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington Post columnist William Raspberry, and United Federation of Teachers president Albert Shanker. > >13. Federalism >How much power the federal government can wield over state and local affairs is debated in this final episode. Among those featured are Senators Orrin Hatch and Daniel Moynihan and Columbia University professor Diane Ravitch.
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I used to have this episode on tape.
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I had it, but I never unrolled it to look at it.
- archive.org The Vincent Price Collection Of Fine Art (1962) Sears Promotional Film : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
http://thedukemitchell.uk/ for more weird videos plus strange film nights in London. Vincent Price guides us through the world of fine art in this promo...
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Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray in a pitch film for Ghostbusters for a distributor convention (1984)
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Jack Horkheimer was the director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium and a wonderfully nerdy guy with a PBS astronomy program that was originally called Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler and then later Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer. His catch phrase was a cheery, "keep looking up!"
Jack left us in 2010, but I will never forget his infectious, charismatic nerdiness.
This show is much better than I remember it.
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Definitely done because of the success of Star Wars and also, oddly, Upstairs Downstairs. Don't expect to laugh. You won't.
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> This Canadian sitcom was hastily assembled in 1970 to comply with upcoming Canadian content requirements and had an extremely limited budget for both time and money. 130 episodes of the series were produced, requiring scripts to be recycled from 1940s radio dramas, line mistakes to be kept in the finished product due to time and money constraints, and virtually the entire series shot from one small living-room set. As a result of the poor-quality end product, the series is often considered one of the worst of all time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sitcoms_known_for_negative_reception
- archive.org Parker Lewis Can't Lose Complete Series : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
For a cool high school kid and his friends, thwarting authority figures and other enemies is not a problem. Parker Lewis Can't Lose ran for 3 seasons (1990 -...
I watched this show religiously when it was on.
- archive.org Liquid Television - Complete Series : Japhet Asher : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
an animation showcase that appeared on MTVfrom 1991 to 1995. It has served as the launching point for several high-profile original cartoons, including Beavis...
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Office Space Featuring Milton - Mike Judge - Original SNL animated short that inspired the movie
archive.org Office Space Featuring Milton : Mike Judge : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveAn animated short by Mike Judge that later became the basis for his 1999 film of the same name. It aired on Liquid Television and Saturday Night Live in the...
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In my opinion, one of the best concert videos, even if it isn't a live concert in front of an audience.
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I know this has made the rounds online before but given it was just a demo tape for a format most have never heard of I figured it may still find new audiences here.
Source of the rip and more info on the format is available in this video.
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The Skin Of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder - PBS American Playhouse (1983) - With Jeffrey Combs
archive.org The Skin Of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder (Re-Mastered) : Thornton Wilder : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveThornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play brings to life the fate and foibles of the celebrated Antrobus family--a bold and brassy embodiment of Wilder's...
This is one of my all-time favorite plays and this is a terrific production of it too.
It's a very weird, but very entertaining play that is a satire on American culture and religion, but about a family that lives through various ages of human history as if they were contemporary or near-contemporary.
> While the Antrobus family remains constant throughout the play, the three acts do not form a continuous narrative. The first act takes place during an impending ice age; in the second act the family circumstances have changed as George becomes president of the Fraternal Order of Mammals (apparent references to Sodom and Gomorrah but also to the Roaring Twenties), while the end of the world approaches a second time; the third act opens with Maggie and Gladys emerging from a bunker at the end of a seven-year-long war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skin_of_Our_Teeth
I'm almost certain that The Flintstones was inspired by Act I of this play, but I don't want to suggest that it's in any way like The Flintstones other than both being "modern stone-age families."
- archive.org Dinosaurs: A First Film : BFA Educational Media : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Animated films shows how dinosaurs evolved, lived, and then disappeared. Also depicts the variety of dinosaurs
- archive.org BASIC Fun With Adventure Games : Susan Drake Lipscomb & Margaret Ann Zuanich : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
BASIC Fun With Adventure GamesIllustrated by Ted Enik
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The restaurant closed less than a year later, but the memory of Pastamania lives on. In 2019, the Paul Bunyan animatronic inside the Mall of America's Log Chute ride was dressed up in Pastamania attire for Halloween.
- archive.org Gay Games IV - From A to Q : Dyke TV, Gay Cable Network, Gay Entertainment Television, In The Life, Network Q. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Coverage of the 1994 Gay Games and 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York.
The Gay Games are, in a nutshell, a multi-day sports event like the Olympic Games, but with an emphasis on LGBT+ participants.
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A documentary/promotional video about the Ducks' founding.
The song "Rock the Pond" was later used in D2: The Mighty Ducks, but with 'America' replacing 'Anaheim'.
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Volume 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX18QvUR9Zg
A really good voice cast including Leonard Nimoy and Tippi Hedren.
With some surprisingly good animation quality for TV done by Dreamworks.
- archive.org Dinosaur : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A 1967 British public information film about road safety.
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Assuming the video description is to be believed this was traded on copied VHS tapes, much like the original South Park shorts were. I enjoy the thought that edits like this have existed longer than many may realize.
>I discovered this old VCD in my collection, and couldn't find any reference to it. Made by Hot Ramen Video from around 1997 or thereabouts, it is a video mashup of NGE and SP that has Angels appearing in our favorite hick mountain town. It also brags of an "appearance" by Apollo Smile (don't believe the hype). Not much of an NGE fan, but I"m a huge South Park nut, so I had to get this. And now, I'm looking to share this little oddity with other heads. Source was a VHS traded tape, so don't complain about the quality. > >Obviously, I don't own any rights. Neither did they.
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- archive.org Becoming A Master - The Ultimate Pokemon Experience : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a two-tape set. Tape 2 is a little more in-depth, but both tapes are basically interviews with children and a comic book store owner about Pokémon cards.
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"The Flintstones in 'A Weighty Problem' Part 1: The Problem" 1980 Hanna-Barbera filmstrip about diet
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A steel guitar song about how awesome F. D. Roosevelt was.
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>This is an original sketch comedy that aired on public access in Vermont in 1994.
I appreciate that youtube is now aware I'll click any old low qualify thing it shows me