Author Archive: Retro

A Reenactment of the famous Gettysburg Address

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Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures. The fabulous decade when we came of age!

Video from Library of Congress telling the story of Francis Scott Key’s poem and its War of 1812 origins. The new song is sung by the actors at film’s end, “conducted” by the actor playing Key: the challenge is timing the tempo of the on-screen music to fit with the intervening intertitles.

Volcanic eruptions and lava flows in Hawaii.

Great variety of, some very beautiful, erupting volcano footage in Hawaii; molten lava; trees burning in lava; firefalls; lava pooring into the ocean creating shoreline; aerial shots of erupting volcano; scientist in lava field; magma; smoke. Nice shots of volcanic rocks.

01:29:51:00 Nice credits; a woven book on a black backdrop with “Aloha” on the cover is opened by a hand revealing title page, white font on red paper.

01:35:04:08 Camera on tripod in front of volcanic eruption. Mike Carter, award winning volcanic photographer runs up to camera with blue jeans on his back and protective covering on his head, snaps picture then runs away from the eruption.

01:35:17:03 VS at Volcano House in Hawaii.

01:35:28:25 Romantic scene of an older couple at dinner table at Volcano House in Hawaii. The man points out for his wife a volcano in the distance.

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The Life of Sergei Eisenstein, the great Russian filmmaker.

Portrays the United Foundation as “the businesslike method” of giving and notes that it offers “freedom from constant appeals”.

Aerial shots of Detroit downtown and factories; crowds; boy scouts; an aged woman; people pestering other people for money; kids skipping rope in an idyllic suburb; women in a massive typing pool; disabled G.I. casualties watch a movie in a hospital; suburbs being built; a kid with IV tubes sticking out of him; polio kids walking; blind man; newsboys shout on street corners.

“Chapter 1950” This film encourages it’s viewers not to give to private organizations soliciting on the streets of Detroit. Instead they are encouraged to give in the professional way, once, a certain percentage of one’s paycheck to The United Foundation for charity organizations with the motto, “Give once for all. United We Won . . . . let’s Do It Again!”