Circopedia

Roll up, roll up! Link…

The Choppers (1961)

"Youngsters are the future. I know that school and church and government work hard to preserve this resource, not to mention all the efforts of mothers and fathers, but this story, it made me think." Arch Hall Sr. & Jr. Despite the B grade, the soundtrack is excellent. Link… (Bummer, no HD. Am I expecting too much of YT content?).

Lily The Pink

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound (advertisement from the Barnstable Patriot). Revered in song.


The Scaffold – what an unlikely group. "Jack Bruce, Elton John, Graham Nash and Jimi Hendrix were among the session musicians who performed on The Scaffold's early records (since none of the trio were musicians)."

Slung about twice nightly

As well as the (more info) at YouTube, more about the act and others like it can be found at Palace of Variety. Link…

Entrancing

Enot

Leodis

Image shows the front view of Louis Le Prince's 16 lens camera built in 1887. To see a film clip produced with this camera go here.





A photographic history of Leeds. Link…

David Douglas Duncan

A selection from the 'World of Islam' gallery. Link…

NEN (National Education Network)

A picture, sound and video resource. Link…

Vacuum

I told you I had the urge to do something. First rough cut.

One-Wheeled Vehicle

Charles Taylor, American Engineer and Inventor. Watch the videos of him on his prototype. Link…

Nagas

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♫ The women arrive at the work area, armed with long sticks. They stand in a horse-shoe pattern around the pile of rice to be husked. Following the song leader, who begins the text below during the repeat of the verse, the dancers pronounce words of a mnemotic nature, intended to work out the time and to measure approximately the quantity of rice husked.

While doing this, they perform in perfect ensemble a sideways movement, passing one leg over the other. Coupled with the hammering of the beaters, this body movement allows them not only to sweep through the pounding area, but also to maintain a body rhythm in this hard and repetitive work.

The song chanted by the first group is repeated by the second group. Each group comprises three voices singing in major thirds. The women work with their jewellery of glass beads, semi-precious stones and silver ornaments whose jangling sounds enter into the rhythmic composition of their song. In particular they wear around their hips, a bead-girdle of mid-thigh length.

"Welcome, welcome,
Beloved young men, beloved young women
To begin the harvest
Make me a basket with a strap
With designs across it
Our noble chief is Mr. Kinghazhe
Our noble lady is Mrs Sumiko
O, the generation of young Naga men is so handsome
O, the generation of young Naga women is so beautiful
At the end, we will go. Goodbye, goodbye"

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Hill Peoples of Northeast India. The site has historic video, photographs, sketches, diaries and audio clips. Link…

Some of you young folk sicken me

A poem (Written by Arthur Leggatt in 10 minutes, at a writers & poets gathering, shortly after listening to some younger, much younger, people who had spoken extremely critically about the dropping of the atom bomb on Japan.) Sketches and stories from Prisoners of War of the Japanese (1942-1945). Link…

Radical Software

The historic video magazine Radical Software first appeared in Spring of 1970, soon after low-cost portable video equipment became available to artists and other potential videomakers. The collection has been scanned (why were they not using the descreen filter?) and is available in PDF format. A punk video fanzine, it's a snapshot of a counter-culture. The Autumn 1973 issue makes for an interesting read, its theme is 'video and psychotherapy'. Link…