Topic: song
Glenn Miller, the Nicholas Brothers, and Dorothy Dandridge
Glenn Miller and his orchestra, and the Nicholas Brothers, and Dorothy Dandridge? Yes please! From the little known movie Sun Valley Serenade (1941), this is era-defining swing hit Chattanoog...
Singing Tesla Coils: Inspector Gadget
Seen at science museums, maker faires, and all over the internet, Singing Tesla Coils combine science and music in the most fantastical and memorable of ways. But how do they work? From Physics...
Julie Andrews and Gene Kelly play The Tapping Game
Julie Andrews and Gene Kelly play The Tapping Game… and they sing and dance, because when you have Julie Andrews and Gene Kelly on stage together, that’s what happens. This clip i...
Glass Frog – Songs for Unusual Creatures
In this episode of Songs for Unusual Creatures, Michael Hearst visits the Frog Pod at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, and then collaborates with glass armonica player Cecilia Brauer on a new so...
Kermit the Frog – The Rainbow Connection
Kermit the Frog sings The Rainbow Connection in The Muppet Movie. It was nominated for Best Song at the 1979 Academy Awards. There are more rainbows in the archives, as well as these two video gems: Jim Henson maki...
The Giant Anteater – Songs for Unusual Creatures
Giant Anteaters get in on the fun (and some yogurt) as Michael Hearst and PBS Digital Studios return with Songs for Unusual Creatures. Michael visits the Nashville Zoo and then composes a song...
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy on the Glass Armonica
The mechanical version of a glass harp, called a glass armonica, was invented by none other than Benjamin Franklin in 1761. Also, a new word for us: hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica — harmoni...
Glass through Glass by Alexander Chen
Some of our favorite instruments are made from things around the house and the sound of water in drinking glasses is a great example. Glass through Glass is a composition by Google Creative Director Alexander Chen, wh...
The Elephant Shrew – Songs for Unusual Creatures
From Michael Hearst and PBS Digital Studios, enjoy Songs for Unusual Creatures: The Elephant Shrew. Please note, however, that the elephant shrew is not related to an elephant. From Wikipedia: In the archives: more...
Beethoven’s Ninth on a Toolbox Glockenspiel
Beethoven’s Ninth on a Toolbox Glockenspiel built by Tom Kaufmann. In the archives: more instrument videos.
Norman McLaren’s Le Merle
Le Merle (the Blackbird) is a cutout animation directed in 1958 by cinematic innovator Norman McLaren. Based on a French-Canadian folksong, the story tells of a bird who loses a beak, a neck, eyes, wings, legs, etc, a...
Tina Turner covers Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s Proud Mary
Clear the floor for dancing because it’s not containable at 1m55s… Tina Turner covers Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary on live Italian TV in 1971.
Schoolhouse Rock: Them Not-So-Dry Bones
Ligaments, cartilage, muscles, and tendons all need our skeletons. And so do we! It’s Schoolhouse Rock's Them Not-So-Dry Bones (1979).
Shugo Tokumaru’s Katachi
Shugo Tokumaru’s Katachi, a stop motion, papercraft adventure directed by Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski. Katachi means shape or form in Japanese. Thanks, Laura.
SHAKE: dogs try to get dry in slow motion
Dogs try to get dry in SHAKE, a slow motion vid based on the photography of Carli Davidson.
Sesame Street: That’s about the size
Classic Sesame Street time: That’s about the size.
Paper Plane by Massimo Giangrande
Paper Plane, a song by Massimo Giangrande. Video directed and animated by Gianluca Maruotti, and illustrated by Felicita Sala. Next, watch this lovely behind the scenes video about how they put it all together:
Jim Guthrie – Lobby Music
Lobby Music, a song by Jim Guthrie with animation by Nicolas Ménard, who we’ve featured before.
