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, and then finds them in duplicate and triplicate.

In the archives: McLaren’s Spook Sport and Boogie Doodle, more 1950s greatness, and one more from the National Film Board of Canada: How Do They Recycle Steel?

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.

Travel back to the 1970s or enjoy some more music that moves: The Blues Brothers & Ray Charles, No BS! Brass Band, Etta James, and Bill Haley and the Comets.

Ligaments, cartilage, muscles, and tendons all need our skeletons. And so do we! It’s Schoolhouse Rock's Them Not-So-Dry Bones (1979).

Related singing: learn about the nervous system in Email Thread Telegraph Line.

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.

Dogs try to get dry in SHAKE, a slow motion vid based on the photography of Carli Davidson. 

Related watching: the science behind the wet dog shake, dogs in cars, and the classic Birds from Pleix, which should not be missed.

Thanks, @tnorthcutt.