Tag: television
Mr Rogers: How Crayons Are Made
Mix hot liquid wax, hardening powder, and some color pigment. Pour the mixture into a mold of small cylinders, and after it cools, pop them out! Label them, collate them, and box them. This classic 1981 crayon factory...
Harpo Marx plays the clarinet
Harpo Marx plays "I'm forever blowing bubbles" on the Kraft Music Hall in 1959 with "Mr. Television" himself, Milton Berle. Harpo also plays the harp. File under bubbles and The Marx Brothers.
Amazing Chinese Popcorn Cannon
This street vendor makes popcorn with an explosive, pressure-cooking, popcorn cannon contraption, a centuries-old method. The video was filmed in Zhengzhou, China, but we’ve watched vid...
Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble ACJW: 43 Cartoon Theme Songs
Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble ACJW performs a medley of 43 Cartoon Theme Songs. Who doesn’t love watching music being performed as animated action happens all over the place? After yo...
Bill Nye Bikes the Distance Between Planets
Bill Nye The Science Guy bikes down a long road in wide open country to demonstrate a scale model of the solar system – a classic clip. Total distance of his ride to Pluto, back before Pluto ...
Electric Company: Sign Songs
In the 1970s, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown composer Clark Gesner made a series of found signage-based videos for PBS’ The Electric Company. The song above is our favorite becaus...
Japanese television: Tires on a ski jump
Which tire will roll down the ski jump fastest and jump the farthest? A Formula One tire? An enormous bulldozer tire? The smallest tire? This clip from Japanese television has made the rounds i...
Pitagora Suitchi: 20 minutes of Japanese Rube Goldberg machines
We love Rube Goldberg machines, and have posted about these short films from Japan’s NHK educational TV show, Pitagora Suitchi (PythagoraSwitch) before, so it’s no surprise that t...
John Wilson Orchestra: Scott Bradley‘s Tom and Jerry cartoon music
For the two adults in our house, this music brings back some rowdy cartoon cat and mouse tv memories from childhood. For the two kids in our house, it’s an orchestra playing energetic, ja...
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...
Mummenschanz on the Muppet Show (1976)
Above, a skit from experimental Swiss mime troupe Mummenschanz on the Muppet Show in 1976. More videos: communication and emotions.
Tina Turner covers Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s Proud Mary (1971)
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 mov...
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).
4-Way Stop vs the Roundabout
What’s more efficient: a four way stop or a European-style roundabout? Watch how Adam Savage, Jaime Hyneman, and The Mythbusters team put it to the test to find out the answer. (And if this video disappears, yo...
Loaf of Bread, Container of Milk, Stick of Butter (1972)
Loaf of Bread, Container of Milk, Stick of Butter (1972), from Sesame Street, of course. Updated video link.
Schoolhouse Rock! Verb: That’s What’s Happening (1974)
Read, click, watch, learn, sing along! It’s Schoolhouse Rock's Verb: That’s What’s Happening (1974).
Louis Armstrong performs Basin Street Blues and Reveille
Louis Armstrong performs Basin Street Blues and Reveille on television in the 1950s.
Sesame Street: Spinning clay on a pottery wheel
Another classic Sesame Street clip: spinning clay on a pottery wheel.
