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Topic: 1960s
VIP Boogie / Jam With Sam – Duke Ellington and his Orchestra (1962)
Recorded in New York City on January 9, 1962, this is VIP Boogie and Jam With Sam from a short film documenting Duke Ellington and his Orchestra. Featured performers include Harry Carney, Jimmy Hamilton, Harold Baker,...
‘This little light of mine’ performed by Sister Rosetta Tharpe in 1960
In this clip from 1960, Sister Rosetta Tharpe performs 'This Little Light of Mine' live on stage at the first Festival de Jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins in France. According to the video notes, she's accompanied by clar...
Chuck Berry performs Johnny B. Goode in the 1960s and 90s
Behold Chuck Berry's signature moves set to one of his many signature songs in this clip from Hollywood a Go Go, a music variety show, circa 1965. In it, the St. Louis, Missouri-born rock-and-roll pioneer performs his...
Ain’t Got No, I Got Life – Nina Simone plays live in London (1968)
Playing live in London in 1968, singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist Nina Simone sings a medley of Ain't Got No, I Got Life, two songs that were originally written for the late 1960s counterculture musical Ha...
Candle Making (1963)
See how one million candles a day were made in a busy factory, Price's Patent Candle Company in Battersea, South London, in the year 1963. British Pathé captured the wide variety being made, from candles that look lik...
The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, construction workers began tearing up streets and erecting barriers in Berlin. This night marked the beginning of one of history’s most infamous dividing lines: the Berlin Wall. Construction contin...
Making Matchbox cars in 1960s London – British Pathé
In the 1960s, Matchbox toy cars were made on a series of assembly lines in a Hackney factory in London. Filmed 15 years after the company was founded under the name Lesney Products, this 1962 British Pathé video featu...
The Hoarder (1969) – Evelyn Lambart
In this short animation by Evelyn Lambart, a greedy little blue jay carries away whatever his beak can grasp. Berries, birds' eggs (nests and all), and even the sun in the sky go into his secret cache. Nothing is safe...
Maria Callas sings O mio babbino caro and Casta Diva
"One of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century," Greek-American soprano Maria Callas, performs Giacomo Puccini's O mio babbino caro, a clip from a 1960s era concert at Théâtre des Champs-E...
Aretha Franklin sings Won’t Be Long (1964)
Singer, songwriter, and musician Aretha Franklin was just 22 years old when she sang 'Won't Be Long' on The Steve Allen show in 1964. Today, of course, she's known as The Queen of Soul: Franklin has won a total of...
Welding in Space
On June 3, 1965, after America's first spacewalk was complete, the two Gemini IV astronauts, spacewalker Edward H. White II and command pilot James A. McDivitt, had trouble getting the hatch closed. They managed to, a...
Motorized Bath on Wheels
Travel back to England in the year 1960 to see how these engineering students from Kingston, Surrey Technical College made a splash with a bath tub... a motorized bath tub, perfect for driving around the center of tow...
The art & technology behind 1960s Wallpaper Manufacturing
Whether they were hand-printed with precisely placed large blocks of color, or were run through machines that quickly pressed the surface colors onto the rolls, wallpapers at this Perivale factory in Greater London we...
Fine Feathers (1968) – Evelyn Lambart
From Evelyn Lambart, renowned Canadian animator and technical director with the National Film Board of Canada, this is Fine Feathers, a 1968 cut paper animation about two rival birds that trade their plumage for green...
CBS Christmas Message (1966) by R.O. Blechman
From 1966, enjoy CBS' Christmas Message, a classic animation by illustrator, animator, and editorial cartoonist R.O. Blechman.
Notes on a Triangle (1966) by René Jodoin
From the National Film Board of Canada and director René Jodoin, this is Notes on a Triangle (1966), a ballet of three hundred geometric transformations, animated into divisions, alignments, and patterns. Waltz music ...
Billy Preston with Ray Charles – Agent Double O Soul
With the legendary Ray Charles on piano, this is former child piano prodigy and Beatles collaborator Billy Preston performing 'Agent Double O Soul' on The Ed Sullivan Show. The live 1967 performance was featured in th...
Ella Fitzgerald with Duke Ellington: It Don’t Mean A Thing (1965)
From The Ed Sullivan Show on March 7, 1965, (the video seems to be incorrectly dated as being from 1960), watch Ella Fitzgerald perform with Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing). ...a ...
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