ObscureMedia
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Ken Nordine's Word Jazz Radio (1980)s
archive.org Word Jazz Radio Series : Ken Nordine : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveKen Nordine's incredible radio series Word Jazz — all episodes from 1 to 86 (plus 3) — no glitches, no corruption. These are not air-checks, they are the...
You might recognize Ken Nordine's voice from TV commercial and movie trailer voiceovers. What you might not know about is his musical work that he called "word jazz". This included several LPs and a long running radio show on NPR, one of which is linked in this submission.
He would sometimes include work from other artists in the background. In this particular program, there is a woman who can be heard singing starting at around the 3:50 mark. I'm wondering if anyone knows the name of the singer? I haven't had much luck finding any sort of credits or other information about these broadcasts.
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Mystery! intro (1980)s
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Intro to the PBS show MYSTERY! using animation of Edward Gorey.
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All This and World War II (1976) A really weird offering from the 70's. Stock WW2 war footage set to Beatles song covers by some of your fav's including Elton John, Ambrosia and Rod Stewart
archive.org All. This.and. World. War. 2.1976 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveAll This and World War II is a 1976 musical documentary[1] directed by Susan Winslow. It juxtaposes Beatles songs covered by a variety of musicians...
All This and World War II is a 1976 musical documentary[1] directed by Susan Winslow. It juxtaposes Beatles songs covered by a variety of musicians...
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Archive import from R/ObscureMedia
Archive import from R/ObscureMedia
Hi all, I got a copy of the archives from reddit and am going to start importing them over the weekend. This will result in a flood of content/posts from me so I appreciate your patience and understanding.
Best regards, Jax
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Pare Lorentz's poetic documentary The River (1937)
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Pare Lorentz's poetic documentary film The River (1937) tells the story of how agricultural practices along the Mississippi river led to topsoil loss and flooding during the depression era, eventually leading to soil conservation practices and dam construction. Flooding broke out on the Ohio river during filming, and is stunningly documented in the film. The film premiered in New Orleans on October 29, 1937.
The poetic narration was praised by James Joyce and Carl Sandburg. A companion book to The River was nominated for a Pulitzer prize in poetry.
The film was awarded best documentary at the 1938 Venice International Film Festival. Virgil Thompson's score is a classic that was used again as the score to the 1983 film The Day After. The River is listed in the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
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Challenge at Glen Canyon (1983)
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This film documents the rush to repair damage to the tunnel spillways of the Glen Canyon Dam that were damaged when they had to be used for the first time in 1983 due to record-breaking runoff into the Colorado river. As repairs were taking place, waters again began to rise in Lake Powell in 1984, creating a race against nature to finish repairs in time.
I saw this film decades ago at the Glen Canyon Dam visitors center, and it always stuck with me. The film includes references to the classic 1937 documentary The River about floods on the Mississippi.
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Driving in Columbus, Ohio and Walking the OSU Campus... (1986)
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Protect and Survive - Rare Radio Version Snippet (1976)
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Fan-chan blogja - Hungarian webcomic/blog/virtual avatar experiment (2010)
If you ever wondered what would VTubing looked like without the "tube" part, then let me introduce you to "Fan-chan blogja" (Fan-chan's blog).
It's a webcomic/blog hybrid, although the blog part gets downplayed later on in favor of a now unfinished story line.
While other virtual avatars (and even a kind of VTuber existed in the form of a Super Sonico clip) did exist, one thing elevates out of them (and likely even the early Eilene experiments) is the no fourth wall, and the ability of talking with at least two of the characters through MSN messenger, at least with one on a forum, and all of them though e-mail. They supposedly had "real names" and even an "accidental face reveal" for Zoyi/Fan-chan, however the face reveal turned out to belong to a lesser known model. However it helped me to track down the author (there were fake social media accounts under the "real names"), or at least one of them. The real scope of the team behind the project isn't known, nor the author seem to give up his anonymity, so I won't share that info. Supposedly multiple people worked on it besides the author, but that's not something I can validate. I don't even know if the person pretending to be Zoyi was either the author or an actual girl, and I don't want to accidentally leak info (how do I say... sometimes I'm seeing ghosts... might be due to the fact that some people share her sense of humor, mannerisms, and age...). I will however say that it had production issues due to the author's school and work.
I can try to translate it to English if there's enough demand. Some page used to have official English translation, but I don't think it had any kind of Japanese translation, so don't expect it to be the basis of modern VTubing, the main influence of Kizuna Ai, or the main originator of Delutaya's love for green triangles.
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Too Smart for Strangers with Winnie the Pooh (1985)
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A 'Welcome to Pooh Corner' special that teaches kids about stranger danger through creepy puppets and song and dance numbers.
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"Welcome to Fear City" - a pamphlet distributed to arriving visitors in airports in NYC in the (1970)s
archive.org Welcome to Fear City : Council for Public Safety : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveWelcome to Fear City was a pamphlet issued by a group of NYC public service unions as a response to threatened budgetary and staff cuts to the police...
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U.S. Office Of Education - "Metric Education" PSA (1978)
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Animated PSA that aimed to teach Americans about the metric system through song, similar to the style of Schoolhouse Rock.