Russ Columbo was an enormously popular crooner of the early 1930s, rivaling Bing Crosby in his rise to stardom. Unfortunately he went to a friend’s house one afternoon in 1934, cleaned his friend’s gun and was the unfortunate recipient of a bullet that discharged by accident, thus ending his career (and life). Nothing about that s...

What better way to greet the long-awaited eastern spring than by watching an old newsreel about the New York Blizzard of 1947. Over ninety tons of snow buried New York state beginning on Christmas night and ending the following day, having dumped twenty-six inches of snow onto the city streets ...

Yesterday I posted a fascinating short doc about the daunting creation of an animated film in 1938. Having seen my recent interest in the subject, YouTube quickly coughed up ...

This short doc from 1938 shows us the unbelievably intricate, detailed and tedious process used in crafting an animated picture in the era before Hanna-Barbara ruined animation with their cheap, non-moving backrounds and unrealistic body motions. ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ is the subject...

Today is day one of ‘Sun ‘N Fun’, a huge civil aeronautics festival held every year in Florida. (It;s not the largest though–that would be ‘Air Venture’ in Osh Kosh, Wisconsin which I’m planning on attending this July). To mark the beginning of this week’s air fest I’m posting a very fun short ...