Ru Paul Interviewing Fred Schneider (1985)

This clip is from an interview RuPaul did for The American Music Show at the 1985 New Music Seminar. RuPaul interviews Fred Schneider, singer for the B-52s. The American Music Show began in 1981 and ran until 2005 on People TV, the public access station in Atlanta, Georgia.

Private Buckaroo (1942)

This video clip features a short dance sequence featuring Collegiate Shag and Tap Dancing to the music of Harry James.

Romancing the Stone- Movie Trailer (1984)

Romancing the Stone is a 1984 American action-adventure romantic comedy. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, it stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. The film was followed by a 1985 sequel, The Jewel of the Nile.

Joan Manuel Serrat - La Saeta (1974)

The saeta is a revered Spanish religious song, whose form and style have evolved over many centuries. The Saeta is best known for its mournful power during Holy Week in Spain, when by Catholic tradition the song is performed during the processions by religious confraternities that move through the streets of cities and towns in southern Spain.

This video clip features "La Saeta", which the singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat put to music in 1969. The lyrics were written by the great poet Antonio Machado in 1912.

Nina Simone Live at Montreux (1976)

Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best known music festival in Switzerland and one of the most prestigious in Europe; it is held annually in early July in Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva. Nina Simone made four appearances at the Montreux Festival between 1968 and 1990.

Catwoman- Lee Meriwether Interview (1966)

Lee Meriwether gives this great interview in full costume back in 1966. In it, she talks about her role as Catwoman and other projects that she is working on at that time.

The Babysitter's Club Movie Trailer (1995)

The Baby-Sitters Club is a 1995 family film directed by Melanie Mayron. It is based on The Baby-Sitters Club series of novels and is about one summer in the girls' lives in the fictional town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut. The film was shot in Guelph, Ontario.

New Orleans World's Fair- Show Boat (1984)

This video clip is from an eighty-first birthday celebration for Bob Hope, taped at the New Orleans World's Fair. It is a sketch parody of Show Boat starring Bob Hope, Brooke Shields, Placido Domingo, Red Buttons, John Ritter and Twiggy aboard the River Queen on the banks of the Mississippi in New Orleans.

We Five - You Were On My Mind

We Five was a 1960s folk rock musical group based in San Francisco, California. Their best-known hit was their 1965 remake of Ian and Sylvia's "You Were on My Mind" which reached #1 on the Cashbox chart, #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

The Andrews Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Of Company B"

The Andrews Sisters were a highly successful close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia, soprano Maxene Angelyn , and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie "Patty" Andrews. Throughout their long career, the sisters sold well over 75 million records (the last official count released by MCA Records in the mid-1970s). Their 1941 hit "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" can be considered an early example of rhythm and blues or jump blues.

This video clip is from Buck Privates (1941), one of three Abbott and Costello films featuring The Andrews Sisters, who were also under contract to Universal Pictures at the time.

Red Nichols and his Five Pennies- Vitaphone (1929)

Young Eddie Condon, Pee Wee Russel and Miff Mole among others are featured. This short includes a rendition of "China Boy" as well as Eddie Condon on the vocals for "Nobody's Sweetheart".

Les illusions fantaisistes (1910)

Les illusions fantaisistes (Whimsical Illusions) is a vintage short directed by Georges Méliès, a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema .

Inside A Dance Club (1990s)

The sights and sounds of a 90s dance club.

Children of the Corn Movie Trailer (1984)

Children of the Corn is a 1984 horror film based upon the 1977 short story of the same name by Stephen King. Directed by Fritz Kiersch, the film stars Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton. Set in the fictitious rural town of Gatlin, Nebraska, the film tells the story of a demonic entity referred to as "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" which entices the children of the town to ritualistically murder all the adults to ensure a successful corn harvest, and a couple driving cross-country that get caught up in it.

Peking- The Imperial City (1930)

A video tour of the Chinese city of Peking (Beijing) in 1930.

New York Fire Department (1920s)

This video was made from Stillman's Fire Collection, Perlinger Archives and possibly represents what took place when a fire alarm box was pulled in Brooklyn in the 1920's. The new state-of-art Brooklyn FireTelegraph system was just completed and the movie shows how a pulled fire alarm box was received and re-transmitted to the fire stations.

Valley Girl Movie Trailer (1983)

Full length theatrical trailer for 80's classic Valley Girl, starring Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman. Features an amazing new wave soundtrack.

The Human League - Don't You Want Me (1981)

"Don't You Want Me" is a single by British synthpop group Human League, released from their album: Dare on November 27, 1981. It is the band's best known and most commercially successful recording to date, and was the Christmas number one in the UK, in 1981, where it sold over 1,400,000 copies, making it the 25th most successful single in UK Singles Chart history. It later topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the US on July 3, 1982 where it stayed for three weeks.

Nina Simone - Ain't Got No...I've Got Life (1969)

Great performance by a truly inspiring artist at the Harlem Cultural Festival Aug 17, 1969.

Pick Temple- Giant Food Opening (1950s)

Pick Temple hosts the Sunday opening of a brand new Giant Food store in the Northern Virgina area in the mid 1950s. No food was sold during the celebration because Blue Laws normally kept all supermarkets closed on Sunday.