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Frankie Teardrop Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 594 seconds Song by Suicide. Video by Walter Robinson,Edit DeAk & Paul Dougherty. A film-video hybrid that combines superimposed projector manipulations and high-end video post-production, finished in 1978. Included in MOMA permanent collection and Rolling Stone's "Book of Rock Video." For some personal notes on the context for this video see http://postlit.com/Y ouTube/wplj.html Related: alan, marty, new, punk, rev, super8, synth, urban, vega, york |
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Phil Ochs - The Highwayman Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 170 seconds An arrangement of a poem by Alfred Noyes. Phil Ochs was a lead player in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960's as very powerful songwriter and voice. Sorry, like many of my off-air recordings the beginning is clipped. Related: bard, folk, guitar, minstrel, music, protest, singer, songwriter |
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Rock Steady Crew Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 153 seconds It's Crazy Legs and Prince Ken Swift in 80s vintage performance. Related: break, dancing, hip-hop, old, school |
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80s Time Capsule - see other version I posted Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 580 seconds I suggest watching the best version http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=mzAwNZCnb 1E Breezy, irreverent romp through the 80's with video clips drawn from over a hundred hours of broadcast television. Distorted vision of pop culture and politics during the un-60s decade. Some sections set to music would be early mashups. Video by Paul Dougherty. Related: 1980s, cold-war, eighties, mash-up, music, new-wave, politics, pop-culture, reagan |
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Hangin by Chic Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 212 seconds Music video I directed in 1982 for Atlantic Records. Hangin was a single from the "Tongue In Chic" LP. Nile Rodgers (vocals, guitar); Bernard Edwards (vocals, bass); Alfa Anderson, Luci Martin (vocals); Tony Thompson (drums) More info in PaulJD2007 bulletin. Related: break, dancing, disco, dougherty, east, graffiti, hip-hop, michael, new, old-school, owen, paul, producer, r&b, village, webo, york |
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Davey and Goliath - race relations Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 95 seconds Davey and Goliath was a children's television series produced by the Lutheran Church in the 1950s and 1960s and televised widely across the United States, the Caribbean and around the world. (As a youth I enjoyed this show.) Related: animation, cartoon, christian, puppetoon, puppets |
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Chipmunk Punk Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 92 seconds commercial Related: 80s, cartoon |
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Blaze Starr Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 132 seconds a short film from The Great American Dream Machine, a very cool 60s style (read free spirit) series on PBS in 1971 Related: burlesque, girl, show |
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Eggs - animated short Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 595 seconds Eggs (1970) by John and Faith Hubley This film is a fave of mine. Thanatos & eros as a feudin' couple, love it. It gets off to a slow start but hang in there. From The Great American Dream Machine, a very cool 60s style (read free spirit) series on PBS in 1971. In the sub-plots the medical futurism seems very prescient. Related: big, brother, cloning, death, earth, environment, life, mother, nuclear, organ, over, pollution, population, sci-fi, transplant, war |
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Lloyd Lindsey Young - Critter Diner Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 121 seconds Lloyd in his usual fine form. I fondly remember Lloyd as the zany weatherman at NYC's own WOR Ch9 during the 80s. He's a broadcast original in a sea of blandness and conformity. I'm told that members of the WOR viewing audience loved him or hated him, yeah I'm in the former. Related: meteorologist, personality, television, weatherman |
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Big Ship Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 190 seconds "Framed" video portraits of Manhattan (& Brooklyn). Contrasting images are woven into continuity by long dissolves set to an instrumental track by Brian Eno of the same name. Part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art. Pre-MTV Related: art, brooklyn, city, harbor, new, video, york |
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Wendy O. Williams w/ Jack Cafferty Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 69 seconds Plasmatics star Wendy O. Williams (RIP) discusses bust in Milwaukee, 1981 Sorry this is all I have. The original tape clogged up, hence the gray gap. Related: controversy, performance, punk, rock, shock |
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the Motor Booty Affair Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 61 seconds commercial for Parliment LP Related: clinton, funkadelic, george, music |
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P-Funk commercial - Funkentelechy Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 51 seconds Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome by Parliament Related: clinton, funkadelic, george, parliament |
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Byelorussian Tourism film Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 410 seconds this film aired on American TV in the 1980s promotes tourism in Belarus, then part of the USSR. I like these travelogue films especially ones from the East Bloc during the Cold War. Related: communism, soviet, travel, travelogue, union |
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Honeymoon at Cove Haven Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 146 seconds A short film from The Great American Dream Machine, a very cool 60s style (read free spirit) series on PBS in 1971. Related: hotel, marriage, resort, romance, theme, wedding |
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70s-style "Elvis" from India - long version Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 239 seconds This Bollywood music video is a crown jewel of my video collection. You don't get more TOTAL SHOWBIZ than this. More is more! Related: disco, vegas |
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Rishad Shafi (Shafiev) drummer Turkmenistan Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 115 seconds From the USSR era. Related: 80s, eighties, new, show-biz, soviet, wave |
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Carvel holiday spots Posted by: PaulJD2006
Video duration: 46 seconds Holiday themed ice cream from Carvel with narration by Tom Carvel. Carvel creations and their commercials are cult favorites in New York City. (circa early 80s) Related: budget, commercials, low |




















