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Continuing our Internet Archive series, today we’ll look at the site’s collection of moving images. This collection is broken into categories, including Computers & Technology (best bet for BBS geeks: The BBS Documentaries), Animation & Cartoons (check out Film Chest Vintage Cartoons), Movies (including Nosferatu and The Man Who Knew Too Much), News & Public Affairs, and many more.
A favorite collection in Moving Images is A/V Geeks, which collects “ephemeral films” – those created for educational, industrial, or promotional purposes. As a former (okay, current) A/V Geek myself, I remember feeding movies like VD is for Everybody through the projector. Well, maybe not that particular movie…but still. See also: Beginning Responsibility: Lunchroom Manners (note the “Mr. Bungle” character – possibly the origin of the band name?).
Tomorrow we continue the series with an in-depth look at one of the collections in the Internet Archive’s Moving Images Archive.
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the image you have shown is from my very favorite bugs bunny cartoon. i remember at the end, bugs bunny is in a crashing plane. right before it hits the ground, it runs out of gas, and stops two inches from impact. gotta love cartoon physics!
posted by jenni on 5-8-2007 at 9:07 pm
In case you missed Pee-Wee’s Playhouse (the original stage show, with Phil Hartman), in the middle of the show, they showed an educational film — a film about a class that had just watched the educational film “Beginning Responsibility”.
An educational film about an educational film. Apparently the original didn’t have quite the impact they expected.
posted by John on 5-14-2007 at 5:00 pm