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The Internet Archive (https://archive.org) is a really great non-profit that hosts a treasure trove of audio, video, literature, websites, software, and a million other things. Some of the things you come across are really interesting and some are just completely nonsensical bullshit but can still be entertaining. This thread is for posting whatever you find in the archive, whether it be a good documentary, a dumb book, or just audio of some guy singing to birds in the park. Also, it should go without saying but don't post  or anything of that nature.Here are some cool and good videos I've come across Robert Lovato and Hunts Donuts - https://archive.org/details/Roberto_Lovato_Hunts_Donuts Roberto Lovato, who grew up on Folsom near 25th Street during the 1970s, describes how his father was involved in the "alternative economy" centered on Hunt's Donuts at 20th and Mission, and how it benefitted his extended Salvadoran families in San Francisco and in El Salvador. Hard Core Home Movie Clip - https://archive.org/details/hardcorehomemovieclip A short film clip from Greta Snider's Hard Core Home Movie. Sandinistas in SF - https://archive.org/details/ssfsandnsta Alejandro Murguia, who fought in the 1978 Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, describes the role San Francisco played in the uprising. Gay Sex before Zippers - https://archive.org/details/ssfHAYBVDCT Harry Hay describes gay sex when BVD's were still predominant underwear, before zippers in the 1930s... men would meet at Presidio guardhouse and go into the bushes. El Salvador: Another Vietnam - https://archive.org/details/elsalvadoranothervietnam This film examines the civil war in El Salvador in light of the Reagan administration's decision to "draw the line" against "Communist interference" in Central America. It offers an overview of U.S. military and economic policy in Central America since 1948, with extensive background to the current crisis. Includes scenes with both government and guerilla forces, and discusses U.S. aid to the Junta. Is this the beginning of a "new Vietnam"? A Blue Ribbon Winner, American Film Festival 1982. Directed by Glen Silber and Tete Vasconellos. 1981 Summer of Love by Diamond Dave Whitaker - https://archive.org/details/sumofluv A Summer of Love poem/rap by San Francisco legend "Diamond Dave" Whitaker. Televoid - https://archive.org/details/televoiddvd Computer animator Michael Boydstun (of the four MIND'S EYE movies) presents a mesmerizing, kaleidoscopic flight of fancy inside a television set that beams out hallucinatory visions. This surreal and witty science-fiction/fantasy film serves as a good-natured critique of television and its effect on the mind. The musical score by Paul Speer and Queensryche's Scott Rockenfield provides a wonderfully gothic background. Meeting Frieda Kahlo and Diego Rivera - https://archive.org/details/pele-frieda Artist Pele DeLappe describes her encounter at age 15 with Frieda Rivera (Kahlo), sitting around painting and smoking cigarettes together, while Diego Rivera was painting the San Francisco Stock Exchange mural (c. 1930) Squatter Punx Rock the Vats - https://archive.org/details/ssfVATPUNX The old Falstaff brewery became a home to punk rockers in the early 1980s before its demolition. Here's a glimpse of an impromptu concert outside. Goodvibe - https://archive.org/details/ssfGOODVIBE Short excerpt from documentary "Stripped Bare" highlighting the sex-positive retail operation Good Vibrations, a long-time resident on Valencia Street in the Mission. Herb Mills on Containerization - https://archive.org/details/ssfHMCONTAN Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of Local 10 ILWU, describes the role of containerization in the global economy. Herb Mills on the Hiring Hall - https://archive.org/details/ssfHMHRHALL Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of ILWU Local 10, describes the importance of the Hiring Hall to the culture and politics of longshoring. Our Gay Brothers - https://archive.org/details/ourgaybrothersfilmclip A short film clip from Greta Snider's Our Gay Brothers. NSFW Blood Story - https://archive.org/details/bloodstoryfilmclip A short film clip from Greta Snider's Blood Story. NSFW John Ross - San Francisco Revolutionary - https://archive.org/details/johnrosssanfranciscorevolutionary John Ross - Marxist. Maoist, Journalist, Revolutionary: One of the leaders of the Progressive Labor Party in San Francisco. He was involved in progressive movement in the 1960's and 70's. Was instrumental in rent strikes and the Tenants' Union for the betterment of urban housing in San Francisco. Aerials of New York City at Night, Twin Towers, 1980s - https://archive.org/details/youtube-cM9eR8K8UsE From the Kinolibrary archive film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit http://www.kinolibrary.com. Revenge of the 1980s - https://archive.org/details/NihaoCollectiveRevengeofthe1980s_0 An artschool music video mash-up of 1980s movie classics to Cylob's awesome "Living in the 1980s" track. Spy Story of The Year, 1960 - https://archive.org/details/1960-05-09_spy_story_of_the_year In Moscow, Khrushchev tells Presidium the Gary Powers was alive and his plane shot down on May Day, spokesman Lincoln White makes statement Project One - https://archive.org/details/cbpf_000052 An hour-long documentary on Project One, a unique living/working community in a converted five-story warehouse in the South of Market district of San Francisco. This video documents the activities of Optic Nerve and other artists working within the collective space, sharing resources, new technologies, etc. Street Fair 1959 - https://archive.org/details/cbpf_000048 This edited Ektachrome home movie with titles documents a 1959 street fair, upper Grant Avenue, San Francisco--the center of Beat culture. The film includes shots of filmmaker Dion Vigne and his wife Loreon, artist and occultist Marjorie Cameron and her daughter Crystal, artist Wallace Berman and his wife Shirley, and Beat poet and surrealist Bob Kaufman. Fifty Wonderful Years - https://archive.org/details/cbpf_000092 A behind the scenes look at the 1973 Miss California Pageant and the state of the feminist movement. By the early 1970s, pageants had become a target of feminists and the organizers and contestants found themselves facing protests and scrutiny from the media. Optic Nerve presents both sides neutrally, allowing the clueless pageant community to make the feminists' case for them. Vietnam Special, 1967 - https://archive.org/details/VietnamSpecial1967 Documentary about the Vietnam War Harvey Milk interview at Castro Camera, March 1978 - https://archive.org/details/cbpf_000081 Media collective Optic Nerve interviews San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk at Castro Camera, a camera shop operated by Milk since he opened it in 1972 and center of the neighborhood gay community. Here and There - https://archive.org/details/cbpf_000056 Documentation of a performance piece by John Gillen included in the exhibition Performance/Art/Artists/Performers held at the University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum, August 19, 1975, organized by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana. Patty Hearst/Symbionese Liberation Army - https://archive.org/details/casacsh_000087 These news clips from KCRA TV feature the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, her media announcement she had joined the SLA, the SLA bank robbery in Sacramento, and the trail of Hearst. Off the Pig - https://archive.org/details/cbpf_000121 This is the film the Black Panthers used to promote their cause. Shot in 1969, in Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento, this exemplar of 1960s activist filmmaking traces the development of the Black Panther organization. In an interview from jail, Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton describes the origins of the Panther Party, Eldridge Cleaver explains the Panthers' appeal to the Black community, and Chairman Bobby Seale enumerates the Panther 10-Point Program as Panthers march and demonstrate. Los Siete - https://archive.org/details/cbpf_000095 This film is about the oppression of the Third World community in the Mission district of San Francisco, specifically seven Latino youths who were recruiting street kids into a college Brown Studies Program. Accused of killing a plainclothesman, they became victims of a press and police campaign to "clean-up" the Mission. Their defense became the foundation of a revolutionary community organization called Los Siete. Zero Hour in the Redwoods - https://archive.org/details/cubanc_000180 Zero Hour in the Redwoods. Linford Production, from the Sierra Club papers. Sunset Tower Records - https://archive.org/details/casacsh_000018 This color film captures one of Tower Records flagship stores, located on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. Tower Records was founded in 1960 in Sacramento and became an international business before closing in 2006. The record store helped revolutionize the music industry. The film was made by Sacramento City College professor Darrell Forney and shows customers shopping in the store in the evening. Japanese Internment Interviews - https://archive.org/details/casacsh_000066 These news clips from KCRA TV capture three interviews with members of Sacramento's Japanese community about the displacement of the community during World War II and monetary reparations for internment during the war. The Heritage of California Education - https://archive.org/details/casacsh_000063 An educational film that reviews California's history through paintings, photographs, and historical locations. Tiny Moore - https://archive.org/details/casacsh_000067 These news clips from KCRA TV includes an interview with Tiny Moore, country musician who played in Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys band and at the famous Wills Point nightclub in Sacramento. Tiny and his wife play and sing as well in the clip. Man and the State Machiavelli (1972) - https://archive.org/details/manandthestatemachiavelli The second of six films in Bernard Wilets's Man and the State series serves as an introduction to the sixteenth-century political commentator Niccolo Machiavelli and dramatizes a debate in which his approach to leadership can be compared with the Christian-based beliefs of his contemporaries. McDonalds Commercial - https://archive.org/details/adland_mcdonalds_commercial Excerpt from documentary about the advertising business : Footage of filming a McDonald's Christmas commercial. King Moody, in Ronald McDonald costume, talks about the few perks he gets playing that part. Reinhard claims that the ads for McDonald's are subtle since they sell the product through the characters instead of convincing people to buy the product. Media Burn - https://archive.org/details/mediaburn A video art piece examining the media, particularly Television news. On July 4, Independence Day, 1975, a "media circus" assembles at San Francisco's Cow Palace Stadium. A pyramid of television sets are stacked, doused with kerosene, and set ablaze. Then a modified 1959 Cadillac, piloted by two drivers who are guided only by a video monitor between their bucket seats, smashes through the pyramid destroying the TV sets. Preceding the event are actual clips from various TV news broadcasts that covered it (most of the TV reporters make the comment that they "didnt get it"; coverage of the "media circus" at Cow Palace; and a speech given by Doug Hall as the late President John F. Kennedy, which explains the message of Media Burn. Tales of Hoffman - https://archive.org/details/tales_of_hoffman Short documentary about the two main figures in the Chicago Conspiracy trial - Abbie Hoffman and the presiding judge, Julius Hoffman. This piece compares the Hoffmans' personalities and argues that they had a mutual fascination with one another.
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Noise-Arch - https://archive.org/details/noise-arch DESCRIPTION This collection is a compilation of underground/independently-released cassette tapes from the days when the audio cassette was the standard method of music sharing... generally the mid-eighties through early-nineties. The material represented includes tape experimentation, industrial, avant-garde, indy, rock, diy, subvertainment and auto-hypnotic materials. Much of this material defies category, and has therefore not been given one. The bulk of the tapes in this library were donated to the project by former CKLN FM radio host Myke Dyer in August of 2009. The original NOISE-ARCH site was hosted and maintained by Graham Stewart and Mark Lougheed. A bunch of assorted weird poo poo, ranging from Europop mixtapes from long forgotten artists to random noise.
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Billy Silk - https://archive.org/details/EmilySkinnerBillySilk This film was screened at the OMSK event that took place in January 1998 in London. A little british boy learned the joys of hard labour.
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super sweet best pal posted:Noise-Arch - https://archive.org/details/noise-arch This is a really good collection, I especially like all of the cover art. I've only listened to Dad's New Slacks (https://archive.org/details/noise-arch_dns89) so far but it is on some seriously good and weird poo poo. Check out these words that someone wrote about them in a 1995 mailing list: old man from old internet posted:WARNING! WELCOME!
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Jul 7, 2017 16:37
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value-brand cereal posted:Billy Silk - https://archive.org/details/EmilySkinnerBillySilk I liked the part where Billy tries to teach the garbage man how to do the dishes but the troll just tries to kill him anyways. Heres another good one from that same collection about a guy that rents videos, edits them and then returns them back to the video shop in their altered state https://archive.org/details/ManuelSaizVideoHacking murex has a new favorite as of 16:57 on Jul 7, 2017 |
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This stuff is really cool, thanks for sharing.
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Jul 18, 2017 13:27
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The Holy Ghost People is one I actually saw in a sociology class first years ago. It's about poisonous snake handling as a part of religious services. Though possibly more prevalent in the deep south this 1967 film takes place in West Virginia. Yes, someone is bitten. Duck and Cover, a 1951 Civil Defense production that says in case of nuclear attack to put your head between your legs and kiss your rear end goodbye. The strangest sight, though, might be the integrated elementary classroom. This was three years before Brown vs. Board of Education and even states like Delaware were hesitant to integrate schools.
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I don't have 3 million hours
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