Vintage video clips

[NancyNGA]

I do really like old things, especially videos. Do you have a video clip of something interesting from the past? About any subject at all? I'd like to see it.

Here are two short clips I found recently:

Eleanor Roosevelt on Richard Nixon
She is referring to Nixon's Senate campaign against Helen Gahagan Dougles in 1950.

Nixon accused Gahagan, wife of actor Melvin Douglas, of being soft on Communism because of her opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Nixon called her "pink right down to her underwear." It was Gahagan Douglas who popularized Nixon's epithet "Tricky Dick".


Richard Nixon's Checkers Speech
I remember seeing this live on TV.

 

[SeaBreeze]

FDR walking.

 

[SeaBreeze]

1954 Willie Mays of the New York Giants

 

[SeaBreeze]

 

[Karen99]

 

[Karen99]

Just a little footnote..my dad loved "Old Walter" and loved to make me laugh by calling him "Walter Crankcase". It's funny how I hadn't thought of that in years...til I just now watched that clip. I sure do miss him...:rose::rose:

 

[Ken N Tx]

 

[NancyNGA]

1950's video of Chet Atkins playing Humoresque (Antonin Dvo?ák, 1894)

 

[SeaBreeze]

A little 'politically incorrect' statement from JFK.

Old New York films, music is strange and detracts from the video, IMO...suggest mute or turn off speakers.

 

[NancyNGA]

Fantastic footage of NYC, SB! :thanks:

 

[NancyNGA]

The Everly Brothers on The Julius LaRosa Show, 1957. He has to ask their names???

Too bad the picture is not very clear.

 

[NancyNGA]

Theodore Roosevelt at his home in Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, 1912.

Part 1

Part 2

 

[NancyNGA]

How to dance The Charleston, 1927. A real knee-knocker?

 

[fureverywhere]

I could so dance like that...at 25...now I'd break something

 

[SeaBreeze]

 

[SeaBreeze]

 

[clover]

This lot look mostly like a right shady bunch of characters. But you never know it could be one of our ancestors trying to earn an honest (or in some cases a dishonest) crust

 

[NancyNGA]

Great video, clover! Interesting music, too. Lot's of terms I've never heard of. What's a mush-faker @2:19?

 

[clover]

Great video, clover! Interesting music, too. Lot's of terms I've never heard of. What's a mush-faker @2:19?

They repaired and sold old umbrellas Nancy

 

[NancyNGA]

They repaired and sold old umbrellas Nancy

Thank you clover. I Googled it and came up with nothing. But I see the umbrellas, now.

 

[clover]

A lovely video clip where technology is put to good use and old and new come together for this remarkable lady

 

[SifuPhil]

1945 NYC and Times Square - look at the heavy car traffic LOL!

Wish I had been there back then - could have caught the Andrews Sisters!

 

[clover]

Thanks for your video Phil. It is interesting to see we were no difference then. Just people getting on with their lives

 

[NancyNGA]

Double decker (electric?) buses. So cool! I don't think we ever had any two-story buses here in the US. Does anybody know?

 

[SifuPhil]

Thanks for your video Phil. It is interesting to see we were no difference then. Just people getting on with their lives

How very true!

It's such a shame that war is brought on by a few megalomaniacs, while the rest of us just want to get along.