This is some silent Technicolor test footage done at RKO in the 1930’s. Most of it is rather mundane, so the video will start at the good part, with Dolores del Rio encountering a creature from Son of Kong.
Author: DOuG pRATt
What’s So Funny ‘Bout Declan and Stephen’s Understanding?
Colbert and his buddy Elvis Costello, older and heavier than in his angry young man days, share memories of losing their mothers.
Then they chat about the Beatles.
Just Call Them Political Cartoons
Last week I noted that Art Spiegelman’s Maus won a Pulitzer Prize. It was the first, and so far it’s the only, graphic novel to be awarded that distinction.
The category of graphics that the Pulitzer people have recognized for exactly one hundred years is editorial cartooning. But no more. From now on, the category will be called Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. Cartooning is not illustration, and if they think this somehow dignifies the craft, it doesn’t work for me.
http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/01/21/editorial-cartooning-legend-dead-to-pulitzers/
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists seems to be taking the change in stride. Maybe some of their Illustrated Reporters and Commentators will have something to say about it.
FYI for cartoonists entering the @PulitzerPrizes. From their site: "The Editorial Cartooning category is now called Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. Redefined last year, the category recognizes "a distinguished portfolio of editorial cartoons or other illustrated work"
— AAEC (@AAEC_Cartoonist) January 20, 2022
Hanksy Panky
Tom Hanks is back in the Playtone Records station wagon with a stack of 8-track tapes to give us a break from the January blahs!
A Pop Cartoon Quiz
What’s wrong with this song?
What’s wrong with this cartoon?
Touch and Gone
“Everything I touch gets ruined!” – Charlie Brown
All of the gadgets below have been de-registered and retired. Not shown are my first three Rokus, or the first two Amazon Fire TV streamers that came after them. And people laughed at my reluctance to get a smartphone, which I finally did a year ago.
For one reason or another, these devices are no longer useable. The Kindle Keyboard’s battery died, and I bravely replaced it, only to learn the battery wasn’t the problem. A Fire TV update came with an audio sync problem. For video streaming I am now back with Roku.
The Lenovo Yoga Tab 3, that I really enjoyed using, got me through my many trips to Arizona, starting five years ago. It was perfect for watching video on the plane, and on land with a Bluetooth keyboard it was my laptop substitute.
So much electronic waste! I wonder if Best Buy still offers recycling? On the positive side, the Oontz Angle Bluetooth speaker I bought in 2014, that I also took to Arizona, is still going strong.