52 mintues with A Soft Self Portrait of Salvador Dali: Video download

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MP4's are preformated to work on your iPod device and others

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10 minute video download with Arthur Conan Doyle (1927) on Sherlock Holmes

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Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom: Watch Online

It's a cinematic masterpiece but also one of the most disturbing things you'll ever see. Even the top review at Amazon gave it four stars out of five but titled his review " The total dehumanization of the human spirit".

That's no hyperbole since it's a remarkable allegory on fascism but also completely fucked up.

Anyway watched it streamed online from Youtube below and click here to check out the DVD and more reviews direct from Amazon.com

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First Sci-Fi movie: A Trip to the Moon: MP4 Download

The classic French sci-fi flick from 1902

What better way to celebrate the new year than with the first trip to the moon and the first sci-fi movie ever made! It includes the celebration scene which many versions seem to omit.

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This is preformatted to play on your PC/Mac and iPod devices

Runs approx 13 minutes

From 1903: A Chess Dispute by Robert W. Paul

From 1903 it's the earliest comedy I've ever come across and it's by Robert W. Paul - one of the UK's earliest filmmakers and one of (perhaps the first) person to ever make a comedy film.

Sure it's only a minute long, silent and black and white (of course) and the plot is very basic but the historic value of this is remarkable.

John Goodman on his role in Waiting for Godot: Listen Online

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Runs approx 36 minutes

WNYC: The Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," stars Bill Irwin as Vladimir and John Goodman as Pozzo. "Waiting for Godot" is playing at Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street) through July 12. Ticket information here.

WWII leaflet from Bob Hope/Pepsodent advertisement

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Mark Twain's The War Prayer MP3 download

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Runs approx 20 minutes




Archive.org: Mark Twain wrote The War Prayer in 1904. Since then, every gerneration facing war has found it as fresh and timely as when it was written. This radio drama version was produced and directed by W.D. Sherman Olson and stars Abbie Williams and folk singer/song writer Billy Krause.

Charlton Heston reads Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

Pick your format to listen in each part. All are kinda old files to listen to audio (before MP3's) however .au and .gsm worked fine for me in Quicktime and .ra worked fine in Real Player. The first two formats can also be downloaded to your PC.

Part 1 .au format (5.5 Mb), .gsm format (1 Mb), .ra format (0.6 Mb).
Part 2 .au format (5.5 Mb), .gsm format (1 Mb), .ra format (0.6 Mb).
Part 3 .au format (5.5 Mb), .gsm format (1 Mb), .ra format (0.6 Mb).
Part 4 .au format (5.5 Mb), .gsm format (1 Mb), .ra format (0.6 Mb).

town.hall.org: Actor Charlton Heston reads "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," a short story by Ernest Hemingway originally published in 1938. The story takes place in Africa, which Hemingway knew and enjoyed visiting as a big game hunter. As the scene opens, Harry, a writer, is stranded with his wife and their safari party in the African bush. Their truck has broken down and Harry's leg has developed gangrene which grows progressively worse.

Throughout the story, Harry recalls scenes from his past. The scenes Hemingway describes clearly stem from his own life; he spent summers as a child in the wilderness of upper Michigan, was wounded and decorated for bravery during the First World War, and lived in Paris between the wars. The story's theme of a writer struggling with his talent resembles Hemingway's own struggles and self-questionings.

Charlton Heston won an Academy Award in 1959 for his performance in the title role of "Ben-Hur." The story is presented in four segments and has been edited for length.

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie: Watch Online

Youku: Typical teen Dodger (Mackenzie Astin) gets the surprise of his life when he uncovers a repulsive gang of alien kids in this gross-out tale based on the popular 1980s trading cards. Dodger frees Messy Tessie, Foul Phil, Valerie Vomit and the other filthy kids from a garbage can, and they help him fight a bunch of bullies. But is the world ready for the icky Garbage Pail Kids or will authorities toss them down the disposal? Anthony Newley co-stars.

MP4 download: Playhouse 90 - The Plot To Kill Stalin (Classic live TV drama)

We've got a classic gem here from September 25, 1958 that gets a 8/10 rating over at IMDB (It's not on DVD so there's no Amazon reviews).

You can check it out below in MP4 format for your Ipod/Iphone, Divx format (won't work on the Ipod but will play in many DVD players) or watch online in streaming video. Each part runs approx 45 minutes.

Right click here to download Part One in MP4

Right click here to download Part Two in MP4

If you'd prefer Divx format right click here to download Part One in Divx and here to download Part Two

Harold Pinter's No Man's Land starring John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson: Watch Online

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Runs approx 90 minutes



Google Video: Complete 1978 television version of the West End and Broadway play. Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, starring John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

The mouse turns 40! See the first one used from 1968

Doug Engelbart gives what is called the "mother of all Demos" which led the way for the technology we all use. Included in this 75 minute is the world's first mouse made of wood and including only one button. Check out just the mouse portion below or look after that to watch the entire presentation direct from Google Video or download it in divx format.



Click out the entire video in embedded video below or right click here to dowload in divx format

The world's first program beamed around the world by satellite: Watch Online

Click here to play in streaming video direct from The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Runs approx 18 minutes

From 1967 comes a wild piece of media history. "Our World" was the first television program broadcast around the world via satellite. First the acclaimed media guru Marshall Mcluhan (check out the Youtube video below to catch a clip of McLuhan giving Woody Allen the thrill of his life) gives his 2 cents on what's about to happen and then we check out segmets from New Jersey, Alberta, Vancouver, Tokyo and finally tram yards in Australia

Here's the clip with Woody Allen and Marshall Mcluhan:

Three Stooges MP4: Nertsery Rhymes

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Runs approx 19 minutes

This is the first Three Stooges short filmed.

Before Larry, Moe and Curly signed up with Columbia they worked for a mean called Ted Healy who basically threated the stooges how Moe treated Larry and Curly in their Columbia Shorts. He was the boss of the show onstage and off.

Needless to say there came a point when the stooges had enough of being the "second bananas" to Healy and they severed their relationship with Healy and moved forward to become one of the greatest comedy teams in the history of media.

Ted Healy brought together a new set of stooges called "Healy's Stooges" to work with him however they never achieved much success. Healhy died in a bar brawl as a result of head injuries however there is a bit of mystery and conjecture revolving around his death.

According to "The Three Stiiges Scrapbook", co-written by Moe's daughter Moe was espically heartbroken over the death of Healy who he still considered a friend dispite their history.

Check back on The Naked Gord Program for more early Three Stooges shorts staring Healy and The Three Stooges or click here to check out a bevy of them on DVD over at Amazon.com. The disc is OOP but there are a number of copies running as little as $3.50. Frankly this is such a good disc any of the 5 that are below $20 are worth it.

The First Recorded Sound discovered - 1860

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ABC.com.au: The oldest recording of the human voice - made 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph - has been discovered and played back by audio researchers.

The 10-second recording is of a person singing a snippet of a French folk song, 'Au clair de la lune', and was recorded on April 9, 1860 by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, the historians say.

Scott de Martinville used a gadget he called a "phonautograph" that scratched sound waves onto a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke of an oil lamp,

"It's magic," says David Giovannoni of First Sounds, a group of audio historians, recording engineers, sound archivists, scientists, others dedicated to preserving humankind's earliest sound recordings.

Click here to read the entire article from Australia's public broadcaster - The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Dizzy Dali Dinner with Salvador Dali and Bob Hope

In this 1941 newsreel surrealist artist Salvador Dali hosts "Night in a Surrealist Forest", a fund raiser to help European artists displaced by the war. Held in the Bali Room of the Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, California it features Bob Hope and Jackie Coogan (best known as "Uncle Fester" from The Addams Family and the Kid from Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid").

Seinfeld at the Smithsonian

Seinfeld's "Puffy Shirt" is inducted into the Smithsonian. Runs 10 minutes

26 minutes with Woody Allen and Jean Luc Godard

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Autographed Marx Brothers photograph