In the 1926 film Battling Butler Buster Keaton claims to be a champion prizefighter in order to win his beloved’s hand; in tonight’s short excerpt he steps into the ring to participate in his first training camp.
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Mournful baritone voices, thundering hooves…it can only mean one thing…
h/t Kate
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So, anyone out there know a guy on a buffalo? No? Well, it goes a little something like this…
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Tonight’s tips video is a short NFB film about the exploits of legendary Canadian bush pilot Wilfrid “Wop” May.
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From a 1977 appearance on German TV show Rockpalast, here’s American band Little Feat, led by frontman Lowell George, performing a song about a road-weary, law-breaking, substance-abusing long-haul trucker of dubious character who’s still Willin’.
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Nic Jones was an acclaimed English folk singer and guitarist, part of the late 1960s British folk revival, whose career came to an abrupt end in 1982 as the result of car accident that left him with severe coordination problems. From his 1980 album Penguin Eggs, here is is singing the early 19th century traditional ballad Canadee-i-o.
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Last month an amateur rocket enthusiast named Derek Deville launched a rocket, dubbed Qu8k, from a Desert in Nevada; 90 seconds later, it had reached an altitude of over 120,000 feet. Here’s a 17-minute video of the enterprise, including footage from two onboard video cameras. (Shorter version here).
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In tonight’s Tips music American songwriter John Prine and contralto-voiced Irish folk singer Dolores Keane sing about the difficulties of living In A Town This Size.
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In tonight’s Tips video we take a look at life on the road for a Russian rock band. (h/t David Thompson)
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Hope you’re all having a wonderful holiday weekend! In tonight’s musical selection en route to the tips, American songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter sings her lovely Thanksgiving Song.
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In 1954 American composer Aaron Copland debuted “The Tender Land“, his first and only opera. Accompanied by some vintage film footage of American family life, here’s an orchestral version of a song of thanksgiving from the work called The Promise of Living.
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Take a Thanksgiving weekend trip down memory lane, as Charlie Chamberlain and Marg Osburne sing the opening theme from Don Messer’s Jubilee. Hey, mom, what’s for supper?
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With another NHL regular season now officially underway, this is a good time to watch the NFB’s classic little 1953 short film, featuring Jean Beliveau, called Here’s Hockey!.
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In the upcoming version of a 1969 recording, Johnny Cash and a buddy of his perform a sincere, unpinned version of Girl From The North Country.
There it was.
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In tonight’s Tippity amusement Tommy Smothers, backed by the Boston Pops and his brother Dickie on upright bass, works himself into a state of Yo as he becomes The Yo-Yo Man.
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The late Frank De Vol was an American composer/arranger who, in addition to his Academy Award-nominated film scores, composed a number of familiar theme songs for hit TV shows including The Brady Bunch, My Three Sons, and Family Affair. Tonight, in his comedic role as the eponymous bandleader of “Happy Kyne and His Mirthmakers” on Martin Mull’s 1970s talk-show spoof Fernwood 2Night, De Vol delivers a scorching performance of Boogie Fever.
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In tonight’s Tippity amusement, from the 1964 German film Freddy und das Lied der Prärie (“Freddy and the Song of the Prairie”), Austrian-born actor Freddy Quinn sings the heroically romantic ballad Gib Mir Dein Wort (“Give Me Your Word”).
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“All we are saaaying…”
Snork.
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In tonight’s Tippity amusement English playwright and composer (and, it was later revealed, Bletchley Park-trained WWII spy) Noël Coward sings a bouncy little ditty called There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner.
Lyrics here.
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Via Kate, here’s an interesting look, including an extended onscreen dissection, at the remarkable anatomy of the thoroughbred racehorse.
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