Richmonda, Virginia’s DJ Carlito specializes in digging up vintage, totally random vacation films and setting them to music. We’re absolute suckers for all things Romanian, so the above clip is a fave. But also check out Carlito’s found footage from Tunisia in 1967—not to mention this Indonesian propaganda flick from the heyday of (we think) […]
Entries Tagged as '1960s'
Ceausescu Through the Looking Glass
August 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Ceausescu Through the Looking Glass
Tags:1960s·DJ Carlito·Indonesia·movies·Romania·travel·Tunisia
The Lunar Also-Ran
July 20th, 2009 · Comments Off on The Lunar Also-Ran
As we spend today celebrating the 30th anniversary of mankind’s first visit to the Moon, it’s worth noting that America’s space-race triumph was far from pre-ordained. In fact, the smart money circa 1963 would have been on the Soviets reaching the goal first, due to the seldom recognized genius of Sergei Korolev. The man responsible […]
Tags:1960s·Laika·Moon·NASA·Russia·satellites·Sergei Korolev·Soviet Union·Venus
Whatever Happened to Zezozose Zadfrack?
April 22nd, 2009 · 12 Comments
The recent leak of this Charles Manson mugshot got Microkhan thinking about his youthful obsession with Helter Skelter, still a classic of the true-crime genre. The way that Vincent Bugliosi slowly reveals the paranoia at the Family’s core, as well as the crazy Beatles link, taught us a lot about narrative pacing—not to mention the […]
Tags:1960s·Charles Manson·crime·cults·history