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The Fabulous 50's: The Fun and the Feel of America's Dream Decade
Reader's Digest
Questar, 2003
Flawed but engrossing collection of clips from the 1950s
This interesting Readers' Digest produced DVD is certainly a novelty. It's not clear who the target audience is - high school history teachers hoping to play this for the kiddies and thus tie up Western Civilization class in a hurry? Probably baby boomers who were children or teenagers during that ...
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Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint (A Young Pioneer Book)
Jay Williams
School Specialty Publishing, 1964
The Book That Got Me Interested In Fiction
+ First in the series, a good harbinger
+ A Classic Story
+ Oh, Danny, where have you gone?
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Edison the Man
Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson
MGM (Warner), 1998
Spencer Tracy as Edison the Greatest Inventor
+ edison, the man
+ Ninety seven transpiration and three percent inspiration!
+ All Children Should See this Movie
+ Every Bit Edison
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The Jetsons - The Complete First Season
Don Messick, Avery Schneider
Turner Home Ent, 2004
Stephen Weakley's review is not accurate
+ Where are the other seasons???
+ The Jetsons - The Complete First Season
+ "Help! Jane, stop this crazy thing!"
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Watch Mr. Wizard (December 29, 1956-USA)
DON HERBERT
NBC-TV, 2002
NBC-TV, sponsored by The Cereal Institute. DON HERBERT and his young visitor Susan study "Explosions." Starting with bursting balloons and ending with the hydrogen bomb! One of televisions better educational shows; the experiments performed by "Mr. Wizard" are fascinating even to adults. Several explosions take place in the studio, the H-Bomb is detonated by analogy, fortunately for the TV ...
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Switched-On Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach, Wendy Carlos
East Side Digital, 2001
40 years later it's STILL great
+ Scary Music
+ Just as I remember
+ Great re-invention of Bach in the 20th Century
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Walt Disney Treasures - Tomorrowland: Disney in Space and Beyond
Walt Disney Video, 2004
disney treasures
+ I helped get this one made!
+ Disney space fun
+ Worth Watching
+ Very Interesting!!
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The Remains of Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
Rhino / Wea, 2000
What a great compilation!
+ Genuflect! Genuflect!
+ Beautiful compilation, well mastered
+ 5++ Stars
+ Classic 60's social-political comedy
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Madame Curie (1943. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon), 1943
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Admiral Hyman Rickover / TIME Cover: January 11, 1954, Art Poster by TIME Magazine
barewalls
barewalls
The most eagerly awaited event in the editorial cycle at TIME Magazine is always the selection of the cover. The best covers capture the zeitgeist of the week while surviving the judgment of history. As browsing this collection of TIME cover art prints shows, TIME is as good a record as any of who and what mattered over the past 80-plus years. And so when TIME captures a person, an event or a ...
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The Story of Louis Pasteur
Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson
MGM (Video & DVD), 1994
An amazing story about a towering figure in history!
+ Educational biography
+ An excellent telling of this amazing scientist's story
+ Paul Muni: The Master of Historical Biography
+ Fighting The Establishment
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The Films of Charles & Ray Eames - The Powers of 10 (Vol. 1)
Films of Charles & Ray Eames
Image Entertainment, 2000
I Loved This
+ The Powers of Ten
+ Powers of 10
+ A classic
+ YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!
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An Eames Primer
Eames Demetrios
Universe Publishing, 2002
Connected to the Work
+ Eames Primer---A fascinating peek inside the world of masters of mid-century
+ Wonderful history
+ Way-it-should-be-ness
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Spirit of St Louis
James Stewart, Murray Hamilton
Warner Home Video, 1999
One of the best!
+ Spirit of St. Louis DVD
+ Epic Flight
+ The Spirit of ST Louis
+ EXCELLENT!!!!!!!
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Apollo 17 (Extended Collector's Edition)
Spacecraft Films
Spacecraft Films, 2004
For Apollo Freaks Only
+ Excellent documentary
+ Last But The Best!
+ Great, but for space buffs only
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