Song Birds as Neighbors (1920s)

Great shot of movie cameraman in woods shooting birds at close range. Describes insect pests. Birds are “nature’s check against these hardened criminals.” Children building bird houses under direction of Audubon societies. “Building and renting bird houses encourages children in the study of civics.” “A delegation from the schools of Portland, Oregon, organizing a colonization […]

Songs Of The South (1946)

Soundies from the 1940s of songs from the Old South with racist imagery – black face, etc. Film is as damaged as the content… Showboat melodies / with the Marshalls — Waiting for the Robert E. Lee / with the Dixiairs — Dear old Southland / sung by the Dixiairs. We digitized and uploaded this […]