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Just a channel that covers obscure topics that interest me.
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The Elf BEFORE The Shelf
Ever wonder where the knee hugging elf that mysteriously appears on mantles and Christmas trees comes from? Here we dive as deep as we can into where this decoration first appeared, how it evolved, and how it was appropriated into a hundred million dollar property.
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Venture: Saving a Destroyed Cartoon
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For context, I highly recommend watching the previous video: ua-cam.com/video/Lr2ziJz09ow/v-deo.html This is a follow up on my coverage about Colonel Bleep, the first color cartoon made for television. After receiving a mysterious print of the show, it took several months to discover what was on it. The results were a bit tragic.
Inside The Works - Teaser
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Inside The Works is an upcoming UA-cam documentary about the making of The Works, a computer animated film in production from 1978-1982 at the Computer Graphics Laboratory that was once housed at the New York Institute of Technology from 1974-1992. The documentary will also focus on the other projects that were in development at the lab, its history, and its impact. With the help of Oliver Levi...
Television's First (and Lost) Color Cartoon
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Before Ruff and Reddy, before The Jetsons and The Flintstones, there was Colonel Bleep. Sitting down with Scott Schleh, the son of the show's creator and animation historian/Streamline Pictures co-founder Jerry Beck, we go over the birth of television's forgotten color program. Music: Seeburg 1000, Mood 6; 1959, transferred by @RaptorsVideos This is a video adaption of my article "Building Zero...
Where Did The Cymbal Monkey Come From?
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You've probably seen him, the monkey that claps a pair of cymbals and has an unnerving grimace with piercing eyes. Ever wonder where he comes from? This is about as far as you can get. Also forgot to credit the channel Groovy Movies for their upload of Commander USA presents Devil's Chimp. ua-cam.com/video/Ud3_siVb-WY/v-deo.html
Introduction to Finding Lost Media
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Over the past decade or so, the online lost media community has continued to grow exponentially. As I've been watching this, I, like others, soon noticed that many people didn't really know how to start. A lot of people went about things the wrong way, or didn't really know where to even begin. So, I decided to adapt The Lost Media and Research Handbook into a short video for beginners directin...
ROTTEN: Original Soundtrack
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Here's the soundtrack to ROTTEN: Behind the Foodfight, mostly in order in how they play in the documentary. Music by JoeyVFX was used with permission from his album Gnomes. Joey's a good friend and I'm so glad he let me use his tunes. Check it out! ua-cam.com/video/mIXFTo54Z7s/v-deo.html Music by John Taylor was specially created for this doc free of charge and I'm forever grateful to him for t...
ROTTEN: Behind the Foodfight
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In 2012, the animated feature Foodfight! was unleashed on the world. It was given a theatrical release just a year before in the UK, Russia, and Dubai. The movie cost approximately 32 million dollars, starred Charlie Sheen, Wayne Brady, Hillary Duff, Eva Longoria, and Christopher Lloyd. Yet it only made back less than 1% of its budget and lives in infamy as the worst animated feature ever creat...
How Waldo was "Banned"
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Where's Waldo (or Wally if you're in the UK) is a sensation that took the world by storm when it was released in 1987. But for the past twenty years, it's had the reputation of being one of the most unexpected books to be banned across the United States' public school libraries. This is that story. Quite possibly my worst line delivery to date, so if it sounds a little lackluster, that's my bad...
Interphone: The Forgotten Ordering System
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This is the Interphone system, a way of ordering food that was a somewhat common novelty during the 1960s-80s. Instead of giving your order to a waiter, you called it in directly to the kitchen. Music is from the SeeBurg 16RPM background music record library
When Did Pete First Panic? A Popping Martian's Journey
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This is the short but somewhat strange story about Panic Pete, the toy you squeeze and his eyes pop out. All of my sources are from here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_Pete I wrote that article so in this case referencing Wikipedia is okay lol. Music is from the KPM music library. Thank you to my friend Max for aiding in research! This video is a little outdated! All of the info is still accurate...
Fnaf 2 on night seven:
Love that between all the christmas tunes you snuck in the Davy Jones theme
Monkey man
I grew up in the 1980s and this was common knowledge for parents to pass down to their children via the child's questions to the parents about the toy.
Didn't know that the Elf On The Shelf dates back to post-WW2. Very great video!!!!!!
my dyslexia kicked in and I swear the thumbnail said "is he woke?"
Elf on the shelf is a registered republican unfortunately
I only started hearing about this tradition in the past ten years or so. As an Elezen, I am not amused by it. lol
Not the point I know, but I have a few Jewel Brites on my tree as we speak! They were my grandma's and they were always my favorite. I was so excited to see them in this timeline, I had never thought of them being part of a product line before.
if I drink the used vitafilm I think I'll gain the knowledge of Bleep
Will you do an essay video about country geese? You know, those geese with blue ribbons
Not a bad idea! I might look into it.
@@okso... I'm not sure are they related to porch geese
yeahhhh he's back
Wow UA-cam totally destroyed the quality on this one. Sorry about that.
Oh dang. I actually discovered this last year after seeing one in an antique store. I thought about making a video about it but then I forgot.
How many of them had a weird face?
Lol depends on what you define as a weird face. If you're talking about the one I specifically gave as an example, I've only seen a few use that head.
@@okso... Interesting. The weird head reminds of "let me hear your war cry" that one obscure vid.
Santa's little snitch
🎵I broke my bat on Johnny’s head, so somebody snitched on me!🎵
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I actually jumped on the 2:58 .
0:10 got f*cking jumpscared. We're off to a great start
I love that you snuck a picture of Kurt Cobain and ChimChim in this video. He found it at a thrift store and he was completely obsessed with it.
6:33 It says "わんぱく! おさるのシンバル" (Wanpoku! O Saru no Shinbaru) Which after checking it seems google thinks "O Saru" means "Curious", but Saru really means monkey. It really says something like "Naughty! Monkey's Cymbal" or the translation it gives of "Naughtiness Cymbals Chimp".
Thank you!
You don't need to know a god damned thing about turn of the century organ grinders to talk about an industrialized commercial product. You wasted my time and now I will not continue the video.
Let's not forget "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) during the song "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
I've barely started the video and you can't fool me. I know Dalmatians 102: Puppies to the Rescue when I hear it! Don't hear that often in videos like these, haha.
Fun fact: A monster, known as the murder monkeys, are the first antagonists that the player faces in Dark Deception. These murder monkeys are based on the cymbal monkeys, with the only difference being that the murder monkeys are in red hotel attire, have their hands replaced with knifes, are the size of the distance between the foot to torso of the average human, and have a comically large gear-key on their back. As of now, that’s one of the only modern representations of the cymbal monkeys that I now.
music in the intro monologue being from the 101 dalmations video game for dreamcast activated me like a sleeper cell
There’s a story in Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders. And Ioved the use in Monsters vs. Aliens the series.
As a grease enjoyer that ipana ad jumpscared me
Was really hoping you'd drug PSA monkey jump scare us at the end
Weirdly the spirit Halloween looks less disturbing than the actual cymbal monkey toy
I hate these things they are so creepy looking
Monkey bomb
My friend had one in the mid 60s. I wasn't comfortable being left in the room with it. I now have my own, and its still damn creepy.
Any other Fallout players out there who shoot the heads off these cymbal monkies on principle, just because of how godawful creepy they are? Hell there's that one parking ramp by Fallon's that some psychopath rigged up into a death maze, and that one room just rammed full of cymbal monkies, all going off at the same time.....eeeuugghgh gives me the jibblies.
What fun?
The monkey and the bill Hopper both pejoratives against Italians
I once had a dream that thing swallowed a dog whole.
Rock and roll Martian. Rock and roll Martian.
Cool info. So many "actually"s.
Good to note!
Hah, I kinda assumed people stop making those public domain cartoon compilations then VHS fell out us use, guess not.
“ You’re not Sam! “
でんぐり (denguri) actually means somersault, so its somersaulting cheeta
though upper left smaller black text does say its an electric action toy
Thank you!
"grinds his organ"
Very interesting, it's a shame that the print was deteriorated but still awesome ya have it.
0:37 thats black ops 2 not world at war 🤦♂️
Heard of the toy..Screamerz?. (Z not S)