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  • family A 1930 news reel about a nutty weight loss contraption, starring Pesco's grandmother David Pescovitz
  • music Forget fart sounds—Cecil Dill's masterfully squeezed his hands together to make beautiful music (video) David Pescovitz
  • police In 1933, police officers enforced a 3-second time limit on goodbye kisses on Bronxville train platform Thom Dunn
  • History Bastards of the Party: a ­documentary about why gangs emerged in L.A. Elías Villoro
  • black history Watch the earliest known film made by a Black production company Thom Dunn
  • nazis A look at how the German propaganda machine spun D-Day Gareth Branwyn
  • hyperreality Footage of traumatized moviegoers walking out of The Exorcist in 1973 Rob Beschizza
  • characters The hand-farting farmer who found newsreel fame in 1933 David Pescovitz
  • happy mutants Aethervision: "newsreels" that recap the week's news using public-domain, pre-1924 footage Cory Doctorow
  • music Watch Lucille Ball demo a 1939 ancestor of the "talk box" famously used by Peter Frampton David Pescovitz
  • tabloids The Queen's Nazi shame, JonBenet's killer found, and Owen Wilson's baby mama revealed, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
  • makers Watch this excellent 1977 documentary about makers and mad inventors David Pescovitz
  • elderly Incredible footage from 1929 of old folks born in the 1800s Rusty Blazenhoff
  • music Fats Domino, RIP David Pescovitz
  • aliens Alien Autopsy: the one-man theater show from one of the hoaxers! David Pescovitz
  • bears Michael Bond, creator of Paddington Bear, dies at 91 Rob Beschizza
  • star trek First Star Trek: Discovery trailer Rob Beschizza
  • protest How to film a protest Andrea James
  • videos That time London was nearly destroyed by Nazi paleo-drones Cory Doctorow
  • fire A very brief history of pier fires in England Rob Beschizza

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