I actually enjoy watching this sort of thing, a corporate propaganda film from 1969 about a British tobacco firm that follows the whole process from the Virginia tobacco growing process.
Since it is I.F. Stone day here on the blog, let's watch an interview with the great journalist! https://www.youtube.com/embed/qV3gO3zxQ1g
I may have linked to this before, back in the days before I created Film Club, but since we started the day with Samuel Slater, I figured we'd end it.
This footage of Bess Truman trying and failing to break a champagne bottle over an airplane to christen it is pretty entertaining. Always good to watch complete failure in action..
Since I've been talking about child labor again thanks to the Supreme Court case and Neil Kaytal's immoral life choices, it's worth making tonight's film Children Who Labor, from 1912..
Tonight's let look at this amazing footage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. https://www.youtube.com/embed/fqNkmZ3n_bc This was preserved by the National Film Preservation Foundation and they have an interesting description to.
You don't have to know much Spanish to find the footage of this Mexican woman watching Rachael Ray teach how to make "Mexican" pozole pretty damn funny. The best part.
It's been a stressful year. And the last week has been no less stressful. COVID makes going out to eat not a great idea. Like many of you, I have.
