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Ken Nordine's Word Jazz Radio (1980)s (archive.org)

You might recognize Ken Nordine's voice from TV commercial and movie trailer voiceovers. What you might not know about is his musical work that he called "word jazz". This included several LPs and a long running radio show on NPR, one of which is linked in this submission....

All This and World War II (1976) A really weird offering from the 70's. Stock WW2 war footage set to Beatles song covers by some of your fav's including Elton John, Ambrosia and Rod Stewart (archive.org)

All This and World War II is a 1976 musical documentary[1] directed by Susan Winslow. It juxtaposes Beatles songs covered by a variety of musicians...

Fan-chan blogja - Hungarian webcomic/blog/virtual avatar experiment (2010) (fan-chan.blogspot.com)

If you ever wondered what would VTubing looked like without the "tube" part, then let me introduce you to "Fan-chan blogja" (Fan-chan's blog)....

"Welcome to Fear City" - a pamphlet distributed to arriving visitors in airports in NYC in the (1970)s (archive.org)

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A relaxed place to share and discuss lesser known media: silent films, vintage exploitation flicks, finely aged TV, PSAs and other oddities.

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Posting Guidelines
This is a content based sub: we want the goods and nothing else will suffice. Links to blogs or review/digest videos/pages are not welcome.

No posts consisting of a single image.

Short clips/edits from content are not allowed: we want full and complete content. If you wish to highlight a portion of content in a post please use the YouTube timestamps option while still linking to the full content. An example can be found here.

Include the release year in the post title: if not known, an educated guess of the decade will suffice.
Acceptable year labels:
(1985) or (1980)s
The year must only contain 4 digits inside parentheses () using any other format or not including a (year) will result in deletion.

Please search before posting: nobody enjoys obvious re-posts.

Promotion/Spam
No promotion/spam allowed: this isn't the place to promote your music video or short film.

No politics or the like, starting arguments or making political comments will result in an instant ban. This is not the place, move on

Two postings per user in a 24hr period

No recently created content: in order to discourage promotion, most content created within the past ~5 years will be removed. This includes upscaled and remastered versions of vintage material. Blatant Spamming of new content will result in a ban.

No "channel spam'': repeatedly linking to a Youtube/etc. channel is not allowed. Exceptions may be made for users who have uploaded multiple appropriate items to a non-monetized channel. Contact the mods if this applies to you.

Commenting Guidelines
Be nice!: if you post a rudely condescending/attacking/generally dick-ish comment you will be banned with no prior warning.

No arguing about what is obscure enough to be posted: this should be left to the domain of the upvote/downvote and the moderators.

No memes, image macros, or reaction gifs.

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