In this short Charlie Chaplin 1918 film Shoulder Arms, Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines. Chaplin wrote, directed, and starred in the silent comedy. The movie runs 44:32: See Also: Charlie Chaplin’s Barbershop Skit

Former San Francisco 49ers head coach Bill Walsh died today after a long battle with leukemia. With the deaths of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and talk show host Tom Snyder, that makes it three celebrities to die in the span of two days. This is an interview with Bill Walsh about his career and his battle [...]

Late night television show pioneer Tom Snyder died yesterday at 71 years of age. This is a compilation of many of his most famous interviews for the Tomorrow Show: Tom Snyder Interviews Johnny Rotten This is parts one and two of Tom Snyder’s infamous interview with John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), the former frontman for punk rock band [...]

One of my favorite directors, and one of the great film directors of all time, Ingmar Bergman, died today. The following are clips from some of his significant films: The Seventh Seal – 1957 Wild Strawberries – 1957 Through A Glass Darkly – 1961 Ingmar Bergman On Winter Light – 1962 The Silence – 1963 Persona – 1966 Hour Of The Wolf [...]

This is a NOVA documentary of the Cuttlefish. It’s very good. Runs 1 hour:

This is the full-length 2003 movie The Core. In this science fiction movie, the earth’s core has stopped rotating, setting off disasters and a governmental team is brought together to drill to the center of the Earth and set off a series of nuclear explosions in order to restart the Earth’s core. Watch it while [...]

This is some pretty good amateur stop-motion animation using those little plastic Army men toys:

This is a demonstration of CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) from 1981 that was used to convince Disney executive to produce the movie TRON: This is a scene from the movie TRON. At the time, the graphics were an unprecedented innovation for Hollywood movies:

HBO’s new comedy Flight Of The Conchords to a little getting used to, but once I did, I became a fan. The series revolves around two New Zealanders, Brett and Jermaine, and their band Flight Of The Conchords as they try to make it in New York. They have one obsessed fan and a bumbling [...]

This is pretty amazing. A World War II-era T-6G/Harvard plane had to make an emergency landing on U.S. Hwy. 41 near Fon du Lac County Airport in Wisconsin last Sunday: