The Weird Old Days

Videos in this Playlist

1. 11

   

   Original Crazy Bike Stunts

   from Diagonal

   1:27 | 2,954 views

   In the days before BMX…

2. 12

   

   Hydrogen Bomb Test

   from Diagonal

   1:33 | 3,896 views

   Amazing film of the French military testing a hydrogen bomb near Tahiti in the 1950s.

3. 13

   

   popSiren Bite - Historical Oddity of the Day: The 1943 Guide to Hiring Women

   from Revision3

   1:46 | 3,098 views

   Moujan explored the 1943 Guide to Hiring Women, all sorts of sexist fun!

4. 14

   

   Nimbus Libere

   from toonheads

   2:34 | 2,033 views

   A very strange cartoon were a Jewish radio announcer broadcasts the imminent arrival in France of Allied liberators. US planes, flown by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Popeye, and defended by air gunners Goofy and Felix the Cat, drop bombs killing... ...

5. 15

   

   GOOD Magazine – Business of Death

   from Good Magazine Video

   3:27 | 22,829 views

   http://www.good.is/ The funeral industry has grown into a monster!

6. 16

   

   Strange 1930s Balloon Jumping Film

   from Diagonal

   0:57 | 2,284 views

   Funny film from the 1930s of a man unsuccessfully trying to take off by tying himself to a balloon and jumping up and down.

7. 17

   

   popSiren Bite - Historical Oddity of the Day: Inventors killed by their own

   from Revision3

   1:40 | 3,078 views

   Inventions + Mortality = Fun?!

8. 18

   

   The Contortionist

   from Diagonal View

   1:22 | 139,201 views

   Amazing and slightly weird video of Henriques the Contortionist in 1944.