Post #320374 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Jul 21, 2007 12:53 PM

Aaaah! Scopitones, my all time fave vintage medium! MTV before MTV. I have two VHSes full of them. Web of love is certainly among the top five. And I had no idea that the Hula Hands one was a Scopitone, a clip from it is in the BBC Tiki docu on my Tiki Archeology DVD.

The combination of American 50s/60s pop music spiced up by the French disposition for cheesecake, together with the minimalist /surrealist low budget sets is just unbeatable.

Here's the history of it all:

http://hjem.get2net.dk/jack_stevenson/scopi.htm

...and the best website:

http://www.scopitones.blogs.com/

...and, as link from that: http://scopitonearchive.com/scopitones/ads/us_ads.html

Damn....there goes my afternoon again :)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2007-07-21 13:15 ]