Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
"In the days before home video and camcorders the only way to capture family events and vacations was with 8mm & 16mm movie cameras and projectors. It wasn't long before imaginative kids & teenagers were borrowing Dad's camera to shoot their own cinematic epics. The Monster Kids of the era, inspired by Famous Monsters magazine and weekly showings of classic films on Shock Theatre began making their own little horror and sci-fi epics in backyards, basements and vacant lots.
This [collection of YouTube uploads] brings together THIRTY of these charming and sometimes scary films and helps preserve them for future generations to inspire and enjoy.
Monster Kid Home Movies is a collection of 8mm movies made by Monster Kids from the 50's to the 80's. You'll find them scary, funny, charming, endearing and entertaining. You'll be astounded by their inventiveness and imagination in bringing their young visions to cinematic life.
A varied and talented group of Monster Kids have contributed their precious films to this amazing collection. Among the contributors are such well known talents as comics artist Kerry Gammill, author & historian Tom Weaver, Disney animator Frank Dietz, filmmaker Robert Tinnell & the original Monster Kid himself, Bob Burns."
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVAKlhW0fMNFeUakAqjVvCDgU7m5o0EmL
"In the days before home video and camcorders the only way to capture family events and vacations was with 8mm & 16mm movie cameras and projectors. It wasn't long before imaginative kids & teenagers were borrowing Dad's camera to shoot their own cinematic epics. The Monster Kids of the era, inspired by Famous Monsters magazine and weekly showings of classic films on Shock Theatre began making their own little horror and sci-fi epics in backyards, basements and vacant lots.
This [collection of YouTube uploads] brings together THIRTY of these charming and sometimes scary films and helps preserve them for future generations to inspire and enjoy.
Monster Kid Home Movies is a collection of 8mm movies made by Monster Kids from the 50's to the 80's. You'll find them scary, funny, charming, endearing and entertaining. You'll be astounded by their inventiveness and imagination in bringing their young visions to cinematic life.
A varied and talented group of Monster Kids have contributed their precious films to this amazing collection. Among the contributors are such well known talents as comics artist Kerry Gammill, author & historian Tom Weaver, Disney animator Frank Dietz, filmmaker Robert Tinnell & the original Monster Kid himself, Bob Burns."
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVAKlhW0fMNFeUakAqjVvCDgU7m5o0EmL
![The Drum Buddy Show (1999) [Quintron, Miss Pussycat, Ernie K-Doe]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qyB716dDU7I/mqdefault.jpg "The Drum Buddy Show (1999) [Quintron, Miss Pussycat, Ernie K-Doe]
NOTES FROM THE ORIGINAL VHS PACKAGING – 1999, RHINESTONE RECORDS:
“Mr. Quintron, the dance club organist and inventor from New Orleans, Louisiana, introduces you to his latest patented invention, The Drum Buddy! This amazing new instrument is a five oscillator, light-activated, mechanically-rotating drum machine that took five years to develop and design. The multitude of sounds it produces are a result of a direct link between the human hand and sheer electronic voltage! Taped live in front of a studio audience at the Spellcaster Lodge in the 9th Ward, this classic TV infomercial takes you from the classroom of a local high school to the stage of a late-night rave. The Drum Buddy Show includes performances by Quintron, Miss Pussycat (and her puppets), MC Tracheotomy, the Drum Buddy Dancers, and legendary R&B recording artist Ernie K-Doe.”
Released in early 1999, The Drum Buddy show – half spoof, half real infomercial – captures a special time in the New Orleans underground / weirdo scene. Ernie K-Doe, who scored a #1 hit in 1961 with the song “Mother In Law”, was at the beginning of an epic comeback, and the bohemian fantasy world of New Orleans’ 9th Ward was reaching creative Zenith. That scene was anchored around several “speakeasy” clubs, including The Spellcaster Lodge where the show was filmed. Quintron has been at the front end of a DIY analog synth revival since his days in Chicago in the mid-1990s. Add in Jay Poggi (aka MC Tracheotomy) and surrealist performers Bebe McPherson and Eric “E.P.” Pierson, who portray the hosts, and you’ve got one crazy show! Drum Buddy Show director, Rick Delaup is a native New Orleanian who has devoted his life to documenting, preserving, and participating in “eccentric” New Orleans culture. He is perhaps best known for his documentary about Ruthie the Duck Lady, a French Quarter character who can be seen here in the studio audience, and his work towards a New Orleans Burlesque revival in the 1990s.")
![Chill Lofi Hooking and Humming [51m]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tQO6YkmAAuA/mqdefault.jpg "Chill Lofi Hooking and Humming [51m]
Chill Lofi Hooking and Humming [51m]")
![Funkadelic - I Got A Thing [on Upbeat!]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uNXfss7YdNM/mqdefault.jpg "Funkadelic - I Got A Thing [on Upbeat!]
Funkadelic - I Got A Thing [on Upbeat!]")
