CAMPY CLASSROOM CLASSICS Volume 1 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2026-09-21 | CAMPY CLASSROOM CLASSICS Volume 1
WEIRD WORLD OF WEIRD, THE VOL 2 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-27 | Here’s another volume of ultra-rare oddities, obscurities, and jaw-droppers that may be among the best 83 minutes Something Weird has ever assembled – and almost all of them from the original negatives! THE MARTIANS (1962; color) is a pilot for a never-made TV series about two Martians who come to Earth and see the sights. The Martians, Skodo and Palachu, are played by hand puppets (that look like those old Whimsie dolls). And the sights include touring Broadway and seeing LIBERACE at a nightclub; goggling the Weeki Wachee mermaids in Florida; and taking a whirl on Coney Island’s Wonder Wheel. One can only watch this in stunned silence. TOPS 'n TUNES (1964; color) is a series of Scopitone-like musical shorts, probably meant for TV airings. DIANE RENAY sings “Kiss Me Sailor”; FREDDY CANNON sings “Abigail Beecher” and “California Sun”; and THE YOUNGER BROTHERS sing “She Loves You” wearing fake noses and Beatle wigs before revealing that one guitar is actually a toilet seat. “SWINGER” (1966; color) is a commercial for, of all things, the Girl Scouts of America (?!?) who must have a different definition of what “swinging” means. SLUMBER PARTY (color) is an oddball collage of teenage-girl-type imagery: records, pizza, soft drinks, JAMES DEAN on TV, and lots of giggling. CHEMICAL POP (color) is another inexplicable bit of madness: a pop montage of 70s images from bombs to bums to getting buzzed. THE ASSIGNATION (1963; color) is an unseen-till-now, quietly unsettling short by CURTIS HARRINGTON, director of Night Tide, Games, and What’s the Matter with Helen among others. A masked man in a cloak gets into a Venetian gondola for a grim rendezvous with a woman…. A CHRISTMAS FANTASY (color) uses stop-motion animation to show toys coming to life and playing while a little boy sleeps… all rather creepy. WOTON'S WAKE (1964; b&w) is the hands-down winner in this collection: a previously-unreleased, energetically insane comedy of horror-movie clichés from none other than a pre-famous BRIAN DE PALMA (Sisters, Scarface, etc.), starring WILLIAM FINLEY (The Phantom of the Paradise) as a monster-faced madman who runs around attacking women with a blow torch! Though this definitely looks like the work of a film student, it’s nonetheless consistently entertaining, downright bizarre, and full of vivid imagery ranging from a woman created out of crazy machinery to hilarious close-ups of Woton making booga-booga faces to the wacky King Kong-style ending. Very cool. And finally, we finish up with some newly-discovered Spook Show trailers for live midnight shows including Edward (sic) Allan Poe’s Museum of Monsters (with “Frank and Stein, the Twin-Headed Monster!”), Midnight Spook Party, (with “The Vampire Bat Girl”), Voodoo Show, (“A Surgical Maniac Loose on the Stage!”)
CHRISTIAN SCARE FILMS VOL 07 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-26 | Let’s face facts. When you die, you’re undoubtedly going to Hell. Sorry, that’s just the way it is. Unless, of course, you turn your life around right this very minute. And what better way to start than by watching Volume 7 of our Christian Scare Film series. Then, hallelujah, you’ll be Heaven bound!JUST A STRANGER (color): A creepy Evangelical Horror Film. Some kids are telling Ma and Pa about their Sunday school teacher, who said that all non-Christians are going to Hell. Yes, that’s right, Hell. At first, Pa thinks this teacher might be a bit overzealous, but the more he hears the voices in his head, the more he believes the teacher just may be right. And then there’s Mr. Harrison, the quiet man that’s staying with the family. Is he a Christian? Is he going to Hell too? The kids keep harping on Pa to find out, but Pa keeps putting it off until... Well, we won’t spoil the exciting and twisted ending to this dark little opus here. Scary says: "Turn out the lights, light up a stick, and prepare for a scare!"WINSOME WITNESS (b&w): Terry shoots himself in the head with Ray’s loaded gun. And then he dies. And then Christian Guilt runs amok as Ray flips out and his friend, Sue, tries to reel him back in. Will she succeed? This one also features a great scene where Sue plays some soft jazz records and her father reacts as if it’s heavy metal. Scary says: "For those about to rock, we salute you!"TOKENS OF LOVE (b&w): A Christian family that talk like tranquilized Darth Vaders enjoy a meal together. If you don’t die of laughter watching them, the goofy story that follows will kill you. It’s Valentine’s Day and the family is pleased as punch. Christian Joe and his Christian sisters hide paper hearts all through the house while Christian Mom and Dad grin and make us laugh even harder with their creepy Satanic voices... Scary says, "So funny, it hurts!"OUR CHILDREN: A BIGGER REWARD (color): A big, fat, decidedly non-Christian raccoon breaks into a house and little Carl decides to keep it. (He even names it Rac. Carl is so clever.) But Rac is a naughty ’coon and after making a mess, he eats the family’s pet fish! Soon, however, Rac’s owner shows up offering a reward for his return. Carl suddenly gets real greedy and expects a Big Reward. Instead, he gets a good ol’ Christian lecture on "the bigger reward". All of which concludes with Carl’s mother directly addressing the audience about Christian Values. Scary says: "Raccoons and Christians: Who would have thought?"PAINFUL CONFESSION (color): Bill’s friend, Steve, hits someone with his motorbike. As police sirens wail by, the two guys hide in a garage and argue about whether or not they should tell anyone. They decide not to. But, uh oh, as soon as Christian Guilt starts to kick in, Steve loses his grip.
CHRISTIAN SCARE FILMS VOL 06 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-26 | UNTO THY SELF BE TRUE (b&w): Bill’s life is a real mess. He’s trying to save up some cash to get his dad a nice Father’s Day present, but his old man is a Mean Old Jerk who keeps picking on him. When Dad finally bans Bill from using the family car, plans for Bill’s Sunday church picnic go straight out the window... Until sneaky Bill takes the car anyway and -- oh no! -- gets in a fender bender. "Jumpin' catfish!" he screams. The cover-up goes poorly and Bill ends up in police custody... Scary says: "Doomy gloomy Christian delinquency!"TEENAGERS' PARENTS (color): Tex, a jumbo-burger-eating smoothie, has his eyes set on Carol, a perky blonde Carol Burnett clone. Trouble is, Carol has some pretty big issues with her parents who are So Strict they don’t let her date! Tex tries to win the parents over but fails. Things then go from bad to worse when Tex invites Carol to a bible party. You’d think that would be okay but noooooo... Carol’s parents are so hardcore they forbid her from that too! Nevertheless, after some Christian-style sneaking around, Carol makes it to the meeting... OUR CHILDREN: A CLEAN HOUSE (color): Susan wants to wear a new dress to Sally’s birthday party, but Mom’s scissors are missing so she has to wear "the old pink one". Then Granny arrives but Susan’s closet is so messy, Granny can’t unpack her enormous wardrobe! Not only that but Susan broke Mom’s pearl necklace! Good Lord!!! Mom finally decides it’s time for a nice long Christian Speech all about cleaning up and respecting God’s will. Scary says: "Remember, Cleanliness is next to Godliness!"HOW DO I LOVE THEE? is a spectacular Mormon lecture on pre-marital sex! Jennie’s roommate, Penny, is a real hussy. All she cares about is boys, boys, boys, and boys! Though Jennie doesn’t quite share her friend’s lust for men, she nevertheless soon becomes enchanted with Ken. The relationship moves a Little Too Fast for Jennie, and she breaks it off. Jennie then finds out Penny is pregnant, and must leave college. After much sobbing, Ken and Jennie decide to stay together -- but no sex! Scary says: "The chastity monster rears its ugly head and takes no prisoners!"OUR CHILDREN: KING OF THE BLOCK (color): Lo and behold! It’s the Skipper -- ALAN HALE! And he’s building snotty little Stevie a tree house. Where’s his little buddy? Oh well. Stevie turns into Big Jerk when he gets inside the tree house and thinks he can boss his friends around. Soon we see where Stevie learned this un-Christian behavior from... and, yup, its the Skipper! King of the Block ends with Mother addressing the audience -- a rarity for films of this type. Scary says: "Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a faithful drip..."-- Scary Ed
CLASSROOM SCARE FILMS VOL 10 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-26 | After all the films Something Weird has released about the dangers of drugs, it has come to our attention that some of you folks are still getting stoned! Which is why we’ve rushed out this 10th volume of anti-drug Classroom Scare Films. Can’t you people just get high on life?DRUGS DRINKING DRIVING (1971; color) begins like a fake episode of Mission Impossible before using lots of cool lab tests to warn us about driving on booze or prescription drugs. A police reporter on allergy pills almost gets hit by a train! A woman on a weight control pill, a tranquilizer, and a cocktail plows her car into people at a bus stop! And a research psychologist named HERBERT MOSKOW looks like a living cartoon character!FIGHT OR FLIGHT (color) has various young addicts enrolled in Daytop Village, a rehab institution, tell us how peer pressure, loneliness, the strain of school, or trouble with parents drove them to heroin resulting in “ruined careers, wasted talent, and lost minds.” Morbidly compelling.THE BUSTERS (color) teams the Indiana State Police with (the ironically named) Hook’s Drug Store chain to show how police, in particular, “Matthews,” an undercover cop, fights back at the crime caused by drug abuse. With the help of an addict turned informant, Matthews buys heroin from some sleazy hippie types until, three months later, he brings down The Big Dealer – right in the parking lot of a suburban shopping mall. We assume Indiana is now drug free.USERS-LOSERS (color) is a SID DAVIS production about adolescent addicts – played by a cast that looks like they’re straight out of junior high. Fresh-faced David hordes his lunch money and steals from his mom in order to buy reds until he stumbles upon the corpse of a girl who’s just overdosed. Rattled, he then meets an older kid who gives him the lowdown on drugs and scares him straight. But – oh no! – now David’s little brother is getting high….TRIP TO WHERE (1968; color) is both a mini-feature and also the demented jewel of this collection. Three guys are at a drug party: Joe (MICHAEL BELL) is acting as a “guide” while Tony and Bill are tripping. Tony is mellow, but Bill (JOHN BECK) is having a full-scale bad trip, full of colors and kaleidoscopic images, until he climbs out on a window ledge ready to jump up to the stars: “I’m one with the universe!” When he’s pulled back inside, he thinks a monster is attacking him and is promptly taken to a hospital. (While there, we also witness a woman having a “psychotic reaction” while on meth, and a woman on booze and barbiturates flipping out because she’s supposed to “meet Frank Sinatra.”) But wait! When Bill is finally calm enough to leave the emergency room, we learn that he, Tony, and Joe are also sailors whose job it is to guide planes onto an aircraft carrier! Trouble is, Bill starts having LSD flashbacks!!! That, of course, could be dangerous so… Joe buys some weed from VIC TAYBACK and Bill gets high again! Sure enough, Bill not only flips out but starts getting “kookier and kookier” until he finally goes completely insane! From the U.S. Navy, who don’t like their sailors too kooky.
CLASSROOM SCARE FILMS VOL 09 DRUG VORTEX SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-26 | Pencils down and all eyes to the front of the class as Something Weird Video once again guides us through a stern lesson in drug abuse….At nearly an hour long, DRUGS IN THE TENDERLOIN is a stark and often harrowing look into the life of the street denizens of the notorious San Francisco district which was a haven for junkies, prostitutes, and pushers during the Sixties. Directed and edited by ROBERT N. ZAGONE, it takes a real gutter-level look at its subject, the grainy night photography capturing beehive-haired hookers and turtle-necked dope dealers plying their trade against a smoky backdrop of seedy neon, while meth users pontificate about their high, and a youth worker takes a couple of shocked city officials on a walking tour of the area, pointing out such lurid landmarks as Market Street, known in the area as the “Meat Rack” thanks to the male hustlers who ply their trade there. The film ends on a pretty grim note with an extended silent shot of a young user shooting up his fix of crystal meth.Produced in 1971, JOURNEY IN TIME tells the tale of young addict Donnie and his five-year journey from sniffing glue with his school friends to trying marijuana and experimenting with LSD to getting strung out on speed to returning to his small-town home a big-shot drug dealer and finally succumbing to the deadly lure of heroin. Featuring some nice photography and vintage footage of Altamont and Haight Ashbury during its psychedelic prime, Journey in Time, unlike most anti-drug shorts, is actually quite effective in depicting a person’s gradual descent into the mire of addiction, and how the “lifestyle” of the user can become just as addictive as the drug itself.A quartet of CASE STUDY shorts from 1969 are little two-minute films, each devoted to a particular topic – LSD, barbiturates, amphetamines, and heroin – and told through the use of still photos with cheap “trippy” effects superimposed over them. The best is the one about LSD in which a tripping blonde jumps up and down on a hot dog after it turns into a troll doll while she is biting into it!Hollywood tough guy ROBERT MITCHUM (who narrated several educational films produced by the Airlie company during this period) helps steer kids away from the evil path of drug abuse by narrating THE DISTANT DRUMMER (1968) which follows the burgeoning hippie scene from San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury to the Dixie halls of New Orleans and on to New York’s Commancheros biker gang (who prefer pot to booze) before visiting England, Rome, and Crete, showing us that the hippie phenomenon “and its accompanying drug culture” is indeed a worldwide one. A wall of photos of missing teenagers, tacked up at a police station, provides both a sobering image and stark reminder that the free-spirited counterculture left a lot of distraught parents in its wake.A great social document, this 9th volume of Classroom Scare Films should appeal to anyone with a fascination for American history and the culture of the late Sixties. -- John Harrison, The Graveyard Tramp
CLASSROOM SCARE FILMS VOL 08 DRUGS ARE BAD SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-26 | We’ve warned you before and we’ll warn you again: Drugs are Bad! Need proof? Check out this 8th Volume of Classroom Scare Films and just say no!DRUG ABUSE: THE CHEMICAL TOMB (color): Hippies dance barefoot while bongs and sitars blare on the soundtrack, and normal American youth are turned into deranged, chemically fueled addicts. Yup, they’re "The Turned-On People" who risk "placing their psyche in peril." Ether, bennies, airplane glue, paint thinner, yellow jackets, red devils, blood reds, rainbows, hashish, acid, and pot -- all explained by a DR. JOHN T. BURROUGHS, Director of Narcotics Education for the Los Angeles District Attorneys Youth Advisory Council. Scary says, "Tomb raiders!"GOOFBALLS AND TEA (color): Mini-version of the classic Police-Science drug feature The Narcotics Story in which enthusiastic ART GILMORE narrates the sordid story of a sweet young bobby soxer in Small Town U.S.A. who ends up as a Hooker in Heroin Hell by way of goof balls and pot, parental neglect, skilled pimps, and a jones the size of Texas: "Hooked! A monkey on her back! Hop head! Junkie!" And where, you ask do those vicious drug peddlers find their innocent victims? Why, at the local soda shop, of course! Flesh for junk never looked so cool. Scary says, "Often the introduction comes in the form of a goofball!"DRUGS: USE OR ABUSE (color): Level-headed discussion of the drug problem -- a rarity in this genre -- still has enough funk-fueled Sixties weirdness to jump start any dying party and make the self-respecting viewer run for his bong. Scary looking doctors give patients good drugs: "These are hands you can trust." But, uh oh, young boys get high on bright red pills, and a young man lies dead across a table after sniffing a tube of airplane glue: "Can you trust these drugs?!" Scary says, "Use it, abuse it!"NARCOTICS AND KIDS (color): Jaw-dropping classroom terror film featuring two high haired Sixties-style female ex-junkies who lecture a bunch of kids and answer their dumb-ass questions: "Some people say that taking drugs isn’t any worse than drinking, like, five martinis. Is that right?" Not only do the kids range in age from 6 to 16, but one of the former druggies looks like she’s had a few blood reds to ease the awkwardness of the whole scene. Whether this was real or staged is of no consequence - this is the real deal: a Classroom Scare Film with the Midas Touch. Scary says, "As good as it gets!"THE SEEKERS (color): Classic New York absurdity follows two goofy-looking former drug abusers chatting in a variety of locations with pretentious college kids who apparently love the sound of their own voice: "The whole pot scene is one big game!" "You experience all these funny colors!" "I was really scared of girls!" Most amusing of all is the chain smoking that goes on throughout the film, all the while getting bummed out about death by narcotics. Its almost impossible to explain the rock-headedness of this production. Sip it and see. Scary says, "They call me The Seeker, I’ve been searching low and high!"-- Scary Ed
CLASSROOM SCARE FILMS VOL 05 EVEN MORE DRUG EVILS SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-25 | Awwwwww, freak out! SONNY BONO, replete in shiny orange suit, dishes about MARIJUANA and how its users are cooler than those "square and unhip alcoholics". Still, the film illustrates the downsides to grass, such as seeing yourself in a mirror with a spooky monster mask, careening off a cliff, or -- in the case of one Nigerian pusher -- executed. You also see a monkey taking bong hits in a lab, which is, quite frankly, priceless.BUT NARCOTICS: THE INSIDE STORY shows you a bunch of rats hopped up on pills, which is far more entertaining than watching the computer animated antics of Stuart Little; followed by happy-go-lucky teenagers enjoying a seemingly unrelated beach blanket barbecue featuring a rather milquetoast volleyball game and weenie roast.A sleepy, sweater-clad DAVID HARTMAN narrates FOCUS ON HEROIN, which addresses that nagging argument that milk leads to heroin use. (Huh?!) He even takes us to the ghetto to rap with some dudes jonesin' for smack.If you’re THINKING ABOUT DRINKING, this little film makes it all the more attractive with appealing Colorform-type illustrations. The narrator offers up this fun fact: "It takes less alcohol to affect smaller people." Translation: Drink up, fatties!THE PCP STORY interviews several (ab)users, all of whom look like Aerosmith roadies. One snaggletoothed chick says she likes the drug because "I can laugh and be goofy." At least it doesn’t make her look like Eric Stolz from Mask, as one user who is interviewed during his "trip". He’s asked how he feels; he answers with a smile, "I’m being photographed!"Rounding out this chemical collection are trailers from feature-length scare flicks, including The Pusher, Marijuana, The People Next Door, and Mary Jane, the latter starring (of all people) FABIAN. Hey, if Sonny can do it... From 16mm drug-induced prints.-- Rod Lott, Hitch magazine
CLASSROOM SCARE FILMS VOL 03 MORE DRUG HORRORS SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-25 | Wacky tobaccy is targeted as Public Enemy No. 1 in this uproarious collection of six films from the decadent sixties to the just-say-no eighties.THE PEOPLE VS. POT has its own jaunty theme song, sung by a Neil Diamond sound-alike: "Pot! Pot! Gimme some pot! Forget what you are, you can be what you’re not!" Pretty soon, you’ve got servicemen in trances, choking on their own vomit.Following is THE TRIP BACK, a sermon delivered by the delightful Florrie Fisher - a fifty-ish ex-dope fiend/whore/former Jewish American princess (and the inspiration for the Jerri Blank character from Strangers With Candy). Her tirade to an auditorium of visibly frightened school children seems like one long run-on sentence in which she tries to convince the kids she "was fly", ridicules those who dare question her generalizations, and addresses some of the crowd as "you Negro girls."SMOKY JOE'S HIGHRIDE is about a new video game, the object of which is to get the toke-taking hero and his carpool of pals across town without killing pedestrians. Making extensive use of animation, this is like Reefer Madness for the Pac-Man crowd.In NO SMOKING, an omniscient voice warns viewers not to suck on those "little paper incinerators." Look for the most laughable crotchety-old-man-catches-couch-on-fire with-cigarette sequence in cinema historyLastly, MARIHUANA: THE HIDDEN DANGER is a man-on-the-street type of news story, filmed at a tie in America when men sported Steve Rubell haircuts and everything was brown. See the crazed Rhesus monkeys! From 16mm pot-headed prints.-- Rod Lott, Hitch magazine
CLASSROOM SCARE FILMS VOL 02 HEALTH HORRORS SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-25 | Find me a single fourth-grader in America who, while watching VD: TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, wouldn’t giggle upon witnessing a curly-topped boy ask his father, "Dad, I’ve got this strange discharge coming out of my penis. Do you think it could be VD?" Hell, see if you don’t cringe at the sight of a prepubescent girl being placed in the stirrups for a quick once-over from her dimwit of a doctor, before the widespread advent of rubber gloves! For further discomfort, check out the doctor with the greasy mustache and beard, joyfully discussing "hard chancres" as if he were talking about his kids. And keep your eyes peeled for ANGIS SCRIMM, the spooky undertaker from those Phantasm movies, as a similarly spooky parent.There’s a warning on SCOLIOSIS, complete with several unflinching shots of youngsters’ uneven backs, appearing more crooked than any Kennedy. Some are so out of whack, they look like Victor Hugo novels waiting to be written.SMOKING, IT'S YOUR CHOICE also carries an air of uneasiness, letting a ventriloquist’s dummy suck on the sticks. Everyone knows dummies are frightening enough; to see them imitating your decrepit uncle is like planting the seeds of mental instability.PREVENTION - THE CONTROL OF DENTAL DISEASE and YOUR MOUTH are included, one with cool X-ray footage of a guy swallowing food, and the other demonstrating how to floss our teeth so thoroughly that the whole process could last well over three hours.DRUGS: USE OR ABUSE features enough foreboding, Dragnet-esque music, and painfully slow narration to drive viewers to Percocet. We see a gestapo pharmacist preparing some evil potion, as well as kids at the playground eating pills like candy.ALCOHOL: HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH? demonstrates booze’s intoxicating effects on the body by readily pouring vodka into the tank of a goldfish until the little denizen of the demi-deep is happily swimming in carefree loop-de-loops. Now that’s entertainment. From 16mm rash-covered prints.-- Rod Lott, Hitch magazine
CLASSROOM SCARE FILMS VOL 01 DRUG HORRORS SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-25 | During the Great White Suburban Drug Scare of the late sixties / early seventies, parents, educators, and corporate sponsors banded together in an effort to scare American teens away from getting high. It might be argued that the weird and often hysterical propaganda films that emerged from this era created more drug abuse than they prevented. Nevertheless, here’s a handful of Classroom Scare Films from a groovy bygone era that will fascinate and entertain you from beginning to end...This volume begins with WEED, Encyclopedia Britannica’s non-biased look at marijuana, complete with time-lapse footage of cannabis poking out of the soil and springing forth.Following is UPS / DOWNS which is all about the wonders of amphetamines and barbiturates. The interview about the drugs’ effects with the Adam Duritz/Robert Heges stand-in offers nothing more than a drug-addled mumble, but watch for the Monty Python-esque animation and the scene in which scientists give speed to a spider to see what sort of wacky web it will weave.An untitled, all-inclusive booze-nicotine-pot rant is next, with a leisure-suited narrator introducing such elements as a Brady-like teenage alkie raiding Mom’s purse for apple wine money, an amph addict that looks exactly like Nick Cage in Con Air, and a debate on pot’s addictive nature between two stereotypical black construction workers: "Man, I hear that marijuana can really mess up yo’ head!"Hemp is again explored and deplored in the next segment, in which a bald father tries to dissuade his son from lighting up. "But all the artists and writers use it!" the little boy says in defense. Dad asks him to read all the facts, handing him a "special" issue of Life, to which the son scoffs, "Aw, man, establishment propaganda?" To get the true facts, the kid tags along with stoner buddy Mack, who takes him on a tour of a garden pot party, a head shop, and the residence of a psychedelic poster artist named Waco.The effects of household drugs on the brain are painstakingly explained in the next short through crappy, line-drawing cartoons. During the section on aspirin, a boy is shown rolling in bed, his face all a-flush with sweat, leading us to believe that either aspirin really works or he’s just had the best self-sex of his life. From 16mm devil’s-weed prints.-- Rod Lott, Hitch magazine
Atomic Scare Films Vol 5 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-21 | Are you prepared for an imminent nuclear or natural disaster? If not, watch these educational survival shorts and thumb your nose at The Bomb!Communications for Civil Defense (b&w) – Bell Telephone presents a fictitious account of a feature film production made to encourage people to become Civil Defense volunteers. The film recreates the effects of an atomic blast on a community and the mayhem that ensues. We learn how the phone company does its part to help. Will communications hold up when the A-bomb gets dropped? You betcha! Planning for Public Shelter Entry (b&w) – The Department of Civil Defense wants you to know how to manage your local community fallout shelter. A group of volunteers become acquainted with the layout of the shelter and the various duties they’ll be responsible for: registering the occupants, checking food, sanitation, and medical supplies, communications, and making sure there’s no radiation contamination. Because that would just suck. Individual and Family Actions on Warning (color) – Fred asks his wife and snotty kids if they know what to do and where to go if The Bomb drops on their town. The family takes pause and each discusses their options, depending on if they’re at school, outdoors, or at home when and if it happens. Fred visits a friend who built his own bomb shelter and wishes he had one too. Lucky!Day Without End – Duties of a Civil Defense Director (1964, b&w) – Bill wants his town to be ready when the Big One strikes. So he spends nearly all his time formulating a disaster plan to protect and educate the community. Bill also needs to convince the powers that be that they need better communications and more equipment. After all, Civil Defense is not a one man job!Local Civil Defense (1964, b&w) – Everybody’s got to step up to the plate when it comes to safeguarding the population from Atomic Attack. Emergency operations must already be in place including the military, law enforcement, public works, sanitation, communications, and the ever-ready Red Cross!Self Preservation in Atomic Bomb Attack (1951, b&w) – Best for last. A cranky no-nonsense sergeant informs his soldiers that the Atomic Bomb is like a woman: never underestimate its power! He has many words of wisdom. “Find the closest hole and make like a mole!“ “The A-bomb is hot, so when you get the warning don’t ask what’s cooking – it might be you!” And his advice on radioactive fallout? “Be quick or be sick!” Listen to Sarge and you’ll be a-okay! -- Lisa Petrucci
ATOMIC SCARE FILMS VOL 4 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-20 | America’s favorite bomb returns in this 4th Volume of Something Weird’s nerve-wracking Atomic Scare Films, which not only ratchets up the paranoia but makes it seem like Civil Defense will actually accomplish something in the wake of a nuclear attack….One World or None (B&W) sets the stage with a grim primer on Atomic Power that could have also been called “Atom Bomb 101.” With its footage of the bombing of Hiroshima combined with a very pro-UN approach to politics, this is a very nervous little short….The Price of Liberty (B&W) plays like a Fifties science-fiction film gone all too real as we witness a Civil Defense test that shows what might have happened if the bomb hit New York City in the middle of the night on November 14, 1951. Sirens, searchlights, a “Radiac team,” fires, and “victims” with fake burns are all on display this particular evening. (But where’s the giant radioactive dinosaur?)Alert Today – Alive Tomorrow (1956; B&W) is another one that shows how to prepare for The Bomb dropping on us – specifically on Redding, Pennsylvania, the “typical target city.” Since Civil Defense volunteers all “have a stake in survival,” we see average citizens learning First Aid, being shown how to put out fires, using Geiger counters to monitor fallout, keeping fallout shelters full of equipment and supplies, and firing guns in order to best control “a jittery populace.” Released theatrically by RKO Pictures.To Live Tomorrow (B&W) uses a train as a metaphor for America as a passenger thinks about panic. Especially the kind of “mass panic” that could envelop his fellow passengers in the event of an atomic attack and thereby “complicate” things. Seriously, pal, if atomic bombs were dropped on us, wouldn’t mass panic be a downright sensible reaction?Your Civil Defense (B&W) is blunt about targeting the Communists as The Enemy and how we watch those cunning bastards night and day. But, just to be on the safe side, we’d better have shelters against “the strange menace of fallout.” And we should be ready to stay in them for at least… well… two weeks.New Family in Town (B&W) is narrated by ROBERT PRESTON (The Music Man) who warns us about Trouble – with a capital T and that rhymes with B and that stands for Bomb! Which is why every family should have its very own fallout shelter. Either in the basement or in the backyard! And fill it with food and books and games – and don’t forget the can opener! In between atomic attacks, use it as a playroom!Fire Fighting for Householders (b&w) details how to fight fires in the event of an atomic attack. Which is a little like trying to stay dry while swimming in the ocean.About Fallout (color) reminds us that we need two items to survive an atomic attack: a fallout shelter and a “dosimeter.” Yes indeed, fallout could very well be the New Weather of tomorrow! -- Mr. Daddy-O
Atomic Scare Films Vol 3 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-19 | Hoard that Spam and head for the hills with this third go-round of friendly fallout films for the whole family!Volume 3 kicks off with Fallout and Agriculture, illustrated with a plethora of Crayola drawings. Against a painted farmhouse background, our host gives the straight dope to Old MacDonald, like what happens when Bessie gets bombarded with gamma rays, and why a little Strontium 90 in your bacon and eggs is not a good thing.The Navy-backed Industrial Radiological Decontamination of Ships details step-by-step the process for approaching, surveying, and cleaning a tainted naval vessel. If only the cast of Virus had seen this, we’d have been spared that cinematic monstrosity.The Medical Effects of the Atomic Bomb is wonderfully tacky enough to do an amateurish re-enactment of Hiroshima at ground zero, complete with inserts of generic disaster footage.Medical Services in Atomic Disaster features more explosions than the Tommy Lee and Pamela tape and more mass destruction than a weekend at their house.Watching The Atom and Agriculture is like passing by a car accident -- you simply cannot divert your eyes from the carnage! There’s mutant corn, anemic cows, and nerd-o chemists forcing radioactive phosphorous down a hen’s throat. It may all be in the name of science but don’t tell me they don’t get a sadistic kick of it, too.Finally, there’s Occupying a Public Shelter, which covers a lot of the shelter-survival tips from Volume 2, but with more paperwork, hard labor, group calisthenics, an all-child rendition of "Frere Jacques" and, thankfully, no saggy, middle-aged librarian titties.From 16mm glow-in-the-dark prints. -- Rod Lott, Hitch magazine
Atomic Scare Films Vol 2 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-19 | Here are more vintage nuke-themed ditties to watch in the comfort of your own reinforced concrete basement.It all begins with Pattern for Survival, narrated by Chet Huntley, who draws an analogy between nuclear war and some stuffed shirt pushing a crippled kid through a weaponry museum. Enter clichéd journalist William Laurence who reads off cue cards and spouts off about the "psychological terror weapon" as we get a simple science cartoon on Atom Splitting 101. The short then paints an unusually happy face on the prospect of Armageddon -- so long as you have a cellar packed with raisins, chocolate bars, and Lava soap, you’ll be okay! Oh, and simply cover your eyes upon impact. Then before you know it, as the final shot allows, you’ll be back enjoying corndogs in no time.Its polar opposite is One World or None, which goes so far as to animate little skulls in the various nuclear blasts as NYC is decimated in cute cartoon fashion. Real footage includes Hiroshima kids sporting their trendy new "heat blast" hairdos.Operation Q puts a home-ec spin on the horror, with June hanging around Civil Defense as they test how things might be affected by an atomic blast. The guys build houses and stuff them with mannequins, only to tear them to shreds with a nuclear test. She’s more interested in the canned foods, though. With her lackadaisical narration, I half-expected her to say, "I dreamed I toured a nuclear testing ground in my Maidenform bra!"Should the bomb drop, at least your communications system in Syracuse will be A-OK, so goes the message of And a Voice Shall Be Heard! It’s a kick to see citizens scatter at the sound of a warning siren, especially the guy at the barber shop getting a shave. Moral of the story: Two-way radio rules!According to the animation in The Medical Aspects of Nuclear Radiation, the human body is run by dwarves wearing funny hats -- a prospect that bothers me as much as the threat of nuclear war. Equally disturbing is the demonstration of gamma rays entering the body, because they look like mean tapeworms. The narrator says that "extensive use of atomic energy might eventually result in an overabundance of freaks, suitable for sideshows. " Following are a load of shelter survival tips, where a routine world of chopped ham and saltines awaits!Then it’s on to Shock: Medical Self-Help Training, which aims to shock on its own with opening narration like, "This is a dead man. This man may die. She, too, may die." It quickly gets graphic with shots of a woman’s hemorrhaging arm and burns, and you get to see some old coot vomit.Lastly, there’s Infant & Child Care, in which an ugly suburban housewife, whose breasts you really don’t want to see, pops out an udder, swabs it clean, and lets her baby start to suck. The narrator notes that preemies often look "like wrinkled old men" and then advocates giving boiled water to newborns. AA-AAAIIIIIEEEEE!!!!From 16mm duck-and-cover prints.-- Rod Lott, Hitch magazine
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL CARTOON REVOLUTION VOL 08 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-19 | A is For Atom (1952, color) Dr. Atom (who has an actual cartoon atomic particle for a head) explains all there is to know about nuclear energy and how totally awesome it is! Presented by GE. The Story of Alexander Ten Spot (1950s, color) Ten bucks can buy a lot of great stuff, but wouldn’t you rather give it to the American Cancer Society? Learn to recognize the signs of the big C and how your generous contribution will be used. Do it today! The Owl and Fred Jones: (1958, color) A nosy owl observes family man Fred’s bad eating habits. The doctor tells Fred to go on a diet, so Fred discusses his problem with said owl during the middle of the night like it’s a completely normal thing to do. This Above All (1956, color) Animation and live-action illustrate the most mid-century modern ways to keep a roof over your head. Did you know that most people take their roofs for granted? They sure have improved since the caveman days! The Meat Buying Customs of the Nation (1940s, B&W) Bovine enthusiasts will enjoy this cartoon about how butchers actually cater to their customers’ demands depending what part of the country they're from. Who ever knew? Reaching for the Stars (1960, b&w) Astronomics is explored in this very early look at the future of space flight and missions. Rockets, probes, monkey-manned capsules, space stations, and even trips to Mars and Venus could be possible! Alternatives (1960, color) Conscientious objectors get a bad rap, so someone made a bizarre educational short about them. Most aren’t draft dodgers, they’re your friends and neighbors! The Story of Light (1954, color) Creepy stop-motion animation and dioramas illustrate the history of light – from the discovery of fire by cavemen to Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb. Presented by GE (go figure).
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL CARTOON REVOLUTION VOL 07 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-19 | Smoking, racism, and dental hygiene are just a few of the serious issues cartoons can help you cope with in this 7th volume of Something Weird’s Industrial Cartoon series. So watch it carefully and let funny characters show you the path to health and happiness…Picture in Your Mind(color) is a marvelously pretentious ode to world peace that uses stylized artwork, somber music, and poetic narration (by WALTER ABEL) to plead for a world without prejudice and racism. Why do men hate? Why do men kill? Oh, why, why, why? Very artsy. Perhaps a bit too artsy. Quite honestly, some wacky animals hitting each other over the head would’ve helped.Rumor (b&w) uses a traffic jam on a hot day involving “a white man and a Negro” to describe how misinformation escalates into talk of a full-scale race riot and real-life violence. Please stop this film midway through and discuss. From the National Conference of Christians and Jews.The Brotherhood of Man (color) tries to eradicate racism by discussing the differences – and lack thereof – between “the Caucasian, the Negroid, and the Mongoloid.” And remember, the Eskimo has the largest brain of all.Heritage (color) compares the human rights in our democracy to those of a totalitarian country. Which embarrasses a mild-mannered man who’s just turned into a beast that could care less about anyone’s rights….Signs Take a Holiday (b&w) shows us a world without signage. Mild-mannered Horace C. Heimerhoff hates signs and wishes they would disappear. They do. The result: chaos, traffic accidents, and death. So, please, love your local “Stop” sign.The Huffless, Puffless Dragon (1964; color) equates smoking cigarettes with peer pressure and, apparently, dragon masculinity.From A to Zap (color) has a mouse teach a cat all about electricity since the cat seems to enjoy getting himself electrocuted. But exactly why a rodent would be so knowledgeable about electrical energy is never really explained.Teeth… Are Good Things to Have(1973; color) reminds us that in addition to gum disease, there are full-scale musical numbers currently running amok in your mouth. True. Bacteria and plaque sing and dance like old-time veterans of Broadway, with the real show stoppers being a dentist, a toothbrush, and some dental floss: “We’re here to convey, we stop dental decay!” Where can we find the soundtrack album?A Little Time for Henry (color) offers us a salesman who’s always late for his appointments because the damn fool can’t manage time. The solution? He keeps a weekly schedule. Of course, if he can’t manage time, why should we think he can manage a schedule? Shhhhh. Just smile and agree. It’s easier that way.Developing More and Better Ideas (color) is a helpful cartoon that explains how you too can think creatively, turn today’s ideas into tomorrow’s spaceships and blenders, and keep American industry strong. And, of course, please “try not to be too concerned with reason and logic.” -- Watson Pritchard
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL CARTOON REVOLUTION VOL 06 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-19 | Despite the funny characters and all the wacky things they do, these cartoons are serious. So when you watch this 6th volume of Something Weird’s Industrial Cartoons series, you may laugh, but you must also take notes.Man Alive! (1952; color) has nervous Ed afraid to find out what’s wrong with his car engine until it’s too late and the car dies. That same fear prevents Ed from going to the doctor about his stomach because if it’s cancer, it needs to be treated before it spreads. Or he’ll end up like his car. From UPA.The Traitor Within (1946; color) is another cancer cartoon, this time stressing misconceptions about the disease (no, it’s not contagious) while explaining how it develops, how it spreads – “The malignant horde is on its way to invade other parts of the body!” – and how it can be cured. So watch for the danger signs. Please. Something Weird’s best customers are the ones that are still alive.The Voice of Your Business (color) has the boss of Short & Company trying to figure out why his business isn’t as good as Long & Company. The answer, of course, is telephone etiquette! And speaking of etiquette, is it really good etiquette to have a narrator of a cartoon short speak entirely in rhyme?The Incredible Voyage of Mark O’Gulliver (1967; color) has the HANNA-BARBERA studio showing us what happens when a congressman washes up on the shores of Animalia, an island where talking animals have a government patterned after the U.S. The animals try to help him build a steamship to get back home but everything quickly bogs down in bureaucratic red tape. The obvious solution: rewrite the laws! Let Big Business do what it wants!What Happened to All That Bread? (color) explains why bread costs so much, uh, bread. Get it? Two reporters investigate the 65¢ profit of a loaf of “Mother Miller” bread and learn the cruel reality of how profit is divided. For reasons obscure, Mother Miller herself is portrayed as a Mae West caricature.Right, and Wrong and What’s In Between (color) has two cartoon rabbits trying to learn the meaning of truth. What is true and what is false? Unfortunately, sarcasm is not addressed.Alec in Wonderland (1961; color) concerns “a few fallacies about beverage alcohol.” A commuter on a train falls asleep, dreams about Wonderland, and learns that having booze in moderation is not only a good thing but actually encouraged! Yup, this is a pro-liquor short sponsored by (no surprise) “the Beverage Industries.” And remember: “A light drink permits a fellow to enjoy life and ease a troubled mind!” In fact, once he gets home, Alec’s wife immediately serves him an evening cocktail! Wow.Home Sweet… Healthier Home(color) is something you too can achieve if you just learn to use Lysol disinfectant everywhere! Seriously, everywhere.Your Friend, The Water (color) concerns a living drop of water that comes out of the kitchen sink, shrinks a boy, takes him thru the plumbing, and shows the boy where the drop came from. Which kind of makes one wish for a drought. -- Watson Pritchard
BOOZERS & LOSERS SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-18 | ALCOHOL + AUTO = ARRAIGNMENT, a typically twisted piece of hysterical lunacy from the late SID DAVIS (one-time stand-in for John Wayne and surely the Ed Wood of the Classroom Scare genre). As is the norm in the Davis universe, midday in the sun is casually passed off as 2 a.m., as an assortment of drunk-driving losers are forced to attend a class and face up to the issue that led to their drinking problem, most notably a loner student who invites the cool kids over for a party, gets sauced to the gills, then takes a cute girl for a drunken ride on a jock’s motorcycle!In SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DRINK AND DRIVE, a James Caan look-alike in a blinding yellow turtleneck oversees a test in LA County where a selection of volunteers – including one gal who admits she only volunteered for the “free booze” – are liquored up with half dozen drinks and monitored as they make their way around a specially devised obstacle course. Naturally, the end result shows that even these die-hard drinkers are shown that they can’t drive drunk.The brilliant TO YOUR HEALTH (1956) highlights some gorgeous Technicolor animation as it demonstrates the effects and ravages that alcohol can have on both the mind and body, as well as one’s social standing. Produced by the respected Halas and Batchelor studios for the World Health Organization, it resonates with a disturbing, nightmarish surrealism.Presented by the International Temperance Association of Washington, DC, VERDICT AT 1:32 gives us yet another look at the potential effects of driving while intoxicated. Within the cheerful confines of a morgue, a surgeon slices up two human brains belonging to victims of a horrific car crash in order to demonstrate how alcohol reduces the blood’s ability to carry oxygen to nerve cells, thus slowing down reaction time. Watch for the swingin’ Sixties gal who emerges from the cocktail bar only to become one of the dissected brains at the morgue!NONE FOR THE ROAD shows what happens to an average suburban dad who has one too many at a groovy pool party, knocks over a young girl while speeding home, and sees his job, house, career, and future go up in smoke as a result. Interesting the way it plays on the fear that You yourself stand much to lose in the way of prestige and material wealth, never mind the poor victim who is in a wheelchair for life.Narrated by Hollywood icon ROBERT MITCHUM, AMERICA ON THE ROCKS takes place primarily on a spooky old merry-go-round, and presents a more psychological edge to the problems of drinking, before this volume rounds off with a vintage variety show sketch which revolves around a bartender and his staggering drunk customer. It’s a nice little reminder that the tipsy, incoherent drinker was once little more than a source of cheap humor and amusement.-- John Harrison, The Graveyard Tramp
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL CARTOON REVOLUTION VOL 05 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-18 | Life is complicated. So having cartoon characters help explain things makes everything easier, as you’ll discover with this 5th volume of Something Weird’s wacky-with-a-purpose Industrial Cartoons series!Easy Does It (1946; color) is a 25-minute sales pitch for Stokely Foods – with a surprising degree of lechery attached. Joe works in Mr. Fuddle’s grocery store, which is on the verge of closing because they don’t sell the brands people want. Worse, the bank is about to foreclose on the store unless Mr. Squeeze, the hilariously sleazy bank president, marries Fuddle’s daughter Ann. While Mr. Squeeze is busy seducing her, Joe gets a visit from a little magical man named Easy who uses a flying time machine to take Joe back 60 years to show him the birth of Stokely Foods. Easy also introduces Joe to a giant on a cloud, and happy tomatoes getting washed and cooked in the modern Stokely plant (which, all things considered, is borderline disturbing). End result: Fuddle’s store becomes stocked with Stokley foods which the customers love! And Ann? Why Joe races to the Justice of the Peace just before Squeeze is about to marry her and beats the crap out of him! Directed by HUGH HARMAN.Man of Action (1955; color) is the story of an “average man in an average home” whose average town becomes a slum overnight! And it’s all the fault of Satan! Yup, Satan encourages people to let their homes get run down until the neighborhood falls apart and the community is full of “juvenile delinquency, alcoholism, and crime!” Unless, of course, citizens fight back! How? With bureaucracy!Look Who’s Driving (color) gives us cartoon characters that drive like psychotic idiots and behave like crazed children on the road. Until they get into an accident and die. Then they float around like ghosts.Tell ‘Em the Facts (color) has Gulf Oil calmly reminding us why their gasoline is better than anyone else’s gasoline. And it’s all because of their “balanced volatility” and “antiknock value.” You betcha.The Soldier’s Hour (color) was made for Army personnel in charge of re-enlistment as a way of stemming the tide of soldiers leaving after their hitch is up. The trick is to zero in on certain kinds of soldiers… like former factory workers. But, hey, stay away from farmers.Avoidable Carrier Accidents (1949; color) defines stupid sailors who crash their planes on aircraft carriers as the same stupid sailors who do dumb things on leave. Ah, the joy of stupidity.The Adventures of Junior Raindrop (color) is the story of cutesy raindrops who… well… go wrong once they get to earth. Because of forest fires or badly managed land, raindrops like Junior become “hoodlum raindrops” (!), get involved “with gangs” (!!), and turn into “gangster” raindrops (!!!). Wow.My Government U.S.A. (color) explains government to a cartoon caveman named Ugh. That Ugh is impressed is no surprise since Ugh, after all, is a primitive man. -- Watson Pritchard
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL CARTOON REVOLUTION VOL 04 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-18 | Vintage animated short subjects that entertain and inform! What better way to educate consumers and professionals about products and technology!The Milky WayAn Ice Cream DreamWonders of Canned MeatVitamins & Your HealthTheobald Faces the FactsPenelope Changes Her MindGoodbye, Weeds - Weeds No MoreABCs of Internal Combustion EngineCurious Alice
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL CARTOON REVOLUTION VOL 03 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-18 | Vintage animated short subjects that entertain and inform! What better way to educate consumers and professionals about products and technology!What Makes Us TickTrouble in ParadiseIt's Everybody's BusinessFree Enterprise - What's That?Expanding World RelationshipsKnow Your CustomerHuman CommunicationTomorrow & Mr. JonesMan on the Land
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL CARTOON REVOLUTION VOL 02 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-18 | Vintage animated short subjects that entertain and inform! What better way to educate consumers and professionals about products and technology!Six-Legged SaboteursA Coach for CinderellaThe ABC of the Diesel EngineA Ride for CinderellaThe ABC of Jet PropulsionPeg Leg PedroWorking DollarsTo Your Health
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL CARTOON REVOLUTION VOL 01 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-18 | Vintage animated short subjects that entertain and inform! What better way to educate consumers and professionals about products and technology!Destination EarthWe Learn About the TelephoneThe Thinking MachinesStorklandDay of the Great PresentationFollow the LeaderHorizons of Hope
KIDS COMMERCIALS VOL 01 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-11 | Some of your favorite toys from the 1950s-70s including: Mr. Potato Head, Frosty Freeze Ice Cream Maker, Daffy Dots, Grab A Loop, Robot Commando, Roy Rogers Quick Shooter Hat, Trick Shot Gun, Lionel Turbo Firing Missile Car, Biocraft Lab, Dick Tracy Radio Receiver, 007 Action Pack, Man From UNCLE Secret Message Pen, Steve Cannon Fighter Jet, Billy Blastoff, Dune Buggy Race Set, Johnny Lightning Rocket 500, ITC Sports Car Rally, Bonanza Action Figures, Mystery Date Game, G.I. Joe, Lionel Trains, Fat Cat Torture Rack, Hi Heidi Doll, Crayola Crayons, Battleship, Twister, Mousetrap, Erector Sets, See and Say, Hot Wheels Action Sets, 0-177 Sonic Blaster Gun, Creepy Crawlers, Mattel’s Flea Circus, Strange Change Machine and many many more!
Atomic Scare Films Vol 1 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2024-05-07 | According to the Cold War-era instructional films collected here, any nuclear holocaust can be survived by merely hiding under a tool bench. And that pesky fallout can be easily disposed of through a brushing of the trousers, a fingernail cleaning, and a good shampoo.Thanks to the guinea pigs in Hiroshima, we now know about Survival Under Atomic Attack, and apparently all the answers are contained in a flimsy pamphlet, as read and discussed by a suburban couple in their Sunday best, enjoying a good evening smoke.The immortal Duck and Cover opens with a musical animated sequence in which a happy-go-lucky turtle is tormented by a monkey wielding dynamite, to show kids how to "duck and cover" in case of nuclear attack. To demonstrate, we are shown endless drills of boys and girls ducking and covering in the classroom, outdoors, and at a picnic as soon as the narrator yells, "Duck and cover!"You Can Beat the A-Bomb is an amazing piece of atomic propaganda that basically says a nuclear attack may be a tad inconvenient but it’s nothing to get too upset over. Just close the windows, hide under some furniture, stay inside for about an hour, then start to clean up.It also contains some hilarious "what if?" scenes in which Mom unplugs the iron before taking shelter. Dad, however, is the big know-it-all who can spout off a credible-sounding yet suspect answer to any nukie question thrown his way. For example, when his kids ask, "Can we catch radiation from you, Daddy?" Daddy answers, "No, I’m keeping it all to myself!" as he scrubs the fallout off with a quick soap lather! And remember, if you get radiation poisoning, "lie down and rest".Someone who sounds like John Forsythe narrates the cleverly titled, American Cities Atomic Fallout Strategy, which details our nation's plans for The Big One, via cool fallout animation. At the "nerve center for survival" everything is labeled with bold signs like the Batcave, so we know we're in good hands.Atom Strikes! surveys the devastation of war-torn Japan, with a bounty Japan, with a bounty of footage of demolished buildings and ravaged landscapes. Come out, come out, wherever you three-headed children are!Also included are a handful of National Guard commercials, including a singing cowboy spot, and a couple of cartoon kids being spun senseless by stock disaster footage.So stock up on canned goods, stay away from windows, follow the simple directions included in these films, and, what the hell, you too may learn that atomic attacks may be a tad inconvenient but also a lot of good old-fashioned fun.From 16mm mushroom-cloud prints.-- Rod Lott, Hitch magazine
1947 Job Rated Dodge Trucks From the Factory to YOU! SomethingWeirdDotCom 2018-01-26 | From Something Weird Video Lifestyle USA Vol 15 somethingweird.com/advanced_search_result.php?search_in_description=0&keywords=lifestyles+USA+Vol+15&categories_id=&extra_value_id2= What is Job Rating? (b&w) is a 26-minute sales pitch for Dodge in which a custom-designed Dodge truck is double-talked into being called "a job-rated vehicle." While most of this is the usual blah-blah-blah, it gets downright fetishistic when it travels through the bowels of an assembly line and lovingly gazes over factory parts — ooooh, look... engines... chassis... clutches — all scored to Ravel’s "Bolero!" One can easily imagine Dodge executives getting uncomfortably aroused by all this....
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema (Unaired Pilot Outtakes) SomethingWeirdDotCom 2016-06-10 | Lost for over 20 years! For the first time ever, see the outtakes from the very first unaired test pilot for REEL WILD CINEMA, directed by Frank Henenlotter (BASKET CASE, FRANKENHOOKER) and starring comedienne Sandra Bernhard, legendary exotica music maestro Korla Pandit, and... David Carradine?! Something Weird Video head honcho, Mike Vraney, partnered with Jimmy Maslon and Marty Sokol in 1994 to form Mondo A Go-Go Productions. Their grand plan was to make a tv show featuring wacky film clips from the jaw-dropping SW archive, featuring a cast of crazy characters from the wonderful world of exploitation cinema. USA Network got onboard and recruited Sandra Bernhard to host. And voila! It was REEL WILD CINEMA! Before the USA Network would even approve the show, a test pilot needed to be made. Exploitation director and resident SW film expert Frank Henenlotter came in to helm the project, and oddly, Korla Pandit asked to play keyboard accompaniment (who at this point was old as dirt and a shadow of his former hypnotically scintillating self) and, get this, David Carradine to be Sandra's guests! The whole thing was, well bizarre to say the least. What you will see are outtakes of the bumpers that would have been in between the edited film clips. Out of context they are truly weird. Especially Sandra singing the "Moon Doll" theme from Doris Wishman's low-budget masterpiece NUDE ON THE MOON. Frank doesn't remember many details from the day of the shoot but did recall that while Sandra was interviewing Carradine, at some strange moment, he began eating a page of the script. Mike also said that Carradine wouldn't come out of the dressing room for what seemed to be hours because he was fixing his "hair" (or lack of for that matter). Frank also pointed out that a drag queen named Jackie Beat makes a brief appearance for a dreadfully unfunny sequence. All the producers were at the shoot, including Mike Vraney who sat cross-legged on the floor in the corner chain smoking while he and Frank rolled their eyes, shook their heads, and just shrugged as the action played out. And apparently, one of the producers (who will remain nameless) seemed to think this was the greatest event in entertainment history.So prepare to be perplexed and amazed by this extremely rare footage!This material belongs to Something Weird Video and the USA Network. Do not post on your own YouTube Channel!
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema (Pilot Episode) SomethingWeirdDotCom 2016-06-05 | For the first time, since it originally aired on USA Network in 1995, the pilot episode of Reel Wild Cinema can now be seen once again! After its initial airing, the episode would never again be shown and only live on in the memories of those few who were fortunate enough to see it. That is until now!Join Sandra, as she wittily walks us through some of the most demented films in cinematic history, including a mini versions of THE HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND and Doris Wshman's NUDE ON THE MOON! You won't be able to look away!P.S. The Reel Wild Cinema contact info at the end is decades out of date and obsolete!And DO NOT upload this to other YouTube Channels! It belongs to SWV and the USA Network! It's not yours to upload! But feel free to share this link!Featured Films:StarmanDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37918http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37920http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37919http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37924Horrors Of Spider IslandDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37839Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19094Nude On The MoonDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37947Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=23639
Something Weird Teaser 2016 SomethingWeirdDotCom 2016-05-17 | Here's a fun, new teaser promo for Something Weird Video! Thanks Max Brody for making this video for us! Clips from Space Thing, She Freak, Monsters Crash the Pajama Party and miscellaneous SW compilations!
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Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Sword & Sandal Extravaganza SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S2 Ep11: Sword & Sandal ExtravaganzaMore he-man type hijinks Hercules-style. Host Sandra Bernhard, welcomes producer, director, action hero, and all around righteous dude Fred Williamson (Hammer, Black Caesar, Bucktown, From Dusk till Dawn) to the show.Featured Films:"HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD"Direct Download: http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=20276DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37252"THE WITCH'S CURSE"Direct Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37928DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37791
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Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Pit Of Sin SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S2 Ep9: PIT OF SIN Sandra invites exploitation master H. G. Lewis back to pollute a new generation of impressionable youth. See good girls gone bad! See lecherous swindlers bent on corruption! See a sucker made every minute.Featured Films:Scum of the Earth Direct Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37868Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19097The Wages of Sin Direct Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=20081DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=27759
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Nudest Camp Night SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S2 Ep8: NUDEST CAMP NIGHTLooking back to the days of blind ambition. Cast off society's shackles and be one with nature. Just don't forget the sun-block. Blonde Bombshell Mamie Van Doren, starlet of oh-so many Fifties bad girl flicks like The Girl in the Black Stockings and Untamed Youth, steams up the RWC set.Featured Films:Nude On The Moon & Blaze Starr Goes NudistSpecial Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=23639Nude On The MoonDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37947Blaze Starr Goes NudistDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37811
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Hollywood Expose SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S2 Ep7: HOLLYWOOD EXPOSEOur old pal David Friedman comes back to take us on a stroll of Tinsel town. Back in the day when the casting couch decided a young starlets fate.Featured Films:Hollywood’s World of FleshDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=57560DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19585A Virgin in HollywoodDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37908DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=27758Brand of ShameDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=43502DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=22915Starlet!Direct Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=57383DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=22787
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Teens Run Wild SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S2 Ep5: TEENS RUN WILDYou get twice the Zappa for the price of one. Sandra invites Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa over for a double dose of teen trouble. You think you have seen kids out of control, you haven't seen nothing yet. Just wait until these J.D kids and Jills give the man a run for his money!Featured Films:MalamondoDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=57425DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19536Gun GirlsDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19531DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=22544The Violent YearsDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37891Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19103Just for the Hell of ItDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=57370Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19096
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Super Chicks SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S2 Ep4: Super Chicks90's superchick Sandra meets 70's superchick Adrienne Barbeau. The TV Maude's daughter and star of Swamp Thing, and The Fog. Not to mention all the great women in all the features. Can you stand so much woman in one show? Well, can you?Featured Films:The Wild Women of WongoDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37983Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19188Satan in High HeelsDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37865Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19124Hot Thrills and Warm ChillsDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37840Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=24134Chained for Life Direct Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=58101DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=27528
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Gals And Ghouls SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S2 Ep3: GALS AND GHOULSMenacing monsters and the devil's dolls. Who could ask for anything more? Legendary Roger Corman and President of Troma films Lloyd Kaufman visits Sandra and tells her how to use the devil in high heels to drum up ticket sales.Featured Films:Horror Of Spider IslandDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37839Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19094Indecent DesiresDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37841Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19196
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Psycho-A-GO-GO SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S2 Ep2: PSYCHO-A-GO-GOLock your doors and windows! Godfathers of gore David Friedman and Herschell G. Lewis invade RWC. These two history making directors re-unite to discuss there drive in shockers Blood Fest, and Two Thousand Maniacs, and Color Me Blood Red. Not for the squeamish. Bring the barf bag to this one.Featured Films:Hot Blooded WomanDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37798DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=23176Blood Feast Direct Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37971Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=23871The Blood Trilogy SE Blu-ray:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=57924
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Go Ape SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S2 Ep1: GO APENo, you haven't landed on planet of the apes, through it may seem like it when RWC gets done with this show. RWC is invaded by big guys in cheap gorrila suits, whatta concept! Sandra's guest includes Eating Rauol and Death Race 2000 director Paul Bartel. We can't reccomend his movies enough.Featured Films:The Beast That Killed WomenDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37809Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19099Monsters Crash the Pajama PartyDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=58435Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19112The White GorillaDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=20902DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=30431Mole Men Against the Son of HerculesDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=57359DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37261
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Evil Rampaging Monsters SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S1 Ep11: EVIL RAMPAGING MONSTERSSandra Bernhard is joined by special guest, Robert Jacks!Featured Film:EegahDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=57478DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=22540Superargo and the Faceless Giants Direct Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=22163DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=38979
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Just Say No! SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S1 Ep9: JUST SAY NO!Sandra Bernhard is joined by special guest, Sam Seder!Featured Films:The Narcotic StoryDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=57680DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=23190Girl GangDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37953Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19103
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Kids in Peril SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S1 Ep8: KIDS IN PERILSandra Bernhard is joined be special guest, Dana Gould!Featured Film:Swamp VirginDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=57446DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=22557
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Dope Pushers and Vice Dolls SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S1 Ep10: DOPE PUSHERS AND VICE DOLLSSandra Bernhard is joined by special guest, Russ Tamblyn!Featured Films:The Violent Years Direct Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37891Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19103Damaged GoodsDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=38256Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19171Teenage Gang DebsDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37885Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19104
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Bad-Ass Babes SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S1 Ep7: BAD-ASS BABESSandra Bernhard is joined by the "Mighty Monarch Of Exploitation" David F. Friedman!Featured Films:She-Devils on WheelsDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37957Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19082All Men Are ApesDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=57512DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19563Bad Girls Go to HellDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37951Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=23056The Wild Women of WongoDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37983Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19188
Something Weird Reel Wild Cinema: Muscles and Monsters SomethingWeirdDotCom 2015-09-23 | S1 Ep6: MUSCLES AND MONSTERSSandra Bernhard is joined by special guest, Tura Satana!Featured Films:Mondo BalordoDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37849Special Edition DVD:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=19117Medusa vs. The Son of HerculesDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=57163DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37260Conqueror of AtlantisDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=20693DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=37219The Magic SerpentDirect Download:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=22145DVD-R:http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=29015
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