http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/9.4/scopitone/scopitone-09.4.html
The Rather Grim History of Scopitones
The Scopitone is a dead medium from that global metropole of dead
media invention, France. The Scopitone has the rare distinction of being a dead medium whacked by the Mafia.
Given that, one wonders how this website managed
the IP problems inherent in retailing Scopitone DVDs.
But, uh, it does.
http://scopitones.blogs.com/
A Sure Hit At Your Next Tiki-Themed Soiree
One would think that primeval rock videos from the early
1960s, 20 years before MTV, would be corny. They're not.
They're actually *de-cornyizing.* They're
becoming downright uncanny, the monuments of
a lost world, something like early silent film.
The Christian Right has invested so much effort in
undoing the work of the 1960s that its artifacts
are recapturing their air of transgression. Check out this Brigitte
Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg collaboration where
she's swanning around doing Pop Art. You can actually
see mid-century family values collapsing in real time!
http://scopitones.blogs.com.nyud.net:8090/scopitonescom/files/comic_strip2.mov
