YouTube has served up endless videos of Russian soldiers and and tanks getting blown up by Ukrainian drone operators. This video looks at the people piloting those drones.
Category Archives: Documentary
Dungeon in old Missouri penitentiary
Draining the Swamp
The floodway ditches. That’s what we called the series of small drainage ditches just outside of Kennett, Missouri. I think there were four or five of them. They have a rich history.
Bleak, Crime Infested Towns In the (Missouri) Bootheel
There is a seemingly endless variety of genres on YouTube, and one that has been showing up in my feed more frequently of late is what I call the “driving tour of small town America” videos. During my many years, on the road in the Midwest, I had occasion to drive through lots and lots of small rural towns, so I’ve found this series interesting.
The video above offers a rather depressing look at four towns in southeast Missouri: Caruthersville, Hayti, Kennett, and Cardwell. Some of the demographic statistics were almost as bleak and shocking as the images.
Ethiopia’s Chapel in the Sky
Child Mechanics of Myanmar
This clip is from one of the Deadliest Roads documentaries (Myanmar). Without out a doubt the best series of documentaries on YouTube.
1950s America: Old Gas Stations
We’ve grown accustomed to seeing old cars in period movies and vintage car shows but they never look real to me in those settings. This video (mute the awful music!) shows them as they were. These are images from my youth and –for me– it was a wonderful time.
Killing Rommel – The Demise of the Desert Fox
Wilhelm Keitel – Nazi Field Marshal and War Criminal
Jeep promotional videos
YouTube: Willys, the “World’s Largest Manufacturer of Utility Vehicles,” presents the “Jeep Family of 4-Wheel Drive Vehicles and Special Equipment,” a circa 1954 black-and-white film promoting Jeeps produced for civilian use. (“One man with a Jeep can do the work of 100 men with shovels”)
Because this video runs a tad over 20 minutes, I’m guessing it ran in theaters before feature films. I recall seeing newsreels like this as a child in the 1950s. Jeeps like mine (CJ2A) were aimed at the agriculture market and this video show one handy attachment after another.
The narrator pronounces Willys: WILL us … rather than WILL eez so I’m confident that is the correct way to say it.
YouTube titles the video below: Autobiography of a Jeep and the narrator is the “voice” of a Jeep during its development and the early years of WWII. The delivery is that Pete Smith Specialty style from the 40s and early 50s (you had to be there). A little corny but some excellent Jeep footage.
YouTube description: “A small company in Pennsylvania, Bantam, invented the Jeep, but the military needed more than Bantam could produce. So they turned to Willys and Ford and had these auto titans build Jeeps. Edsel Ford joins other Ford Motor Company officials as they demonstrate their vehicles for the military.” (this video has no sound)
Okay, one more. 1940 Ford Pilot Model GP-No. 1 Pygmy