This is a colorized clip from France circa 1923 featuring some gentlemen participating in cycle-skating. Cycle-skates each had one giant wheel on the inside of the foot so you could roll around doing donuts to impress the ladies at the park. And you know how I feel about impressing the

Step into my time machine (sure, it looks like the same closet where we play 7 minutes in heaven) and take a trip back to 1971 and John Lennon hearing the recording of his ‘Imagine’ for the first time. He seems relatively pleased with the result. As he should be,

Using AI art generator Midjourney, creative director Douggy Pledger and musician Osymyso reimagined Star Wars as a 1923 black and white silent film. It contains a surprising amount of Yoda lips kissing. Would I watch a full length version? Is that even a question? I watched my girlfriend scroll the

1993 — it seems like forever ago, doesn’t it? That’s because it was. 1993 is just as long ago from right now as 1981 is to the pyramids being built. You can quote me on that. This is a 1993 news report featuring customers reacting to Burger King now accepting

Because everybody fantasizes about living in medieval times and being a knight or princess (why do you think Renaissance Faires are so popular? I was born to be a wizard), this is a video of bardcore musician Hildegard von Blingin’ performing a medieval cover of the Rolling Stones’ ‘Paint It

Hot on the heels of that 1920’s footage of the Big Easy comes this footage of the roaring 20’s in New York City. Now I know what you’re all thinking — The Great Gatsby! And yes, this was the era of Art Deco, jazz, and flappers. But look at that

In what is hands-down the most British things I’ve seen in a while, this is a 1974 clip from BBC Nationwide of Michael Barrat interviewing snail aficionado Christopher Hudson and his beer-loving giant African snail, Boozy. Honestly, I thought it was a Monty Python skit at first, and I’m still

This is some historical black and white footage from The Big Easy captured in the 1920’s that’s been upscaled to 60FPS, stabilized, remastered, and colorized, with some sound design added for good measure. The result isn’t fantastic, although I imagine the source material was pretty rough around the edges. I