Miscellaneous Film Clips
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Skiiers Discover Aspen (Collier's Magazine, 1948)
A late Forties travel article that simultaneously announced the end of Aspen, Colorado, as a ghost town and the beginning of it's reign as a ski resort of the first order."Aspen is a tiny Colorado village tucked away in one corner of a lush green valley ringed by snow-capped peaks rising to altitudes of more than 14,000 feet..."
| Richard Julius Hermann Krebs Under the Nazi Boot
A first-hand account as to the daily goings-on at Hitler's Plotzensee Prison.
Written by Jan Valtin (alias of Richard Julius Hermann Krebs: 1905 - 1951), one of the few inmates to make his way out of that highly inclusive address and tell the tale. Krebs was a communist in the German resistance movement who later escaped to New York and wrote a book ("Out of the Night") about his experiences in Nazi Germany.
"The prisoner who has served his sentence is usually not released; he is surrendered to the Gestapo for an indefinite term in one of the concentration camps, preferably Sachsenhausen or Buchenwald. Incurable hard cases are sent to Dachau... "
| Surfing: The New Thing (Click Magazine, 1941)
If you thought "Beach Blanket Bingo" was kitschy-fun, you'll no doubt be amused when you read the captions that accompany the attached fifteen images depicting the wholesome California surfers of 1941. Long boards rule in these pictures, and you might be surprised to see that bongo-drums were pounded at the prerequisite nigh time bonfire back in the Forties, as well. *Watch a 1930s Newsreel Clip of Californai Surfers*
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