Festive mix: Zpívánky - Czech folk song TV show for kids

It'll be a good conversation starter at any christmas party to say that you're currently listening to a mix/edit of songs from a Czech folk song/folk dance/fairy tale TV show for children.

Download this mix here.

I stumbled upon this show on YouTube while looking for TV idents. Here's my YouTube playlist (the mix/edit is based on sound snippets from these videos).

If this puts you in a festive mood, you might also like this Eastern European fairy tale soundscape I made some time ago.

snipets

Happy New Year! Here's some advice for 2014 through eight 1-minute "Snipets".
Found at the Museum of Classic Chicago Television.
Previously from this excellent archive: Hooray for Reading!

Smiles are friend makers!


Snipets - "Pride Has Many Faces" (1977)

Snipets - "Smile Gangs" (1980)

Snipets - "Bad for You" (1973)

Snipets - "Family Fire Drill" (1982)

Snipets - "What Will I Be When I Grow Up?" (1980)


Snipets - "Skateboard Safety Rules" (1980)

Snipets - "Take Turns & Share Re-Run" (1980)

Snipets - "New Kid In The Neighborhood" (1980)

Hooray For Reading

Hooray For Reading was a "series of ten, minute-long shorts created by Field Communications for children. These would air during the commercial breaks on kid's shows and cartoons. These featured kids briefly doing some other activity besides reading (the "hook") and then describing a book they like using a brief dramatization of a part in the story."
I found these in the Museum of Classic Chicago TV on FuzzyMemories.tv, an enormous collaborative archive of off-air recordings of American television.
Here are my favorites from Hooray For Reading:

Hooray for Reading - "Life on a Plastic Planet?" (#7, 1979)

Hooray for Reading - 'Then Again, Maybe I Won't' (#4, 1979)

Hooray for Reading - "The Accident" (#5, 1979)

Hooray for Reading - "The Glad Man" (#1, 1979)

Hooray for Reading - "The TV Kid" (#6, 1979)

WFLD Channel 32 - Hooray For Reading Special (Promo, 1980)

TV ident month II: Längre högre snabbare

I travelled around the world on YouTube again to find more interesting TV idents. Watch the clip from a Swedish sports show above and you'll know what the motto for TV ident month II is.
While we're in Sweden, we should also watch the following two "vinjetts":






If you missed the first TV ident month here in Dispokino, click here.

Humanic

Believe it or not, these videos are commercials for Austria's biggest shoe retailer, Humanic, from around 1970. Their advertising director Horst Gerhard Haberl invited artists and poets to make commercials, apparently without any boundaries (e.g. no shoes had to be in the picture). The slogans were reduced to "Humanic passt immer" ("Humanic always fits") and, more importantly, the name "Franz!" (with no particular reason) and often absurd/experimental poetry. The concept was kept alive until the 1990ies, creating an incredible series of clips full of absurdist humour.
The above clips are by artist Roland Goeschl and director Axel Corti who were both involved in the invention of "Franz". The voiceover in the third clip above evokes a dystopian future with environmental pollution and tells the people to gather at "the oxygen simulators our fathers called trees".
Three later examples:


1977


With composer and poet Otto M. Zykan


"Berge brauchen keine Menschen" = "Mountains don't need people" (1994). I guess many Austrians hated this one...

I've learnt about these clips in an exhibition about experiments in television in Germany in the 1960s and 70s that I recently saw at the Kinemathek in Berlin. More posts inpired by that exhibition might follow.