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  1. Hell-Bent For Election (1944)

    Something different from animator Chuck Jones: an allegorical PSA about voting for FDR. It's actually quite good (one of the first cartoons from the studio that became UPA), but very "old timey," and those always are good for riffing.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=UhHaCEdeDPA

    5 votes

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  2. Raggedy Ann and Andy (1941)

    This Fleischer cartoon gives "Fun in Balloonland" a run for its money in the sheer insanity department. There's a character with a pair of scissors for a head, and Ann and Andy are SEWN TOGETHER at the end.

    18 votes

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  3. DragonStrike

    It's a 30 minute video tape that came with a board game back in the 80s. It's really cheesy and perfect.

    20 votes

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  4. Crystals 1958 Alan Holden - Bell Laboratories

    I ran across this short on youtube. A teacher at Bell Laboratories talks about the Physics of Crystals and their Cleavage. It's perfect Riff material!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YW0wjYdUPw

    18 votes

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  5. Paddle To The Sea

    28 minute short I had to watch in elementary school.
    A boy carves a canoe out of wood and sends it on it's greatly improbable way to the ocean.
    Along the way, the canoe meets people and has adventures.
    The canoe does.
    Yes.
    Really

    25 votes

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  6. Janet and the Food Genie (1967)

    Janet may as well be Henry Slinkman's daughter. Her mother has sent her to the grocery store but she doesn't know what food grades mean!

    Fortunately, she can count on the help of an animated Food Genie. He takes her on a whirlwind tour of food processing plants and laboratories where she learns all about how food is graded. She must have been collecting the groceries during her factory visits because the film ends with her putting the groceries away.

    The genie is barely animated, and those animations are recycled a lot. Location shots are intermingled with stock fotage. An…

    25 votes

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  7. Catweazle

    I'm an American/Dutch dual citizen, living in Holland for ten years and the US west coast for fifty years before that.

    My Dutch husband called one of our kitties "Catweazle" this evening, and I asked him what on earth he was talking about. It turns out that "Catweazle" was a British-made children's show from the early '70s that he watched on TV as a small child.

    I watched Season 1, Episode 1 of "Catweazle" (oh, I never get tired of typing that name!) on YouTube, and it was fifteen minutes of riff-worthy delight.

    I had never heard of this show…

    24 votes

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  8. Operation: Deep Freeze

    Or, a history of my dating life.

    Just kidding, it's a short from the '50s about Antarctica! Starring some overly adorable penguins.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA-1F5NSjsU

    25 votes

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  9. "This Is Coffee" - An instructional short about how you're making coffee wrong.

    An alternate title for this short could be "Go to Hell French Press"

    At first, this 12 minute short celebrates the diverse styles of coffee and the many ways to enjoy it.

    But then it insists that there's only the one Coffee Brewing Institute approved method to make a cup of coffee using one of three types of coffee pots. Anything else doesn't count as coffee.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phFqsRd6Sxo

    32 votes

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  10. School's Out

    what do kids do during the summer holidays? this film attempts to explain this, the answer an awful lot

    1. a gun fight in the middle of the street

    2. a child riding a dog into battle

    3. a police man escorts a young boy around a gym

    4. a demonstration of old live saving methods

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxa6Uxds3lY&t=953s

    17 votes

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  11. Depending On Weather

    Adverse weather conditions are a hazard for the unprepared driver. Motoring writer and race driver, David Mckay, gives his check-list for reliable motoring with safety during extreme weather. (NFSA Films)

    1. thrill as what is meant to be a joyful drive gets a man muddy

    2. marvel at adverse weather

    3. enjoy the process of changing a tire

    25 votes

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  12. Manager On The Case (1989)

    Made by Film Australia 1989. An outline of how rehabilitation programs are administered in Commonwealth Agencies with specific reference to the role of the case manager. (NFSA Films)

    1. it has a young Russell Crowe, which should be reason enough

    2. it has some funky late 80s tunes

    3. learn about the bureaucracy of the public service

    4. random teleportation

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcTFOYuiUcc&t=440s

    21 votes

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  13. Monkey Doodle (1933, animated)

    Before animation involved plot or artistry. Utterly baffling.

    https://archive.org/details/MonkeyDoodle1933

    20 votes

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  14. Private Snafu or A Few Quick Facts (1942-1946)

    Series of animated shorts used to educate WWII soldiers on many touchy, difficult subjects. PVT Snafu being voiced by the legendary Mel Blanc.

    One has to be wary to not pick the shorts with obvious racist depictions of the Japanese army/navy/etc.... One episode was written by Dr. Seus.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20161225201615/http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0034915/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlbGPQydXZs

    22 votes

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  16. Simba: The King Lion (1995– )

    North Korean/Italian coproduction ... ripping off Disney's Lion King.
    But at least the animals have laser beam powers to make the story more ... interesting? Plus there are soccer episodes with flame thrower wielding NYC rats.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2374051/reference
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce6TAu6b4ek

    15 votes

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  17. Advertising: What it's Doing to your Life, with Blonde Ronald Reagan. AKA Anyone who hates ads is more evil than the commies.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8cqk0uIuso

    This educational/indoctrination short is a blend of lectures and old advertisements that lays it on thick

    Advertising is equated with: more money for government services thru taxes, the development of new cake mixes, a means to keep Kruschev from burying us, and a way for married men to stare at women so they can feel better about loveless marriages.

    Last but not least, if you don't support advertising than a little kid with cerebral palsy will never be able to walk normally. Do you want that on your conscious?!?

    5 votes

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  18. https://youtu.be/W2zVBqCFMIk

    It is called “life and death” Contrast between competent and incompetent EMS services. It is hilarious in and of itself. Very rich in riffing subject matter

    2 votes

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  19. Getting Off on the Right Foot (1972)

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rx57jVGfso
    In case “Last Clear Chance” and “Days of Our Years” weren’t enough, here’s another western railroad short from the days before mounting and dismounting moving equipment was banned. There’s a very good reason that practice was banned: knees and ankles. Also, it shows LA in the early 1970s, particularly the extra-nice parts of town where the railroad yards were. And finally, if it gets the safety message out, it deserves to be shown.

    18 votes

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  20. Rookie Lifeguard Potential (1993 video)

    Seizure inducing ADHD centric water safety PSA sponsored by Sega using Baywatch cast members for UK audience. Also features the time traveling dolphin protagonist of Sega's Echo the Dolphin console game.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoRI5E3zzzo
    Find it here on Youtube:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABO8wB6tYCs

    18 votes

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