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Potato Cultivation and Distribution (1940s): "And now the destiny of the potato is fulfilled"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsP26MxPX2c
The first 28 minutes are devoted to the growth and bagging of potatoes, the last two minutes go over how bags of potatoes are loaded and unloaded from a boxcar so the potatoes can be sold at grocery stores. Coincidentally, this short was made by Union Pacific Railroads.
8 votes -
In Search Of... Salem Witches
Includes a look at kooky modern day witches that is a bit over the top.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0902042/reference16 votes -
15 votes
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Mary Lewis, Student Nurse (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RXCxZXhZnU
An educational short from the UK where Mary Lewis is "jolly glad" to learn how to be a nurse. Hats are folded, biscuits and tea are consumed, a dance is attended. Blink and you'll miss the short scenes where patients get helped.
9 votes -
It's Everybody's Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=220XsrVZ1rk
An educational cartoon from 1954 that lets the viewer know that capitalism was always the basis for all of our freedoms.
There's also the message that the government provides vital services but that means taxes, so be sure to protest the government taxes.
And there are also women in bikini's standing in front of open fridges. Because of course.
14 votes -
The Supermarket
A bizarre Lynchian film by Ezra Baker depicting a day in a supermarket.
9 votes -
Ghost Stories
Japanese anime that kind of parallels Scooby Doo but with a notably atrocious and bizarro world English dub.
Maybe Riff two or three episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePQJMluhLjQ
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285368/reference7 votes -
Jerry Pulls the Strings
A 1938 "short" film in which the grumpy owner of a coffee company refuses to let his daughter marry her sweetheart because he won't take a real job instead of playing with marionettes all day. The young man then wins him over by putting on a puppet show about the history and production of coffee. Features classic 1930s-era stereotypes and perhaps the creepiest goat puppet ever to grace the screen.
Can currently be seen on Amazon Prime in the "Puppet Movies" compilation.
23 votes -
This is Ceder Crest (1954): It's a 25 minute tour of a woman's college
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6EJAgFuw74
I'm on the fence about suggesting this because it feels like a slog, but maybe that'd make for a solid two-parter riff?
The short itself is a 25-minute promo for a woman's college in 1954 with each scene not lasting for much more than 30 seconds. The only person who talks other than the narrator is the college's president.
5 votes -
"The Light in Your Life" (1949), General Electric Company
This one is totally creepy. So many riff opportunities, you'l not be able to resist!
12 votes -
"We'll Take the High Road" aka Bulldozing Grandma's House for Progress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTPgbePibWg
This 31 minute short is part skit about Grandma not wanting her house torn down, part playlet about a guy telling a town why the highway is good, and part stock fotage of cars and highways.
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"Patrol Vehicle Operation: Emergency Driving"
Sid Davis presents a police car training film. See how police officers learn how to back into a driveway, listen for sirens with the windows rolled up, and drive around with soapy tires.
11 votes -
Fabulous Adventures of the Baron Munchausen (1979)
No, not the Terry Gilliam film—the 1979 French Cartoon. I grew up watching and loving the English version and as I became an adult, I realized how horrid this fim is. I’m just going to put the highlights here:
The animation looks like the artist was suffering a grand mal seizure, but he said “Screw the hospital—I HAVE A DEADLINE!!”
The music in this film was composed by Michel Legrand (!!!), which I assume was like Andy Kaufman starring in a film about robots.
The animator of this film wanted to be the French Walt Disney. I’m not kidding. It…
18 votes -
Star Trek Manic Episodes
Star Trek: Enterprise: A Night in Sick Bay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bkSS3mfH-U
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0572172/referenceStar Trek: The Next Generation: Sub Rosa (1994) Season 7 |
Episode 14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNESMHuFrrU
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708778/reference
Dr. Beverly Crusher crushes/romances on an alien ghost!Star Trek: Deep Space 9: Profit and Lace (1998) Season 6 |
Episode 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO0K3MEv8_c
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708582/reference
Episode including a gender transitioning ferengi.Star Trek: VOYAGER, Threshold (1996) Season 2 |
Episode 15
An episode where humans travelling faster than warp 10 will immediately evolve into advanced slugs from the distant future!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYt-OI7LlTk
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708995/reference
An episode that has lead to real world academic trolling:
https://trekmovie.com/2018/02/15/paper-analyzing-voyagers-threshold-accepted-by-science-journal-more-star-trek-great-links/9 votes -
From Chrysler: How to Go Places - 1954
This is wonderfully campy short
It has perfect gaps in narration for riff-talking
The old fashioned ideas contrasted to todays travel would be funnyThis would fit in perfectly with all the other shorts Rifftrax has riffed. :)
You can find it on youtube https://youtu.be/ZnAiyAMefC4
19 votes -
Caught in a Rip-Off (1974)
From the people who brought you "Cheating" and "Shake Hands with Danger" comes this 1974 scare film about shoplifting, entitled "Caught in a Rip-Off." Some unseen guy who sniffed one too many cans of spray paint (to paraphrase the words of one YouTube commenter) tells about how clerks in your local Hobby Lobby employ one sly tactic after another to discourage burglary. Accentuated with weird (but not atypical) 1970s Moog synthesizer musical stings, this makes for an interesting subject that is riff-worthy.
Here is the YouTube link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DLko6mSqjs24 votes -
New world thru chemistry 1939 with audio from New world thru chemistry 1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy7zrtFeuwU
Someone posted a youtube video that uses video from one short and audio from another. Sometimes the audio and the video work well enough together. Other times it goes off the rails. E.g., a waiter spills wine on a woman's blouse while explosions play. Wallpaper is printed while the narrator talks about using coal and ammonia to make fertilizer for farms. It'd make for a hell of a riff.
5 votes -
Tomes and Talismans
A serialized, Post-Apocalyptic library-venture brought to you by the Mississippi Public Broadcasting System! A group of kids learn about the Dewey Decimal System and Bookmobile from a librarian/freedom fighter, while trying to escape the invasion of Wipers from the Darkstar solar system. Has a very Overdrawn at the Memory bank feel.
The first episode is on youtube here: https://youtu.be/6DzzPDnIKtQ26 votes -
8 votes
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Basic Typing Methods
I found a video on YouTube called "Basic Typing Methods". It was produced by the Navy in 1943 as a brief lesson in basic typing (hence the title).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCpZ3CP7IAs&t=1609s
Here are my reasons: 1) I don't think the woman smiles. Ever. Even though she's won global awards for her typing, apparently. 2) Any short produced by the military in the 1940's could use a good riffing. 3) Nobody does a better job of riffing shorts than you guys.20 votes
