Videos
Video: FDR’s “Four Freedoms” Speech
https://youtu.be/QnrZUHcpoNA?t=6m26s
Some excerpts from FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech, the State of the Union address in 1941. Political speeches were very different in those days (radio was still new; broadcast television was in its infancy).
Invitation to comment: compare Roosevelt’s style to Obama’s or Bush’s.
Video of the Day: Interviewing People
I thought this video was pretty hilarious — but it does a good job of presenting some common practices in interviewing people for information about the attitudes and experiences.
Video: International Police Mountain Bike Association Competition
Build Your Vocabulary! (1948 Instructional Film)
This film, Build Your Vocabulary (1948), shows how a bumbling citizen learns to speak effectively at a town meeting.
The 20th century was a time of great proliferation of extremely tedious instructional films, many of which have been collected by San Francisco’s great treasure, the Prelinger Archive.
Video from Koko: Superblocks
Video of the Day: Rules of the Road