1. Grab a banana and dance.
2. How to go downstairs in a wheelchair.
3. What exactly is your skin color?
4. The oldest car in the world.
5. Two young boys get a little puppy dog.
6. The organist at the Salisbury Cathedral hears a tourist singing and, unseen, plays in accompaniment.
7. A woman describes her own life in Victorian times — brushing mud off skirts, darning socks, and hearing the drunkards singing in the streets.
8. The uncanny power of classical music.
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Richard Widmark figured out how to go downstairs in a wheelchair in 1947
Wheelchair guy is cheating by using the handrail.
Similar steps, no handrail
https://youtu.be/ZzDTOWdEaRk
"Do you like that, mommy?"
Second one I watched. No need to go further.
Well, there's nothing like little boys crying from sheer joy that will make ME cry. Little boys and puppies are just a match made in heaven.
I can relate, Ann; I cry when I see beautiful old cars too!
I’ll wager the puppy and the boy who likes classical music made you cry. They’d make me cry, but I’m a guy and that’s not allowed.
Puppies and cathedral did it for me. Now I'll get a Kleenex and watch the others.
@ Jz puppies is correct, but wrong on the other
Watched #7 just to see if it was someone reliving a past life, but no, it was just an old video of a very old woman. Still interesting. And of course, that "mud" on the London streets probably had a high horse dung quotient back in those days.
The vibesmith guy always make me weep for humanity. Does that count?
I've seen two replicas of that "oldest car". One at the Mercedes Benz World in Brooklands, UK and another at the Mercedes Benz Sugarland, TX.
Very impressed with wheelchair downstairs. I thoroughly enjoyed skin color, because like them; I'm tired of the stereotyping of people by superficial things like skin color.
5 and 8.
They were all pretty good actually. That Vibesmith™ dude cracks me up.
#5 Hit me hard. Very sweet.
Anna Lapwood is one of my all time favorites. Always learn something from her. Extremely informative. Very professional.
Two boys and a puppy; classical music baby
And on one of the videos on the side, there was a video by a woman who helps hoarders get back to clean by cleaning for free. She was doing a refrigerator which a single mom stocked in 2020 - driven by covid, I suppose. And then the mom threw in other stuff intermittently for two years. It was fascinating in a horrible way - you could feel the mom's despair and freeze-in-place. I fear refrigerator build-up and often picture a situation just like that in the video suddenly overtaking me. For that reason I'm constantly throwing out foods, even eggs, on their exact sell-by date. Or a few days before. That's OK for awhile. Then I picture a war being declared or a lockdown and I have almost no food and die, staring into an empty refrigerator. An extra dozen eggs creeps back.
Ri Kee!
For those who didn't recognize it.
Leland - I saw a replica of the Benz ‘oldest car’ at the Petersen Automotive Museum in LA earlier this year.
Also, was also where the composer of "White Shade of Pale" likely got the opening.
On #5- the father will be walking it 100% of the time. Hope he is ready for that.
How did Wheelchair Guy get back up?
Before watching them, based solely on the tiles I guess the ones that made you cry are 5 and 8. I'll try to watch them and guys on which made you cry based on the content.
"Puppies and cathedral did it for me."
Me too.
Prof knows how to tempt me. The musical boy was sweet, but the puppy surprise was great.
I got my first dog for my 11th birthday. I was lying in bed on a Sunday morning when he arrived with my mother and brothers and aunt Louise after church and picking him up. I had swimmer's ear as usual so was allowed to stay home.
He was supposed to be for all of us but he and I had the closest bond and I was the most responsible son all along anyway. He was a dackel who roamed the earth freely, as dogs and kids did back then.
Anna got the key immediately with 4 sharps! She was practicing for a recital she gave today.
Good stuff.
- Krumhorn
I only teared up once. The boys and the puppy.
Technically not the first car. Cars have been around for thousands of years.... Just the first motor car. Carpentum is Latin for wagon or chariot as I understand it more the up scale wagons that noble ladies of Rome might ride in.
A Carpenter (old French carpentier) was someone who made them but the meaning shifted over time to mean a generalist wood worker (as opposed to a joiner, wheel wright or copper).
I liked the Victorian lady singing the drunken songs from memory. She even put in the hiccups.
Loved the little boy and classical music. The importance of family to a child.
Little boy and classical music made me think of idealized world peace...esp when he said "daddy, too and we can bring everybody." Isn't that the presidency Joe Biden promised us? Little kids and first puppies...straight to the heart.
I thought the line "we can bring everybody" was so beautiful, and clearly he knew what he meant, even though we, as adult users of language, have to wonder where? Where is he visualizing bringing everybody? Into someplace that is expressed by that music.
The words he is listening to translate from Latin to:
Full of tears will be that day
When from the ashes shall arise
The guilty man to be judged;
Therefore spare him, O God,
Merciful Lord Jesus,
Grant them eternal rest. Amen.
So, we could say that Mozart effectively conveyed a vision of Heaven.
Very late to comment here: have been away from a computer where I could comment for a couple of weeks. The boys with the new puppy has stuck with me since it was posted. A few days ago we were on a river boat that operates a little like a taxi service: several stops along its route for tourists and commuters alike. A family with two boys, around ages 7 and 10 was on board. At one stop, an elderly woman got on with her equally elderly dog. The dog was like a magnet for the boys: they petted, cuddled, snuggled with it for the entire ride the woman was aboard (about 15 minutes). She let them adore her dog without inhibition and it was really nice to see. It made me think of this particular video you posted.
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