
Skip Elsheimer and AV Geeks have been getting a lot of attention lately. From Digital City’s top reason Raleigh is awesome to, the latest, a plug on CBS Sunday Morning.
Film Critic David Edelstein’s segment on alternative video gifts for the holidays featured two DVDs that were recently released by Kino Video. The two DVDs are collections of educational shorts from the AV/Geeks Film Library. One is focused on men (How to be a Man) and the other on women (How to be a Woman). Below is what Edelstein had to say about the DVDs (which will make a great local gift this holiday season):
You want to get weird? Try two DVDs from Kino and Skip Elsheimer’s educational film archive, “How to Be a Man” and “How to Be a Woman”: Social hygiene lessons from the Fifties and Sixties. These shorts are hoots, but also kind of touching. My cousin, the sociology professor, thinks when men came back from the war they were so shaken they tried to enforce a so-called normalcy that had never existed. They bored kids to tears - which led, of course, to youth culture and sex, drugs, and rock-‘n-roll.
Below are links to buy both of the DVDs from Kino:
How to be a Man (Classic Educational Shorts - Volume 1)
Instructions for Proper Male Behavior from Classroom Films of the 1940s -‘70s.
How to be a Woman (Educational Shorts Vol. 2)
Instructions for Proper Female Behavior from Classroom Films of the 1940s - ‘80s.
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Congratulations, Skip! All that hard work and dedication deserves notice.
yay Skip! everyone come out to the a/v geek shows and see some of the wonderful weirdness
all hail AV Geeks!!! Always worth checking out a show.
Thanks for the local support! I had no idea that my DVDs were going to be mentioned on CBS Sunday Morning.
BTW, please join me for an upcoming show at Tir Na Nog:
Be Your Own Blockbuster!
December 6, 2009
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Thrills, chills, and instructional violence! Come learn film making the way the pros did…through educational films! Films include – Handy Dandy Do-It Yourself Filmmaking Film, Understanding Movies, Filmmaking Techniques – Stunts and more. Curated by A/V Geeks intern, Z. Hobert Thompson. Suggested Donation $5.
8pm, Sunday, December 6th Tir Na Nog, 218 S. Blount St. Raleigh, NC 27601
Cool beans. I love their stuff!
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