Two Holiday Classics for Your Video Daily Double!

 Greetings, Holiday-tuneers! Cap'n Howdy is back with the final Holiday-centric Video Daily Double for December. Today I have two short films, both instantly recognizable, albeit one more often seen than the other. Settle down with some egg nog or hot chocolate and take a trip down memory lane...

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 Our first film, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, probably doesn't need any introduction. Enjoy.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas 1966 by theperminator
Our second film, Mickey's Christmas Carol, has probably disappeared from many of your memories since it debuted in 1983. I remember seeing it as a child and then not again for quite a long time, so I present Scrooge McDuck being visited by spirits you might recognize...

1983 - Mickey's Christmas Carol by theperminator

Another Holiday Dose of the Video Daily Double!

 Welcome back, Educationeers! Cap'n Howdy is back with another holiday themed Video Daily Double. As I said last week, this month we'll be watching some classic short films from days gone by, including some treasured favorites you could probably see on TV, but now you can also watch them here! Isn't that better? No commercials at the Blogorium for you!

 No Commercials Whatsoever!


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 Our first film, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, was a staple on television when the Cap'n was but a youngin'. Now that it has to compete with the likes of Spongebob Squarepants and Community for your holiday attention, I guess it's trickier for you to see this. In fact, you probably just ignore this because your parents like it. Well, heed my recommendation, I say!

Our second film, also from the team of Rankin and Bass, is called Santa Claus is Comin' to Town. I can't imagine what it's about.

Holiday Celebration with the Video Daily Double!

 Welcome, Educationeers! It's December, and the Cap'n thought he might do something different this year. Since I spent most of October sharing horror shorts, it seemed like it might be fun to do the same thing for the last month of the year. Except maybe not with horror shorts... maybe... We'll see. But in the meantime, let's spend the next few weeks watching different winter themed short cartoons and films, selected by me, for you edu-joyment.


 On with the merriment!


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 Today we'll start with two shorts featuring famous animated characters.

 Our first film, Donald's Snow Fight, features a duck, and his mischievous nephews. The title probably explains itself.


 Our second film, The Art of Skiing, was one I shared last year, but has apparently disappeared from circulation. Fortunately, I found it in French, so not only can you enjoy the antics of Goofy, but you can learn another language in the process!

A Paul Lynde Post-Holiday Special Video Daily Double!

 Greeting, Lynde-ucationeers! Cap'n Howdy has a very special Video Daily Double for you today. If you don't know who Paul Lynde is, I'm not surprised, but I am very disappointed in you. But, since I'm no sourpuss, I'll help you out with today's educational film. There's only one today, because it's a little bit longer and I can't imagine you'll be able to focus on anything else once you've finished!


 To the education mobile!


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 Today's film (in three parts) is called Public Transport: Who Needs It?, and it stars Paul Lynde. Even if you don't know who he is, I bet you'll figure it out immediately. It's impossible not to know who he is as soon as you see him. Also, something about the relative merits of public transportation, which comes in handy for you city Educationeers who want to go somewhere during the upcoming winter break (SPOILER: that means YOU need it.)


 

Gobble Gobble with the Video Daily Double!

 Greetings, Education-Pioneers! Cap'n Howdy back with a very special Video Daily Double just in time for Thanksgiving! That's right, it's tomorrow, and while you're away from school getting ready for all of your extended family to come over and take up the TV space, here are some educational films from days gone by to help you adjust. After all, coming in and taking over people's space is what Thanksgiving is really about!

 Watch these films and be thankful!

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 Our first film, A Day of Thanksgiving, should help you reflect on what you're thankful for tomorrow. Let's hope you're not thankful for brazen shopping madness.


Our second film, Dining Together, will help you learn how to eat your Thanksgiving dinner without being a slob or drunkenly ruining everything. And I know you would drunkenly ruin things if left to your own devices, Educationeers!

Think Before You Act with the Video Daily Double!

 Good day to you all, Educationeers! As we come out of election cycle and return to normal life, I have the feeling that some of you are full of beans and want to take it out on property that isn't yours, or otherwise misbehave. So let's take a look at why you should take a step back and sort things out with today's Video Daily Double!

 Reflect before you wreck!


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Our first film, Destruction: Fun or Dumb?, takes a close look at whether your wanton hooliganism is acceptable, and why. Spoiler Alert: It's not.


 Our second film, The Procrastinator, reminds you that thinking carefully is important, but don't think so much you don't do anything. Mixed messages from the Cap'n? Maybe, but life is tricky, so deal with it kiddos!

The Democratic Process is Hard at Work with Today's Video Daily Double!

 Greetings, Vote-u-cationeers! Well, the Cap'n understands that you're a little young to be voting, or to possibly even understand what happened yesterday. That's okay, because today's Video Daily Double is here to help out provide some clarity on how the electoral process works so that you can feel caught up with your parents and older brothers and sisters!

 Watch and learn!

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 Our first film, Behind the Freedom Curtain, might have another agenda, but don't let selling voting machinery dissuade you from learning how this particular voting machinery makes the process smoother. Clearly it does!

 Our second film, Democracy, should help explain how our system of governance works, and why voting is helpful. Just not as helpful as voting machinery. Wow that's some fancy machinery!

Safety First for a Spooktacular Halloween Video Daily Double!

 Greetings, guys and ghouls! Today is Halloween, and your Cap'n is all too aware that many kids and kids at heart will be spilling out into the streets next Monday in search of treats, tricks, and mayhem. Thankfully, the Cap'n has an few very helpful educational films from the 70s and 80s in order to maximize your spooktacular spoils of tricking and treating.

 Watch and learn, my little ghosts, witches, vampires, and werewolves!

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Our first film (in two parts), Halloween Safety, gives you a series of Do's and Don't's for a danger free October 31st.




Our second film (also in two parts), is also called Halloween Safety, and is also from Centron films, but updates the tips and techniques for the 1980s.




 Best of luck to you all! The Cap'n will be waiting...

The Darkness Approaches in Another Spooktacular Video Daily Double!

 Welcome back to another edition of Cap'n Howdy's Video Daily Double, this month devoted to horror short subjects. This week I'm going to share two films I saw at the Nevermore Film Festival, and I think you'll find them sufficiently unnerving.

 Proceed with caution!


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 Our first short film, Enter the Dark, is probably one of the better takes on the "found footage" subgenre (Paranormal Activity, The Blair Witch Project) I've seen in a while. It starts out a little slow, but when things get rolling, damn does it keep you on edge. Watch it with the lights out.



 Our second short film, Incubator, doesn't mess around. That's all I'm going to say.
INCUBATOR from PRETTY PEOPLE PICTURES on Vimeo.

Another Double Dose of Horror Shorts for Your Video Daily Double

 Welcome back, horror fans! Cap'n Howdy returns for another double dose of frights and chills for the Video Daily Double. Today we'll move a little forward and take a look at some short subjects designed to give you the creeps. Are you ready???


 Are you???

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 Our first short, a 1953 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, narrated by James Mason. It's not merely the story, but also the nightmarish visuals that help deliver the unsettling sensation caused while watching this film.


Our second short, The Dummy, was created for HBO and USA's Saturday Nightmares, and it certainly fits that category.

Spooking Things Up with the Video Daily Double!

 Greeting, shrieks and freaks! The Cap'n is putting away the educational films of yesteryear for the rest of October (sorry, Educationeers) to bring you a double dose of horror shorts every week for the spookiest month of the year.  Today's Video Daily Double is going in the wayback machine, but not to ironically appreciate the quaint social engineering of days gone by. Today we're going to look at two vintage short horror-related subjects!

 Spooooooky!

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 Our first film is Thomas Edison's adaptation of Frankenstein, from 1910. It's the first filmed adaptation of the novel, even if it's a "liberal" version of the story. Enjoy!


 Our second film, Boo!, is from 1932, after Universal hit it big with Dracula and Frankenstein. It's a little snarkier in tone, but does include Nosferatu.

Your Guess is as Good as Mind (A Very Special Video Daily Double)

 Howdy, Educationeers! Before we head into "spooky" October territory, I thought I'd share to short educational films that, well, I can't quite wrap my head around. This is a Video Daily Double where we can all clearly learn something... I'm just not sure what. But guess what? You get to help me! So we all win!!!


 Right?

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 Our first film, Jay Can Do It, is about Jay. He can do it. What can he do, you say? Well, all sorts of things, I think.


 Our second film, Skippy Learns a Lesson, is about a racist dog. Yep... that's right. But he learns a lesson about how not to be racist, so that's good, right?

A Video Daily Double for Those Cut-Ups in School!

 Greetings, Educationeers! Cap'n Howdy back with another fantasticational Video Daily Double! Today I thought I'd keep things in the classroom for all of you, and shine a light on those students that want all of the attention: the class clowns. Unfortunately for them, this isn't the kind of attention they're looking for, but any attention is good attention, right?

 Wrong!

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 Our first film, The Self Image Film: If Mirrors Could Speak, should give you some idea of how ridiculous you are and why your life will be a miserable failure of bad jokes and ill-mannered office ettiquette.


 Our second film, Act Your Age, is for those dopes who didn't pay attention to the last movie and are grown up knuckleheads. Nice job, knucklehead.

A Video Daily Double to Keep You Off of the Pot!

 Good day to you all, Educationeers! Cap'n Howdy is back with another fact-tastic Video Daily Double. Now, I realize it's been entirely too long since I've warned you about the dangers of drug use, and since some of your older brothers and sisters may have headed off to college recently, you might want to... what's the term? Email them this link. That works; sorry, I'm not hip to the lingo of your generation. But in any lingo, drugs are bad. Mmmkay?

 Beware the drug!

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 Our first film, The Mind-Benders, warns you of the dangers of hallucinogens, which alter your perception of reality, and not in some epiphany-inspiring fashion. Nope, just in a "stare at the walls like a dope and giggle for hours" way, which doesn't get your homework done, now does it?


 Our second film, Narcotics: Pit of Despair, deals with all of the other stuff that innocent "pot smoking" parties leads to. Mainly shooting heroin, which killed most of your parents' favorite musicians, but strangely not yours. They're learning how to live without the dope - shouldn't you?

A Video Daily Double about People You Don't Want to Be!

 Welcome back, Educationeers! Don't mind last week's post; the Cap'n was just having a little chat with your parents. But we weren't talking about you. No worries. Today's Video Daily Double gets you right back on track as we continue to look at life in school. By now you've had some time to settle in and get some bearings on the social situation, and you're looking to make some inroads towards the "cool" crowd. Well, drinking is a good start.

 Wait, I said it wasn't? When?

 Three weeks ago, you say? Nah, doesn't sound like me.

 Anyway, here are two types of people you DON'T want to be if you value your reputation in school at all.
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 Our first film, Shy Guy, will show you why it's a horrible idea to be shy. Other than the fact that people will forget you exist and never talk to you and girls you eventually meet and have a crush on will see you as "just a friend" leading to internal torment and lonely nights.


 Our second film, The Outsider, may seem appealing as being part of a "rebellious" group in your school, but we all know those losers are just jealous they weren't invited to the good clique, so they started some lame-o loser group.

While the Kids are Away, the Video Daily Double will Play!

 Greetings and salutations, parents of Educationeers! I assume you're taking some time out after having dropped the kiddos at school to check out what they're up to online, and accordingly stumbled upon Cap'n Howdy and his Blogorium, home of the Video Daily Double! Well, I wouldn't want you to think your kids are in any danger. Here at the Blogorium, I like to help educate the youth of today with the films you grew up watching. Let's have a look at a few that you may remember, but not so "kiddie," shall we?

 Observe! Report!

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 Our first film, Relax, is about finding ways to avoid the stresses of dealing with yelling children day in and day out. And it doesn't even involve drinking!


 Our second film, Don't Be a Sucker, will help you understand that disliking people just because everybody else does is a relic from tribalism and is therefore an asinine construct of outdated societal norms. Nah, I'm just kidding, it's about communists.

More Back to School Tips from the Video Daily Double!

 Greetings, Learnucationeers! Cap'n Howdy knows that one week's worth of educational films about school isn't enough, so just in case you thought today's Video Daily Double was going to take your mind of the impending return of school buses, think again! It's time for more learning about school and more schooling about learn. No, wait...


 Learn!

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 Our first film, School Rules: How They Help Us, should be self explanatory. School Rules help you more than they help me, so pay close attention.


 Our second film, How Quiet Helps at School, is a logical extension of the last film. If you were talking during the last film, you might want to think about what you did while you watch this film. Think shamefully.

Heading Back to School with a Video Daily Double!

 Well, Educationeers, the time is upon us. It's time to get your knapsacks ready and head back to school. Since it's been a long summer of going to the fishing hole and painting fences, I figured it would be a good idea to give you a Video Daily Double preparing you for life back in the classroom. After all, why not learn about what you're going to be doing for these next long months: learning!

 Learn on!

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 Our first film, Your Junior High Day, is for all Educationeers making the leap from "little kid" to "miserable adolescent" when you leave Elementary school and go to Middle school. Oh, how I feel for you and would never, ever, trade places with you.


 Our second film, The Show-Off, will help you middle schoolers figure out how to best navigate your new, awkward, social position. Hint: rat on everybody. It will only end well.

Summer Winding Down? Not with the Video Daily Double!!!

 Greetings, Slackucationeers! Cap'n Howdy knows you're using the last few days of summer to squeeze in as much slacking as you humanly can, but in the interest of picking up a few useful tidbits before trotting back off to school, I've helpfully cooked up this week's Video Daily Double! Since I know you're hoping to sneak in some partying and merry-making before everything is said and done with, I thought I'd take some time out of your busy schedule of doing nothing to warn you of the dangers of partying too hard!


 DANGER!!!

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 Our first film, Innocent Party, deals with a very important subject with the initials V and D. And it doesn't stand for Valentine's Day. Honestly, this video is probably something you should watch with your older brothers or sisters, so they can explain things you won't understand. Yet. But beware what you don't understand!




 Our second film, None for the Road, is for those of you who thinking drinking will make you cool. Spoiler Alert: It Will, but that just means you totally shouldn't do it. Cool people may have the right clothes and a cool car and all the right friends, but in the end they just go on to live great lives and you're not going to be cut out for that. When you're older, rent a movie called Heathers. You'll understand.

Some Helpful Tips for a Summer of Video Daily Doubles!

 Greetings, Educationeers! Cap'n Howdy with another summer-filled edition of the Video Daily Double. As we all know, summer is past the halfway point, and those of you who aren't in one of those "year round" schools (yuck!) are stepping it up to make the most of what's left. Well, let's remember not to push it too hard, otherwise you won't be able to enjoy lounging around and making mischief!

 Be mindful in your slacking!

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 Our first film, Let's Play Fair, will help you maximize your time with others and make sure they'll still want to play again tomorrow!


 Our second film, Sleep for Health, is for any of you trying to squeeze in as much fun as possible by not getting to bed. Now trust me, you'll have all of your teens and college years to do that, so make sure you're prepared for future sleepless nights.