Comments on: Werner Klemperer & John Banner – Silent Night

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 18:40:13 +0000

You’re Welcome Wayne:

*Many Thanks to Phill Oltmann for inspiring me to successfully search and succeed in finding a moment of history.

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 05:34:33 +0000

“Carol Of The Bells” in American Sign Language
Music by BarlowGirl
Interpreted by Mrs. Rodriguez; 2013
https://youtu.be/1XMfKM6_gcE
3:12

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 04:44:48 +0000

Roland:
Thanks for finding the whole thing!

By: Roland

Roland — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 01:10:51 +0000

12/25/65
Entire Show:
https://youtu.be/w5klIcrgHS8 (58:59)
Fast forward to 48:00min for Silent Night

By: Ian C.

Ian C. — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 01:07:36 +0000

“We are all fallible humans. Time to forgive, and move on.”

Yes, please. Forgive, not forget, move on together where possible, and use the lessons learned to prevent or stop atrocities wherever they (may) happen.

By: wayne

wayne — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:43:32 +0000

tom-
Great factoids! I was not aware of the diary!

George C:
..and they were all Jewish, if I recall correctly.
and… look up “The Chicago Teddy Bears,” a short lived (13 episodes) comedy from 1971-ish, which featured John Banner. (I think some episodes are up at Youtube, but haven’t looked recently.)

Blair–
Glad you like it! Witnessing that launch in-person, made me the amateur science-geek I am today.
(I dubbed in some music for my own personal copy, Def Leppard’s “Rocket.” Not high Art, but it somehow fits…)
Public Service Announcement:
–>Blair has a great little blog, he doesn’t post a huge amount but when he does, it’s high-quality stuff!–everyone should take a look.

Mr. Z.,
No problem whatsoever! (I didn’t want to step-on anything you had planned.)
->I would take this opportunity to publicly thank You & Steve, greatly, for digitizing the film.

By: bkivey

bkivey — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 06:46:49 +0000

Wayne:

That is awesome. Hard to relate the mindset at the time, but three people were going “Where no man had gone before”, and leading to one of the seminal moments in human exploration. The rocketry field was still a bit of a chancy business, and I’m watching the film, thinking “Please don’t blow up.” Of course it didn’t, but still..

Thank you for sharing.

By: George C

George C — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 05:27:20 +0000

All three singers were from the cast of Hogan’s Heros? wow.

By: Robert Zimmerman

Robert Zimmerman — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 03:49:24 +0000

In reply to wayne. wayne. Oh gosh, I was going to post about your father's super8 film and forgot about. I will do something in the next day.

By: wayne

wayne — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 02:34:42 +0000

another flash-from-the-past….

This Day in History: December 21, 1968, 7:51am
Apollo 8 launch
-amateur super-8 film-
https://archive.org/details/apollo-8-december-1968-super-8mm-1440x-1080

By: wayne

wayne — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 02:10:55 +0000

This is from a Bing Crosby Christmas Special show, but I do not know the year.

By: tom wright

tom wright — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 01:30:06 +0000

Some trivia about Werner Klemperer:

He was a member of a well known German family or artists and academics. His father was the great conductor Otto Klemperer, and his cousin Victor Klemperer was an academic who kept diaries of his life as a Jew in Nazi Germany. The diaries were published as “I Will Bear Witness”, also a diary of living in post-war East Germany as “The Lesser Evil”.

All are highly recommended reading for students and opponents of totalitarian thought.