Hey, everyone. I'm really excited about an app I bought this morning for 99 cents. It's called Video Time Machine and it's really special. Here's the recipe.
You have a spinning wheel on the right of the screen. You can choose a year, all the way back to 1860, and all the way up to 2011. Beside it is another selector wheel where you select a category from the following. Ads, Games, Sports, News, TV, Music, Movies or All. Of course I immediately go back to the 60's. I start watching stuff like The Beatles at Yankee Stadium. I change around to different decades and cool old commercials. I watched Dick Cavett as he interviewed the brilliant Chess Master, Bobby Fischer. I watched Howard Cosell interview John Lennon on Monday Night Football. I watched things I didn't remember seeing and things that are etched in my memory. I watched Elvis sing Angel to a captivating young lady (Anne Helm as Holly) in the 1962 movie titled Follow That Dream.
There is a Random button that will spin the wheels for you and show you whatever. You also have the ability to post any video on Twitter or Facebook. Unfortunately I have neither account.
Let me say a word about the fact that the years go all the way back to 1860. The only thing they have for that time is the first recording which sounds really horrible, as you can imagine. Then you jump to 1878 and the first video. Then you jump to 1889 and hear Robert Browning recite one of his poems. Why don't we jump to 1919 and watch a cartoon of Felix The Cat?
A few suttle things about this app which I wish to share. As you browse you find that things which you remember, actually happened later or earlier than you thought. As you travel back in time, year by year, like a ... well, Time Machine, you get to a point and say "Wow, this is where I became a teen." Or perhaps, you watch the changes in fashion with amusement. Odd hairstyles and mannerisms, jewelry. This app is terrific fun in a lot of ways. I watched a music video of a guy in rainbow, high-water slacks and 5 strings of love beads. I watched a lot of things and forgot that there were other things to do. So, if you want to see a 1956 Presidential add for Eisenhower, this is the app for you.
Without reservation I rate this app as 5 stars out of 5.
From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.
You have a spinning wheel on the right of the screen. You can choose a year, all the way back to 1860, and all the way up to 2011. Beside it is another selector wheel where you select a category from the following. Ads, Games, Sports, News, TV, Music, Movies or All. Of course I immediately go back to the 60's. I start watching stuff like The Beatles at Yankee Stadium. I change around to different decades and cool old commercials. I watched Dick Cavett as he interviewed the brilliant Chess Master, Bobby Fischer. I watched Howard Cosell interview John Lennon on Monday Night Football. I watched things I didn't remember seeing and things that are etched in my memory. I watched Elvis sing Angel to a captivating young lady (Anne Helm as Holly) in the 1962 movie titled Follow That Dream.
There is a Random button that will spin the wheels for you and show you whatever. You also have the ability to post any video on Twitter or Facebook. Unfortunately I have neither account.
Let me say a word about the fact that the years go all the way back to 1860. The only thing they have for that time is the first recording which sounds really horrible, as you can imagine. Then you jump to 1878 and the first video. Then you jump to 1889 and hear Robert Browning recite one of his poems. Why don't we jump to 1919 and watch a cartoon of Felix The Cat?
A few suttle things about this app which I wish to share. As you browse you find that things which you remember, actually happened later or earlier than you thought. As you travel back in time, year by year, like a ... well, Time Machine, you get to a point and say "Wow, this is where I became a teen." Or perhaps, you watch the changes in fashion with amusement. Odd hairstyles and mannerisms, jewelry. This app is terrific fun in a lot of ways. I watched a music video of a guy in rainbow, high-water slacks and 5 strings of love beads. I watched a lot of things and forgot that there were other things to do. So, if you want to see a 1956 Presidential add for Eisenhower, this is the app for you.
Without reservation I rate this app as 5 stars out of 5.
From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.
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