A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.
Since this is going around without credit and a lot of the tags and comments seem to take this as an actual piece of propaganda, it’s actually a parody song produced by Robert Davis in 1942.
The Chicago Film Archives link above describes it as “made as an exercise in DIY sound-on-film filmmaking,” and those guys look to me to be barely, if at all, out of their teens. This is basically a 1940s tiktok.
Personally if I was in charge of the “looking at posts” website and my business model was reliant on people looking at posts for ad revenue I would not limit the number of posts people can look at
Brisbane, 1964. Future senator Bob Katter throws eggs and toilet paper at The Beatles during their visit to Australia, before having to be rescued by police from a mob of angry fans.
Bob is then invited by the Beatles to their hotel to explain the egging. He tells them it was an “intellectual response to Beatlemania”, to which Lennon responded “shouldn’t you be egging the crowd then?”
It is believed that as a result, Bob became the inspiration for the line “I am the Eggman” in the song “I am the walrus”.
1975: There is mass panic in Adelaide after a house painter / part time psychic claimed God was about to send a tsunami to wipe out the city, should a plan to legalise homosexuality become law, with news reports reaching as far as London.
In response to the media frenzy, and to reassure the public, Premier Don Dunstan announced that he will be travelling to the beach to fight the sea, where he was met by hundreds of locals who had used the apocalypse as an excuse to take the day off work.
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