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What a moment. I had the opportunity to film a 90 min. music special following banjo picking Earl Scruggs and his sons on the road to play with those they most admired. At the top of that list was Doc Watson. This scene was filmed with a single camera and a single microphone at Doc's home in North Carolina. To see these 2 magnificent musicians (and magnificent people) just sit down and pick some good bluegrass/country/mountain tunes was hard to sit there and film because I want to get up and move my body with their wonderful music.

I was so fortunate to get to make this film with Jimmy Doolittle, aviator, inventor, General, warrior, the man who led the famous Tokyo raid and the Doolittle Raiders in World War II. Although he denied it, to my mind, he was unquestionably an American hero. If you would like to see this entire film, go to http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00068OJZI. In 1942 things looked pretty bad. The war was not going well and what Doolittle and his men did was an attempt to change that. It is a daring story in which they believed that there was a good chance they would die in the effort - flying B 29s off the deck of an aircraft carrier without enough fuel to get to safety. #world war #jimmy Doolittle #tokyo raid #doolittle raiders #hero

I am very fortunate to know serial entrepreneur and master inventor Jay Walker and to have spent time in his magnificent library of the history of human imagination. As you will see in the video, this collection is extraordinarily broad and yet very precise–dinosaurs, space memorabilia, inventions, early Bibles, and original bill of rights, and so much more. As I say in my video, there are 2 kinds of people in the world. Collectors. And those who think collectors are insane. I am a collector. I hope that many viewers of this video also collectors and enjoy seeing what Jay Walker has collected. The library grows weekly as Jay spends a good portion of his time searching the world for new examples of human imagination as he defines it. He is generous and has students and historians and others visit the library on a regular basis, although it is connected to his home in Connecticut. Experts would say that it is one of the greatest private libraries in the world.

This is a clip from one of the films in my extensive archives of films from the 1950s and 1960s that I have collected over a 40 year period. They ran this film in junior high school and high school to teach children better eating habits. It probably did some good back then. To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at www.patreon.com/allinaday.

To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at www.patreon.com/allinaday. This clip is a part of the 180 interviews I conducted in 1989 for my TV series, Making Sense of the Sixties. I carefully selected each person who appeared based on their ability to articulate their experiences and also based on a judgment I made–were they “ordinary extraordinary” people as I described them. I feel that this woman is clearly one. Bluntly honest. At the time, she was one of the leaders of the flight attendant's union. #hippies #1960s #womensrights #stewardess

Although most of my posts on my YouTube channel present clips from my documentaries made over a 57 year period, I periodically post what I hope will be helpful insights for my subscribers and others. Happiness – being happy, can be a challenge for many and I found this research interesting, surprising, and insightful. Quit smoking? Having a child? Getting married? Going on a diet? Going shopping? Stopping drinking alcohol? Dying your hair? Breaking up a bad relationship? Moving to a better location? Quitting a job? Starting your own business?

To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at www.patreon.com/allinaday. This is a clip from my latest video - We Love Reptiles, made with the wonderful reptile loving family at Trop-Aquarium in Santa Cruz California. The entire 10 minute movie is available on my YouTube channel. If you love reptiles, let me know how you feel about this and the other clips I am presenting by leaving a comment. This video is copyrighted by me and not available for anything other than personal use.

To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at www.patreon.com/allinaday. I am proud that I made communication programs like this one--an old-time video news release--for great folks like many were at General Magic. Magic had some really huge talented people who went on to found many successful companies. And seeing it now - it is most certainly part of communications history