Bernadette Banner is a Dress Historian/YouTuber who specializes in historical reconstruction of clothing (as accurately as possible), using period-appropriate methods.
In this video essay (~30 minutes) she examines how well (or not) Doctor Who's costume department uses costumes to communicate character and story for the people in the historical stories, the companions, the aliens (including the Time Lords), and the Doctor and Master, themselves.
The last two minutes (-ish) is taken up by a sponsorship ad.
Unlike older documentaries, the scientists Explaining All the Things are as diverse as the planet they study.
This is the first of a five-part series airing every Wednesday for the next few weeks. It's supposed to be distributed internationally by the BBC, but i haven't found out where.
Part II will be Frozen, Part III is Life Rising, Part IV is Inferno, and Part V is Humans. I can intuit from those titles what this is all about, and what I say is, about bloody time. We've needed a Walking With Dinosaurs / Cosmos / Prehistoric Planet style series to bring the general public up to date on the last 30 years of scientific breakthroughs re: the co-evolution of Earth, life, and how each has profoundly altered the other, right from the start.
If you guys have an hour or two to kill, I highly recommend these two videos by Cardinal West on the Xenofiction genre. I have a far greater appreciation and understanding of the genre and it’s sub-categories thanks to him and his videos. These and his other xenofiction video essays are all so well written and entertaining and such a great resource for people wanting to get into reading or writing the genre.
Midsommar, Gone Girl, Knives Out - the Good For Her genre is full of cult classics - but why is it so popular - and what make a film part of this new genre?
Caitlin Doughty, the YouTuber who makes the channel “Ask a Mortician,” put out a video yesterday, saying that this most recent documentary had been delisted by YouTube for “Gore and violence without educational intent.”
So in her video, yesterday Caitlin asked people to share the video to make sure it gets seen. So that’s what I’m doing.
Just to be clear: There is neither gore nor violence in any of this video, though there is death by drowning, criticism of corporations, and of the police. It’s a documentary about a nearly-forgotten tragedy, and was made with the support and help of descendants of the survivors, who desperately want the story to be told.
~43 minutes.
Eye Content
Closed Captioned in English
Death
Drowning
American Immigrants
American History
It’s now up again, but age-restricted because of the content. So here are links from the video’s information section if you want to learn more, and can’t to them from YouTube:
This one is a gamble. At the end of the day I just wanted to talk about a medium I love, and one of my favorite wrestlers of all time. After hearing about his tragic passing, I dropped everything and knew this is the video I needed to make for Halloween. While working on it, it just so happened that I got an influx of viewers asking me how to properly get into wrestling as a medium, and thus this video shifted. Not only do I hope to serve as a suitable tribute to one of the best to ever do it, but also maybe to use the genre of horror to show people that professional wrestling is truly for everyone. Bray Wyatt’s Best Matches 2013-2015: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpw52dsvsWwleTzG6OgjInvGYXQdS01-r&si=Okh3wB5GLcjBdlMx