Cute Mascot

Here is one of the cutest and funniest mascots in action.  The person inside has to be rather small because he or she completely turned around inside the costume twice during the routine.

Drum Major Tryout

I never thought much about drum majors, even though I love marching bands.  I noticed them strutting in front of their bands and occasionally tossing batons.  And I knew they had major leadership responsibilities.  But it was the band's marching and music that always drew my attention.

This video of a try out for Ohio State University's Drum Major was among the related videos highlighted with a band performance video I watched, so I clicked on the link out of curiosity.  This guy's talent talent blew my mind.  Incidentally, he won the try outs.

Berlin (1936) in Color

This fantastic video shows Berlin in 1936, the year of the Olympics, in color and excellent resolution. I found it on YouTube in the UnknownWW2InColor channel maintained by the Romano Archives. That channel, which I subscribe to, contains hundreds of color films from the WW2 era made by government, press and private photographers of all the participants.

This video was remastered in high resolution, so it looks great in full screen.