On the lighter side for a sleepy Sun­day .…

“The Big Snooze” (1946) was the last car­toon that ani­ma­tion direc­tor Bob Clam­pett ever worked on for Warn­er Broth­ers. The title? It’s an obvi­ous play on the Ray­mond Chan­dler nov­el, The Big Sleep, which was also turned into a film (star­ring Bog­a­rt and Bacall) in 1946. And the sleep­ing pill scene? Well, it was cen­sored on tele­vi­sion for some time. The clip can oth­er­wise be bought on The Looney Tunes Gold­en Col­lec­tion. For now, here it goes.

In 1979, Andy Warhol spent $40,000 on a broad­cast-qual­i­ty cam­era and start­ed dab­bling in cre­at­ing tele­vi­sion pro­grams that he aired on Man­hat­tan pub­lic access cable chan­nels. (Get more on the sto­ry here.) One episode fea­tured Warhol, Bian­ca Jag­ger and Steven Spiel­berg sim­ply hang­ing out on a bed. And here’s how their con­ver­sa­tion went down:

via Boing­Bo­ing

Some have put it on the lev­el of a Tol­stoy nov­el. Oth­ers have made the com­par­i­son to Dick­ens. No mat­ter how you slice it, The Wire is TV at its best. Below, we have post­ed a fast-mov­ing sum­ma­ry of the first four sea­sons, which was made in the same for­mat as the viral video The Nine Minute Sopra­nos. The fifth and final sea­son of The Wire is not includ­ed here. But that’s just as well. If you want to watch the series in full, you don’t want to know how it ends. Actu­al­ly, on sec­ond thought, you may not want to watch any of this. Move for­ward at your own risk.  

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First it was indie movies; now it’s clas­sic TV shows. Thanks to a deal with CBS, you can now watch clas­sic tele­vi­sion shows on YouTube.  Here, you’ll find Bev­er­ly Hills, 90210, Mac­Gyver, and even Star Trek — not exact­ly high-cul­ture, but you can’t win every time.

For more edi­fy­ing series of YouTube videos, see our piece: Intel­li­gent Life at YouTube: 75 Edu­ca­tion­al Video Col­lec­tions.

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