Category: Arts & Tradition

Baby Huey: Quack-a-Doodle-Doo (1950)

His Mama is the only one who loves Baby Huey, an overgrown clumsy ugly duckling. The other Mamas and their broods shun him like the plague and make his little life miserable. But when a ferocious fox attacks the barnyard, Huey comes to the rescue. Huey is a hero basking in his newfound popularity. First…


Life of Michelagnolo Buonarroti Painter, Sculptor, and Architect of Florence (Part Two of Three)

Continued from part one… GIULIANO DE’ MEDICI (After Michelagnolo. Florence: New Sacristy of S. Lorenzo) Anderson At this time he sent his disciple Pietro Urbano of Pistoia to Rome to carry to completion a nude Christ holding the Cross, a most admirable figure, which was placed beside the principal chapel of the Minerva, at the…


Superman: Showdown (1942)

A crook dressed as Superman commits a series of robberies. The real Superman must work fast to counter the bad publicity. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV…


Popeye the Sailor Meets Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (1939)

Working in the story department of Surprise Pictures, Olive Oyl writes a script based on the story of Aladdin, casting Popeye as the thief and herself as the princess. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to…


Giorgio Vasari: The Forgotten Artist Who Recorded the Renaissance

Those interested in Renaissance art will soon become familiar with the name Giorgio Vasari, Florentine architect, artist, and art historian. His 1568 compilation, “Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects,” is the most important written source for the artistic history of the period. Many of 16th-century Italy’s leading artists were among his friends…


Epoch Watchlist: What to Watch for July 29–Aug. 4

This week, we look at a harrowing, real-life tale of an international rescue effort and a Hitchcock classic about a retired debonair thief. New Release ‘Thirteen Lives’ Director Ron Howard’s dramatic film tells the story of Richard Stanton (Viggo Mortensen) and John Volanthen (Colin Farrell), two expert cave divers. The mission of the pair, along…


Life of Michelagnolo Buonarroti Painter, Sculptor, and Architect of Florence (Part One of Three)

While the most noble and industrious spirits were striving, by the light of the famous Giotto and of his followers, to give to the world a proof of the ability that the benign influence of the stars and the proportionate admixture of humours had given to their intellects, and while, desirous to imitate with the…


Charlie Chaplin: The Knockout (1914)

To show his girl how brave he is, Fatty challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on…


Santa’s Surprise (1947)

Five children from around the world follow Santa home on Christmas Eve, and decide to give him some extra help around the workshop. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.”…


The Trials and Tenacity of a Young Artist in Renaissance Rome

Around 1543, 14-year-old Taddeo Zuccaro left his family home in Urbino, Italy, and headed off to Rome to immerse himself in art and to seek out artistic training. In four short years, at just 18 years old, Zuccaro’s murals on the façade of Palazzo Mattei made him the most talked about fresco decorator in Rome—and…