Despite all of this year's problems, many of us will still celebrate the Christmas season. And what better way to do so than enjoying the voices of innocent children and viewing some good Christmas movies?This year I have made available reviews of TWELVE MOVIES that are related in one way or another to Christmas.
Computer technology has passed me by, keeping me from making new videos. Two years ago I mentioned that most boychoir fans were going to YouTube for their videos anyway. So I thought, "Why not just join the crowds?"
In addition to all of the audio and video files that we have featured over the past years, Almost Angels added several pages of LINKS-- presented to give you a speedy route to some really wonderful Christmas and "suitable-for-Christmas" singing!
So... CLICK HERE for our archives from previous years, CLICK HERE for pages with screen captured links to our favorite YouTube offerings; or CLICK HERE for reviews of some great films to watch, with or without popcorn!
Take your pick-- or better still-- enjoy all three!
One caveat: Unlike our archive page-- with a 100 Kbps top streaming speed limit for almost all the videos (encoded so that even medium-speed surfers could/can play the videos without downloading)-- The YouTube video streaming speeds are set by that company and their servers. So, unless you have a broadband connection, you may experience some problems in playback.
Also please remember that some of the earlier videos we did were encoded with even more ancient computers than I had later. Some of the images will be rather tiny.
And one last thing: No, that isn't a Norman Rockwell painting on the cover of the December 10, 1938 Saturday Evening Post. Titled "Choirboys Will Be Boys", it was painted by Frances Tipton Hunter. She was an American magazine illustrator specializing in gently humorous and endearing pictures of children, in a style related to the Americana of Rockwell. She was active from the 1920s to the late 1950s. Born 1896 in Pennsylvania, she was orphaned at age 6 and raised by relatives in Williamsport. As a young woman she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and graduated from the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts. She died in 1957.
---Gene Bitner, Almost Angels
