Rocketboom Spotlight: Fantasmagorie by Émile Cohl, widely considered to be the first fully animated film ever made.

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Rocketboom Spotlight: ‘Sorry I’m Late‘ by Tomas Mankovsky.

New York City 1911-Present, by Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage, NYPL Digital Gallery, video of the Empire State Building, music by Dosh

Story Links: Save the world from Magibon, Rocketboom, Felicia Day, Ze Frank, Revision3, Podshow, Bombay.tv

Rocketboom Spotlight: Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny. A reinterpretation of the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood. Motion graphics by Tomas Nilsson, music: Slagsmålsklubben

Rocketboom Spotlight:Obama’s Message to Iran.

Rocketboom Spotlight: ‘a micrometer from here’ by Amit Zakai

Rocketboom Spotlight: Tomt and I by Daz Spencer Lovesey and Joe Barcham. Produced by: Go Forward Films and Dave Lankester.

Rocketboom Spotlight on Nilo’s Story by Omar Khalifa. Nilofar Habibi, a presenter with Herat TV in Afghanistan, became a symbol of resistance for women journalists in the summer of 2008. In the face of death threats for working as a journalist, Habibi decided to keep working. This is her story. Created by Omar Khalifa assisted by Matthew Egan and Sara Kianpour (translation) with thanks to the Doha Centre for Media Freedom, Qatar. Music: ‘Twice’ by Little Dragon.

Images, tweets, and posts from the 2009 Inauguration of President Barack Obama.

Scenes from the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Special thanks to Intel for sponsoring us!)

Rocketboom spotlight: Iran: A nation of bloggers by Aaron Chiesa, Toru Kageyama, Hendy Sukarya, and Lisa Temes, students the Vancouver Film School.

The Annual Rocketboom Thanksgiving Day Parade Special. See also, The Bluies vs. The Peachies, The Imperial March

The Instant Grant Program by The Federation of Students and Nominally or Unemployed Artists

Story of a City: New York (1946), Alley Shop, The Gates, Central Park, February 2005, New York, New York, Columbia University - Campus Tour, Times Square Sinema 1970, LED Throwies 2, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Time Square, New York Hotel Room Video, 911 Memorial, guggenheim museum, CPDSA Disco Skating, Central Park, New York, Urban clarinetist playing in a subway car, Apple Store Cube 5th Avenue NYC, NYC: Frederick Phineas & Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space, Amazing Kids from NYC-Skateboarding, The Porter House, New York Subway Break Dance, Nomadic Museum, NYC: Hearst Magazine Tower, Time Warner reflections, 11 Spring Street, us/nyc/modulightor/01, Jumble, Shell montage #2, Manhattan, Missing our towers, Dreaming of People in Far Away Places, Towards Wall Street, NYC Skyline from Weekawken, NJ

Rocketboom Spotlight: La Princesse, a giant mechanical spider documented by Tim Brunsden of Liverpool Stories.

Rocketboom Spotlight on The Archive, a film by Sean Dunne. Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection. This is the story of a man and his records. View the documentary in its entirety at http://www.vimeo.com/1546186

Rocketboom Spotlight: 28 Hours of Jyväskylä, a time-lapse film shot in high definition video by Neo Kekkonen in Jyväskylä, Finland.

Story Links: Troops in the Royal Dragoon Guards at the Al Faw base redo Is This the Way to Amarillo? (by Tony Christie and mimed by Peter Kay)

Story Links: Artist Ben Wilson paints pictures on chewing-gum left on the streets of High Barnet, North London.

Story Links: Rocketboom Spotlight: Super music video, Roll That Stone, in one take with two time frames from The Phoneheads, a drum&bass group from Düsseldorf, Germany. Poor guy never gets to eat.

Story Links: Bathtime in Clerkenwell animation by Alex Budovsky, Music: The Real Tuesday Weld with Stephen Coates based on “Sweeter Then Shugar” by the Mills Brothers

story links: Rocketboom Spotlight: Salvador Dali and Gala

story links: artist Brian Feldman celebrates Leap Year Day.