Cuckoo Clock History

Plan your trip, plan perfect days and discover how to get around - this pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do and see in Germany, from top attractions like the Brandenburg Gate and Cologne Cathedral to hidden gems, including Meissen with its perfect porcelain and the Black Forest's National Clock Museum, which celebrates the cuckoo clock.

Berlitz Pocket Guides: iconic style, a bestselling brand, this is the quintessential pocket-sized travel guide to Germany, and now comes with a bi-lingual dictionary

It's enough to make a cartoon lover's eyes bug out. About half of the 67 shorts in the laserdisc set The Compleat Tex Avery and most of the 70 cartoons in The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 3 are — aOOOga! — new to video and (for now, at least) exclusive to disc. Although these compilations aren't in CAV format, which means you can't freeze-frame or slo-mo the exploding animals unless you buy a player with pricy digital effects, the picture quality still makes tape look smeary by comparison.
Arranged chronologically, the nine-hour Compleat Tex Avery gives the silliest of material a suitably absurdist archival cachet. It actually catalogs only the director's years at MGM (Avery also worked at Warner Bros. and for Walter Lantz), but for his very best cartoons, this is one-stop shopping.

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

The Repair Shop is a workshop of dreams, where broken or damaged cherished family heirlooms are brought back to life. Furniture restorers, horologists, metal workers, ceramicists, upholsterers and all manner of skilled craftsmen and women have been brought together to work in one extraordinary space, restoring much-loved possessions to their former glory. Many of these items have incredible stories behind them and a unique place in history.

The Catalogue (German language edition: Der Katalog) is a boxed set comprising eight albums by Kraftwerk that were released from 1974 to 2003. All albums are digitally remastered, with most of the cover art redesigned.

In this first-ever screen adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a simple real-estate transaction leads an intrepid businessman deep into the superstitious heart of Transylvania. There he encounters the otherworldly Count Orlok – portrayed by the legendary Max Schreck, in a performance the very backstory of which has spawned its own mythology – who soon after embarks upon a cross-continental voyage to take up residence in a distant new land… and establish his ambiguous dominion. As to whether the count’s campaign against the plague-wracked populace erupts from satanic decree, erotic compulsion, or the simple impulse of survival – that remains, perhaps, the greatest mystery of all in this film that’s like a blackout…

In this first-ever screen adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a simple real-estate transaction leads an intrepid businessman deep into the superstitious heart of Transylvania. There he encounters the otherworldly Count Orlok – portrayed by the legendary Max Schreck, in a performance the very backstory of which has spawned its own mythology – who soon after embarks upon a cross-continental voyage to take up residence in a distant new land… and establish his ambiguous dominion. As to whether the count’s campaign against the plague-wracked populace erupts from satanic decree, erotic compulsion, or the simple impulse of survival – that remains, perhaps, the greatest mystery of all in this film that’s like a blackout…