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What AI has To Say About Me – Bruce Baumwoll’s Youtube Channel Is No More. Why He is now doing all his work on his own Blog? What Has This Taught Me. Keep Going.

Bruce Baumwoll & AI , What it saids about me.

Bruce Baumwoll (born 1952) is an American digital archivist, writer, and LGBTQ+ history preservationist best known as the creator of the Baumwoll Archives, an online repository sharing vintage media, queer social history, and nostalgia. [1]

Key Aspects of His Life & Career

  • The Baumwoll Archives: Inspired by a digital art lecture advocating for the public sharing of collections, Baumwoll founded his archive in 2010. The blog and its accompanying YouTube channel have reached over 2 million viewers, presenting historical films, paper ephemera, and personal retrospectives. [1, 2]
  • LGBTQ+ Preservation: A central pillar of his archiving work focuses on documenting the history of Jewish gay men and saving records of LGBTQ+ community spaces and advocacy that are often left out of mainstream history. [1, 2]
  • Personal Life & Activism: Baumwoll has been with his husband, artist and former architect Andrew Reach, for more than 45 years. They met at The Marlin Beach Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Originally meeting in Florida,
  • Creative Motifs: Deeply inspired by his maternal grandfather—a silent film era projectionist—Baumwoll processes information visually due to a learning difference, which drives his passion for cinema, photography, and personal crafts like cross-stitching. He also operates an online vintage movie memorabilia store called Vintage Palace. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Would you like to explore specific stories from the Baumwoll Archives, learn more about his husband Andrew Reach’s digital art, or look into their historical LGBTQ+ activism?

While Bruce Baumwoll’s YouTube channel is occasionally flagged or has specific videos go missing, the Baumwoll Archives channel is not permanently gone; rather, its content frequently shifts due to YouTube’s strict automated copyright and Content ID systems. [1]

Because Baumwoll’s archival style relies heavily on compiling external history, his videos run into a few structural hurdles on YouTube:

Why His Videos Disappear or Change

  • Automated Content ID Claims: Baumwoll heavily features vintage music, newsreel footage, and Hollywood movie clips (such as clips from Crossing Delancey or songs by artists like Susan Boyle). YouTube’s automated bots frequently flag these copyrighted materials. This can result in specific videos being blocked worldwide or taken down unexpectedly. [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • Channel Name Changes: Over the years, his archival video presence has operated under different handles, originally launching under the YouTube channel name EvintageArchives before shifting to names directly associated with the Baumwoll Archives.
  • The Nature of Web Archiving: In his own writing, Baumwoll explicitly states that his process involves saving physical and digital photographs from around the internet “never with an ill intent” but simply to preserve and share them. Because he curates these materials independently and without corporate licensing, they remain highly vulnerable to DMCA takedown notices by large media rights holders. [1, 2]

Where to Find His Content Instead

If you cannot find a specific video on YouTube, you can usually find it directly through his self-hosted platforms:

  • The Official Website: The core of his collection is preserved safely away from YouTube’s algorithms on the official Baumwoll Archives Blog. [1]
  • Direct Blog Embedding: He frequently hosts alternative video players or text-and-photo breakdowns of his films directly within his blog posts, ensuring his work documenting LGBTQ+ spaces, Jewish paper ephemera, and Far Rockaway history is never permanently lost. [1, 2]

Are you looking for a specific video of his (such as his Far Rockaway history reels or his husband’s digital art videos)? I can help you track down where it is currently hosted.

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Dr. Kildaire Show – 1962 Starring – Richard Chamberlain

How many of us watch Dr. Kildare with a very young Richard Chamberlain.   My family and I never missed a Show. I fell in Love with Yvette Mimieux when I was about 10. I saw her on TV in Tiger Tiger. Her smile, her vulnerability, resonated with my soul.   They went on to star in the film  Joy In The Morning. Both are beautiful souls. 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dr. Kildare is an NBC medical drama television series which originally ran from September 28, 1961, until August 30, 1966,[4] for a total of 191 episodes over five seasons.[5] Produced by MGM Television, it was based on fictional doctor characters originally created by author Max Brand in the 1930s and previously used by MGM in a popular film series and radio drama. The TV series quickly achieved success and made a star of Richard Chamberlain, who played the title role. Dr. Kildare (along with an ABC medical drama, Ben Casey, which premiered at the same time) inspired or influenced many later TV shows dealing with the medical field.[4][6] Dr. Kildare aired on NBC affiliate stations on Thursday nights at 8:30–9:30 p.m. until September 1965, when the timeslot was changed to Monday and Tuesday nights at 8:30–9:00 p.m. through the end of the show’s run.[7]

Plot

Like the 1938–1942 MGM film series, the TV series initially told the story of young intern Dr. James Kildare (Richard Chamberlain) working at the fictional large metropolitan “Blair General Hospital” and trying to learn his profession, deal with patients’ problems, and win the respect of the senior Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Raymond Massey). In the series’ third episode, “Shining Image”, Gillespie tells the earnest Kildare, “Our work is to keep people alive. We can’t tell them how to live any more than how to die.”[8] Kildare ignores the advice, which provides the basis for stories over the next four seasons, many with a soap opera touch. By the third season, Dr. Kildare was promoted to resident and episodes began to focus less on him and his medical colleagues, and more on the stories of individual patients and their families.[7]

In order to create realistic scripts, the series’ first writer, E. Jack Neuman, spent several months working alongside interns in a large hospital. Episodes frequently highlighted diseases or medical conditions that had not been widely discussed on television, including drug addiction, sickle cell anemia and epilepsy. Episodes about venereal disease (personally requested by President Lyndon B. Johnson) and the birth control pill were written, but never produced due to network objections.[9] Technical advice was provided by the American Medical Association, whose name appeared in the end credits of each episode.[4][6]

The series was initially formatted as self-contained one-hour episodes, aired once per week. In later seasons, a trend towards serialized drama, inspired by the success of the prime time soap opera Peyton Place, caused the network to develop some Dr. Kildare storylines over multiple episodes and, in the final season, to air two separate half-hour episodes each week instead of a single one-hour episode.[7][10]

Cast

Publicity photo from “Rome Will Never Leave You”. Both doctors travel to Rome, where Kildare finds romance with Italian actress Daniela Bianchi.

An unsold and unaired pilot, directed by John Newland, was shot in 1960 featuring Lew Ayres as Dr. Kildare and (Joseph) Joe Cronin as Dr. Grayson.[11][12] As a younger man, Ayres had played the role of Kildare for many years in the earlier MGM film and radio series.[13][14] Later, a second, successful pilot was made with Richard Chamberlain as Kildare and Raymond Massey as Gillespie.

Before the little-known Chamberlain was cast, the Kildare role was offered to William Shatner and James Franciscus, who both turned it down.[15] (Shatner would go on to make several guest appearances on the show.) The role catapulted Chamberlain to fame.[16][17] In 2006, Chamberlain reprised the Kildare role in a parody of Grey’s Anatomy (along with other famous TV doctors from Julia, St. Elsewhere, M*A*S*H and The Love Boat) on the 2006 TV Land Awards.[18][19]

Massey accepted the role of Dr. Gillespie thinking that it would last only one season, leaving him time to accept feature film roles. Instead, the time demands of appearing in a multiple-season hit series prevented Massey from appearing in any films for the duration of the series’ run.

Supporting cast

Supporting cast members with recurring roles included Ken Berry as Dr. John Kapish, Jean Inness as Nurse Beatrice Fain, Eddie Ryder as Dr. Simon Agurski, Jud Taylor (who also directed several episodes) as Dr. Thomas Gerson, Steve Bell as Dr. Quint Lowry, Clegg Hoyt as Mac, Sam Reese as Dr. Dan Shanks (first season), Jo Helton as Nurse Conant, and Lee Kurty as Nurse Zoe Lawton.[7][11]

Guest cast

Over the years, numerous well-known or soon-to-be well-known actors appeared as guest stars, including:[4][15][20][21]

Reception

Beverly Garland, Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey in the first episode of Dr. Kildare (1961)

The series quickly became a top ten hit in its first season and remained in the top 20 during its second and third seasons, drawing as many as 12,000 fan letters each week.[25] Its success spawned a number of merchandising tie-ins featuring the likeness or endorsement of Chamberlain as Kildare, including novels, comics, toys and games, candy bars, and records of Chamberlain singing songs featured on the show. Chamberlain had a hit single, “Theme from Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight),” in which he sang romantic lyrics set to the music from the show’s familiar opening theme.[16] Largely as a result of the show, Chamberlain became a teen idol during the 1960s.

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Yvette Mimieux continues her surfing. She and Kildare go to the beach at night and they “make out”. He is infatuated with her but cant get her to accept the epilepsy. She has many smaller siezures. Kildare meets all the beach bums and beatnicks of that time. Ultimately she goes for a surf, catches the wave off her life and has a grand mal siezure at the same time. She drowns and Kildare is there to pronounce her dead. GREAT episode with a sad ending.

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Joy In The Morning – Starring Dr Kildare’s , Richard Chamberlain & Yvette Mimieux – “Joy in the Morning” sung by Richard Chamberlain

One of Richard Chamberlains first films since Playing Dr. Kildare

From Wikipedia:
Joy in the Morning is a 1965 American f directed by Alex Segal. It was adapted from the 1963 novel by Betty Smith. The film stars Richard Chamberlain as Carl Brown, and Yvette Mimieux as Annie McGairy Brown. The musical score for the film is done by Bernard Herrmann, and the title song is performed by Richard Chamberlain.

18-year old Brooklynite Annie McGairy has moved to the Midwest to marry her law-student love Carl Brown. The couple must overcome many obstacles including disapproval from their parents, who knew each other before emigrating to America from Ireland, financial problems, and Annie’s sexual insecurities. These problems are all compounded when Annie discovers she is pregnant.

After a heated argument, Annie leaves Carl and returns to Brooklyn to live with her mother. She doesn’t tell Carl she is pregnant because she doesn’t want to burden him while he’s working on his education.

Ultimately, Annie realizes that her family should be together, and Carl forgives her for leaving him because he believes that his child deserves happiness. The couple embrace at the train station and vow to stay together.

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Andrew Reach & Bruce Baumwoll Meet At Tea Dance. At The Marlin Beach Hotel In 1981. Memoires Of The Marlin Beach Hotel & The Copa.

It was spring break when Andrew and I met in Florida. I was living and singing around Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.  I had been working and living  in the home of Ellen Burstyn. The Oscar winning actress for the film “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” for over 3 years. From her example, she had helped me in many ways, from studying at the Actors Studio to the way I would learn for the rest of my life.

Andrew was in his sophomore year of his first college degree, at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and home for Christmas break. It was 1981. We met at the Marlin Beach Hotel; the hotel where the 1960 film “Where the Boys Are” was filmed and starred George Hamiltion, Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis, Yvette Mimieux , Jim Hutton, and Frank Gorshin. Because of that film, the Marlin was a safe place for gay men and women to meet. It had become a hotel catering to gays and lesbians. We took our time and on the last night of his break, we went out for ice cream. When we came out of the ice cream shop with our cones, getting ready to get in the car, we looked across the car top where our eyes met and our souls opened up to each other and we have never been apart since. Love is a powerful thing.