Shopping

Fleischer Studios 'Screen Song' with Ethel Merman singing the songs.

Self shot in public using an iPhone, "Personal Shopping" follows Jewish Princess Becky's search for the perfect dress for her Bat Mitzvah. Parents Mervyn and Gaye try to manage the situation with the personal shopping assistant who has to deal with this grotesque drag family. This outlandish, improvised film shamelessly presents a queer version of a Jewish family from North West London.

A PR short that chronicles the Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo, California.

A dark study concerning the misfortune of a dentist in busy South East London. A visit to the shops leads to unexpected consequences that he never could have imagined.

Shopping Bag, Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space explores nine Los Angeles based artists reflecting on ritual in their life and art. Artist David Hammons discusses the role of chance and improvisation in his work while working on sculpture on a waste site while N’Senga Nengudi talks about staging her performances in freeway underpasses. Spanning performance to spoken word, environmental sculpture to music each artist talks about how ritual and cultural traditions informs their work. This experimental essay intercuts interviews, documentation and photographs with the music of Don Cherry seeking to adjust the criteria and language used to talk about artists of colour.

A few edgy white dudes made a film about jihadists abducting, stripping nude, and killing some American women. It's all pretty yikes but here's what it said on the download page: "Four young women have been abducted from that greatest of american icons, the shopping mall. Those jihadist bastards! The girls don’t seem to understand the gravity of the situation, as hooded men drive them to a secluded area. Eventually, they realize the depth of trouble they are in. Their first hint is when they are tied to posts, forced to strip and shot to death. Four bodies for the pit. Four fewer consumers."

Mike is stuck in a rut. Same routine every day; get up go to work and try to not get too annoyed by his idiot housemate Pete. Things take an unexpected turn however when Maddie shows up in his life.

An American short documentary video about the opening of Edith Massey's thrift store in Baltimore.

Adaptation of Martin Armstrong's poem about an elderly lady who becomes perturbed by something we can't see. It becomes apparent that she is looking for her past, lost in a memory or the clutches of nostalgia. Miss Thompson's shopping trip to town is in chaotic contrast to the tranquil nature of her lonely home, which on return seems like paradise.

Shopping carts come to life with a thirst for blood.

The Home Shopping Game was a short-lived American television game show that aired in syndication during the summer of 1987 and blended the popularity of home shopping with word-identification challenges. It was syndicated nationally, but failed to attract enough viewers to remain on the air beyond its initial 13-week summer run. Veteran game show host Bob Goen was the emcee; Bob Circosta, who was the first ever host on the Home Shopping Network, served as announcer/co-host, and Debbie Bartlett was the female model and assistant. Taped at the studios of HSN affiliate KHSC in Ontario, California, the show was produced in association with MCA Television.

Shopping for Love is an Australian television program. Airing at 10.30pm on Wednesday nights on the Nine Network, it is hosted by Pete Lazer and Andi Lew and premiered on 4 December 2005. Its concept is a reality show, whereby a contestant is chosen with two potential dates. Based on a review of the contestant's household, the potential date goes shopping at department stores and has a time limit to purchase products which it feels will most suit their date. The contestant finally chooses their partner based on a compatibility percentage and other factors, and the contestant takes his chosen partner on a date, to which they reveal details of on the show. The show features product placements from companies such as Virgin Credit Cards.

Shopping Hero, also known as Tsuhan-Man, is a Japanese comedic television drama. Eleven episodes were created and broadcast on TV Asahi, from July 5, 2002 to September 20, 2002.

Missus Goes a Shopping was one of the earliest game shows to be broadcast on live television. The show first aired on CBS Radio from February 17, 1941 to December 21, 1951. On August 3, 1944 the early CBS Television network began airing a primetime TV version until January 22, 1946. The original host was John Reed King.

Following four self made millionaire teenagers as they shop. Some are humble others have lost the value of money but very intriguing. The ones from poorer backgrounds have lost a little perspective on the value of money and are easy come easy go.

The untold social history of "shopping" including its role in cementing womens rights, economic change and social progress. Who knew?