1) 1932, not 1933.

2) It won't be up there long, because it's definitely not in the public domain.

#8? Banana? Not exactly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ICpjq0Qbs

It's hard to tell but it's most likely just a backing tape.
If Michelle really had pulled a stunt like that banana trick America would never have known it because the director would never have let it be seen on camera. Then Ed Sullivan's goons would have had her whacked.

Seriously, it was standard procedure to have singers perform live to a backing track so it was "live" but still sounded like the record. (Remember that Ed let the Stones and the Doors sing live, much to his eventual chagrin.)

So Cory--tell us again why you choose to live in that stupid country? I'm being serious; you must have addressed this before but it just doesn't seem like your kind of place. You couldn't pay me to live there, myself.

That was The Angels with "My Boyfriend's Back." The Shangs did "Leader of the Pack," which at least has death in it.

"Ehh, he's good-bad but he's not evil."

Wow. The first thing that came to mind--these are visual equivalents of Archibald Macleish's great radio plays of the late 30s--"Air Raid" and "Fall of the City." Available at the Internet Archive; they're really something:

http://www.archive.org/details/OrsonWellesOnTheColumbiaWorkshop

In a 1910 anthology of true-crime stories, a 1910 Chicago streetcar transfer, and a receipt for a monthly payment on a suite of furniture from a Department store, both dated the same day.

#2, As the article points out, this is in fact from a Fox movie from 1930 called "Just Imagine." It's a musical, in fact, and a surprisingly dreary one; there are only a few shots of these sets, which are great, but the rest of the film is cheap and tacky-looking. (It also features the comedian El Brendel, the least funny man in human history.) It shows up every so often on Fox Movie Channel and is worth Tivo-ing.

The World's Fair model you're thinking of was the Futurama at the NY fair eight years after this article.

This test--both husbands' and wives'--ran during the first two weeks of 1940 in the Chicago Tribune. (God bless the Proquest Historic Newspapers database.) Husbands' questions include:

Accepts defeat too easily. Lacks persistency and spunk (30 demerits)

Too possessive. Doesn't want wife to take interest in outside activities. (6 demerits.)

Writes on tablecloth with his pencil. (6 demerits.)

Calls "Where is..." without first hunting for the object (6 demerits.)

Tries to keep wife equipped with modern labor saving devices (6 merits.)

Has a date with wife at least once a week (30 merits.)

Helps wife with the dishes, caring for the children, scrubbing, etc. (30 merits.)

Thrills wife with his affection (30 merits.)

Overall, the husbandly ones are pretty good. (I think that last one means, "good in the sack.")