The Stranger

In the age of YouTube, it boggles the mind to think that people used to shove change into a jukebox and stand around watching a 16 mm precursor to the music video. But Scopitones—which, when they launched in the U.S., were stocked exclusively with obscure French performers—were a smash in the '60s, their garish Technicolor aesthetics achieving cultural immortality in Susan Sontag's "Notes on 'Camp.'" The fascinating, eccentric archivist Dennis Nyback will introduce selections from his personal collection. (Grand Illusion, 1403 NE 50th St, 523-3925. 7 and 9 pm, $5-$8.) by Annie Wagner

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