This illustrates why a charged object can attract a neutral object.

John Travoltage? Watch as the movie-star gives himself a nasty surprise.

Balloons and Static Electricity - how to make a balloon stick to a wall.

A Swedish hospital wants to ban its staff from wearing Crocs plastic clogs, saying they generate static electricity that can knock out medical equipment. Newspaper report

Physics behind how a Van de Graff Generator works

Lots of fun with hair, cereal, light-bulbs etc

Two minute video-clip of the history of lightning

Short video on lightning hunters

Short animation describing how lightning works

Two minute junior-cert introduction to static demos

Google video (one minute long) on lightning

A woman is caught on securicam inadvertently causing an explosion at a petrol station when she gets back into her car and causes a spark which ignites the petrol tank. Youtube. One minute

An Australian man built up so much static electricity in his clothes as he walked that he burned carpets, melted plastic and sparked a mass evacuation.
As he walked into the building, the carpet ignited from the 40,000 volts of static electricity that he built up. Text-based.

Excellent Shockwave animations

Set ‘Setup’ to ‘Charged Plate Pair’, tick on ‘Flat View’, and set ‘Floor View’ to ‘No Lines’. Useful to illustrate what should happen with the semolina and oil demonstration.

Just follow instructions to trace electric field pattern

Similar to above

Ditto

Click on the main window to place electric field lines, then guess the nature of the invisible charge

1 minute, from MIT tv

"Linemen" are so called because they fix (usually high voltage) powerlines, so they 'wear' faraday cages. From Youtube. 3 minutes.

Youtube. One minute