Old video showing superfluid helium

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I thought this was pretty cool:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKOlfR5OcB4

You can skip about the first 2 minutes, which are just the credits and some footage of them transferring some fluid.

Nice concrete demonstration of various fun stuff such as superfluidity and second sound.
 
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Great demonstration, wish they had this quality of explanations still (or maybe I haven't found them yet).