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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 13, 2010 17:10:05 GMT
I just found this remarkable piece on a time/date site, of all places: imovies.com/Excellent animation and compelling viewing. Please add any you consider worthy. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 15, 2010 5:00:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2010 11:22:25 GMT
This little French video has so stunned Hollywood that they are in hard negotiations for a feature length film deal.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2010 16:08:05 GMT
Technically amazing and clever stuff! I love the pixelated water shooting out of the hydrant.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2010 4:40:28 GMT
This site is full of jewels! There are films from as early as the 1890s. I urge everyone to check this out: www.europafilmtreasures.eu/ |
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Post by bixaorellana on May 29, 2010 2:51:31 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 30, 2010 15:53:54 GMT
Please watch this. It is beautifully executed, with a moving and heartening message.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 3, 2010 20:34:04 GMT
This eleven minute artsy documentary of the 1931 Oaxaca earthquake is startling because of the director, the famous Serge Eisenstein. www.tudou.com/programs/view/XbiuwdjcvGo/The other thing startling about it is how old it seems. Compare the clothing of the people in the film with this scene of Downing St., London, 1931:  If you are interested in Eisenstein & in his intended Mexico film in particular, check out these two links. (the 2nd one is almost book length) quevivamexico.gryphonent.com/page4/www.cinescene.com/dash/eisenstein.htm There are lots of snippets of his unfinished film on youtube. |
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Post by Kimby on Jul 19, 2010 5:20:10 GMT
(bixa asked me to repost this here) Rare turn of the century film footage------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My sister used to work for the US Library of Congress in a program called American Memory which sought to digitize as many collections as possible. I remember her showing me some amazing old footage of a NYC building being dismantled, but hadn't thought of it in years, until I saw kerouac2's postings in the D e m o l i t i o n ! Image Bank thread. I did a little searching and came up with this from the American Memory website (it's amazing that these films even exist more than 100 years later): The Paper Print Film Collection at the Library of Congress Most of the films featured in the American Memory presentations are from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Because the copyright law did not cover motion pictures until 1912, early film producers who desired protection for their work sent paper contact prints of their motion pictures to the U.S. Copyright Office at the Library of Congress. These paper prints were made using light-sensitive paper the same width and length as the film itself, and developed as though a still photograph. Some motion picture companies, such as the Edison Company and the Biograph Company, submitted entire motion pictures--frame by frame--as paper prints. Other producers submitted only illustrative sequences. The Paper Print Collection contains more than 3,000 motion pictures. Most are American but many are from England, France, and Denmark. The extreme scarcity of early motion pictures makes these paper prints particularly valuable. In most instances they remain the only record of early films, providing a rare insight into America at the start of the twentieth century and the beginnings of the motion picture industry in America. Go to: memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.htmlClick Search Enter demolition in the search window, and watch a 2-minute clip of a time-lapse sequence of the Star Theatre in NYC being taken apart brick by brick. You can see the passage of days by the shadows moving across the buildings. The clip starts and ends with normal speed footage of the life in NY in 1902... |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2010 22:06:21 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 29, 2010 1:30:50 GMT
Awwww. That was lovely, lovely in the way the lady says, "something difficult to describe".
A charming video, well worth watching.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2010 4:51:38 GMT
It's one of the parts of the film "Paris Je t'Aime".
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 8, 2010 4:51:25 GMT
Videos on the Global Issues web site: www.globalissues.org/video * Martin Khor: Debt Part 1 * Martin Khor: Debt Part 2 * Martin Khor: Structural Adjustment Explained * The Luckiest Nut in the World * Lori Wallach: Free Trade—How Free Is It? * Lori Wallach: Free Trade—The Price Paid (Part One) * Lori Wallach: Free Trade—The Price Paid (Part Two) * Gil Friend: Sustainability * Amory Lovins: Natural Capitalism * Anita Roddick: Corporate Social Responsibility? * Maude Barlow: Water Stress * Evo Morales: Indigenous Rights * Sheila Watt-Cloutier: Inuit’s Challenge in the Arctic * Major “Muggi” Sumner: Share the “Me” Stuff * Hermann Scheer: Big Energy’s Last Stand * Dumisani Nyoni: Poverty Understood * Sir Crispin Tickell: Clean, Green Growth in China * C.S. Kiang: China’s Future * Stephen Marglin: Rethinking Economics * Joseph Stiglitz: Bail Out Wall Street Now, Change Terms Later * Sir Michael Marmot: How Social, Political & Economic Policies Affect Health * Mirai Chatterjee: Importance of Health and Economics * Martin Khor: Historical Responsibility for Climate Change Emission Reduction * Climate Change Impacts on Women in Bolivia * Climate Change Impacts on Women in Bolivia - Longer Version * Climate Change Impacts on Women in Vietnam * Joseph Stiglitz: Liberalization & Subsidized Agriculture vs Poor Farmers * Eric Toussaint: European Colonialism |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2010 6:54:48 GMT
Rachel's birthday video. Her husband is dying of cancer.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 10, 2010 7:01:28 GMT
Words fail.
Beautiful.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2010 22:30:24 GMT
Frankly, every time I have watched it, it has brought tears to my eyes.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 16, 2010 5:42:16 GMT
Awwww. That was lovely, lovely in the way the lady says, "something difficult to describe". A charming video, well worth watching. How strange to have to rely on Spanish subtitles to understand a French film. (kerouac's #10) |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2010 21:35:08 GMT
The Old Lady and the Pigeons
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Post by lola on Oct 17, 2010 1:44:03 GMT
You can't accuse this one of being too sentimental. I like the realistic parts, with the Americans.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2010 5:37:08 GMT
 Somehow I knew that somebody would mention the Americans.
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Post by lola on Oct 19, 2010 1:37:30 GMT
Can't help it; those were the only parts I understood.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2010 5:14:28 GMT
part 2
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 19, 2010 5:20:42 GMT
I posted some videos in the Science Dock.
*stands back to avoid the stampede*
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2010 21:44:45 GMT
Pegasus Airlines Safety Announcement - too cute!
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 24, 2010 23:43:58 GMT
It is absolutely cute! It's also a clever, subtle way to tell the public that Pegasus cares about safety.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 25, 2010 7:26:29 GMT
Here is a long trailer about the 2501 Migrantes, a huge sculpture work by Alejandro Santiago.
(English subtitles)
Don't miss this 35-second snippet showing the statues installed in Monterrey:
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Post by lola on Oct 25, 2010 14:49:19 GMT
in honor of Casimira's bees. Sorry, but I'm a sucker for Rowan Atkinson.
Thanks, Askar and Bixa
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 16:42:28 GMT
Unfortunately, Air Liberté went bankrupt...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2010 23:28:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2011 16:25:25 GMT
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Somehow I knew that somebody would mention the Americans.