The video-links only thread

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• The Tank Driver
  — from TED hosted Pangea Day, May, 2008
  
  

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• Oil Anthem | Mike Fiore
  — A Mark Fiore political animation
  

[Jeff]

For freedom is the man that will turn the World upside down, therefore no wonder he hath enemies.

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[Jeff]

Think I've posted this before, but it's worth reposting today.

[justdrew]

RUNNING AGAINST TIME (1990)
History professor David Rhodes never has got over the death of his older brother, 1966 in Vietnam. When he hears the rumor that a famous professor is working on a time machine, he immediately contacts him and persuades him to allow him to travel back in time and correct history. If he could save President Kennedy's life, Vietnam war might never have happened

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This one is a remarkable performance...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holcroft_Covenant

[Jeff]

For the Fifth of November:

[justdrew]

For the Fifth of November:

I've thought V4v was somewhat, perhaps unconsciously, influenced by this excellent series...
really worth seeing if you can find it... (not the easiest name to search on!)
there doesn't seem to be any clips on youtube

1990 (TV series)

1990 is a British then-futuristic political drama television series produced by the BBC and shown in 1977 and 1978.

Plot
The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties.

Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.

Background
Exposition in this series was mainly performed by facts occasionally dropped into dialogue requiring the viewer to piece together the basic scenario.

This state of affairs was precipitated by a critical financial collapse (possibly an irrecoverable national bankruptcy) in the early 1980s, triggering a de facto state of emergency, cancelling the General Election and causing the economy (and imports) to drastically contract forcing stringent rationing of housing, goods and services. These are distributed according to a person's status in society as determined (and constantly reviewed) by the PCD on behalf of the government, which is union-dominated and socialistic in nature. As a consequence, the higher-status individuals appear to be civil servants and union leaders. An exception to this is import/export agents, which appear to be immune to state control due to their importance to the remnants of the economy. The House of Lords has been abolished and turned into an exclusive dining club. State ownership of businesses appears to be near-total and taxation of wealth and income appears to be very high. The ruling monarch is male, but his identity is never made clear. The currency is the Anglodollar which appears to have little value overseas due to the poor quality of British exports. The armed forces have been run down to the extent that they are little more than an internal security force. This is made clear in one episode where the RAF is described as consisting of little more than a few dozen counter-insurgency helicopters.

Although running the bureaucratic dictatorship, the state appears to shy away from explicit political violence, preferring to set up psychiatric pseudo-hospitals called 'Adult Rehabilitation Centres' which employ electro-convulsive treatments to 'cure' dissidents. Ordinary criminals found guilty of traditional and new economic and social crimes are prevented from clogging up the prison system by having short sentences during which they are force-fed 'misery pills', which induce severe depression during their incarceration. Despite this, fatalities and injuries do occur due to the PCD's lack of democratic accountability but these are misreported or ignored by the state-controlled press and television or are suppressed by the print unions on the last independent newspaper in the UK. The state can also declare a person to be a 'non-citizen' which denies them any entitlement whatsoever to consumer goods, accommodation or food. Labour is controlled by a mandatory closed shop in every workplace.

http://www.startrader.co.uk/Action%20TV ... s/1990.htm

[justdrew]

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• Asteroid 2005 YU55 | NASA
  — flyby on November 7-10, 2011
  
  
  
  The 700 Club, CBN | Pat Robertson
  — Christian fundie commentary wrt catastrophe including
  • pronouncements of biblical -fear laden- prophecy, of course
    
  
  
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• Donations pour in for dissident artist
  — Ai Weiwei, artist
  
  

[Jeff]

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Ah. Now I get it. The following short films are similar to examples of video ads of the future that you might have viewed over here. Meaning, (some, many, most) corporate ads won’t be about product, necessarily; ads will be about your focus or illumination or story, firstly. Interesting, psychologically.

• Here’s to Real Friends | Chivas Regal Presents
  
  
  

[justdrew]