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just call it mc linky link link-links! (aka amusing and interesting stuff!)

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I found the most amazing site a few days ago. I'm not sure if anyone else has posted it, but it is a section of archive.org called the prelinger Archives. The Prelinger Archives are a collection of videos from 1927 to 1987 collected by some guy called Rick Prelinger. There are about 48 000 in all.

The Library of Congress in America obtained these and so far about 2000 of them have been put on the net available for download. Most of the videos are between 10 and 25 minutes long and most are documentaries (Either made by corporations, government - Just about anyone you can think of).

It's fascinating watching some of the older videos, getting a visual sense of a time I was never alive for.

Some of the ones I recommend looking at are the social seminar ones (Just search for "Seminar" - there are four) which give a brief look into the lives of four different drug users (I think in the 60s). Basically the people just give a little insight into their lives and motivations. And you can't beat watching real people filmed using drugs.

Some other items of interest I have found so far are documentaries on Nuclear testing, from the 1940's. Footage of a-bomb blasts: amazing. Plus it's scary thinking of what happened to the people, a few years down the track, from the tests as they seem to think nothing of walking around on the sites of the explosions a few hours later.

Also scary are some of the American WWII Anti-Japanese films on the site. They are fairly viciously racist, generalising a whole race of people for the propagandist purpose of the war machine (much like, although more outright, the propaganda we are receiving now on "terrorists" or "those damn a-rabs). There are two videos released by the American government which try to justify the rounding up of Japanese-Americans during WWII and their placement in internment camps, guarded by "caucasians".

And I think the funniest thing I have found so far was a 10 minute doc. from 1950 entitled, "What to do on a date". I long for an age when a pickup line like "ah Kay, you wouldn't want to help get the scavenger sale, at the community centre, ready would you?" would actually work. "Oh I've been hearing about that. Yes I'd like to very much" :)

Anyways this is turning into something I could actually hand in as an assignment so I'll wrap up. I've been downloading clips for a day straight now (woot broadband!) and just wanted to share this wonderful (Too much 1950's talk, arrghh!) resource. gunna be making some sick arse vcds:)

Oh and check out the rest of the site. Some old school feature films and independent media stuff are/is available.
www.archive.org
 
okay i dont know if this is in here yet but i saw this add/link for the cartoon on the news a while ago and checked it out the other week.

CLICK ME!

click on the This Land click thingy :)

its pretty fucking funny :P you have to watch the whole thing and listening to the lyrics kicks arse :)
 
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I found the most amazing site a few days ago. I'm not sure if anyone else has posted it, but it is a section of archive.org called the prelinger Archives. The Prelinger Archives are a collection of videos from 1927 to 1987 collected by some guy called Rick Prelinger. There are about 48 000 in all.[/URL]


a friend was just telling me yesterday that the guys from the corporation (the film), mainly mark achbar, used this for nearly all of the stock footage in the movie.

it's a very cool site.
 
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