What are you watching?
Re: What are you watching?
Could it be?
Canal threats, money-laundering claims and a hotel battle: Trump’s long, weird history with Panama
https://www.the-independent.com/news/wo ... 69911.html
Possibly connected to the strategy as well, if Canada has their own faction within it that Trump thinks will go in his favor (in terms of tax-havens and the usual trash that likes South Dakota and bunghole Wyoming. ?
Re: What are you watching?
In 2022 an article came out, titled, 'Elon Musk Responds to Dogecoin Co-Creator Calling Him a 'Grifter' Who Is 'Good at Pretending''
https://people.com/human-interest/elon- ... a-grifter/
If only people paid more attention when it fucking mattered.
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An "Ex-CIA" BS artist most likely, talking about a UFO disclosure (which I do believe exists as he says, but this is not what is truly happening in government) who seems like the typical grifter coming out of government now days.
If it isn't people getting pissed with government, it will probably be China starting WW3 with a Taiwan invasion.
https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/20 ... of-taiwan/
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Lost Western film (of only 5 of 26 collaborations with John Ford that are known in existence)
What's so insane is this film was literally sitting in an abandoned building for 40 years, and nearly taken down with it before demolition.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-cu ... in%20Chile.
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Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6gyam_Trungpa
An interesting quote about 9:45 in:
Did Guru Padmasambhava (900AD) say "When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the earth"?
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/ques ... n-wheels-t
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Some interesting stuff by Jonas Mekas can be found (ok ru or vk is easiest to find complete versions, though Youtube has one also.)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jonas_mekas
Lost Lost Lost (Jonas Mekas, 1976)
In the Mirror of Maya Deren (Jonas Mekas, 2003) documentary
A filmmaker that I need to look into:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/meshes ... rnoon-1943
I found all of her work here (and yes, it's a bit weird and is basically an experimental Director making silent films at a time when normally you would only make ones with sound, and didn't even have any music to accompany it originally.)
Maya Deren (1917-1961 Ukr-Amer)
Various films by the same Director:
Luminous Procuress (Steven Arnold, 1971)
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A very impressive stop-motion animation (the true inspiration for Toy Story? Forget hand-drawn animations like Raggedy Ann, as this is probably the closest thing to a 3d animation prior to cgi.)
'The Mascot' (1933/34) Ladislas Starevich.
Alternatively, the one released in the US was much shorter at 26 minutes, though has English voiceovers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vtv8ARFWx4
In France the dog character (which goes by Duffy in the US/England) would have gone by Fetiche (Fetish. . . Which referred to a magical property in which it comes to life) and other films with the character also exist, such as this one:
The Habitant of the Desert Isle (Wladyslaw and Irene Starewicz, 1936) aka Fetiche on Honeymoon (Duffy in The Mascot)
https://youtu.be/9xbQXaHLdq0
A better version can be found here:
Wladyslaw Starevich - CAMERAMAN'S REVENGE (1912) FETICHE'S HONEYMOON VOYAGE (1936) FLEUR DE FOUGERE (1949)
The Beautiful Leukanida (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1910) Ladislas Starevich
https://youtu.be/bTHEOEYpHW4
The Grasshopper and the Ant (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1912) Ladislas Starevich
https://youtu.be/g7lruO14vYA
The Insects' Christmas (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1913)
https://youtu.be/KF-j_DBdwds
The Frogs Who Wanted A King (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1922)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQS9Y2nuP-g&t=3s
The Voice of the Nightingale (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1923)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNPlmqQdrgg
Other additions (I can't find yet)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0823088/?ref_=tt_ov_dr_1
The Story of the Fox (Wladyslaw and Irene Starewicz, 1937)
Another really good stop-motion animation by a Hungarian that later went on to major Sci-Fi film special effects is
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (George Pal, 1936)
These really are some of the best examples of the art form.
I'm noticing some other stop-motion animation here as well (and the tradition would continue into some modern films Tim Burton films, which also had talent from Europe.)
https://www.youtube.com/@canallumiere3103
I did forget about this one (though I mostly remember the drawn animation of it.)
Wind and the Willows (1982 stop-motion film) and I believe better quality can be found.
https://youtu.be/kY7TpB6bfhE
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Crisis of Capitalism
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I'm a bit confused about this one and spent a bit more time comparing to the Kino version (read the bottom)
The original Fritz Lang's Metropolis on it's premiere was cut down to a smaller version. Many of the ones claiming to be the "complete" version are always a shorter edited one, and even with this restored version, about 5 minutes were beyond repair. It was estimated to be around 3 1/2 hours in length though this one is 3 hours (still about 30 minutes longer than the version that usually is available.) You can tell where the found footage was added, since the film is very damaged, but still better than not seeing it, and it reminds me of attempts to restore other films like Blade Runner to their original premiere, or even the original Super Mario movie, where you can see what portions were edited out from the screener copy, etc.
Metropolis (3 hr) (Fritz Lang, 1927) (Maximiano Cobra 2022) Slower speed by about .23-.25 which might be original to showing
Youtube option: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmscbGV-dEY
Better:
Considering they literally just tampered with the Kino Lorber version and pretend like offering a 4k download for about $60, this can't really be considered piracy. . .
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At around 43:30 minutes in,) portions of it are reminiscent of some of the racial scenes in Bioshock Infinite (that were used to dramatic effect to highlight the mindsets of the inhabitants of 'Columbia' as the city was referred to.
The Nazi party loved it so much, I wouldn't be surprised if more unedited copies exists somewhere in South America, where they would have fled to.
It's worth mentioning that Metropolis was edited, not entirely because it was too long, but because the political message would have been taboo in other countries. The film would seem to have a socialist bend with an anti-communist message. A notable scene that stood out was at around 43 minutes in, where some fliers are being tossed from above a vehicle with its windows down, as the person inside is being bombarded, enough as to distract him from the woman in a car next to him who is trying to get his attention. As the man is being covered in fliers he notices a foreign (Japanese) name and then a cameo floods his mind of foreign people. It reminds me of some aspects of the videogame Bioshock Infinite, where a floating city, 'Columbia' is based around an early 20th-century xenophobia of self-reliance and needing to exclude perceived threats to dominance (where much of the game incidentally is inspired from Ayn Rand's books and philosophy, where people that view themselves as societal "elites" start to form their own utopia submerged under the sea in the first two games, and eventually becoming a floating city connected by a rail network or air balloons. Basically, it was a failed state driven by a system where entropy sets in. As for Metropolis it seems to suggest people felt compelled to keep a "machine" (metaphor for Mamon or Moloch) operating while fearful that if they don't, someone else will come over from a foreign country who is more eager for work (and who might not share their same "utopian" idolism? I believe Metropolis incidentally shares a lot of similarities to 'Birth of a Nation' from a decade prior. . . Though it get's overshadowed by the fact that most people are only familiar with the shorter versions of the film.)
A discussion on what was cut (and it's worth noting that many "Complete" versions of Metropolis omit the original Frtiz Lang original premiere version, and this currently is the longest version that exists anywhere.
https://thefuture409.wordpress.com/2016 ... e-fiction/
I believe the screen capture of the Yoshiwara advertisement shows two quotes:
Oscar Wilde (English Author 1854-1900) , "I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. It is unnatural virtue that makes the world, for those who suffer, such a premature Hell."
Omar Khayyam (Iranian polymath from 1048-1161)
"Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain — This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies"
I think it's supposed to symbolize depravity (and that the "elites" have a higher moral virtue.) I can imagine a lot of John Galt's (Ayn Rand novel) characteristics with this.
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Disney - Education for Death - The Making of the Nazi (1943)
The above uploader has a bunch of github stuff.
I'll need to go over these:
https://www.youtube.com/@canallumiere3103/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@GammaToons
https://www.youtube.com/@them3mediacollection/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Zeman
French stuff: https://www.youtube.com/@eclairbrut/videos
Czech - https://www.youtube.com/@CzechFlixik/videos (the first link is titled, 'Stick, Start Beating!' 1956)
Silent films (the best looking version of The Golem, though 10 minutes shorter than other versions)
https://www.youtube.com/@iconaus
https://people.com/human-interest/elon- ... a-grifter/
If only people paid more attention when it fucking mattered.
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An "Ex-CIA" BS artist most likely, talking about a UFO disclosure (which I do believe exists as he says, but this is not what is truly happening in government) who seems like the typical grifter coming out of government now days.
If it isn't people getting pissed with government, it will probably be China starting WW3 with a Taiwan invasion.
https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/20 ... of-taiwan/
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Lost Western film (of only 5 of 26 collaborations with John Ford that are known in existence)
What's so insane is this film was literally sitting in an abandoned building for 40 years, and nearly taken down with it before demolition.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-cu ... in%20Chile.
********************************
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6gyam_Trungpa
An interesting quote about 9:45 in:
Did Guru Padmasambhava (900AD) say "When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the earth"?
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/ques ... n-wheels-t
**************************
Some interesting stuff by Jonas Mekas can be found (ok ru or vk is easiest to find complete versions, though Youtube has one also.)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jonas_mekas
Lost Lost Lost (Jonas Mekas, 1976)
In the Mirror of Maya Deren (Jonas Mekas, 2003) documentary
A filmmaker that I need to look into:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/meshes ... rnoon-1943
I found all of her work here (and yes, it's a bit weird and is basically an experimental Director making silent films at a time when normally you would only make ones with sound, and didn't even have any music to accompany it originally.)
Maya Deren (1917-1961 Ukr-Amer)
Various films by the same Director:
Luminous Procuress (Steven Arnold, 1971)
*************************
A very impressive stop-motion animation (the true inspiration for Toy Story? Forget hand-drawn animations like Raggedy Ann, as this is probably the closest thing to a 3d animation prior to cgi.)
'The Mascot' (1933/34) Ladislas Starevich.
Alternatively, the one released in the US was much shorter at 26 minutes, though has English voiceovers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vtv8ARFWx4
In France the dog character (which goes by Duffy in the US/England) would have gone by Fetiche (Fetish. . . Which referred to a magical property in which it comes to life) and other films with the character also exist, such as this one:
The Habitant of the Desert Isle (Wladyslaw and Irene Starewicz, 1936) aka Fetiche on Honeymoon (Duffy in The Mascot)
https://youtu.be/9xbQXaHLdq0
A better version can be found here:
Wladyslaw Starevich - CAMERAMAN'S REVENGE (1912) FETICHE'S HONEYMOON VOYAGE (1936) FLEUR DE FOUGERE (1949)
The Beautiful Leukanida (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1910) Ladislas Starevich
https://youtu.be/bTHEOEYpHW4
The Grasshopper and the Ant (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1912) Ladislas Starevich
https://youtu.be/g7lruO14vYA
The Insects' Christmas (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1913)
https://youtu.be/KF-j_DBdwds
The Frogs Who Wanted A King (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1922)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQS9Y2nuP-g&t=3s
The Voice of the Nightingale (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1923)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNPlmqQdrgg
Other additions (I can't find yet)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0823088/?ref_=tt_ov_dr_1
The Story of the Fox (Wladyslaw and Irene Starewicz, 1937)
Another really good stop-motion animation by a Hungarian that later went on to major Sci-Fi film special effects is
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (George Pal, 1936)
These really are some of the best examples of the art form.
I'm noticing some other stop-motion animation here as well (and the tradition would continue into some modern films Tim Burton films, which also had talent from Europe.)
https://www.youtube.com/@canallumiere3103
I did forget about this one (though I mostly remember the drawn animation of it.)
Wind and the Willows (1982 stop-motion film) and I believe better quality can be found.
https://youtu.be/kY7TpB6bfhE
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Crisis of Capitalism
*************
I'm a bit confused about this one and spent a bit more time comparing to the Kino version (read the bottom)
The original Fritz Lang's Metropolis on it's premiere was cut down to a smaller version. Many of the ones claiming to be the "complete" version are always a shorter edited one, and even with this restored version, about 5 minutes were beyond repair. It was estimated to be around 3 1/2 hours in length though this one is 3 hours (still about 30 minutes longer than the version that usually is available.) You can tell where the found footage was added, since the film is very damaged, but still better than not seeing it, and it reminds me of attempts to restore other films like Blade Runner to their original premiere, or even the original Super Mario movie, where you can see what portions were edited out from the screener copy, etc.
Metropolis (3 hr) (Fritz Lang, 1927) (Maximiano Cobra 2022) Slower speed by about .23-.25 which might be original to showing
Youtube option: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmscbGV-dEY
Better:
Considering they literally just tampered with the Kino Lorber version and pretend like offering a 4k download for about $60, this can't really be considered piracy. . .
***************************
At around 43:30 minutes in,) portions of it are reminiscent of some of the racial scenes in Bioshock Infinite (that were used to dramatic effect to highlight the mindsets of the inhabitants of 'Columbia' as the city was referred to.
The Nazi party loved it so much, I wouldn't be surprised if more unedited copies exists somewhere in South America, where they would have fled to.
It's worth mentioning that Metropolis was edited, not entirely because it was too long, but because the political message would have been taboo in other countries. The film would seem to have a socialist bend with an anti-communist message. A notable scene that stood out was at around 43 minutes in, where some fliers are being tossed from above a vehicle with its windows down, as the person inside is being bombarded, enough as to distract him from the woman in a car next to him who is trying to get his attention. As the man is being covered in fliers he notices a foreign (Japanese) name and then a cameo floods his mind of foreign people. It reminds me of some aspects of the videogame Bioshock Infinite, where a floating city, 'Columbia' is based around an early 20th-century xenophobia of self-reliance and needing to exclude perceived threats to dominance (where much of the game incidentally is inspired from Ayn Rand's books and philosophy, where people that view themselves as societal "elites" start to form their own utopia submerged under the sea in the first two games, and eventually becoming a floating city connected by a rail network or air balloons. Basically, it was a failed state driven by a system where entropy sets in. As for Metropolis it seems to suggest people felt compelled to keep a "machine" (metaphor for Mamon or Moloch) operating while fearful that if they don't, someone else will come over from a foreign country who is more eager for work (and who might not share their same "utopian" idolism? I believe Metropolis incidentally shares a lot of similarities to 'Birth of a Nation' from a decade prior. . . Though it get's overshadowed by the fact that most people are only familiar with the shorter versions of the film.)
A discussion on what was cut (and it's worth noting that many "Complete" versions of Metropolis omit the original Frtiz Lang original premiere version, and this currently is the longest version that exists anywhere.
https://thefuture409.wordpress.com/2016 ... e-fiction/
I believe the screen capture of the Yoshiwara advertisement shows two quotes:
Oscar Wilde (English Author 1854-1900) , "I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. It is unnatural virtue that makes the world, for those who suffer, such a premature Hell."
Omar Khayyam (Iranian polymath from 1048-1161)
"Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain — This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies"
I think it's supposed to symbolize depravity (and that the "elites" have a higher moral virtue.) I can imagine a lot of John Galt's (Ayn Rand novel) characteristics with this.
***********************************
Disney - Education for Death - The Making of the Nazi (1943)
The above uploader has a bunch of github stuff.
I'll need to go over these:
https://www.youtube.com/@canallumiere3103/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@GammaToons
https://www.youtube.com/@them3mediacollection/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Zeman
French stuff: https://www.youtube.com/@eclairbrut/videos
Czech - https://www.youtube.com/@CzechFlixik/videos (the first link is titled, 'Stick, Start Beating!' 1956)
Silent films (the best looking version of The Golem, though 10 minutes shorter than other versions)
https://www.youtube.com/@iconaus
Last edited by Catoptric on Tue Mar 18, 2025 10:42 am, edited 7 times in total.
Re: What are you watching?
Hobbit (Rankin-Bass, 1977) (Hi-Fi v2.0 audio and higher quality video)
https://archive.org/details/TheHiFiHobbitV2
The Lord of the Rings (Ralph Bakshi, 1978)
VHS https://archive.org/details/full-vhs-th ... o-1981-vhs
or https://m.ok.ru/video/3377809197606
The Return of the King (Rankin-Bass, 1980)
https://archive.org/details/the-return- ... -1980-hevc
Aelita Queen of Mars (Yakov Protazanov, 1924)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Ferdinand Zecca, 1902)
The Haunted House (Joseph M. Schenck, 1921) Buster Keaton
https://archive.org/details/TheHiFiHobbitV2
The Lord of the Rings (Ralph Bakshi, 1978)
VHS https://archive.org/details/full-vhs-th ... o-1981-vhs
or https://m.ok.ru/video/3377809197606
The Return of the King (Rankin-Bass, 1980)
https://archive.org/details/the-return- ... -1980-hevc
Aelita Queen of Mars (Yakov Protazanov, 1924)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Ferdinand Zecca, 1902)
The Haunted House (Joseph M. Schenck, 1921) Buster Keaton
Last edited by Catoptric on Tue Mar 18, 2025 10:53 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: What are you watching?
1977 the year Nicaragua's per capital GDP was at its peak, higher than even Chile, amongst the riches countries in LATAM, just behind Costa Rica and Argentina. One of the fastest growing economies in the world.
Eduardo "Guayo" González - Quincho Barrilete - Nicaragua (vivo, Festival OTI 1977)
(a song dedicated all the kids of the world)
Eduardo "Guayo" González - Quincho Barrilete - Nicaragua (vivo, Festival OTI 1977)
(a song dedicated all the kids of the world)
Re: What are you watching?
How Hitler Invaded Half Of Europe | Greatest Events of World War 2 In Colour 
Re: What are you watching?
Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) German mathematician
"Spengler predicted that about the year 2000, Western civilization would enter the period of pre‑death emergency which would lead to 200 years of Caesarism (extra-constitutional omnipotence of the executive branch of government) before Western civilization's final collapse."
A longer video of a course focusing on this
https://youtu.be/rpWoPfFOqzo
Oswald Spengler (1) Form and Actuality - Decline of the West (1928)
Oswald Spengler (2) Perspectives of World History - Decline of the West (1928)
Along with Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)
(1) Technics and Civilization (1934) Lewis Mumford (Myth of the Machine 1)
(2) The Culture of Cities - Lewis Mumford (1938)
(3) Condition of Man - Lewis Mumford (1944)
(4) Pentagon of Power (1970) Lewis Mumford (Myth of the Machine 2)
Originally a trilogy was commonly published, but was then change up with Myth of the Machines as a 2 volume set.
Other books by Lewis Mumford include
Story of Utopia (1922)
Sticks and Stones (1924)
The Transformations οf Man (1956)
The City in History (1961)
The Human Prospect (1965)
The Urban Prospect (1969)
Modern books discussing his work
Ecohumanism Eco Culture - Lewis Mumford and Ian McHarg (2019) Cohen, Steiner
Fabian Scheidler - The End of the Megamachine (2020)
Others:
Byung Chul Han:
Hyperculture - Culture and Globalisation (2022)
Palliative Society - Pain Today (2021)
Ian L. McHarg - Essential - Design and Nature (1998)
Tech Agnostic - World's Most Powerful Religion (2024) Greg M Epstein
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During the earlier seasons of South Park they had a few live-action sequences that were pretty funny (and even though they are intentionally corny, they perhaps make the series seem more aged.)
Cherokee Hair Tampons
https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/v5 ... cial-break
https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/l8 ... -marketing
And perhaps they are self-aware about the absurdity of 16 seasons of the series being stuck in 4th grade, that they did another live-action with grown adults as the characters stuck on a boat.
https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/e6 ... true-story
And a later episode called Grounded Vindaloo has some live-action too, of Butters (though I'm currently going through all the episodes and will get to it eventually.)
Just found all episodes: https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21A ... 8CACCFD093
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Alec Guinness as Hitler
The movie can be found in the Simon Ward archive page here:
https://archive.org/details/@jt_s_ghost
Random movies
https://vkvideo.ru/@movies.english
"Spengler predicted that about the year 2000, Western civilization would enter the period of pre‑death emergency which would lead to 200 years of Caesarism (extra-constitutional omnipotence of the executive branch of government) before Western civilization's final collapse."
A longer video of a course focusing on this
https://youtu.be/rpWoPfFOqzo
Oswald Spengler (1) Form and Actuality - Decline of the West (1928)
Oswald Spengler (2) Perspectives of World History - Decline of the West (1928)
Along with Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)
(1) Technics and Civilization (1934) Lewis Mumford (Myth of the Machine 1)
(2) The Culture of Cities - Lewis Mumford (1938)
(3) Condition of Man - Lewis Mumford (1944)
(4) Pentagon of Power (1970) Lewis Mumford (Myth of the Machine 2)
Originally a trilogy was commonly published, but was then change up with Myth of the Machines as a 2 volume set.
Other books by Lewis Mumford include
Story of Utopia (1922)
Sticks and Stones (1924)
The Transformations οf Man (1956)
The City in History (1961)
The Human Prospect (1965)
The Urban Prospect (1969)
Modern books discussing his work
Ecohumanism Eco Culture - Lewis Mumford and Ian McHarg (2019) Cohen, Steiner
Fabian Scheidler - The End of the Megamachine (2020)
Others:
Byung Chul Han:
Hyperculture - Culture and Globalisation (2022)
Palliative Society - Pain Today (2021)
Ian L. McHarg - Essential - Design and Nature (1998)
Tech Agnostic - World's Most Powerful Religion (2024) Greg M Epstein
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During the earlier seasons of South Park they had a few live-action sequences that were pretty funny (and even though they are intentionally corny, they perhaps make the series seem more aged.)
Cherokee Hair Tampons
https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/v5 ... cial-break
https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/l8 ... -marketing
And perhaps they are self-aware about the absurdity of 16 seasons of the series being stuck in 4th grade, that they did another live-action with grown adults as the characters stuck on a boat.
https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/e6 ... true-story
And a later episode called Grounded Vindaloo has some live-action too, of Butters (though I'm currently going through all the episodes and will get to it eventually.)
Just found all episodes: https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21A ... 8CACCFD093
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Alec Guinness as Hitler
The movie can be found in the Simon Ward archive page here:
https://archive.org/details/@jt_s_ghost
Random movies
https://vkvideo.ru/@movies.english
Re: What are you watching?
Season 10 ep 1 'Return of Chef' has a Super Adventure Club that brainwashes Chef, but is based on a Teddy Roosevelt stand-in with a joke about him going around the world fucking Indigenous children which he believed made him immortal until he gets hit by a train and dies (so not really Teddy Roosevelt.)
All the while they also make fun of the church for similar reasons, and yet politics does have a surprising number of people that do such crap, and I'm wondering if it's a commonality of sociopathic narcissists that gravitate towards positions of power, which is the common denominator?
They gravitate towards the GOP.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/5268659 ... 613111164/
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George Foreman just died
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foreman
The Rumble in the Jungle October 30, 1974
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All the while the douche is wanting another 54 billion payout and is actively destroying those that will block his destructive path.
Earlier I had posted something about a CIA guy claiming some absurd shit about 2027 being UFO/Alien disclosure (btw, Musk says he's a 3,000-years old alien from the future) when it most likely has to do with a hypothetical China prepping for invasion of Taiwan.
Oswald wasn't KGB despite Oswald was being watched while in the USSR (and also mentioned he was a poor shot, which might suggest some other assassins during the time he was shot in the car in Dallas.)
Declassified Kennedy Files Reveal a Bulgarian Link to JFK Assassination
https://www.novinite.com/articles/23140 ... assination
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Alternate Realities 22 min transcript reading
Millennium (1989) crappy movie (and the uploader has the TV series created by the X-Files creator https://archive.org/details/@nobumsnoducks )
Re: What are you watching?
Hitler Had Jewish, African Ancestry (DNA Test)
FYI people, everyone is mixed.
Insightful discussion from these folks too:
Characteristics of E1b1b Y-DNA Populations
E1b1b is strongly linked to warrior, merchant, and ruling-class lineages in ancient civilizations. This haplogroup has a long history of military, strategic, and leadership roles.
E1b1b doesn’t dictate personality, but it is linked to historical warrior, strategist, and leadership lineages.
Traits like paranoia, strategic thinking, and in-group loyalty were exaggerated by his environment & experiences.
The irony is that his leadership style had more in common with Mediterranean and Middle Eastern rulers than the “Aryan” leaders he admired.
Final Thought: If Hitler had been R1b instead of E1b1b, he might have been a more traditional, warrior-like conqueror rather than an obsessive, structured leader focused on racial hierarchy and centralized control.
FYI people, everyone is mixed.
Insightful discussion from these folks too:
Characteristics of E1b1b Y-DNA Populations
E1b1b is strongly linked to warrior, merchant, and ruling-class lineages in ancient civilizations. This haplogroup has a long history of military, strategic, and leadership roles.
E1b1b doesn’t dictate personality, but it is linked to historical warrior, strategist, and leadership lineages.
Traits like paranoia, strategic thinking, and in-group loyalty were exaggerated by his environment & experiences.
The irony is that his leadership style had more in common with Mediterranean and Middle Eastern rulers than the “Aryan” leaders he admired.
Final Thought: If Hitler had been R1b instead of E1b1b, he might have been a more traditional, warrior-like conqueror rather than an obsessive, structured leader focused on racial hierarchy and centralized control.
Re: What are you watching?
A Mondo film is also referred to as a shockumentary, and this is what started it:
Mondo Cane aka A Dog's Life (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi, Paolo Cavara, 1962) (as an MKV file it probably needs to be downloaded to change the audio settings, though other videos also exist on archive org.
https://archive.org/details/mondo-cane-1962
Trailer
Other videos and series that take a similar approach:
The Killing Of America (Leonard Schrader, Sheldon Renan, 1981) Shockumentary
Cropsey (2009 documentary by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio) Willowbrook Institute - (Texarkana, TX-AR Serial Killer)
Motel (Christian Blackwood, 1989 Documentary)
Banned In America (Nomo Ichi, 1998 - 2000)
Catastrophe (1) (Larry Savadove, 1977 documentary)
Catastrophe (2) No Safe Place (Dan Gingold, 1980 TV Docu) Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland
The Look Of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2014 Doc) 1965 Indonesia genocide
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It's worth mentioning that Roger Ebert the film critic had co-written twice with Russ Meyer, on his soft-core porn movies.
This first one involves a Hitler-like parody which investigates how he died following a BDSM session, and the second one seems very reminiscent of Orson Welles's unfinished movie (which ends up having a partial release) The Other Side of the Wind (and I just discovered he had a whole bunch more stuff he never finished: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Wel ... d_projects )
Up! (Russ Meyer, 1976) written by Roger Ebert (critic)
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (Russ Meyer, 1970) written by Roger Ebert (critic)
Supervixens (Russ Meyer, 1975) Christy Hartburg, Shari Eubank, Deborah McGuire, Haji
The second film can be found here and I found the rest on Archive org
https://archive.org/details/@joseph_jon ... tar?page=3
https://archive.org/details/@nobumsnoducks
You can also find Love Camp 7 (Lee Frost, 1969) Maria Lease, Kathy Williams (Nazi grindhouse) in the first link.
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On another topic, I was kind of surprised to discover this movie:
Goodbye, Uncle Tom (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi, 1971) American Version
https://archive.org/details/y-2-mate.is ... ry-ldc-dq-
It has a very Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone music approach (perhaps because they are Italian, but I bet the films he made rubbed off on them.)
The footage looks more impressive than Amistad from the 1990s.
Another "Mondo film":
This Violent World (Mario Morra, 1976) aka Savana Violenta
A lot more similar videos
https://archive.org/details/@dyslexicstoner240
https://archive.org/details/@mondofilm
https://archive.org/details/@lostone1
Dwain Esper might be the first of the Mondo sensationalists.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0260871/?ref_=tt_ov_dr_1
https://vimeo.com/groups/35mmandrisdamb ... s/26851254
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Cheesy martial arts movies
https://archive.org/details/@dondeeley
Westerns and mostly black and white era films
https://archive.org/details/@picfixer
https://archive.org/details/@k-otic
***********************
Another series to look into (I seemed to forget about it, though recall it seeming to be better than the show 'COPS'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s ... ice_Videos
Season 1 playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... zi16JI4uJC
'Getting a Ticket in America' (2000 Special) Sheriff John Bunnell (World's Wildest Police Videos)
Another special about train wrecks
*****************************
Hackers 95 documentary (same year as the movie) discusses freedom of information regarding UFOs in Area 51, though is mostly other stuff.
https://archive.org/details/Hackers_95_Complete_360p
Caught on Tape Vol 1-2 and 3-4 circa 2000
https://archive.org/details/caught-on-t ... vol-2-2000
https://archive.org/details/caught-on-t ... vol-4-2001
Death File - Black, Yellow, Red (Kaoru Adachi, 1994) *Pretty gruesome*
https://archive.org/details/@pzycklon
War crimes in Ukraine | DW Documentary
*****
Some random videos
https://archive.org/details/fav-barbie_turate
https://archive.org/details/@ratterfat_ ... ers?page=4 (moreso educational Nat Geo videos)
From the creator of Bumfights
More short videos
https://vimeo.com/indecline
From S6E7 in this series (if trying to avoid the old advertisements. . . Though it does seem more nostalgic)
In Search Of (TV series) (1977-1982) Leonard Nimoy
Cyberpunk (Intercon, 1990) Documentary
**********
Mathnet (just like Dragnet, only using Math; not to be confused with a hypothetical Drag Net. . .)
Mathnet 1987-1992 TV series complete*
*Someone looks guilty in that thumbnail. . .
YT Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... dOfG1wz1WF
And a song from that series that might convince you to never watch it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIki33mTgs
Mondo Cane aka A Dog's Life (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi, Paolo Cavara, 1962) (as an MKV file it probably needs to be downloaded to change the audio settings, though other videos also exist on archive org.
https://archive.org/details/mondo-cane-1962
Trailer
Other videos and series that take a similar approach:
The Killing Of America (Leonard Schrader, Sheldon Renan, 1981) Shockumentary
Cropsey (2009 documentary by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio) Willowbrook Institute - (Texarkana, TX-AR Serial Killer)
Motel (Christian Blackwood, 1989 Documentary)
Banned In America (Nomo Ichi, 1998 - 2000)
Catastrophe (1) (Larry Savadove, 1977 documentary)
Catastrophe (2) No Safe Place (Dan Gingold, 1980 TV Docu) Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland
The Look Of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2014 Doc) 1965 Indonesia genocide
***********************
It's worth mentioning that Roger Ebert the film critic had co-written twice with Russ Meyer, on his soft-core porn movies.
This first one involves a Hitler-like parody which investigates how he died following a BDSM session, and the second one seems very reminiscent of Orson Welles's unfinished movie (which ends up having a partial release) The Other Side of the Wind (and I just discovered he had a whole bunch more stuff he never finished: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Wel ... d_projects )
Up! (Russ Meyer, 1976) written by Roger Ebert (critic)
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (Russ Meyer, 1970) written by Roger Ebert (critic)
Supervixens (Russ Meyer, 1975) Christy Hartburg, Shari Eubank, Deborah McGuire, Haji
The second film can be found here and I found the rest on Archive org
https://archive.org/details/@joseph_jon ... tar?page=3
https://archive.org/details/@nobumsnoducks
You can also find Love Camp 7 (Lee Frost, 1969) Maria Lease, Kathy Williams (Nazi grindhouse) in the first link.
**************************
On another topic, I was kind of surprised to discover this movie:
Goodbye, Uncle Tom (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi, 1971) American Version
https://archive.org/details/y-2-mate.is ... ry-ldc-dq-
It has a very Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone music approach (perhaps because they are Italian, but I bet the films he made rubbed off on them.)
The footage looks more impressive than Amistad from the 1990s.
Another "Mondo film":
This Violent World (Mario Morra, 1976) aka Savana Violenta
A lot more similar videos
https://archive.org/details/@dyslexicstoner240
https://archive.org/details/@mondofilm
https://archive.org/details/@lostone1
Dwain Esper might be the first of the Mondo sensationalists.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0260871/?ref_=tt_ov_dr_1
https://vimeo.com/groups/35mmandrisdamb ... s/26851254
*************************
Cheesy martial arts movies
https://archive.org/details/@dondeeley
Westerns and mostly black and white era films
https://archive.org/details/@picfixer
https://archive.org/details/@k-otic
***********************
Another series to look into (I seemed to forget about it, though recall it seeming to be better than the show 'COPS'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s ... ice_Videos
Season 1 playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... zi16JI4uJC
'Getting a Ticket in America' (2000 Special) Sheriff John Bunnell (World's Wildest Police Videos)
Another special about train wrecks
*****************************
Hackers 95 documentary (same year as the movie) discusses freedom of information regarding UFOs in Area 51, though is mostly other stuff.
https://archive.org/details/Hackers_95_Complete_360p
Caught on Tape Vol 1-2 and 3-4 circa 2000
https://archive.org/details/caught-on-t ... vol-2-2000
https://archive.org/details/caught-on-t ... vol-4-2001
Death File - Black, Yellow, Red (Kaoru Adachi, 1994) *Pretty gruesome*
https://archive.org/details/@pzycklon
War crimes in Ukraine | DW Documentary
*****
Some random videos
https://archive.org/details/fav-barbie_turate
https://archive.org/details/@ratterfat_ ... ers?page=4 (moreso educational Nat Geo videos)
From the creator of Bumfights
More short videos
https://vimeo.com/indecline
From S6E7 in this series (if trying to avoid the old advertisements. . . Though it does seem more nostalgic)
In Search Of (TV series) (1977-1982) Leonard Nimoy
Cyberpunk (Intercon, 1990) Documentary
**********
Mathnet (just like Dragnet, only using Math; not to be confused with a hypothetical Drag Net. . .)
Mathnet 1987-1992 TV series complete*
*Someone looks guilty in that thumbnail. . .
YT Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... dOfG1wz1WF
And a song from that series that might convince you to never watch it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIki33mTgs
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Re: What are you watching?
I think the photo to the right, from https://stagewest.org/teachers/douglas-davidson, shows how he looks today.
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