Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Wednesday June 15th 2011

Charmingly quirky old animated short about an otherwise tedious topic, public hygiene:

Mary's Birthday (1951)

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Two Cooks and a Cabbage (1941)

Tibetan Scenes (1945) - extract

The Surprisingly Scandalous History of Early Seattle

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The present political system in the USA

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I knew someone once who looked like that when they climaxed. Awful!
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Made with balloons. wow

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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Overcast Saturday June 11th 2011

How Deaf People Think

Thousands of old photographs from across Africa
- as seen by British colonial staff stationed there -
have been digitised by The National Archives
and put online, in the hope that the public can help identify
some of the people, places and customs captured on film.

India Untouched - Stories of a People Apart
Synopsis: “India Untouched - Stories of a People Apart” is perhaps the
most comprehensive look at Untouchability ever undertaken on film.
Director Stalin K. spent four years traveling the length and breadth of
the country to expose the continued oppression of "Dalits", the
"broken people" who suffer under a 4000-year-old religious system.