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August 29, 2007 No Comments

Thanks to the A/V Geeks, here’s Disney’s 1946 educational short, The Story of Menstruation. It’s replete with dos and don’ts on hygiene and grooming, though sexuality is oddly unmentioned. That said, and no less oddly, there does appear to be a baby wearing lipstick.

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Review. The instructional booklet mentioned in the film, Very Personally Yours, can be found here.














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Time Capsule

August 27, 2007 27 Comments

As a companion piece to Vanessa Engle’s Lefties documentary, The Thin Man has created a short trailer for the three-part series, Tory! Tory! Tory!, broadcast by BBC4 in March 2006. The series traces the history and ideas behind Thatcherism – and how Britain was transformed, painfully. It’s not as outlandish as Lefties, but it’s interesting to revisit the dark days of Britain in the late Seventies, with power cuts, unburied dead and ossified state-run monopolies somehow billions in debt. Brave souls may even try to imagine exactly how wrecked and demoralised the country would have been in the care of devout Socialist Neil Kinnock, or those even more devout, who openly spoke of “the class enemy.”


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The three episodes, Outsiders, The Path to Power and The Exercise of Power, can be viewed here.


I have enemies of my own. Help me crush them underfoot.














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Abductees

August 26, 2007 No Comments

By popular demand, The Thin Man has unearthed a higher-resolution version of this 11-minute animation by Paul Vester, Abductees. Made in 1995 and broadcast on Channel 4, it’s a funny and oddly beautiful combination of therapy session recordings and cartoon probing.

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“We are interested in the concept of rescue.” Abductees can be downloaded here. More.














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Art Film Ideas

Impermanence

August 22, 2007 No Comments

I’m not usually a great fan of graffiti, which is glorified scent marking, or of graffiti art, which is very often wildly overrated. But, via here and thanks to Dr Dawg, I found Lichtfaktor’s light graffiti. It’s fun and no-one else has to clean up afterwards.

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First Impressions (2)

August 20, 2007 No Comments

Further to my post on memorable film titles, here’s a collection of Saul Bass title designs. From Spartacus and Psycho to Seconds and Goodfellas.

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