Blog posts by year and monthDecember 2010
Posts (3)
DAVID DIMBLEBY AND THE PANDAS OF DOOM
Here are two films for the holiday. One is a film made by David Dimbleby about a group of 500 British ballroom dancers on an ocean cruise in 1973. The second film tells the history of how pandas got involved with power politics in the 20th Century...
WICKED LEAKS
Bradley Manning, who is alleged to have leaked the state department cables, has often been compared to Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971. But I have found a film in the archives that tells the story of another leaker in who tried to do the same thing, but even earlier.
THE OFFICE PARTY
Here is a lovely documentary made in 1969 about that year's Christmas office party at a London advertising agency. I've used shots from it in the past - but I've always loved it as a film - so I thought I would put it up. It tells the story of the preparations as well as the party...
