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Blog posts by year and monthDecember 2010

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  1. 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...

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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...

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