First of all, she should use the word film instead of video. Secondly, the thing that strikes me is how far editing has come. A teenager with a YouTube account and some software ripped off bittorrent could do better.
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The Goofy, Anti-Nazi Parody Video That Enraged Goebbels
By Rebecca Onion
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, at 11:00 AM ET
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The "Lambeth Walk" was a popular dance craze in the U.S. and the U.K. in the late 1930s. The song, from the musical Me and My Girl, referred to a street in a Cockney district in London. Dancers strode back and forth, punctuating their "walk" with high kicks and broad gestures. (You can see a rendition from a 1984 production of the musical here. Advance to the 2-minute mark to see the whole cast dancing the Walk.)
In 1940, an enterprising official at the British Ministry of Information put together this video, "Lambeth WalkâNazi Style." The official, Charles A. Ridley, edited parts of Leni Riefenstahl's 1934 propaganda film Triumph of the Will to make it appear as though Nazi soldiers and Hitler were doing the Lambeth Walk.
The gag was all the sweeter because a Nazi Party member had publicly denounced the dance in 1939 after the craze caught on in Berlin, calling it "Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping."
Partisans on both sides recognized the effectiveness of this bit of parody. Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels apparently ran out of a screening room in a rage after viewing it. And according to historian Erik Barnouw, the Danish resistance used to enter cinemas in occupied Denmark and force projectionists to show the short.
The Ministry of Information distributed the video without narration to newsreel companies, who supplied their own commentary. This 1942 version is from Universal Studios and was titled "Gen. Adolph Takes Over"; it's available in several formats on the Internet Archive.
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Well it is hardly shocking that a modern computer could do better than the scissors method they used to use.
I remember watching a Nazimentary where they mentioned this film. I believe when it was screened all the Nazis started laughing before Goebbels went into a rage and then suddenly all the other Nazis were outraged as well.
Lambeth Road is a Cockney area? That's right across the river from Parliament isn't it?
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on February 12, 2013, 05:37:42 PM
Lambeth Road is a Cockney area? That's right across the river from Parliament isn't it?
Yep. Lambeth's a big bit of centre/south-west London.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 12, 2013, 05:20:38 PM
First of all, she should use the word film instead of video. Secondly, the thing that strikes me is how far editing has come. A teenager with a YouTube account and some software ripped off bittorrent could do better.
So why aren't more of those teenage geniuses making popular satirical attacks on political authority, instead of just posting 3rd rate slogan-pictures on Faceplant ?
Quote from: mongers on February 12, 2013, 05:56:59 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 12, 2013, 05:20:38 PM
First of all, she should use the word film instead of video. Secondly, the thing that strikes me is how far editing has come. A teenager with a YouTube account and some software ripped off bittorrent could do better.
So why aren't more of those teenage geniuses making popular satirical attacks on political authority, instead of just posting 3rd rate slogan-pictures on Faceplant ?
It doesn't take a genius. They're not interested in politics, they're in interested in making angsty music video mashups.
Not sure who made this, but I suppose this is the closest thing I've seen lately to the video in the OP, though it's not as much editing, but letting North Korea speak for itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJNBfBr-OGU
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 12, 2013, 05:20:38 PM
First of all, she should use the word film instead of video.
Go fuck yourself, you simpleton little fuck. She can use the word "video" all she wants.
You fuck.
It's a historical blog, she should strive to use words that aren't anachronistic.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 12, 2013, 06:06:03 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 12, 2013, 05:20:38 PM
First of all, she should use the word film instead of video.
Go fuck yourself, you simpleton little fuck. She can use the word "video" all she wants.
You fuck.
:hug:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 12, 2013, 06:07:56 PM
It's a historical blog, she should strive to use words that aren't anachronistic.
Are you really nitpicking about articles on slate? :hmm:
The tune has a nice beat and you can dance to it
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 12, 2013, 06:02:28 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 12, 2013, 05:56:59 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 12, 2013, 05:20:38 PM
First of all, she should use the word film instead of video. Secondly, the thing that strikes me is how far editing has come. A teenager with a YouTube account and some software ripped off bittorrent could do better.
So why aren't more of those teenage geniuses making popular satirical attacks on political authority, instead of just posting 3rd rate slogan-pictures on Faceplant ?
It doesn't take a genius. They're not interested in politics, they're in interested in making angsty music video mashups.
Not sure who made this, but I suppose this is the closest thing I've seen lately to the video in the OP, though it's not as much editing, but letting North Korea speak for itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJNBfBr-OGU
Well this is the problem, there's all this amazing technology and distribution methods available and how many people at doing what about anything, politically.
Think of all the trouble and danger people endured in Eastern Europe to produce and put out samizdat, nowadays political pamphleteering is all but dead. :(
Quote from: mongers on February 12, 2013, 06:21:43 PM
Think of all the trouble and danger people endured in Eastern Europe to produce and put out samizdat, nowadays political pamphleteering is all but dead. :(
Bad for the environment. I don't need more papers to stick right in the recycling bin.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 12, 2013, 06:06:03 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 12, 2013, 05:20:38 PM
First of all, she should use the word film instead of video.
Go fuck yourself, you simpleton little fuck. She can use the word "video" all she wants.
You fuck.
Timmay's assburgers is all active tonight.
Timmay you are such a fucking idiot.
I remember watching some documentary where the film was screened at some gathering of somewhat high-up Germans during WWII. One official/general/whatever attended with his Greek wife, who broke the silence about a minute into the film and started laughing out loud. Five seconds of awkward silence followed that, then the whole room broke out in laughter.
http://youtu.be/l4uDSnYQx3Q (http://youtu.be/l4uDSnYQx3Q)
Modern version? :hmm:
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 12, 2013, 06:06:03 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 12, 2013, 05:20:38 PM
First of all, she should use the word film instead of video.
Go fuck yourself, you simpleton little fuck. She can use the word "video" all she wants.
You fuck.
Hey! How's your keyboards collection going? Drop any of those keyboards on your feet lately?
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 12, 2013, 06:07:56 PM
It's a historical blog, she should strive to use words that aren't anachronistic.
Wrong.
Quote from: Grey Fox on February 13, 2013, 08:02:45 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 12, 2013, 06:06:03 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 12, 2013, 05:20:38 PM
First of all, she should use the word film instead of video.
Go fuck yourself, you simpleton little fuck. She can use the word "video" all she wants.
You fuck.
Hey! How's your keyboards collection going? Drop any of those keyboards on your feet lately?
I saw what you did there.
Quote from: Grey Fox on February 13, 2013, 08:02:45 AM
Hey! How's your keyboards collection going? Drop any of those keyboards on your feet lately?
How about I jam a rotary phone up your ass, so it can take you 6 minutes to dial 9-1-1?
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 13, 2013, 09:17:46 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on February 13, 2013, 08:02:45 AM
Hey! How's your keyboards collection going? Drop any of those keyboards on your feet lately?
How about I jam a rotary phone up your ass, so it can take you 6 minutes to dial 9-1-1?
You probably have one of those, probably call it a cellphone too. Why be accurate when you can be wrong! America!
My mother in law still has a rotary phone in her kitchen. :bleeding:
I read slate from time to time, but now I have a new game when I go there - I try and guess which slate article Tim is going to post on Languish next.
I've got a contender already... :ph34r:
Quote from: Barrister on February 13, 2013, 04:37:03 PM
I read slate from time to time, but now I have a new game when I go there - I try and guess which slate article Tim is going to post on Languish next.
I've got a contender already... :ph34r:
Too easy. Next level of difficulty : read the AP news feed and try to guess which article he'll post after it's been picked up by a mainstream source.
Quote from: Barrister on February 13, 2013, 04:37:03 PM
I read slate from time to time, but now I have a new game when I go there - I try and guess which slate article Tim is going to post on Languish next.
I've got a contender already... :ph34r:
A quick look and nothing especially catches my fancy, but maybe I didn't delve deep enough. :hmm:
Quote from: Caliga on February 13, 2013, 04:21:36 PM
My mother in law still has a rotary phone in her kitchen. :bleeding:
Sounds like a lovely lady.
Quote from: katmai on February 12, 2013, 07:30:26 PM
Timmay you are such a fucking idiot.
I'm not sure Ed's bone structure can take you piling on top of him like this. :hmm: