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If they want you on this grid so bad chances are their second homes are off it.
Friday, March 12, 2010
I'll call it "National Park"...or maybe "Debt Camp".
Film: Punishment Park Director: Peter Watkins, 1971
On PBS the other day I caught the family portrait-cum-documentary The Brothers Warner by Harry Warner’s granddaughter: Cass Warner Sperling. Nothing much to say about that, it is what it is and I don’t particularly give a shit. Not to say that the studio’s history is insignificant-it’s just that the family history perspective is, at times, rather elitist. One gets the sense in a sit-down between Cass and Roy Disney, both of whom are grandchildren “of a Certain Age” that they are the sort of bloodline egoists that are only approached by their own kind. Which is entirely unbased on dialog and besides the point entirely.
I bring up this doc because it mentions an undistributed 1934 pet-project of Harry’s: Concentration Camp. Unlike Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) which was based on a specific case that the public had already been made aware of through ample press coverage; Concentration Camp would have been-from what I gathered- a narrative compilation of compulsively collected accounts of what was brewing at The Dachau Camp, which opened in March 1933. The US ambiguously deferred acknowledging the existence said camps being used for the express extermination of civilians, and not political prisoners, until the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945 by the Red Army. A continued US policy of ambiguity would have meant being bested by the Soviets in the Human Rights record.
Because the premise of Concentration Camp was “conjecture”, and because German box-office sales represented the majority of overseas profit and 1/3 of all major studios’ revenue came from over-seas distribution, a Warner Bros. release of Concentration Camp would have meant a potential German Boycott of all Hollywood Studios and so its production was clotheslined and distribution rights witheld. Shortly thereafter Warner Bros independently pulled out of its German market in protest of the prosecution of the European Jewry. They were the only Major to do so. So much for the Mitzpucha, guys.
I wonder, if it were released, would it have endured the same lambaste as Punishment Park? My impression is that if Concentration Camp were released, Punishment Park would have had an irrefutable fore bearer legitimate film critics would have had to acknowledge regardless of how successful it was at the time of its release in 1971. How I wish this film was made. Not for the potential impact on the American consciousness of the Holocaust- one would be distinctly naive to think American anti-Semitism was in any way inferior to the European kind. Any one that believes we would have rushed Bavaria as Gallant Golem, swept up every last Jew from the floorboards and sent them on the first Oceanliner to Lady Liberty’s milkful tit had best ask themselves why it is we sent our troops to Iraq and not Zimbabwe.
Likely, if Concentration Camp made it to theatres, it would have been ignored by most, rejected by others, and ridiculed by anyone who mattered. It would bomb at the box office, and we likely wouldn’t have seen anything culturally significant out of Warner Bros until 1941. But at least then there would have been precedent for Punishment Park, and not of the French variety. Then, could it have been rejected so quickly, so thoroughly? Probably, but at least then I could get it on DVD and resurrect a lineage of “I told you so cinema”. If Concentration Camp existed, maybe more film classes would watch Punishment Park. In lieu of both the extreme leftists and the extreme right-to-lifers believing in the existence of FEMA Camps, and entertaining their sinister potential, maybe it’s time for a re-make of both.
On PBS the other day I caught the family portrait-cum-documentary The Brothers Warner by Harry Warner’s granddaughter: Cass Warner Sperling. Nothing much to say about that, it is what it is and I don’t particularly give a shit. Not to say that the studio’s history is insignificant-it’s just that the family history perspective is, at times, rather elitist. One gets the sense in a sit-down between Cass and Roy Disney, both of whom are grandchildren “of a Certain Age” that they are the sort of bloodline egoists that are only approached by their own kind. Which is entirely unbased on dialog and besides the point entirely.
I bring up this doc because it mentions an undistributed 1934 pet-project of Harry’s: Concentration Camp. Unlike Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) which was based on a specific case that the public had already been made aware of through ample press coverage; Concentration Camp would have been-from what I gathered- a narrative compilation of compulsively collected accounts of what was brewing at The Dachau Camp, which opened in March 1933. The US ambiguously deferred acknowledging the existence said camps being used for the express extermination of civilians, and not political prisoners, until the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945 by the Red Army. A continued US policy of ambiguity would have meant being bested by the Soviets in the Human Rights record.
Because the premise of Concentration Camp was “conjecture”, and because German box-office sales represented the majority of overseas profit and 1/3 of all major studios’ revenue came from over-seas distribution, a Warner Bros. release of Concentration Camp would have meant a potential German Boycott of all Hollywood Studios and so its production was clotheslined and distribution rights witheld. Shortly thereafter Warner Bros independently pulled out of its German market in protest of the prosecution of the European Jewry. They were the only Major to do so. So much for the Mitzpucha, guys.
I wonder, if it were released, would it have endured the same lambaste as Punishment Park? My impression is that if Concentration Camp were released, Punishment Park would have had an irrefutable fore bearer legitimate film critics would have had to acknowledge regardless of how successful it was at the time of its release in 1971. How I wish this film was made. Not for the potential impact on the American consciousness of the Holocaust- one would be distinctly naive to think American anti-Semitism was in any way inferior to the European kind. Any one that believes we would have rushed Bavaria as Gallant Golem, swept up every last Jew from the floorboards and sent them on the first Oceanliner to Lady Liberty’s milkful tit had best ask themselves why it is we sent our troops to Iraq and not Zimbabwe.
Likely, if Concentration Camp made it to theatres, it would have been ignored by most, rejected by others, and ridiculed by anyone who mattered. It would bomb at the box office, and we likely wouldn’t have seen anything culturally significant out of Warner Bros until 1941. But at least then there would have been precedent for Punishment Park, and not of the French variety. Then, could it have been rejected so quickly, so thoroughly? Probably, but at least then I could get it on DVD and resurrect a lineage of “I told you so cinema”. If Concentration Camp existed, maybe more film classes would watch Punishment Park. In lieu of both the extreme leftists and the extreme right-to-lifers believing in the existence of FEMA Camps, and entertaining their sinister potential, maybe it’s time for a re-make of both.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Japanese and Mass Suicide: Isn't It Obvious?
Today's Film:
Atomic Cafe 1982
It begins with the Primary recollection of Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. (February 23, 1915 – November 1, 2007)-Pilot of the Enola Gay. I am latently struck by his similarity to The first human in space, Russian Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961. Orbited around the Earth for 108 minutes.
* The first woman in space was Russian Valentina Tereshkova, June 1963.
**Alan Shepard was the first American and second person in space on May 5, 1961 on a 15-minute sub-orbital flight.
***The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, during Space Shuttle Challenger's mission STS-7, on June 18, 1983.
-More so than a Veteran-an Astronaut. Imagine the rest of this guy's life. He described his initial response as being too similar to a tourist for a minute. The profundity confounds me.
It is the most beautiful thing a man can witness, as much as God- we are told by a Chaplain and Bomb Tester (he wears a white painted cross on his army issue helmet) in a Training video...***amongst some other irradiated bliss***
The Film raised some questions:
Why was it made in 1982?
Was there a significant nuclear event?
If so, what was it?
What if they weren't H-Bombs anymore...what if their facility were "Natural Causes"?
Have the Electromagnetic Wars already begun?
^INTERMISSION^
Atomic Cafe 1982
It begins with the Primary recollection of Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. (February 23, 1915 – November 1, 2007)-Pilot of the Enola Gay. I am latently struck by his similarity to The first human in space, Russian Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961. Orbited around the Earth for 108 minutes.
* The first woman in space was Russian Valentina Tereshkova, June 1963.
**Alan Shepard was the first American and second person in space on May 5, 1961 on a 15-minute sub-orbital flight.
***The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, during Space Shuttle Challenger's mission STS-7, on June 18, 1983.
-More so than a Veteran-an Astronaut. Imagine the rest of this guy's life. He described his initial response as being too similar to a tourist for a minute. The profundity confounds me.
It is the most beautiful thing a man can witness, as much as God- we are told by a Chaplain and Bomb Tester (he wears a white painted cross on his army issue helmet) in a Training video...***amongst some other irradiated bliss***
The Film raised some questions:
Why was it made in 1982?
Was there a significant nuclear event?
If so, what was it?
What if they weren't H-Bombs anymore...what if their facility were "Natural Causes"?
Have the Electromagnetic Wars already begun?
^INTERMISSION^
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Oh! You Genentic Inferiors!
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though theyre here to stay:
What are we coming to NWO
No room for me, no fun for you FEMA= Population Control
I think about a world to come 2050? 2012? 1913?
Where the books were found by the golden ones CFR
Written in pain, written in awe From 9/11 to Shock and Awe
By a puzzled man who questioned Cheney/ Huxley
What we were here for Forced Labor
All the strangers came today Foreign Armed Forces
And it looks as though theyre here to stay U.S Marshall Law
Oh you pretty things (oh you pretty things)
Dont you know youre driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Oh you pretty things (oh you pretty things) {Eugenics, after all, is an
Dont you know youre driving your American invention}
Mamas and papas insane
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the homo superior
Look at your children Who can't form blood clots
See their faces in golden rays and the rest in Golden Arches
Dont kid yourself they belong to you Dispose of them as you wish
Theyre the start of a coming race Beginning of the End
The earth is a bitch A real submissive bitch
Weve finished our news By getting the magnates in the CFR
Homo sapiens have outgrown their use pop. 500 million or BUST!
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though theyre here to stay ...in our National Parks
Oh you pretty things (oh you pretty things)
Dont you know youre driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Oh you pretty things (oh you pretty things)
Dont you know youre driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the homo superior Because It's good for the environment.
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