Thanks to commenter Bill! Australia, your mission should you choose to accept it- Adam Curtis’ The Way of All Flesh is sitting on a shelf in a Sydney library (Customs House) in vhs form, so…if some heroic Aussie (or indeed anyone in the vicinity with library access) wanted to take it out and digitise it (returning the vhs tape to the library of course) and upload the digitised version to the web (eg. Google vid), then let the world know… they would receive much gratitude and global renown!
In case search links breaks-
City of Sydney Library Catalogue.
Customs House Branch (looks lovely, although I’m sure they would bring it to your nearest branch).
Nice blog you got here.
Can’t promise you anything … but I’ll see what I can do this weekend
Hey Ann, nice to hear from you even as PG is on hiatus (you are maybe planning something with The Fanonite I recall?) it would be excellent if you do manage to secure a copy…ooh the suspense, Mission Impossible II eat your heart out!
Did you get it?
No word as yet Bill.
I have it now though may be some days yet before I can get it digitised. Getting there …
Go Ann! Fantastic, you deserve lots of medals and probably some cakes, salut!
Waiting with bated breath on this one….
Had to go for dvd conversion rather than direct digitisation. Perhaps you can complete the process: email ann AT peoplesgeography.com to arrange a dvd to be sent to you.
Ok Ann, done.
Hello. I’ve been looking everywhere for the remaining Adam Curtis docs (The Way of All Flesh & 25 Million Pounds) and I happened to come by your forum here. If you guys are able to make The Way of All Flesh available where could I get it from? If you set it up as a torrent I promise to seed it for a long time. Thanks.
Thanks AK, stay tuned wheels are turning…
How are you getting on?
Hey Bill, it will be up within about 7 days!
Here’s a link for a torrent of another Adam Curtis doc called “25 Million Pounds” I found http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1779342/1550444/
Thanks Bill, had some trouble with uploads (first time a/v sync was out, last two times the process froze) but with luck Flesh should be up this week sometime (honest!).
I found a VCR of “An Ocean Apart, Episode 1: Hats Off to Mr Wilson” at Central Connecticut State University
http://web.ccsu.edu/library/nadeau/videolist2001/videoonehundred2.htm
I know there’s probably no chance someone would get it and put it on the net, but worth a try
Connecticut! Hmm, worth a spin I reckon and how fitting for the subject of the film, a transatlantic effort is needed.
Here it is in a German university, Freie Universität Berlin. At least that’s closer!
http://www.sprachenzentrum.fu-berlin.de/slz/wega/englisch/2131/index.html
It looks like a couple of London uni libraries have it in stock, the whole series as well. Unfortunately, it isn’t available at the BFI library. There’s always inter-library loans in the UK which both public and academic libraries have tho’ with the cuts in funding that service is usually 1. to go completely 2. to up the charges…
Speaking as a former library worker and library catalogue/ database geek.
Which, how? ?!?!?!
UCL, for starters. It’s an overnight loan. I’ll see what I can do, you are not in a rush for it?
Wow, that would be splendid, no worries on time. Is it VHS or a DVD?
Not sure will find out. Probably DVD I suspect.
It might be the book though harpymarx, a book came out with the series.
Doh! Indeed you are right Bill, wasn’t concentrating when looking at the record at UCL. Tis the bk.
BUT all is not lost….. I have found another uni that stocks it…deffo video recording… have checked and double-checked…at B’ton Uni.
Again, I will see what I can do……….
Yeah Rick, sorry about the mix up re the video at UCL and it being a bk.
Like I said it is available at B’ton Uni, do you still want me to see what I can do about getting it videoed?
Getting it in some kind of digital format would be aces.
Again, I will see what I can do re digi format.
How are you getting on with this?
Bill- So far no joy.
All of the ‘An Ocean Apart’ videos are also at the University of Nottingham Library: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/
Do you know anyone who studies there?
Hey Bill, um not off the top of my head, but I will ask around.
I found some other libraries with it. I’m not sure how to link on this page, so I’ve listed them here:
http://eupeople.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1560
They’re near the bottom (Glendale Public Library etc..). Long shots, but worth a try.
Glendale! Hmm, not so close. Odd how this one is so rare, did it upset the Atlanticists?
well, 1988 is quite a while ago. I think you’ll only find it in libraries and not private VHS’s.
Dirty Dancing came out in 1988, and that is still available
Fair point
Someone must be able to get this. We got the ‘way of the flesh’ from Australia! Where are the Americans?
I think I found one of them (“Here come the British. Bang! Bang!”) at the ‘National Library of Australia’: http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss?action=Display&mode=fulldisplay&target=freenbd&queryid=2&startPos=18
No one puts Baby in the corner!
http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss?action=Display&mode=fulldisplay&target=freenbd&queryid=2&startPos=1
That is the item link, any takers?
Nobody puts earwicga in the corner!
Your link goes to an error page.
ah ok just got to
http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss
and put
Here come the British. Bang! Bang!
into the search field.
Hum, whatever happened to the request for “Hats off Mr. Wilson”? Did any kind soul manage to secure a copy and digitize it, whether in the UK or Oz? Doesn’t appear to be on any torrent site or YouTube… (keeping fingers crossed…)
Bill, to keep you ticking over have you seen his new blog posts-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/
Yeah I have, it’s really interesting stuff!
There’s another doc by Curtis – ‘From Keynes to chaos’ – at the same library. I’m not sure what it is:
http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss?action=Display&mode=fulldisplay&target=freenbd&queryid=8&startPos=2
Their library search never produces stable links! It is an episode in this show
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Corners_(TV_program)
As it’s listed as 92 I wonder if it is Pandora’s box stuff, either a re-edit or is just the League of Gentlemen episode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_Box_(television_documentary_series)
Under a different title?
Yes, that’s probably it. It would be good to get copies of Pandora’s Box as well though. The versions on the internet aren’t complete (ex. the first episode gets cut off right at the end).
Really?
Mine, from the UKTV History channel, goes right to the end… it fades to black and then says “written and produced by Adam Curtis, BBC MCMXCII”… the one exception is Episode 4, which appears to end a bit before the end. So your point is well taken, but perhaps you meant episode #4?
I meant the first one: ‘The Engineer’s Plot’, about the Soviet Union. It does fade to black, but someone’s just spliced on the ending from episode 3: ‘The League of Gentlemen’. The first one gets cut off right at the point the guy was about to explain why communism failed in Russia
At least it does in my copy
Anyway, you might be interested in this interview I found with Curtis: http://www.varsity.co.uk/features/1807
Rintintin: I haven’t found it yet. I think the only chance is if someone takes it out of one of the university libraries it’s at. It’s definitely at Nottingham University Library (http://copac.ac.uk)
It’s also in 4 libraries in the US:
1) Georgetown University [(LAU Gelardin Media Center) call number: VSH 830, Pt 1, status: available]
2) Atlanta Fulton Public Library
3) Boston Public Library
4) New York University
I’ve tried to get it via inter-Library loan, but most libraries are loathe to send VHS tapes in the mail for either love or money, given the abuse packages receive…
If only we could find a student at either Georgetown or NYU, or even the public libraries in Boston or Atlanta, who would be game to check it out and make an XviD copy…
It’s also to be found at 4 US libraries:
1) Georgetown University [LAU Gelardin Media Center, Call number: VHS 830 pt. 1, Status: Available]
2) Atlanta Fulton Public Library
3 Boston Public Library
4 New York University
I’ve tried to get a copy via inter-library loan but since libraries are loathe to ship VHS cassettes in the post, given the abuse they receive, no love or money in this case will do the trick…
If only we could find a student or faculty member at NYU or Georgetown (or someone near the Boston or Atlanta Libraries) to check out episode 1 of “An Ocean Apart” and make us an XviD copy… anyone?
btw its not only episode 1 that’s by Curtis, its the whole series.
There is this guy, can’t vouch but…
http://www.bilderberg.org/videos.htm#pandora
Boston public library might be the best bet, since its open to the public.
Here’s the link for Atlanta Fulton Public Library:
http://afcatalog.co.fulton.ga.us/uhtbin/cgisirsi/NzR4kFkAmX/CENTRAL/237660172/9
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In case you’re interested, Adam Curtis has put up the whole of Pandora’s Box – ‘The League of Gentlemen’ on his blog (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis). There’s loads of bits that are missing from the version on the web.
I just found a list of all of Adam Curtis’s documentaries at the BFI site. Some of them he just produced or directed. I’ve listed the documentaries I hadn’t heard of, with the descriptions from the site. I can’t find any of them online, maybe one of you will have better luck.
Search on google: site:http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk “Curtis, Adam”
INSIDE STORY: The ROAD TO TERROR (1989) – DOCUMENTARY. The story of the Iranian revolution, and how it descended from idealism to terror and executions. Revolutionary exiles speak from Paris, and parallels are drawn between the French revolution (two centuries before) and the Iranian one.
The COST OF TREACHERY (1984) – Documentary about the 1949 plot in which the CIA and M16 attempted to overthrow the Albanian government to weaken the Soviet Union, and of the counter-agent wit hin the intelligence rank, Kim Philby.
The TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY: TRUMPETS AND TYPEWRITERS (1983) – Documentary which examines the history of war journalism.
40 MINUTES: BOMBAY HOTEL (1987) – Documentary on the luxurious Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay, contrasted with the poverty of the slums of the city.
40 MINUTES: The KINGDOM OF FUN (1989) – Documentary about the Metro Centre in Gateshead, developed by entrepreneur John Hall. The programme compares John Hall’s plans to regenerate the North East, with those of T. Dan Smith.
JUST ANOTHER DAY: Walton on the Naze (1983) – Documentary series looking at various long-standing British institutions.
JUST ANOTHER DAY: Selfridges (1983)
OUT OF COURT: OUT OF COURT[27/05/80] – Series investigating the Law, Lawyers and the Courts in action.
OUT OF COURT: OUT OF COURT[30/08/81]
ITALIANS: Mayor of Montemilone, with Dino Labriola (1984)
I know this is a dead thread, but ‘The Road to Terror’ – the film we were looking for – is showing in New York in a few weeks if anyone wants to see it: http://www.e-flux.com/program/adam-curtis-the-desperate-edge-of-now/
Well not dead but maybe a bit dusty, thanks for the link, will send on to people in NY who might be interested.