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We recently saw an episode from the BBC documentary series The Thirties in Colour. It showed amazing, extremely rare footage from Nazi-Germany in colour. The material was shot by amateurs just before World War II which made it a very eerie experience: scenes of German civilians going about their lives in streets filled with swastikas.
Hungry for more remarkable archive material we searched the Internet Archive (that grand collection of moving images, offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical footage that exist in digital format) and came across A/V Geeks. The A/V Geeks maintain an archive of over 20,000 16mm educational and industrial films. They show the films across the U.S. and make films available on DVD and online at YouTube, Google Video and the Internet Archive. They sell almost 150 different DVDs, categorized by theme. These compilations have great titles such as "Youth Suicide Fantasy - Does Their Music Make Them Do It?" or "Atomic Age Classics Vol 4: Venereal Disease and You".

You probably did, but if you haven't yet, we urge you to watch the new music video Who's Gonna Save My Soul of Gnarls Barkley, directed by Chris Milk. The tragic break-up story and the soulful music go so wonderfully together in this video. And the image of the singing hearth that walks down the counter of a typical U.S. diner is just...well, heartbreaking.
We hope to show this bitter sweet promo in our music video section Pause soon, but since we haven't got permission from Universal yet, you can watch it on Milk's own website.
By the way, Dutch TV did a nice 15 minute documentary on Milk some time ago. You can watch it here, click on video on the right. Doc starts at 30:17.

Two brand-new title sequences worthy of your time: The top French design studio Deubal churned out another amazing animated title sequence. This time they sunk their teeth deep in The Teeth of the Night - a horror comedy about vampires.

And Karin Fong and Steve Fuller - two leading art directors of Imaginary Forces - collaborated on the magnificent, graphic-novel style end credits for the The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, a.k.a. "The Mummy 3". We talked to Karin and Steve about the research and design phase of the project, their inspirations and the challenges they faced while working on this project.

During a routine check, those hard working Chinese censors found some videos on the DVD to be included with the Hoogerbrugge monograph, too offensive. Co-Publisher BIS had to switch to another DVD replicator at the last minute and found one in less restrictive Hong Kong. We are left guessing what part of the DVD they didn't appreciate. The meaningless violence? The naked clowns? The travesty? The self-inflicted character assassination? Whatever it was, they didn't find it in the book, because that got printed alright (looks beautiful). But the issue did delay the release by a couple of weeks. The Hoogerbrugge book/DVD, will be out in September.

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