Monday, 12 January 2009

A word about Youtube

Youtube can be among the curses of the internet, allowing for a spew of anti social behaviour, yobbery and general disgustingness. But The Knowledge loves it for providing access to a wealth of material, some of which has hardly been seen by an audience at all. So far the best examples I have come across are Thom Anderson’s Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) and The Blue Bird (1940) starring Shirley Temple, both of which have been subsequently removed. Hopefully they’ll be uploaded again at some point, but there’s no doubt that these are films I would probably not have ever seen if it hadn’t been for Youtube.

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