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).
27 October, 2008 at 1:39 am
Nice blog you got here.
28 October, 2008 at 6:40 am
Can’t promise you anything … but I’ll see what I can do this weekend
28 October, 2008 at 6:28 pm
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!
4 November, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Did you get it?
4 November, 2008 at 9:06 pm
No word as yet Bill.
11 November, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I have it now though may be some days yet before I can get it digitised. Getting there …
11 November, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Go Ann! Fantastic, you deserve lots of medals and probably some cakes, salut!
26 November, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Waiting with bated breath on this one….
30 November, 2008 at 3:58 am
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.
30 November, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Ok Ann, done.
10 December, 2008 at 6:56 pm
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.
12 December, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Thanks AK, stay tuned wheels are turning…
28 December, 2008 at 10:13 pm
How are you getting on?
31 December, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Hey Bill, it will be up within about 7 days!
3 February, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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/
3 February, 2009 at 6:10 pm
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!).
31 May, 2009 at 8:58 pm
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
31 May, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Connecticut! Hmm, worth a spin I reckon and how fitting for the subject of the film, a transatlantic effort is needed.
1 June, 2009 at 11:02 am
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
1 June, 2009 at 3:12 pm
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.
1 June, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Which, how? ?!?!?!
1 June, 2009 at 9:35 pm
UCL, for starters. It’s an overnight loan. I’ll see what I can do, you are not in a rush for it?
1 June, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Wow, that would be splendid, no worries on time. Is it VHS or a DVD?
1 June, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Not sure will find out. Probably DVD I suspect.
2 June, 2009 at 4:24 pm
It might be the book though harpymarx, a book came out with the series.
2 June, 2009 at 4:56 pm
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……….
2 June, 2009 at 10:25 pm
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?
2 June, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Getting it in some kind of digital format would be aces.
2 June, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Again, I will see what I can do re digi format.
23 July, 2009 at 11:31 am
How are you getting on with this?
23 July, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Bill- So far no joy.
22 September, 2009 at 12:02 am
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?
22 September, 2009 at 2:29 am
Hey Bill, um not off the top of my head, but I will ask around.
5 October, 2009 at 5:07 pm
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.
6 October, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Glendale! Hmm, not so close. Odd how this one is so rare, did it upset the Atlanticists?
7 October, 2009 at 6:23 pm
well, 1988 is quite a while ago. I think you’ll only find it in libraries and not private VHS’s.
7 October, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Dirty Dancing came out in 1988, and that is still available
8 October, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Fair point
Someone must be able to get this. We got the ‘way of the flesh’ from Australia! Where are the Americans?
8 October, 2009 at 9:30 pm
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
10 October, 2009 at 6:42 pm
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?
10 October, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Nobody puts earwicga in the corner!
Your link goes to an error page.
10 October, 2009 at 11:55 pm
ah ok just got to
http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss
and put
Here come the British. Bang! Bang!
into the search field.
17 January, 2010 at 2:07 am
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…)
10 October, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Bill, to keep you ticking over have you seen his new blog posts-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/
11 October, 2009 at 11:30 am
Yeah I have, it’s really interesting stuff!
11 October, 2009 at 12:28 pm
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
11 October, 2009 at 9:28 pm
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?
12 October, 2009 at 9:54 am
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).
22 January, 2010 at 11:22 pm
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?
23 January, 2010 at 12:25 am
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
22 January, 2010 at 10:57 pm
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)
22 January, 2010 at 11:07 pm
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…
22 January, 2010 at 11:15 pm
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?
23 January, 2010 at 11:35 am
btw its not only episode 1 that’s by Curtis, its the whole series.
22 January, 2010 at 11:27 pm
There is this guy, can’t vouch but…
http://www.bilderberg.org/videos.htm#pandora
23 January, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Boston public library might be the best bet, since its open to the public.
24 January, 2010 at 5:58 pm
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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23 February, 2010 at 7:08 pm
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.