Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed (1979)
Жанр : документальный
Время выполнения : 57М
Директор : Donald Brittain
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Bureaucracy shapes our lives and guides us from the cradle to the grave. This documentary lays bare the idiosyncrasies of bureaucracy, whether in Canada, Austria, Hungary, the Vatican or the Virgin Islands. It also attempts to make the functioning of the public service more comprehensible. The absurdities of bureaucratic behaviour are exposed with humour and irreverence.
The Inglewood Police Department's 1960s video, "LSD: Trip or Trap?" is a classic of the genre. Alex sez, "It's a story of two friends who enjoy flying model planes, except that one becomes an 'acidhead' so he can be 'groovy' with the other acidheads. The other does research into LSD and decides it's a 'bummer'."
Доктор Альфред Джонс из Лондонского Центра рыболовства получает от некоего таинственного шейха странное предложение: ввести в Йемене спортивные соревнования по ловле лосося. Доктор Джонс отказывается, но абсурдный с научной точки зрения проект попадается на глаза британским политикам, видящим в предложении шейха почти неограниченные возможности. И тут начинается бурная эпистолярная деятельность всех персонажей от премьер-министра до стенографисток, ловля лосося в которой не имеет ровно никакого значения, кроме как отвлечь общественность от более важных вещей, например, от войны в Ираке. Доводы доктора Джонса о громком провале громкого проекта никого не волнуют, впрочем, герой продолжает пытаться жить своей жизнью, будучи сначала пешкой, а затем и жертвой политической игры.
The stationmaster is trying to prevent his station from being closed. The train isn't coming and he has to explain to the waiting trainpassengers why it's late, while other people is trying to get the station for their use; for example the italians, who want to make a pizzeria out of it.
Проснувшись обычным будничным утром, законопослушный работник банка, господин К. обнаруживает в своих апартаментах двух незнакомцев, которые сообщают ему о том, что он арестован и находится под следствием. От чьего имени выступают эти люди и какова статья обвинения, узнать не удается. Тем не менее, все вокруг, будто сговорившись, подтверждают реальность случившегося...
Владелец итальянской строительной фирмы Джузеппе Ди Нои, работавший в Швеции в течение семи лет, едет на свою родину со своей шведской женой и детьми провести там отпуск. Задержанный на границе без объяснения причин и оказавшись в тюрьме, он попадает в лапы итальянской тюремной системы...
When a schoolboy's day-dream of a fantasy sports day includes events where acts of vandalism and trespass are required, dire consequences ensue. Originally created as an educational film, this somewhat surrealist short has a serious message at its core. This won't be a lesson you'll forget in a hurry.
История о том, как из-за ошибки писаря, написавшего в царском приказе вместо слов «поручики же» — «поручик Киже», возникла несуществующая личность.
A political satire in which an animated man with a drum is waiting for his cue.
A man talks about his addiction to amphetamines and illustrates his struggle by his sudden inability to fix a radio.
A young girl relates what happened during her first LSD trip, when – among other things – her food began talking to her.
Between 2007 and 2011, 725 Quebecers aged 16 to 24 were killed in car accidents. Excessive speed and alcohol were involved in half of these deaths. To try to understand what is going on in these young drivers' heads when they get behind the wheel, host and documentary filmmaker Paul Arcand met with some of them. On one hand, he gives a voice to these young people who love driving fast. On the other hand, he provides a forum for two accident victims who were injured both physically and psychologically. Finally, the director meets the mother of little Bianca Leduc, who was killed by a drunk driver while she was in the care of her babysitter, and the parents of Michael Borduas, 23, who is severely disabled from an accident.
Documentary about the potentially dangerous and unpredictable drug LSD. Various experts discuss how LSD is made and the hazards involved in using it while avid users explain why they enjoy taking it.
JUVENILE COURT shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. The sequences illustrate such issues as community protection vs. the desire for rehabilitation, the range and the limits of the choices available to the court, the psychology of the offender, and the constitutional and procedural questions involved in administering a juvenile court.
The dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in the decade after 9/11.
An exhortation to drivers to pay attention to road safety. In just 15 minutes, John Krish manages to give this road safety film something new and different by presenting events not from the point of view of the driver, but of his brain, memory and ego, who operate from a rather camp technology-driven command centre.
Public information film regarding female safety and how to safeguard against rape
Middle class teenagers Jill, Felipe and Eddie, talk about their addiction and drug-related death.
[…] Though the highs and lows of human experience are all here, it's often the gimcrack set design and fashion chops in these vintage clunkers that really wow – the pot-holder sweater vests, ponytails decorated with yarn, hippies with crumb-catching moustaches, banana-seat bikes and a hard rain of Quaaludes and amphetamines to illustrate the dangers of drug addiction. It is hard to believe anyone would buy the goofball cause-and-effect of that pill-popper's weather pattern in "Drugs Are Like That". Co-produced by the Miami Junior League and narrated by Anita Bryant in this cheery little hand-slapper, a kid stealing cookies from a cookie jar is implied to be headed down a bad road to Bowery bum rolls and LSD parties. (from: http://clatl.com/atlanta/av-geeks-greatest-hits-lessons-learned/Content?oid=1268313)
Загадочная авария в туннелях под мостом-шоссе Токио Бэй Аква Лайн ставит на уши все аварийные подразделения мегаполиса. Шеф МЧС Японии созывает всех, чтобы найти причину аварии, и возможные решения сложившейся проблемы. Они еще не знают, что это только начало. Огромное существо, известное как Годзилла, встало на путь разрушения...