An Impossible Project Trailer on YouTube: The film can be found free on the Internet. Or on Amazon Prime.
Score: A Film Music Documentary Can be watched on YouTube, not free though: Can also be watched on Amazon Prime. I would not call Hans Zimmer the most celebrated name in film music, he is a hack who runs a music factory, but what can I say, he found a method that works for modern-day blockbusters.
Corporate.FM Watch on Amazon Prime. Its nominal rental price is $2, but I watched it free because of a promotional discount.
I'm not sure if Corporate FM is the one I watched but if it talks about Clear Channel, I've seen it. I was looking to see if it was the same movie and found this book, some of the reviews sum it up perfectly. These were sad times for us hardcore radio listeners (I had a delivery job and listened to the radio all day). From Booklist For Ronald Reagan, the Soviet Union was “the evil empire,” but for music mavens, Clear Channel, the biggest radio-station owner in history, is the real deal. Its mastermind, Lyle Mays, made himself and his closest associates rich by gutting news, local content, and musical variety and laying off thousands at the stations it devoured. Mays’ golden-goose idea was that radio is essentially for advertising; programming is just, as another company higher-up put it, the “shit” between commercials. Besides 1,200 radio stations, the company sucked up billboards, TV outlets, and pop-concert venues and promoters (ticket prices soared). Nobody of consequence, certainly not the Clinton–Bush II FCC, seemed to object. Clear Channel’s glory days are gone because the Internet has made entertainment much more available and big advertising more avoidable, but its blighting effects on broadcasting continue. Mays and his two sons and successors wouldn’t talk to Foege, and this fascinating, appalling business history suffers accordingly, for the question of how the Mayses’ getting rich served the public interest—radio’s mandate, after all—goes begging. --Ray Olson https://www.amazon.com/Right-Dial-Clear-Channel-Commercial/dp/0571211062
I'll have to watch the one about Hans Zimmer, I have some insider knowledge of his operation. I've heard he has an amazing stereo system in his office with a wall of very high end speakers, not two but bunch of them. The word I got is yes, it's a factory operation but that's what the buyer wants. The days of outstanding soundtracks every year are long gone, except maybe Disney, the producers are worried they might turn off the audience with a bad soundtrack so they keep them some-what generic. I grew up in the era of great soundtracks, James Bond, Grease, Saturday Night Fever and the dozens of others that made the charts. In the USA even prime time TV show themes were getting major air-play, Welcome Back Cottor, Cheers, Any Mike Post Theme, etc.....
Regarding Hans Zimmer, I've listened to a podcast either from the Guardian or from the BBC about his Hollywood music factory and how Hollywood execs love his bombastic but simplistic music and want more of the same, even from other composers. Cannot find the link now... So, he is a successful businessman, but not a great composer. He did not even know the traditional musical notation before he started to work for Hollywood movies, he said he learned it since then
Reading @Silver965 's post about the Panasonic GX600 got me thinking about Radio Luxembourg. When the GX600 was a new product fifteen million people around Europe used to listen to its pop orientated programmes each night. I found a good website about it https://www.offringa.nl/radioluxembourg.htm Later today I will have to listen to the MP3 charts.
Chuck Norris vs. Communism Official trailer on YouTube: An interview with filmmakers Ilinca Calugareanu and Mara Adina by Ondi Timoner. To my knowledge, the movie is not currently streamed anywhere in the U.S. and is not available on physical media. There is a TV copy on torrents. I must say, the film is heavily dramatized for no reason ("Ohhhhh! It is a black, black night, and the secret police agents wearing black, black overcoats are coming on a black, black car, walking through a black, black corridor, knocking the door into an apartment, where in black blackness people watch forbidden Western movies! Ohhhhhh!") and could probably be shortened in half
Amusingly, they did show Dallas on Romanian state TV, thinking it was the perfect example of everything that was wrong with the USA. Yes they might have beautiful houses, cars, and clothes but they also have people like J.R. Ewing https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...n-screen-Dallas-toppled-communist-rulers.html who in their right mind would want to live here ?
They showed either Dallas or Dynasty on Soviet TV as well. They also showed Rich Man, Poor Man. Well, no. They showed a Soviet-made version, also a miniseries.
I'll have to look that up Reli, I know killing all of the free websites did major damage as well as the picture hosting sites. There's been some big growing pains for the internet.
Here Come the Videofreex Movie website: https://videofreexfilm.com/ If you have Amazon Prime, you can watch HD for $1, or SD for free: https://www.amazon.com/Here-Come-Videofreex/dp/B0785HQGMK This is a must see for anyone who is interested about the early days of alternative video - or street video, or guerrilla video - in the U.S. Consists mostly of old late 1960-s early 1970-s footage. I found about this movie and this people when I was researching info for my upcoming video (if I ever finish it). Trailer:
Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod (1 h 30 min, 2020) Can be watched on Amazon for $3, not free even if you have Amazon Prime. I used his music for my videos a decade ago, I don' t remember how I found about his website, probably a fellow videographer pointed to it. Trailer:
