there's been a bunch of press, and i'll put up links at some point, but this review from the political folks at ABC caught my eye. See what you think.

2004: Kerry-Edwards, the movie:
The cinematic Lloyd Grove has already called Steve Rosenbaum's new access-aided "Inside the Bubble" "a potentially devastating behind-the-scenes look at the Massachusetts senator's failed presidential campaign."

And a press release claims the movie "turns a harsh but deeply revealing mirror on the campaign . . . a disorganized, contentious, self-absorbed team that thought they could win by 'not making mistakes,' and keeping their candidate in the public eye without clarifying a position on anything."

The film premieres tonight at 6pm as a Special Screening at the New York Television Festival www.NYTVF.com .

The Note had its own "special screening" this week (using retro analogue technology!!!), and provides this review:

On the upside, there are almost no boring scenes in this film, and even political reporters and most Note readers will see things they have never seen � stuff such as inside the staff van (surprise: they are on their mobile phones and BlackBerries a LOT, and everyone is tired).

With all due respect to Ben Smith, the scenes involving John Kerry are actually quite revealing. There's one involving the Boston Globe, C-SPAN, and the Senator's legislative record that still has us reeling.

On the downside, watching the film is going to subject you to a lot of ungainly behavior.

And we predict right now that the Bush campaign staff and high command � in watching said behavior and seeing the spartan make up of the Kerry campaign's election night boiler room � are going to wonder how they ended up in such a close race.

The things you will likely find most memorable:

Jim Loftus and David Morehouse show as much maturity as (but less cuteness than) Morehouse's adorable son. And Loftus' use of profanity is mind-bogglingly repetitive �particularly a certain Anglo-Saxon verb (over and over and over, and sometimes as a noun, an adjective, or a gerund).

Joe Biden using a curse word with the press, while he behaves just the way Norm likes it.

Glen Johnson being stymied by the candidate.

An awesome Hillary Clinton eye-roll in the direction of Terry McAuliffe at the St. Louis debate. Marty Slutsky LINK at the walk-through with Kerry is pure poetry.

Mark Mellman on camera giving the results of the insta-poll after the final debate is enticing. Mike McCurry has an extended cameo as Mike McCurry.

Mary and James make an appearance via a Kerry campaign bus screening of "The War Room." John Sasso is tough.

Watching John Glenn and Bruce Springsteen hug is delightful.

From Wonkette

SEP 20th 2005
Every Little Girl Wants a Pony
You want to know why John Kerry didn't win in 2004? Listen to this rant by Kerry communications staffer Jim Loftus, caught in the upcoming documentary, "Inside the Bubble."

When I was an advance guy if someone said, 'Get a pony on the 10th floor of this hotel in four hours -- I want a pony on the 1028 floor in four hours,' I would have said, 'What color eyes should it have?' All I got -- I gave these guys four days, 'Find me a pony, get it in the goddamn room...' -- 'Where am I gonna find a pony?' I said, 'Go to the fucking phone book, you're an advance guy!'"
Of course. For want of a pony. . .
VIDEO: Pony Time

So, the word is out. We'll see what that means. Wonkettte today broke the news that after almost 18 months of soul searching, hair pulling, and long nights... the film known as "Inside The Bubble" will premier in New York on September 29th.

Those of you who've followed this film know that it's been an emotional road. No one sets out to make a film about a losing candidate for President. We though we were chronicalling a winner. And after that fateful day in November, 2004 - we spent a bunch of months with the footage under lock and key. But in the end - it seemed like someone needed to pull thier head out of the sand and ask the painful question 'What Happened?'

That said - the 80 min. film should give Democrats alot to think about. Which is not to say the film is grim - far from it. The truth is the experience of being on the road with the Kerry team was upbeat, exhausting, and expensive. But in the end - the questions come down to ideas. Who has them. Who can express them. And how many American's are willing to sign up for a candidates platform. I won't spoil the movie - except to say, it's not what you expect.

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The 'Inside The Bubble' screenings - Thursday Sept. 29th, 6pm screening / The Phillips Theatre. Second screening Sunday at 4pm at the Milk 2 Theatre.
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Tickets are available on the phone 1-866-NYTVFTX � or 212-404-2860 or one the web site: New York Television Video Festival"

Gordon McCannel Aamoth, 32, New York,N.Y. Maria Rose Abad, 49, Syosset, N.Y. Edelmiro (Ed) Abad, 54, New York,N.Y. Andrew Anthony Abate, 37, Melville,N.Y. Vincent Abate, 40, New York, N.Y. Laurence Christopher Abel, 37 William F. Abrahamson, 58, CortlandManor, N.Y. Richard Anthony Aceto, 42, Wantagh,N.Y. Erica Van Acker, 62, New York, N.Y. Heinrich B. Ackermann, 38, New York,N.Y. Paul Andrew Acquaviva, 29, Glen Rock,N.J. Donald L. Adams, 28, Chatham, N.J. Shannon Lewis Adams, 25, New York,N.Y. Stephen Adams, 51, New York, N.Y. Patrick Adams, 60, New York, N.Y. Ignatius Adanga, 62, New York, N.Y. Christy A. Addamo, 28, New Hyde Park,N.Y. Terence E. Adderley, 22, BloomfieldHills, Mich. Sophia B. Addo, 36, New York, N.Y. Lee Adler, 48, Springfield, N.J. Daniel Thomas Afflitto, 32,Manalapan, N.J. Emmanuel Afuakwah, 37, New York, N.Y. Alok Agarwal, 36, Jersey City, N.J. Mukul Agarwala, 37, New York, N.Y. Joseph Agnello, 35, New York, N.Y. David Scott Agnes, 46, New York,N.Y. Joao A. Aguiar Jr., 30, Red Bank,N.J. Lt. Brian G. Ahearn, 43, Huntington,N.Y. Jeremiah J. Ahern, 74, CliffsidePark, N.J. Joanne Ahladiotis, 27, New York, N.Y. Shabbir Ahmed, 47, New York, N.Y. Terrance Andre Aiken, 30, New York,N.Y. Godwin Ajala, 33, New York, N.Y. Gertrude M. Alagero, 37, New York,N.Y. Andrew Alameno, 37, Westfield, N.J. Margaret Ann (Peggy) Jezycki Alario,41, New York, N.Y. Gary Albero, 39, Emerson, N.J. Jon L. Albert, 46, Upper Nyack, N.Y. Peter Craig Alderman, 25, New York,N.Y. Jacquelyn Delaine Aldridge, 46, NewYork, N.Y. Grace Alegre-Cua, 40, Glen Rock, N.J. David D. Alger, 57, New York, N.Y. Ernest Alikakos, 43, New York, N.Y. Edward L. Allegretto, 51, Colonia,N.J. Eric Allen, 44, New York, N.Y. Joseph Ryan Allen, 39, New York, N.Y. Richard Lanard Allen, 30, New York,N.Y. Richard Dennis Allen, 31, New York,N.Y. Christopher Edward Allingham, 36,River Edge, N.J. Janet M. Alonso, 41, Stony Point,N.Y. Anthony Alvarado, 31, New York, N.Y. Antonio Javier Alvarez, 23, New York,N.Y. Telmo Alvear, 25, New York, N.Y. Cesar A. Alviar, 60, Bloomfield, N.J. Tariq Amanullah, 40, Metuchen, N.J. Angelo Amaranto, 60, New York, N.Y. James Amato, 43, Ronkonkoma, N.Y. Joseph Amatuccio, 41, New York, N.Y. Christopher Charles Amoroso, 29, NewYork, N.Y. Kazuhiro Anai, 42, Scarsdale, N.Y. Calixto Anaya, 35, Suffern, N.Y.

left to right: Ric Burns, Steve Rosenbaum, Danny Liener, Ken Jackson, Jim Whitaker

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Filmmaker Ric Burns, Director Danny Liener, WTC Consultant,
Historians, & Archivist say 9/11 Images Must Be Protected.

Public Invited to screen of never before seen 9/11 footage.

Columbia University’s Lehman Center to host discussion and screening

On Thursday, September 8, at 6pm, Historian Kenneth T. Jackson, will invite New Yorkers to explore the need to gather, collect and archive the invaluable images of 9/11.

Jackson will challenge leading filmmakers, historians and archivists to ask, “What are we doing to protect the fast-fading images of 9/11?”

The wounds left by the tragic events of 9/11 are still fresh. Because the horrifying images of 9/11 remain so vivid in the mind, many are not yet ready to view that which is on video.

The panel will discuss why it is imperative to properly archive these images so that when we, and future generations are ready to view them, that they are accessible and preserved.

“Images of 9/11 - Protecting the Past, Preserving the Future” is presented by The Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History at Columbia University to explore the issues that the attacks on the World Trade Center have raised for the creative community.

Moderator Kenneth T. Jackson is Barzun Professor of History and Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History at Columbia University. A former president of the New-York Historical Society and the Organization of American Historians, he is the editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City.

Participants:

Ric Burns is a noted documentary filmmaker. His work includes "The Center of the World - New York: A Documentary Film” for PBS's American Experience. The film has been a catharsis for many New Yorkers. Burns’ the WTC "at once the most familiar and the least well-known building in the world."

Clifford Chanin is a consultant to the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation on the development and planning of the memorial museum. He is the founder and president of The Legacy Project a non-profit organization dedicated to documenting contemporary responses – in visual art, literature, film and public debates about memory – to historical traumas in societies around the world.

Douglas Greenberg is the president and chief executive officer of Survivors of the
Shoah Visual History Foundation. Greenberg came to the Shoah Foundation in 2000 from the Chicago Historical Society, where he served as president and director for seven years. Previously he was vice president of the American Council of Learned Societies and associate dean of the faculty at Princeton University.

Danny Leiner is the director of “The Great New Wonderful” a fictional account of life after 9/11 in New York. Called by some critics “the first GREAT film about 9/11” Leiner has said: “I never wanted to do anything straight about 9/11, but we just couldn’t stop thinking about it, so it became more about how people dealt with life after 9/11, as opposed to the event itself.”

Steven Rosenbaum is the curator of The CameraPlanet Archive, known as the single largest collection of amateur and professional video of 9/11. Rosenbaum was the Director of the critically acclaimed “7 Days In September”. The archive has partnered with National Geographic, PBS, HBO, The History Channel and many independent filmmakers around the world to make available this footage for documentary purposes.

These complex and important questions will fuel a discussion that will engage both the creative and historical communities.


Date: Thursday, September 8th
Time: 6:00pm / Reception 7:30
Location: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism - Lecture Hall
Reception: The Joseph Pulitzer World Room

RSVP Required for admittance 212-854-0099
No charge for attendance.

For Additional Information Contact:

Press: David Falkenstein: Rubenstein & Assoc: 212-843-8281
Venue: Barbara Fasciani– Columbia U 212-854-0123
The Lehman Center: Tim White 212-665-0358

Press/Media: For an advance copy of video to be screened at the event, Please Email: Archive@CameraPlanet.com

(orginally posted to MORPH - the MediaCenter blog).

I've been trying to find a way to reconcile 9/11 and Katrina. They are both terrible things.

The parallels are hard to ignore.

We had warnings about 9/11. We ignored them.
We had warnings about the potential for a catastrophic failure of the levees.

On Sunday, it will be the fourth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. I always consider this a somber time, a terrible time. And I�ve been frustrated the past two years as the drumbeat to "move on" has become louder. Moving on seems to come without any wisdom, or understanding, or complex questioning about the events of that day. For me, 9/11 remains immediate and urgent and painful and visible.

And as I watch the images from New Orleans, I can't help but see the comparisons. Storms don't arrive without warning; they "brew" before they strike. And people who ignore storm warnings do so at their peril. I don't mean to suggest the residents of the Gulf Coast ignored warnings - those who had the ability to evacuate most certainly did. Just listen to the stories and you know that those who stayed behind - save a few brave or stubborn souls - were left there, stranded there by decisions that kept transportation solutions limited to those who could drive or fly. No trains, no buses, no transit for the masses. They would ride the storm out without any protection from the elements.

In lots of ways 9/11 reflected this same willingness to ignore storm clouds. The Towers had been attacked before. The government knew of the pilots training. We knew that Bin Laden had talked of flying planes into tall buildings. But we're invincible. We couldn't be touched. We're a superpower, a Nation Among Nations. And journalists don't cover "what if" stories well when they may cross the line from fact to fiction... they're merely theories UNTIL they happen.

Well. It's been a painful, deadly, humbling four years. The cost in terms of human suffering is hard to tally - perhaps uncountable. Lives destroyed. Homes lost. Businesses ruined. But more subtle and widespread is a sense that we're not safe, that danger could arrive on our doorstep at any moment. And what's perhaps most frightening is that the men and women whose leadership we count on in times like these seem somehow startlingly smaller than they were just a few days ago.

I'm not taking sides here, because when the blame is doled out there will be plenty of Democrats and Republicans to point fingers at. I'm talking more about the ability to lead, to galvanize, to provide a coherent vision of the future that is more than just empty words and promises of a "stronger America" and a lot of "hard work" in the future.

Some have suggested that in light of Katrina, remembering 9/11 seems like something that should wait. But I reject that concept just as I reject the fact that the Iraq war can't be debated and discussed. I don't think Americans are required to process one story at a time, and in fact I would suggest that in an increasingly complex word, stacking problems up in a linear fashion is a sure-fire way to invite the next Katrina. After all, there was plenty of information that said the levee system was frail and could be breached... it just wasn't urgent enough to get paid attention to.

It may be that the media needs to embrace the concept of concurrent calamities. That problems need to be looked at with a longer lens. Is Katrina connected to global warming? I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that I haven't seen a moment of media coverage or discussion about the long-term questions of weather-related catastrophes. The public doesn't "get" global warming, a news executive friend of my confided. Hmm... What other complex problems doesn't the public "get?"

Isn't it our job to engage complex stories (not just horrible photogenic ones) and find a way to make them gettable? That way, we can begin to face problems before they reach our shores.

There are more than a few storms brewing right now.

I've gotten a bunch of requests for the Kanye West video - so here's the link:

WINDOWS MEDIA

QUICKTIME

Lot's of anger on the air, and plenty of it coming from places you don't expect.

On ABC - Chris Bury reported from a bridge on the highway for Nightline. As the day stretched on... and the heat, lack of food, and lack of information from officials continued to stretch on... Burry became angry. For him - it was personal.

``This is not Iraq, this is not Somalia, this is home,'' NBC reporter Martin Savidge said.

Anderson Cooper demanded that a poised and well coifed Democratic Sen. Mary Landreiu stop 'patting politicians on the back' while he stood among death and destruction. If you haven't seen this clip you should download it.

But most surprisingly - Shepard Smith on Fox News seemed unable to control his anger and government officials as the blocked the road leading FROM the superdome and forced starving and desperate American's to remain amid squaller and death.

What's going on? Well for one, it's awfully hard to be objective when you're smelling death, watching American's begging for help, and listening to a endless stream of lame excuses and press conferances.

What Katrina also reminds us - and perhaps many of the Journalists covering it - is just how critical journalism is. Citizen Journalists didn't have access to broadband connections, satelite trucks, or in some cases armed guards. Anyone who could get out of New Orleans got out. Only reporters who's job it is to go to dangerous and depressing locations would actually go IN to New Orleans. And that's why so many of them are so angry. To stand on American Soil - to be there without the expected official organization, security, and order, is just plain wrong. And thier anger, i would argue, is overdue.

Links to Video:

MOV
DVguide TORRENTS

Anderson Cooper Video Kanye West Video Shepard Smith Video Geraldo Rivera Video Katrina Media Response Rage Anger journalism NBC Censored Video Bittorrent CNN ABC Fox News Sean Hannity Hannity and Colmes Hurricane Video

from "ShowMeBlog.com"
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/face_90405.pdf

"SCHIEFFER: Finally, a personal thought. We have come through what may have been one of the worst weeks in America's history, a week in which government at every level failed the people it was created to serve. There is no purpose for government except to improve the lives of its citizens. Yet as scenes of horror that seemed to be coming from some Third World country flashed before us, official Washington was like a dog watching television. It saw the lights and images, but did not seem to comprehend their meaning or see any link to reality.

As the floodwaters rose, local officials in New Orleans ordered the city evacuated. They might as well have told their citizens to fly to the moon. How do you evacuate when you don't have a car? No hint of intelligent design in any of this. This was just survival of the richest.

By midweek a parade of Washington officials rushed before the cameras to urge patience. What good is patience to a mother who can't find food and water for a dehydrated child?

Washington was coming out of an August vacation stupor and seemed unable to refocus on business or even think straight. Why else would Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert question aloud whether New Orleans should even be rebuilt? And when he was unable to get to Washington in time to vote on emergency aid funds, Hastert had an excuse only Washington could understand: He had to attend a fund-raiser back home.

Since 9/11, Washington has spent years and untold billions reorganizing the government to deal with crises brought on by possible terrorist attacks. If this is the result, we had better start over."

I decided to send some of the clips that we're going to be showing at Columbia next thursday to my friend Drazen Pantic who posts at http://dv.open4all.info/

these are torrents so they should be relatively easy to look at.

I did leave the most graphic images off the web. I'll show them at Columbia after a pretty clear warning - for lots of folks it's going to be just too soon. But i don't think censoring these images (or the ones coming from New Orleans for that matter) will help us deal with any of the issues that are facing our society.

Anyway - that's where you can see the video (there's flash previews there as well).

RIC BURNS, CLIFFORD CHANIN AND OTHER EXPERTS TO DISCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING AND PROTECTING IMAGES OF 9/11

Columbia University�s Lehman Center to host discussion and screening of never before seen 9/11 footage.

On Thursday, September 8, at 6pm, Historian Kenneth T. Jackson, will invite New Yorkers to explore the need to gather, collect and archive the invaluable images of 9/11.

Jackson will challenge leading filmmakers, historians and archivists to ask, �What are we doing to protect the fast-fading images of 9/11?�

The wounds left by the tragic events of 9/11 are still fresh. Because the horrifying images of 9/11 remain so vivid in the mind, many are not yet ready to view that which is on video.

The panel will discuss why it is imperative to properly archive these images so that when we, and future generations are ready to view them, that they are accessible and preserved.

�Images of 9/11 - Protecting the Past, Preserving the Future� is presented by The Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History at Columbia University to explore the issues that the attacks on the World Trade Center have raised for the creative community.

Moderator Kenneth T. Jackson is Barzun Professor of History and Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History at Columbia University. A former president of the New-York Historical Society and the Organization of American Historians, he is the editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City.

Participants:

Ric Burns is a noted documentary filmmaker. His work includes "The Center of the World - New York: A Documentary Film� for PBS's American Experience. The film has been a catharsis for many New Yorkers. Burns� the WTC "at once the most familiar and the least well-known building in the world."

Clifford Chanin is a consultant to the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation on the development and planning of the memorial museum. He is the founder and president of The Legacy Project a non-profit organization dedicated to documenting contemporary responses � in visual art, literature, film and public debates about memory � to historical traumas in societies around the world.

Douglas Greenberg is the president and chief executive officer of Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Greenberg came to the Shoah Foundation in 2000 from the Chicago Historical Society, where he served as president and director for seven years. Previously he was vice president of the American Council of Learned Societies and associate dean of the faculty at Princeton University.

Danny Leiner is the director of �The Great New Wonderful� a fictional account of life after 9/11 in New York. Called by some critics �the first GREAT film about 9/11� Leiner has said: �I never wanted to do anything straight about 9/11, but we just couldn�t stop thinking about it, so it became more about how people dealt with life after 9/11, as opposed to the event itself.�

Steven Rosenbaum is the curator of The CameraPlanet Archive, known as the single largest collection of amateur and professional video of 9/11. Rosenbaum was the Director of the critically acclaimed �7 Days In September�. The archive has partnered with National Geographic, PBS, HBO, The History Channel and many independent filmmakers around the world to make available this footage for documentary purposes.

These complex and important questions will fuel a discussion that will engage both the creative and historical communities.

Date: Thursday, September 8th
Time: 6:00pm / Reception 7:30
Location: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism - Lecture Hall
Reception: The Joseph Pulitzer World Room

RSVP Required for admittance 212-854-0099
No charge for attendance.

For Additional Information Contact:

Press: David Falkenstein: Rubenstein Communications: 212-843-8281
Venue: Barbara Fasciani� Columbia University 212-854-0123

For advance media copies of video, email request to: Archive@CameraPlanet.com