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InVision Productions of London & William Cran
Another outstanding documentary:
Date: Monday January 16 & January 23 2012
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Ayn Rand writes about tap dancing:
From her essay, Art and Cognition within the book, The Romantic Manifesto
Tap dancing is completely synchronized with, responsive and obedient to the music — by means of a common element crucial to music and to man’s body: rhythm … (tap dancing) looks, at times, as if it is a contest between the man and the music, as if the music is daring him to follow — and he is following lightly, effortlessly, almost casually.
Complete obedience to the music?
The impression one gets is: complete control — man’s mind in effortless control of his expertly functioning body. The keynote is: precision.
It conveys a sense of purpose, discipline, clarity — a mathematical kind of clarity — combined with an unlimited freedom of movement and an inexhaustible inventiveness that dares the sudden, the unexpected, yet never loses the central integrating line: the music’s rhythm.
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With special thanks to Producer, Robert Trachtenberg
And with the kind permission of American Masters (PBS)
Another brilliant documentary from the
Film Study Group project’s Creative Heroes library …
Date: Monday December 12 2011
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“Stossel in the Classroom”
“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply.
“See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong.
“See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”
Frederic Bastiat
Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801 — 1850) was a Frenchclassical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly.
Dr David Hart discusses Frederic Bastiat
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The CATO Institute & The Foundation for Economic Education
A recently filmed talk by
On . . . .
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The Australian Premiere of
Another outstanding documentary:
Thomas Sowell
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The Hoover Institution
Film talks of two Black American intellectuals – being two of the
finest minds on the planet – interviewed by Peter Robinson
Discusses (among other things) …
And
Discusses (among other things) …
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InVision Productions of London & William Cran
Another outstanding documentary:
Israel – the only western country in the most volatile region of the world
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Jeremy Boreing & Declaration Entertainment
A filmed talk in which
Narrates all seven “video essays” of
Topics: Small Government & Private Enterprise; Elitism; Wealth Creation;
Natural Law; Immigration; Gun Rights; American Exceptionalism
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Intelligence Squared
A filmed talks in which
EXPLORES
competition + science + democracy +
medicine + consumerism + Protestant work ethic
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The Australian Premiere of
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List of films the PRODOS Film Society (Melbourne, Australia) will be including in its 2010 programme: HERE (2 MB PDF file)
The PRODOS Film Society is a member of the Federation of Victorian Film Societies. Our constitution is HERE.
Our purpose is to present and study movies that promote and explore free market thinking, capitalist ideals, the history of ideas, the life and work of creative heroes.
Here it is as a PDF.
EMAIL ME and I’ll send you the answers.
Created for the Melbourne DISCOVER CAPITALISM meeting of December 19, and won by Charles Richardson, pictured below holding his crossword and prize.
And here are some of the delicate souls he crushed asunder …
Click here to download and print out.
Write to me and I’ll email you the answer sheet.
Created for the Melbourne DISCOVER CAPITALISM meeting of December 12 2008 and won by Barboo (Sydney Kendall) pictured below.
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Now online at prodos.solidvox.com – An interview I recorded over a year ago with Alan Schaeffer from the Alliance for the Separation of School and State talks about why schools should be privately owned and operated.
Melbourne, Australia.
Monday, November 24, Melbourne Discover Capitalism™, will discuss:
THE MORAL FOUNDATIONS OF CAPITALISM:
Comparing Adam Smith and Ayn Rand
Speakers: Timothy Warner & Prodos
Further details HERE
My interview with Australian free market politician, Sophie (Panopoulos) Mirabella (Liberal Party of Australia) is now online HERE.
Sophie has been presented with the Celebrate Capitalism™ campaign’s Annual International Capitalism Award, Melbourne 2008.
Past recipients of this Award have been:
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“Without property rights there can be no freedom.”
These are the words of Bob Day, whom I had the pleasure of hearing at a recent Australian Adam Smith Club meeting in Melbourne.
A copy of his talk is available HERE.
Bob Day’s talk centered on private land ownership and housing affordability.
As well as presenting many sound economic principles explaining the causes of rising housing prices in Australia, the United States, and elsewhere, Bob Day also made clear the foundational political/philosophical principles underlying the role of private property, and its indispensable role in the development of liberty and democracy.
He quoted the splendid British Historian, Paul Johnson, explaining that:
The connection between political liberty and the individual ownership of property is one of the great certitudes of human society. It is carved in granite where the words “freedom” and “freehold” come from the same root and have interrelated with each other through many centuries.
And here’s another quote from that talk.
This one by William Pitt, The Elder:
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. His cottage may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter. All his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.
Last week Bob Day spoke on Australia’s ABC Radio National with Alan Saunders.
Here’s the mp3 audio file of that interview: CLICK HERE
The Celebrate Capitalism™ campaign’s official position statement, The Bernstein Declaration, is now available in 27 languages.
The latest additions are …
HEBREW translation provided by Dmitry Ostrovsky
LATIN translation provided by Rafael Garcia
DANISH translation provided by Simon Espersen
Also, I’ve uploaded an updated CROATIAN translation by Nikola Novak
Also, thanks to Rosemary Gately, it has been available in
English/Braille for some time now.
To join the campaign and get involved in this year’s Capitalism Day festivities CLICK HERE