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Adam CurtisPandora's Box DVD 1 of 3 (containing Parts 1 and 2) (1992)

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"Pandora's Box was a six part 1992 BBC documentary television series written and produced by Adam Curtis, which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism." (Wikipedia)

Full Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_Box_%28television_documentary_series%29

More info about each episode, and links to the Torrents that were used to generate these DVDs:
http://arttorrents.blogspot.com/2007/05/adam-curtis-pandoras-box-1992.html

This ISO file is an NTSC DVD that includes the first two 45-minute parts of the series:
Part 1: The Engineer's Plot
Part 2: To The Brink of Eternity
There are 3 ISO files available, for a total of 6 parts:
Disc One (this one)
Disc Two
Disc Three
And why not search for other things on archive.org by Adam Curtis?

After downloading it, burn it to a disc and you will have a standard DVD, playable around the world.

Technical info:
This DVD was sourced from high-quality 25fps PAL torrents that were recorded off-air in the UK. It was conformed to the NTSC "film" frame-rate (23.98fps) but your player will insert the necessary frames to display it on a traditional NTSC TV (29.97fps). The decision to use an NTSC format was based on 2 factors:

1) This series was broadcast in the UK. Viewers in the U.S.A. will probably never see this on TV or via commercial DVD, due to the expense of licensing the archive footage. So by using an NTSC format, I hope that the work can more easily reach a North American audience.

2) NTSC discs can be played by almost all PAL players, but many NTSC players cannot play PAL discs (regardless of region-coding).


This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Director: Adam Curtis
Producer: Adam Curtis
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: Pandora's Box; Adam Curtis; documentary; technocracy

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Reviewer: zarchive - - January 12, 2008
Subject: Use a Download Manager
If you are having trouble downloading, perhaps try a resumable download manager. (I just downloaded the ISO using the "DownThemAll" Firefox extension. No problems at all. The file is big because it is high quality. I'm sure there are smaller quicktimes or AVIs out there, or try YouTube.

Reviewer: avoura - - January 4, 2008
Subject: Cannot download
Seems to be impossible to download the file. Every time I try, the server times out just before the end, and it will not resume without starting all over again from the beginning.
And a partially downloaded ISO file is useless.
I would really like to see these documentaries but so far I have had no luck in downloading any file from the Pandora's Box ISO files.

Reviewer: andrew_zito - - December 16, 2007
Subject: ONE MASSIVE DOWNLOAD CAN YOU MAKE IT ANY BIGGER?
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Reviewer: alciada.net - - October 10, 2007
Subject: I have compressed and uploaded the files and also made them available to watch online as a flash movie
The Engineer's Plot - Pandora's Box Part 1:
[The use and misuse of science in the soviet union to control the economy and society]
In 1917 the revolutionaries thought that science held the key to their new world. Everything - including the people itself - was to be done in a 'rational' way. The engineers ignored the fact that centralized science and industry means power that can easily be seized by the government - Stalin.
http://www.alciada.net/dload.php?action=file&id=433

The Brink of Eternity - Pandora's Box Part 2:
[About the American Rand Corporation and its thought that the cold war strategies of fear could be implemented in society and other wars (by Adam Curtis)]
Focusing on the men of the Cold War on whom Dr Strangelove was based. These were people who believed that the world could be controlled by the scientific manipulation of fear - mathematical geniuses employed by the American Rand Corporation - only to discover that this way of thinking works only with purely rational entities.
http://www.alciada.net/dload.php?action=file&id=436