http://www.andrewferrier.com/blog/2006/06/25/triumph-of-the-will/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=triumph-of-the-will Economics; Travel; Film; and Technology. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:31:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.andrewferrier.com/blog/2006/06/25/triumph-of-the-will/comment-page-1/#comment-516 Andrew Ferrier’s Blog » Blog Archive » Perversion for Profit Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:14:34 +0000 http://www.new-destiny.co.uk/andrew/blog/2006/06/25/triumph-of-the-will/#comment-516 [...] Perversion for Profit is a 1965 anti-porn documentary film. Very little footage is shown apart from the presenter in the studio: George Putnam. His didactic pronouncements, tone of voice, and Brylcreemed presentation would seem hilarious to many today, and this manner is constantly (and justifiably) parodied on TV - The Simpsons perhaps being a good example. Most of the facts Putnam presents are statements of opinion - connected without demonstrating correlation, much less causation. He doesn’t discuss the morality of censorship at all. It’s well worth seeing, though, as an example of propaganda - although less subtle than, say, Triumph of the Will, it’s still crisp, clean filmmaking. [...] [...] Perversion for Profit is a 1965 anti-porn documentary film. Very little footage is shown apart from the presenter in the studio: George Putnam. His didactic pronouncements, tone of voice, and Brylcreemed presentation would seem hilarious to many today, and this manner is constantly (and justifiably) parodied on TV – The Simpsons perhaps being a good example. Most of the facts Putnam presents are statements of opinion – connected without demonstrating correlation, much less causation. He doesn’t discuss the morality of censorship at all. It’s well worth seeing, though, as an example of propaganda – although less subtle than, say, Triumph of the Will, it’s still crisp, clean filmmaking. [...]

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