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As you know I'm not able to attend the meeting in May in Maryland

From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:29:25 -0000
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Blank(more's the pity) due to the small matter of our general election, but
would like to know if I could contribute something else instead to be
debated on / discussed or just generally looked at during the proceedings.

I have now got a DVD recorder again and would like to donate to the Forum
(if they are able to figure out how to place stuff from a DVD online) and to
the North American Jules Verne Society a DVD with three programmes relating
to Jules Verne that I think people might like to see. Two of them are films,
namely:

Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1973) starring Kenneth More and Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1916)

The third programme though is of a slightly more different nature. Broadcast
on Controversial TV (the name of the channel, not an opinion of television)
the channel states that "Controversial TV is a platform for people to share
alternative views and discuss suppressed viewpoints, we aim to air
programming that is educational, thought provoking and enlightening", it is
a documentary about the life and works of Jules Verne (with some very snazzy
CGI inputs) however (and this is the real reason I am interesting in
donating it) the whole programme makes several suggestions that Verne was a
member of several secret societies and in what I think is a gross
misrepresenation of Victorian Englishness has the gall to suggest that
Phileas Fogg " an arcane, stolid, reserved, wanderlustuous, expeditious,
untoady, indomitable, burnished, hyperopic, magnanimous, well-mannered,
benignant, abstinent, daedal, magniloquent gentleman" was in fact a gay
freemason (picks himself up off the floor) and could perhaps be used as the
background for a debate on the motion: "This house believes that Jules Verne
was a futurist, not a freemason"

If that is possible, may I enquire who would be the best people to post a
copy of this DVD to?

Received on Tue 02 Feb 2010 - 12:29:53 IST

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