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

From: <rfbagby~at~aol.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:23:28 -0500
To: jvf~at~gilead.org.il

I'd like to second Brian on this proposal.
Ross Bagby

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Taves <briantaves1879~at~yahoo.com>
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 8:52 am
Subject: Re: As you know I'm not able to attend the meeting in May in
Maryland

Hi Harry,
 
Would be glad to receive the DVD, and then also make it available to
our society.  The Controversial program sounds a bit like the the
direct-to-DVD on Amazon, "The Extraordinary Voyages of JV," inspired
primarily by Michel Lamy, and which I reviewed in a recent issue of the
NAJVS newsletter.
 
http://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Voyages-Jules-Verne-Earth/dp/B0016NJ4U2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=dvd&qid=1265118709&sr=1-1

Brian

From: Harry Hayfield &lt;harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com&gt;
Subject: As you know I'm not able to attend the meeting in May in
Maryland
To: "Jules Verne Forum" &lt;jvf~at~Gilead.org.il&gt;
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 10:29 AM

(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 Fri 05 Feb 2010 - 15:23:53 IST

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