Sunday, October 24, 2010

Columbus Day Parade Tarantella

Columbus Day Parade Tarantella WMV format 8.6 mb Columbus Day Parade Tarantella 512Kb MPEG4 5.5 mb. Columbus Day Parade Tarantella OGV format 7.0 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGV format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia. animated gif, 17 frames

The Annual Columbus Day Parade has been organized in New York since 1929.

Columbus Day Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York City. Monday, October 11, 2010 Fifth Ave. from 47th to 72nd Streets 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 pm.

The Tarantella refers to different southern Italian couple folk dances characterized by an upbeat tempo, usually in 6/8 time, accompanied by tambourines. It is among the most recognized of traditional Italian music. The specific dance name varies with every region, tammuriata in Campania, pizzica in the Salento region.


The term tarantella originally referred to an exorcism ritual in Greece from around 2000 BC, connected to the gods Dionysus and Apollo, the Greek gods of wine and music. It continued on in southern Italy, an area then known as Magna Grecia greater Greece.

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Keywords: Columbus Day Parade; Tarantella
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Birth of a Nation - trailer (1915)

Birth of a Nation 512Kb MPEG4 format 9.8 mb Birth of a Nation MPEG2 165.3 mb. Birth of a Nation OGV format 9.3 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGV format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia. animated gif, 5 frames

Birth of a Nation premiered with the title "The Clansman" is a 1915 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play.

It was the highest-grossing film of the silent film era, and is noted for its camera techniques and narrative.

It has provoked controversy for promoting white supremacy and positively portraying the "knights" of the Ku Klux Klan as heroes.


Birth of a Nation posterMany, most, trailers for movies released before 1964 are in the Public Domain because they were never separately copyrighted. The law at the time granted the owner 28 years to file a copyright registration.

The trailer is published (run in a theater) before the movie itself is published. Thus, the trailer requires a separate copyright, and the scenes contained in the trailer are in Public Domain.
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Audio/Visual: sound, b&w