Knight Clubs

★★★★ · Progress can go down as well as up! · SirJekyllAppliance · 2007-10-26

The 'American Dream' seemed/seems to be based on the individualism that is now dividing us. Watching these American Prelinger films I can't but note that capitalism, science, industry, commerce, standards of living &c. are assumed to progress ad. infinitum. Surely we're seeing now that isn't the case. As antibiotics will soon be seen as a momentary blip (probably deleterious) in human health so will science, industry and population growth be seen in human history. Other films portray the microcosm of the growth of a civilaisation by suggesting increase in population = increase in market as a…

★★★ · Jem Handy in King Arthur's Court · Spuzz · 2003-11-11

This wry retelling of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' tells of a man who is forced by his 'modern day' club to research and make a report of the history of clubs (he'd rather make bugs out of potatoes and matchsticks). Anyways, he gets everything he needs, but the very early beginnings of club forming. So he timetravels to Camelot and interrupts Arthur and his roundtable (Merlin, bizarrely is made to be a fool). He asks Arthur if men got together before this time as groups. (???). After Arthur gives some examples, the man has all he needs to make a rousing speech to the…

★★ · What the...??? · trafalgar · 2004-03-16

Chevrolet must have had a lot of extra money sitting around to make a film about the history of men's clubs. Or perhaps Jam Handy made it, then sold it to Chevy, tacking on their name at the beginning and end. Either way, a very strange exercise.