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[#173425]
Written by: Caramalion [20/12/11, 22:43] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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I think it is this..... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457247/  Of all the remarkable events of this century perhaps the most fascinating has been the spontaneous growth, flowering and then decay of a handful of great cities. These cities were places where art, culture and political liberties co-mingled with corruption, brutality and decadence. Everything and just about anyone could be bought and sold. The immigrant would struggle beside the artist. Gamblers, thieves and prostitutes co-habited with soul-savers, the rich and the powerful. The exhilarating combination of the seamy with the sublime made these places a magnet for all the lost souls and refugees of the world. Pushing the limits of tolerance and freedom, they defined the social, political and sexual culture of the 20 th century. Their names ring out: Paris of the '20s, Berlin of the '20s and '30s and Shanghai of the '30s. In the period between the wars, these were the LEGENDARY SIN CITIES of the world... Written by Anonymous |
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[#173462]
Written by: Hydrogen2Oxygen [21/12/11, 16:43] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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Yes, it is. By the way, it's me who uploaded this series on MVGroup. Here are some infos (both technical and about the content) copied/pasted from the page I created on MVGroup. CBC - Legendary Sin Cities (2005) Information Unique documentary series of 3 programmes produced by the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) that separately profile the spontaneous growth, flowering and decay of Paris, Berlin and Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. In the period between the first and second world wars, Berlin, Paris and Shanghai were notorious hot spots of sin and vice. Debauchery, brutality and corruption commingled with art, culture and political liberties. Tolerance and freedom were pushed to their limits. This revealing new documentary series is filled with rare, evocative archival film and photos which bring to life an extraordinary cast of musicians, artists, journalists, rogues and sinners, resulting in a richly drawn portrait of an era when these 3 cities pushed the limits of tolerance and freedom and defined the social, political and sexual culture of the 20th Century. "If you think today's society is the reigning champ at hitting record lows of morality and decadence, think again. Surprisingly, our ancestors in a lot of ways have us beat by miles. The three-part Canadian CBC documentary Sin Cities focuses on the most notoriously decadent cities in modern history: Berlin, Paris and Shanghai during the 1920s and 1930s. And if you think rampant drug use, openly promiscuous behavior, sado-masochism and bizarre fetishes are modern phenomena, you may be surprised of what was going in the early 20th century. What made these notoriously sinful cities flourish was a unique gathering of artists, revolutionary political ideas, highly valued foreign money, and an overwhelming feeling of abandonment which was a direct byproduct of World War I's ending. These variables bred a unique tolerance that allowed and encouraged eroticism, permissiveness and deviant indulgences to openly flourish. This documentary does an excellent job at explaining how these cities rose, why they attracted the brightest and wealthiest, how the cities flourished, their ultimate decline and why their infamous pasts are still an integral part of their modern-day allure." Part 1: Berlin - Metropolis of Vice Berlin transformed itself into the Babylon of the world. Degenerate cabarets, bars, and clubs catering to every sexual daydream sprang up like mushrooms. Censorship was all but non-existent. Part 2: Paris - The Crazy Years Prostitution was legal, brothels flourished. Petty thieves, drug dealers and street walkers packed the all-night bars of Montmartre where cheap sex and cheap booze drew the tourists. The art students' ball took over the streets in a public orgy of alcohol and sex. Part 3: Shanghai - Paradise for Adventurers Nightclubs never closed and hotels supplied heroin with room service. No passport was required. Refugees of war, poverty and politics wandered the streets among the gangsters, prostitutes and cops. ================================================= This series has been part of my collection for some years by now. It's not my Rip. I found it around the web, don't remember where. The original uploader did quite a slovenly job with the encoding: he badly cropped out some pixels from the upper and lower sides of the video tracks, as you can see in the picture number 7 of the thumbnails (shame on you, you goofy moron!) Moreover the video it's interlaced, and this can be annoying. There's no point in me deinterlacing an already compressed file. The best way to watch this series is using VLC: open the file, then click on "Video" on the VLC menu bar. In the showdown menu select "Deinterlace/Active". By default, VLC will automatically use a blending interpolation filter to blend the fields together in real time in order to reduce the visual annoyance. Savvy users can also select different deinterlacing filters. Also, the aspect ratio must be manually switched to a more correct 16:10 value. In the last couple of years I regularly checked the web every now and then, trying to find a better version of this series. Or even the ISO of the DVDs, to encode them myself (without having to buy them on Amazon). No way. I've never found another Rip anywhere. As time went by, this same version also became incresingly rare and difficult to download: it's still present on ThePirateBay, for instance, but with hardly a seeder by now. It's too bad that the encoding has not been made better, but I decided all the same it's time to bring this beautiful series back to life. If someone of you out there have the original DVDs (or if you can have access to them in your local library) I'll be more than happy to replace my files with a better version. But until that improbable moment arrives (I'm still waiting for an answer from our LAZY Australian members about James Burke's ''The Real Thing''), you have to cope with these. -"Hey, wait a minute.... why bother with these badly encoded files??" Because the material is still too vital to turn away from. This Canadian series runs for a total of little more than 2 hours, and although the time is well spent and it's loaded with great footage and facts, it could have gone on at least twice as long. That's how interesting the subject is. The Berlin episode for instance gives us a blunt exposition of the kinds of freedom the city had during the Weimar Republic, before Hitler arrived. You get explicit portrayals of the sex and freedom in all cases, plus drinking, drugs, pedophilia and a virtually endless list and variety of combinations that allow all these three cities to truly qualify for the title. And it's also a solid history lesson of a long gone era, from an unusual point of view. Well, I think that's all. This is my Christmas gift to you. -"Hey, wait a minute.... Tits and asses for Christmas??" Of course. There can be no better gift. :-) |
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[#173512]
Written by: janylene [22/12/11, 18:36] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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Ah.... there is a DVDRip of this out there, on a private tracker that has a lot of Canadian and Australian TV, and other countries of the former Empire... I don't know whether I'm allowed to name the tracker explicitly, so this will have to do. |
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[#173520]
Written by: Hydrogen2Oxygen [22/12/11, 22:18] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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It's the same version, janylene. I downloaded it from there a couple of years ago, I think. It's DVDRip, badly cropped on the upper and lower sides (as I said in my previous post) and it's interlaced. This is that version.  If you pay attention, you can note just one small difference between "my" files and those on TheEmpire: the first episode (''Berlin'') of "my" version is 4 Mb smaller than the one that you will find on TheEmpire. It's because I cut away 2 minutes and 10" from the beginning: it started with a fixed picture with no audio, and then after 2 minutes and 10" the proper documentary began. There was no reason to keep those useless, inexplicable 2 minutes. So I cut them away. That's the only difference. The original uploader who encoded this series did a very slovenly job. But this is the only version all around the web: there are no other dvdrips nor the ISO of the DVDs. Unfortunately, the choice is to take these files or buy the DVDs on Amazon. Cheers |
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