Ethelred Unraed's Journal: Astonishing video footage from WWII

In a recent shocking discovery, some forgotten archival footage from World War II was found in a vault in Berlin near the Führerbunker.

The truth will out.

Awww, c'mon

[TheConfusedOne]

At least have him "walk the dog".

Thanks for this morning's chuckle.

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[Ethelred Unraed]

Heh. My favorite such mucking-around-with-GIFs is this one. [gifdump.com]

What's cool about it is the way they faked KITT bouncing (and thus rotating in space) with a 2D source image. If you look carefully you see how they did it -- by snipping KITT's image into overlapping slices and faking the foreshortening that way -- but it's a slick piece of work.

Speaking of Hasselhoff, this page [uncyclopedia.org] never fails to crack me up. ("David Hasselhoff has also been credited as the direct cause of the fall of East German Communism, when a

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[BandwidthHog]

Wow, that is pretty impressive. Wonder why they didn’t bother to have KITT’s LED scan back and forth while they were at it.

stalag

[dubiousdave]

Eth, can't you be arrested in Germanland for having such imagery on your website?

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[Ethelred Unraed]

Not really. There are exceptions for when people can post a picture of Hitler or a swastika. If the picture glorifies or seems to glorify Hitler or Nazism, then yes, I could get into hot water. But if it's a parody or has historical or educational value, such as a documentary, it's OK.

They frequently show documentaries on German TV about the Nazis and the war (far from "don't mention the war", they mention it quite a lot) and the swastika is seen in them quite a bit.

German satire magazines, such as Tita [titanic-magazin.de]

See also:

[daniil]

Mock the war [hnldesign.nl]