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In sort of the same mode as "Created By Man" late last year: here's a new vid about weird motifs in 1980s US television ads.

Title: Electric Silhouettes
Vidder: Sumana Harihareswara ("brainwane")
Fandom: 1980s US television commercials (with a bit of the 1990s)
Music: VNV Nation, "When Is The Future"
Length: 5min8sec
Summary: Phones, gadgets, handheld games, executives, the military, and how we thought about them.
Content notes: The US military (a control room), Teddy Ruxpin and children looking hypnotized, brief clips with trippy visual effects, an injured person being bandaged (no blood or injury is visible)
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike (CC BY-SA)
Download or Stream: on Google Drive (84 megabytes for an MP4 file; a .srt subtitles file is there too); also available at Critical Commons with login (high- and low-res VP9 and H.264 files)
Tools: kdenlive, youtube-dl, GNOME Subtitles, emacs
Subtitles file: see the Download/Stream section

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