His film was broadcast by the BBC on Tuesday 19th April 1983, only one day after 33 people were killed when terrorists bombed the US Embassy in Beirut.
This is the story of an ordinary seaside town and the global powers that tried to hide it from the world.
In 1983 a little-known filmmaker made a television documentary about an obscure working-class town in the English county of Essex. That filmmaker’s name was Adam Curtis.
His film was broadcast by the BBC on Tuesday 19th April 1983, only one day after 33 people were killed when terrorists bombed the US Embassy in Beirut.
But this was a fantasy.
But then something strange happened.
The very powers the filmmaker was fighting against gave him another chance.
But they had unleashed forces they could not comprehend and soon You Tube was out of control.
Maybe now, available to the entire world, Curtis's dream could become a reality.
Once again, the hopes of Curtis and his followers were dashed.
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All that remains of “Just Another Day: The Seaside” and its utopian vision is a sketchy outline, a handful of bytes of data stored on a hard disk somewhere in an anonymous data centre.
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However, torn apart by the egos of power-hungry men, terrorised by out of touch politicians, and hounded by press barons, the corporation has yet to show this film on its i-Player.
And Adam Curtis’s dream, of showing the people of the world how to live, as if they were always on holiday at the seaside, must remain a dream.