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Online Video "Ritournelles et Manivelles"
By Wallace Venable

Through the wonders of modern technology I stumbled across a great
video.  It is about modern day anarchist busker musicians in Paris
with "grind organs."

  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4062673329710411354

Later I found the following data at the wiredvideo web site:

  http://www.wiredvideo.net/pages/portfolio/films/randm.html

  Ritournelles et Manivelles (Old Songs and Cranks)
  In the streets of Paris the songs of the great songwriters can still
  be heard in the streets, thanks to the antics of anarchist organ
  grinders.  This short documentary uncovers the bohemian world of
  these charming radicals.  In French with English subtitles.  10 mins
  30 sec, DV, February 2005, dir. Raj Yagnik.

For those who have trouble identifying music box tunes without cards,
the little piece heard in the title sequence is "The Internationale."

Wallace Venable


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