This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. This being the last Thursday of the month, it's time for another TV edition. The theme is shows not in English, which is a tough one for me since I don't watch much episodic TV and definitely not foreign-language episodic TV. So I went with a more reality theme this time out:
Norwegian "Slow TV" (2009-present). In 2009, Norway's NRK TV came up with a programming idea that became a surprising hit in the country and made the news around the world. In the first edition, NRK put several cameras on the train from Bergen to Oslo, a seven-hour journey, and just let the cameras roll, as you can see above.
Aktuelle Kamera (1952-1991). East Germany's nightly news program, giving East Germans their nightly dose of propaganda. Luckily for most East Germans however, there was a transmitter in West Berlin broadcasting the West German channels so most East Germans (Dresden all the way in the southeast was the one big exception) could receive West German TV as well. The above is an extract from June 25, 1983; below is a full episode from May 1, 1989:
Melodifestivalen. Sweden's annual show to select the country's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, an event that might not have been so well known to most Americans until the Will Ferrell movie from earlier this year. For most of the first 40 years of the competition, with the exception of a few years in the mid-1970s, countries were required to field entries sung in their official language (or, in the case of countries with multiple official languages, one of them; I believe Belgium and Switzerland have a policy of rotating which language is selected for their entry). 1974 was one of the years that everybody could sing in English, but in the national competition, we can see songs sung in the original language. Gotta love Björn's silver boots!
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