Talk:The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (film)

Urban myth?

I recall reading somewhere that, mysteriously, this documentary has never been shown on television in the USA. Someone please renew my faith in freedom of speech in that country and tell me that isn't true, is it? 86.136.3.135 06:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't know about that, but I know it has been shown on RTE and BBC, but the makers wanted to release it as a feature but couldn't find a distributor. Seabhcán 14:09, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I am not sure if it has ever been aired on an American Network but it was shown on the CBC in Canada. (Hedel)

Critiscism is not really that valid

I recently decided to watch all three documentaries about the Puente Llaguno events. I highly recomend that you watch them in this order.

"Puente Llaguno: Claves de una masacre" The best documentary by far (Revolution is only good for the inside Mirflores cameras and that is it IMHO), they chronologically construct the event masterfully using EVIDENCE (they use the sun dial trick only once) ie they look at a range of pictures and check the watches, they use audio syncronization with the cadena to determine the exact minute of the famous Venevision video, they check the date stamp from digital cameras indy cameramen give them, etc. Show extra footage etc. A must see but it is a crying shame it is only in spanish.

Found here download the 5 segments individually the big one is not working

X-Ray of a Lie. It exists to debunk Revolution, I was initially perplexed since I saw Revolution after Claves de una Masacre, and could clearly see that it was NOT 1:00 or 1:30 the first clue was that the chavistas were taking cover and were not in the middle, those that were were in prone position, there was also a dead body in still 2, and there was clear shooting going on, that said they did contradict themselves on the video a few minutes later saying it happened in 5:30 according to their calculations (sun dial is not that accurate specially if they are meassuring personal shadow angles). The summary in here and Vcrisis was very very misleading.

Revolution will not be televised. It is a good documentary but would skip the first part unless you are completely new to the subject, when the action starts (after puente Llaguno) inside Miraflores.Flanker 15:07, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

The shadow

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see the crowds

The two screen shots puzzle me. The first one seems to show people on a sidewalk with wavy lines and behind a wall casting a shadow. The second one shows the sidewalk with the wavy lines again, but no wall. Look at the line on the street below. It runs right up to the sidewalk, so there is no wall there. But then, what is is casting the shadow? Since in the tropics shadows can move very fast, especially when cast by a high building, this is very relevant. Of course, this is very easy to check for someone who lives there. Just go to the bridge at that time of year and record at which times such shadows are cast.

Also, I've uploaded a shot that zooms out a bit more, with thick crowds huddling together at both sides of the bridge. If this was shot earlier, before the shooting started, then what are they hiding from? DirkvdM 19:35, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

That is the problem in X-ray of a lie they show TWO different times, one 1:30 and the other 5:30 the skeptic in me says that this is typical of the venezuelan oposition they think that the more critiscism they fling the more likely they are able to convince, even if they contradict themselves. The second shot definitely happens after the shootings as in the Revolution wnbt there are clearly people shooting. Try watching puente Llaguno documentary (part 4 I believe) they show a similar shot but from a handycam and synchronize it with the movement of the people to the exact time of the shootings, the crowds are huddled as well away from the middle.Flanker 01:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)