988 'Behind The Freedom Curtain' is an odd little number that shows how useful viting machines are. While the intro hails democracy and the freedom of voting, it touches very little on the other meaning of the 'Freedom Curtain'. Anyways, a great intro to this machine is shown, with people of all sorts cranking away on the red handle. You gotta love the volunteer beside the machine who doesnt really do much in the film. Just shows people in and out, and waits for them to finish voting.. As well, plenty of great close ups of people thinking away about who to vote for. This is one darned good looking film, and is reccomended! Great title for rather interesting movie Spuzz 2003-01-16 14:23:37 2003-01-16 14:23:37 4 7947 Made by a manufacturer of voting machines, this film tries to convince us that voting machines are so much better and fairer than old-fashioned pencil-and-paper voting, mostly by constantly repeating that machines can’t make the mistakes people do. Ah, if it were only that simple, we wouldn’t have had that mess in the 2000 election. Actually, this is pretty well made and makes its points well, though it does tend to go on and on and on. It gives an interesting perspective on the problems of running elections, problems that still exist today. Its pontificating about “democracy” gets so overblown it’s campy in spots. But mostly this is pretty straightforward. Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ***. Weirdness: ***. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ***. Be Sure to Vote Down the Up with Mellonville Campaign Christine Hennig 2003-12-09 11:27:07 2003-12-09 11:27:07 3 21103 In light of the subterfuge planned for the 2004 US election by ESS, Sequoia, and Diebold, this film is painful to watch. Timely and interesting FP 2004-09-17 21:10:35 2004-09-17 21:10:35 4 Rick Prelinger 21586 Quirky little film on voting. The fall images and 1950's era cars are all worth the viewing. Fall of votes Umass_Kid 2004-09-25 11:22:18 2004-09-25 11:22:18 5 4 4.00