This is a little video clip surrounding the London premiere of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
The audio isn’t perfect, as I had to raise the volume a little post-production, sorry. A reminder again, that FireFox users may experience a lack of audio/video synchronisation. Try viewing it in Internet Explorer for now.
Feel free to leave a note by clicking on the comments link below…
EDIT : If you find the first link to the video doesn’t work, please try This one instead. Thanks
EDIT2 : Wow, this page (well the alternative link for the vid) has suddenly eaten nearly all of my hosting bandwidth available for the rest of the month, so for now, it is the first link only. Leave a comment if people find problems with the first link, and I’ll try uploading it to youtube or something.
EDIT3 : Many months later I remembered to upload this to YouTube, so watch it all you like…
October 26th, 2006 1:13 pm
The video is just over 3 megabytes, the first file is hosted on a server that is occasionally slow, hence the 2nd link being added.
October 26th, 2006 1:44 pm
Thanks for the heads up on WebTwitcher Chris! (http://webtwitcher.excite.co.uk)
October 26th, 2006 2:48 pm
No problem, I decided on the spur of the moment to record the news item from the satellite receiver, I needed to check the replacement drivers for my TV card were working anyway… No dropped frames that I could see. (Original file was 720X576 uncompressed AVI, came out at 3.6Gb, so decided to re-size before uploading :>)
October 26th, 2006 8:52 pm
Thanks for the preview!
October 26th, 2006 11:24 pm
You’re welcome. My posting links to this blog earlier today does seemed to have attracted my first ever comment spam blast though – 20 comments on random posts with links to dodgy sites. Hey ho, it was nice to see a real one in amongst them, thanks…
October 28th, 2006 7:43 pm
Ack, that’s a bummer and I can relate – I get about 400 spams a day in comments. But using WordPress (and I see you are too), there’s a way to filter them out. In the plugins page, you can activate “Akismet Spam Blocker”. I think you have to sign up at wordpress.com with an account in order to get a key code to enter, but that’s easy and free.
October 29th, 2006 7:39 pm
Thanks for the heads up, will give it a go later.
November 4th, 2006 12:25 am
Borat is good movie film but i dont like completely
November 4th, 2006 10:19 am
My friend, ChrisD, has just seen the film in the UK, I’m hoping he’ll write a review for us, here at http://www.chrismerriman.com.
Which parts didn’t you like, or if not specific scenes, which aspect of the movie?
>>MissChatter, I enabled Akismet spam, and it has done a great job of picking up the spam so far, thanks again.
November 28th, 2006 8:31 pm
Glad to hear Akismet is working for you!
I finally saw the Borat film. I have to say, I was laughing out loud at several parts! I became curious which parts were scripted. Salon did an article that says What’s Real in Borat? which has spoilers if you didn’t see the movie yet.
The funniest/most disgusting part took place in a hotel when Borat and his producer got in an argument. I was laughing so hard my throat hurt.
November 29th, 2006 12:25 am
I will have a look at the link, thanks, but not until Post-Xmas, when I’ll hopefully have seen the film…
January 24th, 2007 1:47 am
I’ve just read through the link there Miss Chatter (saw the film at Xmas), many thanks, interesting reading…
January 24th, 2007 3:42 am
Very interesting website. Keep up the outstanding work and thank you…
March 1st, 2007 12:22 am
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March 4th, 2007 6:38 pm
I recovered the above comment out of my spam bin.
Although it isn’t really at aimed this post, the charity side of it has made me think I should allow it.
April 8th, 2007 11:36 am
This post is #1 on Google.com for Borat which parts where scripted and #1 on Google.co.uk for the correctly spelt version Borat which parts were scripted. (#2 on Google.co.uk for the incorrectly spelt version.)
Discovered this thanks to the newly installed plugin wp-GotLucky :>
March 23rd, 2010 11:45 am
[…] Merriman has put up the BBC coverage of the London premiere of Borat’s film, with discussion of the uproar, Aliyev’s invitation, and his insistence […]
April 2nd, 2010 3:46 pm
This video has NOT been removed by the author. It was removed by YouTube after the BBC complained about it, and the entire account was eventually banned 🙁
You may find some of the content can still be found under the videos that turn up for this search – http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=borat+bbc+london&aq=f