Anne Frank Has Been Found...On Film!

Ah, yet another day of blogging.  In the search on my regular source for blog inspiration, CNN.com, a particular article caught my attention: “Anne Frank has Channel on YouTube”.  As of recently, Anne Frank has been on my mind because Providence College Theatre Department is presenting The Diary of Anne Frank for the full-length production, so this caught my attention and I immediately had to check it out.  Turns out, the Anne Frank Museum posted rare footage (supposedly the only video footage of Anne) on their channel on YouTube.  All it is is a video of Anne Frank looking out a window towards the street.  Nothing too spectacular I suppose and details of the video are not clear but it is somewhat fascinating because it is believable to be Anne Frank and supposedly the only video footage of her. 

Overall, I think that the “news” story is over-hyped because: 1) The video on YouTube was posted last month so the “news” element of this story is not really current; and 2) The detail of the video is not really clear and the not much happens.  If the video was just posted by CNN and not the Anne Frank Museum channel, I don’t know if I would even believe the footage because it is just too vague in my eyes.  It was just be too easy to take footage from the 1940’s and find a little girl that looks like Anne.  According to the official video description, this was verifiably her as the couple that was getting married lived on the same floor of the same building of the Frank’s when this was filmed in 1941.

Quote of the day:

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

   -Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"-

Word of the day: fetor:

\FEE-tuhr; FEE-tor\ , noun:

1. A strong, offensive smell; stench.