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Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA!

2012-11-02 · announcement · Hank · 3:47 · watch on YouTube

Topic: US politics & society (also: Pop culture) · mode: Advocacy & fundraising · tags: timely hook, civic or action cta, self promotion, community lore

Hank rounds up the week (Nerdfighter pumpkins, Disney buying Lucasfilm and the Pixar backstory, Darcy Day, Hurricane Sandy) and launches DFTVA with the Harry Potter Alliance, asking Americans to spread a vote graphic and post polling-place photos for a free sticker.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Greeting; Nerdfighter Halloween pumpkins; Disney buys Star Wars; how ILM's computer graphics department went to Steve Jobs

  • ★ Hank says they just had a Halloween with all the Nerdfighter pumpkins, which he loves. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank is excited that Disney just bought Star Wars: it could go badly, but Disney has done very well with Marvel. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Hank says Lucasfilm's effects studio, Industrial Light and Magic, hired John Lasseter in the early 80s, and he and others created its computer graphics department. — 00:00:00
    • a number in question (doubtful): "early 80s" — check against the recording
  • ★★★ Hank says ILM sold that computer graphics department to Steve Jobs for $5 million, and it became a company whose name is lost in the audio (from context, Pixar). — 00:00:00

00:00:43 — Disney's purchases of Pixar and Lucasfilm compared; Darcy Day on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries; Assassin's Creed 3

  • ★★★ Hank says Disney bought Pixar for $7.4 billion in 2006 and all of Lucasfilm, including ILM, for $4 billion, so Lucasfilm's afterthought became worth more. — 00:00:43
  • ★★ Hank notes that yesterday (1 November 2012) was Darcy Day, the big reveal of William Darcy on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. — 00:00:43
  • ★ Hank is playing Assassin's Creed 3 and is super excited about video game season. — 00:00:43

00:01:12 — Video game season; Hurricane Sandy outages; Hank's cold; the US presidential election and a separate video for non-Americans

  • ★★ Hank tells people who still cannot watch because Hurricane Sandy knocked out their power that he is sorry and hopes their lives get back to normal soon. — 00:01:12
  • ★★ Hank says America is about to pick its president; for non-Americans he made a separate video, joking that Americans who watch it are bad people. (playful) — 00:01:12 · United States presidential election, United States

00:01:41 — DFTVA launch with the Harry Potter Alliance: share the graphic; Equality FTW; polling-place Nerdfighter-sign photo for a free sticker

  • ★★★ Hank announces that the Harry Potter Alliance and the Vlogbrothers are teaming up on DFTVA, 'Don't Forget to Vote, America', for anyone who cares about the election. — 00:01:41 · Vlogbrothers, United States presidential election, United States

    “Don't Forget to Vote, America”

  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to spread the DFTVA graphic far and wide so everyone who can will vote, to do their civic duty, and to post it everywhere, especially on election Tuesday. — 00:01:41

  • ★ Hank adds that there are really important things viewers can do with the Equality FTW campaign this year (2012). — 00:02:19
  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to go to their polling place, pose doing the Nerdfighter sign, and post the picture to get a free DFTVA sticker. — 00:02:19

00:02:48 — Sticker for under-18s and early voters; submitting the photo; the half-hour playlist in the description

  • ★★ Under-18s who can't legally vote get a sticker too, for being excited about elections, and people who already voted can photograph themselves at their polling place. — 00:02:48
  • ★★ Hank made his first playlist, linked in the description, of about half an hour of videos on the news, including him and Katherine on Darcy Day; it works only on computers. (hedged) — 00:02:48 · Katherine Green

00:03:17 — The playlist, including Hank and Katherine on Darcy Day; works on computers only; sign-off

In the description and comments

  • ★ Hank links Equality FTW as the Harry Potter Alliance's campaign for the 2012 vote. — video description

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Mentioned

Central: DFTVA · Lucasfilm · Star Wars · The Walt Disney Company · United States presidential election

Also: People: John Lasseter · Katherine Green · Steve Jobs

Projects: Equality FTW

Works: Assassin's Creed III · The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Organizations: Industrial Light & Magic · Marvel Entertainment · Pixar

Rituals: Nerdfighter gang sign

Concepts: voter turnout

Places: United States

Events: Halloween (holiday) · Hurricane Sandy

Characters: William Darcy

Only in the description or credits: Karen Kavett · The Harry Potter Alliance

Also centred on Star Wars: 13 SEVERED HANDS! (1) · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (2) · The Myth Reawakens · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things

Also centred on The Walt Disney Company: Why is the Disney "D" So Weird?

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