All India Radio - Persist

Video Title :	All India Radio - Persist
Description :	New video 'Persist' taken from All India Radio's forthcoming new album 'Fall' due for release June 08. All India Radio commissioned award winning Australian animator Lucy Dyson to create the quirky and moving video for 'Persist' based on the true story of Topsy the circus elephant. Lucy's recent projects include music videos for rising star Gotye, Dan Kelly, Bird Blobs, TZU, The Stardust Five, and an award winning music video for Sarah Blasko. About the video: On a dreary January morning in 1903, a crowd estimated at some 1,500 gathered in the off-season quiet of Coney Island, in the yet-unfinished environs of Luna Park, to witness what The New York Times termed "a rather inglorious affair." Topsy, a six-ton, 10-foot-high female Indian elephant had recently developed a bad temper, and had killed three men in as many years. They had all in one way or another abused her. Fredrick Thompson, co-owner of Luna Park and consummate showman, decided that Topsy had to be put to sleep and advertised the event. Over 1,000 people filled a Luna Park arena to watch Topsy be fed cyanide-laced carrots. The carrots had no effect. So Thompson announced that man-killer Topsy would be publicly hanged for her crimes. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals protested: Hanging was a cruel and inhuman punishment. New York had recently abandoned the gallows for the electric chair, so Thompson made plans for an electrocution. In stepped Thomas Edison. Topsy offered an opportunity that Edison couldn't resist. On Jan. 5, 1903, 1500 people, gathered to see her be put down. At 2:45pm the current was activated. For 10 seconds 6,600 volts coursed through Topsy's body. "The big beast died without a trumpet or a groan", The Commercial Advertiser noted. The New York Times added: "There had been no sound and hardly a conscious movement of the body". The elephant convulsed and dropped over, withering, dead. Thompson preserved part of Topsy's hide for an office chair. Edison's film of the event "Electrocuting an Elephant" was seen by audiences through out the United States.
Views :	2077
Rating :	5.00
Keywords, Tags :	animation experimental short film music video allindiaradio elephant animals chilled lounge triphop thomas edison nikola
Video Length :	3 : 35

Comments :

I like this song the first time i heard it [which is today :D] this is the first time i heard your band too. I love how you pick this theme on Topsy the elephant in CIrcus and this whole edison vs tesla thing. Whoaa indeed it makes me surf all over wikipedia and internet to know the whole story about Topsy. Thank you for such a knowledge.."edison is a jerk.." ahhahahaha

I saw this song on Asylum TV in Melbourne this evening [31-07-08]. Instant fan. Gonna pick up your CD as I can. :D

thanks, glad you liked it. 8-)

thank you for bringing this sad event to my attention also, gerat song

i really like dthe song..............nice one

Leona Prue, our new singer!

Who sings in this song? =/