Iceland has changed dramatically in the past decades. First the dream of Reykjavík as a Global Financial Center, which came to an end in 2008, and more recently the post-2010 tourism boom, have morphed Reykjavík, which was only a small town into a something resembling a small city with metropolitan ambitions. The rest of the country has also been transformed, as fewer people work in fisheries or farming and small fishing villages have become tourist destinations.
This 1976 60-minutes segment on Iceland offers us a wonderful time-capsule of Iceland as it existed prior to all of these changes. It is even more fascinating to see how many things have not changed!
Read more: Photos: Reykjavík in the 1970s was a miserable, bleak place
The video was shared on Vimeo by Cinecycle, a Brooklyn based film and video production company. The post asserts that this clip was banned in Iceland, which is total nonsense. It was never shown in Iceland, true, but that was simply because the state-owned National Broadcasting Company did not air American news programs. Since the end of WWII Iceland has not censored foreign news reports.
You should keep in mind that the 60-minutes segment is is inaccurate at points, for example the claim that Iceland's government is socialistic: While Icelandic politics are to the left of the US, Iceland has never had a socialist government, and socialists have never been in majority in parliament. But such minor issues aside it does paint a very balanced and fair picture of Icelandic society.
Iceland in 1976 … truth & fiction (this Broadcast was Banned in Iceland, I wonder why) from Cinecycle on Vimeo.
Iceland has changed dramatically in the past decades. First the dream of Reykjavík as a Global Financial Center, which came to an end in 2008, and more recently the post-2010 tourism boom, have morphed Reykjavík, which was only a small town into a something resembling a small city with metropolitan ambitions. The rest of the country has also been transformed, as fewer people work in fisheries or farming and small fishing villages have become tourist destinations.
This 1976 60-minutes segment on Iceland offers us a wonderful time-capsule of Iceland as it existed prior to all of these changes. It is even more fascinating to see how many things have not changed!
Read more: Photos: Reykjavík in the 1970s was a miserable, bleak place
The video was shared on Vimeo by Cinecycle, a Brooklyn based film and video production company. The post asserts that this clip was banned in Iceland, which is total nonsense. It was never shown in Iceland, true, but that was simply because the state-owned National Broadcasting Company did not air American news programs. Since the end of WWII Iceland has not censored foreign news reports.
You should keep in mind that the 60-minutes segment is is inaccurate at points, for example the claim that Iceland's government is socialistic: While Icelandic politics are to the left of the US, Iceland has never had a socialist government, and socialists have never been in majority in parliament. But such minor issues aside it does paint a very balanced and fair picture of Icelandic society.
Iceland in 1976 … truth & fiction (this Broadcast was Banned in Iceland, I wonder why) from Cinecycle on Vimeo.
