Usually someone else’s home movies are what you try to avoid seeing at all costs. If you’re invited to someone’s house for that purpose, you have a laundry list of excuses at the ready. But in this spot, home movies take on a new allure as a family goes on its vacation, shooting all the sights and interactions with various people and outdoor merchants as they sojourn through exotic foreign locations (this spot was shot in Mumbai, Pune, and Nashik, India).
All those local folks being lensed by the Sony Handycam follow the family as it continues to make its way across town. As it turns out, the followers want to see themselves in pictures as the Handycam is also a projector. An impromptu “theater” is set up and the vacation footage shot by the family is screened for all to see.
Christopher Riggert of Biscuit Filmworks directed for 180LA. Editor was Paul Martinez of Arcade Edit.
Supreme Court Upholds Law Banning TikTok If It’s Not Sold By Chinese Parent Company ByteDance
The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it's sold by its China-based parent company, holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the United States. A sale does not appear imminent and, although experts have said the app will not disappear from existing users' phones once the law takes effect on Jan. 19, new users won't be able to download it and updates won't be available. That will eventually render the app unworkable, the Justice Department has said in court filings. The decision came against the backdrop of unusual political agitation by President-elect Donald Trump, who vowed that he could negotiate a solution and the administration of President Joe Biden, which has signaled it won't enforce the law beginning Sunday, his final full day in office. Trump, mindful of TikTok's popularity, and his own 14.7 million followers on the app, finds himself on the opposite side of the argument from prominent Senate Republicans who fault TikTok's Chinese owner for not finding a buyer before now. Trump said in a Truth Social post shortly before the decision was issued that TikTok was among the topics in his conversation Friday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. It's unclear what options are open to Trump once he is sworn in as president on Monday. The law allowed for a 90-day pause in the restrictions on the app if there had been progress toward a sale before it took effect. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who defended the law at the Supreme Court for the Democratic Biden administration, told the justices last week that it's uncertain whether the prospect of a sale once the law is in effect could... Read More