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Keystone Cops version of Nobel banquet video

January 11th, 2005 · No Comments

The Nobel Foundation has posted some videos of the award ceremony and dinner, including a two-minute time-lapse film of the banquet, with Keystone Cops music, that is either hilariously funny or else a deeply tragic modern equivalent of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias.

Some other highlights, from my point of view:

The awards ceremony video (85 minutes, but you can jump around.)
Frank gets his prize at about 35:30, and the wonderful soprano Susanna Andersson sings a Rossini aria at 56:35.
The banquet (15 minute version)
I like the procession, the Mozart,… and, of course, a glimpse of Frank Wilczek at 7:35!

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