Kendo Yanar

International News Presentation: Past and Present

No one will be asking about the national animal of Turkmenistan after that. It was all a bit less horse-centric before Turkmenbashi's death:

Television Presentation From Defunct Countries and Regimes

That clip is from DFF's youth programme Elf 99 (derived from Berlin's postal code 1199). With my rather bad German I could understand that there were over 50 broadcasters from all over the world covering the elections and that DFF alone had set up 30 cameras and tens of kilometers of cable in and around the Palast der Republik. We could also see a bit of Western technology, namely some Macintosh computers and a Quantel Paintbox unit in the clip. Quite interesting, as this is from the era when there was a small but still notable amount of political hatred and tension between the East and the West behind the scenes.