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The Guardian Weekly 09.10.09 7
Anne Frank
footage goes
on YouTube
Adam Gabbatt
The only existing film images of Anne
FrankhavebeenloadedontoYouTube
bytheAnneFrankHouse,theAmster-
dam museum.
The footage, from 1941, is the only
time Anne was captured on film.
The 20-second footage, uploaded
on the museum's recently launched
Anne Frank Channel, shows Anne's
neighbour on her wedding day. The
13-year-old Anne is seen nine seconds
intothevideo,leaningoutofasecond-
floor window to get a better look at
the bride and groom. At the time of
the wedding the bride-to-be lived at
No 37 Merwedeplein, next door to the
Franks at No 39.
The scene was filmed on 22 July
1941, just under a year before the
Frank family went into hiding above
the family business. The family were
discovered in August 1944 and Anne
died in a Nazi concentration camp in
March 1945.
Ashorter,five-secondversionofthe
video was given to Otto Frank, Anne's
father, by the couple in the 50s. After
Anne'spublisheddiarybecameknown
inthe1950sthecouplerecognisedher
in the film and contacted Otto.
Wind-power `massacre' fought
Princely collection Eight centuries of art
Lizzy Davies Paris
From repeated attacks by English
warriors to annual invasions of
daytrippers,Mont-St-Michelhasfaced
many a threat in its history. But locals
and activists claim the majestic site
is now on the verge of suffering one
of the worst indignities yet: a host of
toweringwindturbinesthatcriticssay
will ruin the magnificent panorama
and "massacre" the landscape of the
windswept Normandy coast.
Vowing to "send a message to the
[French] government" that plans to
build in 11 locations near the island
wereunacceptable,hundredsoflocals
and anti-wind energy activists led a
protest march last weekend.
Callingforthe"devastating"planto
beabandoned,theFederationforSus-
tainableDevelopment(FED)saidthat,
although it was committed to other
renewable energy forms, large-scale
industrial wind power was "neither
viable, nor bearable, nor fair".
Protesters blame Nicolas Sarkozy,
the French president, arguing that his
drive to boost the green energy sector
has seen a rush to build windfarms
in various unsuitable locations. The
choice of the countryside around
Mont-St-Michel, a Unesco world
heritage site, has proved particularly
unpopular.
A spokeswoman for one of the
protesting associations told Ouest
France newspaper that the planned
turbines � the closest of which would
be about 16km from the Mont � would
be "as visible as a nose in the middle
of a face".
"If we allow them to be built here,
why not next to ch�teaux in the
Loireorotherworld-renownedsites?"
she asked.
Although the anti-wind campaign
appears to be gathering momen-
tum � inspired, among others, by the
83-year-old former president Val�ry
Giscard d'Estaing, who claims that
windfarms are not only ugly but are
disruptive to bird migration � there
is little chance that Sarkozy will tone
down his rhetoric.
The president has said he wants
Masterpieces such as Rubens's Mars and Rhea Silvia (above), painted in 1616, are coming to London from one of
the world's most spectacular private collections � that of the princes of Liechtenstein. They have been buying and
commissioning art since the 14th century, and unlike most of the continent's noble families, keeping it. In the
second world war the family retreated � with the art � from palaces in Vienna and Czechoslovakia to their castle at
Vaduz. They will send a major exhibition to the Royal Academy from September 2010
Life from the window ... Anne Frank
Annemarie Bekker, from the Anne
FrankHouse,saidthecliponYouTube
was a way to introduce the life of
Anne Frank to people who may never
have heard of her diaries. "The foot-
age is unique because these are the
only moving images of Anne Frank,"
Bekker said.
"The museum has had the footage
forsometime,buthasjustdecidedthat
YouTube would be a good platform
to show the film and the other films
about her life.
"It's another way to bring the life
of Anne Frank to the attention of
younger people, and all people
worldwide."
The film had by this week attracted
more than 275,000 views, with many
comments,suchas"Whoknowswhat
she could have become?"
nationalwindenergycapacitytoreach
25,000MW by 2020 from 3,400MW
at the start of this year, a target that
observers say he is highly unlikely
to achieve.
Hisvisionisnonethelesssupported
bymostgreengroups,whoarecritical
of"short-sighted"anti-windorganisa-
tions such as FED.
Mont-Saint-Michel is a rocky tidal
island, nearly a kilometre from the
coast and known for its Benedictine
abbey and steepled church. The first
monastic establishment was built
there in the 8th century.
During the revolution the abbey
became a prison. The prison was
closed in 1863 and the mount was de-
clared a historic monument in 1874
and added to Unesco's world heritage
site list in 1979.
Last month Sarkozy launched a
carbon tax to encourage the French to
cut their use of fossil fuels. From 2010
France will become the biggest Euro-
pean economy to levy such a tax, fol-
lowingsuccessfulschemesintroduced
by Nordic countries in the 1990s.

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