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Paper Clips is a 2004 American documentary film written and produced by Joe Fab, and directed by Fab and Elliot Berlin, about the Paper Clips Project, in which a middle school class tries to collect 6 million paper clips to represent the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II.
The clips were meant to denote solidarity and unity ("we are bound together"); in Norwegian, paper clips are called binders. [3] (Norwegian Johan Vaaler is often credited with the invention of a progenitor of the modern paper clip.) The paper clips were sent by various people by mail; the letters came from about 20 different countries.
At the time, it was the world's largest paper clip. MacDonald made his first trade, a red paper clip for a fish-shaped pen, on July 14, 2005. He reached his goal of trading up to a house with the fourteenth transaction, trading a movie role for a house. This is the list of all transactions MacDonald made: [2]
A new documentary backed by NBA star Karl-Anthony Towns called "Forgiving Johnny" shows how digitizing Los Angeles's vast archive of legal documents can have impact a defendant's life.
Dr. Strangelove – a 1964 film where the title character was said to have been brought to the USA via Operation Paperclip. Captain America: The Winter Soldier – a 2014 film in which Arnim Zola was said to have been brought to the USA via Operation Paperclip, where he secretly reformed Hydra within S.H.I.E.L.D.
“Paper & Glue,” the feature-length documentary that follows French artist JR as he plasters his provocative large-scale images of people in such places as the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the U ...
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Giant paper clip erected in 1989 in Sandvika, Norway, to honor Vaaler's invention. This 23-foot-tall (7 m) clip is the Gem, not the one patented by Vaaler. Johan Vaaler (March 15, 1866 – March 14, 1910) was a Norwegian inventor and patent clerk. [1] He has often erroneously been identified as the inventor of the common paper clip.