Many of the backdrops were seized by the police and eventually sold at auction, and the whole idea seems quaint today in a world of digital clip art.
In homemade World of Warcraft video clips that circulate on YouTube or GameTrailers, with titles like "Chinese Gold Farmers Must Die" and "Chinese Farmer Extermination," players document their farmer-killing expeditions through that same Timbermaw-ridden patch of WoW in which Min does his farming — a place so popular with farmers that Western players sometimes call it China Town.
I asked Michel if he'd enjoyed the special world premiere clip of the restored version of Alfred Hitchcock's silent The Lodger, which we showed, accompanied by Stephen Horne on live piano, as part of the BFI's ongoing Rescue the Hitchcock 9 campaign, the Critics Circlee's charity of choice.
(Credit to World of Longplays for the clip).
Today in P.T. Anderson and The Weinstein Company's world of hype: a new clip from "The Master," in which Joaquin Phoenix identifies some very graphic images in a Scientology-esque test.
"The fact remains that a basketball game was played in North Korea live in front of 14,000 people and hundreds of millions around the world viewed clips of the game".
It reminds us that this world of curtain walls and clip-on facades was once brave, modern, and even shocking.
Whilst those fans generated £185m in box office revenue for One Direction's 2014 Where We Are tour, paying 99p for a single in a world of free YouTube video clips is now another matter.
The final reading attracted attention around the world, with clips of the public gallery singing the Maori song Pokarekare Ana and a conservative National MP's jovial dismissal of the fears of a "gay onslaught" receiving hundreds of thousands of views.
I know this, because in the week leading up to my meeting with the band, I go full immersion, swimming deep in the world of One Direction, the YouTube clips, merch catalogues, DVDs, album streams.
