114 Countries in 100 Movies: Can You Help Find the Rest?

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Patrick James
Writer / Former GOOD Managing Editor

December 15, 2009 • 1:30 pm PST
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We've been thoroughly enjoying "Hollywood Teaches Geography," Joe Sabia's most recent feat of editing madness (video after the jump). Sabia has cut and pasted clips from 100 movies that mention the names of 114 countries. The video is awesome, but what's even more awesome is that Sabia is using collaborative annotations to find clips from the world's remaining countries. That means you can help him do it.

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Via Boing Boing.

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