Works index
Documented works
Thirteen documented works show how a run of political animations was presented on the early web. Most of those pages were only a black background and a 550 × 400 Flash object.
Reading the entries
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2003
2003
War, democracy and liberation
File: antiwar2.swf; contemporary labels used the same three political terms.
2003
War-crimes questions
File: PD.swf; contemporary labels framed it with a question about war crimes.
2003
Presidential satire
File: idiot.swf; contemporary labels included crude partisan language.
2003
Victory?
File: swf/antivic.swf; contemporary labels used “victory” and casualty-focused language.
2003
A work circulated as “buddy buddy”
File: swf/buddy.swf; no reliable subject description is known.
2003
Strangelove
File: swf/strangelove.swf; contemporary labels point to a cinematic allusion.
2003
Grand Theft America
File: swf/joyride.swf; contemporary labels associated the title with the disputed 2000 election.
2003
Partisan identity
File: swf/ihr.swf; the original title was a blunt partisan slogan.
2003
Church and State
File: swf/faith.swf; contemporary labels consistently used the title.
2003
Poisonous Legacy
File: swf/ue_lo.swf; contemporary labels connected it to depleted uranium.
2004–2005
2004
Thanks for the Memories
File: swf/thanks.swf; contemporary labels placed the work against a long U.S.–Iraq relationship.
2004
One year after the invasion
File: swf/year.swf; contemporary labels marked one year in Iraq.
2005
Fourteen characteristics online
File: swf/14.swf; contemporary labels point to Laurence W. Britt’s widely circulated 2003 essay.
Why this index matters
Links were part of circulation
Link labels became durable handles in forum posts, blogs and email. Sometimes a link pointed to a containing HTML page; sometimes it pointed straight to a media file. Those public citations can outlast the software needed for playback.
The index lists titles and identifiers; it does not publish the works. Technical background appears in the Flash toolchain · distribution routes · preservation questions.
Dates
What “first documented” means
“First documented” gives the year by which a work is known to have been online. It is not a claim about a private production date, premiere, commission or first public screening.