The Business: Real Time History Shows How To Do History Independently

Last night I watch a documentary on the Franco-Prussian War. This is what formerly required a major production corporation under contract with a major film studio or television network within the living memory of most of you reading this post, so we're looking at 10-20 years or so. Now look at what can be done for a fraction of the expense in time, money, and manpower. The channel is Real Time History, and the documentary is "Glory & Defeat: The Fraco-Prussian War 1870/71".

(If you play this at double-speed, as I did, you'll lose nothing and cut the time to three hours- something far more reasonable.

As film/TV documentaries go, this is fantastic. If you know nothing about this war, as far too many outside of Europe do, this is a good place to start. There is a tie-in book coming later this year, available here.

The thing to remember here is that a documentary like this is never the end point for any investigation of a history event, period, or figure. Like a competent Wikipedia article, it is the place to go to get an overview of the facts and how they unfold in time, but the real value is in the lists of sources these projects rely upon for their work. Track those sources down and read them--and I do mean "read", as most of them will be books or papers and not other films or videos--to get different perspectives, more details examinations of evidence, etc.

Real Time, like Time Ghost, is a formal production company. They're based in Berlin, and they've got a four-year series on World War I as well as some World War II material before doing this and now also a Napoleon series. They're a small company, whose total size makes even The Grand Tour look big. You could start up a similar operation in your home today, erect all of the same online infrastructure within a month--look at their sites--and be competing with them before Christmas this year.

Take a look at this video, other Real Time videos, and compare them to Time Ghost as well as similar channels like Kings & Generals. This is all something you can do by taking one room in your home or apartment, putting up a greenscreen so you can film before a camera, and setting up space to record clean audio- this can be the same room if you configure things properly.

This can be done on a Normie income, just not all at once or by yourself; get help, and do it step-by step according to your skills and preferences.

And if you think you can't do it, let me point out that otherwise useless channels like Spacedock, Templin Institute, Eckhart's Ladder, and other Muh Brand lore channels that ape the documentary or non-fiction TV format do so with even less production infrastructure than Real Time or Time Ghost. You do not to show your face, or use your voice; Luetin (the 40K lore guy) doesn't do either and his stuff is fantastic.

In short, this is a viable form of independent media creation that can be built into a viable revenue stream. Diversify away from YouTube and you guard against Death Cultists attacks against you there; that's why a lot of these channels backup on Odyssee, Rumble, Locals, DLive, Gumroad, Patreon, or even host their content themselves- sometimes free, sometimes paywalled.

For all the complaints of technology being used to imprison the people, the truth is that the tools to make your own way remain widely available and so are the means to learn the skills necessary to make the most of them. Will you turn into a billionaire? Not likely; that has requirements other than merit. Become sufficiently successful to pivot into a self-sufficient homestead and thus better able to weather the hard times upon us? Yes.

Dissidents that see this opportunity and exploit it will succeed.