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Here's all the behind the scenes photos and concept art from Daft Punk's Electroma shared at the 4K Remaster & 20th Anniversary screening at Tribeca!

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TFW No GF (Alex Lee Moyer, 2020).

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The [insurance, benefits, and stock] policies caused a bitter dispute within the corporation’s executive board when they were first proposed.  U.S. Steel’s original executive board was made up of two groups- the Wall Street bankers who had organized the merger, and the presidents of the large steel companies who had been merge.  On November 22, 1902, less than a year after the corporation was formed, the financiers on the board, Judge Elbert Gary and George Perkins, presented the stock subscription plan.  The old-time steelmen on the board immediately opposed the plan and the paternalistic labor policy it represented.  Their labor policy, so effective in the 1890s, was straightforward, out-and-out repression.  Charles Schwab, president of the corporation, characterized their attitude by saying, “When a workman raises his head, beat it down.”  Thus a fight developed between the bankers and the steelmen over the labor policy of the new corporation- a fight which was ultimately settled by J.P. Morgan who threw his support to the bankers.  Schwab resigned as president of the corporation soon thereafter, and Gary was made chairman of the board of directors.  With the victory of the financiers, the welfare programs were begun. The welfare programs, then, were part of a broader strategy on the part of the finance capitalists to break down the interfirm mobility of workers.  The reason for this was not simply that labor turnover was expensive- for indeed turnover was not particularly expensive in those days when there was little on-the-job training and none of the negotiated fringe benefits which make turnover costly today.  The reason for reducing turnover was, as Perkins and other managers of the day noted, that changing jobs had an unsettling effect upon the workers.  It tended to make them identify with other workers, and to see themselves as a class.  All the major strikes of the nineteenth century had shown that steelworkers were quick to go out in sympathy with striking workers in other companies and industries.  The welfare programs were supposed to combat this tendency, by giving workers both a psychological and an economic motive for remaining loyal to their employer. The steel companies regarded their welfare work as their greatest contribution to domestic tranquility.  They saw welfarism as the way to head off class struggle in society as a whole.

Katherine Stone, “The Origins of Job Structures in the Steel Industry,” 1973. in Labor Market Segmentation edited by Michael Reich, Richard C. Edwards, and David M. Gordon

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Some never before seen BTS photos from the making of Daft Punk's Electroma (2006)

These were all recently uploaded to Electroma's IMDb page (probably by Alterian, Inc)

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Screenshots of Daft Punk from the "Derezzed" music video (2010)

It's believed they used their Electroma doubles Peter Hurteau and Michael Reich in this music video

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Daft Punk & crew @ the 2006 Cannes Film Festival after the premiere of Electroma!

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Here's my recording of the Electroma Q&A that Thomas did! It includes a few extra things as well

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Daft Punk photographed by Kevin Lynch for Disney's Tron: Legacy