Democracy Manifest
You might remember it as Succulent Chinese Meal
The archive has not found a surviving copy.
2009·Early YouTube
A 1991 news clip that became one of the most quoted pieces of footage on the internet decades later.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Succulent Chinese Meal
- Spread in
- 2009
- Began as
- A television broadcast
- Where it started
- broadcast
- Format
- Event
- Who or what it shows
- Jack Karlson, born Cecil George Edwards
- Made by
- Filmed for Seven News, with the reporter Chris Reason
- Where
- Outside the China Sea Restaurant in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
- What it said
- “Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!” and “What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?”
- Origin
- Not an upload originally
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
A moment_event classified under plants, food.
Why it matteredWhat changed
A man being arrested outside a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane delivered a speech to a news camera, and nobody knew who he was for eleven years after it reached the internet. The recording is now in Australia’s national sound archive.
TimelineIn order
- Made
Queensland police arrest a man at a restaurant while a television crew films.1
- Posted
The unedited footage is put online and spreads at once.1
- Found
Jack Karlson identifies himself as the man.1
- Later
Karlson dies, aged 82.1
- Later
The sound of the speech is added to the National Film and Sound Archive’s Sound of Australia archive.1
What people misrememberSet straight
Commonly remembered asThe man was Paul Charles Dozsa.
ActuallyThat was the theory before 2020. His family and friends denied it, and Karlson then came forward.1
LegacyWhat it left behind
- The news report at the time said the arrest was a case of mistaken identity.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
This began as a television broadcast, not as a video upload. Originally published on broadcast.
Where it came fromWhat we know
There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. What it began as is recorded here, and what is shown is a later copy.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This began as a television broadcast, not as a video upload. Originally published on broadcast.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- Where
- Known on YouTube.
SourcesWhat was read
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