I took a peek over on Machinima.com earlier today and noticed yet another one in what seems to be an onslaught of machinima videos created in the recently released “The Movies” videogame. This one caught my attention by virtue of the title, “The French Democracy“. I didn’t stop to watch it.

Just a few minutes ago I happened to notice mention of it over on Water Cooler Games. I didn’t get halfway through the article there when I decided to head back to Machinima.com and have a look for myself.

Well, it’s primitive and the QT version I saw has a fair share of compression artifacts. The subtitles can be difficult to read, the pacing is erratic, the music can be overblown at times, the editing could be better, and the end reminds me of early government “lesson” films (in other words: it’s cheesy). But it doesn’t matter. For all it’s faults – and there are plenty – the message isn’t lost.

Watch it for yourself. This amateur bit of videogame moviemaking is ushering in a new age.

{Updated to include this Link over to Chris Anderson’s post on this same topic and further updated to add this Link to a post on WorldChanging}