Philosophy
Ask Auguste Dupin or Sherlock Holmes and they would agree that logical deduction [a part of doing good science] is most useful and assisted them in solving difficult cases. For some fun, follow the mystery of the missing 35mm camera that was used in the filming of the 1933 version of King Kong.
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Philosophy
King Kong and the missing 35mm movie camera
Ask Auguste Dupin or Sherlock Holmes and they would agree that logical deduction [a part of doing good science] is most useful and assisted them in solving difficult cases. For some fun, follow the mystery of the missing 35mm camera that was used in the filming of the 1933 version of King Kong.Read More
- Why Do You Know That?
Been a while since we've had one of these. It's the converse of "Auto Mechanics to Quantum Mechanics" where you provide everyone with those tidbits of useless knowledge you have stored away for no good reason. My contribution: King Kong is...
- Halloween Treats...final Goodies
The Bat Crane Wilber 1959 The Lost World Harry O. Hoyt 1925 The Vampire Bat Frank R. Strayer 1933 White Zombie Victor Halperin l932 And finally, the original l954 Japanese theatrical trailer for Godzilla [Gojira]...not the watered down American...
- "the Day The Earth Stood Still"--remake
1951 2008 The remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still will have general theatrical release on December 12th. It is difficult to evaluate the film based on the trailer but one can infer, based on the small clip and some cinematic historical regularity,...
- "king Kong": Additional Material
Ok, you will like this. Several years ago I discovered an unusual film clip of a so-called lost section from the 1933 King Kong. There was nothing contextual with the clip offering an explanation and the Internet revealed nothing. Shortly, the clip disappeared...
- "the Lost World" [1925]--silent Film Of Significance
This is the first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [Sherlock Holmes] classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam. It stars Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes, and Alma Bennett directed by Harry O....