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Documentary Films

Movies or television programs based on fact, often dealing with scientific or educational subject matter

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Was there a Jack Dawson on the Titanic?

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yes there was

James Cameron invented "Jack Dawson" and found out later that there was a "J. Dawson" aboard the ship. Research points to J. Dawson as someone with the first name Joseph. See attached link.

Synopsis gilda Joyce psychic investigator?

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Gilda Joyce is a psychic investigator in training. She follows a lead to the house belonging to her distant uncle, Lester, and his anti-social daughter, Juliet. Gilda leaves for San Francisco and discovers a rustic tower in which Juliet's insane Aunt Melanie supposedly jumped off of. She also sees that at times, Juliet unknowingly zones out and talks to the spirit of Melanie. Gilda talks to Juliet and proposes the idea of trying to communicate with her deceased aunt. At first, Juliet refuses, but after she zones out again, she reluctantly agrees. Juliet and Gilda start their investigation by sneaking into Lester's study to dig up old files, going into Lester's law firm to ask questions in a disguise, and other feats that would get them very little facts, such as, that Melanie refused to go to a home, that Juliet is a painter like Melanie, and the fact that Lester didn't push her off the tower.

Gilda and Juliet's investigation goes so far that they went into the forbidden tower, climbed up the spiral stairs, and saw the whole room was filled with Melanie's interesting, but eerie paintings. They find a goodbye letter to Lester. Lester ends up sleepwalking straight into the tower, and after waking up; he scolds the two girls for entering the tower. He then asks Gilda to go back to Michigan. Juliet claims that if he kicks Gilda out, she will go with her. All three of them proceed to go to sleep and discuss the matter the next day. In the morning, Lester finds Juliet packing her clothes to go to Michigan with Gilda. Lester begs her to stay, and as a last resort, he hands a letter addressed to Juliet from Melanie. They make up and say that Gilda won't go back until the original return date. The next day, Gilda and Juliet go to the beach with Lester's assistant, Summer, who they befriended over the summer. Before Gilda departs for Michigan, Juliet promises to write to each other and Gilda leaves.

What does Al Gore lie about in his movie An Inconvenient Truth?

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Here are some facts by Al Gore that are in An Inconvenient Truth.

  • -Diseases that were under control have now been 'released' because of global warming.
  • -Species are now being lost 1000 times faster than the natural rate.
  • -40% of the world's population will not have water
  • -Corals are 'bleaching'

That's not all, there are heaps more, and all because of global warming.

How can you make money through 401 k?

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This is a profit sharing plan where the employee designates a certain percentage or dollar amount of his/her paycheck as a 'pre-tax' deduction that goes into an IRS approved 401k plan. It makes money from earned interest or from corporate matches.

If any funds are removed before a certain age, an automatic 20% is withheld for Federal tax and an additional 10% penalty for withdrawal before age 59-1/2.

Can I legally use full-screen video game footage in a documentary film without permission?

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A video-game's footage can be used without permission under the "fair usage" laws. Before you go sticking it into your movie, brush up on those laws, because it is way open to interpretation. This is not an exact wording by any stretch of the imagination, but the general spirit of "fair usage" or "fair use": The use of copyrighted information, music or imaging can be used as an example of a broader theme as long as the copyrighted material is not claimed by the documentarian, or to be used as purely entertainment content. For example, if you include screenshots or action in Quake as an example of video game violence, then you are okay. But if you use it as the opening credit graphics of the film, then there will be trouble. Make certain that you credit every piece of copyrighted material.

The best way to use graphics of a video game is to videotape the monitor as a person is playing it instead of directly feeding the image to a recorder. This adds a separating layer away from infringement -- it's a person playing Quake, not Quake being exploited as the sole piece of entertainment. Your legal stance should show in the film that your intent is to give examples of video game violence, not that Quake is a good or bad game.

Even if you say something good about a product, you open yourself up to legal consequence. If your film is about the evolution of video game graphics, you should take the same precautions.

Why is the director disappointed about the channel crossing?

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a rough crossing would have made the documentary more dramatic

What is your Realization after viewing an inconvenient truth?

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"An inconvenient truth"

The film "an inconvenient truth" is a documentary that is all about global warming, global warming is spreading hot air that may affect diseases to people and animals. This hurts many people, animals, and plants. The documentary showed the basic process of global warming which is the greenhouse gases are trapping the sun's heat in the earth's atmosphere which makes the earth warm. The greenhouse gases are caused by producing too much CO2. When the movie compared the old and new photos of the same place, the difference was very obvious. I can clearly see that the glaciers are starting to melt. It also showed graphs and charts showing that every year the production of CO2 is getting higher also earth's temperature is getting warmer.

The documentary also has elaborate cartoons and diagrams so that people of all intellectual capabilities can understand and relate to the topics under discussion. Added to that, he shows also pictures of the destruction of earth just like comparative photographs from footage of collapsing ice shelves, data on the record numbers of storms, disappearing glaciers around the world, great floods, and other kinds of extreme weather, new diseases which include viruses which hit the people , photos of dying polar bears animations of the effects of rising sea levels, and disappearing coral reefs.

It has in depth explanations as to how all this damage has come to occur and why most people fail to respond to all warnings concerning about the planet. It also states that politics and mislead information has been given to most public, so that this issue can be ignored and not resolved as solutions and alternatives can cause a lot of problems and hassles economically. He tells that only political will can make a change and to encourage the people to stand up for saving the earth.

When sunlight reaches Earth's surface some is absorbed and warms the earth and most of the rest is radiated back to the atmosphere at a longer wavelength than the sun light. Some of these longer wavelengths are absorbed by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere before they are lost to space. The absorption of this long wave radiant energy warms the atmosphere. These greenhouse gases act like a mirror and reflect back to the Earth some of the heat energy which would otherwise be lost to space. The reflecting back of heat energy by the atmosphere is called the "greenhouse effect".

Many cannot take the change, so they die. The sunlight came from the sun in the earth is trap because of global warming that we release from the transportation like cars stops the sunlight to go back in the atmosphere.

According to the researches in the film, 40% of the world is dependent with their drinking water from the rivers and springs of Himalayas. Antarctica, Patagonia and other parts of the world covered with ice are gradually melting. Dry lands, on the other hand, get parched, thus making it unsuitable for vegetation. Personally, the aspects which stand out most to me are: the examination of annual temperature and CO2 levels for the past 60,000 years and the melting ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland. Because of greenhouse effect; the gases act like a mirror and reflect the heat coming from the sun back to the Earth.

For the first time polar bears have been found drowning. When they have swum over 100 km to find ice and still have not found any, they give up and die in the water instead. The ice at the North Pole, at the South Pole, Greenland, and glaciers around the world are all melting - at a speeding record, due to the continous increase of temperature on Earth. Not only does the melting ice affect the local environment, but it also leads to a colder sea and an increase of water volume. The cold water can destroy important transportation of warm water, like the Gulf Stream, and if that happen it does not matter how sorry you will be afterwards. The northern parts of Europe will be uninhabitable.

The most visually striking and memorable element of the film was Gore's impressive graph of the Earth's temperature and CO2 levels for the past 650,000. The chart not only illustrated the past but an alarming future. Using ice core samples scientists conclude CO2 levels have never gone above 300 parts per million. As of 2005, there were approximately 380 parts per million.

Increasing global temperatures are causing a broad range of changes. Sea levels are rising due to thermal expansion of the ocean, in addition to melting of land ice. Amounts and patterns of precipitation are changing. The total annual power of hurricanes has already increased markedly since 1975 because their average intensity and average duration have increased (in addition, there has been a high correlation of hurricane power with tropical sea-surface temperature).

With global warming, there will also be a relocation of precipitation, which means that some places experience a lot of typhoons and rain showers while others drought. The hurricane Katrina is the strongest one that has stricken North America, and is a proof of the global warming taking place in our planet. It is because bodies of water warm up fast, and with warm bodies of water, hurricane can take place anytime.

The fast change in seasons is also one of the many outcomes of global warming. Countries in the Artic and Antarctic Circle experience early spring and late fall. Also, polar ice caps in Antarctica have been found out to decrease by 40% over the years. Thirty kinds of diseases have emerged with the unforeseen changes in climate. Most popular among these are the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or commonly known as SARS and the Avian Flu. Even the corals beneath the oceans and seas are affected by global warming that heats the water of oceans and seas.

The documentary gave me a deeper understanding of what global warming really is and what will be the consequences if we do not do something about it. The way the documentary is presented is very effective. The old man defined and described global warming in a way a non-science-loving-environmentalist-geek would understand. He also adds humor to it by presenting some animated slide show in between explanations. Most likely, the simplicity of the presentation and the thorough explanation are the reasons why the documentary received so many awards and appreciation.

Where can you find a copy of Nova's documentary with Dudley Moore narrating a show called either it's about time or about time?

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I have asked myself the same question before.
The show was produced in England by ;

BBC Horizon: "It's About Time" (1979)...in PAL format

It was shown on PBS:

(showed PBS) "It's About Time" December 30, 1980 (1980-12-30) 0720

PBS Nova Season 8-Episode12

I havn't been able to find a copy anywhere,yet.-Amazon,Ebay,Horizon/BBC or PBS.

imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0662636/


Some scenes on Utube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lME0gB4O_vQ







Who is Lewis Jacobs the writer of The Rise of the American Film?

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Lewis Jacobs was a noted author, filmmaker and publisher. Initially trained as artist in the Philadelphia at the epicenter of the growing ashcan movement, his interests moved into photography and the the emerging world of cinema. He founded Experimental Cinema one of the first publications to take a serious look at film as art spending time with noted early pioneers like Eisenstein. After gaining acclaim from "The Rise" he moved to Hollywood where one of his first jobs was advising a young radio talent Orson Welles on his first feature film Citizen Kane. He also directed the unknown Elizabeth Taylor in her screen test for her first film National Velvet. He spent many years in Hollywood as a contract studio writer but moved to New York during the blacklist period of Hollywood. In New York he authored numerous books on cinema, taught courses at multiple universities, was a jurist at many film festivals and continued writing and directing film including the film Sweet Love Bitter that became the cult classic and inspiration for Clint Eastwood's Bird. In his later years he focused on creating mixed media collage winning numerous awards in art competitions. He passed away in 1997 at the age of 92.

What is a recent documentary about aliens?

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Did you know that NASA were advertising for computer buffs to check the moons surface for structures. You could visit there site and another small documentary is the STS-75 tether incident 25th February 1996, do you think they have been here all along. The space critters is worth a view. If it starts an interest who known what you my find out.