Jules Verne

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• Some Early Space Station Concepts and Designs: Ideas That Were Envisioned Before Their Time

  
  Scienceray — Authority: 467
  1960s Proposed USAF Orbiting Space Station ( image source ) This is a concept depiction of a orbiting space station that the USAF (United States Air Force) was considering in the 1960s. The intent was that a two-person crew would spend a month aboard the station before being rotated out and brought back to Earth. ...
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• ON THIS DAY IN MOVIES: FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 600
  On this day in 1958, WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES released FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON. Directed by BYRON HASKIN from the novels of JULES VERNE, this sci-fi classic is part of the great adventure films of the 50’s. Despite the fact that the film’s budget was slashed shortly after production started and all scenes ...
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• Filming 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

  
  Deep Sea News — Authority: 494
  Life Magazine’s website has pictures up from a 1954 photo shoot of the Disney movie adaptation of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It is amazing to see how far SCUBA and underwater filming has come in 55 years! 20,000 Leagues is perhaps one of the most formative components to my interest in marine [...]
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• 20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer – Underwater-Behind the Scenes-Fotos

  
  Nerdcore — Authority: 652
  Das Life-Mag hat eine Fotoserie aus dem Jahr 1954 online gestellt, als sie einen Artikel über die Unterwasserdreharbeiten zu Disneys Jules Verne-Verfilmung „20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer“ brachten, die ein Jahr später den Oscar für die Effekte gewann. Oben das Cover und Regisseur Richard Fleischer im ...
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• Travel Lust Started with Jules Verne

  
  A Traveler's Library — Authority: 466
  Destination: The World Books: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck A GUEST ...
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• Al Gore and His Idiotic Journey to the Center of the Earth

  
  The Pink Flamingo — Authority: 483
  If Al Gores knowledge of Global Warming is as outrageous as his grasp on geology then why on "earth" is anyone even bothering to listen to him.This is just simply precious. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Remake of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea gets red light from Disney execs

  
  Mouse Extra — Authority: 114
  The Los Angeles Times is reporting this morning that Rich Ross, the new head of the Walt Disney Studios, has decided to pull the plug on a remake of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.  The project was only a few months away from the start of shooting, and reportedly $10 million had already [...]
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• Listening To Ghosts

  
  The House of Pomegranates — Authority: 108
  The curtains in our Aunt Charlotte’s study came from a Victorian funeral parlour , I kid you not, they smell of dust and incense and lilies. Her apartment has taken on a permanent chill now that winter is setting in, and we keep the dusty curtains drawn most of the time just to try and keep in the heat. Elizabeth ...
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• Captain Nemo Is Dead in the Water at Disney

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 765
  The klaxons are sounding for the Nautilus and Captain Nemos origin story. Variety reports that Disney has quietly shelved the project, and McG has been released from duty in order to seek better fortune ashore. The project was scheduled to begin production this February, and was on a fast track under Dick ...
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• Jules Verne’s Secrets of the Mysterious Island in Review – Monkey business

  
  TouchMyApps — Authority: 530
  I ain’t monkeying around: Secrets of the Mysterious Island (SOTMI) in many ways is a better game than its predecessor and thanks to its adventure-devout dev team, makes great use of the iPhone hardware. It also introduces the sort of fast user-switching made famous by Beneath a Steel Sky but heels on a vast, ...
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• NOV. 14: INSECTS VS. ROBOTS + SPRING QUEEN + STATIC CROW + LOADS MORE

  
  L.A. RECORD — Authority: 492
  FMLY presents its 3rd installment of Thank You, Come Again at Mary Hotchkiss Park in Santa Monica. From the press release:Thank You, Come Again is back, ready to bring you the fun ‘n games, great music, and babies on drums that all of you know and love!The purpose of this event is to strip a [...]
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• THURSDAY: A Wild Bunch of Dirty Hands

  
  chumpchampion — Authority: 127
  Two very special movie screenings tonight in Los Angeles both featuring art, violence, outlaws and some wild and dirty guys: the art doc on a mad Chinese man Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe and Sam Peckinpah’s brutal western masterpiece, The Wild Bunch.Giant Robot hosts Dirty Hands at the Japanese ...
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• Covered, brought to you by the color orange.

  
  Words & Eggs — Authority: 132
  First image above found via MartinKlasch . All other images found via the always-inspiring WeLoveTypography.com . The collage maker on Picasa has quickly become my new best friend. Posted in art, collage, Design, French, literature, Type, Vintage
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• The Original of Laura and 8 Other Unfinished Novels

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 712
  The wait for Nabokov’s unfinished novel, The Original of Laura, is almost over (countdown to November 17th, people). The story, if you hadn’t heard, is that before his death the grand master ordered his son, Dmitri, to destroy the notecards on which he had been crafting his newest novel. Dmitri, after much ...
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• Jules Verne Would Be Proud

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 584
  Lots of people believe that the science fiction genre was born in the  20th century. In fact, the writings of Jules Verne, in the nineteenth century were the real beginnings, with stories such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon. I remember reading these stories as a child of nine or ...
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• John Uri Lloyd–Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth: The History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey (1895)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 129
  SOUNDTRACK : TINDERSTICKS-Waiting for the Moon (2003). This Tindersticks disc shows a bit of a departure for them.  Two of the first three songs are not sung by Stuart Staples (which is nice for diversity, but it is shocking to hear the first sung words on a Tindersticks disc be in the relatively high register ...
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• When Did Walt Disney Write A Christmas Carol?

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 532
  Disneys A Christmas Carol Walt Disney has gotten a bad rap. We now know that “The Great Homogenizer,” who, as master of The House that Mouse Built, rose to fame by smoothing out the difficult and potentially offensive edges to any story he came into contact with lest anyones sensibilities be injured, ...
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• Podcast: Le Voyage Dans La Lune

  
  Naxos Blog — Authority: 123
  Between 1902 and 1904, French film director Georges Melies made Le Voyage Dans La Lune, the world’s first science fiction film. In this CD + DVD project, composer/conductor Robert Ian Winstin has asked four different composers including himself, “Professor Louie Hurwitz, James Guymon and Don Myers to each ...
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• Talking Comics with Tim: Dwight L. MacPherson

  
  Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — Authority: 662
  Sidewise Last month saw the launch of Sidewise , the Zuda Comics series by writer Dwight L. MacPherson and artist Igor Noronha . Now that the series has been running for a few weeks, I email interviewed MacPherson to learn why he set out "to create a smart, engaging, action-packed historical fiction ...
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• Jules Verne’s Secrets Of The Mysterious Island

  
  iWorld — Authority: 145
  Jules Verne’s Secrets Of The Mysterious Island is the sequel to the popular iPhone game Jules Verne’s Return To Mysterious Island . “The Mysterious Island” is one of Jules Verne’s most famous novels, one of his most enjoyed in North America, and one of the most often adapted to the big screen. In this ...
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