(Orson Welles died in 1985).
Sentinels of Silence provides an 18-minute helicopter-based aerial visit across the archeological sites of Mayan ruins across Mexico and Central America, including Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, Mitla, Tulum, Palenque, Chichen Itza and Uxmal. The film's narration details pre-Columbian Mayan culture, focusing on its achievements in mathematics and astronomy, and then questions how an...
(Nikola Tesla,1856年-1943年,1856年7月10日出生)是世界知名的发明家、物理学家、机械工程师和电机工程师。塞尔维亚血统的他出生在克罗地亚(后并入奥地利帝国)。特斯拉被认为是历史上一位重要的发明家。他在19世纪末和20世纪初对电和磁性的贡献也是知名的。他的专利和理论工作形式依据现代交变电流电力(AC)的系统,包括多相电力分配系统和AC马达,帮助了他带起第二次工业革命。
在美国,特斯拉在历史上或通俗文化上的名声可以媲美任何其他的发明家或科学家。1893年他展示了无线通讯并成为了电流之战的赢家之后,就成为了美国最伟大的电子工程师之一而备受尊敬。许多他早期的成果变成现代电子工程的先驱,而且他的许多发现为开创性的重要。在西元1943年,美国最高法院承认他为无线电的发明者。特斯拉从不在意他的财务状况,于穷困且被遗忘的情况下,享年86岁。...
In 1934, Conrad Aiken wrote his most famous short story, "Silent Snow, Secret Snow." It went on to become one of the most widely read American short stories of the 20th-century. 37 years later in 1971, Rod Serling's Night Gallery would adapt this short tale as part of its weekly anthology series. With a teleplay and direction by Emmy Award-nominated Gene R. Kearney, the episode...
Animator Robert Clampett presents a history of "Termite Terrace," the little shack on the Warner Brothers studio lot which in the 1930's and 1940's housed the animation unit which gave birth to Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Includes color and black-and-white home-movie-type footage shot at the time showing such animation greats as Clampett, Tex Avery and Chuck Jones. Al...