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The Rape of the Earth

Date released

28 Jun 1947

Series name

This Modern Age

Issue no

10

NoS ID

346982

Story no

1 / 2

Enticknap synopsis: Soil erosion which threatens the food supplies of the increasing world population, and the work being done, both to preserve fertile land and to repair damage in already eroded areas.

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War of the Worlds, The (1953 Video)

Director

Byron Haskin

Producer

George Pal

Subject

Literature; Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Film adaptation of H G Wells’ novel about the invasion of earth by Martians, which terrified American listeners in a radio dramatisation by Orson Welles in 1938.

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Yorick Revisited (1970 Film)

Director

Paltin Nottara

Experimental student amateur film. Yorick returns to earth and lectures Hamlet on God and nuclear power. Filmed in a basement, with English language actors but a French crew.

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War of the Worlds Broadcast (2003)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 60 minutes), $9.99

The full 1-hour classic radio ‘Mischief Night’ that took place on 30 October 1938, in which Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater- On-The-Air produced a dramatization of H.G. Wells’ tale "War of the...

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Into Orbit (1991 Video)

Director

Ken Wrench

Producer

Ken Wrench

Subject

Engineering; Physics

Distribution

Sale, Video master: 1 C format Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min.

Shows: the contrasts between scientific fact and the predictions of science fiction. Features of the earth and its atmosphere. Circular orbits and escape conditions. Rocket technology: specific impulse,...

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Alternative 3 (2007)

Director

Christopher Miles

Subject

Environmental science; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £15.99

Originally scheduled for broadcast on April Fool’s Day 1977 but delayed until June due to industrial action, ALTERNATIVE 3 was a controversial hoax documentary in the vein of Orson Welles’s radio...

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Woman in the Moon (2007)

aka: Frau in Mond

Director

Fritz Lang

Subject

Film studies; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 163 minutes), £19.99

FRAU IM MOND is: (a) The first feature-length film to portray space-exploration in a serious manner, paying close attention to the science involved in launching a vessel from the surface of the earth to the...

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Bellero Shield, The (1964 Television)

Series

Outer Limits, The

Director

John Brahm

US cult science fiction drama series. In this episode Richard Bellero’s experiments with a laser-beam gun capture a traveler from a "world" of light. This "laser creature" has the power to, in an...

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Baraka/Chronos (1985)

Subject

Anthropology; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 135 minutes), £29.99

Two films from the cinematographer of KOYAANISQUATSI, Ron Fricke. BARAKA (1992) is a visually stunning film shot over 13 months in 24 countries, providing an overwhelming experience that spans the...

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Macbett (The Caribbean Macbeth) (2012 Film)

Director

Aleta Chappelle

Producer

Aleta Chappelle

Feature film. After winning a gallant military victory over rebels who attempted to overthrow King Duncan, the adored ruler of the souvenir nation of Antibes, General Macbett encounters the weird sisters,...

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