An Itch in Time is a 1943 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Bob Clampett. The short was released on December 4, 1943 and features Elmer Fudd, with a dog and cat that look similar to Willoughby and Claude Cat. The voice of A. Flea is uncredited and was provided by Sara Berner, except for the character screaming "T-Bone!" which was done by Mel Blanc. Blanc also performs the voice of the dog and the cat. As usual, Arthur Q. Bryan is the voice of Elmer. A. Flea would make another appearance in 1947's A Horse Fly Fleas, directed by Robert McKimson, in which the "A" in the flea's name is revealed to stand for "Anthony".
Production: Director Bob Clampett wrote the flea's song, "Food Around the Corner".
Reception: Animator Michael Sporn writes, "In Bob McKimson's animation, the film is as funny as it is artful. McKimson remade the film a few years later in a half-hearted attempt called A Horse Fly Fleas (1947), adding a now controversial scene with American Indians; his direction wasn't nearly as good as Clampett's in the earlier film."
What links Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and a priceless Celtic cauldron recently discovered at the bottom of a lake in Bavaria? In this film an investigation uncovers allegations of mafia involvement, an international fraud trial where millions of dollars are at stake and a forensic discovery that stuns the archaeological world and steers the mystery towards Himmler's SS shrine at Wewelsburg and Hitler's obsessive quest for the Holy Grail. This seemingly priceless and beautiful object has brought death and disaster to everyone who has attempted to own it but who did make it and why?
Hosted by Shaun Dooley
Sixty-five million years ago, a giant meteor hit the earth causing a global catastrophe that destroyed an estimated three quarters of the plants and animal species on the planet, including the mighty dinosaurs. Little was known about the survivors who lived in this post-apocalyptic world until a mining operation in Cerrejon, Northern Colombia — excavating coal cut from deep within the earth’s crust — exposed an important layer in the earth’s geological history laid down more than 10 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs. In 2003, when paleontologist professor Jonathan Bloch, University of Florida, first heard that this important layer had been exposed, he and his research team rushed to Columbia. He had spent his career studying this Paleocene period in the earth’s geological history. Could this be the lost world he’d been searching for?
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From the Secrets of the Dead series
Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders
Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur is a 1939 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated cartoon short directed by Chuck Jones. The cartoon was released on April 22, 1939, and is the first Daffy Duck cartoon directed by Jones.
Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur is set in a chronologically twisted Stone Age and features Daffy Duck, a caveman named Casper (a caricature of Jack Benny), and his pet Apatosaurus, Fido.
This is the last cartoon with the Vitaphone intro, which was first used in The Phantom Ship in 1936.
Production notes:
Most of Chuck Jones-directed cartoons from this era (such as the ones featuring Sniffles the Mouse) were very heavily inspired by Walt Disney's cartoon shorts, placing more emphasis on story and animation than gags. Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur shows the faintest hints of deviation from such cartoons, which eventually led to the fast-paced Jones cartoons of the 1940s, such as The Dover Boys and The Draft Horse.
This is also an important milestone in the evolution of Daffy Duck's personality. While Tex Avery and Bob Clampett had depicted Daffy as completely insane, irrational, and uncontrollable in their previous cartoons with the character, Jones depicted Daffy here as somewhat more thoughtful and calculating. Jones and Friz Freleng continued to develop Daffy's personality in this direction throughout the 1940s and 1950s.
Rapture of the Deep is the 18th studio album by English rock band Deep Purple, released in October 2005. It is the fourth studio album from Deep Purple since Steve Morse joined the band in 1994 and the second to feature veteran keyboardist Don Airey. The album was produced by Mike Bradford who also produced the band's previous release, Bananas.
Tracklist:
1.Money Talks 00:00
2.Girls Like That 05:33
3.Wrong Man 09:36
4.Rapture Of The Deep 14:29
5.Clearly Quite Absurd 20:26
6.Don't Let Go 25:50
7.Back To Back 30:24
8.Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 34:29
9.MTV (bonus track) 38:49
10.Junkyard Blues 43:45
11.Before Time Began 49:20
Deep Purple
Ian Gillan – vocals
Steve Morse – guitar
Don Airey – keyboards
Roger Glover – bass
Ian Paice – drums
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From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story in early 1956 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica; at the time he thought it might be his final Bond book. The novel was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 8 April 1957.
Part One. The Plan
Chapter 1 - Roseland - 0:08
Chapter 2 - The Slaughterer - 15:22
Chapter 3 - Post-graduate Studies - 31:15
Chapter 4 - The Moguls of Death - 47:00
Chapter 5 - Konspiratsia - 1:03:37
Chapter 6 - Death Warrant - 1:21:26
Chapter 7 - The Wizard of Ice - 1:39:41
Chapter 8 - The Beautiful Lure - 2:00:48
Chapter 9 - A Labour of Love - 2:16:52
Chapter 10 - The Fuse Burns - 2:39:21
Part Two. The Execution
Chapter 11 - The Soft Life - 2:51:57
Chapter 12 - A Piece of Cake - 3:05:23
Chapter 13 - 'BEA Takes You There...' - 3:20:54
Chapter 14 - Darko Kerim - 3:37:21
Chapter 15 - Background to a Spy - 3:57:11
Chapter 16 - The Tunnel of Rats - 4:16:55
Chapter 17 - Killing Time - 4:33:17
Chapter 18 - Strong Sensations - 4:52:00
Chapter 19 - The Mouth of Marilyn Monroe - 5:09:48
Chapter 20 - Black on Pink - 5:25:02
Chapter 21 - Orient Express - 5:40:56
Chapter 22 - Out of Turkey - 6:02:01
Chapter 23 - Out of Greece - 6:14:49
Chapter 24 - Out of Danger - 6:34:12
Chapter 25 - A Tie with a Windsor Knot - 6:48:21
Chapter 26 - The Killing Bottle - 7:08:06
Chapter 27 - Ten Pints of Blood - 7:29:15
Chapter 28 - La Tricoteuse - 7:39:58
"The Heat Is On" is a song written by Harold Faltermeyer and Keith Forsey, and recorded by Glenn Frey for the American film Beverly Hills Cop (1984). The song was published as a single and as the sixth track of the album Beverly Hills Cop: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1984).
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The ascendancy of Julius Caesar brought about the end of a republic and marshaled in an age of empire the likes of which the world had never seen. From the brilliance of Augustus and defeat of Marc Anthony to the sickness of Nero, renowned scholars peel back the layers of history to breathe new life into the personal legacies of these godlike men.
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Deep Purple, also referred to as Deep Purple III, is the third studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released in June 1969 on Tetragrammaton Records in the United States and only in September 1969 on Harvest Records in the United Kingdom. Its release was preceded by the single "Emmaretta" and by a long tour in the UK, whose dates were interspersed between the album's recording sessions.
The music of this album is mostly original and a combination of progressive rock, hard rock and psychedelic rock, but with a harder edge and with the guitar parts in more evidence than in the past. This was due both to the growth of guitarist Ritchie Blackmore as a songwriter and to the conflicts within the band over the fusion of classical music and rock proposed by keyboard player Jon Lord and amply implemented in the band's previous releases.
The band started their second US tour in April 1969 with little support from their almost-bankrupt American label and without an album to promote, because of a delay in the manufacturing of the new LP. During the tour, Deep Purple showed a remarkable progress as performers and a musical direction more oriented towards a heavier and louder sound than before. Doubts about the compatibility of vocalist Rod Evans with the hard rock music that other band members wanted to pursue brought about the decision to search for a substitute, which was found in Ian Gillan of the band Episode Six. Gillan had formed a songwriting duo with Episode Six's bassist Roger Glover, who was also invited to join Deep Purple and replace Nick Simper. The band's new line-up, identified as Mark II, debuted live in London on 10 July 1969.
This was the least commercially successful of the three albums released by the band's Mark I line-up, and was ignored by critics upon its release. Modern reviews are generally positive, and remark on the variety of styles within the album and the boldness of the song arrangements.
Tracklist:
Side A
Chasing Shadows 00:00
Blind 05:32
Lalena (Donovan cover) 10:57
Fault Line /The Painter 16:00
Side B
Why Didn't Rosemary? 21:39
The Bird Has Flown 26:38
April 32:10
Deep Purple
Rod Evans – lead vocals
Ritchie Blackmore – guitars
Nick Simper – bass, backing vocals
Jon Lord – Hammond organ, piano, harpsichord, backing vocals, string arrangement on "April"
Ian Paice – drums, percussion