Robin Hood Makes Good is a 1939 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon short, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Dave Monahan. The short was released on February 11, 1939. Caricatures: Olivia de Havilland - as Maid Marian
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
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
Episode 3 of the brilliant 1985 film miniseries based on the award-winning book by writer Roland Huntford re-examining every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert Scott (Martin Shaw) and Norway's Roald Amundsen (Sverre Anker Ousdal). This account of their race is a gripping, highly viewable slice of history that captures the driving ambitions of the era and the complex, often deeply flawed men who were charged with carrying them out.
Cast:
Martin Shaw – Captain R. F. Scott
Sverre Anker Ousdal – Roald Amundsen
Max von Sydow – Fridtjof Nansen
Brian Dennehy – Frederick Cook
Alexander Knox – Sir Clements Markham
Stephen Moore – Dr. "Uncle Bill" Wilson
Ståle Bjørnhaug – Olav Bjaaland
Michael Maloney – Lieutenant "Teddy" Evans
Richard Morant – Captain "Titus" Oates
Sylvester McCoy – Lieutenant "Birdie" Bowers
Robin Soans – Dr. "Atch" Atkinson
Jan Hårstad – Helmer Hanssen
Erik Hivju – Sverre Hassel
Jon Eikemo – Adolf Lindstrøm
Ivar Nørve – Oscar Wisting
Hans Ola Sørlie - Jørgen Stubberud
Nils Ole Oftebro - Thorvald Nilsen
Bjørn Skagestad - Kristian Prestrud
Sven Nordin - Tryggve Gran
Pat Roach – Edgar Evans
Susan Wooldridge – Kathleen Scott, née Bruce
Bill Nighy – Cecil Meares
Tom Georgeson – Chief Stoker "Bill" Lashly
Hugh Grant – Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Daragh O'Malley – Tom Crean
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This video explores how Roman architecture and city planning shaped Manhattan.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Streets of Manhattan
1:36 the Croton aqueduct
2:05 City Beautiful Neoclassicism
3:29 Mckim, Mead, and White
4:25 Classical infrastructure
5:11 Monuments
5:40 The anxiety of influence
6:40 Trade Coffee
Video created by Dr. Garrett Ryan (PhD in Greek and Roman history)
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Tweet Tweet Tweety is a 1951 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on December 15, 1951, and stars Tweety and Sylvester.
Censorship:
On ABC, the following scenes were cut/edited:
The aftermath of Sylvester getting blown up by the dynamite stick he pumped out of the tree branch was cut.
Sylvester chasing Tweety between tree branches cuts off as Tweety runs away. Tweety sawing off the tree branch Sylvester is standing on, and Tweety saying, "Aw, the poor puddy tat's parachute didn't open!" was cut.
The part where Sylvester gets caught by a park ranger trying to eat Tweety faded out just as Tweety landed on the ground. The ABC version cut the part where Tweety tells the cop, "Atta boy, officer! Give him a hit in the head!"" followed by an offscreen bop.
Notes:
This is the last Friz Freleng cartoon to have Paul Julian as the background artist. Starting with the Tweety short "Gift Wrapped", Irv Wyner would would take over as background artist in Friz Freleng's unit.
Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series of stories. Set in London, the United States and Jamaica, it was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954. Fleming wrote the novel at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica before his first book, Casino Royale, was published; much of the background came from Fleming's travel in the US and knowledge of Jamaica.
Chapters:
1 The Red Carpet
2 Interview with M
3 A Visiting-Card
4 The Big Switchboard
5 Nigger Heaven
6 Table Z
7 Mister Big
8 No Sensayuma 1:56:34
9 True or False? 2:14:28
10 The Silver Phantom 2:30:18
11 Allumeuse
12 The Everglades 3:07:54
13 Death of a Pelican
14 ‘He Disagreed with Something that Ate Him’
15 Midnight Among the Worms
16 The Jamaica Version
17 The Undertaker’s Wind
18 Beau Desert 5:07:39
19 Valley of Shadows
20 Bloody Morgan’s Cave
21 ‘Good Night to You Both’
22 Terror by Sea
23 Passionate Leave
I Love to Singa is a 1936 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The short was released on July 18, 1936.
Production notes:
The first owlet hatched sang the opening bars of "Chi mi frena in tal momento", from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor. (Papa Fritz compared him to the great opera singer Enrico Caruso.) Translated in Italian is "Who is holding me back at this time?"
The second owlet to hatch played the beginning of "Träumerei" by Robert Schumann on the violin. (Papa Fritz compared him to the violinist Fritz Kreisler.)
The third owlet, a flautist, played the first notes of "Spring Song" by Felix Mendelssohn from his work Songs Without Words.
Owl Jolson is made to sing (badly and off key, due to his loathing of classical music) "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes", the lyrics of which are Ben Jonson's 1616 poem "Song To Celia." Whenever Mama had to pause playing her pump organ to turn the sheet music page, Jolson managed to get in a few bars of "I Love to Singa". However, Papa Fritz came over and caught Jolson singing the latter.
The first known reject in the contest played a few bars of "Listen to the Mocking Bird" on the harmonica.
The blackbird in the blue jacket played a few bars of "Nola", composed by Felix Arndt, on the saxophone.
The bird with the accordion briefly played "Turkey in the Straw".
The dark, operatic bird sang a line from the silent film Laugh, Clown, Laugh, even though the lyrics to the theme song don't have those actual words (this version was later used in Yankee Doodle Daffy when Porky Pig opened the door and saw Daffy Duck dressed as the clown singing, then shut the door).
The overweight bird (voiced by Bernice Hansen) got only a few notes of "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" sung before being rejected.
The country bumpkin bird (voiced by Lou Fulton) stuttered through the first and almost all of the second verse of the nursery rhyme Simple Simon before voluntarily rejecting himself.
Reception:
As with several early Warners cartoons, it is in a sense a music video designed to push a song from the Warners library. The song in question, "I Love to Singa", was first written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg for the 1936 Warner Bros. feature-length film The Singing Kid. It is performed three times in the film: first by Al Jolson and Cab Calloway, then by the Yacht Club Boys and Jolson, and finally again by Calloway and Jolson. During this period, it was customary for Warners to have their animation production partner, Leon Schlesinger Productions, make Merrie Melodies cartoons based upon songs from their features.
The cartoon has become a cult favorite, with a pervasive impact on popular culture. The short, one of the earliest Merrie Melodies produced in Technicolor's 3-strip process, is recognized as one of Avery's early masterpieces. Musicologist Daniel Goldmark writes, "I Love to Singa may be one of the most instantly endearing cartoons Warner Bros. ever created. The story combines two themes that are as popular then as they are now — a child breaking away from his parents and contesting chasing the 'rags-to-riches' promise of amateur shows." Animation historian Jerry Beck agrees, "While not as wacky as Tex Avery's later works, I Love to Singa is still the perfect metaphor for the changes this great director brought to the studio. Instead of following stuffy cartoon convention, Tex taught his peers to march to their own drummers."
Legacy:
The May 7, 2013 episode of The Looney Tunes Show, "Gribbler's Quest", featured a Merrie Melodies segment in which Gossamer plays the piano and sings "I Love to Singa" (with new audio sung by Kwesi Boakye). This was one of two instances of the show's Merrie Melodies segment using a classic song rather than a new composition with the other instance being "Yellow Bird". However, the lyrics were changed to remove racist terms such as "mammy."
In the first episode of the American animated television series South Park, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", Cartman is hit by a beam, causing him to begin singing and dancing to "I Love to Singa". Afterwards, Stan Marsh asks "What the hell was that?" and Kyle Broflovski stating that Cartman "Is under alien control!"
Owl Jolson appears in several levels of the video game tie-in to Looney Tunes: Back in Action, singing "I Love to Singa" via archive audio. Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck will comment upon Owl when they get close enough.
Van Halen II is the second studio album by American rock band Van Halen. Released by Warner Bros Records on March 23, 1979, it peaked at number six on the US Billboard 200 and yielded the hit singles "Dance the Night Away" and "Beautiful Girls". As of 2004, it has sold almost six million copies in the United States. Critical reaction to the album has been positive as well, with The Rolling Stone Album Guide praising the "feel-good, party atmosphere" of the songs.
Tracklist:
00:00 You're No Good
03:15 Dance the Night Away
06:28 Somebody Get Me a Doctor
09:23 Bottoms Up!
12:36 Outta Love Again
15:38 Light Up the Sky
18:51 Spanish Fly
19:54 D.O.A.
24:05 Women in Love...
28:14 Beautiful Girls
Van Halen
David Lee Roth – lead vocals
Eddie Van Halen – guitar, backing vocals
Michael Anthony – bass guitar, backing vocals
Alex Van Halen – drums