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- A film archivist finds his sanity crumbling after he is given an old 16mm film reel with footage from a horrific murder that occurred in the early 1900's.
- Follows three small time criminals from Dublin's North Inner City as they each aspire to be somebody in a fast changing society.
- A live-action documentary film, this independent film was produced by Nibariki (Miyazaki's personal office), with the revenue from Nausicaä. At first, it was supposed to be an animated film which took place in the town of Yanagawa. After the success of Nausicaä, Tokuma wanted to produce another animated movie (of course, they wanted a Nausicaä sequel), and Miyazaki was looking for a good project. Miyazaki visited Yanagawa, and was impressed by the beautiful town with its canals, and came up with an idea for a film about high school boys and girls in Yanagawa, and thought that Takahata, who worked as a producer for Nausicaä, should direct such a film. However, when Takahata visited Yanagawa for research, he came to be more interested in the history of the town, especially how local people fought to preserve the canals which have been a part of the community for a long time, and how they put a great deal of effort to clean up the once polluted canals. As a result, it became a live action documentary, and Miyazaki decided to spend his own money on it. It took three years for Takahata to complete this film.
- An poorly-educated house-wife fights companies polluting her hometown's water-table in up-state New York during the 1970's.
- The Love Canal was a suburban community that seemed like any other until the residents made a horrible discovery that the houses they purchased and the school their children attended was built on top of a toxic waste dump. After the hard work and dedication of they community, a number of families were relocated and their houses and school were demolished and buried deep below the ground rather than risk transporting the highly toxic materials away to another location. Several years later, in the 1990's part of the Love Canal community was declared safe and habitable, and the homes that were not demolished were resold below market value. However, as time has gone by, the adverse health effects that the former owners suffered were now beginning to be seen in the new residents. This documentary delves into the matter of how the Love Canal site is remains a serious health concern for the families who purchased the homes after the area was declared to be habitable.
- Three generations of New Orleans prostitute fight the FBI and each other. Based on a true story.
- Drama following the lives of two families living on the colourfully painted canal boats of Britain.
- The struggle of the peasants whose villages were destroyed by their lords.
- Based on a novel by Georges Simenon: After her parents' death, a young woman moves in with her unsophisticated country relatives with unfortunate results.
- Explores the historical significance of canals as vital transportation routes during the Industrial Revolution.
- Paul Gauguin, sick and dying, is subjected to a trial by French authorities in Tahiti while he obsesses over painting his last great work.
- The adventures of two children on the canals during the 19th century.
- The construction of the Panama Canal, from the first failed attempt by the French through the successful completion by the United States under the stewardship of President Teddy Roosevelt, was one of the most amazing engineering feats of the last several hundred years. This remarkable documentary tells its entire history.
- A two-hour, real-time canal boat journey down one of Britain's most historic waterways, the Kennet and Avon Canal, from Top Lock in Bath to the Dundas Aqueduct.
- An FBI raid on Jeanette Maier's infamous family-run brothel in New Orleans destroyed her livelihood. Stigmatized by felony, fearing recrimination from clients & determined to protect her children, Jeanette sets out to reinvent herself.
- This famous Chinese scroll painting traces the Emperor Kangxi's second tour of his southern empire in 1689. Painted by Wang Hui (1632-1717) and assistants, it was executed before Western perspective was introduced into Chinese art. Hockney contrasts the more fluid spatial depictions of this scroll with a later scroll painted by Xu Yang and assistants, The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1764-1770), scroll four. This scroll illustrates the same tour, but now taken by the Qianlong emperor, grandson of the Kangxi emperor. Influenced by Western perspective, the Qianlong scroll presents the emperor in a single tableau, whereas the Kangxi scroll depicts a continuous travel narrative filled with details of daily life in the towns and countryside along the route. Reference is also made to the use of perspective in Capriccio: Plaza San Marco Looking South and West (1763) by Italian painter Canaletto (1697-1768). Director Philip Haas (Angels and Insects and Up at the Villa), and artist David Hockney take you on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven. As Hockney unrolls the beautiful and minutely detailed work of art, he traces the Emperor Kangxi's second tour of his southern empire in 1689. Hockney's charming and fascinating narration helps bring the bustling streets and waterfronts of three hundred years ago to life. Hockney spins a dazzling discourse on eastern and western perceptive and their relationship to his own artistic vision. His trip through one of China's most magnificent artworks is a joyous adventure for all!
- The first moving shot, created by a stationary camera on a gondola in Panorama du Grand Canal vu d'un Bateau, was filmed by Alexandre Promio for Louis Lumiere. Filming Locations: Venice, Veneto, Italy. Release Date: 1896 (France).
- Drift along Norway's Telemark Canal aboard the MS Victoria as it sails through a series of locks and past points of interest between Skien and Dalen.
- "The more you watch Canal+, the more you love cinema."
- The construction of the Panama Canal by the United States Government is an engineering accomplishment to which the whole world is looking forward. Comparatively few persons know how it is being done. Time, distance, prevents familiarity with its workings. This panoramic film, giving a full and comprehensive view of the great achievement being performed there and depicting its general appearance, will enlighten those who are anxious to know more about it.
- The picture opens at Colon on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal. Here we see the new government wharves and the good ship "Fram," patiently waiting to put the crowning touch on her life of splendid achievement, by being among the first vessels to pass through the completed canal. From Colon we pass through the sea-level part of the canal to the series of locks at Gatun, that we may be in time to watch the first boats passing through these gigantic elevators. After we have seen the tugboats, filled with their distinguished guests, raised to a height of seventy feet above sea-level, we emerge into Lake Gatun, the great artificial pond which has been created by the Gatun Dam. We then get brief glimpses of the Pacific end of the canal, the fortified islands in Panama Bay, the shipyards at Balboa, and the completed locks at Miraflores. Then we return to the narrow strip of earth which until October 9 held back the waters of Lake Gatun from the Culebra Cut, the Gamboa Dike. Nearly eighteen thousand pounds of dynamite were planted in this dam in the morning. At one minute after two in the afternoon. President Wilson pressed a telegraph key in Washington, and instantly a tremendous tower of mud, smoke and water lifted itself out of the soil of Panama. When the smoke cleared away, the waters of Lake Gatun could be seen rushing down into the great cut which had been prepared for them, and the last step in the cleaving of a continent was completed.
- An old homeless man sits on a bench, on the banks of the Grand Canal, and talks of love and life to a man with nothing to say.
- Children steal sheets to convert a barge into a pirate ship and are stopped by their mother.
- A panoramic view of the most beautiful section of Venice, namely St. Marks Square and the Doge's Palace as seen from a passing gondola. Very fine photographic effects.
- Experience three miles of little known Illinois history.
- The most gigantic engineering project in the world's history is almost completed. The Milaflores locks and the spillway are opened for the first time and in this film the camera gives a comprehensive idea of the enormity of the undertaking which will link the Atlantic and Pacific,
- We are taken upon an interesting trip along this busy ship canal from Eastham to Manchester, during which we are shown many flourishing towns along the way and several marvelous feats of engineering.
- The expression "semi-circular canal" refers to the portion of the human ear that regulates balance. Bill Viola constructed a platform on which he and the recording equipment counterbalanced one another, while freely suspended from a large tree. The artist appears to be sitting calmly at the center of the universe as the earth rotates.
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