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  The Lynching of James Cameron
Cameron credited an unidentified woman's voice with silencing the mob and opening a path for his retreat to the county jail and, ultimately, for saving his life...
When Cameron talks about the night he was almost killed, his words flow like those of an actor with a keen sense for the dramatic pause, the telling detail, the precise moment to raise or lower his raspy voice.
Cameron, who says he was beaten into signing a false confession, was hit in the head with a pick handle, pummeled with fists, clubs and rocks, bitten and spat on as the mob dragged him out of the jail, shouting racial slurs.
www.thehypertexts.com /Mysterious_Ways/Mysterious_Ways_Lynching_of_James_Cameron.htm   (2808 words)

  
 School for Children with Learning Disabilities / Dyslexia - James Cameron School
James Cameron School is a small, independent elementary school for children with learning disabilities, located on the west side of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.
James Cameron School was founded in 1980, and is operated by the Fraser Valley Society for Children with Learning Disabilities.
James Cameron School serves its pupils' individual needs, and encourages the academic and social development of each and every pupil, thereby enhancing the growth of confidence and development of skills in every student.
www.jcs.bc.ca   (267 words)

  
 James Cameron , Celebrity profile, bio, biography
Cameron is in talks with RKK Energia and MirCorp to pay his way on board the Mir space station (or the ISS, should Mir be deorbited).
Cameron is continuing his passion for exploration by immersing himself in the study of man's potential next great step in the exploration of space: Mars.
Cameron recently produced an adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's science fiction classic Solaris, which was written and directed by Steven Soderbergh, and he produced and directed James Cameron's Expedition: Bismarck, a two-hour documentary on the German battleship for the Discovery Channel.
www.starglimpse.com /celebs/pages/james_cameron/james_cameron.shtml   (1295 words)

  
 Cameron Sending Two Missions to Mars
James Cameron has a red planet on his mind.
Cameron's two upcoming Mars projects are part of that goal.
With that in mind, Cameron shared the basics of the mission architecture both the IMAX film and the miniseries will share, teasing his Mars-hungry audience with numerous design sketches of the vehicles that the films will bring to life.
www.space.com /sciencefiction/cameron_mars_speech_825.html   (382 words)

  
 James Cameron Biography by FilmMakers Magazine
Cameron spent most of his time at the bottom of the Atlantic to see the Titanic's wreckage, visiting it a total of twelve times.
Cameron served as director, producer, and editor on the film and due to the film's production, $200 million, tremendously exceeding its budget; Cameron forfeited his fees except the $1.5 million received for the screenplay.
Even though James Cameron has been nominated for and won countless awards he still strives to be a director truly committed to his work as only a perfectionist could.
www.filmmakers.com /artists/cameron/biography/page3.htm   (1287 words)

  
 About the Founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum
Miraculously, Cameron survived his severe beating and attempted lynching; however, he was immediately sentenced to four years in the state prison for accessory before the fact to manslaughter.
In this capacity Cameron reported to then Governor of Indiana, Henry Shricker on violations of the "equal accommodations" laws to end previously mandated segregation.
Cameron continued his work in civil rights by assisting in protests to end segregated housing in the City of
www.blackholocaustmuseum.org /founder.html   (271 words)

  
 The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog: James Cameron
James Cameron and Paul Haggis acted like the directors they are when they took on roles on Entourage.
Looks like James Cameron is gearing up to spill the beans and set the world straight on what he's up to.
James Cameron has finally committed to his next project and it is Battle Angel after all.
reporter.blogs.com /risky/james_cameron/index.html   (2525 words)

  
 James Cameron
Then, after the audience had been hushed, Cameron shouted, "Now let's party till dawn!" On another trip to the stage for another Oscar, he mimicked Leonardo DiCaprio's line from the film, "I'm the king of the world!", which was a lot more endearing when DiCaprio said it.
Cameron was 14 when Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was released, and he went to see it at least a dozen times.
What Cameron may not have noticed, but science-fiction author Harlan Ellison certainly did, was that Ellison had written both those episodes -- and their disparate plotlines, merged together, had a hell of a lot in common with the story Cameron had written.
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 James Cameron - Films as director:, Other films
Cameron can now demand the highest standards from his cast and crew, but it was as a special effects expert for Roger Corman, providing additional direction on Battle beyond the Stars (1980), that Cameron made his first professional steps as a filmmaker.
Cameron has been a pioneer of computer generated effects, and in the early 1990s co-founded the IBM-backed digital effects company, Digital Domain, in order to develop the technology further.
Cameron's third Schwarzenegger vehicle, True Lies, is a comedy about a spy whose wife doesn't know what he really does for a living.
www.filmreference.com /Directors-Bu-Co/Cameron-James.html   (1532 words)

  
 :: NASA Quest > Archives ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Setting his sights on a career in film, Cameron quit his trucking job in 1978 and raised money from a consortium of dentists in Tustin, California, to produce a short film in 35mm.
Cameron wrote "THE TERMINATOR" in 1982, hoping to couple his effects and design experience with a low-budget high-impact vehicle that could find independent financing.
James Cameron wrote, directed, and produced the picture, which went on to gross over 1.5 billion dollars worldwide.
quest.arc.nasa.gov /space/challenge/team/cameron.html   (1126 words)

  
 James Cameron I: The Titanic Explorer :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
As an artist and filmmaker, James Cameron is credited on major Hollywood productions in virtually all roles: writer, director, producer, editor, visual effects, actor, art director, and even crew.
To visit the Titanic wreck, Cameron joined a crew of divers 12,000 feet beneath the sea, using the latest in robotic lighting and camera technology to capture the underwater world at pressures that would crush a bank vault.
The Cameron team's remarkable submersibles- MIR-1 and MIR-2 -were built in 1987 and are operated by the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Russia.
www.astrobio.net /news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=658   (1277 words)

  
 The Mick Sinclair Archive: James Cameron
AS A foreign correspondent, James Cameron was present at virtually every major event during the 20th Century's most crucial, world-shaping decades.
Looking back over meetings with world leaders, it is the odd details that he picks out, the quirks and mannerisms that help define the real person rather than the statesperson wrapped up in the oratory of the moment.
Cameron himself often gave thanks that he was never employed in politics.
micksinclair.com /nme/cameron.html   (339 words)

  
 James Cameron News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Professor James Tabor, chairman of the department of religious studies at UNC Charlotte, and filmmaker James Cameron sit behind one of the limestone ossuaries found in a 2,000-year-old tomb in Jerusalem.
James Cameron, the man who brought you Titanic is back with another blockbuster.
TITANIC director James Cameron yesterday unveiled what he believes may be Jesus's coffin, calling it possibly the first physical evidence of Christ's life of earth.
www.topix.net /who/james-cameron   (945 words)

  
 James Cameron- Photo Gallery, News, Movies - MSN India
James Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a three-time Academy Award winning Canadian-American film director noted for his action/science fiction films, which are often extremely successful financially...
Mark James Cameron (1911 - 26 January, 1985) was a prominent British journalist, in whose memory the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture is given.
Cameron was born in Battersea, London of Scottish...
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 TheBlackMarket.com-Profiles In Black: James Cameron
James is in a cell in the Grant County Jail.
Cameron returned to Marion in 1993 to receive an official pardon from Indiana Governor Evan Bayh for the part he played in the 1930 assault incident for which he was originally arrested.
James Cameron has been married to his wife Virginia for over 50 years.
www.theblackmarket.com /ProfilesInBlack/JCameron.htm   (670 words)

  
 James Cameron III: Space, the Reality Show :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
Summary (Nov 05, 2003): In the third installment of Astrobiology Magazine's interview with film-maker, James Cameron, his explorations take the conversation towards Mars, and why communicating imagination is as important as getting to an exotic location to shoot.
During their discussions, Cameron shared how he became interested in extreme environments, including how he came to operate his own fleet of world-class, deep-sea submersibles.
As an artist and film-maker, James Cameron is credited on major Hollywood productions in virtually all roles: writer, director, producer, editor, visual effects, actor, art director, and even crew.
www.astrobio.net /news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=660   (1718 words)

  
 America’s Black Holocaust Museum
Cameron sat in a cell in the Grant County Jail, a lynch mob numbering into the thousands formed outside.
Their reason for why the crowd did not lynch James: "You were lucky that night." Though James never admitted any guilt in the assault (he admits that he was there), he served 4 years in prison.
After he was paroled, James Cameron moved to Milwaukee.
www.exodusnews.com /HISTORY/History008.htm   (1010 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | James Cameron: Blockbuster 'king'
In the years that followed, Cameron disappeared from sight almost as completely as the famous ocean liner, although his output in that time included two underwater documentaries and the TV series Dark Angel.
It was a long way from the beginnings of Cameron's career as a crew member for B-movie mogul Roger Corman, and his first directing job on Piranha II: The Spawning (1981).
It was a major hit in cinemas, and from that point Cameron appeared to have the freedom to pursue the projects of his choice.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/6401799.stm   (699 words)

  
 James Cameron
James Cameron was born in London in 1911.
Cameron also wrote a piece about the way that the South Koreans were treating their political prisoners.
During their time in Korea Hardy and Cameron made three picture stories, the most dramatic of these being the record of General MacArthur's landing at Inchon, the port of Seoul.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JcameronJ.htm   (871 words)

  
 NPR : Director James Cameron's Deep Obsessions
James Cameron on the set, balancing camerawork with diving.
Talk of the Nation, November 18, 2004 ·; James Cameron has directed some of the biggest hits to come out of Hollywood in the past 20 years, from the Terminator series to The Titanic.
Cameron's latest project is Aliens of the Deep, a documentary about creaturs living at the bottom of the ocean.
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 James Cameron on Battle Angel! - ComingSoon.net
Titanic director James Cameron, whose new IMAX film Aliens of the Deep opens January 28, talked to ComingSoon.net about his next project, the big screen adapation of Yukito Kishiro's anime comic Battle Angel Alita.
Cameron: It's a bit of a mélange of the first three books, which means that it pulls forward the motorball story into the Ido, Alita, Hugo story, if you will.
Cameron: 26th century, the story takes place 300 years after a societal collapse caused by a major war, but in that society, it's a technological dark age following a pinnacle of achievement far, far beyond where we are right now.
www.comingsoon.net /news/topnews.php?id=7877   (698 words)

  
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December 14, 2004 - To say that James Cameron is an avid fan of 3-D technology might be an understatement.
In fact, Cameron is perhaps the one director who is helping to spearhead revolutions in the field.
Certainly almost any Cameron movie would be a good addition to the home library.
www.lycos.com /info/cameron--james-cameron.html   (285 words)

  
 Holy Crap! Quint interviews James Cameron!!! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
JAMES CAMERON: I think the time is right, right now, for me to go back to narrative filmmaking, which is what I'm doing.
JAMES CAMERON: When they make up their own rules.
JAMES CAMERON: (laughs) Well, the other thing I've learned is that when you deal with a studio and it's their asset...
www.aintitcool.com /display.cgi?id=22405   (3390 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: Muse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Cameron's conclusion echoes the gospel according to Dan Brown, author of ``The Da Vinci Code.'' As it happens, a companion book co-authored by Jacobovici (forward by Cameron) has just been published.
He directed a 2003 documentary on an ossuary said to belong to James, believed by some to be the brother of Jesus.
According to this program, the James ossuary was originally in the Jesus tomb and its presence helps seal the case.
quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a4wf0c9FQezI   (600 words)

  
 MTV Movie News | 'Titanic' Mastermind James Cameron's King-Size Comeback: Two Sci-Fi Trilogies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Now, after a decade of unrealistic expectations, false starts and geek-fueled rumors, James Cameron is finally ready to reclaim his crown.
With that in mind, Cameron is finally pulling back the curtain on two would-be trilogies that might define sci-fi filmmaking for the next decade and beyond.
The tech-minded Cameron added that although he watched with great interest as "Sin City" filmmaker Robert Rodriguez reinvented the graphic-novel movie with his green-screen breakthroughs, "Angel" won't be such a slave to the colored page.
www.mtv.com /movies/news/articles/1535402/story.jhtml   (884 words)

  
 James Cameron - Northern Stars
James Francis Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, but grew up in Chippawa, a small town just outside of Niagara Falls, Ontario.
His father Phillip Cameron, was an electrical engineer and his mother, Shirley Cameron was an artist.
James went to California State University at Fullerton to study physics.
www.northernstars.ca /directorsal/cameronjames.html   (285 words)

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