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  MCA DiscoVision - The Hindenburg
The film transfer to video for The Hindenburg was handled with MCA's usual standard of high quality on both audio and video.
This film was slated to be released much earlier in the life of DiscoVision, but for some reason, the title was withheld.
The fate awaiting The Hindenburg at the film's end very much parallels a collectors fate with a DiscoVision copy as well: Crash and burn.
www.blamld.com /DiscoVision/Universal_Pictures/11-002.htm   (387 words)

  
 Head of State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Queen Elizabeth II, is the Head of State of 16 countries including: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Jamaica, New Zealand and the Bahamas, as well as crown colonies and overseas territories of the United Kingdom.
By 1932, power had shifted to such an extent that the German President, Paul von Hindenburg, was able to dismiss a chancellor and select his own person for the job even though the outgoing chancellor possessed the confidence of the Reichstag while the new chancellor did not.
In parliamentary systems the Head of State may be merely the nominal chief executive officer of the state, possessing theoretical executive power (hence the description of the United Kingdom monarch's government as Her Majesty's Government, a term indicating that the government acts on her behalf and not parliament's).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Head_of_state   (7430 words)

  
 Disaster Movies
While The Hindenburg fictionalized the tragedy, it remained scrupulously faithful to detail, from the murals on the walls to the portrayal of the vessel's demise.
The release of Wolfgang Peterson's epidemic film coincided with the country's obsession with the Ebola virus described in Richard Preston's bestselling The Hot Zone.
As in most technology-driven films, plot and dialogue are secondary to effects, but who cares when cows fly and a tanker truck falls from the sky.
www.infoplease.com /spot/disaster1.html   (1166 words)

  
 Disaster Films
The best disaster films comment upon the negative effects of advancing technology, demonstrate the 'hubris' of scientists and other individuals, deliver uplifting moral lessons of sacrifice, and provide a 'how-to' in terms of survival skills.
Most disaster films have large-scale special effects (especially in the recent past's mega-budget spectaculars), huge casts of stars faced with the crisis, a persevering hero or heroine (i.e., Charlton Heston, Steve McQueen, etc.) called upon to lead the struggle against the threat, and many plot-lines affecting multiple characters.
Big-budget disaster films provided all-star casts and interlocking, Grand Hotel- or "Ship of Fools" type stories, with suspenseful action, races against time, and impending crises in locales such as aboard imperiled airliners, trains, dirigibles, crowded stadiums, sinking or wrecked ocean-liners, or in towering burning skyscrapers or earthquake zones.
www.filmsite.org /disasterfilms.html   (1340 words)

  
 The Hindenburg - Film   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A disaster which has been deeply engraved in the history our century: On 6th of May 1937, the "Hindenburg", the biggest airship of the world, should moor in the American Lakehurst after an Atlantic flight.
However, suddenly a tongue of flame hits the deluxe liner.
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www.movie-2-dvd.org /film/the-hindenburg.html   (157 words)

  
 AFI: Robert Wise - The Hindenburg
THE HINDENBURG, which depicted the 1937 ill-fated trip of the German blimp, was a great achievement of Wise's technical mastery.
Throughout the rather uneventful voyage Scott probes and pries but has no answers until the Hindenburg is about to dock, finding a bomb at the last minute planted by a crew member who is anti-Nazi and wishes to discredit Hitler's regime.
Passengers and crew jump for their lives or ride the flaming wreckage to earth to either perish or survive.
www.afi.com /wise/films/hindenburg/hinden.html   (412 words)

  
 National Film Registry: 1989-2007
52) THE BUFFALO CREEK FLOOD: AN ACT OF MAN (1975)
215) KING: A FILMED RECORD...MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS (1970)
305) ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)
www.loc.gov /film/titles.html   (331 words)

  
 George C. Scott   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Scott proved a riveting screen presence with roles as the hard-boiled manager in THE HUSTLER (1961) and, in a wildly comic turn, the mad general in DR. STRANGELOVE (1964).
Scott directed two films (RAGE, 1972, and THE SAVAGE IS LOOSE, 1974 - also producer) in the early 1970s and continued to appear in features and, primarily, on TV.
His last film was Sidney Lumet's remake of John Cassavetes' GLORIA (1999).
www.theoscarsite.com /whoswho4/scott_g.htm   (149 words)

  
 Fang's Media History Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: )
1937: A recording, the Hindenburg crash, is broadcast coast to coast.
1975: The microcomputer, in kit form, reaches the U.S. home market.
1975: Sony's Betamax and JVC's VHS battle for public acceptance.
www.mediahistory.umn.edu /time/alltime.html   (4354 words)

  
 BWA Heritage and Identity Commission - BWA History
Conditions in Germany caused it to be delayed a year, until August 4-10, 1934.
German President Hindenburg died the day before the congress opened, and three days later, Adolf Hitler declared himself Fuehrer.
Amid this crisis, Baptists from every part of the world gave their witness to a free church in a free state.
www.bwa-baptist-heritage.org /hc-bwa1.htm   (2545 words)

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