English : The Wilhelm scream is a commonly employed sound effect featured in over 200 films, with its origins dating back to 1951 in the movie Distant Drums. It is frequently inserted during scenes depicting gunshots, falling, or explosions.
English : In August 2023, New Zealand Police's Operation Pakari in Southland resulted in the arrest of over 20 individuals for violent offenses, following a series of previous incidents across the region.
English : Country Lads is a 1941 New Zealand short film. It went on to screen in New Zealand cinemas as the first production released by the newly born National Film Unit. It features footage of troops parading through central Wellington and their departure for Europe and North Africa during World War II. Adolf Hitler had called the Kiwi soldiers "poor deluded country lads"; but here the description is turned into a compliment.
English : Winter mountaineering in France, near Grenoble. Gully Paul Arthaud (or Gully Zia) then we wanted to continue with the crossing of the N-S ridges of the Oreille du Loup. We learned good lessons from this first experience which, despite the conditions, was carried out without major risks. It was a very good course to start winter mountaineering because it did not require a high technical level and there were multiple escape routes (so low commitment).
English : In 2014, villagers in Cambodia's Prey Lang forest say illegal logging has been on the rise in their area, but they are powerless to prevent the deforestation that threatens their way of life.
English : São Paulo, A Sinfonia da Metrópole is a 1929 Brazilian documentary film by Rodolfo Lustig and Adalberto Kemeny, inspired by Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Die Sinfonie Der Großstadt.
English : Roping up on a glacier is one of the basic techniques for progressing in mountaineering. There are several techniques and several knots to know.
The Écrins guides present to us today everything you need to know about rope-up on a glacier for 2, 3 or more people. We are going to talk about knots, torso rings, mobile or fixed gallows and the adaptation of the rope to the terrain.
English : Ten prizes were awarded at the 1996 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. The winners have all done something that first makes people LAUGH and then makes them THINK.
English : Until the Space X's Crew Dragon entered service, crews serving on the International Space Station started and ended their journeys in Kazakhstan. When it’s time to come home, they strap in for a parachute landing in the middle of the spare and remote steppe of the central Asian country.
To bring their crew members home, a small NASA team makes the trip from Houston to Kazakhstan. NASA’s Dan Huot filmed one such trip in June 2016 when NASA’s Tim Kopra landed with British astronaut Tim Peake and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.
English : House on Haunted Hill is a 1959 American supernatural horror film produced and directed by William Castle, written by Robb White and starring Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig and Elisha Cook Jr. Price plays an eccentric millionaire, Frederick Loren, who, along with his wife Annabelle, has invited five people to the house for a “haunted house” party. Whoever stays in the house for one night will earn $10,000. As the night progresses, the guests are trapped within the house with an assortment of terrors. This film is perhaps best known for its promotional gimmick Emergo. April 24th is the birthday of William Castle.
English : We live in a Universe of unimaginable scale and almost incomprehensible beauty. How is the light from the Universe transformed into the images that have inspired generations by making the Universe come to life?
English : God's Little Acre is a 1958 American comedy-drama film of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel of the same name. Directed by Anthony Mann, starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray, the film was as controversial as the novel, although unlike its source material it was not subjected to prosecution for obscenity. Philip Yordan was officially given credit for the screenplay, but Ben Maddow claimed he wrote it. Since Maddow was blacklisted for his radical, and suspected but unproven, communist activities during the 1950s Red Scare, working without credit was the only way he could successfully submit screenplays. After decades of neglect, the film was restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive under the supervision of master restorer Robert Gitt. As part of Gitt's restoration, Yordan's name was removed and replaced by Maddow's in the main titles, although it does not appear on most current releases. April 29th is Anthony Mann's death anniversary.
English : After a short introduction by Eric Platt, unidentified musicians play a violin and piano duet to demonstrate the Welsh Sound Recording System in 1930. Eric Platt then introduces the system again, while curious children come to watch.
