Saturday Items
Items:
- Currently watching The Complete History of America, Abridged from the tremendously erudite and clever Reduced Shakespeare Company. We saw them once doing their Great Books show. Recommended!
- Here's a bunch of recordings of Mercury Theater of the Air, best known for the Orson Welles-produced broadcast of The War of the Worlds.
- Here's a cool blog, Fan Cinema Today, all about fan films. I watched a movie the other night called The Sci-Fi Boys about how people like Willis O'Brien, Ray Harryhausen, and Forrest J Ackerman inspired a bunch of kids in the 1950s and 60s to go into the movie business. It included clips from these awesome homemade Super-8 monster movies they (the special-effects-pros-to-be) made when they were teenagers.
- Article on crowdsourcing research on image tagging via video games. For instance, The ESP Game.
Labels: Documentaries, Games, Internet, Radio, Reduced Shakespeare Company, Science Fiction
posted by KaneCitizen at 7:34 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for spreading the word about Fan Cinema Today. I haven't seen the Sci-Fi Boys yet, but recently covered the "I Was A Teenage Movie Maker" DVD which features a few of those guys, and will be covering the "Monster Kid Home Movies" DVD--which also has lots of those Super 8-type flicks--soon, so keep an eye out for them. Thanks again!
Ooooh! Can I borrow the History of America?
Love them!
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