the little matchgirl is a 2006 animated short film produced by walt disney animation studios , walt disney feature animation orlando , florida , walt disney feature animation paris , france and released by walt disney pictures , directed by roger allers and produced by don hahn .

it is based on an original story by hans christian andersen entitled the little girl with the matches or the little match girl , published in 1846 .

the little matchgirl ( 2006 film )

disney resists giving a disney version ending to the little matchgirl . © disney .
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the little matchgirl
revolves around a tiny urchin who spends her days attempting to sell matches in the snowy streets . huddling for warmth , the film follows as the little girl lights her wares to keep warm and dreams of a better life .
roger allers was born in new york . he made his feature film debut with ‘the lion king’ ( co - director , 1994 ) following two decades working on disney classics including ‘beauty and the beast’ ( 1991 ) and ‘the lion king’ ( 1994 ) . he was nominated for an oscar for the short film ‘the little matchgirl’ ( 2006 ) .
roger allers is the director of “the little matchgirl , ” and don hahn , the producer . the film was made by the walt disney animation studios and the riiff screening on tuesday . august 8 , marked its east coast premiere :
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okay , good luck with the review ! i ' m looking forward to it ! i ' m doing an review on frozen fever since you did the little matchgirl .
gtm : the film appears to be set in russia . why the choice of the location ?
roger allers ' short retelling of hans christian anderson ' s
the little matchgirl
is a moving and melancholy piece of work . a drama that allows a little girl to imagine fantasies of warmth and happiness , the film is a downcast yet hopeful animated dirge whose form effective communicates its protagonist ' s plight .
together in death : the little match girl and her grandmother reunite in heaven .
i praise disney for keeping the original ending to this story .
the little matchgirl
is one , if not the best , animated short i ' ve ever seen , it really moves me .
the little matchgirl ( 2006 ) , 6 : 37 , by roger allers ( u . s . a . ) . contact ; emily hoppe , marketing and communication , walt disney feature animation [ t ] 818 . 460 . 8936 , [ f ] 818 . 460 . 9202 [ e ] emily . hoppe @ urltoken
in the hbo storybook musicals version the little girl does not die and it ends happily ever after .
don hahn : matchgirl was made by many talented artists that were between projects so the tempo of production was slow and steady .
died happily ever after : the little match girl , after having finally reunited with her grandmother in the afterlife .
the little matchgirl
is a rarity among andersen ' s tales , as he was not known for writing stories with social commentary in mind . andersen wrote
the little matchgirl
in response to the plights of poor children everywhere , forced to work or beg in order to help support their family . ron barbagallo of the animation art conservation notes that the story was published nine years after dickens ' oliver twist . since andersen and dickens were colleagues and good friends , it is probable that andersen was influenced to write
the little matchgirl
due to oliver twist . other inspirations for andersen ' s tale also includes an illustration by johan thomas lundbye , and a grimm fairy tale ,
the star money .
a professor in the film department at a provincial university goes to seoul to meet his senior , who works as a film critic , and stays in a northern seoul village for three days .
every film that has ever been nominated for an academy award in any category . enjoy !
a film about senior citizens learning about computers from teenage mentors and the connections made both on and offline .
disney ' s version of
the little matchgirl
uses pantomime and music , since it was intended for a third fantasia film that never came to be . the filmmakers wanted to adapt
the little matchgirl ,
and had to then select the proper music . ultimately , they chose
nocturne from string quartet no . 2 in d major
by alexander borodin . in addition to selecting music by the russian composer , they also set the film in pre - revolutionary russia . director roger allers explained that decision by pointing out that the actual andersen tale never fully specifies its location - though many would assume denmark . in addition , allers loved russian architecture , and felt that its time period would better convey the differences between the haves and have - nots .
if you have the quicktime plug - in , you can view a clip from each film by simply clicking the image .
i used to cry so much everytime i read this story when i was a little girl .
she lights another match , and sees horse - drawn sleigh approach her . she climbs in , with a warm blanket ready to wrap around her , as the horses ride away , taking her into the woods to grandmother ' s house . she goes to hug her grandmother , but the light extinguishes once again . in a desperate attempt to see her grandmother , the little matchgirl lights all her remaining matches . this brings her back to the house and grandmother , where she ' s led into a room bearing a christmas tree . as the little girl lights candles on the tree , they fade into snowflakes . we return to the alleyway . the little girl lies still in the snow , but now her grandmother returns to take her home . as the grandmother carries her into the light , the little matchgirl ' s body remains .
gtm : the music by borodin flows effortlessly throughout the film ; which provides emotional peaks at all the right moments . how was this done ?
taylor jessen reviews five short films - - the little matchgirl by roger allers , a gentlemans duel by francisco ruiz and sean mcnally , maestro by ga th , childs trip by kei takahashi and tartes aux pommes by isabelle favez . includes quicktime movie clips !
( september 2006 ) i am writing this in the middle of the 10th anniversary of the rhode island international film festival . the crowds have been steady and over 200 filmmakers have registered for the films screening during the week . advance statistics indicate a minimum of four sell - outs . this year , counting some last minute additions , riiff will have screened 303 titles .
this film is not currently playing on mubi but 30 other great films are . see what’s now showing
film - maker werner herzog travels to the mcmurdo station in antarctica , looking to capture the continent ' s beauty and investigate the characters living there .
note : photo of patricia clarkson and lawrence andrade taken at the williamstown film festiva l , closing gala . riiff photo .
ds : watching lorenzo again , for example , i remembered just how much i absolutely fell in love with that film when it came out . the watercolor style – it’s truly beautiful . tick tock tale , the little match girl , all the films in the collection are strong .
light is good : the light of the little girl ' s matches bring her warmth and comfort and visions of happiness . the light of the stars reminds her of heaven .
don hahn : we don’t think of a brand or a criteria when we make a film . but films with great story , great character and heart have always been associated with disney since the days of snow white . matchgirl is no different in its sincereity and depth of character .
go out with a smile : the little match girl dies with a smile because she sees her grandmother while wasting all her matches .
disney says the original plot of
the snow queen
was
too dark
to adapt as - is to film . makes this . o _ o
gtm : what does it mean to direct an animated film ? the actors are really only characters that are created by the artists . how does one “direct” animation ?
spared by the adaptation : some versions ( mostly modern ones ) change the ending to a family rescuing the little girl before she could die and giving her food and a warm bed .
the full english translation can be found here . additionally , there was a french silent film that can be found here . the adaptation differs from the original , though . it has also been adapted as an audiobook with slideshow here . it ' s been set to music in the piece
the little match girl passion
by american composer david lang , which won the 2008 pulitzer prize .
set in russia , the little matchgirl tells the story of an unnamed girl as she tries to make it through a harsh russian winter , with match’s with her only way to make money . she later uses all of her match’s to make her happy . at the end , a woman ( assumed to be her dead grandmother ) , appears and takes her spirit to the afterlife . her frozen body remains in the snow pile .
of all of disney ' s recent short films , the little matchgirl is the one where i genuinely wished it was a full - length feature film . not that this isn ' t visually ambitious and quite moving already , but i think it would have been something truly special had it taken its time with the protagonist and her struggles to keep her spirit and herself alive . the bulk of the character development is through the memories she witnesses when she lights the matches , and while it ' s efficient , those moments were never long enough to make me completely invested in the journey . and in doing so , the heavy sentimentality feels somewhat unearned , because on a few occasions , it felt like the filmmakers were saying to the…
about the author : george t . marshall is the producing director of the rhode island - based flickers arts collaborative , the creators of the annual rhode island international film festival for which he also serves as executive director . he teaches film and communications at rhode island college and speech communications and documentary film at roger williams university . he is a director , writer , producer of commercials and industrials for numerous business clients in the region and will be presenting his current research paper “teaching and the blogosphere” at the annual conference of the association for education in journalism and mass communication ( aejmc ) in august . he can be reached at flicksart @ urltoken
roger allers : for me , the virtue of traditional animation is the intimacy , the directness of the animator ' s gesture , his line , his touch . in the little match girl , everything but the snowflakes was hand drawn . and even the large snowflakes at the beginning were hand painted and the designs transferred to the 3 - d planes which turned and fell .
tartes aux pommes ( 2006 ) , 9 : 28 , directed by isabelle favez ( switzerland ) . contact : swiss effects , thurgauerstrasse 40 , 8050 zürich , switzerland [ t ] + 41 . 44 . 307 . 10 . 10 [ e ] info @ urltoken
a visual style piece set to music and told entirely through mime . the entire film is set to the third movement , “nocturne from string quartet no . 2 in d major” by alexander borodin .
for a very similar story with a little boy , see fyodor dostoevsky ' s a child at christ ' s christmas party , written thirty years later .
gtm : computer generated imagery is becoming so ubiquitous . what are the virtues of hand cell animation over computer work ? what was hand drawn and what was computer generated in “the little match girl ? ”
don hahn : each is different . many artists in los angeles and paris touched this film over the 4 years it was made depending upon their area of expertise and their availability .
disney shorts have played a huge part in the creative resurgence of the studio over the last decade – you only have to witness the palpable audience anticipation when a whistling “steamboat willie” mickey mouse hits the screen at an animation festival to understand how the mere logo fronting a disney short film means something special is on the way .
that was intended for a third fantasia film . it is set to alexander borodin ' s
nocturne from string quartet no . 2 in d major
.
don hahn : the story is very moving but the essence is a story of hope . we found it especially moving because this is a situation that really happened a hundred years ago and is really happening today in 2006 . i hope the audience will see that . i think there is also power in telling a story like this without spoken words . the images can and do carry all the emotion needed .
in a pre - revolutionary russia , a poor little matchgirl approaches various people throughout the town , hoping to sell some matches . she joyfully swings off a lamppost , hoping her energetic state will convince a prospective buyer . unfortunately , no one stops to buy any matches . night begins to fall , and the matchgirl knows she has to return home . on the way home , she stops in an alleyway . freezing , she lights one match . she imagines it turning into a furnace , warming her up immediately . however , the match goes out . she lights another , now seeing a holiday feast spread before her . as she grabs a turkey leg , the light goes out once more . some snow falls into her match box , and she pulls the matches out before they get sogged .
one of the saddest and most downbeat disney shorts that the company has ever done even leaving the h . c . andersen sad ending intact and showing the dark side of how poverty affect those most tiny and vulnerable of us . add the gloomy classical music and big sad eyes of the heroine and the film leaves everlasting images into my brain .
don hahn : the music by borodin flows effortlessly throughout the film ; which provides emotional peaks at all the right moments . how was this done ? much labor and careful work by roger and his editor jessica ambinder rojas to create this gentle timing .
a self - obsessed young man makes his way to the party - to - end - all - parties on the last day on earth , but ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father . their relationship ultimately leads him on the path to redemption .
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with dean and tick tock tale , i mentioned he boarded that himself . well , pretty much everybody that worked on that film was a trainee . everybody that worked on that film . from animators , to lighters , to effects . we got it done in about ten months . and it was really great for the trainees . they got to actually work on something that got produced .
gtm : when i tell people about “the little match girl” their first impulse is to think of the hans christian anderson story , which essentially is a downer . while remaining true to the original , there is something lyrical and poignant about your take on the story . how was this determined ?
heaven : when the little girl dies , the spirit of her grandmother carries her soul to heaven :
they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth , where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain , for they were with god .
i recently had the opportunity to speak with dorothy mckim , producer on get a horse ! , the ballad of nessie , tick tock tale and prep & landing : operation secret santa , who shared her thoughts on the dvd’s film selections as well as the importance of the studio’s continued support for their shorts production program .
mohammed saeed harib is a well - known emirati and chairman of lammtara . he created the highly popular animated tv series “freej” . the first season aired in 2006 and received rave reviews from viewers and critics alike with mohammed and “freej” becoming cultural icons recognized across the region . mohammed studied general arts and animation at northeastern university in boston . after establishing lammtara in 2005 , he announced his first animation project “freej” .
the little match girl ( originally titled : den lille pige med svovlstikkerne meaning the little girl with the matchsticks ) is hans christian andersen ' s short story about a dying child ' s hallucinations on new year ' s eve . first published in 1845 , it has been adapted into different media such as a disney short and a made - for - tv movie . while technically a new years ' eve story , it works at any time during the winter , especially christmas eve .
hicken little
ickey mouse clubhouse
ox and the hound
eauty & the beast
he hunchback of notre dame
what the hell happened ! ? how could you make the same typo 5 times ! ? also , i heard that many critics preferred brother bear ' s sequel to the original .
dm : it does…it really does . and anybody can pitch . it doesn ' t matter who you are . anybody can pitch . that ' s what ' s so great about it . and even if john [ lasseter ] doesn ' t pick your pitch , there are a lot of times that he will say ,
you know , i really like this idea , i ' d like to see you take that a little bit further . go for it , go do a little more research . ” even though they are working on a film , they can take time…we do a film coop program , where if you ' ve got an idea , you can use people here , at the studio , and work on that idea . and these shorts , they’ve got the full support of the studio . i think that ' s really great .
a gentlemans duel ( 2006 ) , 7 : 45 , directed by francisco ruiz ( mexico ) and sean mcnally ( u . s . a . ) . contact : jennifer miller , blur studio [ t ] 310 . 581 . 8848 [ f ] 310 . 581 . 8850 [ e ] jennifer @ urltoken , [ w ] www . urltoken
george t . marshall is the producing director of the rhode island - based flickers arts collaborative , the creators of the annual rhode island international film festival for which he also serves as executive director . he teaches documentary film and speech communications at roger williams university . he is a director , writer , producer of commercials and industrials for numerous business clients in the region . currently he is writing a chapter on teaching digital documentary filmmaking for a new college text book entitled : “teaching with multimedia : pedagogy in the blogo / websphere . ” he can be reached at flicksart @ urltoken
when the hunter returns with another days catch to give to the butcher , he and the butcher once again do their business indoors while the dog inhales the apple pie , this time with the cats bell inside . out comes the hunter with a sausage for the dog , who eats it , yelps , barks - - and chimes . the baker , hunter and butcher all stare at the dog wondering where the little bell sound is coming from . when they figure it out , the butcher is terrified . he mutters about how the dog has obviously eaten the cat , and imagines a scenario where this untamable beast eventually chases down the villagers one by one , forcing the whole town to flee and board up the windows - - the economy ruined and the dog roaring its domination to the heavens .
today marks the blu - ray dvd release of a brand new walt disney animation studios short film collection . some you’ve seen in theatres screened before studio features . others you may have never even heard about . all worth checking out .
in discworld ( along with a take that ) , where death , standing in for the hogfather ( discworld ' s equivalent to santa claus ) finds the little match girl lying in an alley surrounded by her burnt - out matches . his assistant albert explains that dying is sort of her purpose , and makes people feel better about their own poor situations . death is very cross at the fact that a child is freezing to death in the streets even at hogswatch and revives the little girl , even though it ' s against the rules , and hands her over to the city watch to keep her warm and fed . death is not allowed to bring back the dead , but the hogfather can .
too good for this sinful earth : the pure - hearted and innocent little match girl dies and is sent to heaven . to quote from that page ,
the narrative does not so much carry this trope as flamboyantly juggle it while singing the complete score to handel ' s messiah .
part of the reason most versions of the story are called
tragedy porn
.
dm : it ' s a great group of films . and with the dvd bonus features , the audience can go in and see things about the films that they wouldn ' t see at a screening . we do a lot of interviews and we talk about the process . we talk about little things that happened while we were making the films that nobody would ever know .
gtm : new england is rather lucky to have such a large number of schools specializing in film studies ; along with young artists learning animation . why would a graduate from risd or the mass college of art want to work with disney feature animation ?
soon the woman comes out of her shop and sees the empty plate . again she waves to the butcher . the butcher , preoccupied with the rabbit hes putting in the grinder , only shrugs . the cat is wandering the street and the woman gets an idea , grabbing the cat and throwing it into her mouse - infested kitchen . but the cat merely tears around the room , not catching a single mouse and getting its collar stuck on the sink tap , and the woman kicks it out into the street again . the sun sets .
the story of the battle of iwo jima between the united states and imperial japan during world war ii , as told from the perspective of the japanese who fought it .
in the years where disney basically said :
fuck it ! animation doesn ' t need to have any meaning or be taken seriously , we just want more money !
, this short is a massive surprise in a 1 / 2 decade loaded with crap from them , considering a year before this , they released chicken little . and the same year as this came mickey mouse clubhouse , which totally ruined mickey ' s reputation until 2010 , as well as brother bear 2 and the fox and the hound 2 , both regarded as two of the worst disney cheapquels . this was the second of hans christian anderson ' s works to be adapted by them for theatres , with the first obviously being the little mermaid in 1989 .
don hahn : disney is a director driven studio that supports the vision of individual film makers . now under the creative leadership of john lasseter , we have a chance to reach out in many directions creatively and emotionally with our work and it makes disney a very exciting place to be these days .
and lastly this is a story for children . we were so happy to recently receive the children’s award from the zagreb animation festival voted on by the children in the audience . we thought they would go for something funny or wacky , but to have them respond to the art and story of roger’s film was really wonderful recognition that children are emotionally so open to stories that are real and compelling regardless of theme .
as the hunter and his dog hike out of town to hunt in the woods , the baker crosses the street to the butchers store and lays a freshly - baked apple pie beside the door . then she returns to her side of the street , pushing a broom around until she sees the butcher come to the window of his shop . she waves . he waves back . some customers come into the bakery and distract her , as the hunter and his dog return from the woods with a rabbit . the hunter goes inside the shop , leaving the dog outside , and the dog bolts down the tasty apple pie in short order . the hunter comes out of the butchers with a sausage for the dog , who gulps it down and barks at the butcher . they leave .
filmmakers have come in from as far away as australia and germany . the lifetime achievement award went to legendary actress , cicely tyson and riiff had the world premiere of her most recent film , “fat rose & squeaky . ” local filmmaker , michael corrente was honored with an annual creative vision award while a retrospective of his work took place at the local showcase cinema .
roger allers : you could ask 50 people that question and perhaps get as many answers . for me personally , a disney film is one that remembers all the age groups in the audience , neither trying to
talk down to
some , or
pander to the lowest common demoninator
, but respecting their intelligence , and seeking to delight and touch them .
your daily dose of bad : from the people who brought you the sissy .
the room , and the short , is populated by two characters - - the first and by far the busiest being a simple mechanical clamp on an accordion - style grabber attached to the wall . we first see it mixing a drink from two bottles of liqueur on a trolley , and it pours a snifter of each in a mixer and shakes well before delivering it in a tall glass with a straw to the shorts second character . the maestro is sitting in front of the mirror , a bit jittery but otherwise passive and wooden - - literally , as hes a stout little bird carved from lumber .
on the outskirts of whoville , there lives a green , revenge - seeking grinch who plans on ruining the christmas holiday for all of the citizens of the town .
the maestro has two ties to choose from , red and cerulean , and he goes with the blue one . slurping up the last of as his drink as quickly as possible before the grabber takes it away , the bird is spun in his chair prior to the grabber looping the tie around his neck . then it grabs him firmly by the back of the tie , lifts him off the chair and shoots him out the door for his evenings performance .
the butcher grabs the hunters gun and is about to shoot the dog when the hunter intervenes , taking the dog under his arm and going out into the woods to do the deed himself . meanwhile as it gets dark the butcher is cleaning up his shop when , to his horror , he sees the cat wandering outside , very much alive . the thought of the hunter killing his faithful companion fills him with remorse - - so he finds an empty sack , gets a sausage and tries to lure the poor kitty into the darkened shop .
on a cold new year ' s eve , a little girl freezes barefoot outside . she ' s sold none of her matches and is consequently afraid to return home , expecting a beating from her father . she looks into the window of the house she sits in front of , and imagines how nice it would be to celebrate with a family . then huddling in a corner , she begins to strike her matches one by one , at first to derive a little warmth , and then to keep seeing the beautiful images of warm fires , roast goose and christmas trees their light shows . she looks up and sees a shooting star , and recalls that her grandmother once told her that whenever a star streaks across the sky like that , a person goes to heaven . with the strike of another match , she sees her beloved grandmother , and lights all of her matches at once to keep her there . the next morning , new year ' s day , passing people find her frozen body huddled against the building and surrounded by dead matches , smiling . they are filled with pity , but it doesn ' t matter because the little match girl is now happy in heaven .
the next day the sequence repeats ; cat wakes butcher , butcher is grouchy , baker wakes , starts morning apple pie routine . the dog is chasing the cat this morning , and he trees it . out comes the baker to shake the apple tree , which now has a cat in it . the cats collar is stuck on a branch , and all the shaking breaks the collar as cat and bell come down into the bakers apron . cat jumps out and goes on its merry way ; bell stays with the apples and eventually goes straight into the apple pie that the woman places on the ground next to the butchers door .
the girl is overjoyed , but again the match goes out . angry and desperate in the cold alley , she lights all the remaining matches at once . the dream image returns : she falls into the loving arms of grandma , who takes her into the room with the christmas tree aglow , presents underneath , the candles on the tree glowing warmly to match her happiness . the next morning , back in the alley , the girl is slumped in the snow . from the shadows grandma approaches and wakes her ; she glows with relief and happiness ; and grandma carries her away on her shoulder - - leaving her tiny dead body behind in the snow as both of them vanish through the stone alley wall and disappear .
remy and emile plead the case for rats by illustrating the historical and scientific facts about the species and their interaction with humans .
roger allers : the structure of a short film allows one to experiment with techniques and telling stories that are more suited to a short story format . the
constraint
of a short format actually allows a kind of freedom that feature films cannot . what will happen with them ? they may become part of dvds of features but i hope they will find their way to the large screen . of course that ' s the most satisfying stage for a filmmaker .
within the world of animation , most experimentation occurs within short format productions , whether they are high - budgeted commercials , low - budgeted independent shorts or something in between . the growing number of short film festivals around the world attest to the vitality of these works , but there are few other venues for exhibition of them or even written reviews . as a result , distribution tends to be difficult and irregular . on a regular basis , animation world magazine will highlight some of the most interesting with short , descriptive overviews .
odessa is a beautiful girl addicted to the attention and money as an adult film star . william , a lonely mechanic , has a crush on her , and she indulges his fantasy and leads him on . thinking he can help her find a normal life , he befriends her drug fueled bodyguard , angry jack , to get close to her .
disney ' s retelling of the legend of john henry , the steel - driving man .
the only disney cartoon based on andersen ' s works that led to the tragic ending .
the animation in this is beautiful and therefore one of the best things that disney has ever done since snow white and the seven dwarfs .
as the game winds down , the giant baby slams the checkerboard shut over and over until only the baby homunculus is left , a tiny green twin , which the giant baby gazes down at blankly . suddenly two huge arms enter the room from the mouth of the giant face in the wall . instead of fleshy hues , the arms are the color of the universe outside , covered in stars and nebulae . they grab the baby from under the cupola and pull it out of the turtle . its huge now , and trailing an umbilical cord , which stretches , stretches , stretches until it breaks - - and then theres nothing but a yellow sea , which fades through to actuality footage of a busy japanese intersection of the present day .
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roger allers : besides the obvious ethnic source of borodin ' s music , the setting of czarist russia provided the
fantasy
element of fantastic architecture , and the social setting of the extremes of wealth and poverty to be the foil for the girl ' s plight . and nothing says
cold
like a russian winter !
roger allers : the initial production took about a year including storyboarding animation , effects , and final color . for three years after completion , michael eisner had us trying different endings ( none of which to my mind were satisfactory ) . this was done while i was directing a film at sony , and so was done
long distance
. at the end of three years , i was able to restore the original ending . we then added the credits , balanced the color and
voila !
- a 6 minute movie finished in five years !
the bottom line : if you liked grave of the fireflies , give this short a look .
one of my favorite disney shorts , and the whole reason i purchased the short films collection .
a battle between the world ' s two greatest minds begins when light yagami finds the death note , a notebook with the power to kill , and decides to rid the world of criminals .
kevin spacey , sam mendes and the bridge project company reveal some of the most intimate moments behind the scenes of their staging of richard iii .
a young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world , led by the world ' s most unusual candy maker .
a further followup of the case of the west memphis three and the decades long fight to exonerate them that finally gained traction with new dna evidence .
the love life of a man as told through the meals he gives his adopted dog , winston .
the hogfather can . the hogfather gives presents . there ' s no better present than a future .
three radical environmentalists look to execute the protest of their lives : the explosion of a hydroelectric dam .
the tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met .
in 90s singapore , the friendship between filipino nursemaid teresa and her young charge jiale makes waves in a family , while the asian recession hits the region .
when hiccup and toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious dragon rider , the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace .
it ' s christmas eve , and a little match girl is out on the cold streets trying to sell matchsticks to the people passing by . she doesn ' t sell a single match , so she begins to use them to try to warm herself in the snowy cold . as she lights each matchstick , a new fantastic image appears in front of her : a warm stove , a table filled with holiday food delights , a sleigh ride to her grandmother ' s house . as the matchsticks lose their flame , each image disappears until we see a slumped match girl cold in the snow , being greeted by her grandmother , who takes her away into the light and up to heaven .
the true story of whitey bulger , the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of south boston , who became an fbi informant to take down a mafia family invading his turf .
in the months after the heady weeks of may ' 68 , a group of young europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning .
abraham lincoln , the 16th president of the united states , discovers vampires are planning to take over the united states . he makes it his mission to eliminate them .
except for the decision to have the story set in russia , i really loved this oscar nominated disney short .
barefoot poverty : in the freezing winter , and just a part of the reason that she froze to death .
adaptation of james jones ' autobiographical 1962 novel , focusing on the conflict at guadalcanal during the second world war .
original : toccata and fugue in d minor • nutcracker suite • the sorcerer ' s apprentice • the rite of spring • the pastoral symphony • dance of the hours • night on bald mountain / ave maria fantasia 2000 : symphony no . 5 • pines of rome • rhapsody in blue • piano concerto no . 2 • the carnival of the animals • pomp and circumstance • the firebird suite
as nell sweetzer tries to build a new life after the events of the first movie , the evil force that once possessed her returns with an even more horrific plan .
don hahn : the actors are really only characters that are created by the artists . how does one “direct” animation ? it’s no different than directing theatre or live action . there is a story to be told and the director has to guide all the aspects of character , costume , set , effects , lighting and staging to the benefit of that story . the technique is different , but the director’s job is still to create a compelling story on the screen .
michael rapaport documents the inner workings and behind the scenes drama that follows this innovative and influential band to this day .
a road movie about a german man who went to the north east of brazil in the 1942 to sell aspirin .
in the ' 40s , three brothers decide to live a great adventure and enlisting in the roncador - xingu expedition , which has a mission to tame the central brazil . the villas boas brothers : . . . see full summary »
a documentary about two different searches conducted in the chilean atacama desert : one by astronomers looking for answers about the history of the cosmos , and one by women looking for the remains of loved ones killed by pinochet ' s regime .
chivalry may be the object , but giant robots are the tools in a gentlemans duel . © blur studio inc .
a sniper on a mercenary assassination team , kills the minister of mines of the congo . terrier ' s successful kill shot forces him into hiding . returning to the congo years later , he becomes the target of a hit squad himself .
the dragon warrior has to clash against the savage tai lung as china ' s fate hangs in the balance : however , the dragon warrior mantle is supposedly mistaken to be bestowed upon an obese panda who is a tyro in martial arts .
week three of the underrated series and we get to the animation category . at least there shouldn ' t be any debate…
the neighboring gardens of montague and capulet are at war , but the gnomes , gnomeo and juliet , are in love .
roger allers : its not really so different from live - action if you think of it this way . take a recent movie - mr and mrs smith - mr john smith was only a character , an idea ( albeit a one - dimensional one ) . the director guided the writer , the actor ( b . pitt ) , the stunt double , the cinematographer , the editing , the dubbing session , etc . , to make him come alive . in animation , the character ' s voice is the performance of one actor and the physical performance is created by the other
actor with a pencil
- the animator . each performance is guided by the director as well as all the other functions : camera moves , editing , etc , that are present in live - action . we animation directors just never get to yell
cut !
refusing to believe her story about cave - dwelling monsters , the sole survivor of a spelunking exploration gone horribly wrong is forced to follow the authorities back into the caves where something awaits .
dracula , who operates a high - end resort away from the human world , goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count ' s teenaged daughter .
taylor jessen is a writer living in burbank , known worldwide as the city by the bay , or the city of lights , or rust never sleeps or lets give uncle harry rugburn .
dm : you know , it does take a lot of time and effort at the beginning . you’ve got five minutes [ the length of the short ] . we can ' t make it seven minutes . that will push us into an 18 month schedule as opposed to a 12 month schedule . it ' s a lot of planning . also , you can’t be “above” any spot on the film . i was a production manager , so i was production - managing . i was producing . i was being a production supervisor . if i had to move boards , i moved boards . if i had to pin boards , i pinned boards . it forces everybody to move a little out of their comfort zone . you know , you have kevin [ deters ] and stevie [ wermers - skelton ] , lauren [ macmullan ] , dean [ wellins ] , all of them boarded their shorts . we had a few boarders that would come in to help , but they [ the directors ] pretty much boarded their entire short themselves . and they directed . there were some shots where dean animated . so did lauren . she animated one of her shots .
in ancient polynesia , when a terrible curse incurred by the demigod maui reaches moana ' s island , she answers the ocean ' s call to seek out the demigod to set things right .
the friendly but forgetful blue tang fish , dory , begins a search for her long - lost parents , and everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way .
ds : in recent years , talking to shorts directors like john kahrs [ paperman ] and patrick osborne [ feast ] among others , the idea that the studio supports and encourages anyone to submit ideas for the shorts program means a lot to the artists .
out of interstellar space two objects come into view - - a gigantic mythological turtle , with a yellow half - dome underneath and another brick half - done on top , and a tiny fighter jet leaving a long contrail behind it . ceremonial gong music plays as the jet snakes around the half - asleep turtle . under the turtles tail is the face of a stone grotesque , its mouth an expanding and contracting hole , and through this asshole of the universe the jet enters into the body of the turtle .
as the maestro sings a few tentative scales , the grabber goes about its work , opening a drawer in the dressing table and pulling out a series of brushes and powder boxes . needing to get down to the serious work of grooming the bird , the grabber politely but firmly shushes the singing bird by clamping its beak tight . then it opens one box of toiletries after another , running a brush through the maestros greasy hair , moving a small green oval grooming brush across his beak , passing another grooming brush over the back of his evening coat and dusting off his top hat .
a gentlemans duel , the new oscar - shortlisted short from the blur studios collective that brought us rockfish , gopher broke and in the rough , combines the sumptuous visual sophistication of nineteenth century landscape painting with the characterization typical of movies on the checklist of a saturday night kegger at the delta chi . out in a peaceful valley among gently rolling hills , it seems , is the country estate of a lovely woman of means . trees line the road to a massive palatial mansion , in front of which the butler has set a table for some light mid - morning refreshment . into this placid scenario enter two suitors , an english twit and a garrulous frenchman .
a series of superb animated short films , created by the brilliant minds at disney animated studios , and narrated by the executive staff .
a story that takes place over millions of years and is inspired by the beauty of tropical islands and the allure of ocean volcanoes .
bob parr ( mr . incredible ) is left to care for the kids while helen ( elastigirl ) is out saving the world .
in fact , one of the walt ' s ways of encouraging such contributions was his
$ 5 a gag
program during development of snow white and the seven dwarfs . anyone in the studio - regardless which department you worked in - could submit proposals for a gag to be used in either the cartoon shorts or a feature film . for every gag used , that person would receive a $ 5 bonus . i can ' t remember which disney biography i read , but one of them recounts how a lot of great gags were submitted by a gardener on the lot . even though he collected many $ 5 bills for his gags , he stayed a gardener . one animator noted that such a decision would seem odd , but this guy was
a really great gardener .
two interwoven stories . the first is a biography of anarchist sakae osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s . the second centers around two 1960s ' students researching osugi ' s theories .
2 turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history - and get turkeys off the thanksgiving menu for good .
the story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment , ending in the sewers of london , where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life .
huh , i never heard they adapted this one as well . i admit though , i think this story really got to me as a kid . the whole time i was expecting a happy ending , but yet in the end the poor girl died . it really shocked me at the time . holy crud , the main character can die ? ! after all the sympathy the story built up for her no less ? ! to an innocent 6 - year - old like me that was just a foreign concept . even now i find
the hero dies
stories to be hard to read / watch . still , i might take a look . i wonder why the setting was changed though ? and the plot point about the abusive father ?


the spanish earth is a 1937 propaganda film made during the spanish civil war in support of the democratically elected republicans , whose forces included a wide range from the political left like communists , socialists , anarchists , to moderates like centrists , and liberalist elements .

the film was directed by joris ivens , written by john dos passos and ernest hemingway , narrated by orson welles and re-recorded by hemingway ( with jean renoir doing the narration in the french release ) , with music composed by marc blitzstein and arranged by virgil thomson .

the spanish earth

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the spanish earth ( 1937 ) : the circumstances of its production , th . . . : ingenta connect
the fictionalized stories about the spanish earth are piling up . another novel about ivens’ documentary on the spanish civil war was published by british author james kellen : ´hemingway´s spanish earth´ . the storyline follows the days of shooting and editing , from 27 february 1937 until 8 july 1937 .
spanish earth issue
of avant - scène du cinema ( paris ) , 1 january 1981 .
the spanish have had reason to identify with the losing side lately . in his
scorched earth : jesús carrasco’s novel describes the struggle for survival on a barren spanish plain . photo : borja alcazar photo / getty
the cinematic modes , the overall structure of parallel syntagmas , and the careful attention to editing and narration work together in the spanish earth to make the war in spain a reality for viewers in america .
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the spanish earth , ' at the 55th st . playhouse , is a plea for democracy - - ' gangway ' at the roxy at the roxy at the teatro hispano at the 86th st . garden theatre - the new york times
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the spanish earth , ' at the 55th st . playhouse , is a plea for democracy - - ' gangway ' at the roxy at the roxy at the teatro hispano at the 86th st . garden theatre .
award winning canadian documentary filmmaker peter davis presented his documentary digging the spanish earth . thanks to his interviews with joris ivens , martha gellhorn , helen van dongen and george seldes , this film is of historical importance itself . peter davis also revisited locations in madrid and fuentedueña de tajo where the spanish earth was shot in spring 1937 .
spanish colonial missions architecture and preservation ( u . s . national park service )
the spanish have had reason to identify with the losing side lately , and two debut novels reflect it .
it is not the first time astronomers have found earth - like planets outside our solar system .
the project was conceived by charity cool earth , and led by the royal commonwealth society in partnership with cool earth and the commonwealth forestry association . it was unveiled at the commonwealth heads of government meeting in 2015 in malta .
the original outline of spanish earth called for an exploration of one spanish village over a span of six or seven years , featuring a peasant family and the struggles of their young son julian in the war ravaged country . this footage was obtained in addition to actual fighting , air bombings , and the political and emotional unrest of the people .
snoek , s . ,
orson welles , ernest hemingway : le voci di spanish earth ,
in cinegrafie ( ancona ) , vol . 5 , no . 8 , 1995 .
the spanish earth was directed by jorisivens with a budget of $ 2 , 000 and , due to the fact it is structured upon two pivotal elements : the struggle of the militants and the farmworkers’ movements , the film is one of the most shocking documents about the civil war . it was narrated by hemingway .
the great reception of the project as well as the results obtained makes it a valuable and reliable tool for improving the orbital parameters of near - earth asteroids .
planet earth can heal herself no matter what terrible things human beings have done to harm her .
ercolano estimated then that there were about one billion earth - like planets in the universe which could have liquid water .
earth ' s seven sisters and its potential inhabitants will still be there when we are long gone .
the spanish earth is one of the major films on the spanish civil war and one of the most important films in joris ivens ' s career . as in many of his other films , ivens finds a balance between the daily lives of people and their struggles to survive . the strong photography , mainly by john ferno , combined with powerful editing by helen van dongen and the commentary written and spoken by ernest hemingway , make the film a masterpiece of documentary filmmaking .
less than a year later , they found enough data to show there are seven earth - like planets .
the two bursts of radiation from the sun were so intense that high - frequency blackouts were experienced on earth , lasting for about an hour .
when directed at earth , such flares create radiation storms that affect satellites and communications systems , even affecting technologies on the ground .
, the writer supplied three sentences :
we gained the right to cultivate our land by democratic elections . now the military cliques and absentee landlords attack to take our land from us again . but we fight for the right to irrigate and cultivate this spanish earth which the nobles kept idle for their own amusement .
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the circular kiva in the middle of the convento , next to the church .
i examine the political significance of the classic documentary the spanish earth in the context of the spanish civil war , 1936 - 1939 , challenging russell campbell’s argument that it should be considered in the light of ‘an overriding need for unity in the face of the enemy’ . i argue instead that the film reflected the international communist agenda . this emphasized defence of the republic rather than engaging with its political complexities or with the demands of urban workers . i underline the film’s rural and castilian focus , and describe its reception in the united states and united kingdom , before offering an explanation for its continued currency in those countries , and an overview of the consequences .
inspired by the true stories of farm workers who became winemakers in the vines of the earth — napa valley region of california , this is a story of motivation and perseverance .
orson welles ' narration of the original version of the spanish earth ( 1937 ) , considered too emphatic by the film ' s producers , led to the organization of this first release version narrated by ernest hemingway . minor changes were made to the spoken text ; also the removal of praise for the popular front , which at the time of its formation included factions that went against moscow ' s orthodoxy .
an epic saga of love and power . tensions mount in an andalusia mining town between local spanish workers and their british employers .
the press reviews for the spanish earth tended to be a bit more equivocal . some felt the film descended into out - and - out propaganda , to which ivens later replied ,
on issues of life and death , democracy or fascism , the true artist cannot be objective .
but the writer of a 1938 article in time magazine saw the film in a positive light :
early , james . presidio , mission , and pueblo : spanish architecture and urbanism in the united states . dallas : southern methodist university press , 2004 .
while harmful radiation from such flares cannot pass through earth ' s atmosphere to harm humans on the ground , they can disturb the atmosphere where gps and communications signals travel .
a documentary showing the struggle of the spanish republican government against a rebellion by ultra - right - wing forces led by gen . francisco franco and backed by nazi germany and fascist italy .
it might not be any bigger than your own refrigerator , but the tess telescope will deliver the stuff of your wildest sci - fi fantasies : earth - sized planets by the hundreds , and all in the next two years .
fired earth is a business name of fired earth limited , part of the aga rangemaster group ltd . registered in england and wales no . 1733704 . vat registration no . gb 100 5835 13 . registered office : c / o aga rangemaster , meadow lane , long eaton , nottingham , ng10 2gd
the spanish earth story by archibald macleish and lillian hellman , with commentary written and spoken by ernest hemingway ; photographed by john ferno and produced by joris ivens , with a musical score by marc blitzstein and virgil thompson ; presented by contemporary historians , inc . at the fifty - fifth street playhouse . view full article in timesmachine »
michaël gillon from liege university in belgium , and his colleagues , discovered seven new planets - their size all comparable to that of earth .
the film ' s avoidance of overt propagandizing reflected not only ivens ' s conception of the documentary aesthetic—it was also hoped that this might help spanish earth achieve a wide theatrical release . however , as in britain , there was thought to be no cinema audience for documentary films , and the plan failed . nor did it help the film to escape the watchful eye of the british board of film censors ( who had previously attacked ivens ' s new earth ) , who insisted that all references to italian and german intervention were cut from the commentary , those countries being regarded as
friendly powers
at the time .
the heart of the earth a spanish - british - portuguese production ; manufacturas audiovisuales ; future films ; coasta do castelo ; handmade films international presents ; a film by antonio cuadri ; produced by antonio cuadri . . . [ et al . ] ; directed by antonio cuadri ; screenplay by antonio cuadri , shelley miller , doc comparato .
astronomers have discovered seven new planets which may host liquid water . their find shows that earth - like planets are even more common in the universe than previously thought .
the newly discovered planets orbit the star trappist - 1 , a dwarf star only one tenth the size of our sun , and about as big as jupiter . trappist - 1 lies 39 light years away from earth .
all seven planets - simply called : 1b , 1c , up to 1h - are quite close to trappist - 1 , much closer than earth is to the sun .
the largest x - class flares are by far the largest explosions in the solar system , with loops of material tens of times the size of earth being spat from the solar surface . they ' re caused when magnetic fields – which guide the motion of the sun ' s plasma – cross over each other and reconnect .
these quaint buildings and courtyards were built in 1935 to depict a charming old village in spain for the second california pacific international exposition . spanish village is located in balboa park next to the san diego zoo .
beyond the church building , missions also included a number of buildings , structures , features , and open spaces . each contributed to the establishment of a community whose day - to - day functions were to serve the spanish colonial enterprise .
giffords , gloria fraser . sanctuaries of earth , stone , and light : the churches of northern new spain , 1530 - 1821 . tucson : university of arizona press , 2007 .
seven new earth - like planets discovered around nearby star | science | in - depth reporting on science and technology | dw | 22 . 02 . 2017
the heart of the earth [ videorecording ] / a spanish - british - portuguese production ; manufacturas audiovisuales ; future films ; coasta do castelo ; handmade films international presents ; a film by antonio cuadri ; produced by antonio cuadri . . . [ et al . ] ; directed by antonio cuadri ; screenplay by antonio cuadri , shelley miller , doc comparato . – national library
we know now that most stars have planets and that even earth - like planets in the habitable zones are quite common ,
barbara ercolano , an astrophysicist at the university of munich , said last november .
this documentary tells of the struggles during the spanish civil war . it deals with the war at different levels : from the political level , at the ground military level focusing on battles in madrid and the road from madrid to valencia , and at the support level . with the latter , a key project was building an irrigation system for an agricultural field near fuentedueña so that food could be grown to feed the soldiers .
( 1927 ) . these spanish soldiers always seem local boys temporarily uprooted from their homes , but essentially individual village lads joined in a cause , fighting against heavy odds .
the law , which is part of a complete restructuring of the bolivian legal system following a change of constitution in 2009 , has been heavily influenced by a resurgent indigenous andean spiritual world view which places the environment and the earth deity known as the pachamama at the centre of all life . humans are considered equal to all other entities .
the first flare was measured at x2 . 2 , with the second at x9 . 3 . the number indicates the intensity of the burst .
this documentary film uses footage of war and glimpses of rural spanish life in its portrayal of the struggle of the spanish republican government against a rebellion by right - wing forces led by general francisco franco and backed by nazi germany and fascist italy . the film was written by ernest hemingway and john dos passos ( among others ) and was narrated by hemingway . please help seeding this video ! this video is in the public domain , visit urltoken for more informations .
the sun ' s surface is seething away . hot and brightly glowing material ascends from the sun ' s inside , cools and sinks down again , appearing much darker . our sun is the only star in the universe so close to earth that astronomers can observe in such detail .
four new nasa satellites have been launched to find out what happens when magnetic fields disconnect briefly from earth and then reconnect in another direction . on the sun , the same phenomenon triggers sunspots . ( 13 . 03 . 2015 )
the initial radiation from the solar flare would have created the radio disturbances experienced on wednesday .
of course , the authors could have been lucky , but finding seven [ . . . ] earth - sized planets in such a small sample suggests that the [ our ] solar system [ . . . ] might be nothing out of the ordinary .
the field museum collections are among the top natural history collections in the world for their breadth , scope , and quality . the field is one of the few institutions with collections that cover planetary origins and the full history of life on earth with botanical , zoological , geological , and anthropological specimens and artifacts . the museum’s strategy in science and education ( s & e ) creates a strong opportunity for the museum to increase the impact of its collections .
the architectural styles of spanish colonial missions were influenced by those popular in spain and europe at that time –gothic , baroque , plateresque , mudéjar , churrigueresque , neoclassicism –but their application in the americas cannot be fit easily into any specific stylistic category . the local context of available materials , labor , and technical expertise challenged the spanish frontier builders to find the expertise to interpret their foreign cultural expression . as a result , mission architecture evolved into a fusion of imported and indigenous expressions that are unique to each mission and best understood through the analysis of various architectural elements .
scholarly understanding of the spanish colonial enterprise ' s impact in the americas , which mission architecture represents , continues to evolve . viewing missions as part a comprehensive cultural landscape helps us to tell their complex stories from multiple viewpoints , and to understand the impact of colonialism on native communities . this has required an inclusive approach to recognizing and preserving a variety of mission features in order to interpret this complex historical narrative . contemporary property boundaries and the encroachment of cities and suburbs into many of the original mission communities complicate the challenge of preserving these formerly vast cultural landscapes . such urbanization often means the destruction of outlying mission features that erases part of the complete story of the spanish colonial enterprise .
eckhart , george boland .
spanish missions of texas , 1680 - 1800 ,
in kiva , vol . 32 , no . 3 , feb . 1967 , pp . 1 - 28 .
it makes world history . earth is the mother of all
, said vice - president alvaro garcía linera .
it establishes a new relationship between man and nature , the harmony of which must be preserved as a guarantee of its regeneration .
the boy did as the old man asked and emerged from the inn dragging a sack half filled with chestnuts . following the goatherd’s instructions , he took it over to the donkey , untied the string and . . . poured part of the contents of the sack into the panniers , with most of the chestnuts slipping into any available gaps among the food , flasks and tools .
ernest hemingway’s novel about the republican resistance , based on his experience in spain while the spanish earth ( 1937 ) was in production , was filmed by director sam wood ( ironically , a noted anti - communist ) and stripped of much of its political specificity . nonetheless it constituted hollywood ' s only popular treatment of the war , and was prohibited in spain until after the death of franco . ucla film & television archive’s restoration adds several minutes to truncated versions that were circulated for years , and will be presented with entry music and an intermission .
when you work with wwf to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature , you give your child , and all children around the world , a chance to get to discover our earth as we know it today .
. his flat , sometimes raw intoning of his own words gives them an urgency a slicker - sounding narrator would have undermined .
this spanish earth is dry and hard ,
are the first words we hear him speak . this is hemingway before he became hemingway the litterateur , before his clipped style became imitated into parody . each word seems a polished stone , a piece of the human condition taken to an irreducible minimum . and it is hemingway who sums up in a sentence the reason ivens had to scrap his original filming blueprint and give himself and the film over to the very thing that makes it the powerful human experience it is :
men cannot act in front of the camera in the presence of death .
the denver museum of nature & science is the rocky mountain region’s leading resource for informal science education . located in the heart of denver city park , and neighbor to the denver zoo , the museum offers a variety of exhibitions , programs , and activities that help museum visitors experience the natural wonders of colorado , earth , and the universe . more than 300 , 000 students and teachers are served by museum each year . the museum houses nearly 1 . 5 million artifacts and specimens in its collections from around the world .
her majesty the queen and the duke of edinburgh visit pangbourne college to celebrate the school ' s centenary .
when the sun is very active , geomagnetic storms develop . it ' s when the sun catapults a particularly high number of charged particles into space . those particles can hit and destroy satellites . they might also disturb electric power substations on earth and even lead to power breakdowns .
there are are billions of stars like our sun scattered across the universe . but without it , life on earth wouldn ' t have been possible . the sun has been fascinating researchers for centuries . let ' s have a closer look ! ( 21 . 08 . 2017 )
this is another , much more beautiful effect of geomagnetic storms : an aurora , also called polar light . it occurs when charged particles of the sun hit the earth ' s atmosphere . the frequency of how often we may enjoy this spectacle depends on the solar cycle . every eleven years the sun is particularly active - that ' s when many geomagnetic storms and auroras can be observed .
the second mode is the spontaneous shooting on the front lines . using two hand held cameras , ivens captured the horrors and heartaches of fighting . the final cinematographic mode is that of the static
newsreel
footage of the people ' s army rally .
: now the people ' s opposition to fascism surprises the rebels . . . even in the smallest villages .
then the chances of life might depend on the amount of detrimental radiation that those planets receive from the star .
the land is dry and irrigation is needed to provide food for the defenders of spain . fuenteduena , one village twenty miles from madrid , can put food on the road for freedom . there is the constant sound of machine guns and canons . yet ,
men cannot act for the camera in the prescene of death .
at the front line , war becomes part of life . a huge phonograph blares music to the troops . death is all around . the lawyer turned soldier dies and the innocent bookeeper is killed by enemy fire on his way to work . the duke palace is destroyed , but thankfully a few pieces of spanish art are salvaged . the people ' s army unites , the air attack is coming , the working man fights on !
spanish colonial mission cultural landscapes express a strong connection between the natural environment of each distinct region and the subsequent layers of human settlement over time . the preservation of these cultural landscapes , and the complex set of values they represent , has required an integrative approach to determining their significance , conservation treatments , and stewardship strategies to ensure each site ' s viability for current and future generations .
we really appreciate your support and role in the project . the success of the project is largely due to the important work done by earthcheck .
given the primal place both orson welles and ernest hemingway hold as titans of american culture , it seems strange that so little has been written about their memorable meeting to work on joris ivens the spanish earth . perhaps this is because so little seems to be known about what actually took place , other than what welles himself has reported . even welles only mentions this encounter in two interviews that i am aware of . but given the flourishing number of stage shows that have re - created welles in a fictional setting , it seems like the welles - hemingway encounter might provide the basis for a very interesting two man play ( or even a movie ) .
on 19 october the vietnam film institute ( vfi ) in hanoi is organizing a ceremony of the transfer of solidarity films from the medical committee netherlands - vietnam ( mcnv ) and the european foundation joris ivens . representatives of the dutch embassy , of the ministry of culture , sports and tourism of vietnam , the director of the vfi , the director of the mcnv and the representative of the ivens foundation will be present when the 45 films will be handed over to the national film iinstute . afterwards a study meeting will take place for . . .
the boy who stole attila’s horse is , above all , the moving story of a savage and tender love between brothers , whatever its allegorical meaning . however , one economic development is relevant to this novel , repila’s second : the company that published the spanish original in 2013 closed later that year , citing the “economic situation” . foreign - language editions of the book have been orphaned unexpectedly . big and small’s parents have , once again , left them to fend for themselves .
bolivia is set to pass the world ' s first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans . the law of mother earth , now agreed by politicians and grassroots social groups , redefines the country ' s rich mineral deposits as
blessings
and is expected to lead to radical new conservation and social measures to reduce pollution and control industry .
the infamous propaganda film of the 1934 nazi party rally in nuremberg , germany .
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the beginning of the film uses descriptive syntagma to familiarize the viewer with spain and its struggles . the village is shown and shots of a map displaying its geographical importance to the cause . after this introduction ,
mission priests modeled church plans after old world churches with which they were familiar . mission churches tended to follow two basic types based on their shape in plain view : hall and cruciform . the hall church is composed of a tall rectangular room divided into the nave space for the worshipers and the sanctuary where the clergy celebrate mass . the sanctuary is the most sacred of church places as it holds the altar and is often elevated above the nave . the sanctuary is located within the apse , a polygonal or semi - circular space at the end of the nave that is the visual focal point for worshipers entering the church .
the cruciform church plan is in the form of a latin cross with the bottom portion designated as the nave , the upper portion as the apse housing the sanctuary , and transepts on either side of the crossing containing chapels . above the crossing , a hemispherical dome typically covers the sanctuary , symbolizing a celestial heaven . the sacristy , a private room where sacred objects are stored and the clergy robes his vestments , always is connected to the sanctuary . other distinct spaces within the church building include a baptistery located next to the nave and a choir loft located above the church entry foyer . in europe , church plans are typically oriented with worshippers facing east , the direction of the rising sun and symbolizing the risen christ . in new world mission churches , however , orientation varies extensively and without consistency .
find out more about the life and work of her majesty the queen . . .
the queen hosts a ceremony at windsor castle to celebrate the 40th anniversary of motability .
oversee the preparation and staging of newly acquired specimens for their integration into the collection .
the royal tyrrell museum of palaeontology is seeking a motivated individual with a passion for alberta’s fossil resources to join the resource management program . the resource management assistant will work as part the of the resource management team to preserve the palaeontological heritage of alberta . the position involves communicating with the public and staff members regarding the laws surrounding the collection , preparation and ownership of fossils in alberta , assisting in the regulatory role of the rtmp and tracking and mapping applications . computer knowledge is needed to support staff , researchers and palaeontological consultants in the research and protection of fossil resources .
but the abstract new laws are not expected to stop industry in its tracks . while it is not clear yet what actual protection the new rights will give in court to bugs , insects and ecosystems , the government is expected to establish a ministry of mother earth and to appoint an ombudsman . it is also committed to giving communities new legal powers to monitor and control polluting industries .
the oldest ever recipient of a message from the queen was a canadian gentleman , who reached the age of 116 in december 1984 .
both were x - class flares – the most intense classification of coronal ejection – with the second being the biggest observed since 2006 .
the researchers will use the james webb space telescope , scheduled for launch next year , to detect atmospheric components from the new planets .
participate in acquisition of specimens for the division by facilitating donations and by occasional fieldwork and expeditions at the direction of the curatorial staff .
sponsorship of the large carnivore initiative for europe ( lcie ) , leading to the development of an action plan for the iberian lynx .
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the big camera was the most expensive thing we had and if it was smashed we were through . we were making the film on almost nothing and all the money was in the cans of film and the cameras . we could not afford to waste film and you had to be awfully careful of the cameras .
the long awaited book ( in german ) about ivens and his east - german films , written by thé specialist in this field , günter jordan , has been published by the defa foundation . this beautiful book describes in 680 pages the triumph in the 1950’s , the condemnation at the end of the 1960’s when ivens became persona non grata in the gdr , until the resurrection of ivens’ defa - films .
acclaimed actor - writer - director of stage , radio , television and screen . best known for the infamous the war of the worlds radio broadcast , the mercury theatre stage production of julius caesar , and the movies citizen kane , the magnificent ambersons and touch of evil .
equates them , merges them into the ideological concept of the people ' s war .
orson welles : my relationship with hemingway has always been very droll . the first time we met was when i had been called to read the narration for a film that he and joris ivens had made about the war in spain ; it was called the spanish earth . arriving at the studio , i came upon hemingway , who was in the process of drinking a bottle of whiskey ; i had been handed a set of lines that were too long , dull , had nothing to do with his style , which is always so concise and so economical . there were lines as pompous and complicated as this :
here are the faces of men who are close to death ,
and this was to be read at a moment when one saw faces on the screen that were so much more eloquent . i said to him ,
mr . hemingway , it would be better if one saw the faces all alone , without commentary .
seen from earth , the sun doesn ' t seem big - it is just a bright spot in the sky . but it does have a radius of about 700 , 000 kilometres ( 435 , 000 miles ) . its core is 15 million degree celsius ( 27 million degree fahrenheit ) . temperatures on the sun ' s surface still reach 5500 degree celsius ( 10 , 000 degree fahrenheit ) .
the next step will be to investigate the atmosphere on those planets . the results might give a hint as to possible life out there .
go behind the scenes of the mission : impossible movies , check out the latest videos and trailers , and see which spy movies topped the box office in our mission : impossible guide .
spanish village ' s gallery 21 is available for rent to all san diego county artists . we encourage artists who have never exhibited with us before to apply . we encourage one national / international exhibit per year . we are pleased to offer this outreach gallery at a nominal fee .
the exterior finishes of mission churches often depended on the durability of the structural wall materials used . adobe required the building to be sheltered from damaging rainwater either protected with deeply overhanging pitched roofs , or covered with lime or mud plaster . even the type of mortar and plaster depended on the availability of the raw materials , as well as the resources and expertise to process them .
spanish village art center members and guild members are invited to chose one element and create a modular piece of work that will be a part of a larger installation in gallery 21 . artists will add comments and quotes about the elements to inspire viewers to think more deeply about the world . this is not your ordinary show ! come and see how this creative village of artists sees the world and how those worlds fit together . then tell us how the elements move you !
mildred e . mathias botanical garden - ucla reporting to the director of the botanical garden , the assistant director will work with the garden director and staff to ( i ) develop and oversee the horticultural plan for mildred e . mathias botanical garden ( membg ) ; ( ii ) administer and curate the complex collection of gardens and plant collections that make up the membg and the ucla herbarium ; ( iii ) coordinate the activities of the garden staff of four individuals and technical staff associated with the herbarium ; ( iv ) update and maintain database collection records for both the garden and herbarium . the assistant director will also work with faculty and the ucla development office to seek funding to expand the programs and collections of membg and the ucla herbarium , and work with faculty and staff to expand and improve the teaching , research , and extension missions of the botanical garden .
start ) . the intern will participate in an nsf - funded project to upgrade the microfossil collections in the invertebrate paleontology collection at amnh . a summary of the project can be found here :
participate in acquisition of specimens for the utep - bc by facilitating donations and by occasional fieldwork and expeditions at the direction of the curatorial staff .
on 28 march the award ceremony of the society of cinema and media studies , the world ' s largest organisation devoted to the scholarly study of film and media , paid tribute to the best film scholarship of the previous year . prof . thomas waugh received the best book award for his outstanding book about the complete film oeuvre of joris ivens . maryse elliott ( amsterdam university press ) and giovanna fossati ( eye filmmuseum amsterdam ) , editors of the framing film series , attended the presentation .
namu in prague , the publishing house of the academy of arts , presented the czech translation of andré stufkens book joris ivens . filmmaker of the world ( 518 pages ) . this czech book explores the content , production , meaning and reception of 21 ivens films and was first published in dutch and german in 2008 and 2009 as part of the dvd box . especially a chapter about the relationship between joris ivens and the czech republic has been added , focussing on the documentary the first years .
hardly had dutch documentarian joris ivens walked down the gangplank of the ship that brought him to america in february , 1936 , than he found himself immersed in a fast - breaking film project . in july , 1936 , the five - month - old elected republican government of spain was attacked by rebel right - wing generals soon to be led by francisco franco . thus began the bloody , divisive spanish civil war that raged until 1939 , when franco ' s professional soldiers finally overcame democracy ' s amateurs and the foreign volunteers that rushed to their aid , including , from america , the lincoln brigade .
this position reports to the vice president of s & e and works as part of a team with the directors of the integrative research , science action , and learning centers to set the vision and agenda for science and education at the field museum .
an exciting opportunity exists to join the staff of the mütter museum . the college of physicians of philadelphia seeks a dynamic and resourceful professional to manage the museum’s collection and assist in a strategic merging of museum and library collections . the collections manager must demonstrate flexibility , teamwork , and collegiality essential in a small organization . the collections manager will join the college staff at a pivotal time as the institution creates a unified collections management system . the collections manager will shape a valuable historical medical collection for the future .
fight the destructive harvesting and unregulated trade of one of the most attractive inhabitants of our tropical oceans .
it follows an unnamed boy’s fight for survival on some barren , baking - hot spanish plain in the early 20th century . having fled his home , he is hunted by the county bailiff , his former tormentor in repeated sexual abuse facilitated by his father . in scene after scene , we see him pursued , beaten , burned and starved ; he usually has blood on his face and uncontrollable bowels , and his clothes stink of sweat and urine . he has one piece of luck , which comes in the form of a monosyllabic goatherd who takes the boy under his wing . the unlikely duo then struggle on together across the “endless , pitiless plain” , caught between starvation on the one hand and violence on the other .
we feel that earthcheck is the most stringent and relevant benchmarking tool for us to first measure our performance then systematically take actions for improvement . the robust system and the strength of the underlying research and approach from the stcrc have given us the confidence to entrust earthcheck to provide us with accurate measures and benchmark intelligence
monitor the ethical , legal , and regulatory environment surrounding natural history and cultural collections and lead the revision of the museum’s collection and ethics policies as appropriate .
well , taking the bull by the horns , i began to make effeminate gestures and i said to him ,
mister hemingway , how strong you are and how big you are !
that enraged him and he picked up a chair ; i picked up another and , right there , in front of the images of the spanish civil war , as they marched across the screen , we had a terrible scuffle . it was something marvelous : two guys like us in front of these images representing people in the act of struggling and dying . . . we ended up toasting each other over a bottle of whisky .
priests and master builders designed mission churches to manipulate sunlight for ornamental and religious purposes . light is channeled to illuminate symbolically the sanctuary , its source unseen by the worshiper in the nave . mission churches with domed roofs over the sanctuary have windows incorporated in the base of the dome , or as a lantern atop the dome , distributing a uniform light onto the altar . in new mexican flat - roofed hall churches , a narrow upper window between the nave roof and the raised apse roof creates a horizontal band of light shining directly on the altar screen . some are oriented precisely to have direct light cast on a figure of the church ' s patron saint , usually the centerpiece of the altar screen , on his saint day .
orson welles : it was all of that , but wasn ' t i living second hand through the lives of those toreros , who were my friends ? wasn ' t i living and dying second hand ? wasn ' t there something finally voyeuristic about it ? i suspect my aficion . i still go to bullfights , i’m not totally reformed . i can’t ask for the approval of the people who have very good reasons for stopping it . by the way , almost all spanish intellectuals have been against bullfighting for the last 150 years . lorca is one of the few spanish intellectuals who ever approved of bullfighting . was it a waste , waste , waste ? you asked me . a waste because i wasn’t doing anything . my short little period of doing it was just for the fun of it . as a kid , i didn’t think i was going to grow up to be the ( juan ) belmonte of my generation . the rest of my life that i spent among bull breeders and bullfighters was enormous fun , but what have i extracted from it that’s of any value to anybody ?
orson welles : well , there are two kinds of people who follow the bulls , as they say in spanish . there are those people who follow because they love the bullfighters , and there is a very small minority who are interested in the bulls , and i was always most interested in the bulls . now that will be incomprehensible to an english audience , that somebody could be fundamentally interested in the animal who is going to be killed . but my interest in bulls was like the interest of somebody who is very keen and very knowledgeable about horses . i know a great deal about bulls , and i’m much more interested in them , than in the men who fight them , in spite of the fact that some of the dearest friends i have in my life have been bullfighters .
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the country , which has been pilloried by the us and britain in the un climate talks for demanding steep carbon emission cuts , will establish 11 new rights for nature . they include : the right to life and to exist ; the right to continue vital cycles and processes free from human alteration ; the right to pure water and clean air ; the right to balance ; the right not to be polluted ; and the right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered .
the academy of natural sciences of drexel university is searching for a project manager for the rehousing of the alcohol - preserved collections of the malacology department . the position is initially for two years , and requires efficiency , organization and above - average attention to detail . qualifications
thanks to censorship throughout the world there are many other versions . in the east german version , for instance , the scene with gustav regler was cut out , because regler , an anti - fascist writer , had rejected communism . the most infamous mutilation of the film was made for the french release in 1938 by jean renoir . the film was shortened by 10 minutes by removing the all - too - explicit critique of nazi germany in order not
to offend the neighbors .
the director of the field museum’s collections center ( the gantz family collections center ) will expand and shape the role that these collections play in global efforts to explore the past , understand the present , and ensure a future rich with biological and cultural diversity . the director focuses the strategic growth of the collections , broadening their relevance and increasing their accessibility . this leadership position provides general oversight for the museum ' s holdings of close to 30 million specimens and objects , in addition to the library and archive collections . the director works closely with the center’s leadership ( heads of the anthropological , botanical , geological , zoological , and library collections ) to supervise personnel in collections management , oversee collections - related policies and procedures , and develop the center’s annual budget . the director will have active programs in one or more of the museum’s collection areas , interact with members of the other s & e centers on collaborative initiatives , and develop strong ties with academic institutions locally and worldwide .
the royal tyrrell museum of palaeontolog y is seeking an individual to join the preparation program . the preparation technician - education liaison position is first and foremost a preparation technician , with particular responsibility for assisting in the development , and support , of ongoing educational activities at the museum .
education / experience : the job requires general knowledge equivalent to a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in an earth science field ( e . g . , geology ) ; with 2 years work experience in museum collections’ management , care , and documentation or over 5 years extensive experience in a managerial position of a natural history collection ; or an equivalent combination of education and experience .
the western front at casa de campo on the outskirts of madrid was just a few minutes ' walk from the florida hotel , where the filmmakers were staying . any doubt about whether the passage from
night before battle
is autobiographical are dispelled in the following excerpt from one of hemingway ' s nana dispatches , quoted by schoots :
ingenta . article copyright remains with the publisher , society or author ( s ) as specified within the article .
specialized knowledge in a field relevant to the museum ' s collections and resources . general proficiency in the sciences .
in an effort to generate support for the loyalists , as the republican side was known , the american popular front , whose ranks were swelled by artists of anti - fascist conviction , launched a film project to propagandize for the republican cause . ivens , a militant communist who had made films in the soviet union and the depressed belgian mining area known as the borinage , was to direct it . the republican sympathizers ' efforts first resulted in a film called
most of the star ' s light is in the infrared spectrum which we cannot see . triaud speculated that the sky might be painted in a
salmony
color .
the division of paleontology at the american museum of natural history is seeking 1 full - time ( 35 hours per week ) scientific assistant in the invertebrate paleontology preparation lab .
photo of the modern san ildefonso church , which was restored by a collaboration between the pueblo of san ildefonso , the catholic archdiocese and other catholic organizations , and outside donations . the church was rededicated dec . 15 , 1968 .
the language supports the story’s imaginative breadth . writer and translator have managed to be playful yet shocking , without recourse to
the biggest solar flare in modern times was in 2003 and it was off the charts , being recorded at x28 .
general information : the sam noble museum is an organized research unit of the university of oklahoma and is one of the finest university museums in the world . the museum has an outstanding curatorial , collections , education , exhibits , and support staff that serves the museum’s mission from research to preservation to education at all levels . the department of biology is a leading academic department with a tradition of excellence in organismal biology . it is home to 20 of the 44 faculty in the university ' s graduate program in ecology and evolutionary biology , and it is currently in the process of hiring several new faculty in the next two to three years to expand on its strengths in geographical ecology and the biology of behavior .
the denver museum of nature & science is an equal opportunity employer . the museum is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse staff committed to serving the needs of all our visitors and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds .
in 1936 the production company contemporary historians was set up to raise money for a documentary filmed in spain about the civil war raging there . the dutch filmmaker , joris ivens went to fuenteduena , on the road between madrid and valencia , to film on the front lines of the republican armies , with cameraman john ferno , and initially with writer john dos passos , who left the production and was replaced by ernest hemingway .