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The documentary has been generally well-received politically in many parts of the world and is credited for raising further awareness of global warming internationally. [101] The film inspired producer Kevin Wall to conceive the 2007 Live Earth festival [ 102 ] and influenced Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli to write an operatic adaptation ...
Planet Earth is a seven-episode 1986 PBS television documentary series focusing on the Earth, narrated by Richard Kiley. Planet Earth explores geoscience and how discoveries of the early and mid-1980s were revolutionizing mankind's understanding of the Earth's past, present, and future. It also highlights scientific discoveries not yet fully ...
Continental drift is the theory, originating in the early 20th century, that Earth's continents move or drift relative to each other over geologic time. [1] The theory of continental drift has since been validated and incorporated into the science of plate tectonics, which studies the movement of the continents as they ride on plates of the Earth's lithosphere.
While his ideas attracted a few early supporters such as Alexander Du Toit from South Africa, Arthur Holmes in England [27] and Milutin Milanković in Serbia, for whom continental drift theory was the premise for investigating polar wandering, [28] [29] the hypothesis was initially met with scepticism from geologists, who viewed Wegener as an ...
Henry Robert Frankel (October 11, 1944 – November 2, 2019) was an American philosopher and historian of science noted for his historical and philosophical analysis of the continental drift controversy and subsequent discovery of plate tectonics.
Once upon Australia: produced in 1995, this 26 minute documentary tries to show how the prehistoric life could have evolved besides the Continental drift of Australia. [3] The program feature Sarcopterygian fishes, amphibians, dinosaurs (Allosaurus, Timimus and Leaellynasaura) and after them giant kangaroos.
2022 Continental Drift (South) (producer) 2016 My Life as a Zucchini (producer) 2015 Victoria (Short) (producer) 2015 Dirty Gold War (Documentary) (producer) 2014 The Price of Fame (co-producer) 2013 The Bakery (Short) (producer) 2013 Salvation Army (co-producer) 2013 Longwave (producer) 2013 A Better World (Short) (co-producer)
He showed up at the NFB with a reel of his previous work under his arm, and within days landed a job as a production assistant. His first major project there was an educational film called Continental Drift. [2] He then moved to the recently created French Animation Studio and made what he called his first "real" film, Oddball, in 1969. [3]