Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Time Machine (also marketed as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 American period post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells. It was produced and directed by George Pal, and stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young.
Hank Donner is a marine biologist camping and studying the underwater fauna near a Northwest Pacific fishing town. One day, while Hank and his local assistant Deke study a pod of grey whales swimming past the cove where they have set up camp, they witness a pair of fishermen, Joe Clausen and Burt, shooting at a passing group of killer whales.
In June 1965, William Lechkobit discovered a 22-foot (6.7m) male orca in his floating salmon net that had drifted close to shore near Namu, British Columbia.The orca was sold for $8,000 to Ted Griffin, owner of the Seattle Marine Aquarium; [2] [3] it ultimately cost Griffin much more to transport Namu 450 miles (720 km) south to Seattle.
There are anecdotal reports that, c. 1955, an Inuk man fell prey to an orca entrapped by ice in Grand Suttie Bay (Foxe Basin, Canada).A pod of orcas (likely 10-12 animals) was trapped in a polynya, and a young man visited the site in spite of advice from elders to wait until the ice was strong enough.
Related: Whale Watchers Stunned by Sighting of 'Super Rare' White Orca Named Frosty "The Good Whale" launches on Nov. 14, wherever podcasts are available and on the NYT Audio app.New York Times ...
Natural horror is a subgenre of horror films that features natural forces, [1] typically in the form of animals or plants, that pose a threat to human characters.. Though killer animals in film have existed since the release of The Lost World in 1925, [2] two of the first motion pictures to garner mainstream success with a "nature run amok" premise were The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock ...
On Nov. 20, 1820, a whaling ship from Nantucket, Mass., was attacked by a large sperm whale in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. According to the Nantucket Historical Association, the boat was ...
Similar to spy films, the heist or caper film included worldly settings and hi-tech gadgets, as in the original Ocean's Eleven (1960), Topkapi (1964) or The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). The spaghetti westerns (made in Italy and Spain), were typified by Clint Eastwood films, such as For a Few Dollars More (1965) or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ...