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14 Janeiro 2009

Revivalismo Sci-Fi - The Phantom Empire

Ano : 1935
cor : preto e branco
tempo : 245 min +-
suporte : série Tv
género : Sci-Fi
tamanho: 12 episódios

Ficha Técnica (texto: Wikipedia) (ficha: IMDb)

Gene Autry plays a singing cowboy of the same name, who runs Radio Ranch, a dude ranch from which he makes a daily live radio broadcast at 2pm. This is a "modern" cowboy story, with planes and such. Gene has two kid sidekicks, Frankie Darro and Betsy King Ross, who lead a club, the "Junior Thunder Riders," in which the kids play at being armoured knights of an unknown civilization, the mysterious Thunder Riders who make a sound like thunder when they ride. The kids, dressing up in capes and water-bucket helmets, play at riding "to the rescue!" (to quote their motto).

A chance to be real heroes occurs when Betsy, Frankie and Gene are kidnapped by the real Thunder Riders, from the super-scientific underground empire of Murania, complete with towering skyscrapers, robots, ray-guns, elevators tubes that extend miles from the surface, and an icy, evil blonde Queen Tika. On the surface, a group of crooks under Prof Beetson plan to invade Murania and seize its radium wealth, while in Murania, a group of revolutionaries plot to overthrow Queen Tika.

The inhabitants of Murania are the lost tribe of Mu and went below the surface in the Ice Age, 100,000 years ago and now live in a fantastically advanced city 20 or 25,000 feet underground and cannot now breathe the air at ground level so must wear masks. Gene Autry however has no trouble breathing their air. The Thunder Guard (Riders) emerge into the surface world from a cave where a huge rock door opens upwards, remindful of Ali Baba. Both Muranians and Prof Beetson's team want to get rid of Autry so he loses his radio contract and Radio Ranch becomes vacant.

(vejam-no)

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Revivalismo Sci-Fi - Undersea Kingdom


Ano : 1936
cor : preto e branco
tempo : 226 min +-
suporte : série Tv
género : Sci-Fi
tamanho: 12 episódios

Ficha Técnica (texto: Wikipedia) (ficha: IMDb)

The plot revolves around the main character "Crash" Corrigan trying to stop an evil tyrant ruler of Atlantis from conquering the lost continent and then the entire upper world. Lieutenant Crash Corrigan, in his last year at Annapolis, is invited by Billy Norton to visit his father, Professor Norton, after a wrestling match. At their house, the professor is demonstrating his new invention, which can detect and prevent (at short range) Earthquakes, to Diana Compton and his theory about regular tremours from the area where Atlantis used to be.

When Atlantean tyrant, Unga Khan, and his Black Robe army turn their Disintegrator beam on St Clair, Professor Norton leads an expedition to investigate. Along with him in his Rocket Submarine are Crash, Diana, three sailors (Briny Deep, Salty, Joe) and their pet parrot Sinbad. Unknown to the expedition until it is underway and in trouble, Billy has stowed away on the Rocket Sub as well.

Problems for the expedition begin when Joe, in charge of the engine room, is driven mad by the fear that the submarine cannot survive such depths. In order to prove this, he locks the engine room door and sends the sub into a fatal dive. As soon as this crisis is averted, Unga Khan and Captain Hakur detect their approach and bring them through a tunnel into the Inland Sea with a Magnetic Ray.

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Revivalismo Sci-Fi - Radar Men from the Moon

Depois desta ausência resolvo abrir um campo para os torrents.
O que são os torrents? São uma excelente forma de partilhar ficheiros audio, video, etc.

Coisas que já pensávamos pertencerem apenas ao domínio do imaginário e da memória.
Mas não, vai lá estando tudo nesta partilha apiratada um pouco simbólica do lado bom da internet - a recuperação de arquivos e registos e a sua multiplicação como os pãezinhos e as rosas. São mais pérolas do nosso carácter memorial.

Aqui vai um, não que pertencesse ao meu carácter memorial mas pode muito bem vir a pertencer a milhares de outros caracteres memoriais.


Ano : 1952
cor : preto e branco
tempo : 167 min +-
suporte : série Tv
género : Sci-Fi

Ficha Técnica (texto: Wikipedia) (ficha: IMDb)

This famous serial recycles the rocket-powered flying suit from King of the Rocket Men (1949). The main character, Commando Cody, is a civilian researcher with a sizable staff of employees and a large laboratory building. (The building is actually the front office of Republic Pictures with a "Cody Laboratories" sign attached next to the door.)

Commando Cody has available for his use the rocket-powered flying suit and a rocket ship capable of reaching the moon. When the U.S. finds itself under attack as a mysterious something wipes out military bases and industrial complexes. Cody deduces that the Earth faces a menace from our own moon, and rockets there to discover and confront the moon's dictator Retik, who boldly announces plans to conquer our planet and move his subjects there.

Cody spends most of the serial's running time on Earth battling an elusive lunar native called Krog and the gang of human crooks he has hired to steal and stockpile supplies for the invasion. Clayton Moore plays Krog's chief Earthling assistant.

Radar Men from the Moon's first chapter spawned the somewhat famous expression "Atomic activity on the Moon. Atomic blast on the Earth" (uttered by Henderson when divulging to the scientists the government's research conclusions).

(vejam-no)


PS: não faço ideia de quem seja o Alce Doido, nunca o vi nem o conheço nem sei de amizades, nem se é gajo ou gaja, nem se veio da Austrália, nem pardais ao ninho, nem assim nem assado. Só sei que é doido por estar a escarrapachar pirataria ainda por cima no seu blogue.

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04 Novembro 2008

O Homem que confundiu a Mulher com um Chapéu


A propósito de Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

Um amigo que estudou filosofia, Júlio Resende, aconselhou-me vivamente esta obra enquanto me via debruçado nas minhas verdes leituras. Tanto apreciei o livro como a união entre ciência e humanismo e como obra literária que espalho agora o seu conselho pela internet.


O Homem que Confundiu a Mulher com um Chapéu: Oliver Sacks


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03 Novembro 2008

Qual é o lado que escolhes - Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight


http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

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