Movies
Watch the First Ever NYC Blizzard Caught on Film
Not only is this the first ever film of a blizzard in the Big Apple, it is probably the first ever film of any American blizzard ever
This Terrifying Parasite Bears an Uncanny Resemblance to the Queen in "Aliens"
Phronima hollow out their prey and ride around in their corpse
Hustle through America's Huckster History with a Smithsonian Curator as Your Guide
A blow by blow of the flimflams and tales of hustlers throughout history, art and literature
No, Goldfinger, You Can’t Kill Someone by Painting a Body With Gold
But surely you don’t expect us to talk about it
Copyright Law Kept These Famous Works From Entering the Public Domain This Year
Here is a list of books, movies, music & scientific research that would have entered the public domain today had the 1978 copyright law not been passed
Tolkien's Dwarves Would Have Needed 38 Mini-Nuclear Plants to Melt All That Gold So Quickly
Unless those dwarf furnaces were burning some sort of Middle-earth super fuel, in real life Smaug probably would have just eaten the dwarves
The Tolkien Nerd’s Guide to “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”
As Peter Jackson ventures further from J.R.R. Tolkien’s original text, the source material becomes harder to pin down but is still satisfyingly nerdy
This Curious Eagle Stole a Video Camera And Filmed Its Bird’s-Eye View of the World
A feathery theif scooped up a wildlife video camera and took it on a 70-odd-mile ride
Walt Disney's Childhood Home May Soon Be a Museum
The new owners may return the house to the same conditions it was in when young Disney ran through its halls
The Hunger Games Is Getting More People Interested in Archery
For Hunger Games fans, there's a new hobby in town: archery
Which Seat Should You Pick at the Movie Theater?
When you walk into a theater, you're probably still going to argue with your friends about which seat to pick. But now you know the right answer
Here’s How Disney Animates Snow
In the Disney animation studio, different types of snow are made by tweaking a computer model. In the real world, they're made by changing the temperature
To Dodge a Bullet, You’d Have to See It From Three Football Fields Away
Even the slowest handguns shoot a bullet at 340 meters per seconds
The Inventor of Videotape Recorders Didn’t Live to See Blockbuster’s Fall
As far as Charles Ginsberg was concerned, the video tape was "one of the most significant technological advances" since the television
Before Hollywood Had Ratings, Films Were Way Racier
In the 1934 movie Murder at the Vanities there's a whole musical number about the pleasures of marijuana sung by half naked women
If Anyone Can Make the James Bond Submarine Car Work, It’s Elon Musk
Musk bought the Lotus Espirit car from the movie The Spy Who Loved Me for $866,000 at auction
Ridley Scott Reused Footage From The Shining at the End of Blade Runner
From sets to props to entire sequences, Hollywood is actually really good at recycling
Newer Movies Are Less Creative
The most creative time in film history was probably the 1960's
We Can Guess What Holden Caulfield’s Reaction to the New Salinger Documentary Would Be: LMAO
Caulfield was one of the first to employ the phrase LMAO
Time-Traveling Time Lapse Takes the Same Train Ride in 1953, 1983 And 2013
Three time-lapses were shot on the same stretch of rail over 60 years
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