If we cut out all the advertising and just had people pay straight up for their entertainment? Isn't that how movies shown in theatres and movies direct to DVD work?
No, with movies in theaters (and some DVDs), we pay our money to have commecials blasted at us before the show, and sometimes during the movie as well (product placement again).
My first exposure to Meigs Field was (I think) FS3. I guess this would have been around 1991. In the spring of 2000, the first thing I ever did as a tourist in Chicago was visit Meigs. Kind of a long walk from the L, but it was worth it.
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I found this document while Googling for more info on the Bhopal disaster--it's more or less the story of the disaster and the ensuing legal mess from Union Carbide/Dow's point-of-view. (Google lets us view it as HTML here.)
I tend to agree with the above poster. I'm not usually one to defend a corporation, but it looks like Dow did make an awful lot of reparations. The actual truth of the matter, I'm sure, is obscured far beyond our ability to discern it, particularly by a few minutes of Googling.
Cheers,
Mike V.
As another post already mentioned, this story has been around a long while. It is even incorporated into Peter Jackson's fake documentary, "Forgotten Silver". Made for NZ television, it's about a mythical filmmaker named Colin McKenzie who supposedly pioneered all sorts of things like color film, etc. Along the way, he happened to film Pearse's flight. The movie shows the recently 'dicovered' footage, and does such a good job of it that a large number of viewers took it as real, and then got very mad at Mr Jackson when he pointed out it was false. Happily, New Zealanders now seem to be quite keen on him again, what with the success of that Lords and Rings movie. "Forgotten Silver" is on DVD, and you should check it out.
And in a few months, I get to travel to NZ again...hooray!
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If we cut out all the advertising and just had people pay straight up for their entertainment? Isn't that how movies shown in theatres and movies direct to DVD work?
No, with movies in theaters (and some DVDs), we pay our money to have commecials blasted at us before the show, and sometimes during the movie as well (product placement again).
My first exposure to Meigs Field was (I think) FS3. I guess this would have been around 1991. In the spring of 2000, the first thing I ever did as a tourist in Chicago was visit Meigs. Kind of a long walk from the L, but it was worth it.
I tend to agree with the above poster. I'm not usually one to defend a corporation, but it looks like Dow did make an awful lot of reparations. The actual truth of the matter, I'm sure, is obscured far beyond our ability to discern it, particularly by a few minutes of Googling. Cheers, Mike V.
As another post already mentioned, this story has been around a long while. It is even incorporated into Peter Jackson's fake documentary, "Forgotten Silver". Made for NZ television, it's about a mythical filmmaker named Colin McKenzie who supposedly pioneered all sorts of things like color film, etc. Along the way, he happened to film Pearse's flight. The movie shows the recently 'dicovered' footage, and does such a good job of it that a large number of viewers took it as real, and then got very mad at Mr Jackson when he pointed out it was false. Happily, New Zealanders now seem to be quite keen on him again, what with the success of that Lords and Rings movie. "Forgotten Silver" is on DVD, and you should check it out.
And in a few months, I get to travel to NZ again...hooray!
Cheers, Mike V.