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Re: Film on Jules Verne and HG Wells re-airing February 14th and 17th on The Science Channel

From: Gerald Pavano <pavano~at~snet.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:33:31 -0500
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

On Feb 11, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Dan Levitt wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Please spread the word about the re-broadcast of "Prophets of Science
> Fiction"
>
> Best!
>
> -Dan
> -------
> Dan Levitt
> Veriscope Pictures
> 50 Hunt Street
> Watertown, MA 02472
> Office: (617) 923-2867
> www.veriscopepictures.com
>
>
>
>
> PROPHETS OF SCIENCE FICTION, a film on the greatest predictions of
> Jules
> Verne and HG Wells rebroadasts on The Science Channel February 14th at
> 9PM
> and February 17th at 7 PM.
>
> The film reveals the the uncanny visions of science fiction's founding
> fathers and shows how they inspired some of the most important
> inventions of
> the Twentieth Century.
>
> 100 years before the Apollo program, Jules Verne foresaw the details of
> America's moon launch with remarkable accuracy -- from the speed and
> weight
> of the spacecraft to the location of the launch site in Florida. And
> Verne's submarine, the Nautilus, inspired submarine designers for
> decades.
>
> H.G. Wells gave us our first vision of hostile alien invaders and
> inspired
> physicists to investigate time travel. Perhaps most remarkably, Wells
> foresaw the future of war: predicting aerial bombing, the tank, and in
> 1913,
> the atom bomb. Years later, Wells novel even helped physicist Leo
> Szilard
> invent the bomb. The film includes interviews with noted physicists,
> science
> fiction writers, and historians.
>
> "Prophets of Science Fiction" is produced by Veriscope Pictures,
> award-winning producers of history and science films.
>
>
> I contributed many of the Verne pieces to the show - nice people to
> work with.

Gerald Pavano

Gerald F. Pavano - Books
Specializing in Jules Verne
P.O. Box 4034
Manchester, Ct.
06045-4034
pavano~at~snet.net
Received on Sun 11 Feb 2007 - 17:34:19 IST

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