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Re: Film on Jules Verne and HG Wells re-airing February 14th and

From: <lintond~at~xmission.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:46:36 -0700
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

I asked Discovery Channel Store if the would offer Prophets of Science
Fiction. The following is there reply:

Thank you for contacting the Discovery Channel Store. We appreciate your
interest in our products.

At this time, the program you have requested, The Prophets of Science
Fiction, is not available for purchase at the Discovery Channel Store. A
suggestion to offer this item for sale has been forwarded to our
Management staff for review.

Please continue to check our website www.discoverystore.com. Here you will
find new and exciting products as they become available for
purchase.Quoting Dan Levitt <Daniel.Levitt~at~comcast.net>:

> 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.
>
>
>
Received on Wed 14 Feb 2007 - 15:47:55 IST

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