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Planet Earth is a 1974 American made-for-television science fiction film that was created by Gene Roddenberry, written by Roddenberry and Juanita Bartlett (from a story by Roddenberry). It first aired on April 23, 1974 on the ABC network, and stars John Saxon as Dylan Hunt.
British Empire Films / Australian Film Development Corporation / Royce Smeal Film Productions / Salt Pan Films: Peter Weir (director/screenplay); John Meillon, Terry Camilleri, Chris Haywood, Bruce Spence, Max Gillies, Edward Howell, Max Phipps, Melissa Jaffer, Kevin Miles, Rick Scully, Peter Armstrong, Joe Burrow, Deryck Barnes, Jack Ellerton 11
Appassionata (1974 film) The Apple, the Stem and the Seeds; The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (film) Apradhi (1974 film) Arab Israeli Dialogue; Arabian Nights (1974 film) Arakkallan Mukkalkkallan; L'arbitro (1974 film) The Arena (1974 film) Arizona Slim; Around the World with Peynet's Lovers; After the Fall (1974 film) Assassination in Davos ...
February 7 – Blazing Saddles is released in the United States. May 28 - Joseph E. Levine, the founder of Embassy Pictures, resigns as president. June 20 – Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski and featured Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston, is released to worldwide critical acclaim.
The film was a sequel to Tom Sawyer, which was financed from United Artists and Reader's Digest. Even before that film had been released, producer Arthur Jacobs arranged for finance for a sequel based on Huckleberry Finn. The director was J. Lee Thompson, with whom Jacobs had worked several times, most recently on two Planet of the Apes films. [1]
The TMNT already had a popular animated series, but a 1990 live-action film was such a smash, it made related merchandise a must-have that year—and for much of the '90s. BUY NOW Getty Images
Peter Hall's film Akenfield made use of a scene depicted in Thomas Bewick's 1797 A History of British Birds: a reaper finds he has just killed a partridge sitting on her nest. Akenfield is a film made by Peter Hall in 1974, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe (1969). The production company ...
1974: The lithium-ion battery is invented by M. Stanley Whittingham, and further developed in the 1980s and 1990s by John B. Goodenough, Rachid Yazami and Akira Yoshino. It has impacted modern consumer electronics and electric vehicles. [508] 1974: The Rubik's cube is invented by Ernő Rubik which went on to be the best selling puzzle ever. [509]