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It was released at the height of American involvement in the Vietnam War, the same year as the Tet Offensive against the largest cities in South Vietnam. John Wayne was so concerned by the anti-war sentiment in the United States, he wanted to make this film to present the pro-military position. He requested and obtained full military ...
Reinforcing the film's pro-war message is the portrayal of the relationship between the Soviet characters and the Vietnamese characters as the latter are portrayed as clearly subordinate to the former, suggesting that Communist Vietnam is a sort of Soviet colony, and the claim made during the war that the North Vietnamese were just Soviet ...
Movies of the first half of the 20th century were filmed on an unstable, highly flammable cellulose nitrate film base, which required careful storage to slow its inevitable process of decomposition over time. [5] Most films made on nitrate stock were not preserved; over the years, their negatives and prints crumbled into powder or dust. [10]
This is a list of mummies – corpses whose skin and organs have been preserved intentionally, or incidentally. This list does not include the following: Bog bodies for which there is a separate list; List of Egyptian mummies (royalty) List of Egyptian mummies (officials, nobles, and commoners)
2) mummies of pompeii Frozen in time and entombed in a shell of volcanic ash, the victims of Pompeii have been preserved by the same tragedy that ended their lives nearly 2,000 years ago.
A full-body view of the wolf-pup mummy. Yukon Government That could be why the wolf pup's body was so well preserved: It wasn't on the surface decomposing or getting eaten but was frozen ...
The Mummy's Shroud: 1967 John Gilling [38] The Mummy's Ghost: 1944 Reginald Le Borg: the third film in the Kharis the Mummy series The Mummy Returns: 2001 Stephen Sommers: The Mummy Theme Park: 2000 Alvaro Passeri [39] [40] The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor: 2008 Rob Cohen: The Mummy's Tomb: 1942 Harold Youn the second film in the Kharis ...
Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...