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Paper Clips is a 2004 American documentary film written and produced by Joe Fab, and directed by Fab and Elliot Berlin, about the Paper Clips Project, in which a middle school class tries to collect 6 million paper clips to represent the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II.
Kyle MacDonald's house This red paper clip sculpture was installed in 2007 at Bell Park in Kipling as a monument to the series of trades made by MacDonald. At the time, it was the world's largest paper clip. MacDonald made his first trade, a red paper clip for a fish-shaped pen, on July 14, 2005.
[1] James Vincent of The Verge recommended Paperclips as "the most addictive [game] you'll play today"; [13] in December The Verge listed Paperclips among the best 15 games of 2017. [14] Vox Media's Polygon ranked Paperclips as #37 among the best 50 games of 2017 [15] and #67 in their 100 Best Games of the Decade list. [16]
It started in 1998 as a simple 8th-grade project to study other cultures, and then evolved into one gaining worldwide attention. At last count, over 30 million paper clips had been received. An award-winning documentary film about the project, Paper Clips, was released in 2004 by Miramax Films. [1]
To Build a Fire (1969) was made by David Cobham, with Ian Hogg as the man and Orson Welles as the narrator. [18] To Build a Fire (2003) is a French version starring Olivier Pagès. [19] Build a Fire (2011) is an American version with a modified story. [20] To Build a Fire (2016) is an animated short film directed by Fx Goby. [21]
In the harshness of midwinter, an unnamed man attempts to travel across ten miles of Yukon wilderness to arrive at a camp where his friends are while bracing temperatures dropping to seventy-five degrees below zero with his companion, a wolf-dog. Struggling to survive, he makes multiple attempts to build a simple fire. [6]
Giant paper clip erected in 1989 in Sandvika, Norway, to honor Vaaler's invention. This 23-foot-tall (7 m) clip is the Gem, not the one patented by Vaaler. Johan Vaaler (March 15, 1866 – March 14, 1910) was a Norwegian inventor and patent clerk. [1] He has often erroneously been identified as the inventor of the common paper clip.
Fire making, fire lighting or fire craft is the process of artificially starting a fire. It requires completing the fire triangle , usually by heating tinder above its autoignition temperature . Fire is an essential tool for human survival and the use of fire was important in early human cultural history since the Lower Paleolithic .