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Disney.com -- Where the Magic Lives Online! - Oh yes, the magical world of Disney. The Walt Disney Company produces movies, television shows, and music, and they are nearly all fun. If you want to keep up on the latest from the folks at Disney, take a look at their official home page. You'll find clips from recent Disney movies, which you can play on your computer. You can listen to recordings from the Disney Channel. You can also get all kinds of great graphic images of your favorite Disney characters. Don't forget Disney Online and Radio Disney. There are online games, activities, and much, much more. If you like Disney, this is a must-see.
Henson.com - The Jim Henson Company - The main Henson page is a hoot. There's an online look at the Creature Shop, video clips of Jim Henson at work, and a trip to the company store. But be sure to take the Muppets link. Before this sited, while it was under construction, this was the message displayed on the screen: "Hi Ho, Kermit the Frog here. We are busy building Muppets.com, the first Virtual Reality, 5D, secured-socket, fully encrypted, dynamically interactive, bearly browserable, community based, Java-enabled, highly compliant, platform independent, frog-functional, scalable, backwardly compatible, indefinitely online, gif-animated, e-deliverable, sequentially tagged, third generation, CGI reciprocal, porcine promoted, plug-and-play, state of the art Web site. Unfortunately, last night Animal ate our hard drive. We're working hard to get that fixed. But for now, you can read all about us." Check out what they came up with after Animal coughed up the hard drive.
NASA Television - How would you like to see pictures live from space? NASA Television has a slew of video cameras taking pictures of Earth, of weather in the vicinity of the Kennedy Space Center, and more. This site explains how you can watch over satellite TV or via several Web page locations. If there is a mission going on, you can view the shots as they come in. Want your NTV? It's out of this world!
Newton's Apple: Movie Sound Effects - Grab your rubber bands, sandpaper, Popsicle sticks, and tape recorder and head over to this site to learn how to be a Foley artist. They decide which movie sounds need to be fixed, replaced, or just improved a little. They even invent sounds nobody's ever heard before, like the sound of a dinosaur egg hatching. They're named after Jack Foley, a film sound pioneer from the days when talking pictures were first invented.
Skywalker Sound - Learn how movie sound tracks are made from the pros at Skywalker Sound, where the famous sounds of the Star Wars movies, Jurassic Park, and Toy Story were made. One of Skywalker's specialties is creature sounds, like the ones made by Imperial Walkers, Chewbacca, and other aliens. To make these characters sound sad, happy, or scary, sound artists use everything from bicycle chains dropping on concrete to the voices of lots of different animals mixed together.
Television History - Whether you're looking for the inventions that led to the development of television or the technologies that make direct satellite TV broadcast possible, you'll get a series of excellent links here. There are resources on general broadcasting technology as well as thoughtful essays on what we all have gained, and lost, through the spread of TV culture.
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