Further Exploration of the Factorium

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Classmate Facts # 85 - That's Entertainment!

1. The 1981 film “Raiders of the Lost Ark” features over 7,500 boas, cobras and pythons and over 50 tarantulas!

2. Ever watched the Simpsons? Well.. the writers of the series have never revealed what state Springfield is in.

3. In Seoul, South Korea, a theater manager felt that the "Sound of Music" was too long, so he shortened it by cutting out all the songs!

4. In "Rear Window", a movie made by Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart plays a character wearing a leg cast from the waist down. In one scene, the cast switches legs, and in the other, the signature on the cast is missing.

5. A motion picture which is 2 hours long uses 10,800 feet of film. That's not including the movie previews and the commercials!

6. The creator of Muppets, Jim Henson first made Kermit from his mother's coat and two halves of a ping-pong ball!

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