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- From: Russ Grayson <pacedge@magna.com.au>
- To: "Gaden@ziplip.com" <Gaden@ziplip.com>, permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
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- Subject: Re: [permaculture] permaculture-SF novel
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:23:31 +1000
On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 02:10 AM, Gaden@ziplip.com wrote:
I recall that in the early seventies, one of those environmental panic movies was shown on television called 'The Hellstrom Chronicles". ("Food Of The Gods" was another one to scare the crap out of innocent kids!!) It was a documentary style film about insects taking over the planet. It was kind of similar in theme to the Hellstrom Hive book. So it was confusing whether it was meant as fact or fiction. Weird scarey film.
To make it even stranger, half way through the showing, it was interrupted and taken off the air. A rather flustered station (TV) presenter came on the air with an announcement that the rest of the film would not be shown. Due to an apparent official intervention that it was deemed to not be in the public interest for the rest of the film to be aired.
This wasn't elaborated upon in the days follow. Nothing more was said in any other media. It was all quite bizarre.
Perhaps it was like the 1930s broadcast by Orson Wells, of the HG Wells novel about invaders from Mars that featured interruptions to purportedly take listeners to broadcast actuality of the invasion. These were so real that people started to panic.
Maybe it was a ploy by the presenters that didn't work
...Russ Grayson
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Re: [permaculture] permaculture-SF novel,
dwayne, 07/05/2003
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[permaculture] permaculture-SF novel,
Gaden@ziplip.com, 07/08/2003
- Re: [permaculture] permaculture-SF novel, Russ Grayson, 07/09/2003
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Re: [permaculture] permaculture-SF novel,
Rita & Mark, 07/26/2003
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Re: [permaculture] permaculture-SF novel,
georg parlow, 07/27/2003
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Re: [permaculture] permaculture-SF novel,
Scott Vlaun, 07/27/2003
- Re: [permaculture] permaculture-SF novel, Rita & Mark, 07/27/2003
- Re: [permaculture] permaculture-SF novel, Graham Burnett, 07/27/2003
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Re: [permaculture] permaculture-SF novel,
Scott Vlaun, 07/27/2003
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Re: [permaculture] permaculture-SF novel,
georg parlow, 07/27/2003
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