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- The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison wax cylinder phonographs. But the Kinetophone never caught on and this film was never released. The film still exists, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost.
- An overview of how Apocalypse Now (1979) pioneered the use of 5.1 Dolby Digital sound.
- 2006– 9mTV-144.1 (13)TV EpisodeThese big names prove that you're never too famous to mess up. For this list, we revisit Ja Rule's infamous Fyre Festival disaster, M. Night Shyamalan's Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action film, Oprah Winfrey's OWN joint venture television network with Discovery, Inc., Eva Longoria's two defunct business, plus many others. Shyamalan won audiences over with inspired critical darlings like "The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable". Though his films were progressively less-well received after that, "The Last Airbender" was considered a colossal bomb. In his movie, the humor of the original show is practically nonexistent, the acting is awkward and the fast paced action is slowed to a crawl. Even the main character's name is pronounced differently. With a 6% rating on rotten tomatoes, it's a serious black mark on Shyamalan's resume.
- Francis Coppola explains how he adapted the original novel by Mario Puzo. Coppola shows (for the first time) his original "prompt book" containing all of his notes and observations that would be used to plan the screenplay and production design of the now classic film. An intimate look inside the mind of the young as yet unknown director, circa 1971.
- Kate has been absent from high school for a week due to a broken foot. Upon returning, she learns her clique of girlfriends have devised a new secret plan based around the codename "Lick the Star".
- A short documentary on the Francis Ford Coppola musical One From the Heart.
- In a future world where humanity has been driven to endangerment by giant beasts, a strike force is assembled to destroy the monsters and save the world.
- Having seized Gran Crevasse, emissaries are sent out to demand the surrender of the klaxosaurs' leader. Meanwhile, the Nines visit Squad 13, and there a shocking discovery is made.
- A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film The Rainmaker (1997), and director Francis Ford Coppola's creative methods of getting great performances from his cast.
- Richard Owens became the Merseyside County darts champion when his only real competition, his best mate Miles Fuller, moved away to become a world class jockey. Fourteen years later, and a week before Christmas, Miles appears to Richard in a dream and delivers a racing tip that costs Richard his life savings. As Richard despairs, fate conspires to bring him face-to-face with Miles again, giving them a chance to settle the score once and for all, with a game of darts.
- A young man who lives in a South American military dictatorship goes out during curfew to make drawings with chalk, for thrills.
- A documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's 'One From the Heart'.
- Sex, drugs and classical music illustrate what happens behind the curtains at the symphony can be just as captivating as what occurs on stage.
- Love, money, ambition and music intertwine in Mozart in the Jungle, a half hour comedic drama that looks at finding yourself and finding love while conquering New York City. A brash new maestro Rodrigo stirs up the New York Symphony as young oboist Hailey hopes for her big chance.
- A homophobic man gains a bit of enlightenment when after he is coerced into running an AIDS charity race, where the only rule is contestants must wear a minimum of 2-1/2" heels.
- A documentary about the music and influence that Francisco Aguabella has had on the world.
- Stories of the people, places, and heart of the Napa Valley - from soil to soul.
- Tess's schizophrenia gets out of control, and Shawn is asked to lend a hand. Richard Tyler tries to get his daughter back, and he has a surprise for her.
- Diana returns from Spain. NTAC tries to identify the person whose ability makes people's worst fears come true. Shawn returns home from the hospital and his brother Danny tells him that he's thinking about taking promicin. Kyle finds out some interesting facts about Cassie.
- A high school kid named Graham develops an ability which makes people worship him to the point of sacrificing their lives for him. Tom visits Isabelle in jail, hoping to get information on the whereabouts of Alana who's been missing for months. Marco calls Diana to let her know that her sister April has promicin and is nowhere to be found. NTAC gets a new director. Kyle meets a young woman named Cassie who has some advice about how to get Shawn out of his coma. Jordan shows up to deal with the high school kid.
- After taking promicin, an old lady named Audrey Parker develops the ability to astral project from her body. When she's murdered, her spirit tries to reach Tom and Diana to help them find her killer. Shawn decides to re-open the 4400 center and start healing again despite the government's warnings. Ben and Maia come to Seattle to visit Diana. Cassie leads Kyle to some interesting information.
- The NTAC nerd squad bring to their Director's attention a 4400, Curtis Peck, who was a shoestring budget film maker and continues to be one, except that his 4400 ability seems to be to receive script pieces that combine to tell the true, complete answers to haunting questions, like "What happened to Jimmy Hoffa?" and "Who shot JFK?". And now he's missing and he left a video message where he told that Jordan Collier is not the real threat - there is something far more dangerous, and now they are after him. Peck's producer shows a trailer of the film Peck was supposed to start making, "The Marked", to Tom and Diana, and it paints a new, frightful picture: In the future the 4400 are supposed to prevent, exists a group of powerful individuals who like their time just the way it is and have irrevocably replaced the minds of ten important persons of the present time with the minds of their agents. Peck calls them "The Marked" because each one supposedly has an X-shaped mark behind their left ear because of the mind-replacing procedure. So far, Peck has received only one name. When Tom and Diana start investigating, Peck's unbelievable conspiracy theory starts to gain credibility... Meanwhile, Shawn meets Collier and tells him that he can't join Collier's cause because he needs to focus on his politic opponent, Gabriel Hewitt. Soon after that, Hewitt suffers a stroke. A coincidence?
- Diana catches her sister April, who has survived a promicin shot and gained an ability the full potential of which she fails to grasp - to make anyone answer truthfully to any question posed by her. She has teamed up with a man she loves and they are blackmailing people who have dirty secrets. But then they bite more than they can chew and April's beloved gets murdered. The only way to get the people responsible to answer for their crimes would be for April to turn herself into NTAC custody and lose her precious freedom., Meanwhile, Shawn decides to run for the mayor's office and Isabelle helps Kyle translate the coded section of the White Light book - which results in a shocking revelation.
- Shawn gets bad publicity when he ends up having sex with the daughter of a woman whom he cured and it turns out to be a trap when the girl tells the media her story. Maia paints a vision that at first doesn't make sense, but then the nerds at NTAC match it to the most polluted - and more crucially, abandoned - part of Seattle, making it the perfect hiding place for Collier, his 4400s and P+es. Tom and Diana try to investigate, but find out that Collier has set an uncrossable perimeter around his "Promise City". When Collier starts broadcasting live footage of a P+ turning the poisoned water perfectly clean and declares his peaceful intentions but also states that they are not to be interfered, the government sends in a squad of super soldiers to take him down.
- Now that he knows Kyle is Promicin Positive ("P+"), Tom sets out to track him down. His journey leads him to a town that is no longer on the map and the people of which are not ordinary. Meanwhile, Maia has terrible visions of 4400s and P+es being dragged to prison camps. And her visions always come true.
- Richard and Isabelle are pursued by NTAC. Elsewhere, a test is developed that determines if people can be killed by promicin.
- A lockdown at NTAC threatens the lives of Tom, Diana, Meghan, Shawn, Kyle, Jordan, Isabelle, Maia, Marco, PJ and Brady when they wakeup inside the building with no recollection of how they got there.
- Malfunctioning ATMs lead agents Tom and Diana to a man who made threats against a large tech firm. The Marked make their presence known.
- Danny Farrell's newfound ability to spread promicin leads to several hundred deaths, including his mother. With Seattle in chaos, NTAC is forced to accept Promise City's offer of help.
- Marco finds a way to get the old Tom back, but it is dangerous and they don't have a very long time.
- As the reappearance of 4,400 missing persons on a single day confounds the global community, federal agents on the case slowly discover the ways in which the victims have been changed.
- Framed for murder and on the run, a former thief struggles to expose the vanguard of an alien invasion with the help of a conspiracy theorist and newly discovered prophecies of Nostradamus.
- George Lucas's whole life has been leading to Star Wars, but can ILM finish the job on time?
- Bill Murray worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a terrible snowstorm in New York City.
- Two brothers try to handle all the problems of running a hip-hop/rap record label in New York.
- A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing his first film in ten years, "Youth Without Youth" (2007). The documentary also includes family home movies, clips from Coppola's first short film "No Cigar" (1956) and footage from the set of his films "The Rain People" (1969), "The Conversation" (1974) and the never-produced "Megalopolis".
- A documentary exploring the origins of the famed Coppola family of musicians and filmmakers.
- A teacher takes a job in a small remote community and finds the inhabitants to be strange with unsettling rules imposed on even her young students. On learning more about the people she finds that things are not at all what they seemed.
- A documentary about the inventor of the first electronic synthesiser instrument and his subsequent life after he was abducted by the KGB as well as a history of his instrument.
- A depiction of the true life story of Gertrude Lintz, an eccentric 1920's socialite who tries to raise a gorilla, like many chimps before him, as part of her family.
- A fast moving odyssey into the subterranean world of the rarely explored province of Filipino genre filmmaking.
- In the 25th century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly controlled society.