[Roy Chapman] Andrews is best remembered for the series of
dramatic expeditions he led to the
Gobi of Mongolia (shorter films:
1,
2) from 1922 to 1930. Andrews took a team of scientists into previously unexplored parts of the desert using some of the region’s first automobiles with extra supplies transported by camel caravan.
Andrews – for whom
adventure and narrow escapes from death were a staple of exploring – is said to have served as inspiration for the Hollywood character “
Indiana Jones.”
Andrews’s expeditions to the Gobi remain significant for, among other discoveries, their finds of the first nests of dinosaur eggs, new species of dinosaurs, and the fossils of early mammals that co-existed with dinosaurs.
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posted by ersatz
on Feb 17, 2013 -
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The "Raiders" Story Conference In 1978 George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan spent five consecutive nine-hour days hashing out the characters and plot for
Raiders of the Lost Ark. The 125-page transcript of their meetings, unreleased before now, details their
insane talent and techniques for populist storytelling. (It also makes one wonder what happened to George Lucas, a man who once had a
math formula for exciting cinema.)
via Ain't It Cool News, unfortunately
posted by incomple
on Mar 10, 2009 -
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Indiana Jones and the Geriatric Star Spielberg and Ford confirm it to Fox News -- Indy will don his fedora again after Spielberg's next project. The film has a title and a script (they're mum on both). Can Harrison Ford be a believable hero at his age? He looked winded in Air Force One a few years ago...
posted by krewson
on Jan 22, 2002 -
42 comments
