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Show notes:

Avatar:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/

Trailer – http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/

Dances with Wolves:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099348/

Trailer – http://www.reelzchannel.com/trailer-clips/22264/dances-with-wolves-trailer

FernGully: The Last Rainforest:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104254/

Trailer – http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3349545241/

Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095243/

Trailer – http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi4138336537/

Pocahontas:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114148/

Trailer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdIIqoDakHU

Picture showing Pocahontas names crossed out, replaced with Avatar names – http://content8.flixster.com/photo/12/76/46/12764670_gal.jpg

Terminator 2: Judgment Day:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/

Trailer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWutJqsk0IE

War on Terror backdrop to James Cameron’s Avatar – http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/war-on-terror-backdrop-to-james-camerons-avatar/story-e6frg8pf-1225809286903

largest living organism on earth, a mushroom – http://www.extremescience.com/zoom/index.php/largest-living-thing

The botany of Pandora – http://sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com/2009/11/botany-of-pandora.html

Avatar: The Field Guide to Pandora: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora – http://astore.amazon.co.uk/defeofthemirt-21/detail/0061896756

Language created for Avatar – http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/11/usc-professor-creates-alien-language-for-avatar.html

Star Wars 3D – http://www.thewrap.com/article/star-wars-3d-works-13149

Spiderman Reboot! 3D – http://screenrant.com/spiderman-reboot-officially-3d-aco-44860/

***Could not find any reference to a Batman 3d*** (James?)

Michael Bay responds with a resounding not likely to doing Transformers 3 3D (JAMES!!!) – http://www.cinematical.com/2009/07/03/michael-bay-trashes-megan-fox-talks-transformers-3-and-3d/

A look at the animation techniques of Avatar – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq_nRfoBSm0

‘COMICBOOKCRANIUMCRAM’ Links:

Marvel Heroic Age announced – http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.10914.marvel~colon~_the_heroic_age

Bucky, Captain America’s original Sidekick – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky

Captain America himself – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_america

:’COMICBOOKCRANIUMCRAM’ Links

Windows Mobile Series 7 Demo – http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/First-Look-Windows-Phone-7-Series-Hands-on-Demo/

Previous concept for Windows Mobile 7 – http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/01/winmo7rounda18.jpg

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