Wild Australia: The Edge brings us into a world full of exotic and unique flora and fauna through the eyes of explorers. The movie is filmed in Australia’s largest city, featuring in all its glory Australia’s Blue Mountains wilderness. The film takes us to waterfalls, canyons and underground rivers and allows us viewers to marvel at the delicate wild life that this natural treasure houses. The Edge was a Heliograph Production and was released in 1996 by Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. The film became an important eye-opener for every tourist who would want to take the opportunity to explore this beautiful place on earth.

“A math teacher’s presentation to other middle and high school teachers”

This site is a companion to the presentation “Math in the Movies – Using movie clips for motivation and mathematical connections.”

Movie clips are known to attract the interest of students and are often considered as efficient and real-life applications of mathematical topics since they are more fun, creative and more engaging. Using three-minute clips from well-known movies, one can determine the stage for a lesson or show a problem to solve for the students. The presentation will consist of different movie clips currently being used as learning materials with ninth and tenth graders.

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, makers of ‘The Sound of Music’ have left so many wonderful songs in this most popular musical film of all time. One of the most beloved songs written for this film is the love song Edelweiss (a white flower found high in the Alpine Hills). Accompanied with a guitar, Capt Von Trapp(portrayed by Christopher Plummer) sung the song towards the end of the Saltzberg concert as he offers it to his fellow Austrians saying these lines ‘ I would like to sing for you now…a love song. I know you share this love. I pray that you will never let it die.’ Capt. Von Trapp became emotional towards the middle of the song that Maria joined him and the people sung with them. The Germans have no idea that it is a patriotic song and the Austrians are singing it out of great love for their country. Edelweiss was the last song written together by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The latter died of a terminal stomach cancer. Edelweiss as popular as it became was mistaken to be the national anthem of Austria.

A timeless classic, Casablanca has set a benchmark in the history of films. It is a story of love and self sacrifice in the midst of World War II. Humprey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman who played Rick and IIsa, had to sacrifice their love for each other for a greater cause. A film which gives significance to its musical score, anyone who had watched the film would never forget the scene where lovely IIsa requested Sam(the piano player) to play the timeless classic song’ As time goes by’. IIsa hum the song and Rick came out from the background and saw IIsa, the woman from his past. This particular scene from then on became one of the most romantic scenes in the film’s history.

Marilyn Monroe was not the only major sex symbol during the 50’s. Jayne Mansfield was an American actress and Playboy model who also became one of the contemporaries of Miss Monroe as the leading blonde sex symbols in the 1950’s. Born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933, Mansfield starred in many successful Hollywood films which popularized her platinum-blonde hair and sexy figure. She was awarded a Golden Globe Award and a Theatre World Award for two early screen and stage performances. Although her career was short-lived, she still managed to acquire celebrity status through several box office hits. She died in an automobile accident at 34.

Everyday, millions and millions of short video clips are uploaded on the web. These video clips are either produced by professionals or amateurs and are uploaded for sharing using a variety of video sharing sites like YouTube and Google video. Oftentimes, amateurs publish their video clips for the sake of having fun and entertainment by sharing them with other people. Professionals, on the other hand, produce and publish video clips to create traffic to their web sites in order to market or advertise their products or services for business. Such are reasons why one makes use of video clips either for entertainment or for profit.