But stop-motion animation has rapidly become a lost art, desirable as it is. And I've seen some truly awful CGI effects but don't remember any awful stop-motion animation. Even the primitive stop-motion in 1925's The Lost World and 1933's King Kong is memorable. Unfortunately, production companies are run by bean-counters and technology freaks like George Lucas (who thought dazzling special effects could overcome any shortcomings in a script). The Nightmare Before Christmas has charm that a CGI version would never have. Yet, due to its cost, stop-motion animation is going the way of B&W television. Sad to say.
Agreed. Had a good time but I feel kinda guilty about it today. I have run across many rattlesnakes in the wild and just let them be. In the backyard, now, that's a different story. When I was in Boy Scouts about 55 years ago, we used to eat fried rattlesnake - flaked like fish and tasted like chicken. And I've had rattlesnake chili at a chili festival. But I never kill snakes without good cause. Last time was when I killed a coral snake in the yard when my son was a young child (he found it).
I went to one of these back in the 70's, in Sweetwater, Texas (which actually gets its water from Bitter Creek). But I don't support them now. The snakes control rodents and other pests and simply shouldn't be killed indiscriminately en masse.
"They also used an instrument called an electrocautery, which ignited the oxygen." The engineer in me cannot let this pass. Oxygen does not ignite - it causes other materials to ignite. Natural gas would ignite, but not oxygen. Its danger is that 100% oxygen causes ordinary materials like cotton to become quite flammable. If our atmosphere were 100% oxygen instead of about 21%, forests would auto-ignite.
Now THESE are snakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YezO1ObT_eU
I went to one of these back in the 70's, in Sweetwater, Texas (which actually gets its water from Bitter Creek). But I don't support them now. The snakes control rodents and other pests and simply shouldn't be killed indiscriminately en masse.
The engineer in me cannot let this pass. Oxygen does not ignite - it causes other materials to ignite. Natural gas would ignite, but not oxygen. Its danger is that 100% oxygen causes ordinary materials like cotton to become quite flammable. If our atmosphere were 100% oxygen instead of about 21%, forests would auto-ignite.