Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 18, 2012
Transcript:
One golden poison dart frog from South America has enough toxin it skin to kill 10 men! 1953's House of Wax, one of the first 3-D movies, was directed by a man who only had one eye, Andre De Toth! The city of Orlando, Fla., USA, pumped tens of thousands of gallons of molasses into the ground to clean up a toxic dump!
rini1946 over 12 years ago
I am blind in one eye and not sure how he did it becasue you need both eyes to see the 3d effect.
zoidknight over 12 years ago
That was outlawed by the Screenwriters Guild.
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
Cleaning up a toxic dump might be the best use for molasses!
tadchem over 12 years ago
Besides being a vitamin and mineral-rich cooking ingredient, molasses is a very valuable livestock feed, and indispensible for making rum. We need to re-educate the bureaucrats who think that food should be thrown on the ground or poured into cars for the sake of the ‘environment’.
tadchem over 12 years ago
Read about the Great Molasses Flood in Boston (1919) that killed 21 people.
Stagger Lee over 12 years ago
If a Golden Poison Dart Frog can kill ten men. Then how many women can it kill?
Stephen Gilberg over 12 years ago
De Toth was the Beethoven of directors.
Fan o’ Lio. over 12 years ago
How many moles do you need to make a gallon of molasses?
moe_the_cat over 12 years ago
“Director” doesn’t always mean “shooter” of a film, he directs the Director of Photography whom I suspect had more than one eye going.Which would make 3 eyes on the project, maybe that’s what they meant by “3-D” ;)
trekkermint over 12 years ago
my local newspaper carries this only on sunday, with an extra panel, unique to sunday
tuslog64 over 12 years ago
The red/green glasses are used on black/white movies, the original COLOR 3Ds required polarized glasses. (I read somewhere that one movie was shot in 3D but not released in 3D. )