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File:How Green Was My Green Felt Jungle.jpg|link=How Green Was My Green Felt Jungle|'''''[[How Green Was My Green Felt Jungle]]''''' is a cautionary novel about a Welsh family and the gambling community in which they live: Las Vegas.
File:The Thin Red World.jpg|link=The Thin Red World|'''''[[The Thin Red World]]''''' is an epic historical romantic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick, depicting the violent founding of New Jamestown on Mars and the inter-planetary breeding program allegedly run by Captain John Smith.
File:The Thin Red World.jpg|link=The Thin Red World|'''''[[The Thin Red World]]''''' is an epic historical romantic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick, depicting the violent founding of New Jamestown on Mars and the inter-planetary breeding program allegedly run by Captain John Smith.


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* ''[[How Green Was My Envy]]''
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* [[I've seen people you things wouldn't believe]]
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* [[Musical anvils]]
* [[Musical anvils]]

Revision as of 10:10, 8 September 2022

Earliest known promotional art for How Uncanny Was My Valley.
A face mask of the wearer's own face, an inspiration for How Uncanny Was My Valley.

How Uncanny Was My Valley is a 1941 film about the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family on Mars, from the point of view of the youngest child Pkd, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents, and his five brothers, in the Valles Marineris during the early modern era.

The story chronicles life in the Martian colonies, the widening gaps between the "Cannies" (human colonists) and the "Uncannies" (android-Martian hybrids), and its effects on the family.

The Waking of the Slate

The film gives a realistic depiction of the traditional Welsh Waking of the Slate ritual.

Anvils In Flight

The musical anvils band Anvils In Flight appears briefly in a bar fight scene performing the introduction to their hit song "Never Touch Ground" (better known as "Anvils Above").

Origin

The concept originated in a Facebook post on the afternoon of Tuesday June 15, 2020.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links

  • Post @ Twitter (5 August 2022)
  • Post @ Twitter (20 April 2022)
  • Post @ Twitter (22 January 2022)