Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2012 August 29

= August 29 =

Al Jazeera English documentary soccer women
What is the name of the documentary that was about a Women soccer team founded by a woman whose father was a referee and she wanted to make a milestone by a first female referee and first female soccer team? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.53.229.64 (talk) 03:55, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Using my Google-fu skills, I was able to dig up This page which indicates that the documentary you are looking for may be called "Girls FC". It looks as though you can view the documentary online there.  I don't know if this is the specific one you seek, but it's the best lead I could find.  -- Jayron  32  04:04, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

I forgot to mentioned that it was in Egypt and in co-production of CBC-Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.53.231.80 (talk) 15:40, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

The Cube Guys
Does anyone have any information on The Cube Guys? I danced all summer to their song "La Banda" (or Hey Nino as it's commonly known). Wikipedia doesn't have an article on them.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 08:44, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Short animated film in late 1970s with Godzilla type creature destroying rapidly growing city?
Most if not all freshmen where I went to college got together in an auditorium and watched this film. Skyscrapers were shown growing like plants. There were no lines but there might have been music. Then the cities got so big that the monster attacked and destroyed them. We all were in classes on how to adapt to being in college, and each class was supposed to discuss the film afterward, only the professor was the dean of students and he had to discuss a student who was in trouble (me, as it turns out) with other parties involved at the time.— Vchimpanzee  ·  talk  ·  contributions  · 20:00, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Is there any chance you're slightly misremembering and it's the Boléro section of Allegro Non Troppo? The timeline is right and the subject matter and lack of spoken lines kind of fit in. Matt Deres (talk) 20:43, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * That's definitely not it.— Vchimpanzee  ·  talk  ·  contributions  · 21:16, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Shot in the dark here... Maybe Gerald Scarfe's "Long, Drawn-out Trip"? It has a King King scene in it.  See .  -- Jayron  32  22:24, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Nope. They would have never shown that naked woman. Remember, this is a college class assignment.— Vchimpanzee  ·  talk  ·  contributions  · 16:57, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Paralympic filming
I believe for the Olympics, with the exception of NBC coverage who paid to have their own crews film US matches, OBS have responsibility for filming and distributing content to broadcasters and that they use their own crew as well as crews seconded from broadcasters. Is it the same for the Paralympics? 176.250.252.78 (talk) 22:33, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The OBS website only mentions that they operate for the XXX Olympiad of London 2012, which tends to suggest not. --TammyMoet (talk) 09:01, 30 August 2012 (UTC)


 * This UK article "Paralympics TV deals break new ground as ticket rush continues" says; "...Locog sells the Paralympics rights directly. It must also pay the Olympic Broadcast Service for production of the coverage, which is provided free for the Olympics under the host city contract." Also "Paralympics 2012: cumulative television audience for Games will be over four billion..." states; "Locog has hired the Olympic Broadcast Service to film and distribute the pictures around the world." Alansplodge (talk) 17:51, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * And on the OBS website "ABOUT OBS > Past, Present & Future! we have (scroll down to the bottom of the window); "29 August - 9 September: Paralympic Games, London". Alansplodge (talk) 17:54, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Obviously they haven't got round to putting it on a more prominent position then! --TammyMoet (talk) 18:43, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeed. It took a bit of digging. Alansplodge (talk) 23:38, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

BULL ISLAND 2 LABOR DAY WEEKEND 2012, ANYONE HEARING OF THIS?
NEEED INFORMATION ON THIS, WHO TO CONTACT? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.81.234.98 (talk) 23:15, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * See http://www.sodapoprevisited.com/ . This is the 40th anniversary of the original Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival held on Bull Island.  You can get all the information from that website.  -- Jayron  32  23:54, 29 August 2012 (UTC)