Suggestion proposed by Simon in this comment. The Video Game Call of Duty 4 is literally peppered with spatial features, since many mission briefings are integrally presented with military graphic animations – maps, satellite images, troop movements … » Any supplementary information is welcome. Suggestion proposée par Simon dans ce commentaire. Le jeu Call of Duty…
In the latest Marc Lawrence’s movie Did You Hear About the Morgans?, with Hugh Grant and Jessica Parker, a killer searches on Google Maps for the name of the city where his targets have hidden. He finds : Ray, Wyoming. The spectator follows the entire search on the screen until the very detailed final map.…
There is one map in the Watchmen movie (see also Wikipedia). It appears in the War Room scenes behind President Nixon when the Army staff presents a simulation of the consequences of a Russian response to a US strike. This is an animated world map, first displayed at a medium scale, followed by a zoom…
We can find a very interesting and spectacular spatial machinery in the Prison Break TV show. In Season 1, Michael Scofield has incorporated elements of his escape plan in a tattoo that covers his upper half. The tattoo has hidden within it the blueprint of the prison and specific references for items and places that…
Angosto (La noche de los girasoles) is a Spanish-French movie film directed by the Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo and released in 2006. A cave was discovered in the surroundings of Cerredo in the Spanish Pyrenees. Two cavers come from the city to explore it. Two maps appear furtively in the movie. La Nuit des tournesols (La noche…
Each one of the two parts of the movie Che (dir. Steven Soderbergh 2009) starts with an animated map (at least in the North American version of the film): An animated map of the different Cuban provinces in Part I and an animated map of the different countries of South America in Part II. Both…
« Le Jardin de la France » (The Garden of France) is one of the most famous Max Ernst’s paintings. It depicts a woman’s body lying between sandbanks and islands near the confluence of Indre and Loire rivers. The work is fully representative of surrealism by the collage of different elements of reality that creates this feeling…
24 is certainly one of the most original and most influential TV series in recent years. It is also one of those with Alias that systematically use geospatial tools for telling stories. 24 (24 heures chrono en France) est certainement une des séries télévisées les plus originales et les plus marquantes de ces dernières années.…
Is this the first animated map ever? At least it is one of the first ones. It was created for a 1918 docudrama entitled Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific (Martin E. Johnson, 1918). An animated black line traces the journey of director Martin Johnson and his wife Osa from the New Hebrides…
On revient sur la fameuse et habiel carte qui ouvre chaque album d’Astérix, de Uderzo et Gosciny /\ Let give a look at the very famous and clever map that opens every Asterix’s album.
Google Maps appears in Joseph O’Neill’s novel Netherland. To the best of my knowledge, it is the first time that Google Maps appears in a literary work. If you have an earlier example, please write us a comment. Of course Google Maps doesn’t play a central role in the book. Google Maps appears in two…
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