#krakatoa east of java

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me unironically loving this as a comfort movie. It´s on Youtube. 

....y con subtitulos en español!

Diana Baker-Maximilian Schell "Al este de Java" (krakatoa, east of Java) 1969, de Bernard L. Kowalski.

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i lied about going to sleep again ummm

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There are many similarities between Khmer art and Javanese art, but do you know that they share a common ancestor and that for more than twice?!

Kedah, Kutai, and Borneo island was a part of funan longtime ago since the era of Kaudinaya to fan shih-man . Then those area was longtime considered like a refuge for the period of Funan and also of Chenla by some kings attacked by Chinese just after the reign of Rudravarman of Funan , and by Chenla during the reign of Jayavarman 1

The inscription of Kotai ( earliest of Java 4 century ) mention to have Mulavarman, the son of Kundunga who was described like a dragon bearded like the Brahmin Kaudinya also composed in the Brahmi script such as the earliest inscription of south east Asia , found in Funan .

Also there is some princess, the daughter of Jayavarman 1 who was married with an Indians Brahmin and was the parents of the Sanna and Santana the 2 parents of Sanjaya dynasty later . Here some explaining:

Inscriptions refer two royal figures of the name Sanna and Sannaha as predecessors of Sanjaya. According to Javanese Tradition (History of Indonesia, B. R. Chatterji), Sanna and Sannaha were brother and sister, Sanjaya was the son of Sannaha. Connecting with the Khmer court of Ba-Phnom, the daughter of Jayavarman I, queen Jayadevi mentioned in one of her inscriptions about donations to a sanctuary of Siva Tripurantaka. This sanctuary was founded by the princess Sophajaya, also a daughter of Jayavarman I who married the Sivaite Brahman Sakravarmin born in India. It is in high probability that this Sivaite Brahman was connected to the sage Agastya who became known as the Sivaite Guru of both South India and Java. This new development that was credited to the sage Agastya in spreading the first time of Sivaite culture in South India was strongly seen as a contributing factor to the emergence of the Sivaite community in Central Java. On the other hand, Sanjaya have been related to the queen Jayadevi who was portrayed as queen Sima in a Chinese account.

The ruler of Ta-Tche sent a bag of gold to be laid down within her frontiers. The people, walking by, avoided the bag and it was untouched for a long time. One day, one of the crown princes stepped over it and the queen was furious. She ordered to have her own son executed, but with the objection of her court, a compromise was set to just cut off the toe that touch the bag of the gold.

The story portrays a provocation orchestrated by the kingdom of the Great Kingdom (Ta-Tche) which was no other than a Chinese reference to new formed Malayu kingdom under the control of Water Chenla.

The title SivaKandavarman, in particular, could be related to Skandacisya, mentioned to be the son of Aswataman (and the nagi queen) whom we had identified as king Hun-Tien of the Funan Empire (Kambuja Desa: The Funan court: King Hun Tien and the establishment of Funan). That could be the early ancestral lineage of the Pallava court when Aswataman still ruled the Menam Valley. Before they were driven out from Funan by the Chenla's uprising, evidences show that their residence was located on the Kedah mountain of Malaya and Ganthari was their new country founded as a reminiscence of Parthia (Nokor Khme: The Impact of Krakatoa: The Sea Trade Route). In that case, Skandacisya have been related to king Mulavarman who left an inscription at Kotei that was dated at the beginning of the fifth century. Other inscriptions that were erected by king Purnavarman at the middle of the same century were found at western part of Java (ISSA: The Indianization: The First Evidence of the Indianization of the Farther India). They are evidences that Ganthari already extended itself to western Java and probably to South India where they established Kanchipura as a seaport to control the straight of Malaka.

Indonesian and Cambodian share definitely the same bloodline of rulers in the past and can be considering in each other to be descendants of ancients brothers and countrymen

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A headshot of Sal Mineo for Krakatoa: East of Java, 1968.

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Book lithograph of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, East of Java.

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Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End of the World (Dorian Lynskey, 2024)

"The volcano Mount Tambora lies on the Sanggar peninsula on the island of Sumbawa in the Flores Sea, to the east of Java.

It had long been presumed extinct but the islanders had noticed an ominous cloud over the summit and a rumbling in the earth preceding the evening of 5 April 1815, when the mountain suddenly began firing clouds of volcanic ash 30 kilometres into the sky.

For the next few days, the Sun was dimmed by a humid fog and a soft rain of black ash fell on the surrounding islands.

Five days later, Tambora erupted with a force one hundred times greater than that of Vesuvius in AD 79.

It remains the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history, outdoing that of the more famous Krakatoa in 1883. (…)

During what became known as ‘the year without a summer’, the weather was conducive to an apocalyptic frame of mind.

Europe had slouched out of a punishingly cold, wet spring into an even worse summer.

Rivers and lakes burst their banks; newly planted crops drowned; churches teemed with parishioners praying for an end to the rain.

Bad weather, like war, can be a great unifier. Across the breadth of England, it was a national preoccupation.

In Chawton, Hampshire, an ailing Jane Austen worked on her sixth novel, Persuasion, as the rain battered the window panes.

‘It is really too bad, & has been for a long time,’ she wrote to her nephew, ‘much worse than anybody can bear, & I begin to think it will never be fine again.’

In north London, Samuel Taylor Coleridge bemoaned the impossibility of exercise due to ‘this end of the World Weather’. (…)

Not until 1913 did the meteorologist William Jackson Humphreys suggest a connection between Tambora and the year without a summer, and the process was not understood in detail until the 1980s.

Few people in Europe in 1816 knew that Mount Tambora even existed (The Times had mentioned the ‘Tomboro’ eruption just once) and those who did could not have imagined that a distant volcano could cause the rain to fall, the sky to dim and the harvests to fail.

In the absence of scientific explanations, fear and superstition filled the void.

Why would a significant number of people not have been persuaded that the world was coming to an end?"

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Krakatoa explodes

One of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history occurs on Krakatoa (also called Krakatau), a small, uninhabited volcanic island east of Sumatra and west of Java, on August 27, 1883. Heard 3,000 miles away, the explosions threw five cubic miles of earth 50 miles into the air, created 120-foot tsunamis and killed 36,000 people.

Krakatoa exhibited its first stirrings in more than 200 years on May 20, 1883. A German warship passing by reported a seven-mile high cloud of ash and dust over Krakatoa. For the next two months, similar explosions would be witnessed by commercial liners and natives on nearby Java and Sumatra. With little to no idea of the impending catastrophe, the local inhabitants greeted the volcanic activity with festive excitement.

On August 26 and August 27, excitement turned to horror as Krakatoa literally blew itself apart, setting off a chain of natural disasters that would be felt around the world for years to come. An enormous blast on the afternoon of August 26 destroyed the northern two-thirds of the island; as it plunged into the Sunda Strait, between the Java Sea and Indian Ocean, the gushing mountain generated a series of pyroclastic flows (fast-moving fluid bodies of molten gas, ash and rock) and monstrous tsunamis that swept over nearby coastlines. Four more eruptions beginning at 5:30 a.m. the following day proved cataclysmic. The explosions could be heard as far as 3,000 miles away, and ash was propelled to a height of 50 miles. Fine dust from the explosion drifted around the earth, causing spectacular sunsets and forming an atmospheric veil that lowered temperatures worldwide by several degrees.

Of the estimated 36,000 deaths resulting from the eruption, at least 31,000 were caused by the tsunamis created when much of the island fell into the water. The greatest of these waves measured 120 feet high, and washed over nearby islands, stripping away vegetation and carrying people out to sea. Another 4,500 people were scorched to death from the pyroclastic flows that rolled over the sea, stretching as far as 40 miles, according to some sources.

In addition to Krakatoa, which is still active, Indonesia has another 130 active volcanoes, the most of any country in the world.

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#1530: Krakatoa, the supervolcano that erupted in 1883 and was heard by the ear 3,000 miles away, is an interesting case for ecologists because the island was more or less completely wiped clean. (it's not actually East of Java, as per the film, rather to the West.) when the first people arrived 9 months later, the only sign of life they found was a single spider in the entire now-archipelago. within a year, grass had colonised it, and there's now a range of vegetation, albeit still quite vulnerable to the volcanoes that still have the occasional hissy-fit. in the 1910s, Johann Handl rented half of one of the islands, intending to collect pumice - he left after four years, but he's blamed for introducing the black rat, which has been kinda invasive and taken over. but i guess most of the species are technically invasive.

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SHORT FILMS NOMINATED 1933 OSCAR 6TH EDITION AWARDS.

KRAKATOA-SO THIS IS HARRIS-THE THREE LITTLE PIGS. (1091)

6th Academy Awards - Wikipedia

So This Is Harris is a 1933 American pre-Codeshortcomedy film directed by Mark Sandrich. It won an Oscar in 1934 for Best Short Subject (Comedy). The Academy Film Archive preserved So This Is Harris in 2012.

FILM SO THIS IS HARRY (1933)

1091-1 https://youtu.be/5j_aGVPibAA So This Is Harris - Wikipedia

Krakatoa is a 1933 American Pre-Codeshortdocumentary film produced by Joe Rock. It won the Academy Award in 1934 for Best Short Subject (Novelty). Educational Pictures (or Educational Film Exchanges, Inc.) was the film distributor of the film.

THE FILM KRAKATOA! (1933)

1091-2 https://youtu.be/pXMB5uCEICY

On the more adventurous side, an update: KRAKATOA, EAST OF JAVA - (1968) wikipedia

WATCH FILM:

1091-3 https://ok.ru/video/1415520127573

Three Little Pigs is a 1933 animated Short film released by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett. Based on the fable of the same name, the Silly Symphony won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

1091-4 https://youtu.be/B-x_QRww3Bk

In 1994, it was voted #11 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. In 2007, Three Little Pigs was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Three Little Pigs (film) - Wikipedia

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Vijftien jaar geleden zag ik "Krakatoa: East of Java" (Bernard Kowalski, 1968)

Op 01/08/2009 zag ik “Krakatoa: East of Java” van Bernard Kowalski uit 1968. Continue reading Vijftien jaar geleden zag ik “Krakatoa: East of Java” (Bernard Kowalski, 1968)

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Some of the more popular crabs in the exotic pet trade, are those that are traded as the vampire crabs, the genus Geosesarma. This genus of crabs is taxonomically confusing, but many of the crabs in captivity belong to two well known species from valleys in Central Java, G. dennerle and G. hagen. Geosesarma as a genus, including these two popular Javans, may be summarized as small and primarily terrestrial crabs, with a carapace of not more than 1.5 centimeters wide, or just over 1/2 of an inch. Their legspan is more variable between the species. Most varieties of vampire crab are best termed morphs, until their taxonomic status is ascertained.

The purple or blue vampire crabs are G. dennerle, an inhabitant of dense vegetation, and often found under or beneath rocks. Sometimes this species constructs burrows in loose earth. The more variably colored G. hagen is broadly of similar habitat preferences, and shares similar habits, but is found in closer association with hillstreams. Juveniles of both species stay close by the waters edge. A color morph of G. dennerle was formerly traded as G. bicolor 'Krakatoa', although Krakatoa is unsuitable as habitat for Geosesarma, because it lacks freshwater. G. bicolor has become something of a 'wastebasket taxon' for Geosesarma morphs, and color morphs that are traded as G. bicolor might well belong to different species.

Geosesarma sp. constitute an adaptive radiation, with Geosesarma species separated both by geography and ecology. Different species of Geosesarma crabs occupy different attitudes and microhabitats, with some of them living in damp leaf litter, and some of them more restricted to the waterside. They are found alongside both slow and fast flowing streams, although they are not aquatic crabs. Their habitat may also vary by their maturity, with amphibious habits for the juveniles whereas the older crabs move further from the streamside, to inhabit moist leaf litter. As a whole the genus has been characterized as 'limnic-terrestrial', meaning their habits are both amphibious and associated with freshwaters.

Only a very small minority of Geosesarma species possess, during their life cycles, a stage that is planktonic in the ocean, as is typical for crabs. Freshwater and terrestrial crabs tend to break with the sea by abbreviating their larval stages, in favor of direct development. At least one Geosesarma species, to my knowledge, has the charming habit of carrying its babies upon its back, though G. dennerle and G. hagen do not. The Geosesarma species commonly traded as vampire crabs, are entirely non marine and must not be housed in brackish water environments. However there is some variety in the flow and other parameters of water where different Geosesarma are recorded.

Although aquarist oriented care information would have it that Geosesarma sp. require hard and alkaline water parameters, this is not true across the genus and its populations. In the swamp forests of Thailand, the genus is found where the temperature of the water may be 23 degrees, and it's pH may be as low as 4. More typically, probably, this genus associates with waters better described as circumneutral. In East Java forests, the habitat of a species identified simply as Geosesarma sp. was large stones by streams. The water when sampled had a pH of 6.7 to 7.5, and a temperature of 26 to 27 degrees centigrade. The air humidity was also sampled, and found to be 75 to 81%.

Only around a 1/5 to 1/4 of the area of the aquaterrarium should be given over to the water portion, to accommodate these crabs. They burrow and some species of Geosesarma seem to avoid dessication in open areas, by burrowing under stones to find moisture. As burrowers, they do well with a substrate of pond-safe compost, specifically marketed for ponds accommodating fish. They also have an affinity for leaf litter and live moss. These crabs also climb on taller plants, although some species have this habit more than others.

Vampire crabs do need warm and humid but not stagnant air, requiring ventilation as do other land animals in aquaterrariums. They are averse to bright lighting, but live plants such as mosses do require lighting with an appropriate wavelength to survive and thrive. Geosesarma sp are described as crepuscular to nocturnal in habits. Although different Geosesarma species are likely to have subtly different diets in the wild, all of them appear to be omnivorous and, in captivity, they readily accept a broad range of dried or defrosted foods, as well as fresh pieces of fruits and vegetables. Both G. dennerle and G. hagen appear to be primarily insectivorous, and should not be housed with arthropods that they might overpower.

I am aware that Geosesarma sp have been cohabited with gecko species sharing their air humidity and temperature requirements, but I don't know what interactions the different species had. Cohabiting with fishes has resulted in violent altercations involving slow moving fishes, and predation on juvenile fish. Non-predatory altercations that turned violent, may have resulted from the shallow depth of the water that is usual in the aquaterrarium. Crabs do not always like fish to approach too closely, but ordinarily the crab is not under constant stress from their presence, and the fish simply swims away.

Notes about the captive care of G. dennerle and G. hagen show they are easily kept at an air temperature within 24 to 27 degrees centigrade, and with a water of circumneutral pH. More than one crab can cohabit if the setup is large and topographically complex enough for them to avoid each other, and it is even possible to mix individuals of different Geosesarma morphs. However, the mature vampire crabs are able to fight violently. When males and females are cohabited, they will likely breed, although baby crabs will be consumed by the adults, so older crabs should then be removed to another setup.

[kitchensinksurrealism]

yesterday I watched krakatoa, east of java (1968) and it was such a weird film like I had no idea what was even supposed to be happening like half the time

but I was thinking "wow this is the second time john leyton's been in a film where there's a claustrophobic guy who ends up in a claustrophobic situation" and I guess the thought must've been so powerful that I dreamt it happened a third time

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Krakatoa: East of Java (1968)

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski Starring: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith In 1883, ship captain Hanson plans a shipwreck salvage mission in The Dutch East Indies to retrieve a cargo of pearls but an unexpected volcano eruption and a state-ordered transport of convicts upset his plans. Against his will Captain Hansen – or should I say Captain Handsome! – is required to take 30…

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Krakatoa: East of Java (1968). In 1883, ship captain Hanson plans a shipwreck salvage mission in The Dutch East Indies to retrieve a cargo of pearls but an unexpected volcano eruption and a state-ordered transport of convicts upset his plans.

In keeping with the, errr, less than good movies I’ve watched recently for The Oscars Project, Krakatoa: East of Java is just a bit of a mess - bloated and overly lingering, it takes forever to trudge through scenes, plot and character arcs, ultimately making for a pretty dull viewing experience. It never quite hits its stride, and ultimately suffers for it. 3/10.

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KRAKATOA EAST OF JAVA (1968) - DISASTER MOVIES (Part 2/10)

An early Disaster movie with once again an all-star cast trying to survive a devastating volcano eruption. The Krakatoa is actually West of Java but the movie posters were printed before the producers found the info and they kept the title nonetheless!!!

Director: Bernard Kowalski

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Sal Mineo, Brian Keith, Diane Baker

Above are the US half sheet and one sheet along the Japanese poster. All have Art by Frank McCarthy.

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