Clip 1 from the 1930s French documentary 'A la decouverte de la France: La Creuse ignoree' (Discover France: The unknown Creuse), about the Creuse region in France. Cyclists on road stop at bridge over the river Creuse, France, Europe....

Clip 3 from a 1955 French film 'Petits Paradis de Mediterranee' exploring the Mediterranean harbour and the South of France. Men and women play boules, and waterski in the sea. Scenes of villages in Monaco and footage of the Palace of...

'STRICTLY BALLROOM' MUSICAL: CONTEMPORARY THEMES WITH AN 'ANARCHIC' SETTING A musical version of "Strictly Ballroom" gets its debut in London next month, promising contemporary themes and an anarchic setting, according to...

May.20 -- P.W. Singer, author and strategist at New America, discusses the novel he co-authored with August Cole, "Burn-In." The book explores a future America where AI, robotics and remote work are more common. He and his co-author were...

St. Petersburg, Russia - July 11, 2010 1. Wide of beginning of the show 2. Mid shot actress performing on stage with puppet 3. Close up puppets during the show 5. Wide of actors backstage during performance 6. SOUNDBITE (Russian)...

AP Entertainment Los Angeles, 03 November 2007 1. Vince Vaughn speaks to reporter at "Fred Clause" premiere 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Vince Vaughn/Actor: "You know I respect whatever decisions that the Guild makes, hopefully we can come to...

Eng/Portu/Nat The largest book fair in South America opened in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday. There are more than 500 exhibitors, approximately 15-hundred book releases and an estimated 125-thousand titles on sale. Whilst literacy...

Harold Robbins / USA / 14th October / ENT 3 King of the Potboiler dies The American, Harold Robbins, author of numerous steamy best-sellers including "The Betsy," "The Carpetbaggers," and "Never Love a Stranger," died Tuesday (14/10) at...

AP Television London, United Kingdom - 16 April, 2008 1. Exterior shot of museum 2. Wide interior of people standing in front of map 3. Pullout of map 4. Mid shot bomb 5. Close-up bomb 6. Close-up handgun 7. Close-up golden gun 8....

1. Sign reading: (English and German) "China - Tradition and Innovation. Guest of Honour 2009 - Frankfurt Book Fair" 2. Wide of interior of Chinese pavilion 3. Visitors looking at laptops 4. Close-up of man carving Chinese characters...

Spanish/Nat A group of people in Argentina have been celebrating an unusual anniversary - the centenary of the horror story Count Dracula. The blood sucking vampire from Transylvania became legend with the publication of Bram (Abraham)...

Fans of comics and science fiction gathered Thursday to launch New York City's Comic Con weekend at the Javits Center. Attendees came dressed as their favorite heroes and villains for the first day of the four day event. "It's insane,...

AP Television Philadelphia, January 25, 2012 1. Wide of the Free Library of Philadelphia 2. Medium of the "Dickens" sign hanging outside the Free Library of Philadelphia 3. Close up of "celebrating 200 years of Charles Dickens" sign...

1. Wide of Royal Navy helicopter flying towards London's Tower Bridge 2. Supermodel Tuuli Shipster in Royal Navy fast boat with Marines heading for HMS Exeter 3. Cutaway of Navy personnel on deck 4. Author Sebastian Faulks shaking hands...

File: AP Television Sri Lanka - 16 December 2007 1. Science fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke being wheeled into surprise birthday party thrown by his friends at his Colombo home 2. Tilt down of Clarke cutting birthday cake on his...

Though this month's "The Hobbit" is the last one in its trilogy, the movie's actors say they plan to be quite busy next year. Evangeline Lilly, who played an elf in the films, is planning to shift her focus from acting to writing as...

Spanish/Nat Colombia's Nobel Prize winner for literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, has been hospitalised for exhaustion. Garcia Marquez, who is 72, was admitted late last week for medical tests at the Santa Fe Foundation clinic in...

1. Exterior of Agos, Armenian weekly newspaper, building 2. Entrance to the newspaper's office 3. Pan from books on shelves to Agos' director, Hrant Dink 4. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Hrant Dink, newspaper editor: "To me, this is a...

1. Wide pan of Israeli stand at Book Fair 2. Man reading books at Israeli stand 3. Tilt down of biographies on Israeli President Shimon Peres on display 4. Person flicking through pages of book 5. Peres standing for photographs with...

1. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa paying his respects at funeral for late British science-fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke 2. Rajapaksa speaking to relative of Clarke at funeral 3. Clarke's brother Frederic W. Clarke...

AP Entertainment Ogidi, 23 May 2013 1. Wide of Chinua Achebe's casket being carried into funeral service in Ogidi, Nigeria 2. Close of man looking at a funeral booklet bearing picture of Achebe 3. Various of choir singing 4. Wide of...

Fans of a romantic novel by author Orhan Pamuk are being urged to travel to Turkey to complete the book. The 83 chapters in "Kemal and Fusun" are on paper, but at the end of the book there's a free a ticket to a museum in Istanbul that...

Lima -19 October 2006 1. Exterior of bookstore where former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos' book is being sold 2. Wide of interior of bookstore 3. Books 4. Tilt up of copies of Montesinos' book "Mud Idols" 5. Medium of person...

Mandarin/Nat Gao Xingjian, the self-exiled author whose works are banned in his native China, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday - the first Chinese to win the award in its 100-year history. In exile in France since 1987, the...