#3 | A Fever Dream

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Tv & Film, Drama, Film History, Fiction

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Young James engineers a hot air balloon in Chippawa, Ontario. Tension builds on the set of Piranha II. James embraces his worst nightmare.

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0:00.0	James Cameron was a 13 year old bookworm, two years younger than others in his grade.
0:09.0	Easy prey for bullies until he negotiated a deal with one of the jocks to do his math homework in
0:14.1	exchange for protection. In genius really for his little boring suburb of Chippewa
0:19.4	Ontario. Chippewa was a town just on the other side of Niagara Falls and you could
0:27.0	hear the distant crashing thunder of water rushing all throughout the
0:31.0	neighborhood. It was April, 1968, and the Canadian winter had finally thawed.
0:37.0	That meant lots of after-school adventure and experiments for James,
0:41.0	who became a ringleader among his friends and younger siblings, and today he was organizing a special project.
0:47.0	How does it fly without wings?
0:50.0	Because, the heat.
0:51.0	Yeah, hot air rises.
0:53.2	Oh, yeah. I knew that.
0:55.2	You know, like a blimp or something.
0:57.8	Oh, a zeplin.
0:58.8	Exactly.
0:59.8	So we have to glue all these bags together into a big bubble.
1:03.2	Then we put the candles underneath it, this.
1:07.0	Whoa, that's not too heavy?
1:08.0	Not if we get enough candles.
1:09.5	We need all the candles.
1:10.8	Oh, yeah, okay.
1:12.0	No, you say, Roger that. Oh, Roger that. Yeah, and then Mike, you go get the string from the attic.
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