An anvil is a block with a hard surface on which another object is struck. The block is as massive as is practical, because the higher the inertia of the anvil, the more efficiently it causes the energy of the striking tool to be transferred to the work piece.
Hi braitman, The last silent film Hollywood ever produced was the 1935 love story Legong: Dance of the Virgins, which director Henri de la Falaise shot on location in Bali with an all-native cast. Last silent movie produced by Hollywood: Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935). The movie was filmed in Bali and features an all-native cast.
'The Day the Earth Stood Still'. Men in Black and Contact, two films about aliens, brought people into movie theaters during the summer of '97. And Independence Day, in which hostile aliens blow up the White House, broke box-office records in 1996. In 1951, The Day the Earth Stood Still featured a spaceship carrying a spaceman and a robot that lands on the Ellipse. Its special effects don't come close to the three films mentioned above, but like Contact, it makes you think. The movie's pacifist message is just as relevant more than 45 years later.