Cephalopod size the original tissue samples—together with those of other similar carcasses—showed conclusively that they were all masses of the collagenous matrix of whale blubber (Pierce "et al.", 1995; 2004). Cephalopods of enormous size have featured prominently in fiction (see Garcin & Raynal, 2011; Barrère, 2017). Some of the best known examples include the giant squid from Jules Verne's 1870 novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and its various film adaptations; the giant octopus from the 1955 monster movie "It Came from Beneath the Sea"; and the giant squid from Peter Benchley's 1991 novel "Beast" and the TV film adaptation of
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky is a 2005 BBC television serial depicting the lives of three working class Londoners in the inter-war period. The series is based on the trilogy '’20,000 Streets Under the Sky'’ by British author Patrick Hamilton. It stars Sally Hawkins, Zoe Tapper and Bryan Dick. The three-part drama was shown on BBC Four, accompanied by the documentary "Words, Whisky and Women" and was also released on DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray. The series was released in the United States on 11 February 2006 on BBC America. The "Los Angeles