Supermarionation a puppet hand, suspended by wires, operating the controls of "Thunderbird 1". The term "Supermarionation" was not coined until during production of later episodes of "Supercar". As a result, "Four Feather Falls" is often omitted from lists of Supermarionation productions. Two feature films based upon "Thunderbirds" were also made with Supermarionation: "Thunderbirds Are Go" (1966) and "Thunderbird 6" (1968). Numerous episodes of "Thunderbirds", "Captain Scarlet", and other series were also edited together (sometimes with the addition of new narration) to form movie-length features for VHS release and TV syndication in the 1980s. "The Secret Service" was actually a hybrid of
Talcott Parsons Sorokin's deep dislike for American civilisation, which he regarded as a sensate culture that was in decline. Sorokin's writings became increasingly anti-scientistic in his later years, widening the gulf between his work and Parsons' and turning the increasingly-positivisitic American sociology community against him. Sorokin also tended to belittle all sociology tendencies that differed from his own writings, and by 1934, Sorokin was quite unpopular at Harvard. Some of Parsons' students in the first years of the new department of Sociology were people like Robin Williams, Jr., Robert K. Merton, Kingsley Davis, Wilbert Moore, Edward C. Devereux, Logan Wilson, Nicholas Demereth,