Orpheus the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval. Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy – "The Blood of a Poet" (1930), "Orpheus" (1950) and "Testament of Orpheus" (1959) – was filmed over thirty years, and is based in many ways on the story. Philip Glass adapted the second film into the chamber opera "Orphée" (1991), part of a homage triptych to Cocteau. Nikos Nikolaidis' 1975 film "Evrydiki BA 2O37" is an innovative perspective on the classic Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice. Dino Buzzati adapted the Orpheus motif in his graphic novel "Poem Strip" (1969). Neil Gaiman depicts
Trapped in the Sky Trapped in the Sky "Trapped in the Sky" is the first episode of "Thunderbirds", a British 1960s Supermarionation television series. Written by co-creators Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, it was first broadcast on ATV Midlands on 30 September 1965. The plot revolves around criminal mastermind the Hood, who sabotages the nuclear-powered airliner "Fireflash" prior to her maiden flight. Unable to land for fear of detonating a motion-sensitive bomb, and threatened by radiation leaking from "Fireflash"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s overworked atomic reactor, the crew and passengers' only hope of survival is the newly formed International Rescue Organisation. While drafting the episode, the Andersons found inspiration