- published: 19 Aug 2015
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A searchlight (or spotlight) is an apparatus that combines a bright light source with some form of curved reflector or other optics to project a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays in a particular direction, usually constructed so that it can be swiveled about.
The Royal Navy used searchlights in 1882 to prevent Egyptian forces from manning artillery batteries at Alexandria. Later that same year, the French and British forces landed troops under searchlights.
By 1907 the value of searchlights had become widely recognized. One recent use was to assist attacks by torpedo boats by dazzling gun crews on the ships being attacked. Other uses included detecting enemy ships at greater distances, as signaling devices, and to assist landing parties. Searchlights were also used by battleships and other capital vessels to locate attacking torpedo boats and were installed on many coastal artillery batteries for aiding night combat. They saw use in the Russo-Japanese War from 1904–05.
Actors: Milton Horowitz (actor), Joni Lewanski (editor), Joni Lewanski (producer), Joni Lewanski (actor), Joni Lewanski (writer), Joni Lewanski (director), Jack Hunt (miscellaneous crew), Kat Bi (actress), Mike Vamos (actor), Albert Chen (actor), Jim Sheehan (actor), Ashley Lyn (actress), Sara Oligny (actor), John S Matuszewski (actor), Frank Vazzano (composer),
Plot: Questions Sleep Can Answer is the story of Teresa, a paranoid schizophrenic who has learned that absolute submission to the voices she hears minimizes the day-and-night torment they impose upon her. This state of so-called harmony is disrupted when, in an unguarded moment, Teresa falls in love with Ben and raises the voices' fury. At the end of a series of dreams, Teresa fears that Ben is as demonic as the voices. Yet she recognizes, within the dream state, that continuing to surrender to the self-destructive momentum dictated by the voices is only going to further erode her morality and bring her to greater suffering. This realization breaks the hold that her voices have over her.
Genres: Drama, Short,