Noren, Andrew Noren was an American avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker, painter, and socialite. Kenneth Anger, Kenneth Anger is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author Gregory Markopoulos, American experimental filmmaker Robert Beavers, American experimental filmmaker James Broughton, American poet and poetic filmmaker George Kuchar, American underground film director and video artist, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic Brian Yuzna, Filipino-born American producer, director, and writer Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic Terry Gilliam, American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe Will Vinton, American animator and filmmaker Spike Lee, American film director, producer, writer, actor, and professor David Attenborough, British television executive, presenter and natural history producer Actors Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer James Dean, American actor Marilyn Monroe, American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era's changing attitudes towards sexuality. Intellectuals Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the United States National Book Award. Mahatma Gandhi, Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist Explorers Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On May 29, 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. Jacques Piccard, Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater submarines for studying ocean currents. Haroun Tazieff, Polish, Belgian and French volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books on volcanoes. Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany and geography. Heyerdahl is notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km across the Pacific Ocean in a hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. Documentaries There are two documentaries about the history of the Bolex camera. Beyond The Bolex, a biographical film about Bolex founder Jacques Bogopolsky (later anglicized to Bolsey), is directed by his great-grand daughter Alyssa Bolsey, and features an in-depth look at the original notes, schematics, prototypes of Bolex A and B cameras A second product that is currently in production, is being undertaken by Swiss director Alexandre