Ring of Fire (1991 film)

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Ring of Fire
DVD cover
Directed byGeorge Casey
Written byLawrence Blair
George Casey
David L. Hamilton
Sean MacLeod Phillips
Produced byGeorge Casey
Paul Navros
Narrated byRobert Foxworth
Edited byTim Huntley
Music byMichael Stearns
Release date
  • 1991 (1991)
Running time
40 minutes
CountriesUnited States
Spain
LanguageEnglish

Ring of Fire is a 1991 documentary film in

Ring of Fire
, around the Pacific Rim. The film runs 40 minutes.

The film was jointly presented by the

San Diego, California
.

The film has eight main segments, corresponding to chapters in the DVD release:

1. Ring of Fire: an overview of the region using

Hawaiian lava flows
as an illustration of how early Earth might have looked. Footage of a new volcano in Chile is also shown.

2. The San Francisco Quake of '89: looks at the 1989

San Francisco, California and its aftermath, including IMAX footage of the rescheduled game of the 1989 World Series
, ten days after the quake.

3. Mount St. Helens: includes IMAX footage from about 10 years after the 1980 eruption, and the famous time sequence of the eruption taken at the time.

4. Floating on Hot Liquid: looks at the

plate movement and magma
flow up through the crust.

5. Learning to Live With a Volcano: life in Sakurajima, an island in Japan where eruptions are almost constant and evacuation drills are an annual event; sulfur mining at Kawah Ijen.

6. Buddhas Keep Watch: Using the temple of Borobudur and the Balinese Kecak dance as a frame, shows how Indonesians live with the simultaneous threat and fertility provided by their volcanoes.

7. The Center of the Ring: Looks at volcanism on

Kilauea and Mauna Loa
, Footage includes roads, houses and cars destroyed by advancing lava, and underwater lava flows.

8. End Credits

Ring of Fire was released as a VHS video in 1995, and as a DVD in 1997 (rereleased in 2006). It was released on Blu-ray on July 12, 2011, and is also available in HD from the iTunes Store.

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