ernest hemingway actually got into a car accident and was hospitalized here with a broken arm.nately, that didn't end his writing career. >> well, billings was placed in the heart of crow country. the crow indian reservation is across the yellowstone river. the crow have always been a part of billings history. early on, they came here, traded in the stores that opened. later on the crow were a big part of our annual fair. and of course, today, a lot of people in billings travel to the annual crow fair and celebrate crow culture and traditions. >> reporter: billings is also known for its striking natural beauty. it's hard to believe that this area was once covered by a great sea. >> there are large cliffs of sandstone around billings. great walls of rock. we call them the rimrocks, or the rims. that's all that's left of that great inland sea. >> reporter: from the top of the rims, you can see present day billings. >> well, billings has always been a major transportation center here in the northern great plains. it had irrigation, which allowed agriculture to prosper. we grow sug

he adapted ernest hemingway's the old man and the sea into an animated film on twenty nine thousand painted it's of glass and sned in one thousand nine hundred nine academy award for animated short film he showed me how he shot the frames with a custom made motion control imax camera system. i've made several films here here i've raised my pupils a napper to supply in the making of my films i had that soon they're going to have their own ideas and will start working on their own projects and my dream has come true for. other movers and shakers in the industry are generating people of their own but anyway not much more physical way wilmont carts in hollywood and russian movie career has taken his stance to guard film to a whole new level. to get over the past five years we've been training people mostly boys and men who want to master this profession they come from all over russian training four or five times a week with complex stunts it's very. your talents are real stuntmen aboard here in this car but there are more ways to jump into the movies than playing with fire in jaroslava just go

then what brought you to stop us oh my god i think it was probably a film strip i saw about ernest hemingway at the public library in prairie village kansas you know in the it was seventy's i don't know i like books i like writing but i always have i don't know what to tell you and then i decided i would become a well i mean how i got to where i am today is you know i went through i went through the problem was going to become a historian i was going to go to graduate school and get a ph d. in history i actually did that but i came out in the worst job market for historians in like you know forever i mean it's dreadful and so what's the alternative it turns out and this is this is actually kind of. funny when i got out of graduate school in the mid nineties becoming a journalist looked like a good practical alternative a practical way to earn a living you know today it's journalism is falling apart even faster than academia but back then you know it made sense that that's really interesting that the the. the connection to writing and the connection to politics how you know you were you and t

. >>> there's hollywood romance in san rafael, where crews are shooting a movie about ernest hemingway and martha gel horn. scenes were shot at st. vincent's school for boys yesterday. the hbo movie stars collide owen and nicole kidman. it's-- clyde oen and nicole kidman. >>> we're hearing about broken radiation monthers just now being -- monitors just now being fixed. why there's concern about our radioactive power plants. >>> welcome back. 7:23. theirs rising pressure on japan to expand the evacuation zone around the nuclear power plant. the international atomic agency says japan should extend the zone to 12 miles after detecting signs of radiation contamination. >>> here in california, there's real concern that a radiation alert system just wasn't completely functioning during the japanese nuclear crisis. monitors set up in los angeles, san bernardino and san diego were offline along with several others in the u.s. >>> 7:23. scientists at uc berkeley are conducting their own tests on bay area water, milk and grass. the tests confirm trace radioactive particles from japan can be dete