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Rainmaker Studios Films
Rainmaker or The Rainmaker may refer to: * A practitioner of rainmaking * A practitioner of rainmaking (ritual) Characters * The Rainmaker, a mysterious character in the film ''Looper (film), Looper'' * Sarah Rainmaker, a fictional character from the ''Gen¹³, Gen13'' comic book series Film and television * The Rainmaker (1926 film), ''The Rainmaker'' (1926 film), a lost American silent film * The Rainmaker (play), ''The Rainmaker'' (play), by N. Richard Nash ** The Rainmaker (1956 film), ''The Rainmaker'' (1956 film), starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn ** ''The Rainmaker'', John Frankenheimer's 1982 television film * The Rainmaker (novel), ''The Rainmaker'' (novel), a novel by John Grisham ** The Rainmaker (1997 film), ''The Rainmaker'' (1997 film), starring Matt Damon and Danny DeVito ** The Rainmaker (TV series), ''The Rainmaker'' (TV series), a 2025 television series Music Albums * Rainmaker (Fair Warning album), ''Rainmaker'' (Fair Warning album) (1995) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainmaking
Rainmaking, also known as artificial precipitation, artificial rainfall and pluviculture, is the act of attempting to artificially induce or increase precipitation, usually to stave off drought or the wider global warming. According to the clouds' different physical properties, this can be done using airplanes or rockets to sow to the clouds with catalysts such as dry ice, silver iodide and salt powder, to make clouds rain or increase precipitation, to remove or mitigate farmland drought, to increase reservoir irrigation water or water supply capacity, to increase water levels for hydropower generation, or even to solve the global warming problem. In the United States, rainmaking was attempted by traveling showmen. It was practiced on the American frontier, but may have reached a peak during the Dust Bowl drought of the US west and midwest in the 1930s. The practice was depicted in the 1956 film '' The Rainmaker''. Attempts to bring rain directly have waned with development of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
