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Grolier gives "The 1995 Guinness Multimedia Disc of Records" a lively new interface to help users find answers about extremes in just about every walk or run of life. More than 200 big new pictures accompany 15,000 record entries and fill the screen with bright and colorful immortalizations of major unsurpassed moments.
Videos include new audio tracks to enhance selected movies adding more narration and music. The roster of videos is expanded to include a mobile hotel, a record-breaking assortment of jack-o-lanterns, and the longest fingernails in recorded history. Another added feature, "About Guinness," is a delightful multimedia essay that integrates animation, pictures, audio and video. Here, users can take an in-depth look some Guinness Records based on interviews with some unusual, offbeat and eccentric record breakers.
For the deep-trivia diver, "The 1995 Guinness Multimedia Disc of Records" provokes in-depth record-browsing with its "Guess What?" game. This feature poses a question, provides a short and provocative answer, and invites the user to explore the disc further to locate more information on the topic. It is serendipitous searching at its best. |
