The Eleventh Hour

The Eleventh Hour is a phrase meaning "late in the day", taken from a passage in the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard in the King James Bible.

The Eleventh Hour also may refer to:

Film

Television

The Eleventh Hour (branding)

The Eleventh Hour and The Sixth Hour were brand names given to the eleven P.M. and six P.M. (respectively) local newscasts on NBC owned-and-operated television stations (such as WNBC-TV and KNBC-TV) from the mid-1960s until about 1974, when the NewsCenter branding began to be used. Other NBC affiliates not directly owned by the network also used this branding.

The name is not to be confused with a dramatic series of the same name which ran on NBC in the early 1960s, or a similarly named series on CBS which ran in 2008.

See also

The Eleventh Hour (children's book)

The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery (1988) is an illustrated children's book by Graeme Base. In it, Horace the Elephant holds a party for his eleventh birthday, to which he invites his ten best friends (various animals) to play eleven games and share in a feast that he has prepared. However, at the time they are to eat—11:00—they are startled to find that someone has already eaten all the food. They accuse each other until, finally, they're left puzzled as to who could have eaten it all. It is left up to the reader to solve the mystery, through careful analysis of the pictures on each page and the words in the story.

The book was a joint-winner of the "Picture Book of the Year" award from The Children's Book Council of Australia.

History

Base was inspired to write the book by reading Agatha Christie novels. He travelled to Kenya and Tanzania in 1987 observing animals in game parks and collecting ideas for the book.

Style

Written in rhyme, the book includes large and lavish full-page illustrations of Horace's opulent house and the events of the party, packed with hidden details. The author invites the reader to deduce the identity of the thief by examining the illustrations and making deductions and observations. Also among the details in the illustrations are hidden messages, ciphers, and codes for amateur cryptographers (for example, one page's border consists of Morse code while another page set in the ballroom contains musical clues as to which guest is guilty). The biggest and most noticeable clue lies in a paragraph of ciphertext at the end of the book, which is to be decrypted, once the reader has discovered the identity of the thief, by means of a Caesar cipher mapping A to the first letter of the guilty animal's name. The solution to the cipher confirms the answer to the puzzle and offers an additional challenge to the reader.

Eleventh Hour (Del the Funky Homosapien album)

Eleventh Hour is the fifth studio album by American hip hop artist Del the Funky Homosapien. It was announced and partially recorded in 2004, but didn't come out until March 11, 2008, when it was released on Definitive Jux. It is Del's first solo album in eight years, following his 2000 album Both Sides of the Brain. The album is produced by Del himself with additional production from Opio, KU, and J-Zone.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Eleventh Hour received an average score of 69% based on 18 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

The album debuted at number 122 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling 5,810 copies in its first week.

Track listing

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The 11th Hour (film)

The 11th Hour is a 2007 documentary film, created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment. It was directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners and financed by Adam Lewis and Pierre André Senizergues, and distributed by Warner Independent Pictures.

Its world premiere was at the 2007 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival (May 16–27, 2007) and it was released on August 17, 2007, in the year in which the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations global warming panel IPCC was published and about a year after Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, another film documentary about global warming.

Plot

With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, and environmental activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, journalist Armand Betscher, and Paul Hawken, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy.

Eleventh Hour (1942 film)

Eleventh Hour (1942) is the twelfth of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. Produced by Famous Studios, the cartoon was originally released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on November 20, 1942.

Plot

While Clark Kent and Lois Lane are prisoners in wartime Japan, Superman becomes a saboteur.

In the Japanese City of Yokohama the Eleventh Hour strikes and a ship is turned over. Superman escapes searchlights while sirens go off and goes through a window, putting a barred grille back in place. Lois asks if Clark is awake, to which he asks who could sleep through a racket like this. Lois says the racket has been happening every night since they have been interned. Clark says it may be sabotage, which Lois also hopes. She wonders if Superman is responsible. A guard tells them to stop talking.

A Japanese Official says the sabotage must stop at once. As the Eleventh Hour strikes, Clark looks at his watch and leaves the window, returning as Superman. He leaves the room by removing the grille and drags a ship over into the sea. Sabotage happens every night at the Eleventh Hour, and the Official again says the sabotage must stop. Lois sees Superman as he leaps between buildings. She says outside Clark's room that it is Superman, she just saw him, and the Japanese have a 'swell chance' of catching him. However a guard covers her mouth from behind and drags her out. Notices are put up saying 'Warning! Superman One more act of Sabotage and the American Girl Reporter will be executed at once'.