Also called the Turkish dress, American dress, or simply reform dress, bloomers were an innovation of readers of the Water-Cure Journal, a popular health periodical that in October 1849 began urging women to develop a style of dress that was not so harmful to their health as the current fashion.
Contact (1997 American film) Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. It is a film adaptation of Carl Sagan's 1985 novel of the same name; Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film.
The film was released on VHS in 2000 by Homevision. It was released in DVD format by Janus Films and The Criterion Collection under license from Studio Canal in June 2009, but was dropped from their catalogs in 2011.