Countdown to Hollywood - Day 0

A Visual Preview to the 2012 Classic Film Festival

It's Here!

Girl Shy

Hang on tight. The big day has arrived.
The next four days will pass quickly.
Make It Memorable.

Kyle,

Thanks for all the great links. I am an old time radio fan. Without them, how would we know who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

David in Seattle

"Kyle, I love those links to "Information, Please"! - SueSue

Cool! I am pleased someone is interested in them. Sharing the links to the radio shows were the main reason I chose to "promote" the Trivia Competition event during the Film Festival.

Definitely give a listen to the two episodes with Boris Karloff. You'll be amazed at the things he knows. What an educated man! And he pokes fun at himself and his role in "Arsenic And Old Lace" in which he was appearing on Broadway at that time.

Of the featured links, the Hitchcock episodes are the most "disappointing". He doesn't sound too interested in being there. None of his "humor" is on display. I guess he saved it all for the TV show that would come a decade later.

Definitely use this site to search out additional episodes.
http://otrrlibrary.org/i.html

It has the best quality recordings available for free download.

Kyle In Hollywood

Countdown to Hollywood - Day 3

A Visual Preview to the 2012 Classic Film Festival

"What Is The 39 Steps?"



For all the amateur "Mr. Memory"s among the attendees, Club TCM will host a friendly movie trivia competition hosted by Bruce Goldstein, the Repertroy Programmer of New York's Film Forum. So what's the answer to the enigma "What is "The 39 Steps"?" Is it "An Alfred Hitchcock Film"? Or "An organization of international spies"? Or "A Maguffin"? Take your pick and let Mr. Goldstein sort it out.

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Audio Materials for you or your iPod

Referenced in Woman Of The Year, there really was a semi-cerebral radio quiz program named "Information, Please". Here are a selection of episodes featuring special guests with connections to the offerings at the 2012 Classic Film Festival (and other interesting featured guests) to hone your "quizzical" thinking. Great for listening on a cross country flight.
Recording quality varies, fair to very good.

To download, Right Click and Choose "Save As..."

Ben Hecht, author - Nothing Sacred
http://archive.org/download/Information_Please_page1/Information_Please_-_380830_-_016_-_Ben_Hect_-_32-22_29m17s_6868.mp3

Claire Booth Luce, author - The Women
http://archive.org/download/Information_Please_page2/Information_Please_-_401001_-_126_-_Clair_Boothe_-_32-22_28m47s_6749.mp3

_Elmer Rice, author - Counsellor-At-Law
http://archive.org/download/Information_Please_page2/Information_Please_-_401206_-_135_-_Elmer_Rice-_Jan_Struther_-_32-22_28m55s_6781.mp3

Boris Karloff, actor - Frankenstein, et. al.
http://archive.org/download/Information_Please_page2/Information_Please_-_410124_-_142_-_Boris_Karloff-_Warden_Lewis_E_Laws_-_32-22_29m01s_6802.mp3

_Herbert Marshall, actor - Trouble In Paradise
http://archive.org/download/Information_Please_page2/Information_Please_-_401220_-_137_-_Louis_Bromfield-_Herbert_Marshall_-_64-48_29m03s_13618.mp3

Alfred Hitchcock, director - Vertigo, To Catch A Thief
http://archive.org/download/Information_Please_page2/Information_Please_-_410627_-_164_-_Alfred_Hitchcock_-_48-44_28m42s_10095.mp3

Mary Boland, actress - The Women
http://archive.org/download/Information_Please_page2/Information_Please_-_410711_-_166_-_Mary_Boland_-_48-44_29m24s_10338.mp3

Groucho Marx, actor - Duck Soup
http://archive.org/download/Information_Please_page2/Information_Please_-_411031_-_182_-_Groucho_Marx_-_48-44_29m34s_10398.mp3

Boris Karloff & John Carradine, actors - "Universal Horror" & The Grapes Of Wrath
http://archive.org/download/Information_Please_page2/Information_Please_-_420220_-_198_-_Boris_Karloff-_John_Carradine_-_80-44_27m43s_16249.mp3

Alfred Hitchcock, director
http://archive.org/download/Information_Please_page3/Information_Please_-_430122_-_246_-_Alfred_Hitchcock_-_80-44_28m09s_16500.mp3

Claire Booth Luce, author - The Women
http://archive.org/download/Information_Please_page3/Information_Please_-_430920_-_272_-_Clair_Booth_Luce_-_32-22_28m40s_6721.mp3

Browse Additional Files Here -
http://otrrlibrary.org/i.html
Choose "Information, Please" from the program list.
All files available for free.

Countdown to Hollywood - Day 5

A Visual Preview to the 2012 Classic Film Festival

Club TCM and TCM video podcaster Scott McGee hosts authors & podcasters Richard Edwards and Shannon Clute for a discussion and signing event for their book "The Maltese Touch Of Evil: New Perspectives on Film Noir".

Audio Materials for You and Your iPod

Noircast.net - "Out Of The Past: Investigating Film Noir.
http://outofthepast.libsyn.com/

Edwards' and Clute's webpage of original Film Noir podcasts.

Countdown to Hollywood - Day 7

A Visual Preview to the 2012 Classic Film Festival

Dressing For Trouble



The TCM Classic Film Festival salute to Costume Designer Travis Banton includes Ernst Lubitsch's supremely sophisticated Trouble In Paradise with an introduction from Designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis, curator of an upcoming exhibition on Costume Design at London's Victoria and Albert Museum.

Victoria and Albert Museum Costume Exhibition Site with introduction from Ms. Nadoolman Landis.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/exhibition-hollywood-costume/about-the-exhibition/

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Belgium

Countdown to Hollywood - Day 9

A Visual Preview to the 2012 Classic Film Festival

Smoothly Elegant



The Classic Film Festival celebrates the smooth and elegant design of Art Deco with a screening of Swing Time starring the always smooth and elegant Astaire and Rogers. A perfect "Pick Me Up".




Denmark

I'll try to make it to the L&H screening for you. Sadly, Dick Van Dyke is no longer able to do the introductions but it should still be a fun screening.

And Duck Soup goes a little too late into the night for me to attend. I've got to get to the screening of very rare color short films )A Trip To The Moon) early the next morning. (Mr. and Mrs. Cutter are taking in the Cinerama screening of How The West Was Won at the Cinerama Dome instead.)

One of these years, I hope to hear you are coming West for the FF yourself. Your friends out here would love to see you at the FF. We can promise you a good time.

Kyle In Hollywood