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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> The gold in TCMs version of Greed is colorized.
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From the earliest days of cinema, tinting was often done in minute, meticulous detail. Far from the full-frame washes that merely tinted night scenes blue, day scenes yellow, and jungle scenes green (and not just in silents; for instance, the 1940 SEA HAWK employed tinting), sometimes only tiny details in a scene were tinted, usually by women hand-painting each frame in each print.
I can't say whether any given print TCM shows is transferred from an original print altered in this way; it may be that those original tinting effects were reproduced digitally and applied to digital transfers from negative elements or fine-grain prints, but to call it "colorization" is still inaccurate and unfair considering the intent was to simulate the films' first-run appearances.
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Ya can't take it with ya, Louie.
And as Red Skelton said, upon seeing the big attendance at Mayer's funeral: "Give the people what they want, and they'll turn out."
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> {quote:title=Ayres wrote:}{quote}
> I don't think it looks a thing like him.
No, but it's a dead ringer for Ezio Pinza.
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> {quote:title=vallo13 wrote:}{quote}
> I think it's *Genesis II* a TV movie from 1973 Written by Gene Roddenberry
> Here:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070101/
> The movie is NOT available on Home Video.
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> Welcome Aboard...
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> vallo
No. It's a Roddenberry, all right, but it's The Questor Tapes (1974), and the "man" in question is really an android:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070585/
PS: Roddenberry had two goes at Genesis II, one under that title (1969), and a second as Planet Earth (1974; he was busy that year, wasn't he?). Each was made a a series pilot, but neither impressed the respective networks for which they were made enough to give a commitment to go to series.
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> {quote:title=cinemafan wrote:}{quote}
> Then some were like George Stevens - he would listen to you and then do what he wanted. He sounded like a joy to work with. Listening and getting the job done, and done very well.
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I would like to direct your attention to Hollywood Holyland, an account of the scoring and general production of Stevens's THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD written by Ken Darby, associate of the film's composer, Alfred Newman. Darby writes that Stevens and his methods drove Newman -- who'd scored several films for the director, including GUNGA DIN -- crazy. Newman described it as the worst professional experience of his long career.
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> {quote:title=kingrat wrote:}{quote}> A bit off the topic: "Raintree County" won what was then a substantial cash award of fifteen or twenty thousand dollars in a contest sponsored by MGM, I believe. The author of the novel, Ross Lockridge, could not cope with the stress of his new success and killed himself shortly after the novel was published. An excellent dual biography, John Leggett's "Ross and Tom," also considers Thomas Heggen, author of "Mister Roberts," who also killed himself after his great success.
In his autobiography, "Josh," Mister Roberts (the Broadway stage production) dorector stated categorically that he didn't believe Heggen committed suicide.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> Im very pleased with my LCD TV.
> With some B&W movies, I also turn the color off, especially with the silent films that have been heavily colorized. I grew up watching silent films on a black and white TV, and in black and white in theaters, and I dont like the modern trend of colorizing silent films.
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> My LCD doesnt have any horizontal lines in the image, like old TVs had. I dont know how the technicians managed to get rid of them.
The silents aren't "colorized," they're tinted to approximate their appearance during their original theatrical exhibition. I don't particularly like tinting, either, but it's wrong to mischaracterize what's been done here.
As for the missing scanning lines on your TV, on cathode-ray-tube sets they were a consequence of the electron gun's beams scanning across the phosphor dots at the back of the tube's front screen within the one-sixtieth of a second each half-frame occupied its place onscreen. Since LCD, DLP and plasma screens don't employ scanning beams -- all the pixels are activated simultaneously through direct electronic stimulation -- there are no scanning lines.
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> {quote:title=fortiesfan wrote:}{quote}
> On Oscar night 2007 or 2008, Robert Osborne hosted a tribute to Bette Davis that included her son, her caregiver Kathryn Sermak, and a surprise visit by the awesome Olivia deHavilland who came all the way from France. I have been searching the TCM channel for over a year looking for that tribute. Do anyone know if TCM plans to air it anytime soon? Also, I noticed TCM did not do their yearly birthday tribute to Ms. Davis in April like they usually did.
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> Any info anyone?
The tribute in question was held at the Motion Picture Academy. While the Academy routinely videotapes its major functions, to the best of my knowledge they have never made recordings of their activities (with the obvious exception of the yearly Oscar telecast) available for commercial broadcast.
Also, regarding Olivia deHavilland's participation in the Davis tribute, her main reason for coming to California was to visit her daughter, who lives here. The Academy was able to coordinate her presence into its plans, but at 92 it's unlikely she would've flown all the way from France just for that.
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> {quote:title=CelluloidKid wrote:}{quote}
> *'Tonight' sidekick Ed McMahon dies in LA at 86*
That is correct, sir!
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> Mirage is an interesting thriller, and needs to be shown on TCM. I first saw it when it premiered on one of the major networks in the late 1960s (NBC, I believe), and I was befuddled by it, but I stuck with it. I think I've only seen it once since then. It has plenty of interesting characters, including George Kennedy and Jack Weston as hoods, and Robert H. Harris as a psychiatrist. One of my favorite scenes is when Peck says to Harris "to hell with you, Doctor."
And the flustered doctor, much to his own chagrin, replies "And to hell with you!" as Peck storms out.
About twenty years ago I attended a symposium being held at the L.A. Bonaventure Hotel by the American Psychological Association in cooperation with the American Film Institute. The highlight of the evening was a screening of a film clips dramatizing how psychiatrists have been portrayed in movies over the years. As I recall, there were a number of scenes from Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND and THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST; in each case, the movies' view of mental-health professionals had the real-life professionals in the room roaring with laughter, though it was laughter with an undercurrent of scorn at films' inaccurate and cavalier view of their work.
As the lights came up, I was surprised that the above scene from MIRAGE hadn't been a part of the clip parade (just imagine a carefully-edited composite juxtaposing amnesiac Gregory Peck In SPELLBOUND, with amnesiac Peck in MIRAGE sixteen years later). Perhaps whoever had compiled the clips had never seen, or even heard of MIRAGE. I came away very disappointed, if only because I knew the film's Peck-versus-psychiatrist scene would have discomfited the head-shrinkers in the room most of all.
They hadn't a clue of the bullet they'd just dodged.
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> Perhaps TCM can prop up Mr. Flynn's corpse and use him as a guest programmer. Would that satisfy everyone?
Since Raoul Walsh and his buddies did that to Flynn, borrowing John Barrymore's body from the mortuary and setting him up on Errol's couch, and since Errol later played Barrymore in TOO MUCH, TOO SOON (long overdue for a showing on TCM), Flynn's playing the dead Barrymore on Flynn's couch would probably complete his excellent characterization of "The Great Profile."
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> {quote:title=KennyGreen wrote:}{quote}
> Anyone know Morse code? RKO's early pictures open with an animated drawing of a broadcast transmitter antenna tower, with morse code being transmitted. Is this just fake morse code or is it an actual message -- and if so, what is the message?
The Morse Code actually spells "The bridge is out," as tapped by telegrapher Mickey Rooney.
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No, it doesn't matter one whit that he was a "gifted director who made some great films." Josef Mengele was a gifted physician, so what? All those horrific experiments he conducted on concentration camp inmates are irrelevant if some of the physiological data he obtained through these procedures had some validity and was of use to somebody?
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I don't like making the same posting in more than one thread, but...
It seems to me that TCM could've pushed their directors' series back a month and given over June to Errol Flynn, whose 100th birthday is today.
Extremely poor planning on TCM's part. You'd think one of their programming geniuses would've looked at the calendar, oh, a year ago, and said, "Hey, Flynn's only going to be one-hundred once, we've got most of his greatest films, so the June, 2009, schedule will be cleared for him."
I Love Stewart Granger, but for him to get a month right after Flynn's centenary, with nothing for Errol really, really rankles. TCM's run by nitwits.
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I don't like making the same posting in more than one thread, but...
It seems to me that TCM could've pushed their directors' series back a month and given over June to Errol Flynn, whose 100th birthday is today.
Extremely poor planning on TCM's part. You'd think one of their programming geniuses would've looked at the calendar, oh, a year ago, and said, "Hey, Flynn's only going to be one-hundred once, we've got most of his greatest films, so the June, 2009, schedule will be cleared for him."
I Love Stewart Granger, but for him to get a month right after Flynn's centenary, with nothing for Errol really, really rankles. TCM's run by nitwits.
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Seems to me that TCM could've pushed their directors' series back a month and given over June to Errol Flynn, whose 100th birthday is today.
Extremely poor planning on TCM's part. You'd think one of their programming geniuses would've looked at the calendar, say, a year ago, and said, "Hey, Flynn's only going to be one-hundred once, we've got most of his greatest films, so the June, 2009, schedule will be cleared for him."
I Love Granger, but for him to get a month right after Flynn's centenary, with nothing for Errol really, really rankles. TCM's run by nitwits.
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> {quote:title=fxreyman wrote:}{quote}
> What people forget is that great Americans like George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson also owned slaves before 1776. Are we going to sit here and say that they too aren't people we would like to remember for what they did for our young nation?
"Before 1776?" Try to the end of their lives. Washington and Jefferson both vowed to free their slaves upon their deaths (1799 and 1826, respectively). Washington kept his word; Jefferson, despite having argued unsuccessfully in 1776 that the Declaration of Independence should state that all men, irrespective of color, have the right to be free, did not arrange for that manumission.
Kazan is like the fictional Ernst Janning in JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG, whose prison-cell statement minimizing his culpability in Nazi-era crimes leads Judge Heywood to sum up the German jurist's "remorse" in one terse, devastating sentence: "Herr Janning, it came to that the first time you sentenced a man to death whom you knew to be innocent."
Kazan named names to save his own skin; so what if he later expressed remorse at having done it? If the tenor of the (later) times had allowed him to be unrepentant, would that remorse have been forthcoming? I doubt it.
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If you disagree with something I wrote, then you're welcome to rebut it, but why hasn't the TCM Administrator swooped in to censor your personal attack on me? He seems to have been pretty active and adept at it elsewhere.
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...WHEN THE THE B-17 'FLYING FORTRESS' WAS REPLACED WITH THE B-18 FLYING FIVE-TRESS
> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}
> I have never seen the movie "12 O"Clock High" but I do vaguely remembered the TV series back in the 1960's. Have you ever seen it? My father use to watch it.. It was dubbed "A Thinking Man's War" series.
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> Blooper alert, according to wiki << Watch carefully for errors such as American Flag shoulder patches wtih 50 stars (during WW2 America only had 48 states/stars) and B17E models and G models (with chin turret) used interchangebly >>.
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> Well the producer wasn't thinking, LOL!
Also keep a sharp eye out for former Orange County right-wing congressman "B-1" Bob Dornan as one of the aircrew. He seemed to think that his service as a regular on the TV series qualified him as a war hero.
The "thinking man" description also wasn't meant to apply to Dornan.
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> {quote:title=sineast wrote:}{quote}
> I guess rat or stoolie would have worked just as well. But it's been a long time, so the
> guy deserves a tiny break. Of course, his talent as a director is separate from his
> personal life.
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Well, slavery was an even longer time ago, so all those slave owners deserve perhaps an even bigger break. Of course, they grew really great cotton, too, and that was separate from their personal lives.
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Good; then you can dig our next foxhole.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> Sorry, but the most important character in the film is Normal Desmond, and the most important actor is Gloria Swanson. Without the Desmond/Swanson character there would be no movie. It is she who is remembered the most, who is praised the most, and it is Swanson who everyone talks about being cheated out of an Academy Award.
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> Do a Google search of Sunset Boulevard photos and see who is shown the most in most of the photos:
Faust is called Faust because its protagonist is a guy by that name who makes a pact with the Devil. It's his story, not the Devil's, though he certainly has a story, too, and the richer and more detailed it is, the better the whole thing is in the telling. Yeah, you could tell it from the Devil's point of view, but then you'd have to change the title.
I could substitute a dozen other deus ex machinas (deii ex machinae?) for which Gillis trades his soul -- read: independence and self-respect -- and sends him on the road to ruin, and the story would still work, only not as memorably. SUNSET BOULEVARD is not, I repeat, not about her, it's about Joe Gillis. You've allowed yourself to be seduced by Norma in a way not entirely dissimilar to the way Gillis is, but it's all an illusion.
Keep this up and you just may be the next poor slob to end up face-down in Norma's swimming pool with three pieces of lead in your back.
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Which is why Quive-Smith is so determined to get Thorndyke's signature on a document "confessing" to the British government's complicity in his "assassination plot." Of course, looked at logically (and since they plan on killing Thorndyke after he signs so that he can't publicly recant his "confession"), there's no reason why the Nazis don't simply forge that signature and be done with it.
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> {quote:title=sineast wrote:}{quote}
> No doubt Kazan was a highly talented director, but...a fink is still a fink.
That sums up the man quite succinctly (though I'd employ a work stronger than "fink").
The films and career of George Stevens
in Films and Filmmakers
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> {quote:title=cinemafan wrote:}{quote}
> CSjr - ok, ok, nobody's perfect! Thanks for that info, I will check it out. But, it sounds as if Newman kept coming back for more!
Not after GREATEST STORY; after that, Newman washed his hands of Stevens forever.