SaltyDog
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Sorry, about that image, I did not realize it would include the second screen.
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The last couple of months I have been having a real problem on my desktop computer (Windows 10) with the Movie Morlocks section of the TCM website. Most of the image links are broken, and the formatting of the pages is mostly gone as well. This happens in any browser I use: Firefox, Chrome, Edge Opera. It does not seem to effect the rest of the TCM website, and if I look at the site on a browser on my Android phone, the site looks fine. Can anyone suggest what I can do to resolve this?
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I live in Brooklyn, NY, and have Time Warner Digital cable, so I am not sure
where else this is available, but at any rate, one of the channels we have here
is "Free Movies on Demand", and one of the sub-channels on Free Movies on
Demand is Turner Classic Movies on Demand, which is mostly movies that are
shown often on the channel, so I haven't checked it out very much. At any rate,
last night I was looking to see what was there, and was very surprised to see
the Charley Chase short, "Midsummer Mush" as one of the free on-demand
movies. This is especially true in that as far as I know, TCM has never listed
the Charley Chase talkies they have in any of their official schedules, we are lucky
they are posted here by MGMWBRKO. Anyway, even though I recorded "Midsummer Mush" a while ago when it was shown on TCM, I immediately "bought" (at no charge) a screening of it, to show my support of TCM, Charley Chase & Hal Roach comedies. I advise anyone else with Time WarnerDigital cable who want to see more of these to do the same...maybe it will send a message to regularly program a Hal Roach slot for weekends.
Bill Coleman
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The Opry House is an absolutely wonderful Vitaphone musical short with the Mound City Blues Blowers. I recorded it when it was on TCM before a while ago and loved it. There is another short that they appear in, Nine O'Clock folks, which is also shown on TCM and is also good, though their appearance is not as long.
Bill Coleman
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> I've been highly impressed by his singing, a bit of a
> surprise for someone coming from silents. I'm
> guessing he had a career on stage before going to
> films. Also fascinated by the fact that he didn't
> achieve the universal fame of the other comedians of
> the time. Pehaps because he only made shorts.
A number of silent comedians had substantial
experience singing before going into movies.
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Oliver Hardy
(who obviously did get to sing a number of times
in sound films) are examples and I'm sure there
are others. I like Chase's singing, but I have to say
I sometimes think sometimes I think there are too
many songs in his shorts...after all, they mostly
only have a 20 minute running time. Not the ones
shown so far on TCM, but some others. I'd rather
see Charley being funny than singing .
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I agree, it would be great to have them on a regular schedule.
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Is it just me, or does this happen many times when a silent movie first appears on the TCM schedule? For example, I remember the same thing happening with some Harold Lloyd films when they first appeared on TCM. I'm guessing that the source of the error is that wherever you are getting the running time from is making the assumption that automatically the print's running time is at 24 fps, whereas, there is quite a bit of variation that whomever is doing the restoration could do....it would make sense to verify the running time with whomever is actually preparing the restoration.
Anyway, I am another one who recorded "The Red Lily" on my DVR without the ending. I hope that the film is run again soon. It's partly my own fault because as I said this has happened before and I should added some extra time at the end but I neglected to do so.
Formatting Problems with Movie Morlocks Site
in PROBLEMS with TCM.com
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So no one else is having this problem, only me? Right now, I am assuming that, since there have been no replies.