Bill_McCrary

Silents on the 3rd, 10th, 15th, 17th, and 22nd, at least!! Are you studying and marking your schedules ahead of time? It helps to print them (or take Now Playing) and mark them up in advance, to remember to get them....

This film does include some 2-Strip Technicolor footage. Not saying for definite sure that it's not - but I don't think so. This is an example (and there were MANY back then) of (extremely good) tinting. There even were films (if you haven't seen any of them) like "Cyrano de Bergerac" from France, wherein each frame was painted/tinted by hand, with individual colors, using a stencilling process to help speed it up (and standardize it). RO had a grand time explaining it when that one was shown. Some of the Edison footage (the dancer with the veils/scarves, for example) was hand-colored. Very few of them exist today except as b/w, but our ancestors often saw red (and green and blue and ... especially sepia)! With careful tinting the basic scene can seem blue or red or whatever, and things like bright flowers, designs can still appear white or very lightly tinted - even if they're just using one color. I'm still amazed, myself, every time I see one of these coloring/tinting jobs. And not just blue for nighttime, red/orange for inside at night, and such, but the more complex ones.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036418/ for Tender Comrade. Take a look at IMDB if you're not familiar with it. I did a keyword search for WWII, then clicked "pregnancy" from the long list. But it didn't do so well when I started with "factory" and "factory worker" first!

last Mrs. Sinatra had it removed and disposed of quietly. Guess she didn't like the competition. The whereabouts of the piece are currently unknown. Dare we hope that it has made its way to the Ava Gardner museum in her hometown up the road (a good ways) from me in North Carolina? Hopefully, somebody from there reads these and can tell us.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056017/ Gigot, directed by Gene Kelly. Check the above, and if you haven't seen IMDB before, prepared to be amazed (and to spend time....). Bill Talk about timing - just a little too slow! Bill Message was edited by: Bill_McCrary

I just replied to your other thread. http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7863777 Sorry, but I don't have it. (See posting suggestions at the other thread.) I hope someone turns it up for you soon. Bill

It looks as if you may have been fighting the "posting" demon that sometimes makes us think our posts have been lost, only to show up a few minutes later posted (I say this since you have two threads going, a few minutes apart). If it happens to you again, just wait a little while and reopen the thread to check and see if it has appeared. I know, just a little while ago I started to reply to one, changed my mind and later was replying to another. Just before I clicked "post message," I realized that I was about to respond the FIRST thread, which had somehow come back up! And that's nothing like the problems some of us faced a couple of months ago.... Sorry to say, I'm pretty sure I didn't watch or record that one; but just wait - somebody will turn up with it. Bill

He couldn't stand it. We buried his other thread a couple of weeks ago. PLEASE don't anybody else make any more response to this thread. PLEASEEEEEEE..... Ignore him. Bill

I haven't checked really recently, but as of a year or so ago all the DVDs that are not made from the Japanese laserdisc (with Japanese subtitles for only the songs) are from PAL VHS tapes; I don't think it's been released on DVD (officially) over there. There was a thread a few months ago all about this movie, etc., etc. Here are the threads/entries that came up on a quick search just now: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/search.jspa?objID=f149&q=%22Songofthe+South%22 But any copies you find here in America (either eBay or at shows, etc.) are going to be "bootleg" in the official sense, no matter how good the copies are. I really did think it was released on early VHS but now I'm convinced I was remembering some other movie. I DO have an official "So Dear to My Heart" VHS, but it is a little shorter than Maltin's timing, so there must have been some editing done. It is not possible to edit SOTS and still leave a movie! (And I say that as a lover of the movie.)

The Karloff may be the best thing I've (unexpectedly) seen this year - who knew?! Does anyone know if there is a DVD available with these things and more? Officially, I mean. (If unofficially, PM me, please!)

Don't Make Waves? http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0061590/

Please take off your "Caps Lock," since all caps is SHOUTING in web terms. I know that's not the advice you're looking for, but I don't have any about schools.... Bill

The 2.35:1 format has unquestionably suffered the most in the home video process, even with letterboxing. Movies like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Lawrence of Arabia will be absolutely awesome when the fill up those widescreen HDTV sets, with the kind of picture quality that even standard DVDs can't possibly deliver. Of course, the 2.35:1 will still be letterboxed (bars at top and bottom) since that's thinner than a 16:9 picture! But it will come closer to filling up the picture....

"Stranded," with George Brent and Kay Francis. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027050/

Check this thread - lots already about it: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7860969

I won't be back so don't bother answering. These forums are too difficult to navigate. Well, her two posts were 14 months ago, so she must have meant it (but I hope she's still reading and sees your post!).

lily pon has the most annoying voice, even when she sings it it annoying. All the way to the bank, for 31 years at the Met; and a final performance at a NY Phil gala at age 74 or so (though she was admitting to only 69, like any good diva!).

When I saw the length, I suspected as much. I had not yet gotten around to checking the laserdisc. I posted in the shorts thread about "September in the Rain" that the editing there is so strange - they allow Jolson in blackface, but not Fats Waller (and his "outrageous") backup singers! But that short (shown at about 4-1/2 minutes) turned out to, indeed, have been one of the shortest anyway, at about 6:15 originally.

LaserDiscs are analog. Thanks for confirming what I should have remembered if I weren't stretched so thin for the holidays. Like SuperVHS before that existed, plus no tape to wear out (and fairly tolerant of scratches). If only they'd caught on better! When I started scarfing them up as DVD came along, even at half-price and better I paid around $50 for some three-disc sets; and just try to buy a Looney Tunes Volume 5 original set (not DVD clones)! and Happy Harmonies! But, I'll get lucky like I did with my Tex Avery and TomandJerry sets one of these days on eBay (or even a yard/estate sale). (Just realized that second sentence sounds as if I meant I were stretched like Super VHS - oh, well). Merry Christmas to all, and to all a (very) good night! Bill

"Penelope"? She robs her own husband's bank (among other things).

You are Charles Bukowski. That's what I started to put, also, last night (I think - I've been awfully Christmas-choir-busy-and-now-woozy); but it all just seemed so weird. I mean, "American's Greatest Poet," (called by at least one person, according to Google/AOL), and I've never even heard/seen the name till now! Robert Frost comes up, expectedly.... But IMDB keywords, etc. - zilch for me; had to go elsewhere for anything. Hope you're right, and wish I had posted when I saw it, but just too strange for my blood (and what they had to say about him - oh, my stars!). Anyway, tired as I am I probably shouldn't even be posting.

Mine was doing it, too, a week or so ago. I THINK it quit when I got the new IE (#7?). You should be able to "declick" a box on that message box, and that should stop your seeing it. You'll get something at the bottom afterwards that says "... but with errors" and just don't worry about it. Maybe there's something fancier, but it's working for me.

all their movies have to be in a digital format to be shown. They cannot be VHS tape or Laserdisc.... Laserdisc is digital, isn't it? Just like a big DVD, except not bit-compressed like DVDs. Digital soundtracks (even AC-3 surround) on the later ones. And there have been times (not many) when a "smidgen" of the LD identifiers have shown up as TCM began a movie. When they showed the 1934 "Man Who Knew Too Much" last year, it certainly appears to be the Image LD version, which the FIRST good copy I've ever found.

Look under "Genre" forums (farther down the forum home page), find "Shorts" and open it. Then "Upcoming Shorts." You may have to go back a page (or two) for the 17th. If you're interested in shorts, this thread will become your future "home!" BTW, it was "What the Daisy Told" or similar (I'm not looking at it now) - Mary Pickford/Griffith from 1910 or so. It's probably in the big Griffith box, and they've shown it a couple of times before.

I still don't understand why people don't just subscribe to Now Playing? I have (for two months now) subscribed to "Now Playing," but I still plan to download and copy (for now, anyway). The point is, even though it's trouble, that I have them right there in front of me for at least two months in advance, to read and mark up WAY ahead of time. Pretty soon I will have March (in early January, I guess) and will be able to see just what will be on while I'm out of town for a film show in Williamsburg - and start making plans about how many machines to set up how many ways! Besides, I like to type and copy/paste (up to a point)! Anybody want some schedules (Word format) since August of 2003, to go back and check? (I also compulsively save documents and e-mails.) Bill