Bill_McCrary
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I saw "Docks of New York" as a VHS rental from Facets Multimedia.
Thanks. That's a place I don't think I knew about; may have to give them a look-see.
Bill
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by the time dramatic stage shows no longer used live orchestras for incidental music, the distinction between the entr'acte and an intermission had been lost.
In the case of our local Little Theater (and no reason it should be different elsewhere), as well as the only "straight" play I ever saw on Broadway - "Pygmalion" in 1987 with a WOW of a cast (Amanda Plummer, Peter O'Toole, Lionel Jefferies (Jeffries?) to name only three!) - the act ends (either first or second, if three), an intermission begins, and after a time music strikes up to bring it to our attention when the next act is about to begin. In the score, if this is live music, this music is labelled/titled "Entr'acte." Not music to be continuously played, but to gather the audience back into place for the next act. For "Pygmalion" (and for our local "straight" plays), it was recorded music; for musicals, the orchestra would play. It's still an "Entr'acte," whether so named or not, and not continuous music during the intermission.
"Ice Station Zebra" today showed the "Intermission" card as the music ended, then faded to black, then the "Entr'acte" began; in the theatre, as has already been written in this thread, the "black" would have lasted 5 minutes or more (for potty/candy/drink break), then the music would have started (with the screen still dark), signalling the beginning of the final portion of the movie.
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Thanks for the "heads-up." At least I can use the hard-drive to edit the commercials before trying to watch it - and hope they don't cut or time-compress it all to you-know-what! One of the last 83-minute movies I got from them became a 75-minute one, with one major scene simply gone. "Goodbye, Charlie" was another one trimmed, that I know of. Just like the old days days on TNT or TBS, if it's showing in a 2-hour slot and the original is more than about 93 minutes, expect it to be trimmed.
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Just checked - it's listed at 98 in Maltin, so unless they make a 2:15 slot for it, it will most likely be trimmed at least a little.
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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....
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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I just watched a Josef von Sternberg silent movie, "The Docks of New York."
Aha! Maybe YOU'RE the person who was just a tad quicker than I when I tried to get the (apparently last) copy MoviesUnlimited had this summer. Got most of what I ordered, but not that one. VHS, that one was. I keep thinking that AMC may have shown it in the old days, but I don't have it on my index cards.
Please PM if you can do a DVD from it, and maybe I've got some things you'd like.
Bill
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...somehow has gotten it into his head that he is better.... Go back and read all his posts....
Been reading since early summer and posting since August; also, have caught up on several old threads from time to time. And trying to maintain an even keel in the wake created by, say, 4-5 posters ... mostly by restraining my urges to make rejoinders. A certain thread under "General" would have died an immediate (second) death had others done the same sooner.
I taught school (mostly 9-11th grades) for 31 years; the hardest thing I had to do was to ignore the kids who were "baiting" me - and trying to teach their classmates to do the same (and I never decided which was harder!). End of story.
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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
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I think it would have been better grammar to write 'it's EASY to see...ARE worth...' et cetera. Not everyone ... can navigate the two negatives cancelling each other out.
I didn't see it that way at all - figured he knows their value isn't that much and is incredulous (an underused word!) at that, since the dress is valued as it is.
It's as if some of my most beautiful records (in the artistic sense) are valued at, say, $5, when a truly atrocious rendering by a certain (either obscure or infamous) performer - rare because it was terrible - can bring $1,000 or more. And this DOES happen in the classical market for LPs and 78s, at least.
Taking no stand on the rest of your reply, however (and I'm NOT being ironic there).
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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.)
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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!)
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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
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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....
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Check this thread - lots already about it:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7860969
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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!).
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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!).
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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.
Robert Osborne and the Women Who Took Home Oscar
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkb_xpWuBvo
Thanks so much for posting that. Just got through watching all 8 segments (#2 seems not to be labelled as such, and they may not be really in order), and it really would be neat to see it on TCM, but I'm not sure how unless they do something like they did with the Cavett shows (and they can't get Dinah to host the segments, unfortunately).