clore
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Oddly the opening credits remaining Full Frame but the film itself was widescreen.
Yes, I noticed that, so I thought that the MPAA rating visual prior to the film, which also noted that the film was letterboxed, was in error. Then as soon as the film began after the credits, the image was cropped.
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Yes Valentine, that's exactly what's happened - also going on with A&C MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN. On channel 285, the TCM HD signal is letterboxed, but on channel 82, the "normal" TCM channel, the film is in the 1.33:1 ratio.
Even the descriptive card prior to the Frankenstein film, the visual that shows the MPAA rating, indicated that it was letterboxed. I didn't notice if that happened for the second film tonight.
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I know, usually I'm pointing out the opposite. But while I understand why there are pan-and-scan prints circulating, I can't see why one would crop an Academy ratio film.
EDITED TO ADD:
I've turned to regular TCM and the image is in standard ratio. First time that has happened to me in the eight weeks that I've had the HD cable boxes.
Edited by: clore on Jan 15, 2012 8:51 PM
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> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}
> I appreciate that TCM is running 'Hausu' this week - good one for Underground. But 'The Haunting' as a companion seems awfully unimaginative. It's an ok movie but its not unusual and has been shown many times all over the schedule. There's just nothing 'underground' about it.
TCM likes to program movies with a similar theme - something in common. Tonight's double feature contains two films that start with "HAU" - that's the theme.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> I don't know who this actress is, but she delivers a delicious performance, savouring every word of her speech - something about how the young man had taken her to the graveyard and encouraged her to lie down on one of the gravestones. It was such a hot night, and that stone was "real cool and smooooth".
> Love the girl's thick Southern accent, and the suggestive way she drawls out her story. Just a fine little scene.
The actress' name is Quentin Dean and she did deliver a fine performance, unfortunately her career stalled and she passed away nearly a decade ago. She's also in STAY AWAY JOE, WILL PENNY and THE YOUNG RUNAWAYS, all of which have aired on TCM. that was it for her feature film career.
What got me when she was delivering that dialogue was that I knew just what she was talking about. It was only a few years earlier than my friends and I would sneak into the cemetary on a hot summer night and laen against the marble while smoking cigs appropriated from our parents.
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I always phrase a great-looking color film as appearing as if it came out of the lab yesterday. That's because so many of them do appear these days as terribly faded, especially the ones done in DeLuxe Color.
What they do to color films these days turns me off completely. It's not that I'm a nostalgist who insists that everything made "in my day" was better that what comes out now, but it does bother me that so many color films made me think that I'm looking at it with sunglasses on.
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> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote}Webster's should revise their definition of the word
. Or Hef should look at a dictionary.Hefner probably looked here:
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> {quote:title=audreyforever wrote:}{quote}Around 9:30 last night I flipped to TCM to cathc a glimpse of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and I mean WOW! the colors are so balanced and in-line I thought it was a modern movie for a second!
If it was a modern movie, it would have had a green or amber tint.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}What do Friday's '60s comedies have in common? They all revolve around apeartments or other dwellings?
I didn't give it much thought, but on reflection, you seem to have picked up the proper link. They could have mixed it up a bit more, films such as THE KEY, JOHNNY DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE and RAFTER ROMANCE would also have fit in.
But I'm not going to get all upset about it. I'm one of those who thinks it's only fair that as TCM has become almost two decades old, it's appropriate that they have a similar extension for the number of years upon which to select titles.
That doesn't mean that I'm at all thrilled about today's line-up, but I have seen them all already and besides, TCM's mission statement never said anything about pleasing me only.
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h4. 13 Friday
h1. 7:00 AM
h2. [Apartment, The (1960)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/16634/Apartment-The/]
An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
BW-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 9:15 AM
h2. [Any Wednesday (1966)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24781/Any-Wednesday/]
A young businessman catches his boss keeping a mistress in the company apartment.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 11:15 AM
h2. [sunday in New York (1963)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91903/Sunday-in-New-York/]
A philandering pilot gets real moral, real fast when his sister contemplates a premarital fling.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC,
h1. 1:15 PM
*BOY'S NIGHT OUT (1962)*
h2. A psychology student researches infidelity by becoming a platonic kept woman for four buddies.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-113 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
h1. 3:30 PM
h2. [bachelor In Paradise (1961)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/977/Bachelor-In-Paradise/]
A writer moves into a housing development to study married couples.
*Dir*: *Cast*: , , .
C-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote}
> I do not believe that is true.
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Oh sure, when I ask "Who wants a drink?" they all agree. But when I ask "Who's going to chip in with me?" thats when I get arguments.
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While the rest of you joyfully agree to sacrifice TCM's ideals in order to solve their non-existent financial crisis I bid you farewell.
Let me see if I get this straight - because people don't agree with you, you're leaving the boards? If that's the case, what do you plan to do if you disagree with a neighbor - move out of the neighborhood?
I'm not being sarcastic here, but if I want to post without seeing any disagreements, then I'd launch a blog and not allow counter-opinions. This world would be a very dull place if everyone agreed with me.
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I believe that is the first time I have ever read or heard a woman be described as having a "pneumatic" figure.
That was one of Hugh Hefner's favorite adjectives way back in the days when Playmates weren't so proportioned by artificial means.
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Cee- you are absolutely right. TCM promised with their mission statement to be commercial-free.
No, they promised that the movies would be uncut and commercial-free. If promotions such as this keep them from inserting commercials within the movie, they can run a half-hour of them between films as far as I'm concerned.
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The two previous film tie-ins I mentioned, like this latest one, were done around similar classic genre films and not stand alone typical television promos that you see on other channels.
I can recall one for CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR back in January 2008, also built around clips from similarly themed classic films.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}You know, that old mean guy sounded a little like Abraham Lincoln!
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Something of a cross between John Brown and Abraham Lincoln.
I saw an old Hitchcock episode the other night and there was Raymond Massey playing the father of Richard Chamberlain a few years before the DR. KILDARE TV series.
BARRICADE wan't bad at all. I had read of it many years ago in William K. Everson's book on westerns but it was one of those films that always seemed to air on The Late, Late Show on a school night. I'm glad that I have finally caught up with it.
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And two Black Michaels for the price of one.
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> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> She's on TCM again today (Jan. 9) in BARRICADE (1950).
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Yep, there she is while Black Michael from the 1937 PRISONER OF ZENDA squares off against Black Michael from the1952 version and Dane Clark gets his buddy John Garfield's role in this western remake of THE SEA WOLF.
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Most of the time, just rebooting the cable box will unfreeze the picture. Just unplug it for at least 30 seconds, then turn it back on. It will go through set-up for a minute or two, then all should be OK.
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But WHY NOT show these commercials in between the movies, instead of interrupting the movie?
Actually, that was how it all started on AMC. Next it was "just one" in the middle of the film. Then the proverbial camel got his whole figure inside the tent and goodness knows, I'm sure that right now they are plotting on
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I'm officially adding THE CAINE MUTINY (airing again right now) to the list of TCM's Greatest Hits. I'm afraid to look at the schedule, is FROM HERE TO ETERNITY airing right after?
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> I want to see this documentary again as you can't take it all in with one viewing.
It's on again on January 12 at 11pm Eastern.
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Yes, that one has aired. I saw it on April 15, 2011 at 730pm Eastern.
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Ben Affleck may surprise you in the long run. Based on his films GONE BABY GONE and THE TOWN, the guy is poised to become another Eastwood in that he may not be taken very seriously as an actor, but as a director he shows incredible potential.
. Or Hef should look at a dictionary.
Why is A & C Meet Frankenstein being letterboxed?
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In the case of the first two films tonight, they were made in the Academy ratio to be shown in that ratio - soft mattes weren't an item at the time of their production. The third film tonight is late enough in the day (post-1953) for "widescreen" and is listed on the IMDb as a 1.85:1 ratio. However, it's being shown as a 1.33:1 film. Thus, all three A&C films tonight are being shown in the wrong aspect ratio on TCM HD.
I just got off the phone with a friend of mine and I had mentioned what was going on tonight with the fist two films. He said "Again? The same thing happened last Sunday while I was watching JOAN OF ARC."
To that I said that "maybe there's someone on the weekend shift who is hitting the wrong button." My friend said that no other channel was affected that way last week.
I don't know if it's a problem at the Atlanta end or just at our cable provider's end, but I'll make sure to pay attention next Sunday to see if it happens a third time.