[Anyone else object to language/sex in current movies?]

I just love the great classics. When the language gets nasty it is no longer a classic movie, unless the language depicts the reality aspect of the scene. I'm hooked on the mostly b&w pre-1955 flicks, have been since 1974 when I started working in TV engineering and required to monitor film quality of 16 mm film chain. I was sneaking into Storer Cable offices with my tech guru partners after hours to do free tech work on their local equipment and copying films to 3/4 inch video, driving hundreds of miles to a motel room in my friend's van to find a cable feed to catch and record on a one-hundred pound VCR recorder classic movies not available anywhere at any price.

 

Yes,I held back returning shipped classic films at various TV stations until extra video tape was secured, actually dubbing full length films to 2 inch quad video tape during "maintenance shifts". Gave me a new dedication to video tape-head repair. Our TV station looked great because we wanted those film chains perfect and the tape decks had to work at 100 percent as well.

Now I literally hate the majority of post-1960 movies with few exceptions and detest the idea TCM now embeds junk and calls it "classic". Having worked for Ted Turner way back in the 70's and knowing full well what drives TV programming and deprogramming, this is cheap and dirty and lacks the research to prove the concept of "the new classics" or the other hype from Time Warner etc. "selling" terms such as "funny" etc. Lets get real, the greater the accuracy of TV viewing research methodology,the greater chance ad rates will go down to almost "per inquiry" rates, meaning how many hits to the corporate email site or calls for direct credit card purchase of ad material. TV,outside of the Westerns Channel and TCM does nothing for the unmedicated human brain.

Who will replace Robert Osborne? Heaven help us when this young looking older guy gets a 3-day credit in-memory before another person steps in to his shoes.

Don't tell me to go buy the DVD. The please of real TV is knowing somewhere a full hundred thousand souls were saved for the evening to watch the same print we watched and cried or laughed the same time we did-the true glory of living is knowing others agree and can participate with us. Its what real broadcasters gave their all for at any cost.

 

Jerry

[Black and White Beauties!]

When you dream in black in white, does that mean you grew up at the movies when B&W was expected? How about Laura(1944). That's one that must be exclusively a Fox package as it does not appear on TCM. Sadly the other network must be on harddrive automation as there is very poor video level and scene correction from print to print. Likewise, their audio is hard to tolerate as it drifts from "muzak to amateur concert" regularly. Dittos to Mr.Skeff, King's Row,and the list goes on. My 21 year old son,23 year old daughter, and entire family is now stuck on TCM, resenting 95% or today's digital-microprocessor style productions. Truly, getting someone to sit and watch does wonders for the comatose imagination within every person.