Film_Fatale
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I think it's more than just spamming, it's commercial solicitation, practically.
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I think Edgecliff has raised some valid points. This thread has always been to discuss new and upcoming releases. There is another thread for discussing special deals and stuff.
Someone who is always posting on behalf of a specific website and including the prices comes along more like someone who is trying to peddle DVDs.
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> {quote:title=GuntherToody wrote:}{quote}
> No ClassicFlix is not the cheapest, but they are a great resource for classic films. It's especially nice not to have to muddle through 100,000 movies just to find what you're looking for. And to be browsing like on some DVD websites in the "Classic" section and find the likes of Crocodile Dundee. They do have great specials regularly and overall their prices are reasonable.
Yes, but nobody likes to have people associated with the site coming to a bulletin board and shamelessly plug a site nonstop under the pretense of "informing" others.
For this alone, I strongly suggest others BOYCOTT that site.
Additionally, it is my understanding that the terms of use of this website strictly prohibit "any content or use that engages in or solicits commercial activities or sales" without the prior written consent of the site owner.
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> {quote:title=Edgecliff wrote:}{quote}
> CelluloidKid, do you do promotional work for Classicflix? Anything this website posts you copy word for word every bit of information and post it on this thread including Classicflix prices. Classicflix is certainly not the cheapest nor the only place to buy DVD's online.
I do not know what he has posted because I have him on ignore. However I don't think it would be surprising if he was in fact doing promotional work for some video distributor and/or just looking to up his post count for no apparent reason...
Also thank you for pointing out that this site he keeps plugging doesn't have the best prices. In fact, I am very much in favor of boycotting that site just on account of this shameless peddling.
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Well, bring on the *White Cargo*
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> Also a fun movie at 9:45 PM tonight Eastern time 4-17-08
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> *White Cargo* (1942)
> A sultry native woman ignites the passions of workers on an African plantation.
> Cast: Richard Carlson , *Hedy Lamarr* , Frank Morgan , Walter Pidgeon Dir: Richard Thorpe BW-89 mins, TV-PG
I'm definitely planning on watching this. I figured, since I've already seen *Strange Cargo*, this should help in making me more of a cargo expert. har-har!
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> I'm sorry. I didn't mean to insult you.
Oh, I don't think that you did. I just think it's funny that certain plays on words may not be obvious when one is reading a post, and doesn't read it out loud.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> Why a Hanger is sort of a verbal pun and a play on words. Hanger implies someone who hangs someone else, which would fit in with Joans horror movies, and if you say Why a Hanger fast enough, several times, it sounds like Wire Hanger.
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> LOL
How silly of me not to have stopped and said it out loud several times, fast enough.
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> Yes, they are loads of laughs. I think the title of one of them is "Why a Hanger"
Are you sure it wasn't "Why a Wire Hanger"?
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> No, that's just Joan in a home movie.
Those must be fun to watch.
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Glad to see some stories starting to appear in the traditional media:
*Ollie Johnston: Last of Disney's 'Nine Old Men'*
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Ollie Johnston was the last surviving member of the legendary group of animators dubbed "the Nine Old Men" who worked at the pioneering Walt Disney studios from the mid-Thirties. He graduated from animating Mickey Mouse shorts to work on such classics as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Bambi, Cinderella and The Jungle Book.
Sequences he had a hand in creating included Pinocchio's nose growing as he lied to the Blue Fairy, Thumper's account of eating greens under his mother's watchful eye in Bambi, and the penguin waiters who served Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Roy Disney, Walt's nephew and a director of the Disney Corporation, said, "One of Ollie's strongest beliefs was that his character should think first, then act, and they all did."
Johnston, who described his talent as "intuitive", said that his aim was to make the films "believable rather than realistic. I made Bambi's snout smaller than a real deer's, for example, the better to animate his expressions." The animator Andreas Deja described how impressed he was when he first saw the moment in Bambi when the fawn sees his father, the Great Prince, for the first time:
The Great Prince passes by, very serious and stern, and very slowly Bambi's expression changes: he drops his ears slightly and looks a little scared. It's a scene that's so subtle, you think it couldn't be done in animation. When you want to show a change, you have to make it graphically clear and Bambi is undergoing such a subtle mood shift. But Ollie handled it with such tact and sensitivity.
Johnston was particularly proud of the memorably moving sequence that conveys the death of Bambi's mother. "It showed how convincing we could be at presenting really strong emotion." The animator John Canemaker described Johnston's death as "truly the end of the 'golden age' of hand-drawn Disney character animation that blossomed in the 1930s".
The son of a professor who headed the Romance languages department of Stanford University, Johnston was born in Palo Alto, California in 1912, and studied art at Stanford, where he met Frank Thomas, who was to become another member of the "Nine Old Men" and a lifelong friend ? the pair were to become neighbours in Los Angeles and their wives were to become best friends. Johnston and Thomas later wrote four highly regarded books together.
Johnston's initial ambition was to be a magazine illustrator: "I wanted to paint pictures full of emotion that would make people want to read the stories, but I found that here in animation was something that was full of life and movement and action, and it showed all those feelings." He and Thomas continued their studies at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, where they were spotted by Walt Disney, who hired Thomas, then a few months later Johnston, to work at his studio.
As an assistant to the established animator Fred Moore, who had made such shorts as The Three Little Pigs and several Silly Symphony cartoons, Johnston's first film was the Mickey Mouse short Mickey's Garden (1935), and his skills were further displayed in his work with Moore on the shorts Pluto's Judgment Day (1935) and Mickey's Rival (1936). After assisting Moore animating the dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), he graduated to full animator with one of the finest of Mickey Mouse subjects, The Brave Little Tailor (1938), the success of which prompted Disney to ask Moore and Johnston to become principal animators on Pinocchio (1940).
Johnston always credited the enormous influence that Disney himself had on the work of his team. He and Thomas wrote,
Walt was so immersed in his characters that, at times, as he talked and acted out the roles as he saw them, he forgot that we were there. We loved to watch him; his feelings about the characters were contagious. The most stimulating part of all this to the animators was that everything Walt was suggesting could be animated. It was not awkward continuity or realistic illustrations but actions that were familiar to everyone.
Pinocchio was to become one of Disney's most celebrated classics, a timeless joy, technically brilliant, with some of the genre's most endearing characters, as well as some of the most sinister. Johnston worked on many Disney classics that followed, including Fantasia (1940, the "Pastoral Symphony" section), Dumbo (1941), and Bambi (1942). For the wartime short Der Fuehrer's Face (1942), he drew on some of the surrealistic expression first seen in Dumbo, and he contributed to the propaganda piece Victory Through Air Power (1943).
The beguiling mixture of animation and live action Song of the South (1946) featured Johnston's animation of the storybook characters Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear, and for a witty adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, which formed part of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (1949), Johnston produced one of his most memorable villains, the unpleasant prosecuting barrister who tries to confuse Toad on the stand. Johnston said, "He was based on bullies that I had known at school."
Other villains he created included the stepsisters in Cinderella (1950), Mr Smee in Peter Pan (1953) and Sir Hiss in Robin Hood (1973). In the same film he animated Prince John, voiced by Phil Harris who, as the kindly bear Baloo in a sequence animated by Johnston for The Jungle Book (1967), had introduced the song "The Bare Necessities".
He supervised the depiction of all the leading characters in The Sword and the Stone (1963) and for one of his last films prior to his retirement, The Rescuers (1977), he conceived the warm-hearted old cat Rufus as a partial self-caricature ? Johnston wore a similar moustache and glasses.
In retirement, Johnston lectured, pursued his passion for model steam locomotives and wrote four books with Thomas, including Disney Animation: the illusion of life (1981), considered "the bible of animation". In 1995 Thomas's son and daughter-in-law produced a film documentary, Frank and Ollie: drawn together, which celebrated the lives and friendships of Thomas and Johnston.
Tom Vallance
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> {quote:title=tobitz wrote:}{quote}
> Hmmm...I have to admit...that one smiley and Ray Milland...
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> *So what is this supposed to be? Surprise? Mock Horror? Sheer Terror? It looks like my normal state.*
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> lol, laffite. :0 I think it's my normal state too. As to what it's supposed to mean, I have no idea.
> I think it's the eyebrows. Slightly sad confusion? Dismay?
> btw, just to stay on-topic, I believe there are more Joan Crawford movies being shown next January. In the meanwhile, looking forward to more Ray Milland.
Yes, let's look forward to both JC and RM
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Oh, my. What a big smiley you have!
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Ah... the plot thickens.
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He, what can I say? This is fun!
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> {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote}
> Years ago, back in the early or mid-'50s, Disney made a short theatrical film about Ollie's backyard railroad:
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> http://www.sci.fi/~animato/rail/ollie.html
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> I'll bet it was probably a good career move to make sure that his backyard railraod was always a wee bit less grand than Walt Disney's backyard railroad.
Guess I never really considered the hierarchy of backyard railroads....
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Interesting recommendations Waldo. I haven't seen either one of those in ages, maybe it's time to add them to the queue....
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I'd rather see smilin'Joan.
Oh, wait, I got another one:
:0 = *Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?*
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> *10 PM Eastern Tomorrow night 4-16-08*
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> *The General (1927)*
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> *This is one of the best silent comedy films.*
You betcha!
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> Years ago, back in the early or mid-'50s, Disney made a short theatrical film about Ollie's backyard railroad:
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> http://www.sci.fi/~animato/rail/ollie.html
Tnx for sharing!
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> {quote:title=TripleHHH wrote:}{quote}
> LOL yeah really....if they released all those box sets at once there would be a very black hole in my wallet or a high credit card bill
Plus the fact that, according to news reports, even many established businesses are having trouble due to the credit crunch, I also wouldn't be surprised if video stores also weren't picking up as many copies of classic movies, as they would during more prosperous times....
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> {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote}
> And Heston's other Hawai'ian excursion, DIAMOND HEAD.
That would probably round up the evening quite nicely. All you'd need is a little Hawaiian Punch on the side. B-)
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> I see this thread has turned into the Smilie Post. Wasn't he a pilot?
Uh, surely, you must be kidding!
Looking forward to watching Ms. McGowan
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What an interesting comparison.