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The fact that the New York Times found the space for the TCM article tells us that the world has become a bit boring since the last election. Peace must have finally broke out. Edited by: hamradio on Mar 30, 2010 7:43 PM

I have "The Big Parade" (1925) starring John Gilbert on video. One of the last great silents before talkies.

Speaking of Tony Curtis and the 1960's

TCM needs to do how to prevent a forum heart attack commercial. *TCM, oh what a feeling!*

Nah, I don't care for a remake, besides they are already making a much better monster movie called "Socialized Healthcare". Enough

Lol, I guess my mistyping at the keyboard is not so bad after all. I hope someone don't hit the wrong key for porn.

I think Fred McMurray and Olivia DeHavilland made a cute elderly couple in "The Swarm".

I have a theory, a TCM programmer is recovering from an accident involving an out of control Toyota and due to post traumatic stress hit he wrong button at the console. If anyone at TCM is walking around in a daze only saying "what a feeling", you have the culprit.

mrroberts wrote: << I give this thread the seal of approval (anybody got a seal?). >> Edited by: hamradio on Mar 28, 2010 7:51 PM

The Marx Brothers proved that they and sanity are incompatible.

Like to add that Joel McCrea also starred in "Our Little Girl" (1935). Hollywood managed to put 2 of their biggest stars in the most boring movie. Zzzzzzz. Goes to show that a good *plot* is as important as who's playing in a movie.

I added something to my post you might find interesting.

I have "The Making of The Nightmare Before Christmas" on the movie DVD. To my amazement, the armature technology has not changed even the slightess since the making of the original 1933 "King Kong" Here is a photo and the remark statement. (wonder how much *that* is worth?) Thanks to Bob Burns, Stephen Jones achieves the dream of a lifetime and actually gets to hold the original skeletal armature for the 1933 King Kong (Dark Delicacies, April 18th, 2004) By the way, we might not have noticed but some of us use a spinoff armature technology called "The Third Hand" Lol, if anyone has a camera that can take frame by frame photos, we could do our own little stop motion flick. I use these a lot in my electronic work. Edited by: hamradio on Mar 28, 2010 12:42 PM

This is a technical question. In regards to "The Nightmare Before Christmas", the stop motion animators used the same techniques Ray Harryhausen used. Why does the charactors in TNBC has a much smoother movement then the ones we see in Ray Harryhausen films?

I've seen "Bad Lieutenant" (1992) very recently on the IFC channel. You said XXX was for extra naughty movies, did you found that out when Santa took a detour with the Blu ray player? Edited by: hamradio on Mar 27, 2010 8:54 PM

If you haven't seen the documentary "The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After ", its a must see. I seen it for the first time last month and I learned stuff I never heard of before. Be warned though, it has some newly released photos of JFK that might be disturbing.

You have a good ear, many people agree that vinyl LP does have a warmer sound. Here is an article in Time about the subject. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1702369,00.html I myself have always said that records if properly taken care of are great. Most of the bugs that has plague turntables have been worked out and many audiophiles agree that in some respects vinyl do sound better then CD's. In regards to VHS, they are more easier to edit and one can insert material in between segments, that one does no longer want. In the EP mode, depending upon the model, you get a better picture compared to DVD if you are recording in the LP or ELP mode. I don't go beyond the LP mode in my DVD recorder and even with that, I am only limited to 4 hours. VHS give you up to 6 hours. I still use audio cassettes on occasion because they are much easier to record material at a moments notice. Glad I invested in a good deck. Since my DVD recorder already has the ability to play MP3, I don't need a seperate player, its just handy to have to play downloads. This site has great turntable selections as well as some high end vacuum tube audio amps. http://www.audioadvisor.com/products.asp?dept=78 By the way, notice that some of our old VHS tapes we recorded back in the 1980's and 90's have long forgotten news flashes, events, etc.- sort of a time machine. I still have Ronald Reagan doing a commercial, the former West Virginia's (crooked) governer Arch Moore campaign commercial WGN's Tom Skilling when he was *young*. Wonder how many people still have the original CNN, TBS, Discovery Channels format when they first came on the air. Remember when Patrick Emory and Don Carson use to crack jokes at one another on CNN. Was more enjoyable then. Remember TCM when they had the old art deco fanfare, the 1920's type scuba diver icon, etc Lol does anyone still have Robert Osborne when he was a little younger? If you have recorded from TBS, WGN and the discovery Channel back in the 1980's you MIGHT be able to retreive the Teletext information if the recorder copied the signal in the VBI and one still has a Teletext decoder. Lol, with effort. try to revisit the news, stock market back then - the info may still be there.. I liked Electra better! Speaking of going down memory lane, I've been doing just that during the past couple of weeks. Edited by: hamradio on Mar 27, 2010 7:01 PM

Don't forget, TCM showed a few Ray Harryhausen monster flicks a couple of weeks ago. http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=151887&start=0&tstart=0

This was during the heyday of ViewMaster (1950's - 1960's). They had a lot of movie / TV sitcoms 3D reels. What you see at WalMart is a pathetic ghostly reminder of what once was. ( in other words junk!) You can still buy those reels at the 3dstereo website. I just today got the UFO TV series (1969) reels. That was one good sci fi in which no movie was ever made of it. How I remembered S.I.D. and Skydiver. My oldest is Hawaii and Boulder (Hoover) Dam circa 1939 , no kidding 1939! Here is a breakdown of the UFO reels http://ufoseries.com/3d/index.html Checkout the Youtube site as well. Edited by: hamradio on Mar 26, 2010 9:37 PM

This site covers modern and vintage 3D. http://www.3dstereo.com/ Nothing beats a NIB Model D with optional halogen lamp! Magnification 7X plus *focusing.* Its box

*Release the Film Critics!!!*

DougieB wrote: << I can now go to sleep with visions of Russian baby buggies dancing in my head. >> Lol, you should see "Shogun Assassin" (1980). This is one of my first LaserDisc movies and its about a masterless samurai pushing a well armed (no joking) baby buggy along the country side leaving death to those who confronts him. This is one of those movies that leave you saying, *now I've seen everything!* Sleep with that thought in mind.

A better comparison would had been Who do we like, Lassie or Benji? Trivia: The dog in the "Petticoat Junction" sitcom WAS Benji. *Lucky Dog!*