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I recently dubbed "The Great O'Malley" to DVD I recorded back in Novenber 2009. A great movie, stunned why that movie and the others listed have not long since been released.

...and if you're hungrey as well - "An American Experience, The Donner Party" (1992)

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1623/was-walt-disney-a-fascist

Well I like to point out that there are Elvis fans and *there are Elvis fans!*. One of the people I work for is an Elvis diehard fan, lol! He and his wife collects about everything Elvis. I was going though my old photo negatives and remembered about the photo I took of a statue he bought a few years ago. Its life size, don't know how much he paid for it - thought it was a bit rude to ask. I scanned it in on my HP Photo Smart S20. He had it in an office building he was renovating until he found room to put it, ha ha. Here's *Elvis!*

People in my area rather have the cold than the *very heavy* snow we had a few days before Christmas. Some people didn't got their power back on until around New Years. I'm telling you that is the heaviest snow I've ever seen!. When I was outside trying to remove it, I can hear branches breaking and crashing every few minutes or so. At the beginning each flake was the size of 50 cent pieces.

I also like "Mary Poppins" but I wish they didn't do the animated sequence - sort of ruined it. Loved Dick Van Dykes dance scene, "Step in Time" on the roof top. Lol, that got me to tell nosy people asking me whenever I'm up on the roof "what are you doing", I reply "I'm practicing my "Step in Time" dance number. Edited by: hamradio on Jan 9, 2010 10:32 PM Fixed TYPO!

I still remembered the first time I heard about the tragic accident involving Vic Morrow on CNN. Can't forget the video they showed of the accident, very graphic. A good story on it http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/m/Vic%20Morrow/vic_morrow.htm There is a book covering it "Outrageous Conduct". Sad that this is the only photo I can find of those kids, Renee Shin -Yi Chen and Myca Le. If anything good came out of it was stricter child labor laws. Today we have CGI in which the same scenes can be done in the computer without risking life and limb. Movie accidents still happens i.e. last year in New York. http://wbztv.com/watercooler/sorcerers.apprentice.nicolas.2.1002879.html Here is the National Transportation Safety Board report in October 1984 on the accident involving Vic Morrow. ? The probable cause of the accident was the detonation of debris-laden high temperature special effects explosions too near a low flying helicopter leading to foreign object damage to one rotor blade and delamination due to heat to the other rotor blade, the separation of the helicopter's tail rotor assembly, and the uncontrolled descent of the helicopter. The proximity of the helicopter to the special effects explosions was due to the failure to establish direct communications and coordination between the pilot, who was in command of the helicopter operation, and the film director, who was in charge of the filming operation. ? RIP Vic Edited by: hamradio on Jan 9, 2010 9:43 PM

LOL, this guy got room, WOW! http://www.dexigner.com/design_news/7177.html

It was a little humor considering your recent string of bad luck. Personaly, no way would I live near that thing. It is very pretty and so was Mount Saint Helens *before* 1980! http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageplanet/01volcano/03/indexmid.html

You should be OK there in Seattle until that sleeping volcano in the back erupts.

kimpunkrock wrote: << leave for seattle on sunday on the train. >> You had to take Amtrak as if your luck wasn't bad enough!

I think you need a good lawyer. All the best

Whats even more dreadful is the old ViewMaster reels of "The Love Bug". The scene where Herbie is doing a wheelie has a major blooper. You can see the 2 steel cables holding the front of the car up. LOL! By the way I'm using a 1950's Model D focusing viewer - magnification X7.

So happens I copied several of my converted Youtube videos to a flash drive including "The Changing of the Guard". My DVD recorder gave me a playlist to choose from and its was as easy as a standard DVD. My recorder has a USB port in the front so what I envisioned about having an entire movie on a flash drive is possible. Its only a matter of a short time before capacity increase and price decrease (nothing new there). I got my Flash drives on Ebay and I love them. Talk about old tech, I have "Highlander, The Renegade Version" on CD-ROM video (2 disc). It plays great on my computer but its a little pixalated on my TV , no big deal though. I can play it on my MS-DOS computer. I'm trying to see if the entire movie to be transferred over to a flash drive. What blows my mind is that it will not play on my DVD recorder even though it plays great on my other RCA DVD player. I used the old XingMPEG player on my computer. Snapshot at the bottom, yes that is Sean Connery. Blu ray 3D, no thank you, I hate wearing those glasses. We need a 3D tech that does NOT require those eye glasses. "Avatar" I haven't seen yet. Love that cellphone ad of the guy showing the "Avatar" clip on his *projector phone*, tada! Crying out loud people go home and properly watch a movie!! Edited by: hamradio on Jan 8, 2010 9:22 PM

Ever wonder whats next after Blu ray? Will it be the last of the "any type or rotating disc" format? I foresee a type of read only flash drive that has TWICE the resolution of Blu ray? OMG here we go again! LOL! I can just hear the advertising jingle "Flash me a movie". Possible update for the old fashion Blu ray?

Are you certain you not confusing CSPAN for "A Thosand Clowns"?

HollywoodGolightly wrote: << It looked beautiful, no doubt, but was extremely hard to do it right.>> But the results when they do it right? As they say, no pain no gain.

The problem with those films made during the 1960's and 70's was that wretched vegeable dye based film stock they used. The *worst* I remembered seeing BEFORE a nice restoration was done on it is "Around the World in 80 Days". I thought that film at the time was awful in that it resembled a 1920's B&W (actually brown tinted) silent! Here is a forum on the subject, http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/933060 The original poster's dad said that no one has yet created a "color safe film", which means that all movies are going to have to go through a restoration every 20 - 30 years. So many films, who's got the money? This is worth reading http://digitalcontentproducer.com/mag/video_first_person_restoring/ A full restoration has to be done on any movie before its tranfer to Blu ray otherwise whats the point. Its amazing that the movie "Becky Sharp" (1935) held up better than movies shot during the early 1970's time period. Maybe sticking with the 3 strip technicolor might have given us better quality over the years. Becky Sharp (1935) Gypsy Colt (1954) Edited by: hamradio on Jan 8, 2010 12:29 PM

Just food for thought, do anyone want "Howard the Duck" on Blu-ray?

Just take a good look at the expressions on those kids watching the movie. *That's what going to the movies is all about!* Priceless. By the way is that Cinesage jr photo at the top in that article?

It makes economic sense to produce combo units only. You can find very well made ones if you do your research. You might come across a NIB VHS only machine on Ebay once in a while. I just bought a new Optimus dual cassette deck on Ebay and its great. Saving it for spare. IMAGINE trying to find blank tapes for these machines. http://www.rewindmuseum.com/umatic.htm and http://www.labguysworld.com/VTR-Museum_001.htm which includes the very unique stacked reel cassettes used in Quasars VR-1000 "Great Time Machine" (man, does that ever apply today, LOL!!!) The tape is on the top right in the photo

After reading this blog, I'm coming to think that the word "classic" is becoming a bit vague. http://www.smalltowncritic.com/2009/05/03/evil-dead-2-is-now-featured-on-turner-classic-movies-what-does-this-say-about-the-current-state-of-horror-by-dark-side/ So look foward to TCM presenting "Drag Me To Hell" in the not so distant future. (or as a deticated TCM fan will phrase by then, been there, done that, thanks TCM! )

Its rumored that the French theatre that showed "Cinematron" had great sales of coffee and Preperation H at the concession stand.