[Even if you already hate him, or don't, what did Woody Allen do so wrong?]

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[JUDY BOMBS]

37 minutes ago, EricJ said:

...AHH!! 😱  IT'S HILLARY CLIN--oh, wait, that's just Chucky.  Whew.  

Looks more like a Danny Bonaduce doll. 

(check your PM)

 

[JUDY BOMBS]

Wouldn't be the first time movies shared the same title.

Got to be a real bummer for everyone involved with the "Judy" movie when the "Child's Play" reboot did 4 times better at the box office. 

[JUDY BOMBS]

Should retitled it "Under The Rainbow" before releasing to video. 

[Even if you already hate him, or don't, what did Woody Allen do so wrong?]

I'm interested in what the local pigeons think about him. 

[Lists of unavailable films]

Here's a site that sells rare, hard to find movies, shorts, etc.

https://www.oldies.com/collection-view/Alpha-Video-DVDs.html

[The Soap Opera Thread]

Update...HE LIVES!

Victor Newman

 

Yeah like everything else that's fake, news, documentaries, now death.

[We have been visited by the smartphone spam fairy!]

Spammers got bored at the computer, either found a date or OD'ed.  Both works for me.

['Ad Astra' and Refuting the Rules of Sci-Fi]

23 hours ago, EricJ said:

But then--thanks to Nip's first-associated-thought responses--I don't quite see what Underdog has to do with it either.    (And no, Nip, you don't have to post the Tennessee Tuxedo theme just because I mentioned Underdog.)

Wired had a recent article from last August that said it all--"Are (00's-10's) Sci-fi Movies Getting Too PRETENTIOUS?"    https://www.wired.com/2019/08/geeks-guide-pretentious-sci-fi/

Got a point--I can see Ridley Scott's last two Alien prequels getting out of hand because, well, Ridley Scott, but you wouldn't make a grownup-parent-issues-metaphor movie like "Arrival" or "Ad Astra" unless you were nostalgic for Jodie Foster in "Contact", and, well...has there ever been a recorded case of that??

(Are we getting to a point-of-no-return where I now actually miss "The Ice Pirates"?)

Oh, and I don't know whose meme it is, I just like it:

 

LMREO!!!!

['Ad Astra' and Refuting the Rules of Sci-Fi]

Sci fi seems to facing facts about finding ET - there are none.

Early movies like Star Trek and Star Wars - life galore.

Then in the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" we are only a  handful or planets in the cosmos that can support life.

Now with the "Ad Astra" ending...(From wiki) The data retrieved from the base suggests humans are the only intelligent life in the universe.

[Lists of unavailable films]

29 minutes ago, alleybj said:

I have Electric Dreams on PAL Blu Ray from Amazon UK. 

Why it pays to have a region free player or one that can be "hacked".  Was able to download the region change software for my JVC DR-MV150 recorder to change it's Region 1 to 0. Can now play any foreign DVD.

 

This is a region free player

https://www.amazon.com/Sony-BDP-S3500-100-240-European-Adapter/dp/B017MQ3IHG

[Lists of unavailable films]

I buy high quality VHS machines, not cheap junk.  Take care of them but the video head does eventually wears out.  My tapes goes back to the mid 1980's and still plays great, only minor deterioration.  A few did bind in the machine but the key is not to panic.  Removed the cover and carefully untangle it, remove the tape and survey the damage.  If it's bad, cut the damage section and splice.  Will only see a minute of drop out.

Best to buy dedicated units not incorporated into the television itself.

My last VHS only machine (no DVD)  was the JVC S9800U Super VHS with TBC.  It' a high end model with digital video correction, REAL frame by frame advance - pause / still  (do not see any interference).  In 2001 it was $550.00 from Crutchfield.

 

 

It featured stereo audio level meters.  (Left in the display)

 

[Lists of unavailable films]

4 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:

Is something wrong with the tint on this photo, or is this entire movie performed by white leading actors in blackface? If so, no wonder it's unavailable!

If you notice the borders of the lobby card, it simply has darken with age.  Tint is normal.  By the way the film is in B&W.

I didn't know Guy Kibbee could star in competing studio films that were made the same year. Captain January is also 1936 - 20th Century Fox and Captain's Kid - Warner Brothers. 

['Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid': THR's 1969 Review]

From the movie also turned 50.

 

[Roger Rabbit kinda fiorgotten over 30 years?]

19 minutes ago, TomJH said:

I certainly remember Jessica Rabbit.

I remember the guy with a Laserdisc looking under Jessica's skirt to see if she's wearing underwear.  

He needs to find a date BAD! 

[Lists of unavailable films]

On 9/21/2019 at 12:42 PM, calvinnme said:

The first article was written in 2014, and it is still pretty accurate. It ranges in films from the silent era through the 1980s. The second list has more modern films listed, but still goes back to the 1930s for some of its content.

https://nypost.com/2014/06/18/64-clips-of-movies-you-cant-find-on-dvd/

Summary of the 64 films unavailable in 2014:

Greed (1924)                
The Crowd (1928)          
The Greene Murder Case (1929)       
Dynamite (1929)         

A House Divided (1931)           
Daughter of the Dragon (1931)         
Sherlock Holmes (1932)                              
Once In a Lifetime (1932)           
Call Her Savage (1932)          
Letty Lynton (1932)           
A Man's Castle (1933)           
Story of Temple Drake (1933)       
I Am Suzanne (1933)            
Viva Villa (1934)           
So Red The Rose (1935)       
Red Salute (1935)           
The Story of Louis Pasteur (1937)    
The Moon's Our Home (1936)        
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)    
7th Heaven (1937)           
High, Wide and Handsome (1937)    
The Road Back (1937)           
The Hurricane (1937)
Boy Meets Girl (1938)           
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)      
Five Came Back (1939)           

They Knew What they Wanted(1940)
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
Hellzapoppin (1941)
Sea Wolf (1941)               
Forever and a Day (1943)       
Dixie (1943)
Christmas Holiday(1944)          
Lady In the Dark (1944)          
Home Sweet Homicide (1946)       
Margie (1946)             
Centennial Summer (1946)
To Each His Own (1946)           
Song of the South (1946)
Great Gatsby (1949)           
Beyond The Forest (1949)      

Deadline USA (1952)            
The lusty Men (1952)            
Crimson Pirate (1952)            
So Big (1953)
First Traveling Saleslady (1957)
Beau James (1957)
Raintree County (1958)

The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
The Great Imposter (1961)       
World of Brothers Grimm (1962)
Freud (1962)
Circus World (1964)
Naked Runner (1967)

Taking Off (1971)
Play It as It Lays (1972)
92 in the Shade (1975)              
Movie Movie (1978)
Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977)
Fedora (1978)                  

Little Darlings (1980)
The Keep (1983)
Nothing Lasts forever (1984)
Glass Menagerie (1987)

 

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/films-dvd/

 

Addiitional films I can think of that are unavailable:

Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)/(1957)        RIGHTS PROBLEMS
Ceiling Zero (1936)                             RIGHTS PROBLEMS
The Blue Veil (1951)                            RIGHTS PROBLEMS
Come Fill The Cup (1952)                     RIGHTS PROBLEMS
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)            OOP WARNER GANGSTERS VOL 1/NOT SEEN ON TCM SINCE 2009
Never Steal Anything Small (1959)        WAS ON VHS
All The Way Home (1962)                
Mona Lisa (1986)                                WAS ON CRITERION
Young Poisoners Handbook (1994)       OUT O PRINT
Road To Wellville (1995)                       OUT OF PRINT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try looking for VHS versions!  Warned about tossing out those machines.  Here are 3 on the list!  Stop being so trendy with DVD!  May be able to dub over some .

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Darlings-VHS-Tatum-ONeal/dp/630021396X

 

There are combo units on the market.  Recorders (what's left) are a bit expensive. Grab one while you still can!

 

[Lists of unavailable films]

"The Captain's Kid" (1936) is unavailable.

 

TCM has shown it and "The Story of Temple Drake" which I have on DVD-R.

[Joe Buck's AM/FM radio]

7 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:

I haven't looked at mine in decades because it's stored away so I can't tell you about it's guts.

maybe you're right I doan know.

I've had so many radios in my life.

hadda beautiful pocket transistor radio mid-60s in a leather case.

then I had this really adorable little AM pocket radio it was very small and compact. some kid intimidated me into giving it to him on the school bus.

said he'd give it back.

it was an archer with a yellow plastic body and metallic speaker grille.

So happens the Science Fair transistor radio has a leather carrying case.

[Joe Buck's AM/FM radio]

3 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:

no, mine has a real wooden cabinet and looks remarkably like the image I posted.

 

 

[Joe Buck's AM/FM radio]

3 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:

bring back the ole AM loop antennas. question, I have a reproduction of the old vintage wooden tabletop radios from the 1920s or 30s.

a real cloth grille and a bracket around the frequency dial.

think it has a loop antenna, hamradio?

I got it stored in a closet somewhere.

got it back in the late 80s.

If you are referring to those plastic cabinet replicas, it has the same cheap circuit with a ferrite rod antenna

There were CD's during the 1930's? 

 

[Joe Buck's AM/FM radio]

I received as a gift an Admiral AM/FM/Cassette in 1969.  Still can't find a photo of it.  Must had been one rare bird. 

 

One of the most beautiful radio's Zenith ever made, D7000 Transoceanic. Was too expensive for me at the time.

[Roger Rabbit kinda fiorgotten over 30 years?]

50 minutes ago, spence said:

excuse messy heading please  I used to know how to fix that

Just hit Edit on your OP, you can fix the typo in the thread title well as the post.  People has been changing their titles causing confusion sometimes. 

Roger Rabbit has not been forgotten.

[Joe Buck's AM/FM radio]

6 hours ago, Dr. Somnambula said:

 

 

 

Noticed the total transistor complement is 9 by which the FM section will use 1/4 of them.  I built an AM (alone) which uses 8 transistors. Best little portable I ever had! 

 

[Joe Buck's AM/FM radio]

12 hours ago, TikiSoo said:

I own several portable transistor radios, but only listen to my floor model similar to this pictured. I get an appropriate "oldies" station on FM, and surprised there are even AM stations available. 

 

Those older floor radios had such great reception is because of the large AM loop antenna glued to the radio back cover.  The large surface area gathered more of the signal.

Even table top units had a much better antenna than the crappy rod antennas one see's in more modern radios.

 

Does your radio have a Magic Eye tuning indicator?  Even by today's standards, that is the neatest, coolest thing!

 

 I have 4 test equipment which uses them.

[A rogues' gallery of cops.]

Another cop in a Humphrey Bogart film is James Aloysius O'Malley in "The Great O'Malley" (1937).  Oh he was hard nose - to the most ridiculous petty offenses (the awning is to low )  He was so busy enforcing such petty crimes he was oblivious to the larger one's.

Loud muffler was more important than armed robbery.