markfp2
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Most likely TCM doesn't show it anymore because they no longer have the rights to it. I've seen it running on The Fox Movie Channel now and that so that may be why it's not available to them. Of course, TCM has been getting more Fox films recently so maybe it will turn up someday, but that would be up to Fox not TCM.
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> {quote:title=kimpunkrock wrote:}{quote}
> AMC is the one that tries to keep up with TCM. I have noticed lately that they are playing a few more classics than they had been in the past few years.
I doubt that they're really trying to compete with TCM. Most likely they worked a deal and got them cheaper than the newer films they usually run. The bad economy is probably hurting their programming budget too.
Before they could even hope to compete with TCM, AMC would have to go back to an all classics format , drop the commercials and show everything uncut and in its original aspect ratio. Ain't gonna happen!
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It's a good idea, but if they haven't already planned on doing it this year, I'd think it's too late. After all, with 360 films and who knows how many shorts there just wouldn't be enough time to create all the graphics and do the production for each one.
I seem to think that somebody commented on this after last year's showings, so maybe they'll surprise us.
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My last sentence was just in jest. I have great faith in TCM will remain the same channel we know and love for many, many years.
I have to admit, that I was a little surprised seeing GLADIATOR on the cover, but then what does it really matter? The important thing is what's inside. Besides the most incredible lineup of Academy Award nominees and winners shown anywhere, and there are 22 films never before shown on TCM.
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Well, I knew it was about time to get out my handy little calculator again.
By my count (subject to error), there are 360 films running in this year's "31 Days of Oscar" and that number breaks down as follows:
1920's - 7
1930's - 74
1940's - 110
1950's - 61
1960's - 60
1970's - 25
1980's - 18
1990's - 4
2000's - 1
This means that only about 13% of the films scheduled are 1970 or later.
Of the 87% remaining, 76% of those are pre-1960.
Interestingly, the three decades with the most films, 1940's followed by the 1930's and then 1950's are the same order as last year.
Sure looks like TCM is going the way of AMC to me.
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Actually what we really need is a "general chat" forum where anything not related to film or TCM can be discussed. We seem to be getting more and more off-topic threads and it it would be a lot easier to have a place for them instead of being mixed in with the other forums. This is the only forum site I go to that doesn't have one.
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Thanks, gagman. I was beginning to think that I had imagined that I had seen it. Just another sad reminder of what great films use to turn up on AMC.
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Holly, You've never seen it? You are in for a treat. You mentioned the DVD, but I assume you also know that TCM is showing it on January 29th at 8pm.
After you see it, you should watch Andy Griffith in the 1955 original "U.S. Steel Hour" TV version. It's on DVD, but you can also find it online at
[www.archive.org/details/movies]. Their copy isn't very good, but it's watchable. I would hope that the DVD would be better.
Enjoy.
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The film is in public domain and I too have never seen a good copy of it. It's probably one of those titles that only exist in poor PD copies. Too bad, be it a good film or bad they all deserve better.
I didn't watch the latest showing, but they have been running a trailer for it which was good quality. Obviously it came from a different source.
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Most of the time I don't even try IE and just use FF. Using IE is very spotty and it also seems to work better with short quick posts. like this one.
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Well, maybe my memory is fooling me, but I'd swear I saw it on TV a couple of times and had even recorded it on VHS. Maybe it was AMC before they went to hell. Can't imagine who else would have shown it.
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> {quote:title=RockyMeijavia wrote:}{quote}
> I Been Trying To Get TCM to play the movies King Of Kings And The Ten Commandmends Anyone Wanting To See These Give Me A Shout Out I Love Movies About Jesus And The Bible Ty God Bless You All
Welcome to the boards. I guess you haven't been watching the schedules very closely. TCM showed both the 1927 silent version of KING KINGS and the 1961 remake on December 20, 2009. They have shown the silent version of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS a number of times, although not recently.
As far the Charlton Heston version of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS goes, ABC has a very long-term exclusive contract for it and nobody else including TCM can show it. They've run for at least the last 20 years around Easter and I imagine they'll be still showing it in another 20 years.
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Eliasgood: BRRR! How well I remember Watertown. I spent a winter there about 40 years ago as manager of the old Olympic and Town theaters on Public Square. I still get cold thinking about it. I haven't gone there in the winter since then and can't imagine why I would. I hope in the past 40 years they've improved their snow removal techniques.
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It's my understanding that when 20th Century-Fox first introduced CinemaScope in 1953, it required all theaters to not only be equipped with CinemaScope projection, but also stereophonic sound. While the major first-run theaters agreed to install stereo, many of the smaller circuits and independents refused citing that the major cost to installing CinemaScope was the sound system. When it appeared that there would be thousands of theaters that would not be playing their films, Fox backed off on the sound requirement.
The city I grew up had six first-run houses and only the two largest were ever equipped with stereo and none of the neighborhood second-runs were. I imagine that it was pretty much the same throughout the country.
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Come on guys. Lets keep garbage like that out of here.
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It literally took TCM years to make a deal with Universal to get the pre-1948 films that they control. It just goes to prove TCM can make dreams come true. It sometimes just takes a few years. I'm looking forward to it too. Enjoy.
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Welcome to the boards. TCM has started upconversion, but hasn't given a date when they'll go full HD. I know neither satellite service carries it yet so you should check with your cable company.
Keep in mind that even when they go full HD, many of the films will still be upconversions because the studios are slow in making HD masters older films unless they think theres a DVD market for them.
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}
> I think Mark's point was that TCM-UK does show some older classic-era films on their channel that we don't get to see here in the States on TCM because of rights issues.
Exactly. I used TCM-UK as an example, but I could have said BBC, ITV, Sky Movies or dozens of other European channels. All of them, at one time or another, run classic movies that are not available to TCM in this country because TCM doesn't have or can't get the American rights to them.
All I was saying was I share the same kind of disappointment as our Canadian friend when I see a film listed on a European schedule that TCM can't show here.
Edited by: markfp2 on Jan 12, 2010 12:02 AM
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It does indeed boils down to rights issues. That's the same reason that sometimes films shown on TCM in the UK or other countries never get shown in the United States. We don't notice it as much because I doubt too many of us check the overseas schedules every month, but it does happen to us too.
I know that TCM's programmer would be thrilled if he could show every film in both the U.S. and Canada, but it just can't happen 100% of the time.
I do feel your disappointment.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} Doing that would at least bring her out of hiding.
Not necessarily. Perhaps she's already been approached and has declined, much like she did when TCM asked her to do an interview with Robert O.
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Don't sweat it, Holly, if you're like me you'll NEVER get caught up. For years, I recorded dozens of movies a week off of TCM and that nameless former classic film channel (You know, the one that sold it's soul to the devil.) and justified it by saying that I'd watch them all when I retired. Well, I've been retired for a year and while I've made a dent in the pile of the older recordings, I'm still making new ones
Maybe if I live to 117....
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I don't follow the history of the Tony, like I do the Oscar. Is that a record? If not, does anybody who won more?
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Welcome to the boards, Grace. I don't recall any movies from the 1950's like that, but being that1959 was the 20th anniversary of the broadcast, I wonder if it could have been a TV show. There was a program called "You Are There" where historical events were reenacted or perhaps one of the various drama shows like "Alcoa Presents" or "Philco Playhouse" could have done one. I'm afraid that's the best I can come up with. Maybe some of our old time television buffs will come through. Good luck.
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> {quote:title=stjohnrv wrote:}{quote} I recall reading that during the filming of a wildlife feature on the habits of northern lemming colonies Disney film crews stood back out of sight of the cameras and threw large numbers of these small rodents over a precipice....
Actually, I was referring to live-action films, not the True Life Adventures. If such things happened, I'm certainly not condoning them and they definitely shouldn't have been allowed, but it's my understanding that Disney farmed out those films to producers who specialized nature photography. I really doubt that Walt stood at a storyboard and said "OK guys, this is where I want the little suckers tossed off the cliff".
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I agree, it's pretty good film. Well made. For some reason it seems to get overlooked when people discuss war movies.