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Capuchin's Schedule for the week of March 28 to April 3rd, 2010
p/s = previously shown
PD = Public Domain
(P) = Premiere
(P/PS) = Premiere from Preferred Studio (Columbia series on Friday morning)
(E) = Exempt (Silent Sunday Night, Import, Underground)
Short films are not marked but are the only ones not starting at x:00, x:15, x:30, or x:45
Sunday -- 28
Perry Mason
6:00am *The Case of the Howling Dog* (1934) Warren William, dir: Alan Crosland, WB, 74
7:15am *The Case of the Curious Bride* (1935) Warren William, dir: Michael Curtiz, WB, 80
8:45am *The Case of the Lucky Legs* (1935) Warren William, dir: Archie Mayo, WB, 78
10:15am *The Case of the Velvet Claws* (1936) Warren William, dir: William Clemens, WB, 63
11:30am *The Case of the Black Cat* (1936) Ricardo Cortez, dir: William C. McGann, WB, 66
12:45pm *The Case of the Stuttering Bishop* (1937) Donald Woods, dir: W. Clemens, WB, 71
S.S. Van Dine Mysteries
2:00pm *The Wall Street Mystery* (1931) Donald Meek, dir: Joseph Henabery, WB, 17
2:20pm *The Week End Mystery* (1932) Donald Meek, dir: Arthur Hurley, WB, 17
2:40pm *Murder in the Pullman* (1932) Donald Meek, dir: Joseph Henabery, WB, 20
Hildegard Withers
3:00pm *Penguin Pool Murder* (1932) Edna May Oliver, dir: George Archainbaud, RKO, 70
4:15pm *Murder on the Blackboard* (1934) Edna May Oliver, dir: George Archainbaud, RKO, 71
5:30pm *Murder on a Honeymoon* (1936) Edna May Oliver, dir: Lloyd Corrigan, RKO, 74
6:45pm *Murder on a Bridal Path* (1936) Helen Broderick, dir: William Hamilton, RKO, 66
Evening --
Seems Like a Series
8:00pm *First Lady* (1937) Kay Francis, dir: Stanley Logan, WB, 83
9:30pm *Second Wife* (1936) Gertrude Michael, dir: Edward Killy, RKO, 59
10:30pm *The Third Degree* (1926) Dolores Costello, dir: Michael Curtiz, WB, 80
Silent Sunday Night
Midnight *Siegfried's Death* (1924) Gertrud Arnold, dir: Fritz Lang, Decla-Bioscop, 100, (E)
1:45am *Who's Got the Body?* (1930) Nick Basil, dir: Marc Sandrich, RKO, 12
Imports
2:00am *Hard klang* (1952) Victor Sjostrom, dir: Arne Mattsson, Nordisk Tonefilm, 87, (E)
3:30am *Valborgsmassoafton* (1935) Victor Sjostrom, dir: Gustaf Edgren, SF, 75, p/s
More S.S. Van Dine Mysteries
4:45am *The Cole Case* (1931) Donald Meek, dir: Joseph Henabery, WB, 21
5:10am *The Side Show Mystery* (1932) Donald Meek, dir: Joseph Henabery, WB, 20
5:35am *The Trans-Atlantic Mystery* (1932) Donald Meek, dir: Joseph Henabery, WB, 22
Monday -- 29
Movies before Mason (The stars of "Perry Mason" CBS 1957-1966)
Raymond Burr (Perry)
6:00am *Bride of the Gorilla* (1951) Lon Chaney, Jr., dir: Curt Siodmak, Broder, 70, PD
7:15am *The Blue Gardenia* (1953) Anne Baxter, dir: Fritz Lang, WB, 88, p/s
Barbara Hale (Della Street)
8:45am *The Falcon in Hollywood* (1944) Tom Conway, dir: Gordon Douglas, RKO, 67
10:00am *A Likely Story* (1947) Bill Williams, dir: H.C. Potter, RKO, 80
William Hopper (Private Detective Paul Drake)
11:30am *20 Million Miles to Earth* (1957) Joan Taylor, dir: Nathan Juran, Columbia, 82, (P)
1:00pm *Public Wedding* (1937) Jane Wyman, dir: Nick Grinde, WB, 58
William Talman (District Attorney Hamilton Burger)
2:00pm *Red, Hot and Blue* (1949) Betty Hutton, dir: John Farrow, Paramount, 84, p/s
3:30pm *Armored Car Robbery* (1950) Charles McGraw, dir: Richard Fleischer, RKO, 68
Ray Collins (Lt. Tragg)
4:45pm *The Hidden Eye* (1945) Edward Arnold, dir: Richard Whorf, MGM, 69
6:00pm *Touch of Evil* (1958) Charlton Heston, dir: Orson Welles, UI, 111, p/s
Evening --
They're Late For Their Own Funerals!
8:00pm *The Trouble with Harry* (1955) Shirley MacLaine, dir: Alfred Hitchcock, AJH, 99, p/s
9:45pm *Diabolique* (1955) Simone Signoret, dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Filmsonor, 116, p/s
11:45pm *White Zombie* (1966) Bela Lugosi, dir: Victor Halperin, Halperin, 67, PD
1:00am *The Wrong Box* (1966) Ralph Richardson, dir: Bryan Forbes, Columbia, 105, p/s
2:45am *Topper* (1937) Cary Grant, dir: Norman Z. McLeod, Roach, 97, p/s
4:30am *Topper Returns* (1941) Joan Blondell, dir: Roy Del Ruth, Roach, 87, p/s
Tuesday -- 30
Dr. Kildare
6:00am *Young Dr. Kildare* (1938) Lew Ayres, dir: Harold S. Bucquet, MGM, 82
7:30am *Calling Dr. Kildare* (1939) Lew Ayres, dir: Harold S. Bucquet, MGM, 87
9:00am *The Secret of Dr. Kildare* (1939) Lew Ayres, dir: Harold S. Bucquet, MGM, 85
10:30am *Dr. Kildare's Strange Case* (1940) Lew Ayres, dir: Harold S. Bucquet, MGM, 77
Noon *Dr. Kildare Goes Home* (1940) Lew Ayres, dir: Harold S. Bucquet, MGM, 79
1:30pm *Dr. Kildare's Crisis* (1940) Lew Ayres, dir: Harold S. Bucquet, MGM, 75
2:45pm *The People vs. Dr. Kildare* (1941) Lew Ayres, dir: Harold S. Bucquet, MGM, 78
4:15pm *Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day* (1941) Lew Ayres, dir: Harold S. Bucquet, MGM, 83
5:45pm *Dr. Kildare's Victory* (1942) Lew Ayres, dir: W.S. Van Dyke II, MGM, 93
7:20pm *County Hospital* (1932) Laurel & Hardy, dir: James Parrott, MGM, 19
7:40pm *This Is America: Girls in White* (1948) Dwight Weist, dir: Harry W. Smith, RKO, 16
Evening --
Food -- It's Not Just for Nutrition Anymore!
8:00pm *Eat Drink Man Woman* (1994) Sihung Lung, dir: Ang Lee, CMPC, 123, p/s
10:15pm *Nine 1/2 Weeks* (1986) Mickey Rourke, dir: Adrian Lyne, Galactic, 112, (P)
12:15am *A Feast at Midnight* (1995) Freddie Findlay, dir: Justin Hardy, Kwai River, 105, (P)
2:00am *Tom Jones* (1963) Albert Finney, dir: Tony Richardson, Woodfall, 128, p/s
4:15am *Babette's Feast* (1987) Stephane Audran, dir: Gabriel Axel, Panorama, 102, (P)
Wednesday -- 31
The Staff's Off-Duty Hours (The stars of "Dr. Kildare" NBC 1961-1966)
Richard Chamberlain (Dr. Kildare)
6:00am *Twilight of Honor* (1963) Claude Rains, dir: Boris Sagal, MGM, 104
7:45am *Joy in the Morning* (1947) Yvette Mimieux, dir: Alex Segal, MGM, 102
Raymond Massey (Dr. Gillespie)
9:30am *The Old Dark House* (1932) Boris Karloff, dir: James Whale, Universal, 70, p/s
10:45am *A Matter of Life and Death* (1947) David Niven , dir: Michael Powell, Archers, 104, p/s
12:30pm *The Scarlet Pimpernel* (1935) Leslie Howard, dir: Harold Young, LFP, 98, p/s
Lee Merriwether (Nurse Bonnie Mynes)
2:15pm *The Legend of Lylah Clare* (1968) Kim Novak, dir: Robert Aldrich, MGM, 130
Hayden Rorke (Bishop)
4:30pm *All The Heaven Allows* (1955) Jane Wyman, dir: Douglas Sirk, UI, 89, p/s
Martin Balsam (Dr. Milton Orliff)
6:00pm *Breakfast at Tiffany's* (1961) Audrey Hepburn, dir: Blake Edwards, Jurow, 114, p/s
Evening --
Humpday Horror
8:00pm *The Haunting* (1963) Julie Harris, dir: Robert Wise, MGM, 112
10:00pm *The House on Haunted Hill* (1959) Vincent Price, dir: William Castle, Castle, 75, PD
11:20pm *The Haunted Mouse* (1941) Dir: Tex Avery, WB, 6
11:30pm *Cat People* (1942) Simone Simon, dir: Jacques Tourneur, RKO, 73
12:45am *The Leopard Man* (1943) Dennis O'Keefe, dir: Jacques Tourneur, RKO, 66
1:47am *Catch as Cats Can* (1947) Mel Blanc, dir: Arthur Davis, WB, 7
2:00am *The Return of the Vampire* (1944) Bela Lugosi, dir: Lew Landers, Columbia, 69, p/s
3:15am *I Walked with a Zombie* (1943) Frances Dee, dir: Jacques Tourneur, RKO, 69
4:30am *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* (1956) Carolyn Jones, dir: Don Siegel, WWP, 80, p/s
Thursday -- April 1
Born a Fool
Lon Chaney's Birthday
6:00am *Laugh, Clown, Laugh* (1928) Lon Chaney, dir: Herbert Brenon, MGM, 73
7:15am *He Who Gets Slapped* (1924) Lon Chaney, dir: Victor Sjostrom, MGM, 71
Wallace Beery's Birthday
8:30am *Dinner at Eight* (1933) Marie Dressler, dir: George Cukor, MGM, 111
Wallace Beery's and Jane Powell's Shared Birthday
10:30am *A Date with Judy* (1948) Jane Powell, dir: Richard Thorpe, MGM, 113
Jane Powell's Birthday
12:30pm *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers* (1954) Howard Keel, dir: Stanley Donen, MGM, 102
Jane Powell's and Debbie Reynolds's Shared Birthday
2:15pm *Two Weeks with Love* (1950) Ricardo Montalban, dir: Roy Rowland, MGM, 92
Debbie Reynolds's Birthday
4:00pm *Singin' in the Rain* (1952) Gene Kelly, dir: Stanley Donen, MGM, 103
5:45pm *The Unsinkable Molly Brown* (1964) Harve Presnell, dir: Charles Walters, MGM, 128
Evening --
Star of the Month -- Toshiro Mifune (also his birthday!)
8:00pm *Love in a Teacup* (1953) Ineko Arima, dir: Yasuki Chiba, Toho, 87, (P)
9:30pm *Rebellion* (1967) Yoko Tsukasa, dir: Masaki Kobayashi, Mifune Prod., 128, (P)
11:45pm *Saikaku: Life of a Woman* (1952) Kinuyo Tanaka, dir: Kenji Mizoguchi, Koi, 133, (P)
2:00am *The Hidden Fortress* (1958) Minoru Chiaki, dir: Akira Kurosawa, Toho, 126, p/s
4:15am *Hell in the Pacific* (1968) Lee Marvin, dir: John Boorman, Selmur, 103, p/s
Friday -- 2
Ellery Queen
6:00am *Ellery Queen, Master Detective* (1940) Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay.
. Dir: James P. Hogan, Columbia, 69, (P/PS)
7:15am *Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery* (1941) Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay.
. Dir: James P. Hogan, Columbia, 69, (P/PS)
8:30am *Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime* (1941) Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay.
. Dir: James P. Hogan, Columbia, 68, (P/PS)
9:45am *Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring* (1941) Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay.
. Dir: James P. Hogan, Columbia, 70, (P/PS)
11:00am *A Close Call for Ellery Queen* (1942) Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay.
. Dir: James P. Hogan, Columbia, 67, (P/PS)
12:15pm *A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen* (1942) Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay.
. Dir: James P. Hogan, Columbia, 70, (P)
1:30pm *Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen* (1942) Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay.
. Dir: James P. Hogan, Columbia, 64, (P)
Charlie Chan
2:45pm *Charlie Chan at the Circus* (1936) Warner Oland, dir: Harry Lachman, Fox, 72, p/s
4:00pm *Charlie Chan in Honolulu* (1938) Sidney Toler, dir: H. Bruce Humberstone, Fox, 68, p/s
5:15pm *Charlie Chan In The Secret Service* (1944) Sidney Toler, dir: Phil Rosen,
. Monogram, 63, p/s
6:30pm *The Scarlet Clue* (1945) Sidney Toler, dir: Phil Rosen, Monogram, 65, p/s
7:40pm *The Studio Murder Mystery* (1932) Donald Meek, dir: Joseph Henabery, WB, 20
Evening --
The Other Other White Meat?
8:00pm *The Silence Of The Lambs* (1991) Jodie Foster, dir: Jonathan Demme, Orion, 118, p/s
10:00pm *Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street* (1936) Tod Slaughter, dir: George
. King, King, 76, PD
11:20pm *Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals* (1937) Carman Maxwell, dir:Hugh Harman, MGM, 8
11:30pm *The Killer Shrews* (1959) James Best, dir: Ray Kellogg, HPC, 68, p/s
12:45am *Island of Lost Souls* (1933) Charles Laughton, dir: Erle C. Kenton, Paramount, 71, p/s
Vegetarians Beware -- Plants Get Their Revenge!
Underground --
2:00am *The Day of the Triffids* (1963) Howard Keel, dir: Steve Sekely, JAR, 93, (E)
3:45am *The Little Shop Of Horrors* (1960) Jonathan Haze, dir: Roger Corman, SCP, 70, PD
5:00am *H?nsel und Gretel* (1954) Maren Bielenberg, dir: Walter Janssen, RKO, 52
Saturday -- 3
When They Weren't Sleuthing (The stars of "Ellery Queen" NBC 1975-1976)
Jim Hutton (Ellery)
6:00am *Period of Adjustment* (1962) Tony Franciosa, dir: George Roy Hill, MGM, 112
8:00am *Walk Don't Run* (1966) Cary Grant, dir: Charles Walters, Columbia, 114, p/s
10:00am *The Hallelujah Trail* (1965) Burt Lancaster, dir: John Sturges, UA, 165, p/s
David Wayne (Inspector Richard Queen)
12:45pm *The Last Angry Man* (1959) Paul Muni, dir: Daniel Mann, Columbia, 100, p/s
2:30pm *The Reformer and the Redhead* (1950) June Allyson, dir: Norman Panama, MGM, 90
John Hillerman (Simon Brimmer)
4:00pm *The Carey Treatment* (1972) James Coburn, dir: Blake Edwards, MGM, 101
5:45pm *Chinatown* (1974) Jack Nicholson, dir: Roman Polanski, Paramount, 130, p/s
Evening --
Red, White, and Rogue (Russians)
The Essentials --
8:00pm *Anastasia* (1956) Ingrid Bergman, dir: Anatole Litvak, Fox, 105 (P)
10:00pm *The Emporer's Candlesticks* (1937) Luise Rainer, dir: G. Fitzmaurice, MGM, 89
11:30pm *Tovarich* (1937) Claudette Colbert, dir: Anatole Litvak, WB, 92
1:15am *The Iron Petticoat* (1956) Katharine Hepburn, dir: Ralph Thomas, MGM, 87
2:45am *Nicholas and Alexandra* (1971) Michael Jayston, dir: Franklin J. Schaffner, Columbia,
. 188, p/s
Standard Premieres:
*20 Million Miles to Earth*
*Nine 1/2 Weeks*
*A Feast at Midnight*
*Babette's Feast*
*Love in a Teacup*
*Rebellion*
*Saikaku: Life of a Woman*
*A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen*
*Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen*
*Anastasia*
Preferred Studio Premieres (Columbia)
*Ellery Queen, Master Detective*
*Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery*
*Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime*
*Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring*
*A Close Call for Ellery Queen*
Exempt Premieres
*Siegfried's Death* -- Silent Sunday Night
*Hard klang* -- Import
*The Day of the Triffids* -- Underground
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Thanks hlywdkjk!
The thing about the preferred studio confused me,
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Pardon my being dense, but I need a bit of clarification about premieres --
If a movie has been shown on TCM before, even if it's not in the listed libraries, is it still fair game to use as a p/s?
Do *all* premiers have to be from the listed libraries? I was thinking of having a SOTM whose works are mostly from Toho, and I was expecting to use four or five of my premieres there (but I wasn't going to use Toho as the 'preferred studio"). Do I have to rethink that?
If they do have to be from those libraries, does that also apply to Silent Sunday, Imports, and Underground?
Sorry for being so thick-headed . . .
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Wow! Great challenge!
Well, I'm done. Nearly. I had an idea for the first of a month, and this morning had an epiphany on how to combine two 'weak but possible' themes into one which will fill up the other six daytimes. And then, as soon as I read *Food, Glorious Food* my perverse nature burst with a completely off the wall idea good for a couple of evenings.
All that's left for me now is to find the movies to fit the themes, juggle them into position, fill out a few evenings, and Bob's your uncle!
Unless I hit something unexpected, I probably won't pull out more than five or six tufts of hair this time.
Good luck to everyone!
Thanks lzcutter!
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> The upshot is that TCM likely has NOTHING to do with this problem, it was probably a problem with your satellite/cable provider.
Some people with UVerse, others with Cablevision, and I with DirecTV all had the same problem at the start of the same movie.
That tells me that it isn't a satellite/cable provider problem.
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> {quote:title=Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=Capuchin wrote:}{quote}
> > Widescreen dates back to 1931 --
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> Widescreen cinema dates back to at least 1927, with the three-panel triptyches for parts of Abel Gance's NAPOLEON.
I was talking about widescreen tv, not film.
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> Did anyone noticed the widescreen Hi Def TV set in the movie. Who knew in 1966 that in the future, people would be watching Fahrenheit 9/11 on it? (that in itself is just cause to take a flame thrower to it)
Widescreen dates back to 1931 --
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/09/15/television-shows-full-size-images/
(A ten-foot wide tv screen predicted "television theatres.")
Flat-screen? Invented in 1957 --
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/04/09/flat-screen-tv-in-1958/
(A CRT only two inches thick.)
Wanting to take a flamethrower to the boobtube?
Ageless.
>A lady was noticing all the roof mounted antennas and said "look at that house, nothing". DUH, Maybe they got cable!
Maybe we haven't advanced to that stage yet. I recently read an article on the growing popularity of rabbit ears. Because of the digital switch, there are many more local, very specialized, channels available in some cities.
Cable systems will never be able to cope with the hundreds of new channels, and even satellite capacity has a cap. There is a legitimate business model for a service offering a mix of 'cable' channels (like TCM) and local offerings rebroadcast to subscribers in a limited area. With the new digital enhancements, the signal would be equivalent in quality to satellite reception.
>In the future it turns out there was no need to burn books, we simply stop reading them.
Curiously, more books are being sold now than ever before. Granted that many are 'Dummy' books on how to make Windows seem to work, the fiction market is still healthy. Until they start selling e-books with hard covers and flexible pages displaying the text, people will keep buying print versions.
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}
> If you think that hobby is extreme, look at this one
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> http://www.toytrainrevue.com/lash.htm
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> $60,000 *just* on the little trees!!!!
That's not nearly as expensive as the 'scenery' surrounding this model train:
http://www.pppl.gov/PPPLnews101.cfm
(Researchers put a locomotive on a circular track inside the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX).)
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}
> The winner of this Challenge will moderate the next Challenge.
What lzcutter is too modest to point out is that she's hosting this challenge because she won the last one, and a couple before that.
Although the rules vary according to who is setting it, the basic framework generally stays the same. You can see a typical one and the schedules people created at:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=139071&start=150&tstart=0
While most people who've entered will tell you it's extremely frustrating and a lot of hard work, it's also a lot of fun, and it'll give you an insight into how hard it is to be a programmer.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> I successfully recorded The Scarlet Claw via Directv. It recorded on tape ok, and I'm dubbing it over to DVD right now.
Great -- rub it in! One of two that I really, really wanted and now the only Rathbone/Bruce movie I don't have . . .
I have only tested bits here and there, and I haven't found another movie on TCM with the copy protection my DVD recorder recognizes.
I'm strongly tempted to start prowling the pawn shops for an old DVD recorder that doesn't have the cp info. Even if I had to put a new burner in it, it'd be cheaper than a Grex.
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lzcutter --
Thanks!
(Now if I can just read my handwriting in all the notes I jotted down . . . .anyone know what "col frope tunny" might mean?)
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> {quote:title=WhitSt wrote:}{quote}
> Don't worry there's some kid in Finland figuring out the hack as we speak.
Google "grex video stabilizer"
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I know this is a little strange (what else can you expect from me), but is it possible to get a pre-rules ruling?
A couple of weeks ago, I thought of what might be a good theme, but it requires being on the first of a particular month. Unfortunately, neither in 2010 nor 2011 does that date fall on a Saturday.
I looked through a couple of the previous challenge threads and couldn't find an example where a schedule covers the last few days of one month and the first few days of the next. I don't know if that's by chance or if there's a bias against such bridging -- obviously it couldn't appear as a cohesive unit in an issue of Now Playing.
So -- would it be legit, or not?
Also (being one to always keep exploring weirdness), if it is acceptable, could the schedule include two STOMs, one for the closing month and the other for the new month?
As long as I've got your attention -- for the last 4-5 months I've been jotting down every halfway decent idea that's come to me. Most are not strong enough to be worth a whole morning or evening, and the few good ones probably don't have very many appropriate movies.
What kind of ruling would you give on a schedule where each movie is it's own separate theme?
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I have a Sony, which recognizes every copy protection scheme anybody ever thought of -- even the commercials on NGC and IFC shut the recorder off -- but I never had a problem recording anything off TCM until Saturday.
This could not have been a fluke since it hit copy protection just as *The Scarlet Claw* started and the copy protection was in place until the intro for *The Pearl of Death* began. That was the only movie in the 24-hour Holmes marathon I couldn't record.
I have DirecTV (TCM is channel 256).
I checked a couple of movies today (*The Merry Widow* and whatever is on right now) and was able to record a couple of minutes of each with no problem.
The only suggestions I've been able to get from people familiar with copy protection:
1) Get a recorder with a hard-disk -- you can often save to a drive even when you can't copy to a DVD.
2) Degrade your system back to VHS.
3) Buy a cheap DVD recorder -- the more primitive the electronics, the less likely it will recognize the various copy protection schemes (I've had both Philips and Panasonics that wouldn't let me record from purchased VHS tapes but didn't see the copy protections on any broadcast programs).
One other little tip -- if you hit a copy-protected program, switch the recorder's input to something else and back again (i.e. if it's set to LineIn1, switch to LineIn2 and back to LineIn1). It won't make a difference as far as recording that program, but sometimes there's a latency in the copy protection marker, and the recorder might still see it when you want to record a non-copy protected program.
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Since I couldn't be awake the whole 24 hours and wanted to watch the Rathbone/Bruce films in order, I was recording them for later viewing (legitimate and legal time-shifting).
But the recorder turned itself off when *The Scarlet Claw* began, and it displayed a "Copy Protected" message. I noticed the recording light was out, so checked it and tried several times during the movie to restart it, but the copy protection remained until the intro for *The Pearl of Death*
That was, afaik, the only movie I couldn't record.
I have a model of Sony DVD recorder which is notorious for picking up every form of copy protection ever invented (Sony paranoia), so I can't record anything from some channels, but it's never happened with TCM before.
Did anyone else have this problem?
Is TCM going to be copy-protecting more of their movies?
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I wasn't able to find an actual Chinese version of Pygmalion, but I did run across --
Brahmachari (1968) -- India
Princesse Tam Tam (1935) -- France
La fortuna di essere donna (1956) -- Italy
Fly mej en greve (1959) -- Sweden
Der Traum des Bildhauers (1907) -- Austria
Leydi Zi (2005) -- Bulgaria
It may seem pedestrian, but I'd dig a "Pygmalion Day" where TCM shows versions from around the world.
Sadly, my looking into this had it's inevitable bad result -- I found a listing for the horror short *When Sally Met Frank* (2007) -- billed as "A Love Story of Cosmetic Proportions" the trivia for it states "This film is the culmination of one woman's vision, a nano-team of people who came from the shadows to aid her, six days of relentless begging, five sleepless nights, 24 hours of editing, one rent payment and a solitary pig."
Now I really, really, really want to see it, but I doubt it'll ever be on TCM.
Yet another sigh!
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}
> I wonder if there is such a thing as a Chinese "Pygmalion"?
It might depend on how far you're willing to stretch a point -- there are some notable Chinese horror movies, and Pygmalion is really just a retelling of Frankenstein . . .
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The DirecTV schedule shows "11:00PM Pygmalion (Chinese)"
While I love Leslie Howard, and I could watch Wendy Hiller all day long, an Oriental version would have to be interesting.
Sidney Toler as the prof taking Myrna Loy under his wing?
Maybe she'd slip up during the rickshaw races?
But I suppose it's just a mistake. Sigh!
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
> The bigger question is why people enjoy watching others dance. On a psychological level, as humans, we are hunters. Our eyes are engaged by a moving object, not unlike a dog seeing a bolting cat or squirrel.
You might be interested in researching "mirror neurons" -- they're the part of the brain that makes you feel like you're doing what you're seeing. Most people like watching others dance or play games because it gives them a sense that they're also doing it.
I'm not one of those people. Dancing, football, etc. all leave me cold. But FA was a more-than-adequate actor outside of his routines, and I enjoy most of his movies despite the footwork.
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Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004) was the only one of the decade that is even close to great, and that isn't up to Hayao Miyazaki's usual standards.
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> I had that same reaction when Sho'Nuff died.
Who?
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*If I Were King* (1938) How can anyone not love a Preston Sturges movie with Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, and Frances Dee?
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The best definition I've found for 'classic' is something that has survived in the public consciousness for generations because of it's superior quality.
The question is what constitutes a 'generation.' For people, it's considered 30 years, but in cars, furniture, fashion, etc. it can be as little as five years (anything shorter is considered a fad rather than a true genesis).
Has anyone identified the generations in film like we have for people (baby-boomers, gen-x, etc.)?
Complicating matters is the fact that brand-new things can be classics because their style is an acknowledged classic, like a 21st Century manufacture of an Eames chair.
As for TCM programming -- I'd be a hypocrite if I lambasted all recent movies because they're shown some that I really like and which aren't readily available anywhere else.
My take on it is that the movies I wouldn't personally schedule are like commercials -- they're shown to pay the bills, and it's great that they are in blocks I can easily avoid rather than being intrusive bites out of the good stuff.
All in all -- *TCM is the greatest!* If all you can see are the warts, you never really fell in love with her!
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Remember the Night (1940) -- I like this a lot, but not enough to watch it again so soon.
Christmas In July (1940) -- If this is the one I think it is, great. If it's one I haven't seen before, better!
Chicken Every Sunday (1948) -- Great fan of Celeste Holm, but this is far from a favorite.
Star In The Night (1945) -- I'm very interested in seeing this.
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) and In The Good Old Summertime (1949) -- I have no need for an emetic.
[b]TCM Programming Challenge #15: Band of Challengers[/b]
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Capuchin's Programming Notes --
I feel that Nov, 2007 was one of the best months on TCM because it was filled with series (Torchy Blaine, Philo Vance, etc.). Since it's been done, by itself it's not a theme worthy of the challenge, so I put a twist to it -- one day of a series and the next day movies made by stars of the television incarnation of that series.
Having the stars be a theme let me do some mildly wild things, like having Bride of the Gorilla and Touch of Evil or The Old Dark House and Breakfast at Tiffany's on the same day (I really, really like being perverse).
Silent Sunday's Siegfried's Death is special because it's Fritz Lang before Metropolis.
Victor Sjostrom is vastly underrated. I wanted to show one with him as an actor and one as director, but the times didn't fit to show him at his best, so here he's an actor and on Thursday morning he's a director (He Who Gets Slapped). (I know I'm technically misspelling his name and the titles of his movies, but I'm not sure that using extended characters isn't part of the old problem of challenge pages not loading properly, so I erred on the side of caution.)
Monday night's theme came about because in fiddling with the database, I wound up with a page that had both The Trouble with Harry and Diabolique. I felt it was fated that I figure out how to show them together.
My first food night -- I'm not a big fan of modern movies. Anything made after 1960 usually leaves me cold. This night has five exceptions to that rule. None of them pay attention to the government's food pyramid or recommended daily allowances; they celebrate food's non-nutritional goodness.
For Richard Chamberlain, I wanted to show The Madwoman of Chaillot, but I understand there's some rights issue keeping it out of circulation. I don't feel I was settling for second best with Twilight of Honor with Claude Rains.
Humpday Horror came about because I love Cat People and happened to see The Haunted Mouse in a list of short films. I originally intended it to be a night of cats, but something just didn't feel right about what I came up with, so I deleted that and went with classic horror.
The birthday tributes stem from the fact that I've been on a Toshiro Mifune kick for a couple of years, so I wanted to share some of his lesser-known movies. Since his birthday is April first, it seemed a natural time to showcase him then, and I thought to do a whole day of other stars having that somewhat-odd birthday.
The five extra premieres from a preferred studio was a godsend (thanks lzcutter!) because it let me put in Ellery Queen with Ralph Bellamy and Margaret Lindsay, one of my favorite series.
The food chain revisited -- as soon as I saw the challenge theme of Food, Glorious Food, the first thing that popped into my head was Little Shop of Horrors. Sweeny Todd was close on its heels. Filling out the evening with people-as-food was the easiest to schedule. The only problem was that Soylent Green is an obvious, and much-loved, choice, but I couldn't fiddle the times to accommodate it without using a third-rate short movie.
Saturday night might seem like a rip-off of this month's Soviet theme, but it's actually more of a counterpoint. When I first saw TCM's schedule, I loved it (naturally) but it also saddened me because some of my favorite 'Russian' movies were absent. I'm really rather surprised that Anastasia has never been an Essential.
Overall, this was weird because I've been jotting down ideas for months, but the only ones I ended up using were 'series' and 'tv stars in real movies,' and I had to combine those two to make it legitimate.
Standard Premieres:
20 Million Miles to Earth
Nine 1/2 Weeks
A Feast at Midnight
Babette's Feast
Love in a Teacup
Rebellion
Saikaku: Life of a Woman
A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
Anastasia
Preferred Studio Premieres (Columbia)
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Exempt Premieres
Siegfried's Death -- Silent Sunday Night
Hard klang -- Import
The Day of the Triffids -- Underground