ValentineXavier
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I don't have a computer at home, only at work. Most of my time at work is spent waiting for someone to come to the desk for help, or to check out a book. So, I can go on forums, without neglecting my work.
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Thanks for the link, I've bookmarked it. Indeed, that should be a more accurate resource than the IMDb. But, I would assume that TCM uses it as the source for their TRT listings. Sometimes the TCM TRT listings are wrong. Therefore, we need another source to check against.
When I do find differences between TCM and the IMDb, I will also check check AFI. If I find discrepancies between TCM listings, and AFI listings, that will indeed be informative.
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And just exactly what does the native guide fetch for Clark?
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Mark, and Kreiger, you are both quite correct, there is no definitive source for running times. That is, in part, why I mentioned the IMDb, just to let people know what I was going by. I have checked running times between the IMDb, Allmovie (now all Rovi,) and the wikipedia, many times. They most always agree. Of course, any one may be the source for the listing on another.
I, too, have checked DVD release time listings. I have found that even they are often wrong, for their own release. The only source I consider definitive is Criterion, for their DVD releases. Even then, there are often other versions, with other TRTs. My point with this thread is just to alert people as best we can.
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Bogie didn't want to work with a methot actor...
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He delighted in doing evil, but claimed that the Devil, acting through others, such as Esmeralda, made him do it. To absolve himself of evil, and blame it on others, made him that much more evil, in my eyes.
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And I'll watch out for the guy with the bloody eyeball in his back pocket...
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> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}
> The people turning into pigs at the end one is undoubtedly 'Eye of the Beholder' (with its famous 'people with pig-faces' reveal).
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No, I know Eye of the Beholder very well. The ep I read about was never shown anywhere. Possibly, Rod wrote the script, but it wasn't shot. I think it was shot, but I read about it in the 60s, or 70s, so I don't remember for certain. Also, it was a whole southern town that turned into pigs, because of their racism, and ran squealing through the streets. That's very different than EotB.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Feb 22, 2012 2:10 AM
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That's just one of my sources of cheap humor - taking things absolutely literally. It's a change from puns. Or, is it? Sort of an implied pun.
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> {quote:title=Dargo wrote:}{quote}Pssst...hey VX! Have I ever told ya I do a pretty mean Henry Fonda impression?
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Whaddaya mean, mean? Henry wasn't mean, certainly not as Tom Joad...
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From *The Grapes of Wrath:*
>*Ma Joad:* How am I gonna know about ya, Tommy? Why they could kill ya and I'd never know. They could hurt ya. How am I gonna know?
>*Tom Joad:* Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then...
>*Ma Joad:* Then what, Tom?
>*Tom Joad:* Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too.
>*Ma Joad:* I don't understand it, Tom.
>*Tom Joad:* Me, neither, Ma, but - just somethin' I been thinkin' about.
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I live in the Headlands, not the Heartlands...
Ann Arbor is so liberal, that Republicans are almost extinct here. The few that have survived, now call themselves Dems on the ballot. They've evolved camouflage...
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That's *original aspect ratio*, and *total running time*
My intention with this thread is to have a place to post OAR and TRT discrepancies between what the TCM schedule says, and what other sources, like the IMDb, say. Hopefully, this will help us extend recording times when needed, and record from TCMHD, or SD, depending on the film. I will post time differences of greater than two minutes. I will only be posting for films I am planning on recording, so there will be plenty I don't list. So, please, help us all out, when you notice something - POST IT!
PS - don't forget to allow for intros and outros, during the appropriate hours.
23 Thursday 6:30am EST
*White Shadows in the South Seas* 85m (TCM) 88m (IMDb)
24 Friday 1:30pm EST
*In Old Arizona* 99m (TCM), 95m (IMDb)
25 Saturday 2:30am EST
*Them!* TCM does not show letterboxed, IMDb says it's 1.75:1
27 Monday 3pm EST
*Boomerang (1947)* listed as letterboxed, but it's 1.37:1.
Record on SD channel, lest top and bottom be cropped on the HD channel
28 Tuesday 6am EST
*Tristiana* listed as LB, OAR is 1.66:1
98m (TCM), also 95m and 105m cuts (IMDb)
28 Tuesday 4:30pm EST
*On the Rivera (1951)* listed as letterboxed, but it's 1.37:1.
Record on SD channel, lest top and bottom be cropped on the HD channel
That's all I've got for now.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Feb 22, 2012 12:37 AM
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That sounds like a good one. I'd sure like to see it. But, it is not the one I'd heard about, which was never shown at all.
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> {quote:title=Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote}
> No, "Hello, I'm Robert Osborne" is the only statement Osborne makes in his introductions that you can count on to be accurate.
Are you sure? I think they used his time off to build an android RO to replace him, so he can go on forever...
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In fact, many liberals actually have faith in our government, believing that it really IS "of the people, by the people, and for the people," instead of some evil entity, trying to turn our country into a hell-hole like Europe...
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> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}
> > > I believe I have watched all of the episodes of The Twilight Zone including one which was not put into syndication.
> > Which one was that, SansFin?
> I do not remember the name of the episode. I believe one of the actors was in the original Star Trek series. It involved two men in an attic and a sword. I remember a mention being made that it was not released into syndication because of racial issues.
I recall reading, way back when, that there was an ep of T-Zone that was never shown, because of "racial issues," and it had a town of southern racists who all turned into pigs. I wonder if that was the same ep you have heard about. I wonder if it still exists? I'd sure like to see it!
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In place of each photo, I'm seeing a little message screen that says:
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But, when I click on them, I can see them. Photos in earlier posts display that way too, unless they were posted by someone else.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Feb 21, 2012 7:49 PM
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The best VOICE there is, the great, the one-and-only, - Ken Nordine.
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> {quote:title=kriegerg69 wrote:}{quote}Chief O'Hara is practically an idiot...one wonders why the heck Gordon let O'Hara keep his job.
Easily explained. The only way Gordon could look even slightly competent is to stand next to O'Hara.
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Well, I implied what I implied, them moved on...
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> {quote:title=kriegerg69 wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}I can't recall that exact quote,
> That is the exact quote.
I don't doubt it. I just meant that I couldn't confirm it to back you up. But, I can confirm that there are many permutations of that expression that are in common usage, so it is easy for someone to make a mistake.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}We don't grow figs here, but it is a little-known fact that we wear fig leafs, at least in the summer. And very little else. So much for Canadians' reputation for modesty.
Admit it. It's only the wealthy Canadians who can afford imported fig leaves. The rest of you wear maple leaves.
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Want more text? I'll just say that I disagree with Walter Winchell. Ida Lupino was *not* miscast in *Women's Prison*.
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> For example, if I view a 4:3 picture in HD, the image area will be 50% of the image area of the *identical 4:3 picture*, but viewed in SD.
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That doesn't make a lick of sense to me. On my HDTV, a 4x3 image has exactly the same size on the SD channel, as on the HD channel. And, as RazorX wrote, a LB image will fill the screen when viewed on the HD channel, but must be zoomed to fill the screen on the SD channel.
I DVRed the film from TCM SD. It did look overscanned. I enjoyed the film, but it is very unlike other Bunuel films I have seen, and not among my favorites of his. Still, I am glad to have seen it.