SansFin

I do hope that all here will watch *The Hatchet Man* (1932) despite its hour. I have not seen it in several years. I do remember it is a powerful and moving story which is well told. Several performances are wonderful.

I believe the key to a successful movie is that it requires only one new suspension of disbelief. That we can see only the interesting parts of people's lives is an old convention and is an accepted suspension. That we can see people's thoughts and remembrances is an accepted suspension. That the loving family man in this movie was a miserly old curmudgeon in last week's movie is an accepted suspension. The plot points you stated in 1 through 3 are the new suspension for that movie. Movies and books fail when they require two suspensions of disbelief. It is innate that a person can accept an odd situation with relative ease. An odd situation within that odd situation makes a person uncomfortable. It was a truism during the golden age of science fiction short story writing that you could have men landing on the moon or you could have millions of people watching television in their homes. To have people watching the first moon landing on television was asking for a second suspension of disbelief and most editors rejected that.

> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote} > Does the recorder adjust the mode? In other words if the movie is 1:20 mins long, since this is too long for the 1 hr. Hi Def mode, will it record in the 2 hr. SHS mode, or a middle quality between the two modes? I believe that some of the high-end models will do that. The more basic models have a variety of fixed recording lengths and their lengths and name vary by manufacturer. One of mine has 1 hour, 1.5 hour, 2 hour, 3 hour and 4 hour settings. Another one has 1 hour, 2 hour, 2.5 hour, 3 hour, 4 hour and 6 hour settings. Another one has 1 hour, 2 hour, 4 hour, 6 hour and 12 hour settings.

I like very much this Riviera-inspired design: It may be that the perspective makes the bed only look twelve feet wide!

> {quote:title=SueSueApplegate wrote:}{quote} > I hope Mr. Sansfin is doing well! Let us know about the secret Fedex surprise! I thank you for the well wishes on his behalf. He is fine. They are to remove a tiny piece of shrapnel which he has lived with for forty years less a few months. It was thought then that the surgery was a greater risk than leaving it in. There is now a mass forming around it. It is not possible to identify it perfectly as either a cyst or a tumor. Surgical techniques are now such that they can remove it in an out-patient procedure. The incision will be tiny and it will be over in twenty minutes. The worst part is that he will have to be on antibiotics for at least a week so he will not be able to drink! I will make for him banana bread and rum balls as comfort food to help him through it.

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > Ever see THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT? Barbra, George Segal, and Robert Klein are very amusing. I recorded it when it was airing because I could not watch it then. I have seen enough bits and pieces of it to know I want to watch it in full when I can. We watched *Caveman* (1981). It is a very silly movie with Jack Gilford, Ringo Starr and some of the cutest dinosaurs ever. > Did you ever find out what was in that Fed-Ex package? He had a cousin of mine send him a jar of home-brined beets and a few crab legs. The borsch he made was wonderful! It was very nearly as good as my own. I knew there was a reason I keep him around!

> {quote:title=SueSueApplegate wrote:}{quote} > SansFin, I like Jeeves and Wooster. I thought Stephen Fry (the butler) was also very good in it. I love Stephen Fry's performance. He was so very expressive when it was plain that what he was saying is not the same as what he is thinking. It was if the role was written for him. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie were a great duo. http://youtu.be/LZMmO0mWiw0 They also appeared in Blackadder II http://youtu.be/ws7_vXac17Y I find it surprising that Stephen Fry never made a guest appearance on House

> {quote:title=AndyM108 wrote:}{quote} > As for the DVD's: By the time the TCM cycle runs out, I'll have them all on three EP disks. I suppose the quality isn't as good as if I'd recorded them one to a disk, but I've played them back and can't see any difference. Our process is to record one movie to a disk at the proper speed for the best quality. We then use them to make DVDs which contain from three to five movies in a series. We mostly watch the compilation DVDs because watching only one movie is like unto eating one potato chip. The one-movie-per-disk is our back-up if a compilation DVD is damaged or if we are doing a movie night with friends and wish to show recordings of the best quality.

I love the movie very much. I lack the must-watch-it-again-immediately urge. It is one I want to watch two or three times a year.

The Adventures of King Pausole (1933) Ann Carver's Profession (1933) Baby Face (1933) The Barbarian (1933) Christopher Strong (1933) Dekigokoro (1933) Ecstasy (1933) Gabriel Over The White House (1933) I'm No Angel (1933) The Invisible Man (1933) Island of Lost Souls (1933) Keisatsukan (1933) King Kong (1933) Koi no hana saku Izu no odoriko (1933) La mille et deuxi?me nuit (1933) Love Story (1933) Madame Bovary (1933) Morning Glory (1933) Passing Fancy (1933) The Patriots (1933) The Private Life Of Henry VIII (1933) The Return of Nathan Becker (1933) She Done Him Wrong (1933) State Fair (1933) The Story of Temple Drake (1933) The Story of **** (1933) Taki no shiraito (1933) Topaze (1933) Toto (1933) When Ladies Meet (1933) Zoo In Budapest (1933)

I have found them as: A four-disc set with two discs of bonus material: http://www.thevintageplayhouse.com/Boston_Blackie_DVD_p/vpbostblault.htm A seven-disc set with no bonus material: http://godzillaflix.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=43&products_id=107 A fourteen-disc set with one disc of bonus material: http://www.thefilmcsa.com/boston-****--chester-morris-.html Four single discs each with multiple movies: http://oldtimeradiouk.playntradeonline.com/boston.html My information as to the status of the copyright is solely from the last site which states: "All recordings included on these DVD-R discs have been verified as being in the Public Domain". They sell NTSC copies worldwide with no region code.

I also like them very much and I am very happy they are showing some which I have never seen. There are collections of them available on DVD from several sources. The movies are in the Public Domain so the quality of the prints will vary wildly. They are also likely to be on DVD-R and not pressed discs so the quality will be less than optimal. Some sellers also put paper labels on them which can affect quality of play also. Love of these sorts of movies is a good reason to own a DVD recorder!

I believe that worry over health issues is most often worse for you than the health issue itself. This is even more true with risk factors which have become medical fads. I believe it is good to have a healthy diet. It is also good to eat caviar-filled blini smothered in sour cream. I have read of The Outer Limits in several places. I have not seen any episodes. I am watching Jeeves and Wooster It is based on stories by P. G. Wodehouse. Bertram "Bertie" Wooster is a young upper-class British twit. His Aunt Agatha criticizes his lackadaisical ways and she tells him that she has found him a suitable wife. He objects to her choice. Aunt: She will mold you. Bertram: I don't want to be molded. I'm not a jelly. Aunt: That is a matter of opinion. A part of the first episode can be seen at: The scene with his Aunt Agatha begins at: 7:09. Tonight is date night. It is rescheduled because he is having out-patient surgery Tuesday and he is afraid he will not feel up to it that night. I do not know what dinner will be as he has banned me from the kitchen for the afternoon. I can smell rosemary and garlic when I sniff at the door. That means nothing because he has before hung a packet of herbs on the back of the door when he does not want me to know what he is making. He received a Federal Express package yesterday which was packed with cold-paks. He unpacked it and wrapped the thing in a towel and put it in the crisper tray in the refrigerator. He put a padlock on the tray so I can not peek. All I know is that it is lumpy and it is so hard that the only spatula I have which is so skinny that it fits through the gap bends against it and does not seem to press in at all. Why are men so sneaky? I must pick the movie to watch tonight. I am trying to think of one which is silly and sweet which we have not seen many times before.

A low LDL is always a reason to celebrate! Make yourself a tropical beach:

> {quote:title=fxreyman wrote:}{quote} > That is to say that 1960 was the unofficial, defacto start of a new era in film making. I understand your sentiment. I do not fully agree with it on both practical or ideological grounds. Practical: I believe a channel could not survive in the long-term if it aired only pre-1960 movies. A search on IMDB shows 25,219 feature movies made in United States between 1900 and 1959. That can be calculated to be 37828.5 hours if they have an average length of ninety minutes. That calculates to 4.3 years. If TCM had access to every movie made in United States before 1960 and it aired them in sequence it would now be in its fourth cycle. Other cable channels such as TVLand and GSN have shown they can not maintain viewership if they air only repeats year after year. The true number of available movies is surely much less. I have read that fully half of all movies made before 1950 have been lost. Many other movies exist only in prints that would require restoration costs far exceeding their value. Other movies are locked in rights disputes. There are many other such reasons that TCM does not have access to all the movies ever made. The addition of foreign movies would be insignificant compared to these losses because those libraries were much smaller and they have the same problems as libraries in the United States. It is possible that in practical terms only two years' worth of movies are potentially available and TCM would be in its eighth cycle of repeats. I believe that few viewers would be tuning in to watch a movie for the eighth time. Ideological: I do not believe that "post-1959" is a criteria sufficient to preclude those movies from being aired on TCM. It does signify a new era. The change from silent to talkies meant a new era. The implementation of the Hays Code meant a new era. There are several other changes which can be argued also as heralding a new era. It can be argued that post-1959 movies are more socially conscious because it signified the end of the studios being overlords who made actors and technicians virtual slaves. Any person who idolizes pre-1959 movies is tacitly lauding the oppression of workers and the sexual exploitation of women. It can be argued also that the majority of post-1959 are of a higher average quality. The greatest quantity of movies pre-1960 were B movies and Programmers. The movies produced post-1959 have been mainly A studio movies and movies made by passionate independent producers. 1960 marked the end of the era when movies were manufactured on schedule to fill a necessary function in the same way that companies manufacture mattresses and toilets. I applaud TCM's approach of basing choices on +x+ years old rather than by absolute dates. My breakdown in an earlier post shows they are maintaining strict percentages in regards to the average age of movies they air. This approach suits both the practical aspects and gives us the greatest possible range of eras in film-making.

I believe the original purpose was for storage of fertilizer. It was supposed to be one of many of that design built over many years. I have heard of only that one. Perhaps it is the last that is still standing. I have been told that it was made that way because truck drivers have been known to hit the side of even wide doorways. Each accident damages the structure and brings loading all trucks to a halt. I think I would like to turn it into a house if I could have a pond dug below it so that I could fish out of my bedroom window. Which upside-down house is for sale?

> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote} > It kind of makes us wonder what all the complaining is about, doesn't it? A woman took her young son with her when she went shopping. The grocer was very nice and gave the boy an apple. The boy took it and looked at it and remained silent. The mother was mortified that he was so impolite. "What do you say when a person gives you an apple?" she said while nudging him. The boy looked at the apple again and then held it out to the grocer and said: "Peel it". I believe there are people in the world who complain about every possible thing no matter how good it is and there are people who will not see the facts even when they are presented in black and white. It is unfortunate that there are people who are both. It is even more unfortunate when such people try to make themselves the spokesmen for a group. It is another cross-eyed bear!

> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote} > I send TCM a message every couple of months. I tell them how pleased I am with the direction they've taken, are taking, and encourage them to continue expanding the library of movies they make available to us. I am also very grateful for TCM. It pleases me greatly that they have not bowed to pressure to show newer movies.

I believe that traditional is in the eye of the beholder. I wish you to know that the image has not been "photoshopped". It is a building well known in the area. It is built with a cantilever construction.

I love Mary Wickes as Miss Preen in *The Man Who Came to Dinner* (1942). Nurse Preen: I am not only walking out on this case, Mr. Whiteside, I am leaving the nursing profession. I became a nurse because all my life, ever since I was a little girl, I was filled with the idea of serving a suffering humanity. After one month with you , Mr. Whiteside, I am going to work in a munitions factory. From now on , anything I can do to help exterminate the human race will fill me with the greatest of pleasure. If Florence Nightingale had ever nursed YOU, Mr. Whiteside, she would have married Jack the Ripper instead of founding the Red Cross! *While the Patient Slept* (1935) has Aline MacMahon as a quick-witted nurse. I have been a nurse in title only for many years. My primary work was to be a translator/liaison between doctors and lay staff and to prepare reports in plain language from technical studies. I have tended patients only as required as part of my schooling and qualifying for certificates. I am very much not comfortable being a part of the worst time in a person's life. The only patient interaction I did not mind was when I was sent to give injections to all the staff at bases so small they did not have a resident doctor. That duty meant travel to odd places and meeting men who had not seen a woman in many months. Even the most stringent and by-the-book Base Commanders considered our visits merited a party.

I asked my esso why he only uses +R. He said that his first DVD recorder required an extra step to record to them. That was many years and many recorders ago. He still uses them because that simply became what he uses. The local Office Max often had sales where a spindle of one hundred Verbatim DVD+R were less than $20. It is sad to say that they no longer carry that brand and the sale price is much higher on brands of lesser quality. He refuses to use Memorex blank DVDs and he credits the early demise of one of his recorders to them. It was his favorite brand of cassette tapes.

> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote} > There is nothing more fun than working within these old buildings... I thank you for sharing your experience. It must be truly a wonderful feeling to connect with a building and the builders in that way.

> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote} > Hasn't there already been a thread on this? I hope there is not. I do so hate to be repeatedly redundant. > {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote} > At the risk of repeating myself, very nice post. I thank you for your kind words. Is repeating yourself better or worse than talking to yourself? > {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote} > I'll go along with that idea. And I agree. I thank you for your kind words. I hoped the discussions would move here to reduce the thread drift in other threads. > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > The Department of Redundancy Department approves of approves of this thread Oh, you!

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > if I didn't know that English was not your "first language", I'd have sworn it was. I thank you for your kind words. I know my writing varies wildly and that at times I write as if I am a peasant child and at other times as if I am officious nerd. I learned to understand and speak English in school. My exposure to English speakers and my only opportunities to practice then were ex-pat professors, sailors at the port and diplomats who visited the hotel where my father worked. I believe this has made my word choices very schizophrenic. I know there is still much for me to learn in writing and I thank all here for being patient with me!

I can not speak of -R longevity. My esso used +R to make DVDs to play as background noise while he is working. They are all in six-hour recording mode and contain four or five movies. The oldest was made in 2007. It has been played in full nearly every week. I have watched parts of it from time to time and I see no difference between it and a new recording at the same speed. I believe the shift from VCR to DVD was accelerated due to the lower cost of manufacturing a DVD player. The VCR is a mechanical nightmare. The DVD uses mechanisms common to all CD players and has few moving parts. Manufacturers were happy to separate themselves as quickly as possible from the complex to the simple.