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Nice to see my old stompin' grounds here too, Nip.
Gotta say though that IF your attempt here was to somehow prove to us the wonders of what the colorization process can behold, sorry, but you sure used the wrong one to do it.
Ya see, the colors in this clip are extremely washed out and in many cases bleed into another object or person next to them, and many of the colors used on an object or person who's moving and such as on that city bus, look like they vary greatly as you watch them pass. And in fact, this video gave me the impression that this was a very early example of the process which you offered up to us here. I know this process has become much better and more life-like over the years.
(...nope, gotta say I think I would've better liked to have just watched this clip of L.A. the decade before I was born and raised there in B&W, and because the colorization done to THIS clip distracted me from truly enjoying it to its fullest, and because once again the job done on this clip wasn't done very well at all)
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4 minutes ago, sagebrush said:
Wow, all these years I thought the line was "What's the matter, fella...jealous?" 🤦♀️
I suppose it kind'a does Sagebrush, but as you can see and hear here...
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26 minutes ago, LuckyDan said:
Othello likely became one of Violet's regular customers.
LOL
Yep, you're probably right, Dan.
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33 minutes ago, LuckyDan said:
...she would never marry, or would marry for a reason other than love. Sam Wainwright is too dorky even if he can make money,
Well Dan, if you think Sam Wainwright was "too dorky", then I suppose this would've made another character in this movie, Freddie Othello, and even worse prospect for Mary's future connubial bliss, doesn't it.
You know, the character played by Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer who gets so jealous of George at the dance that he opens the dance floor up to the underneath swimming pool.
(...btw and speaking of this, I just discovered via IMDb that Switzer's character name is "Freddie Othello" and after years of thinking that the reason the character who gave him the key in which to open the dance floor sarcastically says "What's the matter, Othello...jealous?" was only meant as a reference to the whole jealousy aspect of Shakespeare's play...yep, had thought he was only credited as something along the line of "Young man who opens floor")
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2 hours ago, NoShear said:
No "Bah Humbug" here: Merry Christmas, Dargo!!
Thanks, and to you as well, NS.
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On 12/24/2021 at 2:56 PM, LawrenceA said:
Peter Marshall: "Okay, Paul Lynde for the block. Paul, true or false. You can swim faster in the nude."
Paul Lynde: "No, false...but it can help you steer."
(...sorry Lawrence, couldn't resist...btw, Merry Christmas)
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12 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
Then I saw the Nightmare Alley remake, and I was like, "Oh".
Are you saying here you have watched the new remake, sewhite?
And if so, what did you think of it?
(...or have you already placed your thoughts about it in another thread that I've somehow missed coming across?)
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Here ya go, EPM.
Somethin' tells me that this, and like it is mine, might be your favorite scene in 1964's The Creeping Terror...
(...now PLEASE don't tell me that you've never seen THIS "masterpiece" of a movie EITHER?!...BUT, just in case you haven't, let's just say it makes Plan9 look like Citizen Kane by comparison...yep, it's REALLY that bad and might be THE worst movie ever made)
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4 hours ago, NoShear said:
With some proverbial rock excess already in his past by the late summer of 1969, Keith Moon was starting to hint at a look of a Dickensian bill collector during Christmas:
The very next weekend Moon and his bandmates took their deaf, dumb and blind child to some little music festival which was being held in upstate New York...
Interesting that you mention the word "Dickensian" here, NS.
Ya see, for some reason Keith Moon always reminded me of Oliver Reed.
(...and who of course played the Bill Sikes character in the 1968 film Oliver!)
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On 12/21/2021 at 4:48 AM, TikiSoo said:
Yes, I met her in '76 and she looked just like that photo.
I used that Peter Lorre & Santa photo for my New Years card insert one year.
I'm sure you know who's dressed as Santa there, right Tiki?
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21 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I have a had time seeing LUCY taking BRODERICK CRAWFORD'S CRAP.
HOLLIDAY, OK. GLORIA GRAHAM, sure....
but one of the hardest elements of BORN YESTERDAY to take is watching the abusive dynamic between BILLIE and the AWFUL BRODERICK CRAWFORD CHARACTER, and I just can't see LUCY in that situation.
Not a bad point, I suppose.
(...still though, I can see why Lucy might have coveted getting the role, as I'll bet she might've thought she would've been right for it, anyway)
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2 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
...and as much as I love Lucy, I don't think she'd've been right for BORN YESTERDAY
Have to say until I read this here, I had never thought of her in that role. However, and now that this has been brought up, I think I'm going to have to disagree with you on this, Lorna.
Considering the role calls for a bright, attractive but ditzy and obstinate type, and considering that this was in essence the type of character that Lucy would go on to play in her sitcom and become best known and remembered for, yeah, I think I can see her doing justice to that role.
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I've always liked this film, and also since my first watch of it at about age 10 or so.
(...although, I do have to admit I still chuckle a bit since I heard one contemporary reviewers of it said its title really should have been, I Was a Teenage Jesus)
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And to answer the earlier question posed about if Bugs Bunny had any girlfriends...yes and no.
He's had three, but none were ever featured in any of the classic W-B shorts and only in BB's printed comic books and for promotional material during the 1950s and 1960s. The first was named Lula Belle Bunny and then later came Honey Bunny.
The third one, Lola Bunny, was/is an animated character which was created much later for the 1996 film Space Jam.
(...at least that's all the info I was able to find about this...Doc)
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3 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Thank God I don't have a Cousin Eddie.
Funny, but I had a Cousin Eddie. Now, HIS legs were very nice.
In fact, when he started shaving them and after becoming Cousin Edie....
(...well, that's a whole other story I'll save for another time here)
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38 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
He's a nice guy though.
You can't say that about every relative.
Actually, I've heard he's a real jerk, Bronxie.
(...oh wait, you were talkin' about your cousin, not Chevy here, huh...never mind then)
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13 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Any idea what city, Lawrence?
(...Chicago, maybe?)
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1 minute ago, cigarjoe said:
Too bad for you, you might as well stop watching Noirs after 1959, you are just not gonna dig them Hibi as an acquaintance of mine Jo Gabriel puts it on her blog...
Now if THAT isn't a perfect name for a femme fatale in some noir, I don't know what IS!!!
(...can't ya hear it now?...Mitchum sayin' somethin' like, "Against my better judgment, I always came running whenever that Jo Gabriel dame called me up on the horn.")
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11 minutes ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:
As memorable as that clip is, Claudette Colbert's legs weren't all that, IMO.
Me, I prefer a gal what's got more shapelier legs -- athletic, muscular legs that could choke a horse (and just call me Seabiscuit).
Naaah, way too muscular.
Now HERE'S a set of gams that I always thought were perfection personified...
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2 minutes ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:
Shhhh! Not so loud! The neighbors might hear!
Oh, the humiliation! Oh, the shame! Oh, the . . .
Heck with it! A Christmas Story just never interested me.
Never wanted a BB gun either when you were kid, I take it? OR, never sent away in the mail for some little toy doodad, and then wait with bated-breath for weeks until it arrived?
(...well I did)
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1 minute ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:
Nope! Never seen it. But, thanks for the clarification and the clip!
Wow, would've thought everyone in the country had seen it by this time.
(...and considering that TBS has shown it continually all Christmas Day for some twenty-plus years now)
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42 minutes ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:
First Order of Business: Why is it called the Darren McGavin Award? Was McGavin a leg luvver or sumpin'?
Really?! Have never watched 1983's A Christmas Story, EPM???
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On 12/19/2021 at 10:36 AM, JamesJazGuitar said:
Blast of Silence" was worth seeing. My favorite part of the film was the jazz score. It helped energize those scenes with little to no dialoged.
Dang! I forgot to record this weekend's Noir Alley presentation and missed this one because (and ironically in this case and considering the present talk of this film's score) my wife and I spent the weekend down in Phoenix in order to visit the Musical Instrument Museum.
Turned out to be MUCH more interesting and fascinating than I would have ever imagined. It's a beautiful modern building with hundreds and hundreds of excellently done exhibits.
Home - Musical Instrument Museum (mim.org)
(...so James, have you ever gone?...or anyone else around here for that matter?)
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Wonderful Commentary On Who Is The True Hero of "It's A Wonderful Life"
in General Discussions
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Yep, good point, BF. And unless you have Mary being the one who's frustrated being stuck in Bedford Falls.
(...and which coincidentally and as you might know is exactly the gender-reversed plot of the 1977 TV-movie It Happened One Christmas that starred Marlo Thomas)