NipkowDisc
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There's a wonderful moment in DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE where one of the characters is playing a fiddle and the music starts a second or so before his bow hits the strings. It always makes me smile.
I'd rather see some Goofy cartoons. my favorite is this one where he is driving to work on the freeway.
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I liked his comments about the casting of Milburn Stone in CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN. I always learn something from him when I watch his commentary. Svengoolie is easily the best classic movie host-- valuable information/trivia and charming shtick/entertainment value.
yeah, the person in the gorilla suit wacking him in the face was fun too.
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did not care too much for captive wild woman. no, not at all. why did nurse strand hafta argue with evil doctor carradine?
she shoulda just gone to the cops. and all that clyde beatty lion tamer stuff really got tiresome. female gorilla shuffles back to the circus to carry doc adams out of a cage? why did he hafta go back in anyways? let the lions and tigers kill each other for magilla's sake. obviously Dmytryk does much better with vanilla ice cream and frozen strawberries than he does with gorillas.
next week is a real winner, the monolith monsters
a favorite of mine for decades. first saw it in 1973 on WOR Channel 9's four o'clock movie outta nyc.
I have loved the southwest ever since.
starts out real nice. dusky-voiced lola albright as a sweet schoolteacher drives her class out of town for some rock collecting.
the opening narration by paul frees is nice too. to me this has always represented the archetypical late 1950s american science fiction film.
the movie opens with a guy pouring water into his gas guzzling big ol' woody station wagon's radiator. then once back in town he immediately has to have a glass of water to rehydrate from the day's heat. ah, life in a southwestern town circa 1957.
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Glad this will be on tonight. I've been confused about three films (i.e. which is which): Weird Woman, Captive Wild Woman, and the one about the woman from Pittsburgh who's turned into a monster by a mad doctor in the African jungle. Weird Woman was on a couple of weeks ago, so I'm clear on that one; tonight I'll be reminded of which one Captive Wild Woman is; so it'll just be the title of the third one I need to figure out.
There was a sequel to Captive Wild Woman with Aquanetta called Jungle Woman and I believe the third film you're thinking of has to be that awful Voodoo Woman with Tom Conway aka. the falcon as the mad scientist.
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Captive Wild Woman with Aquanetta.
mad scientist john carradine turns a female gorilla into a babe.
Directed by Edward Dmytryk.
t'aint nuthin'. elmer bernstein's first film he scored was Robot Monster.
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Captive Wild Woman with Aquanetta.
mad scientist john carradine turns a female gorilla into a babe.
Directed by Edward Dmytryk.
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since it is in the public domain tcm should not show it.
we don't want tcm's programming dept. to wind up with a nervous complex.
there are far too many showings of GWTW and lawrence of arabia that we must be blessed with.
it ain't like we have seen those two a thousand times...
yet.
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Or you can see this film on FXM Retro,.where it has been on several.times in the last couple of months or so. It stars Rhonda Fleming.and William Lundigan, trying to do in Fleming's husband Robert.Ryan, by leaving him stranded in the Mojave Desert with a broken leg. Not shown in 3D however.
seen it, did not like seeing Lundigan as a bad guy and it was most offbeat seeing Ryan as a good guy.
remade as the abc movie of the week 'ordeal' with arthur hill, diana muldaur and earl holliman.
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Along with Joan Blondell and Olivia De Havilland , Ann was one of Cagney's best leading ladies. She deserves to be remembered and I'm sure she is by many. For younger people getting into the "classic " films, Ann is one of those treasures waiting to be discovered.
yes, I will never forget her remark about her dress holding up to a night on the town with Rocky Sullivan in angels with dirty faces.
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Make that posts. Nipkow must've figured out that if he wants to engage in meaningful conversation, he'll have to talk to himself.
yes!...nobody else will.
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last nite there was twelve o'clock high my favorite war film with the peckster in which he gives a commanding no-nonsense john wayne-like performance then this morning a real favorite of mine, lust for life with the great comedic-obsessive performance by the kirkster and later on this afternoon, the spirit of st. louis with the relaxed somnambulistic performance by a drowsy jimmy stewart.
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still...
if ever tcm wants to honor William Cameron Menzies...
wouldn't the UK version of his invaders from mars be better?
of course it would! oh boy! I answered me self again!
you see, jamesjazzguitar, I think orson welles as father mapple in moby dick had it right when he spoke of a fella "standing forth his own inexorable self" and that's what I try to do.
I be not here to try and misrepresent myself as some kinda great and all-knowledgeable cinemaphile. I'm not. just a space cadet who intuitively knows that tcm's film rotation a-be-a gettin' a mighty long in the tooth.
are we to be satisfied with refreshing ourselves with endless showings of Gone With The Wind, Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia forever?
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a space cadet. already knowed that.
still...
if ever tcm wants to honor William Cameron Menzies...
wouldn't the UK version of his invaders from mars be better?
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"Should you draw back the curtain,
This I am certain:
You'll be impressed with you.
On a clear day
Rise and look around you
And you'll see who you are . . ."
a space cadet. already knowed that.
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6 minutes later you have to reply to your own post?
jus' sayin'.
I impress me.
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SpongeBob has taken down American Sniper
well, what that suggests is that more kiddies are going to the movies than adults.
all I know is that I'm gonna take a look at the Peanuts movie...
but what america really needs on the big screen is my favorite strip The Lockhorns.
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Military strategy is not my thing. If I had gone to West Point, I would have regularly fallen asleep in class. ( George, how dd you do on your "Outflanking the Enemy" midterm?)
why should a war flick have to transcend the john wayne level? his war films are ever popular today so the duke must've done something right.
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I know...I know...just be grateful and appreciate tcm continuing to show movies uncut and without commercials.
no doubt the eternal all-encompassing excuse and rationalization.
has tcm ever shown the british cut of William Cameron Menzies' Invaders from Mars with added scenes with Arthur Franz, Helena Carter and Jimmy Hunt shot specifically for it's UK release?...
no.
this is William Cameron Menzies the set designer for GWTW.
and tcm doesn't think it important to show the best possible version of his one great contribution to the science fiction genre?
cute.
that's some kind of cinemaphile-ness.
Hot Spell (1958), once shown on tcm regularly maybe ten years ago and now gone....(with no sign of ever returning)
these are the things a couch potato slash space cadet takes notice of.
so what's my point? what it has always been. that self-professed great lovers of cinema like tcm oughta be doin' a little better than this.
so?
suppose tcm showed a badly worn print of GWTW?
how unnoticed would that go?
jus' sayin'.
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I know...I know...just be grateful and appreciate tcm continuing to show movies uncut and without commercials.
no doubt the eternal all-encompassing excuse and rationalization.
has tcm ever shown the british cut of William Cameron Menzies' Invaders from Mars with added scenes with Arthur Franz, Helena Carter and Jimmy Hunt shot specifically for it's UK release?...
no.
this is William Cameron Menzies the set designer for GWTW.
and tcm doesn't think it important to show the best possible version of his one great contribution to the science fiction genre?
cute.
that's some kind of cinemaphile-ness.
Hot Spell (1958), once shown on tcm regularly maybe ten years ago and now gone....(with no sign of ever returning)
these are the things a couch potato slash space cadet takes notice of.
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I HAVE A QUESTION...
since tcm determines their film schedule months in advance...
exactly when does input from cable subscribers enter into their..er selection process?...
or are tcm programmers merely guided by what films they like?...
is input from tcm pleasure cruise participants factored in?
my bad. that's 3 questions..are dazzingly relevant.
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I HAVE A QUESTION...
since tcm determines their film schedule months in advance...
exactly when does input from cable subscribers enter into their..er selection process?...
or are tcm programmers merely guided by what films they like?...
is input from tcm pleasure cruise participants factored in?
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Afflicted, huh? And you get how many stations?
a lot but hey, it's mostly 1990s and 2000s sitcoms on most of the independent stations.
lets see, I got antenna tv, This, inspire, ME TV, of course and Cozi TV but no Get TV. I got one of the lower tier basic deals.
also have esquire tv as well as BBC America.
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The "big answer" is that NO channel is ever going to have access to all films at any given point in time. Films are owned by companies that control what is available and at what price. In recent years we see more channels being created that show old films and/or television programming. Most of these channels are owned by (or closely affiliated to ) the companies that own the films. This is a situation that isn't going away, if anything it will get even more segregated. TCM is one of the very few channels that do not use commercial breaks to get revenue (except pay channels like Showtime or HBO) , although in between films they promote some of their own product. TCM still shows the widest variety of films including many films (silent, foreign, old independent studios) that would never see the light of day on the other channels. TCM may show NORTH BY NORTHWEST a dozen times in a year (that is probably a slight exaggeration) but watch other channels like MOVIES!. GET TV, etc and you may see the same film a dozen times in a month. For us viewers the only answer is to get access to as many of these stations as possible. But that opens up other issues like what services (cable, satellite, etc) are available, what do they offer, and what do they charge (gouge) us to get those channels.
tcm has been showing their fixed catalog of films far too much and for far too long. it's a simple as that. at some point minor consideration for the afflicted oughta kick in.
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Boris Karloff?
Who is this actor?
in Information, Please!
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Lew Ayres?