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You can ask about previous airings just by posting here, or in the "Information Now!" subforum. There are a number of posters here who keep track of this in different ways, and using different methods. Unfortunately there is no official channel for this info. TCM reveals their tentative schedule three months into the future, though anything could change at any time. Future airings can be found either by clicking on the Monthly schedule link at the top, or by using variations of the example URL I have posted below. Here is a current example of four months of URLs, with the month of July 2015 being the present month: http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2015-7-01 http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2015-8-01 http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2015-9-01 http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2015-10-01 If entries in future months still don't appear correctly, try changing the day to some other number than "01". (minor glitch I think). As of this posting, October just hasn't been added yet. Also, entries in previous months will gradually roll off and disappear as days go by. P.S. In all its usefulness, the forum software truncated the sample URLs above, so here they are in case you just want to copy and paste them into a text document for future use: http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2015-7-01http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2015-8-01http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2015-9-01http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2015-10-01

This is pretty good. Groucho moves it along nicely. Nice to see Tor is every bit the conversationalist I imagined he'd be.

Invented in 1906 and "improved upon" by the inventor of Amazing Sea Monkeys, LOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Ray_Specs_%28novelty%29#History

Interesting to know. Sounds like there might be some room for it to be more of a "psychological thriller" (Hitchcock) than an actual horror movie. And that is figuring in a bit of slack along the way, in 1950s currency.

Cool... I actually recorded those, but just haven't accounted for them yet. Also I see Zombies On Broadway in there too. It sounds like Empire Of The Ants was as much a real-life horror for Joan Collins as it was on film. Also I like anything with Ray Milland, so X: should be good.

I quoted myself here to bump this list of movies from my "Wish List" (stuff I don't have that I want). Following is a list of more stuff I don't have, but from my "General" category. (stuff I don't have, that at least looks noteworthy). Island of Lost Souls (1932) - Charles Laughton • Richard Arlen • Leila Hyams • Bela Lugosi An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations. "The panther woman lured men on, only to destroy them body and soul!" Dr. Renault's Secret (1942) - J. Carrol Naish. 20th Century Fox. Dr. Larry Forbes visits the château of Dr. Robert Renault, uncle of his fiancée Madelon, who is idolized by Renault's assistant, a strange émigré from Java. The Seventh Victim (1943) A young woman (Kim Hunter) seeks her sister (Jean Brooks) and finds Greenwich Village satanists and Dante's Restaurant. Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944) Ghosts and an invisible girl (Marion Martin) help Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve (Harold Peary) become police commissioner. **aha! They just showed this! Zombies on Broadway (1945) Two press agents (Wally Brown, Alan Carney) stock a New York nightclub with a mad West Indian doctor's (Bela Lugosi) walking dead. The Man from Planet X (1951) - Director: Edgar G. Ulmer. Robert Clarke • Margaret Field • Raymond Bond. As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions. The Black Sleep (1956) - Basil Rathbone • Akim Tamiroff • Lon Chaney Jr • John Carradine • Bela Lugosi • Herbert Rudley • Patricia Blair • Phyllis Stanley • Tor Johnson . Sir Joel Cadman, a mad scientist, kidnaps his victims and cuts open their brains in an effort to discover a means to cure his wife's brain tumor. I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958) - Tom Tryon • Gloria Talbott Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople. Teenage Monster (1958) - Anne Gwynne • Stuart Wade In a little Western town, a boy is subjected to rays from a meteor. As a result, he grows into a teenaged, hairy, psychopathic killer. His mother hides him in her basement. A Horror Sci-Fi Western. Sounds like a bad idea, and it most likely is. War of the Colossal Beast (1958) - Director: Bert I. Gordon Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colosasal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry. How to Make a Monster (1958) When master monster make-up man Pete is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios he uses his creations to exact revenge. First Man Into Space (1959) The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside... The Slime People (1963) After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis. IMDB comments say : "Charming, with an excessive use of fog. Almost like a studio cranked out a "horror" movie before the fog machine repair guy came." The Crawling Hand (1963) The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) - Ray Milland. Director: Roger Corman. A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences. The Terror (1963) - Roger Corman. A French lieutenant (Jack Nicholson) follows a ghostly beauty (Sandra Knight) to a baron's (Boris Karloff) Baltic coast castle. The Horror of It All (1964) - Pat Boone. American salesman Jack Robinson falls in love with Englishwoman Cynthia Marley and they visit her family so he can ask for permission to marry her. She points out to him that her relatives are rather eccentric... The Wizard of Mars / Horrors of the Red Planet (1965) - John Carradine. In 1974, four astronauts, crash land on Mars, with only four days of supplies. . They must try to survive on the surface, which is barren except for some canals with huge maggots with fins, a golden road which leads them to the unchanging ruins of what was once a beautiful Martian city, and their collective consciousness, the "Wizard," forbids them to leave until they perform a very small task... Chock full of mistakes on all levels. The Projected Man (1966) A scientist experimenting with matter transmission from place to place by means of a laser beam suddenly decides to use himself as a test specimen. But the process goes awry, and one side of his body becomes hideously deformed and instantly lethal to anyone it touches. Empire of the Ants (1977) - Joan Collins, Director: Bert I. Gordon. The Uncanny (1977) - Peter Cushing • Ray Milland • Joan Greenwood. Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror. Eating Raoul (1982) - Paul Bartel • Mary Woronov A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant. Chopping Mall (1986) Eight teenagers are trapped after hours in a high tech shopping mall and pursued by three murderous security robots out of control.

Exerpts from Moviecollector's schedule (TV schedules shamelessly copied and pasted from someone else's hard work, all times EST) The Band Wagon played just fine yesterday, but it looks like they will be repeating it, which is a good thing. Cyd Charisse. Rawr. The Band Wagon Two playwrights bring a movie dancer (Fred Astaire) to New York for a Broadway show with a ballerina (Cyd Charisse). Movie Rating: NR Star Rating: 3/4 Movie Release Year: 1953 Genre: Musical Wednesday, July 08, 2015 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM TCM "does" Sci-Fi. Later on this week. Don't blink, you might miss it. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers A space scientist (Hugh Marlowe) figures out how to down a fleet of alien spacecraft looming over Washington, D.C. Movie Rating: NR Star Rating: **+ Movie Release Year: 1956 Genre: Science fiction Thursday, July 09, 2015 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM It Came From Outer Space Based on a Ray Bradbury short story about an astronomer's encounter with extraterrestrials in the Arizona desert. Movie Rating: G Star Rating: **+ Movie Release Year: 1953 Genre: Science fiction Thursday, July 09, 2015 9:30 PM - 11:00 PM The Day the Earth Stood Still Klaatu (Michael Rennie) and his guardian robot, Gort, come from afar to warn Earth about nuclear war. Movie Rating: G Star Rating: ***+ Movie Release Year: 1951 Genre: Science fiction Thursday, July 09, 2015 11:00 PM - 1:00 AM The Man From Planet X An alien asks earthlings (Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond) for help and gets blasted by bazookas. Movie Rating: NR Star Rating: 2/4 Movie Release Year: 1951 Genre: Science fiction Friday, July 10, 2015 1:00 AM - 2:30 AM Invisible Invaders A scientist (John Agar) uses high frequency to halt marching zombies in business suits. Movie Rating: NR Star Rating: *+ Movie Release Year: 1959 Genre: Science fiction Friday, July 10, 2015 2:30 AM - 3:45 AM They Came From Beyond Space Caped spacemen need slaves on the moon; a physicist (Robert Hutton) and his girlfriend (Jennifer Jayne) deal with them. Movie Rating: NR Star Rating: **+ Movie Release Year: 1967 Genre: Science fiction Friday, July 10, 2015 3:45 AM - 5:30 AM

Credits screen from The Man Who Found Himself (1937). I came across while scheduling a batch processor session.

Ok, nothing personal but this topic is giving me a headache. I was getting the cold sweats just thinking about it while I was with the family. So I really think this should be my last post on this topic. Just a couple more thoughts before I sign off for good on this thread: The 4:3 images don't really do anything for me. I don't have a real point of reference to work with. As per Anamorphic, the answer is no. Since you looked, you should have seen that they used "spherical" lenses.

We're going out, but I'll try to find the time to look at these pics and reread your post when I am at my own computer. Just a couple thoughts. If you have a 4:3 version, where did it come from? TCM certainly didn't air it on the HD feed. That is a 1.66:1 picture, I measured it. Now here's a quick theory and then I have to go. They may have produced a 1.66:1 version that was sidebarred, from a previously "widescreened" release (see picture). So the source still would have had more picture info than the widescreen you saw (sorry, I am firm on this point), but here's something new. It looks like this might have been framed a second time (starting with the "widescreen" version you saw) for compatibility with European Cinema. I will look at it some more later. BTW, what I have described here is not the same thing as Pan and Scan. Framing and Pan & Scan are two different things. In general, yes, widescreen is better, unless of course it wasn't filmed in widescreen. The original film stock would not qualify as "widescreen" by your definition. It wouldn't cause top and bottom bars on an HD monitor. There may not be an actual release version that uses all the original film though.

I'll just focus on the facial features. Here is what I see. The statue looks like it was patterned after this picture. Even the necklace matches. The eyes are okay I think. The head is too square though. Especially the cheekbones Then the hair is all wrong too, not curly at all like Lucille Ball's. It looks more like Michael McKean as "Lenny". Finally there is the mouth. Those teeth and mandible remind me of Eleanor Roosevelt.

You're welcome, and I'm glad TOR showed up. I'd be curious to see what you come up with on your older recordings.

I go through the same thing, but have gotten to the point where I am able to put it on the backburner and wait for it to play again as there are plenty of other movies. I chalk those types of losses (on otherwise reliable DirecTV) up to no more waiting around the house all week, during business hours, just for a cable TV "truck roll". I know, not related, but we had enough of their circa 2004/2005 banged up DVRs in 2013. Time for another "truck roll?" Oh wait, here he comes now. He's pulling in the drive with a new stack of 7-8-year-old units, don't know where they've been. He doesn't either. We'll go through them one at a time again till we find a working one, just like last time...

Also I liked Joan Bennett in The Woman In The Window. What beautiful hair.

Ginger Rogers often played tough-as-nails characters who began to realize the folly of their way, and become vulnerable to the "love interest" by the end of the movie. So here she is in true form (by my definition). She starts off as a veteran actress/diva who thinks she is quite happy in life. Then between conversations with Walter Pidgeon and Leon Ames (her manager), and going to a society function or two, she realizes she is not very happy being single after all. Compare that to her hair in the pictures. Her hair is braided up in a tight bundle in the beginning of the movie, then by the end it is let down and relaxed, just like her character. My favorite images of her that I uploaded are the 4th and 5th ones down, where she is with Walter Pidgeon. Some of these pics actually don't do her justice. I'd have to say her appearances in Weekend at The Waldorf are the most beautiful I have ever seen her.

And also Star Wars for me.

Okay, what did you do with TOR? I'm sure he could sit in for Tracy, although Tracy would get the thing done in a single take.

Thanks. It helps to understand the intent. I just measured that and got 2:39:1 (Panavision) and 1.66:1 (a variation of 35mm), which agrees with the Wiki page on aspect ratios. So the "smaller" frame would have appeared "normal" in the movie theaters, then the "larger" frame would have appeared "gigantic". That makes more sense, rather than one appearing "normal", and the other appearing "tiny". As could be perceived on a home TV - since the "gigantic" size here fills the whole screen just the same way as any other "normal"-sized movie.

Could it be a picture setting? In general there is a framing setting on all HD TVs with these options: as-is (off), automatic (your guess is as good as mine), frame on outer or largest dimension (letterbox or pillarbox), frame on inner or smaller dimension (crop, no bars), or stretch to fit (vertically or horizontally distort the picture), and maybe some others. If unexplained it could be that it might be a result of your HD TV being on the auto setting, or to a lesser extent it may have been set to the "crop" setting. The vertical black bars are so small in this case that you may not have even noticed anything missing, if it were cropping the picture for you.

Okay, one last post and I think I will be done here (or out of ideas). The TCM version is about 2:59:00 long. The DVD version is about 3:06:00 long. The DVD version has a 00:3:45 "Overture" part, and about a 00:03:30 "Exit Music" part. So that is probably your missing 7 minutes.

I didn't have a recording from the TCM SD feed, but had a DVD. Here is a screen capture. Black background, automatically adjusted to 4:3 ratio. Notice the black bars. This version was 3 hrs 6 min. (MGM Special Edition, ISBN 0-7928-6182-5) Same aspect ratio as the HD feed off TCM... (Click on pictures to see actual size difference between SD and HD. Not all older movies on TCM have this level of detail, but this is a good representation of what it can be like) And here is what I have for the TCM HD feed screen capture. (against a HD 16:9 background). This is similar to yours but I uploaded it just to establish a baseline using the same software. Again, the aspect ratios between the DVD and TCM HD feed are the same. (Don't let the backgrounds throw you off) The intros and outros, as you posted with Ben M., should be 16:9, since they are filmed with video cameras intended for TV production, not movie theater production. So they should be a natural fit for consumer HD TVs.

There are many different movies that I like the hair styles. But probably one of the ones I like best is Weekend At The Waldorf. Walter Pidgeon and Ginger Rogers meet each other, and Van Johnson and Lana Turner meet each other. Two couples/two seperate substories. Well actually even more substories than that. But I'll focus pictures from these two. Here are a couple shots from the movie. Walter Pidgeon "borrowing Ginger's cigarette lighter. The gold cord thingy that Ginger is wearing across the front of her dress adds to her look here. I can't explain it because I am not a fashion guy, but I really like it. This one's great, it happens toward the end of the movie, when each of them happen to rush past each other. Pidgeon is rushing to catch a plane and Turner is rushing to find Van Johnson before he leaves. They both notice each other and say "hey". I thought that was kind of funny. Lana Turner looks great with that little hat. In the movie she has some really great close-ups. Here are some production stills, not found in the movie =

P.S. I think I have an SD (4:3, 1.33:1, 480i) version sitting around, made before I started doing HD recordings. It has to be from at least a couple years ago, that is when I converted over to HD. Let me look at these things and get back.