Movie Collector OH
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9 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Thanks for posting that. I hope it doesn't end up fodder for smart alecky posters to point out the errors or mispronunciations. I always felt the intros/outros written for him were banal factoids anyone could find on the internet-wish they had been more personal.
Yup. I'd leave out any comment section. Not the place.
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2 hours ago, EricJ said:
Now that I finally found a foreign DVD of "Electric Dreams", I eagerly await the Warner Archive "Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" restoration, so I can officially get rid of the LAST commercial VHS still in my closet.
You will never be more conscious of the indestructible nature of Blu/DVD play, than when increasing tracking marks and strange creaking sounds from your tape make you worry every play might be its last.... 😱
Ahh yes, the analog vs digital argument. One gives you some notice, the other just dies. Look, I have no particular love for either, but like a good tradesman...
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5 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Heh you beat me to it! We used to auction off Vitaphone Disks at Cinefest-along with Laser Disks & other obsolete media. Makes nice wall art.
I use a sweet Sony turntable/cassette combo from my late Aunt's estate than no one else wanted & think my 70's Realistic turntable/speakers are still in the attic.
Techhies: we found an old deteriorated record made in some kind of "home studio" from the 50's. It seems to be mounted on a metal plate, the grooved material has cracked. Is there any way to restore or play it? Never seen such a thing in my life. Stylus needles are like hen's teeth, I'm afraid to play it.
I never really got into home/consumer-marketed stuff like this, but that sounds like some variety of a home-made record, which preceded magnetic tape for a while.
From video description:
Before they were made obsolete by magnetic tape recorders, there were machines that allowed people to make their own recordings onto discs. Companies provided blank records made of thin acetate over cardboard—or sometimes glass- or metal-core—along with home-recording devices in packages like the Wilcox-Gay Recordio Disc and the PhonOcord Playhouse. Here's a picture of one: http://www.phonozoic.net/recordio/mac.... You could find the recorders in stores that carried items like cameras, radios, pianos, furniture, and appliances. My husband picked up a pile of these discs at a garage sale. Some of the recordings are blank. Others have dialogue (greetings from a nephew to his uncle), amateur singers (a duet by Glen and June), radio personalities (Fibber McGee and Molly) , recitals, re-recordings of popular recording artists, etc. There's even one disc given out by a department store—"Best Wishes from Bullock's" to celebrate engaged couples’ upcoming nuptials. These cut-your-own recordings are a selection from Wagner's, Capitol, Federal, Packard-Bell, and Sabortone.And here's a guy demonstrating a home stylus-based disc recorder he restored, using disposable red plastic plates as a recording medium:
(P.S. he shouldn't have to take it apart just to see the peak indicator, but maybe that's just a consequence of the restoration)-
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On 4/27/2021 at 11:48 AM, hamradio said:
How funny that is now thinking back when Doc in "Back To The Future" thought what a marvel the "portable TV studio" was. LOL if that movie was made today!!
Couldn't afford a camcorder at the time, recently acquired a Canon ZR500 Digital tape camcorder NEW for only $40.00. An equivalent unit in the 2002 Radio Shack catalog was $650.00.
Smartphones caused the market to bottom out.
LP's haven't died, FAR from it! Making an amazing comeback.
https://www.musictimes.com/articles/81726/20200601/revival-records.htm
https://thesoundofvinyl.com/*/New-Releases/
Did you say Morricone ?
https://thesoundofvinyl.com/*/Soundtracks/Morricone-60/5AO70JY7000
Search for turntables and see what's out there!
Vinyl is no more dead than the vacuum tube amp!
Speaking of home audio. I don't know if anyone would appreciate this or not, but one of the more interesting audio experiments I have tried at home was a small audio system specifically for playing back older (much older) recordings. Some time ago I acquired a Bogen tube amp, it is one of the last tube amps they produced, a 40 watt mono tube amp from the late 1960s. The one I got is close to being in like-new condition.
Then I pulled out a stage monitor left over from my sound days (EAW LA212) - full range 2-way with 12" woofer and 2" compression driver - somewhat pronounced upper bass without compensation - and the highs also roll off a bit due to the larger 2" compression exit aperture. (Opening is larger than the highest frequencies, which would typically need an aperture of 1" or 1.4" to deliver those highest frequencies without "beaming", so it is rolled off a bit on the top end.) I set it on the floor, which enhanced the bass response some and killed the high end just a bit...just like a big old "hi-fi cabinet".
Maybe you already see where I am going with this. 😁
Then... connected to my computer I put a simple MobilePre external sound card - for analog input/output. I connected the output of that to an audio isolation transformer - to safely couple the PC equipment to the tube amp and properly lift the ground.
I had a bunch of connector issues, as you might imagine, but in the end I was smiling like a kid. The resulting sound was reminiscent of an older "hi-fi radio/phono cabinet" from the 1960s or before, except with better sounding speakers. It only plays at modest volume levels, as the speakers are not overly efficient and I am only dealing with a 40 watt amp. So this generally works and sounds best with stuff that came out before The Who.
So far this was just a temporary experiment for me, just killing some time, but I really liked the aesthetics of it. The "sound" of it matched what I was playing on it, just as I remembered hearing it before, like this cut from 1959 which I actually DO have put away somewhere on LP. Except this time I was just playing YT videos off my computer. The only thing missing was the record scratches. Oh, and playing it in stereo, as the Bogen amp is a mono amp. So I hit on at least one point from your post - the potential for vacuum tube amps to add character.
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15 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Thanks Ohio, I'm just getting to May.
No problem, it was still snowing one more time around here about a week ago. So that means April is probably just around the corner for me. 😁
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18 hours ago, hamradio said:
Think it takes some precious metals to afford those things.
Exactly. Just some cheap off-brand bookshelves with the veneer peeling off will do. Those work fine. In a cool, dark, dry area of course. There are other more important aspects to "pride of ownership".
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7 minutes ago, hamradio said:
I also have a large media collection but only 4 Blu Rays. The formats includes DVD, VHS and Laserdisc. When I acquired factory made VHS , keep them in drawer cabinets, my oldest is "Casablanca" by CBS/FOX video, year 1984. Still plays like new. Some people think their well taken cared of tapes may have degraded but after watching DVD's for so long, forgot it's much sharper than tape. One must keep magnetic media away from strong electrical fields to preserve them.
Now for the SERIOUS movie collector..
That's only a smokescreen. Underneath all that crap and some floorboards is where the precious metals get stored.
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An early look at June.
(click link & scroll down to bottom of page)https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched.htm
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Yep, have a look at Nitrateville. Film collectors.
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More on the film itself. Here are some comparisons image-wise. The Cinerama screen used three 35mm films. Also of note, the original IMAX (15/70) was 10x the surface area of a 35mm film, or about 3x the surface area of 5/70 (70mm - Todd AO, Super Panavsion 70, etc)
Comparative film formats (includes 35mm, Cinerama, IMAX)
The soundtrack for the 15/70 IMAX played back on a separate machine, a 6-channel analog system which used regular 35mm optical film. Disney World theme parks also used optical film as a medium for repetitive sound loops (as it was more robust than magnetic tape) on their rides, shows, and around the park, prior to arrival of long-form digital storage media in the 1980s/90s. The IMAX projectors went straight from 35mm optical audio to compact disc. The 35mm audio decks remained in use for their older films. These didn't use time code for audio alignment like digital media, but rather operated on electronically synchronized motors - similar to the mechanical synchronization of the Vitaphone system but with some updates...
In simpler comparative form: 15/70, 5/70, and standard 35mm:
And finally what an original-style 15/70 IMAX screen looks like. Much attention has been given to side-to-side peripheral vision with the various widescreen formats. IMAX 15/70 does that but also immerses the audience in top-to-bottom action.
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On 4/15/2021 at 10:52 AM, hamradio said:
Not surprising, how many times can you show very limited number of movies before the public becomes bored of it. I like Cinerama but the travelogues are not actually "movies".
I have "This Is Cinerama", "How The West Was Won" and "The Golden Head" in the Smilebox format
Try to remember some new movies are shot in IMAX, none in Cinerama since "2001 A Space Odyssey".
I read a bunch of articles about this before. The huge IMAX that most people think of is 70/15 format, meaning 15 perforations (sprocket holes) per frame, run through the projector sideways (horizontally). That is much larger square film area compared to any other film format. The others had 5 perforations, for widescreen 65 or 70mm films, run through the projector vertically.
Anyhow, all that has been discontinued. Now almost all IMAX theaters just show digital media like everyone else. Back when they were transitioning away from film, the IMAX projectionists were just trying to grin and bear it.
The screen size of the original IMAX was a rectangular 5 stories tall and 7 stories wide, I think. The first movie I saw was a 26 minute short called "To Fly". Here is a horribly scanned 2 minute segment, you will have to just use your imagination. The last few moments of this segment had everyone in the theater gasping, as did many other scenes with slowly moving wide panoramic shots like this, and I remember I grabbed the arm rests of my seat, it seemed as if the whole theater was moving side to side and up and down.
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There is (or at least used to be) a channel on cable called "EPXDVN" or Epix Drive-in. They showed stuff like American Graffiti. I haven't checked it in about 5 years though.
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2 hours ago, SansFin said:
I dislike taking a thread so very far off-topic but I believe that some elaboration is in order. I have it on good authority that:
1) Goop is for actual workers who need to clean deep grime and better-left-unidentified goops, glops and smears.
2) GoJo is for poufs, engineers who barely know which end of a hammer to hold and purchasing agents who once saw a worker with dirty hands.
3) Zep is for military-industrial-complex-wannabes who skipped all the mental aspects of puberty.
I can believe that GoJo may remove warts. The SDS lists it as caustic.
My most intense use of these products is removal of adhesive residues left by tape holding IVs and EKG tabs after they have been on for a week or more. Goop works well with a little scrubbing. GoJo works well only if you are willing to use a Brillo pad or paint scraper. Zep either ignores the residue with a live-and-let-live attitude or it bonds with it in a comrade-in-arms, we'll-stand-fast-together attitude.
Your Mileage May Vary 😉
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Well I don't have any particular order of preference, other than Gojo being in town for me (about an hour or so), so I could literally drop in there and talk to some of them during their smoke breaks, pick their brains a bit, and report back here on what they are smoking.
Don't get any pumice in your eyes.
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3 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
And yet, nobody seemed to have complained when in movies like COMING TO AMERICA ('88) EDDIE MURPHY performs in whiteface!
Sepiatone
Just saw The War With Grandpa (2020), starring Robert DeNiro, over at my neighbors. That started off with DeNiro, as a crotchety-crotch old grandpa, gratuitously harassing/ physically assaulting a black guy. No problems with that, right?
No I didn't think so. BTW, we immediately thought of that Coming To America scene too. 😁
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10 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
...24 hours later and I’m still chuckling to myself about “Marsha Homosexual Harden.”
The "politically correct" idiots get exposed.
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19 hours ago, SansFin said:
It is a very appropriate and even somewhat compelling name for a product intended for mechanics, machinists and others who often work with things best described as "goop".
This is a grand product and I love it very much! It cleans nearly all sticky, oily and inky substances from hands and face. It is quite gentle.
This reminds me of DL Hand Cleaner, which I used to use many years ago after working on the car or out and around the house. It is a soft lanolin-based hand cleaner. They've apparently changed their can from a dark blue cardboard can with metal top and bottom and plastic lid, to this.
https://www.permatex.com/products/hand-care/hand-cleaners/dl-permatex-blue-label-cream-hand-cleaner/19 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:I think we call it GOJO in the southeast, but yeah- Next to Dr. Bronner’s or that African soap, it’s the best stuff there is.
In more recent years I have used either Zep or Gojo after working on the car. Both of these companies offer an Orange-scented product with pumice, for thicker grime (one of my friends who used to be an auto mechanic pointed these out to me years ago).
https://www.gojo.com/en/Product/0958-04https://www.homedepot.com/p/ZEP-48-oz-Original-Orange-Industrial-Hand-Soap-R45710/312550648
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7 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
THERE'S A REASON that THE DISNEY LOT is referred to as "MAUSCHWITZ"
Things that cannot be "unseen" and scar people for life.
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45 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Thanks for the FYI!
considering what's happened to BARR, GOODING and RANDY QUAID since then, I wonder if there was a CURSE ON IT!
Or maybe something revealing happened at The Mouse that changed their perspective on things, which wouldn't surprise me the least.
Which reminds me, I need to check my traps around the house.
P.S. what a title for a thread.
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1 hour ago, David Guercio said:
Dom DeLuise.Don Rickles
and come on you guys. I’m not trying to request none classic films on this channel at all or full shows of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. You can’t fool me. You remember Carson On TCM? Hosted by Conan O Brian and interviews and clips were what I actually meant. Ha ha ha.
klicken Sie hier:
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12 hours ago, Millenniumman said:
Why wouldn't the hosts talk to the fans as themselves, why the disguise ?
May not be there to speak "ex-cathedra" - i.e. Could be there to troll?? (just a possible scenario, no matter how unlikely)
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13 hours ago, hamradio said:
Some still can.
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If those tea lights are the real thing, they can burn for at least a good three hours. That is a significant amount of movie discussion.
Real or Energizer though, I'd put them into proper glass holders.
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1 hour ago, CallMeTim said:
Thanks. BTW I appreciate the effort you put into these schedules. I find it really helpful.
Glad to help!
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23 hours ago, CallMeTim said:
I was a little surprised to see it on the TCM schedule (I thought it was sometime last year). I didn't see it on MCOH's database but I'm certain I saw it on my cable systems schedule. I didn't record it though (once in a lifetime was enough).
It was definitely a different time......
Yeah, the online schedules can differ from the on-screen schedules. I don't put much thought into the shorts on the online schedule, other than to document the times they actually do show up on it.
No I didn't think so. 
Clergy in Film, But Positive
in Information, Please!
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