Movie Collector OH

Long live Robert Osborne. 😀

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Starting a new thread here. Another month is up (scroll to bottom). https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched.htm

Schedule is up: https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched.htm

They ran it several times earlier on. Last time was during 2014.

Social media notwithstanding for me and purely from the standpoint of being an observer, this has been an interesting journey. I am vindicated as I saw the potential for all of this to happen with social media back in 2008/2009 around when it started to take off. I thought MySpace was a stupid idea at the time, and thought the subsequent "big social media" services to come were stupid ideas too. I recommended to everyone I knew that they not store anything personal there, or better yet just don't do it - you don't know the motives of those who operate it. At the very least they were massive data harvesting operations and these days they "unperson" people and block access to their data. It does more harm than good anymore and just needs to go away.

Probably nothing out of the ordinary here. I doubt it would come to that.

https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching P.S. that's some downright hilarious stuff there, isn't it Allhallowsday.

Or as I have heard, there are some who squirrel it away in the walls or in the floor joists, such that it is not discovered until future owners do some remodeling. As for the D, it sounds as if there might be someone with anger management or control issues in their ranks.

Happy Birthday!

I got my butterfly net out.

I too would like to see some good transfers of pre-Fox fire movies come out, stuff that existed before the fire. By this point we are probably looking at forgotten copies in obscure archives.

I don't have a good copy of Triumph Of The Will, but for quite some time I've been chipping away at a sound version of Metropolis, complete with "borrowed" synth music, in lieu of any of my own, and lots of sound effects. Would probably give Giorgio Moroder a splitting headache. I'm approaching it from a different angle by going through it scene by scene backwards. So I have most of the action scenes done. I'm way behind schedule though. No word in Triumph Of The Will. 😁

If a tree falls at the AMC forum, is there anyone over there who will hear it? Here there are at least about 25 people. 😁

Ewww...

I think it's just part of the "artwork".

Your Enter key is stuck.

It never gets old.

That's quite good that someone went through all the plans and tied all that together. Most of that would violate safety standards today, nevertheless it is interesting to see. e.g. Neutral-interrupted dimmer switches. Those large lighting panelboards have been replaced by assignable DMX lighting controllers, with programmable cues. It still takes a lighting operator or two to run the masters for the lighting show, and others in addition to man the follow spots, but much of that has been consolidated. For some time, the rotary convertors (i.e. "motor-generators") in the basements continued to be used for the arc follow spots, because they just worked. They were also used in movie theaters for the arc lights in projectors. This was before they had electronic ballasts for the arc follow spots - and in movie theaters a ballast under the lamp house of each projector. This takes me back to when I had seen some of these things for myself in older theaters, later used as live event spaces, but before they were renovated with newer control surfaces and modern equipment that the existing spaces would have by now today. Much of this older equipment was still in place then, but no longer used or in various stages of deprecation: Lighting panelboards only partially functional. Broken or missing seats. Outdoor signs controlled by carbon brush and slip ring devices with dead circuits - or just steady on with burned out bulbs. Swamp coolers still used but in reduced capacity. Freight elevators that were scary to ride in, etc. You could still see a lot of the workmanship that went into the places though. Fun times. Now everything is technically perfect and boring, and it is all like "BFD". 😁 Thanks for posting. I'll be taking some time to go over this.

Hi LsDoorMat, yes this film is competently made. There was one "jump-cut" near the end to account for the passage of some time, stitched together with just one sentence. So if you miss what is said, you might get a bit confused. Other than that though, it is well made. I definitely recommend it.

I can't think of that many "new" stars. Some of the older current ones I find to be ok. Here is an exception. My neighbors had me over, I fixed something on their car, and we watched a movie on some streaming service she gets. Another neighbor from Cornwall who is familiar with the very area where this movie was set recommended this to us. I had never heard of any of these actors before, and best of all, didn't have a damn idea of what any of their politics are. Exactly the way it should be. Nice bit of escapism with an uplifting plot, far from the usual modern fare that is designed to slowly grind away at the audience. Fisherman's Friends (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1648186/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

I doubt any of these thoughts are actually the case, if I can gain access to and understand what to do with these then anyone else can too - even someone who works at MeTV. I think it is no more than just a different less experienced person who built/configured that part of the website. Maybe the entire department responsible had no idea. There are a few different things that lead me to this conclusion, one of which is the continued use of the old "API" site, which I refer to as the "old feed" in my schedules. That is mostly redundant with the current schedule data, which I call the "new feed" in my schedules. It seems the info in the "old feed" comes from the programming dept, and the "new feed" is from the inherited umbrella IT dept, which is just reformatted "old feed" data - minus some info like screen formatting and themes, which they likely didn't have any idea what to do with. The "old feed" data leads and the "new feed" data lags. In fact, I have noticed some of the same old transient mistakes we have always seen in the old schedules, show up in the "old feed", and then get propagated later to the "new feed", but then just stay there whereas the "old feed" still occasionally shows it correctly - but just not always. I won't be advertising any specifics here what those might be, because I believe it is their job to get this thing right on their own. The fact is that the "new feed" is now showing Feb and has been for a while now, but the official schedule it feeds (the Daily schedule) only goes up to Jan 28 as I type this. That goes to show that the burden only lies on the website display itself. Not the contents of the "old feed" (presumably from the programming staff) and not the contents of the "new feed" (presumably from the inherited umbrella IT staff - which doesn't seem to have any clue on how this used to operate). It seems the outcome, at least by default, is now to just chop off anything beyond a certain point until it is closer to air date. That happens on the display attributes (client-side scripting) of the website itself. In other words, this limitation on the future days of the official website schedule is happening on your own machine. I'm not doing anything magical here, just showing the data minus the scripted limitations of their website itself, on my own page. Kind of silly if you ask me. Oh yeah, Merry Merry and Happy Happy (in that order). P.S. for new readers: Old Feed (updated only as I see major changes): https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched.htm New Feed (updated daily): https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched-new.htm

Here's one. I didn't have this in my database, but remembered it once before on here. Just remembered it again now. Not really that much to do with Christmas but there is nothing new under the sun. The Magic Christmas Tree https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195039/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3

Everything's always changing, so it could be that issue has been mitigated for certain stand-alone device(s) since that report I read, which would be good. It was a repeatable thing though on my computer, independent of browser, and only ever happened with that website. That is the machine that i use for watching all Internet media, so it sees a bunch of different sources.

I have Directv and they have TCM on their second cheapest package (I think the cheapest is just locally available TV networks). I have to renegotiate the price every so often, in order for that to work out for me. The Internet connection is separately through my cable company, just Internet only, 3 MB/s. That is the lowest speed I am willing to tolerate, and I have been at that speed for a very long time. It is good enough for downloading audio or video podcasts, then watching on that computer. A 2 GB podcast (2 hours or so of video in HD) downloads in typically 10-12 min or so. I usually watch video this way if I can, rather than stream live, as downloading first completely eliminates playback glitches due to transient Internet quality. There was someone on here who recommended Pluto.tv to me. It is a free ad-based Internet streaming service with some old TV shows. I tried that and realized it had some issues (on their end). After some investigation I found out that others have documented that their website creates a memory leak, which in my case based on the amount of memory installed on one of my machines (4 GB), crashes the browser after about an hour and a half of viewing. They have it heavily weighted down with Javascript, so you watch it the way they want you to watch it. I had my computer's system resource meter up at the same time and was watching the memory usage increase over time. That problem is unique to Pluto.tv for me, it has never happened to me with YT or any other like websites. Someone even mentioned that this happens on their Roku or Smart TV. So that is about the extent of my streaming experiences for now. Caveat emptor.