Movie Collector OH
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Closest I ever got was a f u g l y hospital gown. A real hand-me-down.
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27 minutes ago, Dargo said:
And then of course there's the OTHER reason for not wearing pink shirts.
(...while drinking your coffee and you dribble some on it like a slob, it's a real bear to remove that stain before it sets in)
That reminds me of back in the 1980s when Miami Vice was a thing. I used to wear white pants and a jacket. I am quite neat, but it was still hard to keep them white.
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9 hours ago, cmovieviewer said:
Looks like Charade is coming up again for a quick repeat Sunday afternoon (5:45 pm ET), so we can check to see if it looks OK this time.
Okay, I'm in. Group effort.
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41 minutes ago, slaytonf said:
My TV service is Directv. So I guess it was them, not TCM. I wouldn't say it was flickering. Just jumping forward.
Gee, I hope not. Well if it was Directv, it is confined to such an odd sampling of movies that I have never actually noticed it before. And yes I do spot-check movies I have recorded, even if I don't watch them right away. TCM usually comes across clean on Directv for me. So I still think it is just those movies (on top of that I think it sounds like we saw two different things happen). Unless you actually see some sort of trend starting to develop here.
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20 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Now WAIT a second here, dude!
Don't you know one of the rules around here is that IF you post a YouTube video in thread, you have to watch and listen to the WHOLE thing before you post IT???
(...boy, I tell ya...some people around here don't seem to have EVER read the "Rules of Conduct" at good ol' TCM.com, huh!)
I already had the album and I knew what came next. The coffee maker is what worried me - steam engines, medieval torture devices and all. I had to get out of there.
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4 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Wow! Then I suppose this would give a whole to new meaning to that old phrase "A Caffeine Rush", eh MCOH?!
(...or as Lawrence Welk might've said, "Thank you'a, boys. What a won'erful little uptempo tune from you here, mmmm.")
I don't know, I didn't stay around long enough to find out!
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"The answer is 42."
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2 hours ago, Dargo said:
So Ray, question here:
Ever get that old percolator of yours there to do that thing in those old Maxwell House commercials?
(...you know, sound like that song that was a mild hit recording by Billy Joe & the Checkmates back in 1962?)
Now I don't think I could top that... Nice and simple thoughts on a coffeemaker. No "Internet Of Things" or "Botnets" to be seen there. Just a coffeemaker that makes good coffee.
The other day I happened to be in a hi-tech appliance store and they had coffee makers that sounded like this:
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I didn't see this airing. Was this on Cable by any chance?
On another thought, the recent airing of Pink Nightgown had something going on that sort of matched that description, on Directv nonetheless. The whole thing was flickering throughout, sort of like a filming of a film playing. Does this sound like what you saw? If you want, I can upload a sample.
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55 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Gotta say this thread sure seems to have elicited a lot moir responses than I ever thought it would.
(...doh, I meant "more"...geez, see what you people have done to me?!!!)
Moir Moire. This has something to do with polynomials I think. Rich would understand.
(Not the glass of wine, the big frickin' thing below)
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4 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
I agree. I'm also repulsed by those who drink from a bottle-only because I was brought up not to do that, it's not very good manners.
But yes, the phenomenon of having to nourish yourself 24/7 -often publicly- started in the 80's. The US has evolved into a nation of people who eat most meals alone and constantly "snack" or more appropriately termed "graze". The problem with American style "grazing" is; instead of substituting meals, grazing is in addition to meals!
As for kids drinking coffee-the chains have designed all those sugary drinks to do exactly that - lure in new consumers who otherwise wouldn't drink regular coffee.
Black coffee is fine for me. I prefer coffee with real cream though. Also I'd rather have black coffee instead of coffee with "lite creamer". No sugar - real cream is sweet enough for me.
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4 hours ago, Ray Faiola said:
This is how MEN drink their coffee!
Exactly.
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13 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
Zoology of course, and other natural sciences are the fields which rely on cladistics the most. Definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladistics
You can pick any animal in the taxonomic order and invariably --if you trace it back--you will see mentioned that at some point early naturalists were probably unclear as to what species, family, or order it was.
(Here's one of my favorites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungulate)
You can see that confusion usually developed because taxonomers were deceived by some visual component. They didn't have advanced tools or techniques. So whatever initial label they gave to a specimen was overturned by later zoologists who examined the evolutionary record instead. That's why we know there's no 'jackalopes' roaming the prairies.
Not just in natural history but practically any modern science or art you can think of (unless its totally something fru-fru like basket-weaving).
'Appearance' alone is never used for classification anymore. I'm frankly shocked to see it advanced as a theory; whether in cinema or anywhere else. Its an outdated paradigm for any purpose.
Did they ever find Manbearpig?
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56 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
One term I don't use is neo-noir. It's like saying a neo-Nazi is a new kind of Nazi. No, a Nazi is still a Nazi. And anything "neo" filmed in the 20th century is "old" now.
For just about any example I think of, "neo"-anything in name basically distances itself from any kind of serious continuum on an original idea. Really badly. It is an outright admission of revisionist wankery.
Around here though that can also mean "Northeast Ohio", not to be confused with wankery.
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8 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
I keep seeing this noted as a premiere....I believe my copy was recorded from TCM from a few years ago.
I see a couple different comments online where it was scheduled to air for Dec 2008 on TCM and then retracted. One other comment indicates it has aired on PBS. Do you have a TCM logo on the bottom right on your copy? Not much info on this one.
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23 hours ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
I recorded probably about 15 movies out of that weekend. Not bad, none of it it TCM stuff.
One interesting thing I noticed is that everything in the HBO and HBO affiliate HD feeds was vertically squashed so that people looked just a bit "fat". Looking into it further, it seems they pad everything they show with horizontal bars, squeezing the picture to what I think might be a 1.85:1 aspect ratio (common for movie theaters). That is what I think, just because 16:9 (also expressed as 1.78:1) is a common home video aspect ratio. So if you were to shoehorn the 1.78:1 inside the 1.85:1, and then stretch it out from side to side to match, then it might distort like that. I still have to verify on an actual video editor, but that is my theory for now anyhow.
Really nice that the aspect ratio of TCM's HD feed is usually exactly right. Sometimes the picture is too small, but the proportions are almost always exactly right.
Combine that distorted picture with me getting over a cold and taking cold medicine, and missing a yearly Thanksgiving house party with 25 people, it is not really the best combination.
Okay I went a bit further in my investigation. My sample movie which HBO played was filmed in 1.85:1 aspect ratio. Modern HDTV and computer monitors have an aspect ratio of 16:9 (also could be expressed as 1.78:1 to compare to theater aspect ratio), not that far off.
I cropped out the top and bottom bars from the HBO airing in an editor, leaving just the movie. It came out to 1918 x 812 pixels (within a 1920 x 1080 frame). That is really close to a 2.4:1 aspect ratio (for a movie that was filmed at 1.85:1).
Had this been correctly displayed, the video image at 1.85:1 aspect ratio would have been closer to 1920 x 1038 (within the same 1920 x 1080 frame). Instead, the same thing was shown distorted (not chopped off) at 1920 x 812. So that is crushing the movie vertically by about 20%.
No, I wasn't imagining things.
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This thread has kind of made me scratch my head, hence the lack of reply.
I think anyone who needs to carry a "sippy cup" everywhere they go looks a bit strange, possibly infantile. Sip sip sip. It is a modern phenomenon. Sip sip sip. Be it coffee, tea, bottled water, etc. Sip sip sip. But probably not really tea so much since this is the US. Sip sip sip.
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Must-see TV.
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4 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
I'm just saying these tcm self-praising psalmers will show something awful like Roller Boogie but not the 2 films I mention above.
they could show hot spell but no these tcm people would praise something truly awful, probably THE worst film ever made behind the creeping terror, the beast of yucca flats before showing hot spell....
they would show excruciating marathons of both the creeping terror and the beast of yucca flats before showing hot spell.
I believe this. that film aficionados are known by the films they select...and then proceed to run into the ground ad nauseum.
the great Christopher lee dies and what do they give us? the same often repeated cruddy Americanized Horror of Dracula instead of the 2012 BFI restored cut which would have been a far more befitting (and respectful) gesture to christopher lee's contribution to horror cinema. I bet that the deadheads at tcm DIDN'T EVEN THINK about getting the restored british cut. why?...
because despite their endless self-praising psalmetry they do not care! (about cinema!)
"there, I said it!" -mark Levin
What are you calling for here? A double dare for them to show Garbage Pail Kids marathon??
I was a bit surprised recently when I heard ML won the talkers award. He is a bit wooden for my tastes. It's one thing for the real work he has done, but this award was for his on-air self. Nuff said.
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2 hours ago, Dargo said:
Wait a second here, James!
Now, I had heard these "binary camps" are places where parents send their kids away for the summer to learn computer skills?!!!
(...or as Bogie says in that one flick set in a north African town, "I was misinformed"???)
These days they use a hex editor. It is witchcraft.
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I recorded probably about 15 movies out of that weekend. Not bad, none of it it TCM stuff.
One interesting thing I noticed is that everything in the HBO and HBO affiliate HD feeds was vertically squashed so that people looked just a bit "fat". Looking into it further, it seems they pad everything they show with horizontal bars, squeezing the picture to what I think might be a 1.85:1 aspect ratio (common for movie theaters). That is what I think, just because 16:9 (also expressed as 1.78:1) is a common home video aspect ratio. So if you were to shoehorn the 1.78:1 inside the 1.85:1, and then stretch it out from side to side to match, then it might distort like that. I still have to verify on an actual video editor, but that is my theory for now anyhow.
Really nice that the aspect ratio of TCM's HD feed is usually exactly right. Sometimes the picture is too small, but the proportions are almost always exactly right.
Combine that distorted picture with me getting over a cold and taking cold medicine, and missing a yearly Thanksgiving house party with 25 people, it is not really the best combination.
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ESD-Noir - When you forget and shuffle across the living room in the Winter, your hair stands on end, and then you touch the TV set, releasing thousands of volts of electrostatic discharge into the most sensitive bits of the TV set, and it finds the shortest path to ground. It's a really dark movie.
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How about Garbage Pail Kids? South Park? (back when they killed Kenny off in every episode) Proto-playground noir? How quantifiable does this need to be.
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1 hour ago, TopBilled said:
Are these last minute switches affecting the info on your database?
I don't attempt to provide the latest greatest info. More accurately my project lends itself to documenting past months and working with that. As a side benefit, I have found that this provides the necessary framework to locate premieres that would otherwise slip through the cracks.
These last-minute switches don't affect past months for me, as I have much better data coming in for that (though after the fact). The future/current month part of it is still based on the TCM monthly website pages though.
Once a month I am resolving all the currently available monthly webpages (3-5 months worth) on the TCM site (for given date on my reports) versus everything I have of TCM's broadcast history. Then following that, others come in (cmovieviewer, mr66666, etc) and look for differences between my monthly listings and the (then) current listings - i.e. late-breaking changes.
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Male stars drinking coffee or tea -- is it masculine?
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