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This tends to happen in general to shorts or any non-movie types of segments shorter than a feature film (< 45 minutes). It is a scheduling issue that seems to be diffic. For instance if there is a block of Harold Lloyd shorts, it is almost certain that there will be a recorded segment or two that includes the end of one, and the beginning of another. It seems to me that the schedule provders that make the schedules which end up on your DVR just can't keep up (3rd party schedule provider companies such as Tribune Media or Gracenote). TCM has been known to change the schedule all the way up to airtime. They are usually pretty good with movies, but I have noticed that shorts constantly get added and moved around all month long. Alternatively, the schedule you are looking at may already be obsolete, and the one that is used by both TCM and the 3rd party schedule providers may actually be on track with each other. (This is more of an issue for people who record manually, or manually set their DVR to record at a specific time, without the use of built-in scheduling services.) To compensate, if I see a short I really want, I record everything that surrounds it on the schedule.

Nobody's perfect.

A few years ago for me it was Singing In The Rain. I avoided it for years solely because of this dumb looking poster. Great movie.

You know it's bad when this is one of the top threads. This has probably been posted here before. Not Dr. Evil...the cans of spam.

The Wild Party (1929) did appear in my data (2000-08 & 2001-05), but mysteriously out of order in the way it was sorted. It appears in my table before the 1923 movie of the same name. I will look into this and see why it sorted it this way. Strange. Ceiling Zero (1936) - from IMDB trivia: After the 1993 VHS release, legal complications reared their ugly heads, and this title was taken off the market; as a result there has, so far, never been a DVD release, and except for a single presentation in May 1994, it's never been broadcast on Turner Classic Movies. The remake, International Squadron (1941), also fell into the same legal quagmire and has never been released on VHS nor DVD nor aired on TCM. These are the only James Cagney and Ronald Reagan titles to remain legally unavailable for public viewing at this time. See more » [I will add this in for May 1994, even though I don't have that month] In looking for any evidence of The Trial Of Mary Dugan (1929) having aired, I see it was scheduled for July 24, 2014 here: https://immortalephemera.com/52791/tcm-preview-july-2014/ but then was replaced by The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) [confirmed by more than one of my sources] Then in 2009 there was a bunch of Internet chatter about TCM having a Norma Shearer block. But no concrete mention of this movie actually playing at that time. Here's the best I can find on Mary Dugan: http://forums.tcm.com/topic/24774-the-trial-of-mary-dugan-1929/ In this thread, it is stated that TCM did have it scheduled for April 1994. Again, this month isn't in my project. Maybe I should add this into my entries too. The reply in the thread conforms to my requirements, it is reported (by someone I consider to be a reputable source) to have appeared in the schedule, though there are no reports of anyone who actually saw it firsthand. Little side note I came across: Norma Shearer turned down the role for Mrs. Miniver.

Glorious Betsy didn't make it to my project, by design. More later.

Here's what I have for She Couldn't Say No (1930). I put this up as an example of what the early printed schedules were like.

That could be the case for these. This project goes way beyond just gathering a bunch of old schedules together. Every bit helps.

Now that I have something to look for, I'll look into those. There may be some evidence out there. If I can find it, I'll tack it on.

Mostly Windows 8 and Windows 10 pushed people onto cell phones and onto tablets. Well either that or it is a mighty big coincidence. Anyhow, Android actually has a wee little version of the Linux kernel underneath the pretty wrapping of Android OS. So a large number of people have been using it and are none the wiser. It is restricted access though, only the Android programmers at Google have any say about what goes on with the hidden Linux portion of it. There are plans out on the Internet though, for people to "root" their Android phones, and install an open version of Linux instead. Phone still works and regular service charges still apply. It is just no longer connected to Google. (I have no input on this, as I don't have any Android gear.) Good you at least like the Mate Desktop Environment and might be able to use that. It is a close second to the Cinnamon DE in my opinion (I prefer Cinnamon because it has dimmer window borders and taskbar - easier on the eyes for me). Either of them are laid out close enough to the older versions of Windows for most to find them easy to use. Mate is also a little bit less power hungry than Cinnamon, a little less fancy. So some people put Mate on older machines. Also there is the XFCE DE for low power, but I am not really a fan of that. It is just too far of a departure for my taste. After you get rid of the Windows anti-virus, the Malwarebytes, the System Defender, the Automatic Updates, etc in the move to Linux, the same system runs faster and cooler in many cases. PHPBB is just a forum provider, like Envision is for this forum. No biggee. Stay safe out there in CA!!

Click on all the storefronts, click on all the buses, click on all the street signs, etc. It usually takes me two or three of those games before I win.

A word search for any combination of the words Kate, Katharine, and Hepburn could be incorporated into it.

Just ask a simple movie question. Who was Spencer Tracy bonking. That will at least clue us in a bit on potential locale of the spammer. "Maths" are too universal. Duh.

Oh, it's a walk in the park for me. No worries... Now this spam, that is a different story.

My whole point was, since you seem interested, to see if Linux might work for you as your native OS. I wouldn't expect it to work that well in Virtualbox, as you are seeing it being piped through Windows and the Windows video driver too, which presents additional challenges. What I would do if I were you is temporarily pull out your Windows hard drive, mark it with some masking tape and a Sharpie, and put it somewhere safe. Then put in a spare hard drive and install Linux the proper way, so it is running as the native OS. That way you will get a chance to see it run on its own. Also there is a feature in Linux Mint called "Zoom", located under Preferences/Accessibility on the main menu. It sounds like you tried that. I don't think that would do what you want. I would suggest you try changing the screen resolution, from Preferences/Display on the main menu. Basically see if you can drop it down to a lower resolution at the same aspect ratio (i.e. 16:9). Adjust this to a lower resolution, but keep the same aspect ratio as used for the default (maximum resolution) for your monitor. But again, try this with Linux actually running natively on your computer (not just running on top of Windows in Virtualbox). Then get back to me. P.S. Linux Mint 19 just came out, that may have some advantages over 18.3. It uses a newer default kernel (4.15) than Mint 18 did (4.4) or Mint 18.3 did (4.10). As is with all desktop Linux distributions, all the hardware drivers are pre-loaded in the Linux kernel. P.P.S. You said that you need to adjust your DPI to 125% in Windows. Size-wise that would be the same thing as multiplying your default monitor resolution by 0.8 So for your 1920x1080 monitor, instead of using the default 1920x1080 setting, you would use the 1536x864 setting, or as close to that as you can get in the Linux display settings. Not exactly the same thing as changing the DPI in Windows, but size-wise it is going to have a proportionate change with the text as well as everything else on the desktop (but this wouldn't apply to VLC in full-screen mode when you play back movies).

Here's my decade-by-decade breakdown of movies TCM has played over the years. Everything is calculated in the same pass, exactly the same way. No hockey stick graphs, no ASOS weather stations located on the hot concrete tarmacs at busy airports, etc. As of this posting, this covers from 1994 up through Sept 2018: http://moviecollector.us/reports/1)movies-only.htm

That's interesting. I've only seen one other person attempt to do anything like this, and that was a random blog I came across where a lady counted movies by hand as a limited case study for just a few months. I get 395 total items for August 2018 too (taken early July), and that includes shorts and other non-movie items which don't amount to feature-length movies (i.e. not 45 min or greater). At that point in time, this isn't far off from my number of 385 actual movies. The thing is, they don't really start to pile the shorts on in the schedule until the month is in progress. For July 2018, I get 387 feature-length movies (45 min or greater), whereas there are 454 total items from my last update (this was from the same sample taken early July). [He had 430 in his counts for July.] JULY 2018 I should mention there is one thing I intentionally delete and never count: Anything "MGM Parade". I just get sick and tired of looking at them in my database each month. [To summarize the above: to count both months I used a sample taken during early July. The total items I counted for the then-upcoming month of August was 395. Out of that, 385 qualified as movies...only 10 off. For the then-current month of July, the total of the items was 454, out of those 387 being actual movies...more like 67 off] So I am thinking, if he just wants to count movies, his numbers are going to be more accurate if they are taken maybe at least a month ahead of time. As the month approaches and gets into progress, they will start to pile on shorts, then those numbers will get skewed in favor of the shorts. Just something to mention to him, if any of you use Twitter.

Well I'll probably be taking a break from here for a while. No use trying to carry on a discussion under these circumstances.

It will need legacy hardware in order to run though. If you can get by, then fine. I'd just be on the lookout for any new XP issues that might crop up. XP isn't immune, it will run the same types of viruses that other versions of Windows will run. It is just off the radar, as far as Microsoft is concerned. So at the very least you should be running an antivirus which has up-to-date virus definitions and is compatible with XP. The best case for maintaining an XP box these days is for legacy software that is needed for something else, such as CNC machines for which there are no software updates. Those stay offline though, and are basically just "stand-alone appliances". By having Intel Duocore era CPUs or older, you avoid CPU vulnerabilities like Spectre and Meltdown, for which the mitigations need to be channeled from the CPU vender and into OS releases, in the form of patches. That brings me to more current things. To stay current on patches, Microsoft will soon be requiring people to use Windows 10. They will be discontinuing support for Windows 7 and eventually Windows 8. I wouldn't have an issue with any of that, if Windows 10 weren't such a radical departure from the earlier Windows 7 or Windows XP. That is why I personally switched over to Linux Mint (generally agreed to be the easiest of the Linux distributions for a beginner to start using). The major Linux distributions receive the same CPU patches to mitigate CPU vulnerabilities that Microsoft and Apple do. Staying up to date with its Software Updater is about the only big thing you would need to think about with Linux Mint. This is a manually run tool, to run the patches when YOU want to run them, IF you want to run them... That one tool takes care of EVERYTHING. On the other hand, there is no antivirus, no Malwarebytes, no registry cleaner, etc. Those are all really large cottage industries that grew around Windows type issues. FWIW, Linux "does" have some of these tools available, including "clamav", a simple antivirus with up-to-date virus definitions, but they are mainly for use on machines that will be shared with Windows users, such as servers. None of that would have any practical value for the Linux box though. I could go on but I would need to know that anyone is reading this first.

I used to use CCleaner too, back when I used Windows XP as my main computer. I also carried it over to Windows 7, which I used briefly (maybe about 6 months) on my main computer just before Microsoft began "upgrading" people to Windows 10. As I said "briefly", because that is when I made the move to Linux Mint so I could be in charge of my computer again... I'm not sure how convoluted the User directory structure has become with Windows 10, but if CCleaner has been updated for it, I'd say "fine, sounds like a great idea, just make sure it is doing what it should be doing". For Windows 7 (my last version of Windows), even just the User directory was a disorganized mess. That was mostly because the directory structure became more complex, and 3rd party software developers didn't really know where to put their stuff, so they just put it about anywhere... My remaining Windows computers are used as appliances, meaning I haven't installed any new software on them in about 3 years, and they have no network adapters and are not connected to anything on the outside, like the Internet. I have read that spam is a popular dish in Hawaii. Aloha. Nui nui.

Simply put, it's not a bad idea to keep your cache clear. This is due to common trackers which follow you around on various different websites, as well as inherent web browser and CPU vulnerabilities. That is not necessarily connected to unregulated activity on a message board like this though. It gets quite a bit deeper than that, but I'll keep this brief.

Meh...

Being a big fan of Sunnyside Up, a definite favorite of mine, I can only add to that a couple of the songs from Just Imagine (1930). "Never Swat A Fly" seems to have been noticed by at least a few others, judging by Youtube uploads. This a silly little song, performed during a set of vaudeville acts, aboard a futuristic airship (zepelin) party in the year 1980, before the Hindenburg disaster put a definitive end to the romance with airships. Also on board this airship party, there is a choreographed drinking song with impeccable timing. This movie was made during the Prohibition, so they saw themselves only drinking from very small sample-sized bottles by the time the year 1980 came around. Towards the end there is an unusual production number on the planet Mars in 1980, where the locals and the experimental space travelers from Earth are treated to a presumably typical sort of native "Martian" dance, which might be categorized these days as "performance art". That is in the last third of the movie, and where it runs out of steam IMO. The first two thirds are so imaginative though that I am more than willing to overlook that. The humor is chock full of period-era references. The set design is said to bear some resemblance to Metropolis, though the movie itself doesn't burden the viewer with heavy-handed messages. Instead it instills a sense of wonder about what the future might be like in 1980, from the perspective of 1929/1930. Typical early sound era stuff for Fox, back when when the title cards said "The William Fox Company" and purveyors of sound movies were still in their discovery phase. The movie gets a lot of flak, IMO mostly because it doesn't adhere to any typical formulas (i.e. "categorizers" are bound to be befuddled). IMO that only adds to it. Here is what I think is a fair enough review of the movie: http://horrornews.net/84704/film-review-just-imagine-1930/

Seems there might be a change to the forum, most likely unintended. My laptop display is 1600x900 and I can only see about half the width using the scroll bar at the bottom at any given time. So it is approaching the width that only a 4K screen will show all at once. This reminds me that we recently had an 8" hornet nest pop up on a 2nd floor eave of our house. These guys are really into rapid prototyping, just like the spammers. I knocked it off the house with a long three-segment extension pole and a whisk broom duct-taped to the end. Then we sprayed it as soon as it hit the ground with foaming wasp spray. Finally there was a bit of the nest still remaining up on the eaves, and about 100 angry hornets nearby. Thinking quickly, I taped a 1/2-full spraycan to the end of the pole. Then I took a wire coat hanger and bent it into the shape of a "W" (with a short apex in the middle and the legs on the sides being longer. I ran a long cord through the ends of the legs of the coathanger, and fit the apex into the recessed push-button on the top of the spray can. Pull the cord and it sprays. I was able to empty the rest of the can on the remainder of the nest, from well over 20 feet away. Nobody got stung. The 20 foot Raid or Black Flag types of spray cans only shoot 20 feet for about a couple seconds, and even less that that if you point it upwards into the air, so don't expect those to get the job done from any kind of distance - even less so for an elevation. That leaves you with a bunch left over that you'd have to use in closer proximity, which is exactly what I did, but just not up close and in person. In order for the coat-hanger idea to work, it is essential to get the type of spray can that has a recessed push-button on the top - like this: EDIT: Joined text lines, since things were fixed.

Glad to know some people out there find it interesting or useful... Main link http://moviecollector.us/reports.htm