Movie Collector OH
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7 minutes ago, laffite said:
Wow, on youtube, is it? As mentioned, "Where is it?" was a perennial query for me. I'm surprised that I haven't dropped everything else, but I haven't as yet. I'll get to it soon, though. Hope it hangs around.
In case you use Firefox or Chrome, "Youtube Audio And Video Downloader" is your friend. It captures and saves the stream to a conventional media file on your machine. Just be aware that this would eventually fill up your hard drive on your computer, unless you offload the captured movies to another place.
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16 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I love Disneyland!
I wasn't aware that there was "a problem." Why does everyone have to bemoan the presence of unrealistic films? I like watching noir and other grittier, more realistic films as much as the next person; but frankly, sometimes I'm just sick of hearing about all the horrible things that happen every day: bombings, school shootings, hostage situations, parents killing kids, husbands killing wives, wives killing husbands, etc. During the my evenings, when I have a few precious hours to myself, sometimes I just want to escape. I want to forget about all the awful things I heard about that day and become engrossed in a glitzy musical or a fun mystery film or a ridiculous slapstick comedy. Sometimes I just want to watch something absurd or funny or overly melodramatic, or what not.
Consider the source.
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I've been keeping an ongoing list of movies and features TCM has shown, and I don't see anything there. That's not to say they never played it, I just don't have any indication of whether or not they did (shorts often don't get listed in their schedules).
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9 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Well this is exactly why I don't attend these "events". Not every theater has the best digital projecting equipment, it's variable from venue to venue. I've seen familiar movies digitally projected that look dull and muddy if in color and too contrasty when B&W. I've experienced muffled or shrill sound, too. Sometimes these movies look like bad photocopies and the worst was a DVD shown in the wrong aspect ratio!
Anyone who thinks they're seeing new film struck from the negative needs to read the program first. (because sometimes, rarely, they are)
In addition, more adjustments and calibrations can be made with digital (or analog)...let's just say "electronic" projection gear, than with film. There are simply more opportunities to get it wrong. Since the concepts are familiar to many, you end up with all kinds of "experts" (i.e. DIY Radio Shack or Geek Squad types who feel compelled to jump in but really don't have a clue or know which questions to ask). Projector-wise, with commercial-grade digital cinema projector installations, it can be like having a Bugatti Veyron in front of them and then tinkering with it as if it were a Honda Civic.
With film basically all the adjustments are made by industry experts during exposure, editing or printing. Fewer variables for the end user to manage to screw up, other than "is the lamp going to need replacing soon" or "is the projector set up correctly and properly maintained so it won't chew up the film". With digital cinema there are parts that can be adjusted by the end user (but shouldn't), they should only be adjusted/maintained by the qualified installer/calibration technician. It is not a difficult problem to solve.
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1 hour ago, calvinnme said:
Strangest place for me would probably be in the dentist's chair too during a dental cleaning. The hygienist gave me the remote and told me "anything but news". There was a TCM Joe E. Brown tribute going on and 1929's "On with the Show" was on, so I turned to that channel. She never gave me the remote again in subsequent visits. I believe this happened in July 2009, and I'm pretty sure I posted about it here shortly after it happened.
I actually like Joe E. Brown, in general I try to collect anything he is in. There have been some stinkers though, in particular the ones produced by David E. Lowe.
Not to top your experience, but I will never think of Yanni the same. Last I listened to him was during a particularly lengthy and unusual MRI scan back some eight years ago.
Just got back from a road trip, but no highly unusual movie viewing locations.
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1 hour ago, slaytonf said:
There was this movie where the people in it were all dead and they didn't know it, only it was on a ship, not a plane, and it was black and white, and it wasn't just men, and they didn't play baseball. I think John Garfield was in it, and Barbara Stanwyck, too--no, that was a different movie. Anyway it was all different kinds of people, and they all had different kinds of things going on with them, and all those things had a meaning, and everything they said was symbolic, only you didn't know it was symbolic, 'cause you didn't know they were dead only I figured out they were dead after like twelve minutes so it was boring and everything they said now sounded symbolic and that made it worse, and I didn't end up watching the whole movie 'cause I knew what was going to happen to them, or most of them. So I think this is the movie and everyone is misremembering it, and it's a case of mass psychosis, or mass something, I forget which, and that explains why everyone misremembers it the same.
So that's what I think it is, only I don't remember the movie.
Outward Bound (1930) and Between Two Worlds (1944).
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48 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
why doesn't tcm just say out loud and clear that they now won't even abide criticism of their fixed unchanging film coffer rotations...and boy do they know how to rotate!
Hysteresis? A tone wheel from a Hammond organ perhaps?
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On 3/17/2018 at 12:14 AM, LawrenceA said:
There are a wide number of sources for spam posts on this site, but the most egregious ones, the ones that come in carpet-bombing waves, seem to be from South Korean gambling websites. Their purpose is to amplify their appearance on search engines. Others with more tech savvy have explained it many times in the past, but from what I recall, the more posts that these sites have around the internet, the higher their position on certain search engines when (I'm guessing mainly Korean) people look up "gambling" or "blackjack". So they aren't trying to entice the viewers of this message board at all, really, and our convenience is just collateral damage.
As for why they have become frequent again I can't say. It was very bad about a year ago, but then it virtually disappeared for months. Why they've returned I don't know. There seems to be no way to block them save for the Moderators deleting the posts and/or accounts of the spammers, and that can only happen when a Moderator is online, which they are not for hours at a time.
I'm glad you cleared that up...
P.S. It might not even be from Korea. Keep in mind search engines work by using pattern recognition. So any old crap like this could work in theory anywhere else in the world too, whether it is human-readable or not. It just needs to have a pattern that can be followed by the search engines. So the crap like you see here, which they would splatter all over the Internet, would also be duplicated on their site - possibly even in white font on a white background so you wouldn't see it. That would in theory raise their site in some search results, as well as this TCM site on some search engines. See the old "Page Rank" formula for instance - from back when Google actually provided search results (not their current super-duper highly thought out interpretation on what they want you to see, which they use today).
In any case, this is something that went on with free websites back in the 1990s, really crappy ones like Geocities and Tripod. It is really old school. In fact I had forgotten about it until just now. Not my line of work.
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After looking into this some more and not making much sense with character maps, at least for now. This is likely what we are seeing, there are literally hundreds of characters in this font:
I propose that they try this instead, for a little variety:
It adds a personal touch I think. You just need to really zoom in on the characters, and that might be difficult for a spammer.
It would make all the other spam look err...uh...dead.
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I've uploaded my Premiere list, as well as updates to the rest of my project for this month. Cartoons may or may not actually be premieres this month.
EDIT: Please see this thread for further details on the former Cartoon Alley schedule blocks.
http://forums.tcm.com/topic/165920-cartoon-alley/PPS: I added the referenced Cartoon Alley shorts into my project and reran. No changes to my current Premieres list.
Premieres:
http://moviecollector.us/reports/Future_Premieres.htmMain project page:
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Looks like my DVR will be running non-stop too. There is a lot to like about this month.
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On 3/13/2018 at 3:04 PM, Stephan55 said:
Well, when you put it that way, maybe you are right.
But if our avatars are supposed to be a "reflection" of our personalities, then I am now truly confused by what I am seeing??????
Mine is just like me...tall, dark, handsome, upright member of society.
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On 3/14/2018 at 3:32 PM, TikiSoo said:
lavenderblue said: WOW! Never knew that.
Yeah, me neither. Very interesting!
Perfumes are so cheaply made now. More chemicals and manufactured scents.
What ARE perfumes made of?
I always thought they are alcohol based with added synthetic chemical combinations which is why they age badly. They are best when fresh, so always buy the smallest size.
I once had to take a course in basic perfumes when a visual merchandiser, it was quite fascinating.And btw, I saw this in person-it was lovely even on a blank mannequin. Just gorgeous quality work.
and don't forget, Givenchy also designed for Jackie Kennedy. As a small stature woman, I appreciate the lines of the classic White House "Jackie" style. Laura Petrie's look was the suburban housewife version of Givenchy's Jackie.
That's my favorite. I like it in B&W, but wondering if it looked like that in real life. I think that dress as a B&W print would be great.
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1 hour ago, limey said:
You can see where the current location of the satellite is here:
http://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=37820#TOP
(in case you fancy a quick trip up to Canada for some reason)
You can see the where the orbits travel over the planet's surface from a link on the same page. Although it probably won't be possible to calculate with any accuracy until nearer the time reentry occurs, as with most satellites, the majority of the orbit tracks are over ocean, so they remain the highest probability of where anything that survives the atmosphere ends up.
Just to keep things on topic for the forum, here's the station's 5 minutes of movie fame in Gravity.
Landing scene from Morons From Outer Space, a satirical spoof on many different movies of its era:
https://youtu.be/pLcJLWq01_g?t=121-
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Neither here nor there, but just a literal story about junk about to fall out of the sky:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5486985/Lower-Michigan-crash-site-falling-Chinese-space-station.htmlThe Tiangong-1 space station (artist's impression), which is hurtling towards Earth carrying a 'highly toxic chemical', will likely hit sometime between March 29 and April 9, revised estimates say
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Finally got around to seeing some of Alicia Malone's intros. I was caught off guard, but in a good way. Maybe it was the accent, or maybe it was her eyes which drew me in, in a classic starlet sort of way. I found her approach friendly and conversational.
Two nice choices, in my opinion.
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10 minutes ago, limey said:
Here's a PC crowd...
Looks like a cushy job. I wonder what the benefits are like.
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1 minute ago, Fedya said:
You can have Linux on a PC, which is after all just a desktop computer. I'm running dual-boot, although I never boot into Windows.
LOL I have a Windows 7 partition on a removable HDD for my laptop. Haven't used it once, it has sort of become a storage drive. I have a couple other computers (desktops) which are Windows but not Internet-connected anymore. They run my video capture and video processing software.
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On 3/4/2018 at 3:27 AM, spence said:
Plus, he is yet another in the "PC CROWD!"
I'm in the Linux users crowd. But at the same time, that doesn't make me a "purple penguin".
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Lester Lanin "The Madison Avenue Beat" 1961 Space Age Pop TV Commercials FULL ALBUM.
"Have fun listening and dancing to 58 radio and TV commercial favorites:"
This looks like fun.
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Finally, for now, here is a short with Vangelis and different members of the European Space Agency. This is from the Rosetta mission, where they landed an unmanned module on a comet. Vangelis composed special music for their mission. They took this and some of his other music to listen to while up in space. In addition to selected tracks, this shows him at work a little bit, and the astronauts expressing appreciation and meeting with him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPzDG6HTHJ4
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Here are a couple sections of the Vangelis score from Bladerunner (1982). Includes actual footage from the movie.
from IMDB:
A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator. Director: Ridley Scott Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/?ref_=nv_sr_1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VgNoKc_Gdw.jpg)
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Here is another Vangelis theme, this one from the French nature TV series, "L'opéra sauvage" (1979). Americans might recognize it from the 1980s Ernest & Julio Gallo Wine TV commercial campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEXUxVzJhuM
1980s film
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I haven't watched any, but maybe it is one of these.
Emma (1996)
Howards End (1992)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
The Age Of Innocence (1993)
The Piano (1993)
The Wings of the Dove (1997)