Movie Collector OH
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18 hours ago, limey said:
I found Survivorman & it's spinoff Beyond Survival to be quite interesting, despite having no desire to personally try out the scenarios explored in the shows. It helped that Stroud isn't terminally annoying & that these series lacked the manufactured interpersonal drama that messed up programs that had potential to be informative & dramatic on their subject matter alone, like Stormchasers (recording a tornado intercept on IMAX film = good vs Reed Timmer trying to repeat the word dominator ad nausaem = ugh!).
If Survivorman ever had it's own line of wine, the chances are that it would been made from Stroud's own recycled waste output...
Survivorman had a nice flow to it. I never did get around to seeing the spinoff of Survivorman, mostly when a show ends you never hear from them again, and I just wasn't aware he had a newer series.
Probably the most flawed was American Chopper. They would literally pick each other's work off the bench and throw it down to the floor, smashing it. So not very good continuity if you were actually trying to follow them on their bike construction.
I never got into the whole Stormchaser thing.
I think from what I've read in the past, including comments, the form of digital IMAX being marketed for standard dimension theater screens aren't really anything out of the ordinary compared to what else is out there in digital cinemas. That wouldn't include the larger proprietary IMAX screens you find in museums and science centers, which have also recently been refitted with digital projectors - I'm sure those are quite special.
P.S. Oh yeah I agree on your last point.
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On 2/14/2018 at 1:19 PM, lydecker said:
Just out of curiosity (and this is pretty much a question for mr6666 and/or MovieCollectorOhio) in terms of TCM Premieres over the last 2 years, what % are:
1920's - 1940's
1950's - 1970's
1980's and beyond
Inquiring minds want to know. Thanks.
I could look into making a report to do that kind of work, in particular something like this:
http://moviecollector.us/reports/3)unique-features_movies-only.htmThe more similar to one of my existing reports, the less I'd have to do. Counts only, not titles or descriptions.
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6 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
They also left up the warp up of Mon Oncle (I think) where he said an Ingmar bergman movie would be up next when really it was taken off the schedule.
Did this not air on Tuesday?
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Getting back here to the OP @longtimer. Not trying to make any arguments or assertions. Just some results from an ongoing project of mine. This is one of several statictics reports that show hard numbers on what TCM has actually been showing, based on past schedules. This particular link is dedicated just to full-length movies, showing how many they played from each decade, each year of operation. It is all about proportion. 1998 and 1999 are only about half in, but they are still good for this purpose. Same goes for this year as it develops (numbers shown up through April).
http://www.moviecollector.us/reports/3)unique-features_movies-only.htm
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Updates for this month are done.
Premieres:
http://moviecollector.us/reports/Future_Premieres.htmentire Alphabetic listing:
http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htmstephan55 listing:
http://moviecollector.us/reports/Movies-Only_times-shown-&-last-scheduled.htm-
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18 hours ago, EricJ said:
Oh, and they'd DO it, too, if only "Duck Dynasty" was still popular.
As it is, betting's open for what and when will be the first History Channel vintages.
Looks like it was cancelled. They had a good run, I remember at one point Walmart had a whole side of a shelf of their things like personalized tee shirts and posters, which was exceptional for any TV show like that. I have watched a bunch of shows on those channels over the years, including DD, American Pickers, Pawn Stars, American Restoration, Counting Cars, American Chopper, Ice Road Truckers, and Survivorman (Les Stroud) - as well as some shorter run shows such as Airplane Repo. A few of the non-premium shows that I ever found watchable on all of cable/satellite TV outside of TCM. I don't know that any of them have had wine clubs though. Maybe you could have one per station. I think though that if Duck Dynasty could have had its own wine club, then American Chopper could have had something in its day too.
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Just got back from a dinner date with the lady. I see April has been posted. I'll get that incorporated into my project, then come back and report the damage.
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Now it has been reported that the NBA loves its wine, though one would be hard pressed to find any real connections between TCM and the NBA. The wine itself would have to be the conspiracy.
The NBA's Secret Wine Society
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/22358028/the-nba-obsession-wine
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1 hour ago, Salzmank said:
I’m sure you’re right; it’s just that we’ve fairly exhausted options for talkies. There were a few experts on the Monster Kid Classic Horror Forum, and they’d never heard of it. On the other hand, the OP couldn’t remember for sure what language it was in (though he thought English), so I suppose that goes to suggest there was dialogue.
Yeah like I said I don't believe I've found any candidates so far. I did look and found your thread on the other forum. Plenty of good suggestions, some of which I might try to see. Someone jokingly suggested Just Imagine (1930)... LOL One of my all-time favorites. FWIW, I also came upon The Black Room (1935) in a previous search. Except all these other guys were doing this last year it looks like.
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33 minutes ago, Salzmank said:
Anyway, Hitchcock’s The Manxman (’29) is available in its entirety here.
I'm on my way out now so I'll have to look at it tonight.
A few quick thoughts I had on Manxman (1929): IMDB key words:
attempted-suicide, friendship-between-men, father-daughter-relationship, father-disapproves-of-suitor, father-in-law-son-in-law-relationship, fisherman, lost-at-sea, presumed-dead" creepy tower like castle" may or may not be related to the Inn on the Isle of Man. No idea on gypsies, outside of "friendship-between-men"
So even if it is not the same movie the OP was looking for, there are indeed similarities.
P.S. LOL So is that where we are at now? We have to turn to Russia in order to see our own movies? Actually it does make a bit of sense, in a wrong sort of way.
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5 minutes ago, Salzmank said:
Thanks, @MovieCollectorOH. I’ve just now checked those, and neither really seems to align with what @mattspease wrote, which only makes me think more that he’s conflating two (or more) different movies. Indeed, that would have to be, if he definitely remembers it on TCM, unless “his” movie happened to be in that ’98-’99 gap, correct?
Nevertheless, there didn't seem to be any "presumed-dead" movies in IMDB's list which were direct matches. These two seemed the closest possibilities. I went from about 1928 up to about 1962 or 1963 I think. These two happened to also be listed on my TCM list, but I didn't start there as that would have been more limiting - though my TCM list actually accounts for most of IMDB's "presumed-dead" movies. Both of them have Youtube clip samples, check them out. I wouldn't count them out based on the verbatim you see online alone.
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On 2/8/2018 at 1:10 PM, Salzmank said:
Any news here, @MovieCollectorOH (or anyone else)?
Just a couple more options to kick around: Manxman (1929) seems like it could be a possibility. Also have a look at The Stranger Came Home (1954) [The Unholy Four (1954)]. Either of these have the presumed dead element. Also both are in my listing for having played on TCM.
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On 8/31/2017 at 2:52 AM, mattspease said:
Do any of you have any of the now playing guides that date back to the early Cable TV days of TCM that you could try and find a film that aired on there back then that I've been trying to find for years?
So, about 10 to 15 years ago (maybe even longer) on TCM I saw an old 30's or 40's horror movie and have been trying to figure out the title ever since, so I could possibly find the movie. It was introduced by the late great Robert Osborne and it was about a man and woman who are in love, but the woman's father or uncle is jealous of them and orders his henchman to kill the man. The way I remember it, the father or uncle guy lives in a creepy tower like castle with a spiral stairway similar to the one's seen in Universal's Frankenstein and Dracula, and the man is attacked by the henchman and thrown from the castle (either from the roof or a window, I can't recall) and into the water surrounding the old place. The woman tries to confront her father or uncle about the disappearance of her boyfriend on the stairway, but he hypnotizes her to forget about him and stay there with him. The boyfriend doesn't die though and floats down a river (or something) and is found by a male gypsy who nurses him back to health. The hero and the gypsy became good friends and when he mentioned his plot to get revenge on the man that tried to have him killed, the gypsy tried to talk him out of it with some talk about revenge not always being the right way to go. The gypsy was just trying to get his carriage back with the rest of his fellow gypsies and asks the hero to forget about his revenge and come with him, but he couldn't sway him. So, he helps the hero get back the castle/tower and they part ways. While the hero returns to the castle to confront the evil father or uncle.
Can anyone help me identify this film?
1 hour ago, Salzmank said:Bumping this thread, as I tried to help @mattspease with this question on the Classic Horror Film Board. I see that Matt reached out to @MovieCollectorOH on the thread that @scsu1975 recommended, but I don’t think MovieCollection responded (unless it was in a PM?). Neither I not anyone on the CHFB was able to find it; we eventually came to the conclusion that it was possibly a conflation of Caravan ’46 and Uncle Silas ’47 (or possibly an adaptation of Svengali), but we could be wrong. This one greatly intrigued me.
I see you were still wondering about this. This piqued my interest too, and I remember looking for this, and couldn't seem to come to a good candidate. There were several that seemed lukewarm.
I could try again if you are still wondering. Since it played on TCM it will probably be listed in this table of movies TCM has shown so far (though probably not much help in this case as it contains a lot of information). It is missing some info from 1998 and 1999. About a year and a half altogether is missing out of TCM's history.
http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm-
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21 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I wouldn't drink the wine out of the can but instead pour it into a glass. So what I want to know is if there is a difference in taste when wine is stored in a can. If NOT, I might purchase wine-in-a-can for the convenience; E.g. for camping it would be easier to place in a cooler, as well as to open and pour the wine into a glass.
Its not in my list of priorities of things to investigate, but the can would probably at least need to be lined.
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Great videos. So are we there yet?
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19 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
There are also a lot of great boxed wines (of the non-Franzia variety).
Now, I'm starting to see wine in a can... not sure if I can get on board with that one yet. Lol.
I don't even drink beer out of a can, unless of course it is on tap (a really big can), but that doesn't count.
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4 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
My sister in law used to work for a dentist named SCHILEREU ( pronounced "skill-ERR-oo")who had a "pea soup" thick Slovakian accent and would bristle any time I called him "Dr. SCLEROSO".
Sepiatone
Wonder if he ever referred to her affectionately in terms of "my little skill-ERR-oo-kova."
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57 minutes ago, cmovieviewer said:
Thank you for the notice, MCOH. It must be very difficult to be precise on the premiere dates for shorts. I happen to still have my Now Playing Guide from September 2012 and I see several entries for "Mack Sennett Films" on that date but no specific titles are included. Even using the current online schedules I have noticed that some views list more information on the shorts than others, with some titles listed for the weekly view and not the daily view, for example. So ambiguity on the shorts is common. Regardless, I'm sure I'm not alone in my appreciation for your TCM schedule information and I would like to thank you again for all that you do to provide it.
Hi cmovieviewer. No worries. You're welcome. I avoid the Daily view, and recommend the Weekly view. I put the Monthly view not far behind the Weekly view. It is just updated a little bit after the Weekly.
On the PMs I have been getting. In short time I have seen this forum become little more than a political scratching post in a way that even I can't relate to. Only about 5% or 10% of the communications about my project actually happens through here, even though it is related to TCM. There have been a number of people who have PM'd me, a little bit here, but mostly elsewhere and some then carried on via email. Some create accounts just to communicate with me and have zero public posts. Another is a well known poster here. I mention them because they have all contributed older schedules to my project, or have brought things to my attention. So yes, there are more people reading than you see posting here, and your postings are appreciated as well.
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A reader wrote in to tell me that Too Many Highballs (1933) was not a Premiere. It was shown on 2012-09-27. I don't consider this a major issue on my end, as the schedules have not been as complete with the shorts as with the feature length movies (> 44 minutes). So as a result shorts can mistakenly be listed by me as premieres, as I have pointed out before. There is not a whole lot I can do about that.
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1 hour ago, speedracer5 said:
Yeah many theaters now serve alcohol that you can take to the movie with you. I never partake, because 1) it's way over priced and 2) the glasses usually don't have lids so I'll probably spill it and 3) If I don't manage to spill it, I'll drink it too fast and be left with nothing! Give me my bucket of soda and some Sour Patch Kids and I'm good!
If I were to drink wine or beer in the theater, it definitely wouldn't be domestic beer like Coors and it definitely wouldn't be Sutter Home. I have been known to partake in some boxed wine... but that's neither here nor there. Lol.
There used to be a small music venue in a town where we played which served wine but not beer. Behind their parking lot was chain fence and what I thought was a junkyard behind that. This was right around the time they banned open containers in vehicles, so I brought my beer unopened and dealt with it when I got there. I brought large 20 oz styrofoam cups with lids to pour it in for the guys and myself. Then after dark I went outside and threw the bottles as hard as I could over the fence and into the junkyard.
The owner and I became friends and I got sick of being discreet with my beer at about the same time, so one night I just started bringing in a six-pack. I walked right past him and told him not to p--- me off, if he wanted to charge a corking fee just ask. He just looked at me and laughed.
I later learned that the junkyard was an auxiliary impound lot.
Probably not much help as far as the cinema multiplex scene goes, that just brought back a memory or two.
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12 hours ago, Stephan55 said:
Excellent, MCOH. Exactly what I wanted for us to be able to see.
Thank you very much!
Now any of us that want to look at which movies that TCM has rarely shown, can look at this alternate data base and at a glance we see the frequency, date last aired, and title!
And thanks to your original database, we can still check alphabetically to see if our favorite (or the title in question) has ever been aired before on TCM, how many times, and when it was last shown.
http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm
I hope that this was not too much trouble for you?
Also hope that you are recovering from the flu, and feeling better than you were?
Thank you again for all that you do for us here!Not a big deal at all. Flu only lasted a few days for me. Just needed to set aside some time so I could focus. I added it as a normal report. You're welcome.
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I seem to remember this one having some sort of oddness in the opening with a breakfast scene. That is from memory though, so I cannot verify at the moment.
Five Minutes To Live (1961)
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On 1/20/2018 at 9:27 PM, Stephan55 said:
Thanks MCOH for that confirmation. I know of some avid movie collectors that have over 10,000 different titles in their personal collections, that is why I somehow imagined that with TCM the individual count would be so much higher after almost 24 years being on the air.
Regarding the other. Some databases, spreadsheets, etc. can be set-up so that the columns can be arranged in ascending or descending, chronological or numeric order, allowing a simple adjustment if one chose to view the list by title, date, or number, etc. If your massive list doesn't have that ability then I can imagine it would almost be like rebuilding the entire work again to make it function in those ways. That would be a herculean time consuming effort, and entirely unnecessary since this was something that you essentially just did for yourself and then chose to share with the rest of us here. I/"we" are very grateful for the massive work that you've already done so please do not press yourself to do more. It is enough. Thank you.
http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm
Stephan55, last night I made up a new report. See if this is what you were thinking of.
http://moviecollector.us/reports/Movies-Only_times-shown-&-last-scheduled.htm-
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1 hour ago, TopBilled said:
On Facebook there was a page I followed dedicated to a 40s child star. Someone from the group lived in Los Angeles, and he would go into museums on Saturdays to examine private collections. He found a lot of old photos featuring that star, many had never been published before. He made copies with his phone, which might have been a copyright infringement. Then he'd go home and clean them up on his computer and post them on that Facebook page. Those images do come up in a Google search.
Probably not under any obligations, being that it is a museum piece. It might come back to their private collection policy. Not sure if the owner would agree though.
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My sister in law used to work for a dentist named SCHILEREU ( pronounced "skill-ERR-oo")who had a "pea soup" thick Slovakian accent and would bristle any time I called him "Dr. SCLEROSO". 
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I'm not sure on those, I just think they weren't individually listed during the Cartoon Alley days. So mark those up as a "maybe". My data project is really geared to track the feature films. I wouldn't be surprised if the MGM ones had been shown before.