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Hey, I used to catch Animaniacs. A Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

This is the "Easter egg hunt" game that made the news last year. Various groups of strangers would be found congregating (trespassing) on private property, just because their cell phones all led them there. The game used the GPS capabilities of the cell phone to geo-locate each user. Each participant would then aimlessly wander around while looking at the cell phone and actually see the Pokemon character in the back alley next to Mr. Smith's trash can. So as "collatoral damage" of the game being played, you would get a number of people crowded around in some very odd places they would normally never be.

They are starting from the beginning, but just haven't gotten that far back yet.

I just checked the months it aired, and it aired twice during 2006-11 and twice during 2006-12. So likely a special presentation for them.

You rang? Yes. [drop-offs in 1998 and 1999 don't reflect lack of airings, they are just months of TCM schedules I didn't receive yet, but that I would love to have.] 1994-07 1994-12 1994-12 1995-03 1995-06 1995-08 1995-09 1995-12 1995-12 1996-03 1996-04 1996-10 1996-12 1997-01 1997-08 1997-09 1997-10 1997-11 1997-12 1997-12 1998-02 1999-12 2000-01 2000-03 2000-04 2000-07 2000-08 2000-09 2000-10 2000-12 2000-12 2001-03 2001-07 2003-01 2003-02 2003-02 2003-08 2003-09 2003-11 2003-11 2003-12 2003-12 2004-02 2004-04 2004-10 2004-11 2004-12 2004-12 2005-02 2005-06 2005-08 2005-11 2005-12 2005-12 2006-01 2006-02 2006-06 2006-06 2006-07 2006-10 2006-12 2006-12 2006-12 2007-06 2007-08 2007-09 2007-11 2007-12 2007-12 2008-07 2008-07 2008-10 2008-12 2008-12 2009-06 2009-08 2009-12 2009-12 2010-03 2010-07 2010-08 2010-12 2010-12 2011-11 2011-12 2011-12 2012-01 2012-02 2012-03 2012-06 2012-12 2012-12 2013-06 2013-12 2013-12 2014-02 2014-04 2014-04 2014-08 2014-11 2014-11 2014-12 2014-12 2014-12 2015-07 2015-12 2015-12 2015-12 2016-02 2016-04 2016-06 2016-11 2016-12 2016-12 2017-01 2017-02 2017-05 2017-12 2017-12 2017-12 Those last three are: Sunday Dec 10, 2017 @ 1:45pm Saturday Dec 23, 2017 @ 12:00am Sunday Dec 24, 2017 @ 6:00pm @ the OP: most of us use a DVR in an effort to not miss as much. Some of us see DVRing as just an initial step and go a bit beyond that. p.s. Here is a summary of the movies shown on TCM that I put together. People here sometimes use it as a quick reference for finding out whether or not TCM has played a movie (it is large and will take a while for your browser to open it): http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm

Maybe one of these two? They didn't always list the shorts in their schedules. Vaudeville Days (1942) Heavenly Music (1943)

At this establishment:

I'll have to check this out. As far as "new" stuff, there is the venerable Larry Blamire. The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra (2001), for instance, is quite good. A takeoff on the old 1950s sci-fi, complete with all the stumbling blocks. But to get back to the OP's question, very few are on par with Just Imagine (1930). IMDB categorizes it as "Comedy | Fantasy | Musical | Romance | Sci-Fi". Everyone does a quickie genre filter and is keen to point out Rocky Horrow Picture Show. But no, Just Imagine is not even anything like that. It is sort of a hackneyed combo of Metropolis (just the scenery - also the spaceship that would get used in Buck Rogers), the element of time travel (what the 1980s would be like, from a 1930s perspective), early 1930s vaudeville comedy and music, and a space adventure/romance. I suspect that it isn't popular specifically because it doesn't fit into any Hollywood cookie cutter mold, or any modern-day expectations for what an old movie should be like (that is a particular draw for me). That and it is an obscure nearly forgotten "Fox Films" era film. Maybe Disney will bring it to the forefront in some sort of release, the Murdoch iteration of 20th Century certainly didn't.

Disney's older films as shown on TCM are generally in great shape, and their scans of their large screen color movies tend to look amazing. I wonder if Disney might actually have better copies in a vault somewhere of the oldest "Fox Film" movies than the Murdoch iteration of Fox, just because they are Disney. I realize there was a Fox warehouse fire around 1936 or 1937 which destroyed a bunch of "William Fox Company" originals, but hey a guy can dream. Anyhow now I am wondering how far back Disney's film preservation efforts go, or rather when did they get started. I see clips from the B&W Steamboat Willie shorts every so often, but usually just in documentaries. Then jump ahead and you get these amazing transfers of their color films from the 60s, 70s, and 80s as seen on TCM. In great condition for as little as they have been seen. Could this be a tip of an iceberg? This is probably well documented, but I am a bit busy right now to figure it out.

This is probably cheating a bit, but it is easy enough to read. Just scheduled this to record.

I've decided, I don't like the look of the emojis here. They look too sheepish. Any work-arounds?

Tee-hee. The way you use that grin looks sheepish. Actually just about all the emojis here look sheepish. So basically the less people use the emijois here, the less sheepish they look. Hmm.

You are probably correct. I haven't tried in a while. It probably uses the Amazon login.

I haven't attempted trying on IMDB, but something like this may be of use http://www.httrack.com If you have trouble there, maybe archive.org has your post index page stored (you probably don't want their entire website).

There used to be an option to directly use IMDB, in addition to the FaceButt and Goblin. Is that gone now too?

Get Satisfaction is probably not a bad idea for them, being that they deleted all their forums.

LOL Another Duh that we have come across is that the Watch TCM login script requires for you to have your third party cookies enabled (defaults on Firefox 52 ESR may need to be changed here, not sure). To get to that option, you might need to go to the Preferences/Privacy & Settings/History settings and change History "Firefox will remember history" to "Use custom settings for history". Then if needed, change "Accept third party cookies" to "Always". It's really not a good idea, they just assume everyone does it though...

You two haven't been to the Stupid Science thread that much, have you.

Actually, the more I think about it, I highly recommend it! "Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) denier"

As with anything else, that is the system at work. Most accounts are tied to a real person with a real email address. Within that mob are real voters who simply didn't like it. Any attempts to stifle that represent vote manipulation. So I think it should have been left alone. The results will not be what they intended. All I'm seeing in that related thread is a bunch of their top reviewers talking about bailing.

Totally. It seems they are taking the reviews and reviewers for granted, even though there will be new movies yet to come which would still need reviewers and reviews.

That was a funny episode! I knew exactly what that was before I even read your post.

Forget about politics when it is the science that takes a beating. I have read that there were some wildly inaccurate things said in it. So there might be some possible crap-fest value to it. Or not... I do enjoy a crappy movie every so often, but wasn't thinking along these lines.

I read some of that, sounds like they have been dumbing it down for "smart" phones. The header at the top gives it away. That and all Amazon's marketing and alterior motives. It would appear that they want to hide honest reviews of bad movies. "All movies are good, remember to buy them from us".

Every now and then I go through IMDB reviews if I like a movie or want to see more about it. Not sure if this will actually impact the way I use it or not. There is another little thing that I have been keeping my eye on: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/imdb-data-now-available-in-amazon-s3 In a nutshell, they have upgraded their systems over a long upgrade process. Some components were 20 years old or so and became difficult to support with newer software. Part of this resulted in the removal of their forum, though most believe it was done for other reasons - as do I. Then there is this. For a long time there has been a downloadable version of the IMDB database for individuals who are familiar with developing databases or who like to play around with parsers. Now there is a newer system in place which is "transactional" - meaning for some, where simple queries here and there would be sufficient, they can just build something that goes out and retrieves info for one or two movies at a time. It is in the plans for them to remove this longtime available downloadable version of the database, but enough conversation has taken place in this thread that they have delayed it so far, and have plans to replace it with something similar. It would just be located on a newer system. That wouldn't impact my project really, as -a- classic movie info just doesn't change for the most part, so there is no sense of urgency for me to get updates real soon (as it was, I only updated mine about once a year) -b- there will be something to replace it eventually, so I can wait and pick it up later when it is ready for prime time -c- adaptations to my system for the sake of importing a newer format DB are the least of my worries, there is little they can do to make it any more difficult...in fact it may get easier So anyhow this linked thread is just some people talking who, like myself, have built their own solutions to use the IMDB data offline. I didn't really have anything to say there. I just hope Amazon doesn't completely ruin IMDB. With these updates they are essentially trying to squeeze a multifaceted system, one that took decades to form, into a newly built prefab structure - just because that would make life better.