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Also Maggie Mancuso (Charlene Darling), Rodney Dillard (Rodney Darling), Dean Webb (Dean Darling), Clint Howard (little boy with cowboy hat eating PB&J sandwiches), and Elinor Donahue (Ellie Walker). Also Ruta Lee (The Hollywood Party). There are more, but many of them made smaller appearances.

I think maybe I'll have to come up with more of a menu. Not a bad start though...

TCM Backlot group? Set up a card table in the middle of the room, pull up three chairs, a pad of paper and a pencil. Have a seat. "Meeting is in session". I'm not much of a wine drinker, but here are some ideas for a get-together Before the food is served: Casablanca Berber Whiskey Grand Hotel Chocolate Martini Sadie Thompson Tiki Appetizer: Inherit The Wind chilli After dinner hard stuff: Whatever Happened To Baby Jane The Man Who Came To Dinner Bad Day At Blackrock Well you get the idea...

Actually that image is from Gold Diggers Of 1933.

A bit more on the Cowsills (the real-life inspiration for The Partridge Family). I'm far from an expert, but I'll try to get some of this right. They were a family with 7 children, six boys and one girl. One of the boys wasn't interested in being in the band. So really five boys and one girl at the max. Their dad was in Navy so they were "Navy brats". All six members who were in the band wanted to play in the band. The three oldest boys formed the band initially on their own and their parents were there to help them with anything they needed along the way, not the other way around. As the others came of age, they joined the family band too. Their mom was said to be a very shy but energetic person. She performed along with them for support, sometimes in front of crowds as big as 3000 people, and of course on TV. Their dad was a confrontational guy. He got into an argument with the Ed Sullivan producers over one or more vocal microphones not being turned on for the first 20 seconds or so during the first song of their live set (see my previous post for that video). They would have had 10 different appearances on Ed Sullivan (a big thing!) but 8 of the 9 remaining appearances were cancelled over the dad's confrontation. It seems that later on, in 1972, they ended up breaking up as a group over some similar types of things that happened. Here's a picture of all of them in 2004, except the oldest brother, who was ill at the time. The one who wasn't in the band is fourth from the left, Richard, he was a Viet Nam vet. He is now deceased. Also deceased are Barry - killed in Hurricane Katrina (2nd from left - vox, bass) and Bill (not pictured - oldest member - original lead vox, gtr). Still with us today (from left) are # 1 (Bob - lead vox, gtr), #3 (Paul - vox, original kybds), #5 (Susan - vox, tamb, gtr), and #6 (John - vox, dmz). Nowadays # 1, 3 and 5 play together as The Cowsills. Most recently sharing the stage with The Turtles on their Happy Together tour. Sometimes they are joined by John (#6). Outside the family band, Bob (#1) works for an EMT (medical) computer software company, Paul (#3) is a farmer and has done landscaping for Hollywood productions, and Susan (#5) and John (#6) are full time musicians. John is married to Vicky Peterson of the girl group The Bangles. It is said he really likes all-girl groups. John has been a drummer for various bands including the Beach Boys on their 50th Anniversary tour. Susan has played part time in a band with Vicky Peterson for about 20 years, as well as larger roles in various bands over the years, including currently having her own band. [Click image to see normally] Here they are all together, the MGM Music president presenting them their award in 1967 for "The Rain, the Park and Other Things". Figuring that on the left we have Bob, Paul, John, and Susan...then everyone to the left of the MGM guy is still with us. To the right are Bill, Barry, and Barbara (mom). Here is a Wikipedia article that some of this info came from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cowsills Here is a Cowsills appearance from Music Scene TV show in 1969. This has kind of an interesting 60s/70s thing going on. I just thought I'd throw this one in. The Cowsills play the Playboy Mansion (actually just a TV studio in California). Here is a 1970 appearance on the Playboy After Dark show (1969-1970). They got this gig because at this time one of the brothers (Bob) was married to one of the regulars on the show. First of three songs is slow, then it picks up. Groovy, even if just for bragging rights. Hugh Heffner appears. Well I hope I got most of that correct...

On common video formats: 480i is the older "standard definition" format in the US. The "i" at the end indicates that the complete picture is drawn in two separate scans: the first scan for all odd lines, and the second scan for all even lines. This helps with one's persistence of vision on older tube TVs. 480i, used on older analog TVs and also on current digital broadcast TV, is drawn at 30 frames per second, twice. 480p, used exclusively on digital media the other hand, is drawn at 60 frames per second, once. The same comparison can be made for 1080i/1080p. Out of the formats 1080i, 1080p, and 720p - 1080i and 720p use about the same amount of bandwidth. 1080p uses about twice the amount. Between just 1080i and 720p - 1080i looks a bit more detailed, 720p shows motion a bit more smoothly. Sports stations tend to use 720p. 2K is roughly similar to 1080p (but not the same thing). One is measured horizontally for the cinema, the other vertically for consumer market. Blu-ray will be the consumer medium for 1080p. 2K is a common resolution for the smaller digital theaters in cinema megaplexes. 4K would be roughly similar in size to 2160p. Hard disc drives are the most common means of storage, most often using a specially keyed copy of the movie on the projector's HDD, along with a hardware key on the 4K projector itself (to prevent piracy). That is the common size for medium and larger screens in cinema megaplexes. [Lawrence, I didn't realize there is now a consumer optical disc version for 4K. I wouldn't expect 4K discs to go beyond being a boutique item in the consumer market though - especially as it relates to classic films.] 8K would be roughly like 4320p. It is currently used on some digital cinema cameras and in digital cinema editing suites. Movies that are shot in 4K are commonly edited in 8K too, then projected in 4K. Again, hard disc drive storage is what is used. There may be some 8K cinemas out there, I just haven't been looking for them.

Not quite yet. (mostly trying to protect my own self-image here)

Debbie Reynolds sings for herself From video description [this movie sounds like it was a steaming hot mess to make, but fun]: Irony of ironies - in a film that is all about dubbing actors, Debbie Reynolds herself was dubbed by Betty Noyes in this scene where she sings for Jean Hagen. I've restored Debbie's original vocal track. Here's a trivia question: who dubbed Debbie Reynolds' voice when she was seen dubbing Jean Hagen's onscreen speaking voice in the film? . . . . . . . From Hugh Fordin's "The World of Entertainment!": In several scenes Debbie Reynolds is lip-synching and rerecording Jean Hagen's speaking voice. "We used Jean Hagen dubbing Debbie dubbing Jean," director Stanley Donen explains. "Jean's voice is quite remarkable, and it was supposed to be cultured speech - and Debbie had that terrible western noise."

I'm on board with your #2 option, too. Great stuff!

I have noticed some movies where the credits are sometimes narrower than the feature, but also grainier - or just blurry. This isn't limited to pre-1940s though. Also some color movies. Sometimes the credits look so bad that at first I get worried about the film as I am working on it on my end, then the feature comes on and it looks fine. I would say maybe they are using a lower resolution (16mm??) film for the credits? Maybe the media used for the main feature didn't have credits, or they were cut out, so they had to source them from somewhere else? I suggest this because in some cases it is a really big difference from the credits to the feature.

I can see a valiant effort was made by all. That kind of thing would never fly here in the US, but it is an interesting find! Maybe there is a lost Maltese Falcon movie out there called the Millenium Falcon. Starring Greenstreet and Lorre, which takes place aboard the United Galaxies Star Cruiser, and did I mention it is also the defining film where Leslie Nielson discovers his comic side. Probably too much to ask for. Maybe someone can make a cartoon, like a Hanna-Barbera feature. Also probably too much to ask for.

Yeah, that looks about right. I suppose a winning Powerball ticket is even less interesting to look at though. I mean, we are comparing this to Robby The Robot.

Now that's about as concise a problem report as I have ever seen on here. Attention, TCM.

Nothing against Maltese Falcon statuette, but honestly I don't even remember what the hell that damn thing looks like.

As an addendum to my last post, if there are any Linux Mint users who already allowed the Firefox upgrade to v.57 to happen, if you still have them, you can find the older versions of the Firefox .deb (Debian installer files) in your "/var/cache/apt/archives" folder. They have already removed them from the repository. Ubuntu I think still has them, as their repository is a bit different (it is on an LTS or long-term-service timeline). I will put the Firefox v.55 & v.56 for Linux Mint 18.2 up here for convenience. (Windows and Mac users can probably find them somewhere on the Firefox website) For Linux Mint 18.2 (Sonya), either of these pairs of files can be used, but first remove the current similarly named v.57 pair of Firefox programs you will have ("firefox" & "firefox-locale-en"). http://moviecollector.us/tmp/firefox-locale-en_55.0.2+linuxmint1+sonya_amd64.deb http://moviecollector.us/tmp/firefox_55.0.2+linuxmint1+sonya_amd64.deb http://moviecollector.us/tmp/firefox-locale-en_56.0+linuxmint1+sonya_amd64.deb http://moviecollector.us/tmp/firefox_56.0+linuxmint1+sonya_amd64.deb

Firefox has recently put out v.57. That in itself shouldn't be much of an issue, just a version release, but this is a major step for them. This is the newly completed work, called "Quantum". It is a faster, lighter-weight browser compared to anything before. The one burning issue is that all the add-on extensions needed to be rebuilt for this release. Any older extensions that were built prior to 2017 and are not "Quantum", "v.57" or "WE (web extension)"-friendly will cease to work. This is a slap in the face to many in the Firefox community, and some are looking at the other browser options. I am not quite there. There are a few add-on extensions that I would like to see get updated for Quantum/Web Extension compatibility before I make the jump to v.57. For now I am happily using v.56. If v.55 works for you, for the time being, then fine. If you want to continue to receive security updates on older versions, Firefox's ESR versions are really the way to go. This is what large corporations that use Firefox for their web portals use. The ESR versions are considered more stable in the business environment since they are updated more slowly. Outside of security fixes, they don't get touched. Even though they are intended for business use, you can download and use them yourself. V.52 is the current ESR (extended service release) version. It will continue to receive security updates into the middle of 2018 (by then the current release really ought to work). The only reason I am not using it is that it is too old for my newer add-on extensions. I may revert to it though if the few remaining ones are not updated so that everything works properly on v.57. Firefox ESR 52 FAQ/Download: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/ Not saying any of this will help with the TCM website, as that has issues of its own, but just presenting Firefox's side of things.

My condolences as well. From the act that inspired them: 1960s 2004 Kind of neat to see that they got together again for old time's sake (and for a benefit concert for their brother who was ill). Their family went through a lot of tragedy around this time, also they lost one member to Hurricane Katrina.

WRT "Black Friday" You CAN be too careful! Customer is stunned to find 100ft of packing paper has been used to protect his Amazon order - of BUBBLE WRAP Man in South Hampshire gets bubble wrap delivery protected in 100ft of paper http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5103059/Amazon-bubble-wrap-delivery-comes-protected-paper.html

Not in the ordinary sense at least. It is there more like a paid service, like satellite radio or Muzak, which you can rely on to be there during the season.

Just a speedy reply, usually not my style. My preference, the original silent King Of Kings. Either way, I wasn't thinking of anything that actually relates to the faith. Just the early decorating and use of Christmas music in commercial retail establishments. I do celebrate Christmas with family and friends, but this year I think I first saw decorations and heard it being played about a month ago, and that is just a bit too soon.

For me it's a thread problem. Most of the threads are not anything interesting to look into. Also the footer/signature area seems to be missing.

I find it much to early for this crap, and I am NOT an Athiest.

Unrelated to the ongoing soap opera cycle, AT&T/Directv is lowering all their prices for new customers. This is the first I have heard of this, nice to see them paying attention to the market. It would be even nicer if that plan propagated to existing Directv customers as well. https://www.fiercecable.com/operators/at-t-drops-directv-and-u-verse-prices-looks-to-slow-declines

There was once an older color cartoon I saw (think 1960s, maybe WB) where the cartoon was interrupted, and it was revealed the cartoon was being shown through a Moviola type of device, and the film strip had in fact broken in two and was curling up and sticking out at both ends. A human hand gently reached down and pushed the two halves down and back together (no splicing necessary!), then the feature continued.