Movie Collector OH
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also tonight......
10:00 PM (ET)C - 117 mTV-14
Widescreen
dramaCinderella Liberty (1973)Synopsis: A lonely sailor falls in love with a single mother during an extended liberty.
Dir: Mark Rydell Cast: James Caan , Marsha Mason , Kirk Calloway .
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/70939/Cinderella-Liberty/articles.html
(kinda surprised here, as I KNOW I've seen this'un, but maybe it wasn't TCM)
:unsure:Looks like I missed your question here. I looked around a bit and there was a poster who mentioned seeing it on AMC back around 2005, and some others who hadn't seen it in a long time, but didn't say where. For anyone who didn't see it last night, it is tentatively scheduled to air again in November.
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You all forced me to watch In a Lonely Place before Sunday so I could read your comments without fear of spoilers.
All I can say is, Eddie has a lot of explaining to do.
Hopefully they have him back enough so he can talk about that, and a whole lot more.
Eddie's the best...I wouldn't dare leave that out, lest I wind up "out of service" somewhere. The best, I say!
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Jimmy,
I feel your pain, my man! Same experience here. I don't get why they don't just offer the Now Playing downloadable through a link on the website, after all, it's already free! My guess is we live in the age where mailing lists are king. No idea or word if they will get this sorted out, but a BIG disappointment. I took Now Playing for years and they abruptly canceled the print version. Of course, I never did have much luck with Palm Coast, FL. They never sent it on time and it would often drop after I renewed sometimes. I eventually had two subscriptions because I figured if one didn't show up in the mail the other would. It worked for a couple of years. Same thing with the catalog. Signed up numerous times and two different emails...NOTHING. Finally called Palm Coast and gave them my info. NOTHING. Tried again a year later and finally got one catalog. The website is a mess. Have to register for everything and it takes forever. Multiple layers of ridiculous security stuff. It's a classic movie website for God sake, not Area 51!! Anyway, I hope they figure out the Now Playing, but I'm willing to bet they just gave up and aren't doing it after all the hulabaloo.
That about says it all...
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I must wonder if it did not actually catch a viewer's attention directly but did lend an aspect subliminally of the robot's strangeness because it is not normal to see circles rotate in discrete steps.
I feel that I should mention that the Geneva movement was important to movies as it is the method by which movie projectors moved the film in front of the shutter one complete frame as a time.
Interesting! Not only does that explain it, but it also provides a bit of a back story on where the idea came from.
Here's a short on Robby. At the 5:00 mark they have some close-ups with these features operating. I think another one of his endearing features was how he hobbled around when he walked, but was "strong enough to topple this entire structure", as Walter Pidgeon explained. Very charming.
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A Geneva movement rotates in steps rather than continuously. A motor drives a disk with a peg on it. The peg drives a second wheel when it slides into a slot in a second wheel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGxUl36IrB8
It may be that it was thought to be a more interesting effect than having it merely rotate at a set speed.
They are not difficult to make but I am sure that a stepper motor would now be used instead.
I watched: Forbidden Planet (1956) last night but I am sad to say that I did not take note of this feature.
Okay, one of the more subtle details. Probably one of those things that would stand out and really pop on the big screen.
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Would anyone happen to know how they make Robby's front light flicker to match the dialogue?
The easy (/crude) way would be to manually turn a switch on and off, but it looks like they have some type of audio circuit that responds to a microphone / audio input. I don't see an audio input on the control panel pictures, however. The input could be inside the helmet, but that would imply that the operator inside would have to do the dialogue, and I don't think that's necessarily the case (unless they dub over it or something).
All this Robby talk and neat pictures got me wondering...
Hi cmovieviewer, have a look at the Design And Construction section on this Wikipedia page. In short, there was an uncredited crew member who read off Robby's lines during filming (not Marvin Miller, whose voice you actually hear). An additional piece of equipment used the sound from his voice as an input to produce the voltage necessary to drive that blue neon light on Robby. [in other words a light connected where a loudspeaker would normally go, though the voltage requirements would be drastically higher for the neon light.]
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Btw, here's somethin' I've never noticed before about our friend Robby.
He's evidently an inline-6...
And so now I'm not so sure I wanna bid on the guy after all, and even if they WOULD throw in that Anne Francis-looking blow-up doll.
(...I've always preferred the performance advantages of a V8, ya see)
...as per the last images I posted of Robby's control panel:
...and this diagram of Robby's features (actually from a toy replica of Robby):
...it is safe to assume those "inline V6" things were officially called "sax levers" or "sax valves" (as they look like the keys on a saxophone).
What gets me is the thing called a "Geneva Movement". With a name like that and the labeling on the control panel, I thought it might have been an expensive part produced by a third party, like maybe the rotating "gyro" at the top. It turns out to be one of the metallic circles on his chest. I wonder what was so special about that.
Missing from the toy are the "Heart Buttons". You can see them in this scene just below the Geneva Movement, and on the control panel. They were keys that pulsated in and out, one at a time, reflecting light kind of like the Sax Keys did.
Missing from the control panel is a way to open the door in Robby's chest (just above the Geneva Movement), so that he could duplicate any substance in the universe. I'll guess that was the actor inside.
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Yeah, I suppose. Btw, and speakin' o' which...
Betcha didn't know the first Interociter was actually just a gussied up Theremin, did ya! Exeter just added that big triangle shaped video monitor to it, that's all.
(...the idea came to him one day while he was playing "Good Vibrations" on the thing)
I like the big hardwood cabinet underneath. A bit of a time smear here, but I can see Exeter sitting in a Futuro house watching a Predicta TV, playing Theremin, and coming up with the idea for the Interocitor.
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Now MCOH, I ask you: What would be the (Rex) reason for THIS???
Of course then again I suppose one must always have faith(Domergue) that such a thing would work out in the end, huh.
(...sorry...couldn't resist)
It doesn't need to work. Just grab some of the green screen equipment from CNN next door.
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In that case, I hope B-9's assembly instructions are a hell of a lot earlier to understand that those last few pieces of furniture I purchased at IKEA were!!!
That reminds me of This Island Earth which came out a year before Forbidden Planet. Maybe they can build an Interocitor to use as a prop for the odd Sci Fi movie they show.
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This photograph, taken by Buzz Aldrin, shows a teary-eyed Neil Armstrong after he completed his first steps on the lunar surface. Image credit: Apollo 11 / NASA.
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For more on how Robby functioned, have a look at the Design And Construction section of this Wikipedia page.
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cough cough ahem...it is a TCM event in November. Anyone need any more of an explanation why the thread was deleted?
Well this is probably your only chance to see the actual Robbie The Robot control panel. It appears each feature being controlled has both an on/off switch and a level control. The box underneath may house additional electronics (likely electro-mechanical) to control the patterns of the effects. There are also a few "master" power switches, to shut off power transformers and possibly to shut off any other equipment underneath (or not).
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Unfortunately, the union in On the Waterfront had real-life counterparts. Some of us remember that Dave Beck, the leader of a major American union, arranged for the murder of his rival, Jock Yablonski, who was running for union president as an anti-corruption candidate. Yablonski and his family were murdered in their home. This was several years after On the Waterfront.
On a lighter note, The Pajama Game is a film I'd love to see on TCM--or better yet, on the big screen. Some of the musical numbers can be found on YouTube. The staging of "There Once Was a Man" is delightful.
In the movie Tough Guys (1986) Charles Durning played a character named Deke Yablonski, a hard-edged police investigator nearing retirement. No coincidences there.
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It looks like ACCORDING TO MRS. HOYLE is a premiere.
Yes, it's in my list.
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Yancey,
The MCOH data says that Too Wise Wives was last shown on TCM in August of 2000. Not a premiere but you're correct it's a rare one.
Psych! - We entered that at almost the exact same time!
LOL Hi cmovie
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Has Too Wise Wives aired before? I can't find any info on a previous airing.
Thanks!
Yancey
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6 Wednesday
9:15 AM
Too Wise Wives (1921)
A bored wife plots to steal her best friend's husband.
Dir: Lois Weber Cast: Louis Calhern , Claire Windsor , Phillips Smalley .
BW- 79 mins,
Yes, at least once before in Aug 2000, so it doesn't meet my strict definition, but definitely a rarity!
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I'm keeping track of that sort of thing and I have no evidence that any of those played on TCM. I'd be up for watching those... Bring them on!!
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I don't mind pro-union propaganda. If it gets too thick, well, that's just a flaw in the movie. Anyway, at the end of the movie, labor and management reconcile. It's theme is one of the finest sentiments:
The mediator between the head and the hands must be the heart!
I have both versions of Metropolis too. The 1984 Giorgio Moroder-produced version sounds much like early 80s music, because he (together with Harold Faltermeyer) produced much of the early 80s electronic hits in Germany, making extensive use of Moog and Mini-Moog synthesizers. The sound is apparent on select songs from Top Gun (Berlin- Take My Breath Away), the theme to Fletch, the theme to Flashdance (Irene Cara - What A Feeling), and Midnight Express as well as working with Donna Summer.
In this picture is Moroder seated at a full Moog synthesizer, and in the far left you see a little bit of his Mini-Moog (a highly scaled down version of the Moog created for concert touring)
So it is no surprise that the Metropolis soundtrack is going to be along these lines. Personally I love it.
The 1984 version itself is short, it is like a flyover compared to the full version. There is one character who is not included, a "thin man". No big loss. Also missing is the back story on one of the characters. The main theme is still there, albeit with certain parts of the story unexplained or not elaborated on in depth.
The sequence of the editing is fixed in the long version. For the first time, they had a non-edited version to use as an example of the complete work. It was a 16mm copy, so there were a few points in the fully restored version where 16mm patches were the only choice.
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For the reasons Lawrence and Tikisoo added, I don't usually purchase groceries from Walmart. While it doesn't make much difference which store you get your Chinese factory stuff from (in some cases you can just import it yourself using eBay), it DOES matter where you get your groceries.
I have one big box grocery store (probably the best option in my area) that has a rewards card, affiliated gas stations, and they often have buy-one-get-one-free, or buy-one-get-one-half-off deals. Another is a "farm market", actually more like a pre-Amazon Whole Foods but also includes a large alternative medicine area. They have many things GNC won't carry, which don't fit GNC's guidelines of consumed nutritional supplements. The lady that worked in that section told me they have 8600 different SKUs, not sure if she meant all the products in that one dept or the whole store. The place is well organized, but they have so many different and unusual things that I have no idea where to look. In addition it seems some of the people that staff that area are actual nutritionists, they really understand what they are selling.
On the vitamin topic, cheaper vitamins often contain synthesized components made in a factory, whereas health store vitamins actually contain the real components extracted from natural sources. There are subtle differences in the molecular structures between the cheaper synthetic vitamins and the more expensive natural vitamins, which often translates into the natural ones being more effective because they are more bioavailable and the body knows what to do with it.
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Hence the very reason Red Skelton's famous "donut dunking" comedy routine was such a hit with '40s audiences, of course sewhite...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfn-htUYTus
(...they got the joke because so many people would do that very thing back then...heck, today I'll bet almost anyone under 30 probably wouldn't know Red Skelton from Red Buttons, let alone the idea that dunking a donut in coffee before you bit into it was once done all the time...and because once again it unfortunately seems a growing number of the population just don't care to learn what people did before they themselves popped into this world)
You said a mouthful!
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Also, I love in old movies, people pull the passenger side of their cars up to the curb, and then they just slide over and get out on the passenger's side because there isn't a parking brake that might cripple them in the way like there is today. Nobody has to get out the driver's side and walk all the way around the car. Ain't nobody got time for that. And when it's time to leave, they just get in on the passenger's side and slide over.
That makes me miss some of the older cars I used to have or ride in as a kid. Becoming a car collector is not something I can just start doing right now.
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We purchased one of those recently! It was a choice between: $46 for black ink cartridge for existing printer or: $44 for new printer. We like it very much as it is faster and quieter than previous ink jet printer and the print quality is quite nice. We use ink jet only when we want quick printing and do not need very fine detail of laser as it is faster than laser when printing less than four pages.
I do not know why many people appear to be ashamed of buying electronics at Wal-Mart. Ink jet printers and many other such things are virtually consumables and so buying at the proper price point is important. Many items which they sell are full-model units such as one would purchase at any place and are not made-for-Wal-Mart sub-models. Our Roku is precisely the same as if we purchased it directly from Roku and was $22 less expensive than at any electronics store in the area. We have a model-made-for-Wal-Mart television in the workroom. It was 30% cheaper than similar-sized full-model from any other store. It has fulfilled the need for more than four years now. A recent test revealed that it has zero dead pixels.
Their electronics is just stuff people will have around the house and use several times a year, not for high traffic use, such as in an office with many employees hammering on it every day. I also have purchased WD external hard drives, and possibly also a Hauppauge HD-PVR2 (a key part of my home-made DVR - though I got the rest online and/or from a local computer store). My laptop and desktop computers are Dell Latitude E6420 and HP USDT, both used commercial gear on eBay, a year or two old when I purchased it. Both are common units and have an unlimited supply of replacement parts available. Brand new SSD hard drives for them from the computer store. So I won't avoid Walmart purchases where appropriate or when they make sense.
For me it is really more about the distinction between consumer and commercial gear.
I'd be wary of any mechanical load-bearing gear which is required to have safety ratings. Though economy versions may pass tests, they may not have the same safety factor as with more commercially viable equipment. There will be compromising structural issues like incomplete weld joints and bad metal. Fortunately none of this relates to common household appliances from Walmart, as long as they pass UL requirements, or similar, and don't catch on fire by themselves. You can always go and get a replacement when it breaks down.
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I tried to upload it, and it does not work on my computer
Did you click on the link and then click on the printer button in the upper right? That is an embedded PDF viewer and has its own printer controls. Or if you didn't see anything at all maybe the server was down for a bit.
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