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> {quote:title=RayFaiola wrote:}{quote} > It was a poor attempt at....HUMOR!...having barely survived the OTHER Phantom thread. Very poor...

> {quote:title=RayFaiola wrote:}{quote} > And, of course THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925, 1929, 1972, 1988, 1992, 2003, 2004, anyone else?!?) had several sequences shot in two-strip Technicolor, only one of which survives - the Bal Masque. Boy is your film history way off....ONLY the 1925 PHANTOM had such a sequence. Why even bother listing all the others since the Chaney original classic was the only one like that? The 1927 BEN-HUR had several two-strip Tehcnicolor sequences in an otherwise all-black & white movie. The silent KING OF KINGS (as far as I recall) featured the resurrection sequence in two-strip color.

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > Top billing for a cameo role? > > Well, Dreyfus must either have a good agent or he's related to the producer/director. LOL I could be wrong about that, but I swear I'd seen at least an advance poster which had Dreyfus listed first on it. Either way, for 4 minutes of screen time, they made sure he was in the adverts and the credits rather prominently.

Dreyfus, earlier this year, was in the movie PIRANHA 3D (2010) for only 4 minutes before he becomes fish food, and that was a precredit sequence at the beginning. In all the advertising, I believe he got top billing (along with a picture of him), during the opening credits he's billed last (as "and Richard Dreyfus"), and pretty sure he was listed third during the end credits. God only knows what he was paid to do the movie. Someone else commented about how they've seen a top billed actor not even show up until halfway through a movie....I've seen that many times over the years (can't think of specific examples though).

I just watched the Chinese drama HAPPY TOGETHER, and that goes back and forth between black & white and color several times throughout the movie.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > Since we are on the topic of racism and blackface charactors, there is a movie that no one has mentioned, "Dimples" (1936). What surprising besides the lack of criticism, several *stamps* were made to commerate it. Go figure! Those stamps were NOT stamps for the U.S....so it's not surprising they were made outside of this country. They would never have been made in the United States.

> {quote:title=crock1960 wrote:}{quote} > ranked right up there with the 1938 version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" with Alistair Sim The 1938 MGM version starred Reginald Owen....the Alastair Sim version was 1951.

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > Does anyone watch a channel called THIS? My cable provider just picked it up, and when I looked it up on wiki, I learned that it's been around since November 2008. > > It's hardly a TCM or FMC, but what's interesting is that it is owned by MGM. So is the channel called Impact, which is commercial-free. MGM owns it also....almost everything shown on Impact is from the MGM-Warner library.

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > About PLEASANTVILLE, what is the thematic purpose of having color and black-and-white in the same shot? Does this signify anything dramatically? Or is it just the director, cinematographer and special effects department showing off? See, to me, it has to serve the story...or else it draws too much attention to itself. You're kidding, right? You did actually watch the movie, didn't you? No offense intended, incidentally. This excerpt from a review on IMDB explains it best (and which I completely understood when I saw the movie): But setting "Pleasantville" in a 1950's sitcom allows for the brilliant metaphor of black and white versus color. Black and white photography is a stylized depiction of the universe, but unless you're color blind it's not the way you actually see the universe. When we first see Pleasantville's citizens, all of them are cardboard cut-outs of stereotypes. As they begin to open up and become real people, color seeps into their world. The catalyst seems to be the willingness to experience new sensations and become vulnerable. Jennifer has slept with lot of guys when she was in the normal world, so sex does not change HER into a color character. On the other hand, when she actually finishes a book (without pictures) for the first time in her life, THEN she becomes colorized. Similarly, David does not bloom into color until he breaks out of his aloofness and defends his "mother."

Yes, there's even a couple of scenes where, in going through the transition from the "movie" being filmed in the set to the movie being shown on a screen, the color drains away and goes to a grainy black & white image. Interesting that was done so early in the 1950's....great technique.

Singin' In The Rain....a Technicolor movie, but the film clips/movie sequences seen in it are black & white. Three from the late 50's: War of The Colossal Beast, I Was A Teenage Frankenstein, and Hows To Make A Monster are black & white movies with final sequences in full color.

> {quote:title=KL70 wrote:}{quote} > That's all I know unfortunately. I thought this forum had heaps of classic movie experts, > so the lack of replies is disappointing. I don't have an answer, but I have to say your reply is insulting and impatient. You barely posted your question not 24 hours ago, and you expect such an immediate reply? Give people a chance to read your question and give the answer, if they know what it is. There ARE a lot of classic movie buffs here who might know....but have a little patience.

Anthony Hickcox' Waxwork (1988), has one segment which is an homage to Night of The Living Dead (1968)....and is in black & white in an otherwise all-color film. Looney Tunes: Back In Action has a segment at Area 51 showing various characters from various 50's sci-fi film classics....and then the late Kevin McCarthy appears as a spoof of his role in Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1956), carrying one of the pods....and he is in black & white while everyone and everything else around him is in color!

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=MilesArcher wrote:}{quote} > > Also, gas station attendants always pump your gas and clean your windshield. > > In case you aren't old enough to remember, that was the norm, up until the 70s. ....and they also checked your oil and radiator levels.

Whine, whine whine... My tv is also 1080p capable, and I have no problem watching widescreen films on TCM or any other channel's widescreen airings because of the options I have on my tv for various zoom/stretch/fill options. If you want it to look the BEST, then you naturally have to e an actual subscriber to an HD or digital service in order to get the best possible image. You CANNOT simply have a 1080p compatible set with an ordinary cable signal and expect the same results....it doesn't work that way.

I have nothing against a studio doing DVD-R releases....but $19.98 is a ridiculous price for that. Factory-pressed releases can cost about $14.98 or less.

Best thing (IMHO) about the Blu-ray release is, as seen on that flyer pictured here, the new short film JAWS 19 in 3D.....that's a great idea!

> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=HarryLong wrote:}{quote} > >I can't recall any MGM films that used the approach, though. > > > Dinner at Eight (1933) > Meet the Baron (1933) > Hollywood Party (1934) > > Edited by: musicalnovelty on Nov 2, 2010 2:21 AM > Edited to add: > > The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) > The Women (1939) > > You're right...MGM didn't do many. Don't forget GRAND HOTEL.

> {quote:title=LonesomePolecat wrote:}{quote} > Sorry, it's a very disturbing movie, and it offends me to pieces, but it's still one of the greatest movies ever made. There is more to filmmaking than agreeing with our beliefs, after all. Not to mention how influential it was. To ignore it would be to change history. Good point, Polecat....regardless of how one is personally affected by the movie (or any such film perceived as "politically-incorrect" by today's standards), it IS a classic piece of cinematic history.

> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote} > I like when fans do this. We react in different ways and it's fascinating. I find Val Lewton's films more suspenseful than Hitchcock's. Many disagree, and that's their prerogative. I can almost agree with that....Hitchcock's movies are actually fun (IMHO), and the Lewton thrillers are actually ++creepy.

Pity that Marty only has two movies from the 1940's and NONE prior to that...

...but don't forget that both films were based on a story by Cornell Woolrich. More likely Disturbia was adapted from the original story and less from the Hitchcock film.

> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote} > This was a darn good print too, I thought! Wow! Best I've seen! Absolutely....when I recorded it from TCM a few years ago, the print quality was so GOOD I got rid of the DVD I had bought previously. Really great film.....unusually gruesome for a pre-Code movie (such as the decapitated head in the trophy room).

1. No matter how many times Dracula gets staked or killed off, he always comes back! 2. Women's makeup never looks smeared but always looks freshly-applied, no matter what they've been doing! 3. Tokyo always looks newly-rebuilt...no matter how many times Godzilla smashes it!

Charles Durning has played Santa Claus in several different Christmas tv movies and specials....probably a record holder for the most times Santa has been played by a single actor. Margaret Rutherford, who played Miss Jane Marple in four movies, has a cameo appearance as Marple in The Alphabet Murders....and it's the best part of the film, incidentally. Cassandra Peterson has played her character Elvira, Mistress of The Dark, in not only two of her own films and countless episodes of her tv series Movie Macabre, but has also been seen as Elvira in numerous tv appearances....some of which haven't identified her as Elvira, but she has appeared in the full Elvira costume and makeup. Bela Lugosi played Dracula in the original 1931 movie and in Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. Lon Chaney Jr. played the Frankenstein monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein and in a tv episode of Tales of Tomorrow. Chaney also played Thw Wolfman several times before playing him again in the Abbott & Costello film. Glenn Strange played the Frankenstein monster in two movies and then in the Abbott & Costello film.