goldensilents
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Last night I finally took the plastic wrap off the Universal precode set and watched *Hot Saturday* with Nancy Carroll and Cary Grant, and re-watched *Torch Singer*, with Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez and David Manners. Both prints look absolutely gorgeous. I was less impressed with the stories overall. Hot Saturday had many stereotypes of small town life in it that you saw in many silents and precodes of the period and the story has been done to death. Torch Singer begins strong and then peters out into the implausible. How did David Manners, a single man, get the child away from her adoptive parents? It's never explained and the ending looks so silly we just shake our head in disbelief.
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>>We will all go for that look, eventually.
Unless the Rapture hits first.
Then of course you could end up in a ring like this! This company makes rings out of your loved one's dead ashes, so they can always be by your side.
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You'd want to do it as an MP3 anyway so it would be more compressed. If you have your own free server like a Photobucket account then you could upload it there and then just put a link to it here or in an email.
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Thanks for the info. Maybe I'll get around to watching it someday. I am so backlogged it's not even funny. I've had the Universal precode set for over a week already and still haven't taken the plastic off yet!
There's never enough hours in the day to watch movies.
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If you have a sound card on your computer you probably have a WAV recorder / editor built into it somewhere. Open it up, hit the record button (usually it's a red color) while the computer is playing the DVD-R in your DVD drive, and record the sound. Save as a WAV or MP3. MP3 is more compressed and is usually what is used on the internet.
Thanks for the screen captures. He looks slightly goofy in those pictures.
Figures I slept in late the morning it was on. It sounds like it would be great for a laugh! 
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But he doesn't look like that anymore. He looks like this.
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Do you have the capability on your computer to make a little sound byte of Victor Varconi speaking in the film? I've always wondered what his voice sounded like. I've only seen him in silents.
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So this is a hybrid film like Lonesome? Some parts silent and some sound?
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His nose is a little bulbous though.
Noses are funny things.
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Sounds dire.
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har har har
I meant play the same films they always play. No rarer titles they haven't played before. How about Illusion? Let's Go Native? or Behind the Makeup? or Street of Chance?
Naaaaaah.... too easy to keep playing the same titles they always show on her birthday, like Transgression or Jewel Robbery or One Way Passage. Yawn.
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They'll probably honor her on her birthday again but play the same old films.
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I watched *The Yankee Clipper* (1927) last night with my daughter. It's from the new DVD set *Under Full Sail* put out by Flicker Alley. We enjoyed it but both of us agreed it doesn't hold a candle to The Volga Boatman with several of the same cast members which came out the year before. DeMille apparently was busy with King of Kings so he assigned Rupert Julian (POTOS) to direct. Perhaps it would have been more majestic and impressive with DeMille directing. The shots of the old ship were indeed wonderful but you also need a good story and this one was unoriginal and kind of silly. My daughter and I both agreed that the hit of the film was Frank Coghlan Jr. who played the little urchin stowaway who proclaims he hates women. He is still living and there is an audio interview with him on the disc. There was an organ score by Dennis James.
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I'm very glad it was the Swedish release with the Matti Bye soundtrack. It's what I'm used to from 3 years ago when I first saw it. It was the nice tinted version too, but unfortunately no new English title cards, just English subtitles. I wonder if the two DVD releases of this film available on Amazon in the UK have English titles fully replacing the Swedish ones?
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*Broken Lullaby* is probably the best quality film out of these three Nancy Carroll films they are playing tonight (that's probably why they are playing it first); however Nancy doesn't really get much to do in it, though she gives a sweet and tender performance. I am looking forward to getting a good digital print for this one. My other print is typical VHS quality, watchable but not exciting.
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The Phantom Carriage premieres tonight for Silent Sunday Night on TCM. Here's hoping for the Matti Bye score (though I doubt that will be the one used) and at least English subtitles on the print (even better, full English title cards).
It's a good movie so don't miss it.
*Phantom Carriage, The* (1920)
In this silent film, fear of a terrible curse prompts a dying man to try atoning for his sins.
Cast: Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgstrom, Tore Svennberg. Dir: Victor Sjoestrom. BW-107 mins
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Unfortunately when I want to move up on my dial I have to pass AMC two stations away from TCM. One time I was clicking through and I saw a scene of a woman on a toilet bowl wiping herself. Oh yeah, I said to myself, this is a real "American Movie Classic". And I am George Washington's horse. Naaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm leaning that way too. Jeff, take your graphics program and color his hair yellow. Looks like Nagel.
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I looked at pictures of the lead male actor in Bandelero last night and it doesn't much look like this guy. Then again he could have been gobbed up with makeup and costume to look better so it's hard to tell.
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Thanks for the heads up about *Call of the Wild*. I'd like a better copy. I missed it this morning but they're playing it again on April 25th. My old copy is recorded off AMC about two years ago and it is chopped up with commercials, station bugs, and "what drivel you don't care about is coming up next on AMC...." animated banners. Yuck. To think that station was so good in the 1990's and now is an embarrassment.
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It's definitely Renee, not sure about the man. Hard to tell from profile pictures sometimes. Could be Gilbert, Nagel, possibly Norman Kerry? Did she ever work with him?
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Robert Powell was ok looking, a bit creepy at times, but he was no pretty boy. Jeffrey Hunter was pretty, very feminine looking. He just didn't do it for me.
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Someone as iconic as Marilyn might present legal troubles if someone complains who owns the licenses to the photos but it's not like anyone is making a profit from posting photos, they're just expressing their love for the star(s).
Who knows what goes on in the minds of people today? Some people are just plain crazy! They start things all the time they cannot possibly see all the way through, especially websites on the internet.
What was the last silent movie you watched?
in Silent
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A good movie but not with that mediocre score on the DVD version. Get the official VHS tape from years ago. There's a better soundtrack on that.