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British Movie Ratings System
Dating by Ratings Box
Another way to help date an original issue was to use the ratings box. To do that, you need to understand the British ratings system.
The British Board of Film Censors started putting ratings on films back as far as 1913.
Initially the ratings were broken down into Universal (for children) and [A] Adult (for Adults).
This changed slightly in 1932 when an additional rating was added. A Horror category to ban 16 and under utilized the H. Then in 1951, it was changed and the X was used to ban children under 16.
For more Info on British ratings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Board_of_Film_Classification
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I don't either because I can't afford it.I only get HDTV over the air with my $20.00 HDTV indoor antenna I bought at Wal-Mart.
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Are you speaking of the British X rating of the 1930's - 60's? I was confused by you description. As far as I know the British X Rating carried no restrictions beyond the age of 13. Maybe some of our friends from the UK can clear this up.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking is the one I saw on PBS, I was thinking that they would continue with this and make more but I guess I was wrong.
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Many films like The Third Man had a U.S. version and a British version with nudity being ok for the British version. The censors in the UK were more concerned about violence than they were about nudity, thus giving the film an X Rating which meant contains nudity. An X Rating of the 1930's to 60's would be something like our PG-13 rating which we have today.They would shoot two versions and send the cut version to the United States. Anchor Bay for example now includes both versions of these films when you buy the DVD.
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PBS has Sherlock Holmes locked up because they do it best. The new series is great if you have not seen it and there will be more, so watch for them in HD on your local PBS station on Mysteries this Fall. Having them set in the correct time period is the most important thing, that is why most of the movies are so bad. Don't take away his ?% solution and don't take him out of the Victorian Age-and forgive him for his miss-trust of the gentile sex. Other wise, well let Sherlock be Holmes.
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All of the movies that TCM has on are leased, either from Time-Warner (the new owner of what was the Turner Library) this includes RKO, MGM, and Warner. They are currently leasing from whoever gives them the best deals as any movie channel would do. If this happens to be Sony, Universal, Paramount, Rank Films or some other studio, that is what you will see on TCM. We all have our own library of yet unseen recordings that we have made while at work or asleep to keep us happy so when we need to we can just put these on to watch.
There are more fish to fry then this however for TCM to consider. What about all of the new HDTV Movie channels like Monster HD and HDNetMovies that are the new competitors for TCM to look out for? How many of us are watching these new channels and find it hard to go back to watching standard digital?
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I would like to see TCM devote a night to Clara Bow if not Star of the Month. There is plenty to choose from:
Clara Bow - filmography
(1930s) (1920s)
1. Hoop-La (1933) .... Lou
2. Call Her Savage (1932) .... Nasa 'Dynamite' Springer
3. Kick In (1931) .... Molly Hewes
4. No Limit (1931) .... Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
5. Her Wedding Night (1930) .... Norma Martin
6. Love Among the Millionaires (1930) .... Pepper Whipple
7. True to the Navy (1930) .... Ruby Nolan
8. The Saturday Night Kid (1929) .... Mayme
... aka Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
9. Dangerous Curves (1929) .... Pat Delaney
10. The Wild Party (1929) .... Stella Ames
11. Three Weekends (1928) .... Gladys O'Brien
... aka Three Week Ends (USA: poster title)
12. The Fleet's In (1928) .... Trixie Deane
13. Ladies of the Mob (1928) .... Yvonne
14. Red Hair (1928) .... Bubbles McCoy
15. Get Your Man (1927) .... Nancy Worthington
16. Hula (1927) .... Hula Calhoun
17. Wings (1927) .... Mary Preston
18. Rough House Rosie (1927) .... Rosie O'Reilly
19. Children of Divorce (1927) .... Kitty Flanders
20. It (1927) .... Betty Lou Spence
21. Kid Boots (1926) .... Clara McCoy
22. Mantrap (1926) .... Alverna
23. The Runaway (1926) .... Cynthia Meade
24. Fascinating Youth (1926) .... Guest
25. Dancing Mothers (1926) .... Kittens Westcourt
26. Two Can Play (1926) .... Dorothy Hammis
27. Shadow of the Law (1926) .... Mary Brophy
28. Dance Madness (1926)
29. My Lady of Whims (1925) .... Prudence Severn
30. The Ancient Mariner (1925) .... Doris
31. The Plastic Age (1925) .... Cynthia Day
32. The Best Bad Man (1925) .... Peggy Swain
33. Free to Love (1925) .... Marie Anthony
34. The Primrose Path (1925) .... Marilyn Merrill
35. The Keeper of the Bees (1925) .... Lolly Cameron
36. Kiss Me Again (1925) .... Grizette
37. Parisian Love (1925) .... Marie
38. My Lady's Lips (1925) .... Lola Lombard
39. The Scarlet West (1925) .... Miriam
40. The Lawful Cheater (1925) .... Molly Burns
41. Eve's Lover (1925) .... Rena D'Arcy
42. The Adventurous Sex (1925) .... The Girl
43. Capital Punishment (1925) .... Delia Tate
44. Black Lightning (1924) .... Martha Larned
45. This Woman (1924) .... Aline Sturdevant
46. Helen's Babies (1924) .... Alice Mayton
47. Empty Hearts (1924) .... Rosalie
48. Wine (1924) .... Angela Warriner
49. Daughters of Pleasure (1924) .... Lila Millas
... aka Beggar on Horseback (USA)
50. Poisoned Paradise (1924) .... Margot LeBlanc
... aka Poisoned Paradise: The Forbidden Story of Monte Carlo (USA)
51. Grit (1924) .... Orchid McGonigle
52. Black Oxen (1923) .... Janet Ogelthorpe
53. Maytime (1923) .... Alice Tremaine
54. The Daring Years (1923) .... Mary
55. Enemies of Women (1923) .... Girl dancing on table
56. Down to the Sea in Ships (1922) .... 'Dot' Morgan
57. Beyond the Rainbow (1922) .... Virginia Gardener
Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson, and Lillian Gish are so well known and have had air play but Clara would be a real treat.
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I wasted a whole hour one night reading through this whole thread in order to try and figure out what happened. Back then I thought to myself these two folks sound like the same person talking back and forth to themselves.
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Phyllis Coates was the best Lois Lane, for me these episodes are the best ones done. She was in "The Adventures of Superman" between (1952-1953). This was my favorite episode:
Season 1, Episode 25: The Unknown People: Part I
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Clark Kent and Lois Lane travel to Silsby, Texas, site of the deepest well ever drilled. But when they arrive, the well is being shut down and the oil company manager present isn't saying why. Meanwhile, two short beings with large heads and furry hands come up from the well to explore. Luke Benson leads a mob of townspeople wanting to kill the "unknown people." Despite Superman's efforts to calm things down, the mob has tracked the two creatures to the top of a dam, trying to kill them. What the mob doesn't know is the creatures cause things they touch to glow in the dark -- and may be radioactive.
Season 1, Episode 26: The Unknown People: Part II
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One of the "unknown people" is shot while atop a dam near Silsby, Texas. Superman catches him before he falls into water and takes him to the Silsby hospital. Superman, in his Clark Kent identity, assists a doctor who operates on the creature. The doctor discovers his patient has all the organs and internal body structure as humans. Meanwhile, the Luke Benson-led mob tries to kill the other visitor from the center of the Earth. That creature escapes, later bringing up more of his people along with a weapon. Superman races to defuse an explosive situation.
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I think I stopped and asked directions from you in some strange city before. I just said, OK, thank you, and went on as confused as I was before. I finaly asked some kid on the side of the street where it was and he said , call the damn number and find it for yourself! and ever since I just keep it simple stupid. That's me who's stupid not you.
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If you have the song by Bob Dylan, "Forever Young" then you need to pull it out every once in a while and listen to it so that you don't become something in your later years that you looked down on.
May God bless and keep you always,
May your wishes all come true,
May you always do for others
And let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.
May you grow up to be righteous,
May you grow up to be true,
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you.
May you always be courageous,
Stand upright and be strong,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.
May your hands always be busy,
May your feet always be swift,
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift.
May your heart always be joyful,
May your song always be sung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.
Remember your youth if you need a reminder, but stay forever young. All Edge Hogs and Foxes Please gather at the next watering whole for instructions on further implications involving your status.
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allieharding
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Here are the links to RKO, MGM and Warner that will show all the movies that they made. If a movie has no votes and no comments it means that TCM has never had it on. On the other hand if there are 100 votes and someone has commented on the movie it means that they have seen it somewhere, most likely TCM.
http://www.imdb.com/company/co0041421/
http://www.imdb.com/company/co0020206/
http://www.imdb.com/company/co0026840/
This is what I am using to pick my movies and it will be a good source for anyone who wants to enter.
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Here is a quote from TCMProgrammer if it helps any.
"I know a lot of people want a little more information on the films we can play. - deals are usually done years in advance, so, today we are (mostly) licensing product for 2008 and beyond"
- some studios have been easier to work with than others
- some films have been kept off the market for strategic reasons
- some are tied up with legal issues
- some don't have acceptable materials.
- some are sold to ad-supported networks who can pay more money that we can (good examples are "It's a Wonderful Life" and "The Sound of Music")
End of quote.....
This would mean that the movies we are watching today were leased around 2004 according to this definition. The bottom line is that it is not as easy as it may look or seem to have movies on that people request. It is not that they are not listening to these requests, it is just a matter of not being able to comply because matters or beyond their means. I have requested "The Fixer" with Alan Bates and they just can't get this movie here for TCM USA even though TCM UK plays it all the time.
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Hi timelessjoancrawford
I could really use a guest programmer if you would sign on that would be great. Your time slot would be Thursday 8:00 pm to 4:00 am which would hold four two hour movies.
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For me unbridled capitalism exists when conditions such as those depicted on George Bailey's new Main St. becomes the norm and what is essential and what is extravagant has become blurred. Officer Bert's new role in this new place was to uphold this greed, this system, which replaced government in any real since and not to keep law and order. But I see your point about it being from the bottom up and not the top down. Was Potter just giving them what they wanted? Or did he make it fertile for such conditions to be the only ones acceptable? And what about the fact the Capitalism flourishes even better in a place like China? It is questions like this that makes me want to write that novel I've never written, very intriguing indeed.
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I was at Stompin 76 The Woodstock of Bluegrass.
Stompin 76 music festival
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Stompin 76 Music Festival August 6, 7, 8 1976 7 mi. N of Galax, VA THE GREATEST BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL IN HISTORY
Over 150,000 attended Stompin' 76, many more were clogged at the interstate. This one great event would come to be known as...
"The Woodstock Of Bluegrass"
This is to commemorate that classic bluegrass festival and the people that ventured there.
For 3 days in the summer of the Amercian bicentennial, 90 mi. west of Roanoke, Va., just a stone's throw from the North Carolina border, bluegrass and blues abounded. Outdoor Music festival lovers from all parts gathered for that historic event..
Appearing on one stage: Bonnie Raitt, Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, Vassar Clements, Ry Cooder, John Hartford, Osborne Brothers, The Rowans, John Prine, Nitty Grittty Dirt Band, Doc & Merle Watson, Hickory Wind, New Grass Revival, Red, White and Bluegrass, Nashville Bluegrass Band, Papa John Creach and more.
Roads were backed up 11 miles to the interstate. 3 Days of Fun and Music, all for only $12.00! As a result of the disturbance the event created in this rural community, the county instituted laws to control outdoor music festivals. To this day the Galax Fiddler's Convention does not publicly recognize the impact Stompin 76 had on it's success since 1977.
Promoter Hal Abramson was a mere 21 years old at the time. He is now a marketing consultant and resides on the US east coast. 2006 is the 30th anniversary of this great event.
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Stand-In (1937)a fast paced comedy with Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell and Humphrey Bogart as a boozing producer is a great movie which was on TCM about a month ago.
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I hate Fox Movie Channels new Web Page. I use to go to it all the time to plan my viewing and copy and paste movies for that month that I wanted to record. Now I just use it to see if a movie that I see on my Program Guide from Dish is in Letterbox or Pan & Scan. The IMDB web site is trying to get fancy also taking away the reason I liked it which is quick and easy information without a lot of fluff.
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I have always seen ?It's a Wonderful Life? as a political movie too in a way. One version is the world George Bailey comes back to after he was never born, which is unbridled capitalism. This world doesn?t care what form their government exists in as long as there is free trade and people get what they want when they want it. In this world people don?t care if their government is a Democracy, Communism, Socialism or Theocracy. The sole purpose of government is to just keep goods flowing and satisfying desires. No one votes except with his or her dollars and what their dollars buy is what flourishes.
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There is the quintessential Glen or Glenda (1953) in which Edward D. Wood Jr. Glen/Glenda (as Daniel Davis) loved women so much, he dared to dress like one. I'm sure we will see this flick show up some Friday night with a complete commentary by Rob Zombie.
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This film could be called RKO's Heaven's Gate because it was a flop in 1937 and they had put so much money into it.
http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=76194
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029675/trivia
The Toast of New York (1937)
TCM Sep 03 06:00am
*** (Rated NR)
Jim Fisk and his partner fleece Cornelius Vanderbilt, then prompt Black Friday 1869 with a run on gold.
Cast: Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie, Donald Meek, Clarence Kolb, Billy Gilbert, Stanley Fields.
Director: Rowland V. Lee.
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I will need a guest programmer to pick four movies plus any short features for Thursday night from 8:00 pm to 4:00 am. Movies that are 90 minutes in length can have a two reel feature which works out good for both Vitaphone Presents and Hal Roach. I will just leave that time slot blank for now.
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In working on the new programming challenge, I notice that RKO has the most interesting offbeat films. This is true Especially during the 1930?s to 1945. If you look at a list of all the RKO, Warner and MGM movies made over at IMDB, you will see many RKO short feature comedies and many RKO titles that just jump out at you as being very interesting. MGM was too mainstream, playing it safe, while RKO took risks and it shows. I am sure when you look at all of these interesting titles, you will say to yourself, has TCM ever had this one on? Examples are:
1. The Saint Strikes Back (1939) George Sanders. Directed by
John Farrow
2. The Saint in London (1939) George Sanders Directed by John Paddy Carstairs
3. The Saint's Double Trouble (1940) George Sanders. Directed by
Jack Hively
4. The Saint Takes Over (1940) ) George Sanders. Directed by
Jack Hively
5. The Saint in Palm Springs (1941) ) George Sanders. Directed by
Jack Hively
6. Swiss Family Robinson (1940) Edna Best. Directed by Edward Ludwig
7. Tom Brown's School Days (1940) Cedric Hardwicke. Directed by
Robert Stevenson
8. Li'l Abner (1940) Buster Keaton. Directed by Albert S. Rogell
9. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Edward Arnold. Directed by
William Dieterle
10. The Monkey's Paw (1933) Ivan F. Simpson, C. Aubrey Smith. Directed by
Wesley Ruggles, Ernest B. SchoedsackRuntime: 58 min
11. She (1935) Helen Gahagan. Directed by Lansing C. Holden
Irving Pichel
12. Forty Naughty Girls (1937) James Gleason, Zasu Pitts. Directed by
Edward F. Cline
13. Little Orphan Annie (1932) Mitzi Green. Directed byJohn S. Robertson.
MGM and Warner share many similarities for me while RKO just seems to be more interesting with more variety.
Another TCM Programming Challenge
in TCM Program Challenges Archive
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I have a rough draft finished but I need to do some work on it to make all Primetime Themes start at 8:00 PM. Also, can we have only one Essentials on Saturday or do we need two because that will be a pain for my Sunday line-up? I have 4 Paramount Films I would like to include also as premiers, I would hate to loose any of them but if I have to choose I will pick the best.