FredCDobbs

Strange thing, my mind does some searches automatically and very quickly, like the “rustic” clue. That had to have something to do with a ranch or a farm or a camp or a state park or some place in a country setting. I often have trouble remembering still frames from films I’ve seen, but the Hitch Hiker still through me off because the main car in most of the movie was a black sedan. Finally I decided that maybe the car in the still photo was a different one and only in the film briefly. It looked like a Dodge convertible to me, somewhere between 1947 and 1954, so I did a film/car search and it kept turning up Dodge convertible, but not that particular still frame. Finally I did a YouTube search for that film, and there it was. But that took about 3 hours. I wasted a lot of time searching the movie DETOUR, which had a white convertible in it. I think it was a 1941 Lincoln Continental Convertible, with spotlights.

That's one thing that made this film so great, especially for its era. This came as a very slow gradual change in Gillespie, and I've seen that very same thing happen in the South, back in the 1970s and 80s. As a matter of fact, I've seen it happen with both professional blacks and professional whites who didn't like each other at first, because of racial past histories, prejudices, etc, but who gradually got to like each other a lot as fine individual human beings. This was missing from Sergeant Rutledge (1960), whose character in that movie had to be saved and bailed out of trouble by two white people, whereas in Heat of the Night, the black guy bailed several white guys out of trouble.

Ha! That one took me about 2 minutes to find. I search for clues. The photo suggested "rustic", so I looked for his rustic films. I found 2 and the 2nd one was it. However, since I found it so fast, I'll let someone else name it. (It took me 3 hours to find The Hitch-Hiker, and I finally identified it by the 1952 Dodge Convertible, but that took a whole lot of searching, since there were many films with hitch hikers in them, and we see this particular car only briefly.)

Yes. Because of all the different browsers, programs, operating systems, some photos don't work or can't be copied or can't be posted. Gifs seem to post ok for me, including animated ones. Some photos don't have a jpg or gif at the end, just a long set of letters or numbers, but most post ok for me. But, I have switched over from IE 8 to Firefox. I'm still using Windows XP. Sometimes now that doesn't work well, but it works better with Firefox than with IE 8. That's what this thread is for, to test your pictures here before messing up any other regular threads with a bunch of junk. If you learn any new posting tricks, be sure to let us all know.

Press this button, then put the photo's URL address in the box, press OK, and post that. Give it a try. Try what I said, using this URL address: http://ilarge.listal.com/image/441802/936full-jane-wyatt.jpg

I recognized your first photo within about 30 seconds, but I didn't post the title.I thought I would give someone else a chance. I saw this movie only once and found it very boring. I don't know why I remembered the photo so quickly. And I recognized that actor on the right in the first shot, from the rear shot of him. Looks just like him.

I think the whole film might be available on INTERNET ARCHIVE dot ORG: https://archive.org/details/AnneOfGreenGables1934_

Anne Shirley is really great in Anne of Green Gables. She plays a girl starting at about age 14 and then aging to about 18, and she is perfectly cast for this film.

The Hitch-Hiker (1953) That's the couple he killed before he picked up the two stars.

Alicia Rhett played India in GONE WITH THE WIND. She was a very good actress. This was her only film.

THINGS TO COME

I suppose we should burn all our old 19th Century novels, get rid of all our old opera records, throw out our Beethoven and Mozart CDs, rip up our Rembrandts and Vermeers, and sell our 1929 Isotta Fraschini for scrap iron.

Ernest Tubb Patsy Cline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtkFmCY9IZ0

Interesting, thanks! Is there an equation that is used to arrive at the answer? Can you explain how you arrive at the answer?

Me too. I love "Anne of Green Gables". Anne in "Steamboat Round the Bend":

Professor, Are you saying that the "correct" answer to the exam question was to name all the movie actors correctly? Or did the exam have a mathematical answer? If so, what was the answer? Fred

Thanks Richard! I tried to find some good stuff about Safety Last, but I couldn't find what you found. Thanks for posting it. Here is a link to a PDF file that has a lot of photos about both films, along with a lot of research about the buildings and streets in the films. The PDF pages can be enlarged. https://www.laconservancy.org/sites/default/files/files/documents/HaroldLloydSafetyLastTour.pdf

Hank Williams Kitty Wells

Hi bansi4, see the full caption on my Vivien Leigh photo. Seems the cobra was harmless.

This is the false-front building prop that Harold Lloyd climbed in FEET FIRST. He was never more than a few feet above a pile of soft cotton mattresses. This false front was constructed on the roof of a tall building, to give the illusion of great height: Lloyd is delivered to the building inside a large mail sack, starting at about 1:21 into this film. The statement in this film that no trick photography was used is NOT true. Note that they mix some wide shots of the real building with the close ups of the prop building. This film should have won an Academy Award for Special Effects and Editing. Watch for the striped awning scenes. Then look at my still photo and see the remains of the striped awnings down at the bottom of the prop building. Note carefully in the close ups that the prop building is on the WRONG side of the street, because cars are going behind it, instead of in front of it.

Jake, I hope you don't mind if I post this Positive image of the Temple. I don't know why it is on the internet as a negative. Anyway, I have a photo program that can change a negative into a positive. Looks like this is after the place was turned into a theater, and it looks like a Joe E. Brown movie is showing. Fred

He Walked by Night

It's a French film available in Algeria. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVJdvA4eSGg

Hey Jake, Ever since you posted that picture of Dunleith in Natchez, I've been thinking a lot about old steamboats of that era. The one film that I think assembled the most number of them was STEAMBOAT ROUND THE BEND, with Will Rogers. That film was often on TV back in the 1950s. Here is a big photo of the ones in the movie. I can count 6 of them but I think there are a few more behind the ones in front. This was taken probably somewhere around or along the Sacramento River.