FredCDobbs

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043014/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_snd LA CUMPARSITA TANGO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkfzK_nX-QM

I liked THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (1938), which I saw in the late 1940s, and I remembered the "lost in the cave" sequence for decades. Also in the late '40s I visited Tom's real home in Hannibal MO (Mark Twain's childhood home).

Yes. 170 were arrested. The photo shows 156.

These are mugshots of some of the bikers arrested after the Waco shoot-out.

1929 Camera silent room, used before camera "blimps" were invented, to keep camera noise from being recorded during early sound films:

Hi, Could it be Richard Barthelmess in THE FINGER POINTS (1931) ? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021865/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

Yes.... we can no longer say words that liberals tell us we can't say.

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I saw the Superman show, and it looked like real color film. I guess the process has improved over the years. Of course some channels I know of have decided to cut back on showing old black and white films and they show more modern 1960s-80 color films. Ted Turner's idea was pretty clever. Color for all the young viewers, and he always said we older viewers could just turn our color off on our TV sets, and we would be able to see our original old films in B&W. Now we don't get to see many of those old classics anymore because of all the 1960s-80s color films that have taken their place.

I remember when the words "problem" and "problems" were used for decades, but now they have been replaced by the word "issues" and the term "problematic" The media used the word "charisma" a lot to refer to JFK in the early '60s.

Dictionary dot com says it was named after a typical Irish cop in New York who drove the wagon. Seems that a lot of Irish male New York immigrants became policemen in the old days. I don't see that as any kind of insult.

Go to YouTube and watch the 5 minute clip titled: Viktor und Viktoria (1933) At the tavern In German films, Anton went by the name of Adolf Wohlbrück

The story is a little complex, but interesting.

That reminds me of the time when my wife bought a new hair dryer from a large department store. The device was defective and poorly made, so I went back to the store with her and complained to a sales clerk about the poor workmanship. The middle-aged lady clerk spoke to me in a quiet German accent and she said something like, “I’m from Germany and we never would have turned out such inferior products like this in the old days.” I was stunned, because the “old days” for her would have been about 1939-43. I didn’t know what to say, but she helped get us a refund.

A couple of years ago I saw I AM A CAMERA on YouTube, and I was at least a half hour into the film before it dawned on me that this was the same story as CABARET. And then I noticed that Liza Minnelli was copying the mannerisms of Julie Harris. I assume Julie's mannerisms were well described in the original book.

That is too complicated for me to remember. I hope we don't have a test question about all of that!

Yeah, me too. The older I get, the less I remember about films I've seen several times. So I get to watch them again as if they are totally new to me!

Next time you see the film, pay attention to the narrated introduction. It makes a vague reference to Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity regarding time. Basically, Jennie is aging at a faster rate than Eben. She is the U1 clock and Eben is the U2 clock. At first, he just meets a little girl in a park and they chat, which was not at all odd in the good old days of much less crime and kidnapping than we have today, so there was nothing wrong about him or their relationship. Later on, after a couple of meetings, she appears as an older teenage girl or young lady, and then he falls in love with her. Note that no one sees her in his time-frame but him, so he has no one to ask about the oddity of her seeming to age so rapidly. He’s not quite sure what is happening and he’s perhaps wondering if he is having some kind of mental hallucination. Finally, their ages meet at the right time at the end of the film, but that’s when the storm comes up and she is lost. I think Miss Spinney listens to him talk about her once or twice, and she makes some vague suggestion that the girl doesn’t really exist, but is only a metaphor representing Eben’s gradually evolving and maturing artistic talents. The audience leaves the theater perplexed and wondering what the film was about. PS, here is the narrated intro. I just got this off the internet. I don't know if this is exactly the same one that was used in the final film, but I recall that the film version was quite like this: Since the beginning, Man has looked into the awesome reaches of infinity and asked the eternal questions : "What is time ? What is space ? "What is life ? What is death ?" Through a hundred civilisations, philosophers and scientists have come with answers. But will doubt remains, for each human soul must find the secret of its own faith. The tender and haunting legend of a portrait of Jennie is based on the two ingredient of faith : truth and hope. There is such a portrait hung in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. And there was such a girl named Jennie who sat for it. So much is true. For the rest, science tells us that nothing ever dies, but only changes. But time itself does not pass, but curves along us. And the past and the future are together on our side forever. Out of the shadows of knowledge and out of a painting hung on a museum wall comes our story. The truth of which lies not on our screen, but in your heart. And now, Portrait of Jennie.

Here is an unusual case of subtext within subtitles: "A scene in Woody Allen's movie Annie Hall, in which subtitles explain the characters' inner thoughts during an apparently innocent conversation, is an example of the subtext of a scene being made explicit." See EXAMPLES at this Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtext

The 1955 film version of the play is on YouTube, under the code term: I AM A CAMERA (1955) Julie Harris

Yes, exactly. Concervatives tend to be divided up into many different groups, and they have many different terms for what is "the right thing to do".

I was talking specifically about the term "POLITICALLY CORRECT". Liberals use that term meaning that if they approve of something or some action or activity, then that something is "politically correct". Conservatives do want to censor too, but they don't call it being "POLITICALLY CORRECT". They call it by various other terms, such as "doing the right thing", "protecting our children", "cleaning up movies and TV by getting rid of all the sex and violence", and many other terms. To a liberal who is interested in this.... this would be the "politically correct" thing to do..... removing Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and putting a picture of a liberal woman on the bill. But to a conservative, removing Jackson and using a woman's picture would be "crazy", "loco", "idiotic", or some other term. To a conservative, leaving Jackson's picture on the bill would not be "political" at all. It would be "traditional" and "the right thing to do"

By the way, I think it is ok to be liberal, in general, like some of my friends here on this message board. I don't know anyone here who wants to censor any old films. In my post just below, I was talking about other types of liberals who DO believe in censorship of old films. I worry that maybe 20 years from now, hundreds of old films will be censored and not allowed to air on TV, or will be all chopped up and edited. I can't stand blackface scenes in old movies. However, I don't think they should be edited out. Often, I just turn my head and don't watch them when they turn up in a film, such as Shirley Temple in THE LITTLE COLONEL (1935).

I think the term CENSORSHIP should apply to any kind of censorship: government, business, clubs, schools, private and public universities, TV stations and networks, etc. I generally see the term POLITICALLY CORRECT as referring to a liberal/leftist point of view about rules, regulations, censorship, people telling other people how they should think and act, deciding what other people should or should not see or hear or read, deciding what you and I should not be allowed to watch on TV or in movie theaters. I think TCM is pretty much the LAST TV network that still shows BIRTH OF A NATION, and films containing scenes of people in blackface. And the ONLY TV network/station I've ever seen show TRIUMPH OF THE WILL... one time, about 15 years ago.