FredCDobbs
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Here’s an interesting difference between the 1940 movie joke about the zombies, and the radio broadcast version of the same joke, as used in the 1951 radio play. Listen at about 12:15 into this radio broadcast:
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Here's an interesting topic I found on Google:
The 'white' slave children of New Orleans
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Many film buffs would probably select Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein as the best scare comedy of the Hollywood Golden Era. And it's an understandable selection for a variety of reasons.
A case can be made, though, for Bob Hope's THE GHOST BREAKERS, scheduled for broadcast on TCM Thursday, Oct. 16 at 8pm (EST).
i AGREE. A great movie.... with the funniest one-line joke in movie history, which I dare not quote.
Willie Best is a great comedian in this film and he has some of the funniest lines. He is a real acting professional.
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It does look pretty comfy, and it's a lot more portable than the
cement pond.
Hey, I just got back from my trip to West Africa, and I’m sure I’m coming down
with the Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu.
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Poor whites,
HILLBILLY HOT TUB, Pat. Pending
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I'm right next to speechless reading this Fred, because it was the same for me and mine on that night--just the same! There we were with the radio on in our '47 Plymouth coupe (with the plaid seat covers). I was eight years old and could understand no part of it, but for the horror, just as you express it, to actually hear it reported live, from Sing Sing: here is a man and his wife just minutes away from being burned alive as we sat and listened, almost as if to hear their last steps echoing. It occurred at 8:00 and 8:15 EDT, but for us in the Midwest, it was an hour earlier.
We were in the Central Time Zone too. The radio said the execution had to be before sundown, New York Time, because after sundown it became the Jewish Sabbath. So the execution was early in the evening, I guess 7pm and 7:15 for us. I kept asking my father what it was all about. Executing the wife was very unusual. I didn't undertand the A-bomb or spy stuff.
I remember something in the news about if they had been spies in 1953, that was peace time, and they would not be executed, but since their spying took place during WW II, that was war time and that's what allowed the execution, even though the execution was in peace time. Very strange.
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It's had me in a very odd frame of mind, paranoid, Kafkaesque; sitting here watching old video clips from the Julius & Ethel Rosenberg case!
That was a pretty horrible night in my life because this was on all the radio network news programs all through the evening and night, and radio coverage continued after they were dead.
I heard many of the radio reports that night because my parents and I were driving about 200 miles away from home to visit my grandparents, and we listened to the car radio all the way.
There were regular drama and comedy programs on all the radio networks that night, but during many of the commercial breaks, the networks read the latest news reports about the latest progress leading up to and after the execution. This was very frightening and unpleasant to hear on the radio, and was probably one of the most unusual radio nights in history.
This clip below starts with a TV news report for that night, but I didn’t see this since we were traveling in our car. We heard similar stuff over the radio while traveling.
Friday night, June 19, 1953:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atI8PgOkQF0
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Execution
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Akbar Imhotep Performs “The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story” -
Fred,
Did you post all these Tar baby clips on the SONG OF THE SOUTH thread? It looks like you've added a few new ones here...
I posted 5 of them on the other thread. This is apparently a new trend at old historical plantation sites all along the East Coast, and North East.
Notice that all the story tellers use modern English, so they don't mind using the Uncle Remus old-19th Century black slang voice for historical and comedy purposes.
It is possible that one day they will enjoy the Amos 'n' Andy TV shows and will laugh at The Kingfish, since he uses an old fasioned slang type voice, while modern blacks are using more modern college-educated English, and many are getting to the point where they can laugh at the old fashioned voice, just like whites can laugh at the old fashioned Andy Griffith and Walter Brennan voices.
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This reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" . People, get a grip, please.
Here is a re-make of THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET, which was a Twilight Zone classic about neighbors becoming paranoid of one another, especially neighbors who are not the “same”, such as Polacks, I-talians, Jews, A-rabs, Red-Necks, Blacks, Asians, Yankees, Californians, etc. (LOL)
I’ve never seen this re-make before now. It’s pretty good, but not as good as the original. This new one is related to mysterious and unidentified “Terrorists”, like the “people” who turned off our access to our message board last night.
One of those people is here, now, and is pretending to be one of us.
It ain’t me.
Fred.
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There can be no "remake" of this film.
It is unique.
There can be a newer and similar type of film, with, let's say, a black producer, director, and screenwriter, who just pretty much leaves out white adults altogether and makes it a mostly-kid film, with Uncle Remus as the star.
Give this one a few more years and it will be accepted again. All it needs is a new introduction by someone like Morgan Freeman, playing a wealthy modern businessman, living in a big expensive house, opening a DVD package of this old film, and telling his grand kids about the old days when he was a kid, and this is about an old uncle of his, old uncle Remus, who used to work on an old plantation, and he was the kindest, most loved, and most intelligent man on the whole plantation, and this is how he used to tell stories to all the plantation kids.
I've noticed that modern black story tellers of today actually do like old Uncle Remum's old-fashioned dialect. I think it is because they remember some of their own old family members who used to talk that way.
Back in the 1980s, I worked with a very smart black reporter who could imitate this Uncle Remus dialect, and also imitate old white Southern accents, and he was a big hoot when he did skits of old blacks talking to old whites, with their antique rural accents.
A lot of people never realized that Steve Urkle on TV was an imitation of a geeky white teenager and a white teenage accent, but once you know it, the whole joke and impersonation is very funny:
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It happened to me too.
On another message board, someone said it also happened to lzcutter and the Administrator.
So I figured if it happened to so many people, all I could do was just wait.
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So, I'm assuming that nobody cares to GUESS what that word might have been?
Sepiatone
There is no real word. There is a lack of a word. The screenwriter intended each member of the audience to make up their own word, but in the movie and story, there IS NO REAL WORD, just 4 blank spaces typed on the typewriter.
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Ha! I'd be willing to bet most of them have never heard of Uncle Remus --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxnQPwpegwk
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What you recommend would have added more sadness; The only real type of romantic love she could have was until she was DEAD.
There were 3 of her. One we met at the beginning. One who gradually grew very old. And one at the very end who looked like the one at the beginning but who could actually touch and kiss the captain.
The director needed to remove most of #2, so there would be a better transition from #1 to #3, and a happier ending.
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A photo of the wreck of the old 97:
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Sorry folks, but I just don't care for this movie. Too much sadness in it, especially after Mrs. Muir and the Captain began falling in love.
They spent too much time showing her growing old. They could have handled that with a few dissolves covering 30 years in 20 seconds, then then they should have spent more time on her and the Captain at the very end.... maybe a few minutes, maybe with both of them on one of his ships with his hands on the wheel, and the wind in her hair, and maybe her daughter and new husband looking out to sea from the house and seeing the very ship her angel-mother is on, with the daughter telling her new husband, "I like to think my mother is in heaven, sailing on a ship like that, with her own true-love, the Captain, by her side." As the camera pans down to show that the daughter is holding a copy of the book Mrs. Muir wrote about the Captain and the sea.
(with tears and smiles).By the way, the unspoken word she didn't want to type...... the Captain typed for her.... it was a 4 letter word. Use your own imigination and make up your own word.
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Long before there were big airline crashes, there were major train wrecks, and many of them had songs written about them.
Here's Boxcar Willie singing The Wreck of the Old 97, along with some photos of famous wrecks.
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I love these old movies about new streamlined trains that can go across-country at 140 miles per hour, on old tracks designed for 60 miles per hour.
I've ridden a lot of trains in my lifetime, from steamers to diesel, and they are frightening when they are going fast.
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I would think that with Belafonte's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award he is set to receive soon that TCM would be putting together something for him.
That's a very good list of films and actors.
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TopBilled,
I'll have to admit, that I had to see this film about 5 or 6 times before I finally began to understand all of it.
It is a little complicated for just a one-time viewing. It was only after I began to understand all of it that I began to realize how brilliant it is.
The acting is not only good, but the screenplay is brilliant, and the director did a fantastic job. It was he who told the actors what expressions to have and at what times, and when to roll their eyes, and look mad, suspicious, paranoid, etc. so the Director was very very good with directing some very good actors in a very good screenplay. That makes this something of a very unique film, and it doesn't copy any other film that I know of.
I'm afraid that the Academy Award voters just didn't fully understand it with just one viewing, thus no awards for it.
THREE FACES OF EVE was very good too, but it had a narration track that explained to the audience all the odd things that were going on with the 3-personalities in that film.
Fred
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I also agree that THIS is one fine movie and noir. Most excellent. With that unbelievably pleasant melt-any-man smile, Laraine Day is perfect for the role of a very hidden woman.
Yes, Laraine Day is fantastic.
A question about a cool neurological condition
in General Discussions
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cigarjoe,
I think you are right. I'm not sure if the colors you see will be the true colors, but they are colors and I learned years ago that COLOR IS INSIDE OUR BRAINS ONLY. Color is not in light, it does not travel through space, there are no red, blue, etc. signs or light bulbs, only different colorless frequencies of EM waves, which our brains translate into COLOR.
Our eye cones are like little EM wave radio antennas, that's why they are cone shaped and the very small sizes to be tuned to light-frequency EM waves, so they can be tuned the proper length to receive the different frequencies of EM waves (short wavelengths, long wavelengths). The ELECTRICITY and CHEMICALS inside our brains transform those EM frequencies into COLOR.