FredCDobbs

> "Why don't they just re-release the original and show > it again in theaters?"..... > > I AGREE!! When I was a kid, watching movies in theaters in the late '40s and all through the '50s, they often showed re-releases, especially in the smaller independent theaters, which, back then, were larger than the small CINEMA 8 and CINEMA 12 mall theaters of today. I loved them. I saw King Kong on the big screen in 1952. I saw Gone With The Wind in full Technicolor and original format in the theater in 1953. I saw Captains Courageous, and many other great films of the '30s and '40s, plus many silent films too.

I think a lot of people like the musicals.

Thanks Frank. That reminds me of how Invasion of the Body Snatchers was an allegory about communism.

Rap song: "Blah blah blah, booggie boodie bookie ho, blah blah blah" Seattle song: "Ohhh I wannna youuu soo toooo meee mumble mumble mumble waaaahh woooahhh I wannnaaa woo waahhh mumble mumble" Elvis: "You ain't nuthin' but a hound dog" Janice: "Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train And I's feeling nearly as faded as my jeans. Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained, It rode us all the way to New Orleans."

You could be right. It's not an exact duplicate of the same story, but it's close in its overall theme.

Right. He turns him in for the money he can make out of his fame. Oh, and Sam Jaffe (Prof. Jacob Barnhardt), as an Einstein look-alike, played one of the "wise men".

Seems like in the old days the voices were very clear, but for years the bands play so loud and the voices are so low and they are mumbling. Maybe kids like that today. My ears still hear Bob Dylan, Elvis, Chuck and Little Richard clearly, and songs from old movies.

> > I've noticed that in modern music too. I haven't > been > > able to understand what people have been saying in > > modern songs since about 1968. > > Bit of a stretch no? No. I've tried watching all the new bands since 1968 on TV shows and I haven't been able to understand what they are saying. I could understand rock music, jazz music, and pop music up until about Janice Joplin and the Jefferson Airplane, but after that it was all mumbles. I've tried watching the Seattle groups and the young guys and girls on the tonight show and other TV shows and all I hear is a bunch of whining and mumbling but no distinct words. I think maybe "Me and Bobby McGee" was the last song I could understand. Bob Dylan was nice and clear. So was all music going back in time even to the 1920s and before.

Have you ever noticed how much the basic story is like the story of Jesus in the Bible? Klatu comes to earth from the heavens. He tries to warn mankind about their big sins, their foolishness, and their folly. He warns that the whole earth will be destroyed if the earth people don't listen to him. He's captured by the authorities. He's killed by the authorities. His robot friend raises him from the dead, then he leaves and goes back up into the sky.

I've noticed that in modern music too. I haven't been able to understand what people have been saying in modern songs since about 1968.

Why don't they just re-release the original and show it again in theaters?

I'll bet the film with have a lot of car chases, big explosions, lots of booming noise on the sound track, and lots of fast cutting. It will be irritating and nerve wracking, rather than intellectual.

Yeah, Vanishing Point.

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I think I've been trying to remember that movie for years. Did it involve a cannon that wouldn't quite shoot all the way to the mountain? So they wrapped some piano wire around the cannon and it finally shot to the mountain?

> But I've never even heard of "Miracle in the Rain," > and I'll try and find it. That's the movie that has the "coins" in it on the church steps, but I think it's actually a religious medallion. Very sad movie. Do see it.

"Lady in the Lake" was a murder mystery, but I don't think it had a ghost in it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039545/

Sounds like the old "Route 66" TV series.

I think I remember seeing that movie when it first came out. Did the shooter get all sunburned and blistered in the sun?

I've had pretty good results with my Panasonic combo VCR/DVD. It cost me around $278 about 3 years ago. The only problem I've had with it was when it stopped recording +R disks about 2 years ago, but it still records -R disks just fine. Very high quality.

> Thanks - I think I already have a set of those. > Are they called RCA cables? Yes they are, but not many people know that today. It is the plug on the end of the cable that is an RCA plug because RCA invented that type. Back in the 1950s and I guess earlier, plugs were known by the company that made them and by other trade names. There were "DIN" plugs from Europe, also BNC plugs for professional video work. The old simple microphone plug was known as a "phone jack" because the telephone company invented it, and that's the kind you see at switchboards in old movies. The cables are mostly the same, but the plugs are different. > > By the way, > the alphabet soup was delic. > B I had some in Mexico once but I couldn't read it because it was in Spanish.

Well, I think you are in luck. If it says DVD-R and DVD+R, then that means it will record on DVDs. If you already have a tape machine, you can get one cable to connect the two of them. The cable will have three wires and three plugs on each end. One plug on each end will be colored red, another white, and another yellow. The red and white are for the stereo sound, and the yellow is for the video. The cables cost from about $6 to about $10, depending on length.

Dear fellow manic, Greetings. I once bought 5 audio recorders at a post office surplus auction for $50. They were cheap, but I didn't need them. I bought them because they were such a bargain. I wound up giving them away and I was out $50. Anyway, isn't a DVR a "hard drive" recorder and not a DVD or tape recorder? Well, now if you buy a DVD machine you can record on your DVR and dub to your DVD.

Lol, well it looks like we've got a pretty good month coming up, with lots of '30s and '40s movies.

> I'll sing along with you B-) I think she was being sarcastic, implying that those of us who like ?Old Time Movies? resemble Southern religious fanatics of the kind that are in the ?Inherit the Wind? movie.