FredCDobbs
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Whatever happened to EDUCATING RITA? This is a great film that I've never seen on TV.
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With THE WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE, of course, it does help to know the true history of the Lone Ranger.
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Now we can move on to discuss Beethoven's 5th. Does it stand on its own,
Yes.
I bought my first copy of this in 1959, when I was in high school. We had a record store in town that let us listen to the records first. I played samples of a few classical records, but when I came to the 5th, there was no question that THIS IS THE ONE!
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Carlos Gardel funeral
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This young man and great actor should have received at least 2 or 3 Academy Award nominations.
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Fred, after awhile you get used to watching and reading.
Hey, I'm not a child. I'm dyslexic.
List of people diagnosed with dyslexia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_diagnosed_with_dyslexia
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By the way, several years ago I promoted the idea of TCM showing more old foreign films, since there must be thousands of them in all sorts of foreign film libraries all over the world, from China to Germany, from Russia to Argentina.
YouTube has many old classic foreign films available, but many (such as the 1930s German films) have no English subtitles.
I suggested that TCM might sponsor the addition of adding English sub-titles to these films.
I think sub-titles are cheaper than full new English sound tracks.
I also suggested the addition of English sound tracks to the SAP tracks for showing on TCM, for films that ALREADY HAVE ENGLISH SOUND TRACKS. I discovered that many do, although TCM prefers to air the original-language track and English sub-titles.
But I say, if a foreign film has both an original language track AND an English language track, AND English subtitles, then air ALL THREE AT THE SAME TIME, with the English track on the SAP channel, the original language track on the main channel, AND the English subtitles.
That should make EVERYONE happy.
But did they take my advice yet?? Noooooo.
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Fred, everyone has their own priorities. Either take a speed reading course or record the movie and play it back in slow motion.
You are missing half the movies if you read all the English dialogue captions. Some directors put a lot of different symbolic stuff in the photography, which you never see because you are busy reading the sub-titles.
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James, you just don't understand. Some people don't want to be exposed to the outside world and possibly broaden their knowledge.
That is not so.
See my earlier post.
I want to SEE and HEAR a film (with an English sound track), at the same time.
Most English language dialogue captions are on the screen for such a short amount of time, I don't have time to read them,and I cant see the film at the same time.
This is most distracting during nude scenes. I can't see the nude and read what she is saying, at the same time.
I mentioned a topless-dancer scene I saw on TCM in a Jean Gabin film, and a dozen guys begged me to tell them where the scene was, because they had missed it, because they were busy reading the dialogue titles, while I was watching the movie, so I got to see the topless girl dancing, while they got to read what Jean Gabin was saying during that scene, but they didn't see the naked girl dancing.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
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Why should TCM not be showiing obscure euro films?
So really, can you explain why? To me the only reason you have for why is because you don't like those films.
My answer is:
I can't watch a foreign film AND read the English language dialogue at the same time.
Have you ever heard of SAP? Well, an English language sound track should be put on the SAP of these films so I can hear the dialogue and watch the film at the same time.
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This is a very good documentry, on TCM now.
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While there are regional American foods (e.g. southern cooking), what would be uniquely American?
Originally, turkey, bison (like beef), cornbread, corn, beans, squash, chocolate, chili peppers (Hungarian paprika is American Chili peppers), pumpkins, sunflowers, wild rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, peanuts, avocados, papayas,
NOW:
Hot dogs and hamburgers.
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Enough of this PC multi-cultural poppycock.
I think what made me fairly multi-cultural at a very young age, long before it was a "requirement", was the movies I saw. I still remember many movies I saw as a kid in the late 1940s, such as Treasure of the Sierra Madre. From that film I learned: "Mexican bandits: bad", "Mexican village family people: good". Japanese WW II soldiers and Zero pilots: bad, Japanese citizens in Post-War films: good. (I saw "Japanese War Bride" when I was 10, in 1952.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044764/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
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Hi, can anyone else hear and see that lady (in front of the bass player) say "trii mizz itt”?
Does everyone know how to repeat-play a segment of video over and over? Place your cursor on the moving red line at the bottom of the video, at the point you want to re-start at. Do that after that part has already played once.
Then click on it and it will re-play, starting at the point where you placed your cursor. You can click that point again and again, and it will keep repeating a start at that point.
Look for the lady's lips to form the middle word, which seems to start with an "m".
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In fact I'm a big promoter of trying to 'erase' the culture of one's ancestors.
What kind of ancestors did you have that you want to "erase their culture"?? **
I have some ancestors whose culture I want to strongly embrace, and a few I would like to erase.
I am also "multi-cultural" for some cultures, but other cultures I would like to erase.... such as Nazi and ISIS culture.
** This is not a trick question.... I'm just curious.
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There is a way to play that last line the lady whispers, by clicking on replay of just that line. After clicking on it and replaying it about 20 times, I hear something like the phonetic sounds which sound something like this, and this matches her lip movements:
try mix it
or
try miss it
or half a dozen other sounds that might be English or French words.
This is just the phonetic sounds that I hear. That doesn’t mean these are the actual “words” that I hear.
For example, it could be “trii mizz itt”
If we get a room filled with MIT acoustics engineering students together, we could probably figure out exactly within a couple of hours.
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Forget the sounds, that has nothing to do with it. You are assuming that I get farther than I do. I get nowhere. If I click on a link in a post here, nothing happens. I don't get to anything. The truncated address of the link just sits there. I don't have Firefox. I just have Safari, I have fairly recently converted to Mac. This was not a problem with IE, on my PC, but now for a few reasons I have become a Mac person, I guess. Though I still prefer some things about PC.
I downloaded Firefox free in just a few minutes and began using it right away. It takes a while to get used to using it, but after a few days it becomes easy to use.
Try right-clicking and click on OPEN LINK IN NEW TAB.
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Thanks, Fred.
Just one disgreement, though. I believe that the figure running cross the lawn is that other Russell, Gail.
Ok, you are probably right. I haven't seen the film in a long time. I remember she did run across the lawn at the end.
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Here's an example. I'm posting a film piece from today's Guardian.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/quiz/2014/sep/30/can-you-identify-film-adaptation-book-cover-quiz
Once completed and posted, I cannot click on the link I posted to get to the article. Even in edit mode, when the whole address appears, I can only cut and paste into the address bar of my browser to get to the story.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/quiz/2014/sep/30/can-you-identify-film-adaptation-book-cover-quiz
And it's the same whether I just post the link; or whether I use the link icon to post it.
Are you talking about the clip from GONE GIRL?? I can both see it and hear it.
Can you load Firefox and use it to hear the sounds?
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But may I kindly remind you, however, about my modest little original observation about Elizabeth Russell?
I think you are right.
That's her in the painting, that's her running across the lawn in the same dress that is in the painting, and that's her in the blurry figure of the ghost.
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I click and click on your link, and cannot get anything. Nothing happens -- the link remains.
The sound works for me with both Firefox and IE 8.
I have both browsers loaded. I use Firefox most of the time, with Windows XP, and sometimes I will switch over to IE 8, and I can keep both of them loaded in RAM at the same time. I've never used a Mac or a Safari.
Maybe you can search Google for "no sound link with mac or safari"
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That's the problem. I can post photos and video links. I can't click on the links such as you just posted. This is how your link appears:
Your link worked fine for me.
It takes a couple of seconds for the sound file to load.
The sound file is a drum "rimshot", the type used in nightclubs to punctuate a comedian's joke.
When I click on the red button, I hear the recorded rimshot.
What is a "Mac"? Is that like a "Yugo"?
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I just added EDUCATING RITA to the YouTube thread. It is still as wonderful as I remember it.