FredCDobbs
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See this thread for different photo and YouTube posting instructions. Scan this whole thread for instructions.
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I've been told how to do this before, but I've forgotten the answer: How does one directly post YouTube or other video clips here, as Fred and Mac_the_Nice just did? I can do it for still photos, but not for videos. Thanks in advance.
Follow these instructions:
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I like seeing that, Fred. Good to see you finally got that Gila Monster off your hand so you can like, type. Unfortunately, being so caught up in NetFlix, I tuned in late to this series. Did they air Claude Lanzmann's *Shoah*? Or what about this . . .
If not, let's gang up on 'em and make 'em do it all over again. Things could change if every antisemite and Israelophobe were taken by the ear and marched to the nearest theater to see both.
I didn't notice those two on the list. Maybe they can run a new series like this again in a couple of years.
Here's an interesting early Warner Brothers newsreel from late 1945 that was one of the first to show concentration camp scenes in American theaters:
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I watched Driving Miss Daisy today and found this another take on the Jewish experience on film. Here Daisy is a Southern Jew of 1948-1976 Atlanta who proudly clings to her beliefs despite a frightening incident with some Alabama State Troopers and the bombing of her temple. Her son and his wife are the opposite, laid-back amiable JINOs who put up Christmas decorations and host holiday parties so they can blend in with the upper-crust Gentiles they so desperately want to be a part of. Strangely, Daisy is in turn prejudiced against Blacks until over a thirty year timespan she slowly forms a friendship with her driver whom she helps learn to read and shares the Alabama incident. This was the Oscar winner for 1989 and it's still good.
I worked with a lot of Jews like that in my lifetime, and they really did like us and wanted to be part of our culture. And we learned to be a part of their culture..
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I think they are saying words to encourager her, since that is the first song she sings during her new job. Maybe they are saying the words of the song in French. The lady in front of the bass player is saying words occasionally, and the two guitarists are talking to each other and the lead is giving cues to the band with his body movement. Just informal banter in a favorite night club filled with friendly people.
If you play the talk segment over and over again, you might begin to notice that you can actually hear the lady in front of the bass whispering her last line of dialogue, although I can't quite tell what she is saying.
lauren bacall: to have and have not "how little we know"
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I've a link to Google Books stating that Elizabeth Russell was a ghost in The Uninvited.
You are right. And she is in a painting in the movie.....
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Lynda Grey ...Ghost of Mary Meredith (uncredited)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037415/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
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My opinion is:
Millie was fine, but the film script itself was too tame and too long (3 hours) and not at all shocking, frightening, interesting, or tragic.
The script gave the impression that all the Nazis did to the family was bore them for a couple of years by keeping them from leaving the attic.
But, this was one of the very early Holocaust genre films of the modern era, and I think Hollywood didn’t yet know how to make such films. So they spent 3 hours showing the Frank family as being “just good ol’ plain folks”, and left out most of the bad-Nazi part of the story, and that is what ruined the film.
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I know that this might be old news; but recently I discovered that you can download Podcasts of Lux Radio Theater (Theatre) episodes for free on iTunes!
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Here at the end of the movie, she hears her mother call her mother’s former Indian lover by name, and she finally realizes that she is a “half-breed”, which she confirms in the last full line of the movie:
Clara Bow Call Her Savage Finale Part Two
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Bow's character, Nasa, was a real space cadet! She was violent toward many of the people she encountered in the film, repeatedly beating a guy with a whip, cracking a guitar over another guy's skull, and just for fun, grabbing a fistful of Thelma Todd's locks. How anyone would want to hang around such a bi-polar chick like this is beyond me. I understand the premise of the script, but the acting seemed to be way over the top.
She was part "savage", because her real father was an American Indian. This is what was supposed to happen when you place a girl who looks "white" into a "white" culture, while she is actually genetically half "savage", i.e. half Indian.
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Does the history behind a movie matter or should it stand on its own?
I think all movies should stand on their own.
HOWEVER, if a film has an interesting history, that makes it much better in my mind.
Examples:
CITIZEN KANE
GONE WITH THE WIND
KING KONG
MOST CLARA BOW MOVIES
AND, I am always delighted when I watch a great film 20 - 50 times and I discover some new detail in it, such as the first time we see the little snow globe in CITIZEN KANE, which I didn't notice during my first 30 years of seeing the movie over and over.
When Ted Turner first started TNT and TCM with a showing of GONE WITH THE WIND, he followed the film with a new 2-hour documentary about the film and that has always been a great documentary that made the film even more interesting.
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Being Friday night I did have a glass or two of wine so I guess I was hearing things.
I guess you know, James, that there are elves and gremlins that follow certain people around, and they play tricks on them. They can hide your car keys, eat the last pizza slice in the refrigerator and leave the plate empty. They can cause bad words to come out of your mouth when you are at an important business meeting, and they can change single words in a film’s sound track so that only you hear it.
I’ve had problems with them for many years.
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I think I remember the word "Heinies" used in some 1930s movies about WW I.
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Anyhow, the two get into an argument and both call each other killers (the brother since he was a solider in WWI and Tom as a gangster). While Tom is leaving he yells at this brother and says that he enjoyed killing those Nazis.
Wasn't the film made in 1931? This was the pre-Nazi era in Germany.
I don't remember hearing the word in that movie.
Could the word have been added to a later re-issue of an old print?
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Should movies this rare to TCM be aired in a daytime or primetime time slot??
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..aahhooOO000gaa!... - screenshot # 11 - can you name this film
How about another movie??
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WINDJAMMER...... doh...
KRAKATOA, EAST OF JAVA (or is it WEST OF JAVA??).... doh...
Sorry, but just give me GONE WITH THE WIND and RANDOM HARVEST in 4:3.
Wide screen was mostly a failure.
You can get both Wide and Tall screen just by enlarging the screen, and more sharpness in the films by using 65 mm film instead of 35 mm film. There is no need to make the film artificially wide and cut off the tops of heads and the bottoms of legs, or cut out the blue sky or snow-covered tops of mountains or the earth and flowers in the foreground.
A curved TV screen has a position for only 1 viewer at a time.... the viewer sitting in the center of the screen.
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RMeingast, your doing a wonderful job in your research regarding the silhouette puzzle. It looks like you whittled it down to Lillian Roth...
Mongo
I wonder if this is a studio "publicity still" that is not from any particular movie? Some studios promoted some good looking actresses by taking a lot of glamor shots of them, to send out to the fan magazines and newspapers for free publicity. Also, some of the photos were semi-nude stuff suggesting that the scene is in some movie, but maybe it is not in any movie at all.
Fred
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Cover-Up (1949)
This is really a great film. A murder mystery with a lot of intrigue and tension from the very beginning and all the way through. Half a dozen serious suspects, great detective work.....
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: William Bendix , Dennis O'Keefe , Barbara Britton .
One of the best performances by William Bendix I've ever seen.
Put this on your "must see" list for the next time it is on.
Fred
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You should consider us lucky, as English-speakers. In many other languages (German, French, etc.), every noun has a masculine or feminine gender. La fenetre -- the window in French is feminine; Le livre -- the book is masculine, etc. In German there is masculine, feminine, and neuter: university (Die Universitat) is feminine; rain (Der Regen) is masculine; book (Das Buch) is neuter.
I dated a Spanish teacher who told me that the King of Spain ordered the same thing and commissioned an official Spanish language dictionary listing all the words that were masculine and feminine, and they've been that way ever since. Both in Spain and Latin America. Like Amigo for a male friend and Amiga for a female friend and Amigos for a group of mixed friends. I think this is the general rule I adopted for actors and actresses and a group of actors.
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Indeed I did. Whenever I tell the story on an airplane I get extra cookies, if they're having cookies that day. The flight attendants all love it.
Thanks for your interesting story.
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