FredCDobbs

I have the Panasonic DMR-ES30V. My Sony disks are made in Taiwan.

Hmm... could it be "The Letter" with Jeanne Eagels?

Thanks for the information!

Regarding Clark Gable and ?San Francisco,? I happened to study a lot of details about the 1906 SF fire and earthquake when I lived there, and a local theater began showing the movie every year on the anniversary of the earthquake. I learned that the film, although based on a fictional story about the individual people, was quite accurate in many details: Much of the music at the talent show was authentic to the era, the men and women?s clothes were accurate to 1906, the women?s hair styles were accurate, the Opera being in town (Caruso was shaken out of his hotel bed that morning), Lotta?s Fountain, The Coast filled with vice, the various corrupt city commission rules, laws, and politics, the way City Hall collapsed (the model collapsed the way the real City Hall collapsed), the models of the burning city (they were models of many of the real building of 1906 San Francisco), the general stories about how the people on Nob Hill originally made their money, the second wave of the quake, the type of motion of the quake, the broken water mains, the gas lines breaking, the tent city set up in Golden Gate Park, the local animosity toward Los Angeles citizens, the troops down from the Presidio, the troops blowing up buildings to stop the fire, the shooting of looters, the long carriage ride out to Golden Gate Park from town, and many other details. The tune ?San Francisco? seems to be new and was jazzed up for a 1930s audience.

Hmm... a "Sheriff" and an "Emperor"?

William Powell in ?My Man Godfrey?.

I've had my Panasonic recorder for about 8 months and I've had several Sony disks and one Verbatim disk stop in the middle of a recording. The whole recording system shuts down as if it is at the end of the recording time. I've wondered if this is because I need to tighten the pressure cup pressure (although I thought it was a roller that needed a little more pressure).

Rusty, tell me more. This is interesting.

Thanks very much, Rusty. So it plays sort of like an old 45 rpm record, but the cup holds the disk tight to the spindle, and the laser plays from inside to the outside. Very interesting. I ain't gonna open mine up or fool around with it. Not until it stops working altogether.

Does anyone know how a DVD player turns the DVD disk? If it has a roller that rolls along the top of a disk, then that roller could bump every time it hits a label tape or a warped paper label. But I'm not sure what actually turns the disks. It has to be some kind of roller somewhere, but I'm not sure where the force is put on the disk. I've had no trouble using a magic marker on the top of my disks. In fact the Verbatim disks I use have three engraved lines at the bottom of the top of the disk which look like they are for a pen to write titles on.

Dang, you beat me to it!

From wikipedia about George: "Another well-known Gershwin piece is "An American in Paris. " It is a long tone poem for orchestra. Its first public performance was by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1928."

Hey! What on earth has happened to my great thread?? Oh, well, I?m glad liberals and conservatives equally like old classic movies on TCM!

Bogie, Bette, and Leslie were outstanding in ?The Petrified Forest.? In fact, the other people were too. That was a case of perfect casting and a very good film rendition of a New York stage play.

There is something I really like in movies and that is when people say things only with their eyes, such as Myrna Loy in ?The Rains Came?, when she realized she had accidently caught the plague. That takes a good actor, a good director, a good cameraman, and a good editor, all working together.

Rin Tin Tin

?Our local PBS station has "Yentl" scheduled for Saturday evening. Worth taping?? Go ahead and tape it. You can always erase it later. It?s not up to me to tell other people what they should like or not. Most of these ?girl dressed up like a boy? movies look to me like the girls are girls, dressed up like boys, such as Veronica Lake in ?Sullivan?s Travels?. I think Garbo did one too, and there were others.

"The Invisible Man" (ha, ha, ha)

"Rebecca"

I can?t imagine ?Funny Girl? winning an Oscar for anything, other than ?longest movie? or ?most boring movie? or "best cartoon."

I used to live and work in the Hollywood area back in the ?70s, and I thought the stars were for famous movie stars only, not for other kinds of people. Yesterday on the news I saw that Judge Judy just got her star on the walkway. This is absurd.

"It Came From Outer Space"

I remember seeing that movie when I was a kid. Her husband was crazy. Barry Sullivan. ?Cause for Alarm? 1951.

On Google, type ?loretta young filmography? and look up her films from that era.

I agree. I don't think the big musicals can be re-made.