FredCDobbs
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The Crooked Way 1949
Hmm.... looks like a prison, looks like a hospital...... hmm, how about a big federal hospital, something like a major VA Hospital??
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My Dear Secretary (1948)
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A Rage to Live (1965)
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Doomed To Die (1940) aka: Mystery of the Wentworth Castle
The opening scenes are based on the newsreel film of the SS Morro Castle cruise ship, which mysteriously caught fire in 1934.
So I figured the movie in question was made after 1934.
There are struts of a bi-plane in some of the newsreel film, and that suggests a plane still in use in the late 30s or early 40s, which helps narrow down the year the film was made.
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This is a test of embedding, which didn't work when I posted in General Discussions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6uh4nvIoIw
I used the link button. Am I doing something wrong?
In the REPLY TO THIS TOPIC box, first click on the blue-green button that is 3rd from the left in the top row of code symbols.
You should then see the message that says Special BBCode.
Then click on Please select.
Then click on Media
Then copy and paste your YouTube URL code in the URL box. You should be able to find this code up at the top left of your computer page when you are watching the YouTube video.
Then click on OK
Then click on Post
That should post your message with the YouTube video embedded and visible as a large image with a large red arrow in the middle of it.
Click on that arrow to view video, just as you see here......
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The Hour Before the Dawn 1944
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The text reads: OFFICIAL MUNICIPAL BALLOT
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Hi Fred,
I tried that, but the only language choice I see offered is Estonian, which around here, doesn't help very much. I don't see English offered as a menu choice.
To the right of the word Estonian is a little arrow. Click on that, then click on TRANSLATE CAPTIONS. That will give you a drop down window listing many languages. Scroll down to ENGLISH and click on that. Then click OK.
This is a great film. It should be shown with The Mortal Storm.
Show this one first because it shows Germany in 1933 before Hitler is appointed Chancellor and while the Communists are still strong and large in number, and then at the end, Hitler is appointed, and all of a sudden the Communists begin to be rounded up and taken to prison camps, and the nice sweet young German Nazi boys suddenly begin to turn strong and mean and quickly grow in number. This is a perfect film to show BEFORE The Mortal Storm. These films fit together perfectly, and together they represent a good history lesson.
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Thelma,
As your movie plays, click on CC and change the language to ENGLISH, and you will see English subtitles. Not perfect, but they will help.
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Kidd,
I’m getting a lot of mixed messages during my search for your still frames. For example, I keep turning up references to the “Penrod and Sam” films, which were made in 1923, 1931, and 1937. However, there is a lot of mixed and confusing information about these films on YouTube and IMDB, including different copyright dates such as 1936 and 1932, and two different dogs playing Duke, such as these:
1931? named Duke, white with black spots, professional actor’s name “Cameo the Dog”.
This is the dog in your still frame:
1937, named Duke (black with white patch on face), professional name not known.
CLICK ON THIS LINK:
http://cdnbakmi.kaltura.com/p/357521/sp/35752100/thumbnail/entry_id/0_518o52qy/width/480/
Although the 1931 Duke is a different dog, an IMDB review says this about the 1931 film:
Nicely filmed version of the Booth Tarkington novel, done with loads of charm. About a small town boy named Penrod and his adventures with his best pal/sidekick Sam - school scenes, a birthday party, touching scenes between Penrod and his dog Duke, the kids putting on a circus with Penrod as "ringmaster", and lots of stuff about the boys and their gang of kids who have this secret club
And that description matches some of your other still frames.
However, I can’t find a full copy of any of the Penrod and Sam films on YouTube that show any of your still frames.
So, maybe you can give us some clues to point us in the right direction?
For example, do all of your still frames come from a movie that is shown in full on YouTube? If so, then we will keep searching.
Fred
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Thelma,
Thanks so much for that interesting movie. This covers a part of Germany history that we don't normally get to see on American television, which is the 1920s and 30s battles, in Germany, between the Communists and the early Nazis.
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Yikes! This movie becomes more frightening the more often I see it.
Dan Dailey as a mean Nazi, when he should be dancing and singing!!
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Dang! Missed it. Don't recall WHAT I was doing otherwise, but didn't see any of it. Bummer!
Sepiatone
BLACK FURY
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Fiend Without a Face (1958)
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Kid Galahad, 1962
(Elvis is riding on the back of that moving van)
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SANCTUARY (1961)
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Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
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I may have to switch over to Bollywood to slow you guys down a little
Since photographing the Panama Canal was not allowed just before and during WW II, and for some time afterwards, I figured the film must have been made before about 1939 or after about 1948. That saved me some search time.
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Reading old newspapers is a terrific way to get the "feel" and "flavor" of history,
Yes, very much so.
One time I bought a collection of US News and World Report from 1945 to 1955, and I read them in sequence, starting with 1945. I read them for months, and it was just like being there, back in that post-War era. It was fascinating.
Many of the issues covered the Soviet take-over of Eastern Europe, as it happened, and that was frightening because it seemed like the Russians were doing what Hitler had done, by marching into one country after another, this time from East to West.
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To get "both sides" of a issue out of old history books, you need to read books written in the past by "both sides".
True, but then you also have to read "both sides" of current history books in order to be able to form a reasonably intelligent opinion.
The saddest thing I find is that so many people seem unaware of the sort of debates that were engaging people in past decades and centuries. It's one of the reasons that it's just as important to read old newspapers and magazines as it is to read older books. In many ways reading through old issues of LIFE or Time or The Crisis is just as eye opening as watching TCM on a regular basis, and often even more so. It's all part of the big puzzle that we're never going to be able to complete, but it's sure fun trying.
Yes I agree about reading the old magazines and newspapers. It was while I was reading the text of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, as transcribed by different newspaper reporters, when I learned that Lincoln often used the "N" word during the debate, and I found in other sources that he often used the word in political conversations too.
This information was cleaned out of modern history books for more than a hundred years, until the internet came along.
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Ok, I have the title. I'll hold off posting it to give others a chance.
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aside from the fact that the more recently a
book is written the more likely it is to have access to information that was
not available at the earlier period.
Just the opposite is true. Many history books of today cover up true facts that were well known in the past, and new information that has been learned is often ignored or covered up if it doesn't meet with the political approval of the modern authors.
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The fact that a book was written and published contemporaneously to the
event which is its subject does not necessarily mean it is more accurate
than a book published years after the event. Nor is it likely that the authors
of these "original" books were free of bias themselves. Best to take each
book on its own merits as far as can be determined.
Don't tell me your uninformed opinion. I've had a lot of experience with this.
To get "both sides" of a issue out of old history books, you need to read books written in the past by "both sides". I've had the experience that both sides or all three sides, or all four sides, or whatever, were better covered in the 19th and 18th Centuries than they were in the 20th. And I've had plenty of first-hand experience, including visiting places and meeting people who are still living as if they are in the 19th and 18th Centuries. And my book collection covers the 17th, 16th and several earlier centuries, including many old books, many reprints of even older books, and many books translated into English from Latin, Greek, Spanish, and other languages.
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Scared to Death 1947
D. W. Griffith - cutaway example
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At about 2 minutes into this clip, see the white sheet cutaway.
The master shot is the man sitting and thinking. The cutaways (several of them) are the kids playing with the sheet.