FredCDobbs
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Invisible Ghost (1941)
I tracked this one down by searching for Clarence Muse films, based on an estimate of his age in your still frame.
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So it looks like your first frame was a picture on a wall or desk.
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That must be a famous coal mine movie.
This girl looks like Mary Philbin, with the same hairstyle that she wears during the unmasking scene in Phantom of the opera, but the necklace is different, so I'm not sure if that is the movie or not.
Here is a brighter print of that frame:
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Beau Geste (1939)
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Kidd,
That was very clever and sadistic of you to take still frames from so many short scenes from WOMAN IN THE WINDOW. By the end of the evening last night, I had searched through so many murder-mystery titles and I began babbling to myself. I even thought of this film, but I couldn't recall the brief train station scene, or the taxi out front of the apartment house, so I didn't bother viewing it again to be sure.
Anyway, that's one you win big on.
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I have no problem with people protesting but it appears you do.
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So instead of complaining about the complaining I recommend you protest against the protest. e.g. form a group with the purpose of maintaining works 'as is' and lobby producers of content.
You are jumping to conclusions again.
I just happened to see this item on Google News, and I reacted to it because I saw The Mikado film shown on TCM and they air it every year or two.
There are too many people trying to censor old films, and that makes me mad.
Also, it makes me a little mad for someone to tell me what I should and should not protest, or how I should protest.
I will decide that for myself.
So please don't tell me how or what to protest. Have I ever told you how or what to protest? I don't think I have.
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You're correct that I had a misunderstanding, Sorry. So you are OK if one produces a censored version of the play.
I would prefer for you to call it an "alternative" version of the play.
It's like this.... we've all seen old British films that show the old British colonial view of India, where the British are the smart ones an the natives are primitive boobs.
And then someone made Gandhi (1982), which is a more realistic version of the story. I think Gandhi is a brilliant artistic classic film, and it was made without anyone demanding the banning any of the old British film versions.
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Instead you wish to force me to produce the play without changes.
You are just making stuff up. I don't care if you produce anything or not or make your own version or whatever. My OP is about the current protest. It's like the protest that killed the Fox Film channel showing of the Charlie Chan film festival a few years ago.
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You don't wish for a producer to create what you feel is a censored version.
You only want the uncensored version to be available.
No, you misunderstand.
I don't want an outsider to censor (i.e. to END) the original and replace it with something HE approves.
It's the censorship of the original that I don't like.... the censorship and the forcing of the original's producers to kill the original and replace it with something the censor wants him to replace it with.
This is really simple, folks. It's not complicated.
You produce what you want to produce.
I produce what I want to produce.
You don't tell me what I can't produce and what I must produce.
Very, very simple.
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I was simply stating the yellowface issue is much about nothing and just didn't see the need for the fuss (in reference to the article in the OP).
I posted the OP because of the demand to censor, kill, and outlaw the original play that traditionally uses Anglo actors.
The article I linked had this headline:
Yellowface staging of 'Mikado' has to end
So my OP was about the demand for censorship and some people trying to take away from us (any of us, all of us, and any kind of us) our plays, musicals, movies, books, art, literature, etc.
There are plenty of artistic things I don't like or watch or listen too, but I do not demand that they should be censored and removed so that nobody can see or hear them.
I say, let everyone watch what they want to watch and leave everyone else's art alone, with no calls for censorship of it.
As far as "stereotypes" of Japanese characters goes, just see ANY movie made in Japan by Japanese actors and directors. Take, for example, the cowardly farmers in SEVEN SAMURAI, and evil bad bandits in the same movie. All are Japanese stereotypes.
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Here is a Japanese version of a Dracula musical. I don’t have any problem with this, because it was not done out of spite, and it was done in Japan, which is fine with me.
The Japanese also did a Scarlett (O'hara) musical, using all Japanese women, and also a play based on The Diary of Anne Frank, using all Japanese actors, which is ok with me too.
Dracula Musical - (WAOHANA) Die Verf-ührung Japanese version
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That is a wonderful art of dance and movement. They should put on the show over here and be presented exactly like that, no changes of any kind.
I agree.
And I dislike American versions of Japanese films, using Anglo actors, such as the American version of SEVEN SAMURAI. The original Japanese version is much better and more realistic, as far as I'm concerned.
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LOL, I guess I got to the train station a little too late. I found the same railroad station sign for Track 24, but it’s for a different train that goes up to Montréal!! I wonder if that is a Monogram Pictures sign??
Anyway, wrong film.
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Here is another take on the subject.:
http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2024164971_rickshiomiopedmikadoxxxml.html
"So I made a counterproposal to Skylark: Mu would collaborate if I would be allowed to create some alternative interpretation of it. To its credit, Skylark agreed"
That's pretty funny!
I think a lot of people miss the point that this is an 1895 British (English) political/colonial work of theater and musical art.
This is NOT a 2014 American musical. This is an 1895 British (English, as in England) musical.
That takes it way back to long before Pearl Harbor and WW II, and way back into the British Colonial era, in a light-hearted way.
You can go to Japan today and see THE SAME TYPES OF OLD AND ANCIENT traditional Japanese theatrical characters and costumes, and some of the awful music they had in the old days. The Mikado uses many of the old costume styles, but the music is more suitable and fitting for Victorian English people.
See this, from Japan, to see where the makeup styles, costume types, swords, etc came from for The Mikado:
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TEST PILOT 1938
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The actor standing in screenshot #3 looks a bit like Frank Conroy.
Yes, and from your clue I got the name of the movie. It's one we've all seen on TCM several times.
The silver items are trophies given out for some kind of high-class annual "hobby" show. The book he is searching for is titled "Unsolved Murders". The bag is a carry-on bag often used for train trips.
I think we should share in this win, because I couldn't solve it without your clue.
http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=3515
The Kennel Murder Case 1933
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Kid,
Thanks for all the help.
That was an ordeal.
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MURDER INC 1960
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A murder of crows??
A film by that name is about a murder-mystery book. Is that related to the pen and ink picture?
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a flock of birds
a gathering of crows
crows on a playground
quill pen
ink
feather pen
blah, blah, blah
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I was surprised to learn that he made his best 11 films all within 5 years.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507932/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
1946 Bedlam (producer)
1945 Isle of the Dead (producer)
1945 The Body Snatcher (producer)
1944 Mademoiselle Fifi (producer)
1944 Youth Runs Wild (producer)
1944 The Curse of the Cat People (producer)
1943 The Ghost Ship (producer)
1943 The Seventh Victim (producer)
1943 The Leopard Man (producer)
1943 I Walked with a Zombie (producer)
1942 Cat People (producer)
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The actor is Keith Andes, who does not look like Joan Crawford with or without a shirt. The film is A Life at Stake (1954).
I just watched it. A pretty good movie, except for the ending. Andes was a good actor. I wonder why he wasn't more famous?
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Ahh yes.... now I recognize him!
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The Mortal Storm (1940)
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I think this is a pretty good movie.
I like the way this film uses American actors who usually have nice personalities, to show how much average young Germans changed so quickly into mean crazy fanatics.