FredCDobbs
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Years ago, when I was in my early 20s, I bought a 1938 Studebaker and I used to drive it all around New Orleans. I used to take girls out on dates in it. This car was for sale at a gas station for $100.
I've still got a picture of myself in a brown fedora standing at the side of the car. That was back when I was watching a lot of 1930s and '40s films late at night on TV.
I thought it was funny when the Indiana Jones movies later came out, with him riding around in late-1930 cars and wearing a brown fedora.
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I think you found everything he needs.
I was searching mainly on German websites, but looks like TCM's headquarters for Europe is in England.
He'll probably come back and take another look at this thread.
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I wonder why they would have a listing for Danish and Dutch, but not German.
I asked Enomine what language he received the films in and he said German.
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Not yet.
Thanks for the info.
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It sounds like our closed caption system but with a different language for each country in Europe.
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I wonder how they handle the different languages? Do you think there are separate feeds for each language?
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That looks like it.
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> (And Fred, if you got Enomine on the right track, I
> apologise for horning in. Hopefully I didn't confuse
> the poster.)
No problem. Apparently TCM in Germany is new, and I can't find any schedules yet.
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Hi,
I almost never have any problems with Direct TV, except that they keep going up on their prices every couple of years. Plus I was paying extra for some channels, including Fox Movie Channel, then last year Fox went black and they want me to pay more money to get it again.
A strong snow or rain will cause the picture to break up, but this is a phenomenon of EM radiation. That is, the TV signal can't get from the satellite to the antenna element of your outdoor dish. Your plastic dish has a metal parabolic reflector inside it, and the actual antenna is the little thing that sits up on an arm in the middle just above the dish. Snow on the dish and strong rains will cause the signal to be reflected away from the antenna. You can go out and scoop the snow off and you can wait for the rain to subside. This problem has to do with where the geo-stationary satellite is located, which is above the equator. Parabolic antennas in the US must aim toward the sky above the equator. This turns the dish antenna into a "scoop" or a "container" that catches the snow and rain.
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French schedule:
http://www.tcmcinema.fr/programme/index.html
British/English schedule:
http://www.tcmonline.co.uk/listings/
Spanish daily schedule:
http://www.canaltcm.com/programacion/diaria
Spanish weekly schedule:
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Welche Sprache h?ren Sie auf TCM Arena?
Welche Sprache sehen Sie auf Untertitel auf TCM Arena?
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Thanks for the information!
I'll set my recorder for tonight.
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> That's a good point about audiences back then not
> being able to take constant danger. That makes sense.
This type of all-thrills films like the Jurassic Park series gradually evolved in the '70s through the '90s. As an older guy, I don't really like all action all the time, but the kids seem to love it.
For example, "Saving Private Ryan" seemed to have much more continuous battle action that most WW II war movies.
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> it's
> > so predictable and the characters are just
> annoying.
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> I think a lot of these "airplane in danger or
> hijacked" movies spend way too much time on the
> personal stories.
Lol, what else is there to do on a 12 hour flight?
Audiences in 1954 couldn't handle the plane almost crashing every minute during a 2 hour movie. The audience would just get up and walk out of the theater back then if they showed all-disaster movies like they do today. They needed about 10 minutes of personal stories, 2 minutes of near disaster, then 10 more minutes of personal stories, etc. Then the last 10 minutes of near disaster.
What I wonder about is the very first movie that used this "personal stories" technique? Grand Hotel has that reputation, but I wonder if there were others before it? The German "Titanic" movie used the "Grand Hotel" technique, and so did most of the other Titanic movies.
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> They look classier than today's planes though.
I agree. I love the look of a two-engine DC 3.
This airplane was used in a lot of movies in the late '30s and all through the '40s.
Some of them are still flying as airlines and cargo planes in third-world countries. They are apparently easy to repair.
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Those old prop planes were really slow. I flew on a few of them at the beginning of the jet era. They were noisy too.
I flew on a DC 3 in the early '60s. Very primitive. One row of seats one the right side, and two on the left side. We had to walk up some short steps to get into the rear of the plane, we had to bend over so we wouldn't hit our heads on the top of the door opening, and then we had to walk up the center isle which was like a ramp going up a 20 degree grade.
The noise was very loud and we couldn't talk much to each other. And it was so slow. That's why it had a big wing area. But it was fun.
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I didn't mean to start a second thread on the same movie. You just beat me by a few seconds.
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Many of the inside cabin shots are filmed from the right side, which shows the plane going in the correct direction. Maybe this director didn't believe in the right-left "rule" of photography.
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> I'm watching it for the nostalgia factor. Love
> looking at what planes used to look like - lots of
> room, larger seats, etc. And flight attendants don't
> dress as nice or treat passengers like that
> anymore..... light your cigarette, feed you steak,
> ....
This was a big movie back in '54. Lots of publicity. The airlines hated it.
According to the navigator, it takes them about 12 hours to fly from Hawaii to San Francisco.
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The plane in "The High and the Mighty" is flying from Hawaii to San Francisco, so why is it flying right to left, with the left side of it lit by sunlight?
See this and scroll down to this movie:
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For oil movies I prefer "Boom Town".
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I've never seen more than a couple of minutes of it at a time. I get it mixed up with Giant, which I've seen only a couple of minutes of.
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I've never seen the film all the way through, but I remember some of the driving scenes.
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Deutsches TCM Programm/Program Guide Germany
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You did a really good job of finding that German TCM listing. It is certainly hidden away on the internet.