FredCDobbs

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Hey, where are you??

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH

I LOVE Priscilla Lane. I'd love to be married to her! Me to Priscilla: "Honey, I'm home!" Her reaction:

Our eyes don't work like that in real life. We never see life in front of us as a smilebox. The distortion comes from sitting too far back in a curved screen theater. Set up closer to the screen and there is no smilebox effect. The screen is not narrow in the middle and wide on both sides. That is an illusion if we sit too far back in a theater. And we don't need to see a 70 mm film on a TV screen, since 35 mm works just fine. Better yet is 4:3, like Gone with the Wind and Drums along the Mohawk, so we can see the sky above us and the ground below the actors, and their legs too. We do not need to see the sky cut out and the tops of their heads cut off and the bottoms of their legs missing.

Yes, Thanks. I couldn't remember the title. I saw this about 10 years ago but I didn't remember the title, but I remembered something about the house falling off a hill and the teens on the beach.

THE BIG WHEEL 1949 That was difficult. I've never heard of this movie before.

Here is a preview of DON'T MAKE WAVES, showing the house tumbling down the hill in the last scene.

Here is a rare recording of “MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA”, written in 1865 and recorded 39 years later in 1904 on an Edison cylinder: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/4000/4314/cusb-cyl4314d.mp3 ................. Now, this next one shows how old 19th Century tunes lasted for many decades and were later turned into newer songs with newer lyrics, that lasted into the early 20th Century recording era. “JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER”, from 1863, recorded in 1911: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/4000/4069/cusb-cyl4069d.mp3 Note that this is the same tune that was used in Charlie Poole’s “Write a Letter to my Mother”.

This is a rare recording from the 1920s or 30s by Charlie Poole. The song is supposed to date to the Civil War era. Charlie Poole, “Write a Letter to my Mother”: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xu0tb5_charlie-poole-write-a-letter-to-my-mother-country-music-experience_music Lyrics: http://www.jerrydallal.com/poole/Write_a_Letter_to_My_Mother.txt

THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS I remember the kid's whistle.

DETOUR 1945

Plus I'm 71 years old. LOL. I've noticed that sometimes the cursor will remain inside the quote box and I can't get it down a space and out of the quote box. But other times the quote opens up at the bottom and that allows the cursor to move down a space, so I can type a response, and that avoids confusion between the words that are quoted and the response to them.

THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS

The Carolina Tar Heels - Bring Me A Leaf From The Sea

You are right, Fred. I'll just shut up. Fred

Fred, why don't you just shut up? Fred

markfp2, Dang! What an idiot I am! I sent my complements to the wrong person!! LOL, I hate to admit this mistake.

sewhite2000, you are a wonderful and honorable person for confessing to your error. I hate to admit my errors.

This happens by accident sometimes, when a poster accidentally includes his new message in the quoted message box. But some people do manipulate quotes to make it seem like the original poster said something different. This can be done by removing certain sentences from the quote, by bolding certain words, and by cutting a few words out of quoted sentences. You should contact a moderator if this happens again.

Interesting, Swithin. Very unusual folk music.

Kay, I put the word “FOLK” in quotes because most recordings that are available on YouTube are songs written in the early 20th Century, but they were written in the old folk music style of America and Europe of the 19th Century and earlier. The Carter Family, for example, wrote new “folk” songs, but in the old Appalachian and bluegrass styles. The Carolina Tar Heels most likely heard very old folk music during their childhood, and that type was copied in the 19th Century from old European styles. I was surprised to learn that Cajun music is not just old French, but a mix of 18th and 19th Century English, Irish, Scottish, and French from Canada and the US. Here are some rare old recordings from THE HONKING DUCK: http://honkingduck.com/pub/listen-to-78s

In that photo, Rita and Orson look like average next-door neighbors!

Well, personally, I've always wanted to be Ashley Wilkes, and as honorable as him. Of course I would free all my slaves... after the War, of course. So, all my co-stars would be the ones in Gone With The Wind.

Kid, that's amazing! Every now and then I see on TCM a film that has two or three guys in it, and a couple of blonde girls, and they all look alike to me, and I have trouble following the plot of the film, since the two or three girls seem to be one, and they seem to be kissing the same-looking guys, yet they all have different names.