FredCDobbs

For those who like old commercial folk song recordings, here are two very rare ones about the murder of 13 year old Mary Phagan in the deep South in 1913. This is an extremely controversial story, and you can learn more about it by doing a search of Mary’s name. The tie-in with movies is that this is the incident on which the 1937 film “They Won’t Forget” is based. Note that the Vernon Dalhart version does not mention the name of the man convicted of the crime. He was lynched after his trial in 1915. In the movie, the convicted white man has a different name, and is referred to only as “a New Yorker”. Moonshine Kate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXL-q-k_P5s Vernon Dalhart, different version, he removed Leo Frank’s name: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRPY6mnJ3Kw The text, Ballad of Mary Phagan, by Franklyn Bliss Snyder http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/frank/frankballad.html

Kitty Wells - Heartaches By The Number http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXL2ogLYI20 Kitty Wells,Release Me,1954

Kitty Wells Gene Autry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnZOQRPJZc

My Favorite Brunette 1947 Bob Hope is a photographer. He tries to get the Chinese kid to smile, but the kid bites his finger.

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE 1945

onomatopoeia?

That’s what I was taught in high school too, but that was back in the days of typewriters, and typewriters didn’t have any italic keys, so the underline method was used in typed manuscripts to indicate a book title, movie title, song title, etc., and the final newspaper and book typesetters could translate the underlined manuscript text into italics for final publication.

I think this might be the original 1938 version of GODZILLA.

MLA and other text guidelines are generally for the old print media of newspapers and magazines, You know, the stuff we read back in the 19th Century. The main TCM dot COM webpage uses different formats on the same page, but in different sections of the same page, such as ALL CAPS and BOLD, or upper and lower case, such as Gone With The Wind. Sometimes I see upper and lower case and BOLD, such as on the SCHEDULE page. The formats are standardized in each page section, but they vary from section to section. For our message board headlines and general post text, just make it clear that you are mentioning a movie title inside a headline or sentence, such as "Did you like GONE WITH THE WIND?" or "Did you like Gone With The Wind?" You would not want to say "Did you like gone with the wind?" Oh, and PS: An underline in computer text is often a HOT LINK and is not the same as an underline in an old newspaper.

Ahh, I remember that day well.... It was September 29, 1960, the day the Jefferson Davis Middle School Principal announced to the kids that their school was being desegregated by Federal Court Order.

I just saw a preview clip on YouTube. Looks creepy to me. Reminds me of those two 12 year old girls who stabbed another 12 year old girl a few days ago, because of some computer fantasy character. Disney cartoons weren't so creepy when I was a kid.

That was because films (and especially sound films) were still very new back then, and most people lived in rural areas and millions of them were not yet familiar with the "play acting" concept of films. Many people who went to see their first films (even many adults), thought the films were of real people doing real things. A phenomenon something like the Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" broadcast in 1938. The people who fell for it did not notice the "time compression" phenomenon that was built into the script. The broadcast was less than one hour, yet the events in the radio play covered several days, which many people did not notice. We are faced with something similar today: YouTube hoaxes that are made up of computer-generated fake video, such as people who seem to be hit by cars, the airplane that seemed to land ok after one wing fell off, etc.

The Lifeboat The Silver Chief The Stagecoach The Wind The Titanic The Forbidden Planet

See my PM.

Looks like GLORIA JEAN to me.

Cyrano de Bergerac 1950

Is this him in BORDER INCIDENT?

PINKY

LOL, I'm beginning to think this is the famous FEMA film, "How to Shelter In Place".

Kid, I hope you don't mind if I post some comments. I usually don't watch these types of films, so I'm usually not familiar with them. However, some of your photos contain visual clues, just enough so that I can recall seeing film clips from this movie on TV. Just a few seconds, but many times over the years. It is a famous film. But the oddest thing, for me, is that I noticed a kind of "fog" of the image, a photographic negative fog, in other words, a bad print from a bad negative. I've never seen a good print of this film. Also, there is another very valuable clue that should eventually become obvious to everyone. Anyway, I'm going to disqualify myself again. You sure fooled me with the Pygmalion film.

bansi4: A true story from old Hollywood newspaper files: In the early days of William Boyd’s career, in the 1920s, he played a handsome young leading man, before he became a cowboy star. Another older Broadway actor named William Boyd started making movies back in the 1930s too, and they both used the same name. However, the older Boyd kept getting arrested for public drunkenness, and one time the younger William Boyd’s photos turned up in newspapers, in error, as “the” William Boyd who had been arrested for public drunkenness. The younger Boyd we all know threatened a lawsuit because of the error and was able to testify before a judge, causing the judge to issue an order that the drunken Boyd always be henceforth identified in movie credits as William “Stage” Boyd, since he had been a Broadway actor. So that is why we see the William “Stage” Boyd’s name in credits in movies that were made in the later 1930s. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_%22Stage%22_Boyd

Good for him!

Kid, this is a good one! Don't give up on us. We are still working on it.

Thanks. I went back and put a Spoiler Alert on my post. I still don't understand the ending of the film.