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    LAST DAY! ?THE TCM Programming Challenge: Take 5? with PRIZES

    in TCM Program Challenges Archive

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    Since so many pages have passed since this thread began on February 1, I just want to recap for newcomers and previous Challengers alike the instructions for the contest and in filling out your schedules:

     

    The TCM Programming Challenge is a fun-only contest for fans of TCM that was started here by fellow Message Board poster, path40a, in early 2006 as a great exercise for fans of TCM on the Message Board and is not sponsored by TCM. The contest will run from February 1st, until midnight PST on March 7th, 2007.

     

    In doing the Challenge, you imagine yourself to be the Turner Classic Movies' programmer and come up with one week of TCM programming.

     

    IMPORTANT: Your very best bet to seeing what schedules look like is to check out the links to all of the four previous TCM Programming Challenges.

     

     

    SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THIS NEW CHALLENGE:

     

    RULE #1: Your week will contain films generally regarded as the ?TCM Library?:

    Warner Bros - pre 1950

    MGM - all

    RKO - all

    PLUS since TCM has been expanding the number of studios they are presenting, you will be able to add films from these FIVE other studios:

    Monogram Pictures ? all

    Columbia Pictures ? all

    J. Arthur Rank ? all

    United Artists ? after 1950 only

    Walt Disney - live action films only

    You may also include films not included above if the films have previously scheduled on TCM. Please mark those as ?p/s? next to their title in your schedule.

     

    RULE #2: Since the title of this current Challenge is ?Take 5?, which is also a filmmaking expression, dedicate one evening of your schedule (5 films) to Hollywood.

    (If you don?t care for the Hollywood idea, then program instead one evening dedicated to the number ?Five?. For example, your theme could be ?Taking the Fifth? where you schedule five courtroom movies.?)

     

    RULE #3: As we have seen, TCM will help promote a new DVD boxset by having one evening where TCM showcases two or three titles from the set.

    Your assignment: a) Create an imaginary new DVD boxset containing 5 actual movies from the WB-pre 1950, MGM-all, and RKO-all library only (not the other five studios). All titles must be new to DVD. This imaginary boxset can be a continuation of a previous series, such as the Humphrey Bogart Signature Collection or you can create a brand new theme.

    B) One of your week?s scheduled evenings will showcase two or three of the titles, but not all five so people will still be tempted to buy it.

    c) List your boxset idea and the five titles after the end of the week?s schedule.

     

    Okay, now here is where I will loosen up on some requirements from previous Challenges.

    1. No Guest Programmer this time.

    2. You can program a serial on Saturday morning, but you don?t have to. It?s up to you.

    3. You have your choice of five ?Premieres? (films that haven?t been aired on TCM before). You have free reign to choose films which are not covered in Rule #1.

     

    Include these standard items of a TCM schedule:

    1. Star of the Month - their films can consume one evening (usually 3-4 movies)

    2. Have themes for each day (e.g., link at least two, or preferably four or five films). Check the links to previous schedules.

    3. Program in The Essentials at 8PM ET Saturday night, Cartoon Alley on Saturday at 11:30 AM ET, TCM Underground on Friday night/Saturday AM), Silent Sunday Night at approximately midnight, and TCM Imports immediately following Silent Sunday Night.

    4. The first day of your schedule will be Sunday morning, starting at 6AM ET, and the last day of your schedule will be Saturday night/Sunday AM. Each evening?s programs begins at 8 PM ET.

    5. Use tcmdb.com or imdb.com to get running times so that you don't exceed 24 hours per day of programming.

    6. Recognize actor's birthdays and/or do other unannounced tributes and film linkages during some of the days

     

    Also, include some notes after you have posted your complete schedule to explain your ideas.

     

    Here are links to previous Challenges. This will give you the idea of how to format your Week?s schedule. Also, in viewing this, you will see ideas that previous Challenge takers have chosen. Look at them to make sure your ideas have not been done in the past.

    1st Challenge:

    http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=78996&start=90#7788525

    2nd Challenge:

    http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=81972&start=45#7802360

    3rd Challenge:

    http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=89014&start=60#7840406

    4th Challenge:

    http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=92573&start=30#7859318

     

    Here are several links to help you select films from the following companies:

    RKO: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0041421/

    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0020206/

    Warner Bros./First National: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0026840/

    Rank: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0027356/

    United Artists (after 1950): http://www.imdb.com/company/co0026841/

    Columbia: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0071509/

    Walt Disney (live-action only): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_live_action_films

    Monogram Pictures: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0025996/

     

    PRIZES:

    There will be prizes for those receiving the most votes (voting is done by you, the members of this board).

    1. Turner Classic Movies is generously donating TCM t-shirts, hats, etc. (Thank you, TCM Programmer!)

    2. I am also going to provide DVDs (some are full-length movie serials) and other movie-related merchandise.

     

    Specific details of prizes will be provided at the conclusion of the contest.

     

    VOTING:

    On March 8th, 2007, a special thread for voting will be listed after the contest ends at midnight PST, March 7, 2007. You will be eligible to vote at that time if you are a message board member registered before February 1st, 2007 (in other words, January 31, 2007 or earlier). If you register after January 31, 2007 and enter a full week?s schedule before the contest closes on March 7th, you will be entitled to vote.

     

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    You call that a classic?

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    It's amazing to me that a thread like this can still get people inserting their same opinions that have been in multiple other threads recently. But not so surprising is the fighting starts up again.

     

    Doesn't anyone else notice these trouble threads are always started by someone who just starts the fire and then never reappears? I mean, here we are, three pages into it and never a peep from this dirk character since the first. I think instead of calling him a troll, we'll call him ?the arsonist,? because he starts fires and takes off, while the destruction tears aparts everything again.

     

    I just did a little checking: Though under different screennames, first-time posters worked it by starting threads with a header designed like this one to get the feud going again. Here we have "You call that a classic?", posted by Dirk on his first registered day. Total posts to date by Dirk, all in this thread: 1. Number of replies by others: 39.

     

    Before now, we have had:

     

    "TCM Sells Out - Pan & Scan - Quiller Memorandum", posted by Ham Dog on his first registered day. Total posts by Ham Dog to date, all in that thread: 2. Number of replies by others: 15.

     

     

    ?Will anything stop the destruction of Turner Classic Movies??, posted by jcd on his first registered day. Total posts by jcd to date, all in that thread: 4. Number of replies by others: 105.

     

    Then the two threads started by davidff: ?Tipsy Robert Osborne? and ?the lush is back tonight?. The ?tipsy? thread was started on his first registered day. Total posts by davidff: 12, and all in those two threads. Number of replies by others: 49 and 11, respectively.

     

    When will we learn to ignore posts with headers made of T-N-T? It only leads to the uncivil war starting up again.

    Should silents be shown if they don't have a score?

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    I was watching the opening introduction to "The Show" and Robert Osborne said it was a film that has just been sitting on the shelf because it didn't have a score.

     

    It made me wonder how many other possible treasures there might be that are delayed until a score is created.

     

    I feel that rare silents can be shown even if there isn't a score. While the score can benefit the film, the movie should still be able to sustain our interest without it. (I think in the case of sound films that a score, done well, is integral to the movie's pacing and feeling.)

     

    What do others think? Would you like TCM to show rare silents even if there is no score?

    Upcoming Releases

    in Classic Film DVD Reviews

    Posted

    I just noted a Circuit City flyer special on the new individual release James Bond Ultimate Editions of Goldfinger, Thunderball, For Your Eyes Only, License to Kill, Spy Who Loved Me, and Goldeneye at $7.99 each when you buy two. Boy, can't beat that price.

    Sin City

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    And I feel, if we are using a 4 star rating system, that I would give it 3 or 3 1/2. Sometimes visual style can make a film like this entirely worth watching. While Tron, when it came out, I would only give 1/2 star at most.

    Special Sales of Classic Titles on DVD & Blu-ray

    in Classic Film DVD Reviews

    Posted

    I was in Costco this weekend and they have the Hitchcock Signature Collection, the Doris Day Collection, The Tennessee Williams Collection, and The Chaplin Collection vol.1 on sale for $42.99 each. Those are great savings, especially the Hitchcock set (regularly $99.98). They also have the 2-DVD sets of Casablanca, The Philadelphia Story, and My Fair Lady at $8.99 each.

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