rohanaka Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Great screencaps my little Oklahoma Kid... ha. I LOVE the top one where he is sitting there in that chair..... sigh (the bottom few... VERY hard to watch... that whole fight was TOO much fight for me... ha. (I know... and I call myself a PEACEMAKER...ha) Link to post Share on other sites
JackFavell Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Sorry, Roro! I thought that might be a little harsh..... I didn't post the most vicious closeups... or the part where Ben is knocked senseless....cause I didn't want to upset anyone.... Here's the antidote (from *Wagon Master* ): "Sandy....." "I'm a goin' courtin'." "Sure hope I see you again,Miss Denver." "Don't bank on it. We move around. In a medicine show, you have to to keep healthy." "You move a lot in tradin' horses, too." "Good thing about it, though...... ......you get to know a lot of country." "Like a valley I got in mind." A man could make an awful nice cattle ranch in that valley...." "If he didn't mind bein' lonesome...." "And he had someone to kinda help him with the cookin' and such." "Goodbye, fella." Link to post Share on other sites
HollywoodGolightly Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Awesome screencaps, Wendy. I love the way they look together. :x Link to post Share on other sites
rohanaka Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Here's the antidote (from Wagon Master ): Aw Shucks, Ma'am!! :-) Link to post Share on other sites
JackFavell Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Joanna Dru's finest moment. That is the scene that made me fall hard for Wagon Master and for Ben Johnson. The whole thing is beautiful..... HE'S beautiful..... and I cried twice posting those caps. (Yes, I had to post them TWICE, because the $%^ message boards deleted them after I got done the first time, and no draft was saved. GRRRRR.) Link to post Share on other sites
JackFavell Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Cinemafan- I found this little article about Selig studios in Edendale..... I thought of you when I saw it. It adds a little to the other information about Edendale, and about Selig studios which produced many early westerns including the Tom Mix pictures. Without Selig, Fat Jones would not have made a name for himself training and renting horses to the studios, and Ben would probably never have come to Hollywood. There is also a story on the death and funeral of Lewis Stone, scroll down below that to get to the Selig Studios article. http://blog.allanellenberger.com/tag/thomas-ince/ Link to post Share on other sites
JackFavell Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 When it rains it pours! I just found this photo postcard. This is Ben Johnson _Senior_ : Link to post Share on other sites
MissGoddess Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Amazing photograph. That's what's known as sticking like a burr to the horse. Link to post Share on other sites
HollywoodGolightly Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 > {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > I just found this photo postcard. This is Ben Johnson _Senior_ : > > Ah, I see. It runs in the family... heck, it practically gallops ! Link to post Share on other sites
cinemafan Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Great find, JackF! We are getting quite a collection here. I am working on a few more things to add, from books I got from the library. I found this online, courtesy *Tulsa World.* It has some nice insight on his life. *Actor Buried Near Pawhuska* By Staff Reports Published: 4/15/1996 Last Modified: 2/27/2007 8:35 AM PAWHUSKA (AP) -- Ben Johnson's hometown friends remembered him as a genuine cowboy unchanged by Hollywood fame as they laid him to rest Sunday next his wife on the prairie where he grew up riding and roping. More than 400 mourners gathered under sunny skies at a cemetery near this small northeastern Oklahoma town to honor the Oscar-winning actor they knew by the nickname, "Son." "He was not a movie star. He was Ben Johnson and that is why this man was great," said Clem McSpadden, a former Oklahoma congressman who befriended Johnson during his days as a champion rodeo performer. The star of more than 300 films, mostly Westerns, died Monday of an apparent heart attack in Mesa, Ariz., at age 77. About 500 people attended his funeral Thursday in Mesa. Strong winds whipped the canopy where Johnson's family gathered in front of a daisy- and carnation-covered casket Sunday for a final goodbye. Several men clutched their cowboy hats to their chests as a single fiddle sounded the twanging notes of "Just a Closer Walk With Thee." Many of the mourners grew up with Johnson and said he stayed true to his Oklahoma roots. Johnson got his first big break in 1939. He drove a load of horses by truck to California for use in "The Outlaw" and was hired as the film's horse wrangler. He was working as a double and stuntman when he was discovered by director John Ford, who cast him as a cavalry sergeant in two of his films and gave him the starring role in "The Wagon Master." But it was a non-Western that brought Johnson an Academy Award in 1971. He won best supporting actor for his role as a poolroom operator in "The Last Picture Show." Johnson was born in nearby Foraker and was reared on the Chapman-Bernard Ranch. He won a World Champion Cowboy title in 1953 and returned regularly to Oklahoma for the Ben Johnson Celebrity Rodeo he started in 1985 to raise money to benefit Children's Medical Research Inc. Johnson was buried next to his wife of 54 years, Carol, who died in 1994. He is survived by his 95-year-old mother, Ollie Rider, a sister, two nephews and a niece. By Staff Reports Link to post Share on other sites
JackFavell Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 >About 500+ people attended his funeral Thursday in Mesa. Strong winds whipped the canopy where Johnson's family gathered in front of a daisy- and carnation-covered casket Sunday for a final goodbye. Several men clutched their cowboy hats to their chests as a single fiddle sounded the twanging notes of "Just a Closer Walk With Thee." Wow. I am first of all impressed that he had 500 hundred people at his funeral, and secondly by how very Fordian it all sounds. I am too emotional today to read this stuff....it makes me choke up. Link to post Share on other sites
cinemafan Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Let's lighten things up here a bit. Here's a poster for one of Ben's charity rodeos. It's a little muddy, but here it is. Link to post Share on other sites
JackFavell Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I like the art work on that poster.... looks like Ben handing the reigns over to a little buckeroo.... Link to post Share on other sites
MissGoddess Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Howdy, MissFavell, I mean Johnson. I made this little animation for you out of the screencaps you posted a while back. enjoy! Link to post Share on other sites
JackFavell Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 OH MY GOD! YOU MADE THAT? I am really really impressed! That's awesome! I wish I had it on a continual loop on a tiny screen I could carry with me everywhere..... I need it in front of my eyes at all times. Wait. they probably do make something like that nowadays......just shows you how behind the times I am... Anyway, it's beeyootiful....I'll just have a wee drop in your honor... Link to post Share on other sites
rohanaka Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I made this little animation Good Golly, girl!!!! That is flat out amazing!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
JackFavell Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I've just been staring at the little Ben animation thingy all morning..... it's mesmerizing....... Ben......... I am in your power.......... Link to post Share on other sites
MissGoddess Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 It really wasn't that tough to do once I figured out the easiest way to do it. Your screencaps were perfect because they were in sequence and they didn't have subtitles, as most of mine do. I'm going to keep practicing. Link to post Share on other sites
JackFavell Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I can't seem to post pictures with the subtitles. I can capture them with the subtitles on, then when I go to look at them --- surprise! No subtitles. I think they must be on a different layer from the actual photos, but I haven't figured out how to drop them onto the picture permanently. Or maybe I am just a ditz.....yeah. That's it.... Link to post Share on other sites
MissGoddess Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Hi Miss Favell! How do you "take" the capture in the first place---do you use Printscreen and then paste the image into a photoeditor, like Windows Paint? That's very odd that it would not show the subtitles.... Link to post Share on other sites
JackFavell Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I have a player in my computer called VLC Media Player. It has a drop down screen for turning on and off subtitles, and a drop down screen for taking "snapshots". I can turn on the subtitles, and then I click snapshots, and voila! screen caps. Just not with subtitles.....I keep thinking one day I will figure it out.... but so far, I'm stymied. The only thing I can think of is that the drop down screen for subtitles says "subtitle track, so I think maybe it is pasted over the top of the original picture somehow.. Message was edited by: JackFavell Link to post Share on other sites
MissGoddess Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Oooh...well, I used Windows Media Player so it's a different process I guess. Yours sounds easier, though. I have to take a few "steps" and I've scaled back considerably doing them at all since they mandated this magic number of "600" for posting pictures. My default is "640" and I don't have the time to take the further steps necessary to bring it down 40 notches, ha! So, no screencaps from me except on occasion (which some will be delighted by, no doubt!) Link to post Share on other sites
FrankGrimes Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I couldn't take caps with subs with VLC, either, Jackie. It's the same with Power DVD for me, too. This is why I use Windows Media Player. However, in terms of image, I think Power DVD is easily the best and VLC is also better than WMP. Awesome animation, Miss G. I didn't know you were that talented. Link to post Share on other sites
MissGoddess Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 > {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote} > I couldn't take caps with subs with VLC, either, Jackie. It's the same with Power DVD > for me, too. This is why I use Windows Media Player. However, in terms of > image, I think Power DVD is easily the best and VLC is also better than WMP. > > Awesome animation, Miss G. I didn't know you were that talented. Is that a PERSONAL ATTACK? TCM Mod Squad! TCM Mod Squad! It's NOT fair to edit MY post and NOT his!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is this place coming to! Link to post Share on other sites
JackFavell Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Don't tell anyone, but I keep posting at 640.... no one seems to have noticed. Until now. I'm sure someone will turn fink..... Link to post Share on other sites
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