Richard Kimble Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 Ad in Theater Arts magazine, c. 1943: Dashing young Herschel Daugherty (Is he wearing a plaid ascot with a checkered shirt? Fashion faux pas!) acted in a few films, but found his greatest success as a TV director in the '60s. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0202297/reference Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Kimble Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 Thriller, season 1 episode 7, "The Purple Room": Link to post Share on other sites
traceyk65 Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 I remember those Prell commercials in the 70's (or maybe late 60's?) when I was a kid...the one where they dropped a pearl into the bottle of shampoo to show how thick it was? I was comstantly dropping beads and small pebbles in our shampoo to watch them sink--my mother wanted to kill me! LOL Link to post Share on other sites
FredCDobbs Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 "Well, just who in the @*#%(#& do you think you are, Clark?? Superman??" 1 Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 "I Love Lucy" behind the scenes. Rare views of the audience You can see why her TV series are so razor sharp, they were filmed with Hollywood 35mm cameras. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppIl1P68FPo Link to post Share on other sites
Movie Collector OH Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Wow, I'm really digging those pictures of I Love Lucy. I had thought that they used two different sets of cameras, but I guess not, or maybe they just did that very early on. Here is a production shot I found on the net of Metropolis (1927). Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Kimble Posted March 14, 2015 Author Share Posted March 14, 2015 In 1910 Carl Laemmle's struggling IMP studio lured "The Biograph Girl" (contract players were not billed under their real names, as then they might demand big money) to his company and publicized her under her name, Florence Lawrence, making her the world's first movie star. To get even more publicity Laemmle started a rumor that Lawrence had been killed in a streetcar accident, which he "refuted" in this ad. Link to post Share on other sites
FredCDobbs Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 "I Love Lucy" behind the scenes. The story I read years ago said that it was Desi’s idea to shoot the show with three film cameras instead of doing it live with three TV cameras and making a low-quality kinescope for recording the show. I think he offered to pay the extra expense himself if he and Lucy could wind up owning all the film. So, he was thinking well ahead of time about “re-runs” of the show syndicated on TV, and this is why their re-runs are very high quality and on film, rather than a fuzzy kinescope. (A kinescope is a film made by a camera photographing a live TV screen, and the kinescope conversion from a TV image to a film image is always fuzzy.) Desi's direct to film system is supposed to have made Desi and Lucy rich and was the beginning of their own TV/film company, Desilu Productions. Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 The story I read years ago said that it was Desi’s idea to shoot the show with three film cameras instead of doing it live with three TV cameras and making a low-quality kinescope for recording the show. Desi's direct to film system is supposed to have made Desi and Lucy rich and was the beginning of their own TV/film company, Desilu Productions. Exactly, Desi was brilliant! Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Kimble Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share Posted March 15, 2015 Charlie Chaplin sweeps up in A Countess From Hong Kong: Originally the last shot of the film, this bit was cut after ACFHK's disastrous premiere and has not been seen since. Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Bowman...... Who designed this upside down house? Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 The movie Freaks was based on these performers. From a 1934 photo of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey sideshow performers Link to post Share on other sites
mockingbird66 Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 The movie Freaks was based on these performers. From a 1934 photo of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey sideshow performers Great picture, Kid. I like the movie. I guess I can understand that people weren't ready for it back then. I've often wondered where he found the elongated head people. Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Great picture, Kid. I like the movie. I guess I can understand that people weren't ready for it back then. I've often wondered where he found the elongated head people. I believe some were born with this feature, but I don't know if they came from the general public or a specific region. There were Mexico peoples who would wrap twine around a newborn's head to create the elongated head feature. They would rewrap as the child grew to accomodate the size - but always open at the top to promote elongation in that direction. May have been Mayans who practiced this. Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 I believe some were born with this feature, but I don't know if they came from the general public or a specific region. There were Mexico peoples who would wrap twine around a newborn's head to create the elongated head feature. They would rewrap as the child grew to accomodate the size - but always open at the top to promote elongation in that direction. May have been Mayans who practiced this. Someone need to tell Giorgio A. Tsoukalos that! The Manbetu people of central Africa use to practice that until it died out around the 1950's Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Kimble Posted March 21, 2015 Author Share Posted March 21, 2015 Robert Mitchum visits the set of Carmen Jones. L-R: Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Mitchum, Otto Preminger. Link to post Share on other sites
MilesArcher Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Here are three young fellows who called themselves The Quarreymen. They were looking for a drummer. I wonder whatever became of them. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Here are three young fellows who called themselves The Quarreymen. They were looking for a drummer. I wonder whatever became of them. That group was formed by John Lennon which evolved into the Beatles. Link to post Share on other sites
JamesJazGuitar Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 That group was formed by John Lennon which evolved into the Beatles. Never heard of them! (come on did you really think no one knew who these lads were!). I have a guitar that looks very similar to the one George playing. I wonder what make it is (mine is a Gibson L7 but I don't think that one is a Gibson). Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Never heard of them! (come on did you really think no one knew who these lads were!). I have a guitar that looks very similar to the one George playing. I wonder what make it is (mine is a Gibson L7 but I don't think that one is a Gibson). James, that's a Höfner President Acoustic. Link to post Share on other sites
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