tomagain77 Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 Being a huge fan of Charles Coburn films, I was so psyched to finally see "The Captain Was A Lady" for the first time. I set my recorder because it was on in the middle of the night. To my unfortunate surprise, the movie paused around 40 mins into the film for around 2 minutes and then came back on with no sound for a couple minutes. I am 90 percent sure this was a TCM equipment problem and not my provider. So I beg of you TCM Programmer!!!!!!! Will you show it again asap?? Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrodor1 Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 TomaGain77 -- after i read what you wrote, i decided to check my tape for corruption. I looked through the whole 65-minutes at fast-forward and did not see any digital corruption-event that you described. Can you be even more specific about what was happening in the film at that point (and what image is frozen)? If so, I will check even in more careful detail. However, I'm surprised you assert that it was not likely caused by your local provider, especially if you have that bogus so-called "digital cable" like I have. That dang box "barely works"; I've seen so many digital artifacts, especially pixillization [sp.?]. I've definitely seen this "image frozen" syndrome many times, it's an artifact of ... weak-quality ... cable tv companies, me-thinks. In any case, I'm pretty dubious this fault was caused by TCM origination equipment; TCM has only one national feed (i think), so if your reception was corrupted and mine wasn't, and we taped at the same moment in time, it must have been your local provider. I'm on the West Coast; whereabouts is "Planet Tang"? Who's your provider (mine's Comcast). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lux0786 Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Tom, I've undergone a similar experience---though the fault is entirely mine. I passed over recording Intermezzo last night thinking I had it already in my collection not realizing (argh!) that the scheduled movie was the early Swedish version, not the Hollywood version. What a blow! I checked my inventory to see if I had your movie---alas, no. I was thinking we might do a trade like before. So now our programmer has two feverish requests---yours and mine. I'm not holding my breath (as I understand that schedules are made up far in advance. Still ...) ps Anyone who happened to record Intermezzo, the Swedish version, and who would be comfortable doing a tape to tape recording for me, I could return the favor with something that I have in my own library. I have a pretty extensive inventory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therealfuster Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 I watched this film when it was on recently with all the other Coburn ones, and it seemed okay all the way through. Unless I nodded off for the exact few minutes you mention...I guess that's possible. I hope TCM does show this film again though, as it was a cute one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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