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Topic: What Films did you show last night?
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Akshay Nanjangud
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 637
From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Nov 2011
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posted January 05, 2012 08:30 PM
Michael, of all that you state, Lombard's marital trajectory catches my immediate attention. When I was younger, I used to wonder why film actors had several marriages / relationships. Now, when I see some of them on screen create this great chemistry, I feel that the love shown on screen can't all be acting, can it?
Consider the scene where Lombard and Powell are doing the dishes. I, as a viewer, was falling in love with Lombard and my wife with Powell ![[Smile]](smile.gif) . Couldn't the actors be feeling this too?
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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted January 14, 2012 12:57 AM
Osi, While that is an interesting observation..I think the name may be more of a series name, where the main company like Christie / Educational / Hal Roach, etc would put out a bunch of different comedy series'. Sometimes they would be under a name like the lead comic, but other times would have names like Bullseye / Mermaid, etc...My guess is that Lucky Strike was the kid series, but if it was a "sponsored" series that would be a great topic for an article....But speaking of sponsorships, since I have been working on getting my portable 35mm up n running in the condo I figured this early 1930 safety film 35mm print (3 x 1000ft) I have would be a good testing print....They just don't make em like this anymore do they???? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I should add that this is a legitimate sales film, not a comedy....
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Martin Davey
Film Handler
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From: Southampton UK
Registered: Dec 2011
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posted January 15, 2012 10:25 AM
Last night I ran a number of silent films, most B/W.
On standard 8..
Charlie limbers up (50ft, charlie chaplin extract)
Man on the moon (100ft faded colour, daily express production!)
Thrills and spills (200ft, car crashes, circus acts etc)
Mouse Burglar (100ft glamour film)
The Iron Mule (200ft, first film I ever owned xmas 1979)
on super 8...
home movie of family (100ft colour)
Star Wars (200ft,about the 10th I film I owned)
I ran them on a Eumig 602D, which I had found during 2010. It was on a bench outside a cash converters (pawn) shop. I presume the previous owner tried to get some cash for it but was turned down. It worked perfectly, including the bulb!
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Gerald Santana
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From: Cottage Grove OR
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted January 16, 2012 02:00 PM
I had another good night with my film club screening The Lost World (1925) on 3 x 400' Regular 8mm reels. Everything was going smoothly until the 3rd reel had a bad jitter on my automatic machine then, I switched projectors.
That's the first time I ever had to do that with a print but, had to do it as 40 people were waiting for the conclusion. With no sweat, it only took two minutes to change and re-thread onto a manual Revere, not as bright as the automatic Sears Tower but it worked and concluded the show to applause.
Later, there were two other films to look at, Romeo and Juliet (1966) the ballet with Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev on 16mm. This features very exciting music and great choreography. I highly recommend it.
And finally, we got a chance to see the first reel of On the Waterfront (1954) on 16mm again before calling it a night. The print was very sharp with very good contrast and thought about what a good a job they did with the Columbia Classics digest on Super 8, in many ways it is just as good in quality.
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http://lostandoutofprintfilms.blogspot.com/
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