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Joe Caruso
Film God
Posts: 4105
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted January 08, 2018 10:42 AM
No, not at all - Here, films are repeated, yet they are also categorized; Noir, as example runs Sunday nights and many films are 1st-runners - Particular month/year will highlight a certain director or actor, perhaps celebrating a milestone birthday and so forth - I have written repeated requests for the same films, and certainly every one was eventually hauled out of the vault, for this I'm grateful - We do have documentaries on shorts, newreels, foreign productions and the such - Teasers, bumpers and unusual films are interspersed between some showings, making it almost a "Bijou" feel at best - I envy your BBC Channel 1, I think, as they used to air RKO shorts for a time, maybe they still do? - Cheers, Shorty
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Allan Broadfield
Master Film Handler
Posts: 452
From: Bromley, Kent
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted January 08, 2018 04:04 PM
I think you've confirmed that TCM is quite different across the pond. While the BBC does run fairly regular 'classic' features, it's usually from the same group of titles. Over the christmas period, the arts channel have run some very interesting documentaries on Chaplin, Keaton, and Laurel and Hardy, and the Talking Pictures channel runs many titles that started out as 'Quota quickies' in the thirties, films shot cheaply during the night on existing sets, to offset what the government considered a flood of American films. Another interesting feature of the Talking pictures channel are amateur films and even package movies! [ January 08, 2018, 05:18 PM: Message edited by: Allan Broadfield ]
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