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Topic: What Films did you show last night?
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Melvin England
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 707
From: Hull, East Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Feb 2016
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posted November 23, 2019 05:13 PM
This evening, Saturday 23rd, was my first serious film night since last week's wonderful Blackpool convention.
Those who attended the Saturday dinner will appreciate the fact that the first film I screened this evening was the 5x 600' Sylvester Stallone classic "Rocky."
That was followed by a viewing of another film from Blackpool, the 7x 400' Easter Parade.
As you can see, quite a session!
Tonight's viewing of Rocky clearly demonstrated to me why I am into this hobby so much. I had only seen this film once before, on dvd on a moderately sized TV screen. My opinion was that it was just an "okay" film. After watching it tonight on a 5 1/2 foot wide screen and being able to study the character build up a little better, together with being immersed in the action a lot more, it had a far bigger impact and I can now understand how it got its Oscar.
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Melvin England
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 707
From: Hull, East Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Feb 2016
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posted November 25, 2019 02:17 PM
It is a very uplifting feeling when, after a morning of doing chores together, getting the shopping in etc. I settle down at lunch time with my wife for a snack, and she suddenly blurts out "Do you fancy a film show this afternoon?" (Do I want a film show? A question in this household where the word "no" is not an option)
So, this afternoon, totally unexpected, totally unplanned, we sat back to watch a super 8 feast which consisted of the following...
6x 400' The Lady With The Lamp - Anna Neagle as Florence Nightingale. Nice sharp print and good sound.
1x 400' Divot Diggers starring The Little Rascals. This was the copy shown at Blackpool on the Saturday that was subsequently picked up by me on the Bring and Buy... and had only a few days before been brought from the States by a certain American gentleman! Nice Blackhawk print.
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Dominique De Bast
Film God
Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted November 28, 2019 04:56 AM
These last days (but I was too lazy to write before) : Cecil Theatre (quoted from the box : "A newsreel type short showing the cinema goer around the inside of this new cinema, its projection box and in general, how a cinema works"), black and white, looks like from the '60s. Buddy's Theater, a (Warner Bross) 1935 cartoon, the theater is in this case a cinema. Cine Ads 11, a Derann release shown at Blackpool, needles to say good print. Americas Natures Playgroung (quoted, again, from the box : "Niagara Falls, one of the seven wonders of the world opens this terrific travelogue including the Rocky Mountains, Yellowstone Park, Grand Canyon and much more"). An American In Paris trailer. Calypso Cruise, a scope documentary released by Derann, not bad but the original negative was far to be perfect. Two (MGM) scope cartoons : One Droopy Night and Southbound Duckling (Tom and Jerry), both still have good colours, which was not obvious when I Filmguarded them so it was a good surprise. Battlestar Gallactica, an uncomplete (the end is missing and I don't remember where I got it) digest, colours are fading.
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