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Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on October 05, 2014, 12:26 PM:
I took this picture Friday night at a local store.
My greatest hope is the way things have been going they aren't actually getting ready for Christmas 2015!
(C'mon guys! It was 74 degrees the other day. I'm still cutting my lawn!)
Unseasonal Seasons Greetings to ALL!!!
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on October 05, 2014, 12:52 PM:
When I was a kid, Christmas started two weeks before the 24th December. Now, it starts two months before !
Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on October 05, 2014, 12:59 PM:
My local Tesco store has had Christmassy stuff in for about 4 weeks. At least they aren't playing the music yet.
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on October 05, 2014, 01:05 PM:
It's still true:
"Christmas comes but once a year"
What they didn't tell you is it's become about 6 months long!
What was it that Scrooge said?
"I shall keep the spirit of Christmas in my heart all the year long,"
-maybe he started this!
(Although the true spirit of Christmas...maybe not so much!)
Posted by Mark Mander (Member # 340) on October 05, 2014, 02:47 PM:
Last week I was listening to the radio and one of the contestants of the music quiz said he'd had his first Christmas card, I thought at the time you've got to be joking! !! Mark
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on October 05, 2014, 02:52 PM:
I wonder if its my age thing, but I see it as nothing more than a time for stores to make lots of money and for many folk, to get into debt that they simply cant afford.
Its not in my view, what Christmas is all about, but that's what it has become lots and lots of humbug ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Graham ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on October 05, 2014, 03:41 PM:
It's not an age thing Graham, it's become exactly that.
Thing is the real spirit of the holiday is a chance to just stop and appreciate all that's truly good in life among the people you love. It's so easily lost in the hysteria these days.
This store sells a particularly annoying string of tree lighting that when you push a button it plays this over the top electronic "Jingle Bells" and flashes in rhythm to it.
-every year, just around the first weekend in December my son and I walk up to the shelves, push about 80 buttons and run for the paint department about as fast as we can when we're almost doubled over laughing.
You see, it's the traditions that become special memories!
Posted by Clay Smith (Member # 4122) on October 05, 2014, 03:41 PM:
From Stan Freberg, one of the great American satirists. My Dad (who was a big fan) brought this 45 record home one day and over the years it became one of my favorite all time Christmas records. It's funny how you pick up your life lessons as a child. So I guess Graham, your sentiments regarding the over commercialisation of Christmas at least date back to 1958. And probably further. Too bad the message wasn't loud enough but I'd like to think we're getting there a little.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5IXlfJSEi4
Posted by Doug Thompson (Member # 3381) on October 05, 2014, 03:59 PM:
Clay, you beat me to it. I understand that some advertisers at that time didn't want their spots run within fifteen minutes of that record.
But, here's another song along the same lines.
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on October 05, 2014, 04:01 PM:
This is the classical French Christmas song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2ZmTMzN5NY
Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on October 06, 2014, 12:10 PM:
OK, folks might hate me (or laugh at me), but we put up our tree (fake, but decent looking) already, but for a very good reason.
We were shooting (I and my family), a brand new video for a new Christmas Rock N Roll song for this year and after we filmed it, well, heck, I just like seeing that thing lit up!
Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on October 06, 2014, 12:53 PM:
They were putting the Christmas lights up in the market street in Loughborough Leicestershire last night - today it poured with rain.
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on October 06, 2014, 02:49 PM:
Now that's a good tradition Steve ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Enjoyed watching those you-tube video's
here is another you-tube video folk might like. It was made locally by a NZ primary school...its well done and called "The Christmas Story"
http://youtu.be/zduwusyip8M
Graham.
Posted by Clay Smith (Member # 4122) on October 06, 2014, 03:47 PM:
Nice version of the Christmas Story, really terrific.
Thanks for that Graham.
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on November 30, 2014, 01:34 AM:
Glad you enjoyed the video Clay....the kids in it were very natural.
Well we are well and truly into the hole Christmas thing ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
...what to buy...what not to buy...bla bla humbug...anyway will be running some Super 8 film. Apart from the usual stuff, hope to watch the Super8 feature "Its a Wonderful Life"...my kind of film
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on November 30, 2014, 10:16 PM:
Seems I've opened the first gift of Christmas!
-tonight, not a creature was stirring, so I decided to enjoy a couple of reels.
Projectors: Energized
Screen: Down
Amp: Enabled
About 10 seconds into the first reel this spectacular ground loop hum filled the room (and the house!). I powered down the amp, yanked the plug from the jack and ran on the projector's internal speaker to finish that reel.
I started swapping components in and out at the projector end: no matter what I did, it kept coming back!
I went back to the stereo and found the audio cable had been yanked taut when we laid the train tracks under the Christmas Tree and it was just barely plugged in the jack on my interface: I was losing ground!
Re-routed the cable under the railroad to gain some slack, reseated the plug, and then ran the second reel with the stereo.
All is calm,
All is bright!
(BAH.....!)
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 02, 2014, 01:33 AM:
My daughter and grandkids called round tonight for tea and I was asked to screen "A Walt Disney Christmas"...my daughter says its a Christmas tradition to put that one on.
Well its been a while since I last ran the GS1200 and knowing how reliable those projectors are especially one that's been sitting around I expected the worst.
To my surprise a minor miracle happened....the GS1200 actually ran perfect ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 02, 2014, 10:48 AM:
We are now rounding up the Christmas reels: so many of them wait on the shelf eleven months of the year, it's just their time.
The Small One
A Walt Disney Christmas
Mister and Mistletoe (Popeye)
The Littlest Angel
Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper
Plus when I was a teenager, Mom and Dad subsidized me for a couple of rolls of Ektachrome 160 this time of the year so there would be a Christmas film. I have several of these, still in great shape.
Given all the Mutual Destruction, should "Big Business" really count as a Christmas film?
-it's more in the Black Friday spirit!
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 02, 2014, 11:45 AM:
Steve
The Derann print of "The Snowman" is really worth getting your hands on, if you haven't already got one.
Graham.
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 02, 2014, 12:08 PM:
Let's not forget "a Train for Christmas" even if all that's Christmas about it is the title!
I have a very brief Derann short which is snow-people sitting down in a snow-theater to see a (snow?) movie.
Is your "Snowman" something different?
There is a great Hans Fischerkoesen cartoon called "Der Schneeman" where a snowman hides out in a freezer so he can (briefly) experience summer. I'd love to have this on film.
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 02, 2014, 06:20 PM:
This is the one Steve...you can get prints with either a mono or stereo track.
Posted by Clay Smith (Member # 4122) on December 02, 2014, 07:41 PM:
Graham,
I obtained a copy of It's A Wonderful Life earlier this year, we also are going to watch, probably Christmas Eve.
- Clay
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 06, 2014, 01:34 AM:
Clay...we will be doing a similar thing
We were is a store a few days ago and they started playing loudly Snoopy's "Christmas" VS the Red Baron...noooooo "NOT AGAIN" a wee voice in my head said... you have "GOT" to get out of here...where is the exit
On a more serious note, on the school run the other day one kid we transport came up to me smiling, and handed me an envelope with my name on it. In it was a Christmas card he himself had taken the time to make. What made this special, was that last year this kid who was 12 or 13 "in foster care" at the time had assaulted another driver and as such the police took him away.
I myself have had no problems at all, in fact I have got him helping others. Although Christmas is about families getting together, sometimes things out there are not that great for some, and that in itself makes you realize how lucky we really are.
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on January 03, 2015, 12:02 AM:
Just when you thought it was safe to go to the store!
(Aren't we supposed to have Lent first?!!)
Taken New Years Day at a local Supermarket.
Happy Arbor Day (2027) Everyone!
Posted by Trevor Adams (Member # 42) on January 03, 2015, 03:31 AM:
Don't know how many hundreds of times I've seen Chevy Chase's Nat.Lampoon Xmas but it still gives me a laugh!
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on January 03, 2015, 04:31 AM:
It's a cell phone thing!
I took it with my phone, brought it into the PC and found it capsized, flipped it, and now it's right side up on a computer but inverted when a phone sees it.
Somehow a phone knows what's "up"!!
Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on January 03, 2015, 08:57 AM:
Steve, probably leftover inventory from last Easter. You know when the Lenten season is drawing to a close when the Cadbury Chocolate Bunny makes his appearance on store shelves.
Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on January 03, 2015, 11:46 AM:
Tesco had them in store on the 26th. On the 23rd all the Christmas stuff was discounted. Funny thing is that the Christmas stuff like mince pies comes in that early its out of date before the event.
Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on January 03, 2015, 01:25 PM:
Trevor ...
That film ranks right up there with "It's A Wonderful LIfe" and the 1984 "A Christmas Carol" in my book!
There are so many very well executed jokes in there. One of the best is somewhat "subliminal", when we see a shot of each family member, as they hear the doorbell, but notice that with each successive ring of the doorbell it's gets lower in modulation, until we get the shot of the front door and the bickering relatives outside, and that lovely low end GONG, on the soundtrack! Just one of many great moments!
... and how many blasted relatives are as much of an "arse-hole" as the one who, after poor Clark goes through sheer hell to get the lights working, his father in law, instead of praising his hard work, says ...
"The little lights aren't blinking!"
How many of us have just wanted to haul off and punch those kind of relatives in they're yuletide face?!!
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on January 03, 2015, 02:13 PM:
Is it possible they are moving on last years old stock stock due to the shelf life expiry date coming up?
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on January 03, 2015, 02:15 PM:
About twenty years ago I figured out the difference between relatives and family (1), did some sorting out and have had a much happier life ever since!
(1) Just because we share some DNA, I am not obligated to put up with your crap!
Maybe they are moving out the old Bunnies and Eggs before the new stuff shows up, but the idea of Easter Candy the week of Epiphany is just plain disturbing!
Isn't life moving too fast regardless?
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on January 03, 2015, 05:25 PM:
Life if just a single frame of film but its travelling at 24 frames per second ....I remember leaving school as soon as I was 15 years old starting my first job, last week I turned 63 years old....what happened
Anyway regarding the subject of families and friends, watch the movie "Kotch" starring the brilliant Walter Matthau and directed by Jack Lemmon. Although it was made way back in 1971, pretty much sums things up and so true to life. If you have never watched "Kotch" then hire out the dvd, its really really good
Posted by Joe Vannicola (Member # 4156) on January 03, 2015, 10:46 PM:
You're right ,Graham, Kotch is a good movie. I have it in 16mm. Jack Lemmon should have gone on to direct other movies. His staging and editing of certain scenes shows he had a directors eye.
Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on January 04, 2015, 10:05 AM:
When I was a little boy, still am - Shorty
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