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Topic: Why populat tv programmes?
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Allan Broadfield
Master Film Handler
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From: Bromley, Kent
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted June 07, 2018 02:13 PM
As with most of the enthusiasts in these columns, if i could afford it, I would love to have film copies of my favourite movies, as opposed to DVD's and the like.
However, at the risk of committing blasphemy and possibly being thrown off the forum, I sometimes wonder at the proclivities of some members.
For example, the search for film copies of popular TV series that haunt our digital channels with almost monotonous regularity every day. Even as we speak the search is on for copies of Quincy or Collumbo, both of which seem difficult to avoid when you look through the schedules.
Have I finally gone over the line?
[ June 07, 2018, 03:41 PM: Message edited by: Allan Broadfield ]
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 07, 2018 02:21 PM
I get it:
I have a video projector connected to a Blu-ray player, it shows on the same screen as my film projectors and blasts through the same sound system, and even though I already had a perfectly nice digital cope of "Airplane!" I bought it on film recently, just for the joy of showing it as a real film.
The same can be said for "Das Boot", even if the film print eliminates the chance to hear it in English.
-Ditto for a couple of Star Treks.
Then again there is the Derann Toy Story I have when Digital Pixar is available everywhere on the Planet 24 hours a day for pennies. A non-film guest asked how much the print cost once and I said "More than a pizza, less than a car." (In other words: "Don't ask")
It's the classic "buy a fish/catch a fish" idea, sometimes the process becomes as satisfying as the results, other times you just feel like having fish for dinner and don't feel like spending an afternoon down at the lake!
-Otherwise why would anyone ever knit a sweater?
Besides: we don't really do the whole Blasphemy Thing here. (I would be a heretic myself dozens of times over if so.)
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted June 07, 2018 03:14 PM
I think a lot of the enjoyment of film vs. video is because this is at least a two dimensional question and if you look at it single dimensionally it's easy to misunderstand.
You have these two guys in a movie theater:
Bob is down in the audience watching the movie. It's his favorite director and the actors that usually work with him. He loves the use of suspense, music and lighting, the dialog is well written and the story is a pretty decent tribute to the book.
Bob is a smart guy. He teaches English lit. at the local college and wants to write a novel some day. Bob is however extremely mechanically inept: he has to bring his car to a mechanic to check the tire pressure and almost burned down his house changing a light bulb once. Someone said he needed to reboot his computer and he kicked it twice! He doesn't understand the difference between film and video and doesn't care: he is purely a movie fan. He leaves that other stuff to that guy upstairs who keeps looking out the little window.
Joe is up in the booth running the projector: he's been doing it for 20 years and knows every gear in the beast just by their sounds. He enjoys the mechanics of making up shows and the satisfaction of giving the people a professional presentation.
Other than checking lamp, focus, frame and sound, Joe isn't watching the feature today. He's been through 15 showings of it, sat in the audience a few times last week, and frankly doesn't even like it! At least as far as this flick goes: he is purely a film guy.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a pure movie fan, loads of people are. It's just that people here are film fans too and we understand this in both dimensions. It just doesn't always translate very well across the divide!
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Allan Broadfield
Master Film Handler
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From: Bromley, Kent
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted June 10, 2018 04:32 AM
Yes Graham. We are all nuts, and I note the incogruity in your PS, rather like mine.
Others collect matchboxes, cutlery, plates, dolls etc., and some celebrate xmas every day of the year, which to me is excessively nutty, so I suppose it's relative.
But I still puzzle at searching for something, probably at great expense, that is difficult to avoid as you scroll through the channels, when there are great films out there for the asking..
Having said that, this is what makes the forum so fascinating I suppose!
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Tom Photiou
Film God
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From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted June 11, 2018 06:22 AM
for me, first off,-
I have no interest at a all in trying to convert a DVD to cine film. The price would make it a pointless and stupid exercise, but thats me,
secondly, i to also ventured into the DVD projection thing, it is fine for for showing the films you can never obtain on cine, (8 or 16) but i dont think ive gone out of my way to project a DVD or Blu Ray for about 8 months now. I still continue to buy films on cine even when i have the DVD or Blu ray. As many have said before, projecting real film has a magic all of its own.
99.9% of film buffs today dont seem to get it simply because the new generation have projection at there finger tips with a fraction of the cost, no faded image no scratches, and an unlimited supply of titles. Wheres the fun in that? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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