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Topic: What Films did you show last night?
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Thomas Murin, Jr.
Master Film Handler
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From: Lanoka Harbor, NJ, USA
Registered: Sep 2009
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posted February 18, 2012 06:49 PM
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3. I like your comparison to Jurassic Park. It's true that dinosaurs eat each other, but there is only one scene where the T-Rex eats a human. Even that scene has a hint of comedy when a man relieving himself on the pot is swallowed by a T-Rex. So, I feel there is a difference.
Correction: The man the T-Rex eats is NOT relieving himself. He ran into the outhouse out of fear of the T-Rex.
When the Rex knocks over the outhouse, you can clearly see the man's pants are up and the lid down. He's scared, just not THAT scared! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Anyway, this afternoon was a premiere of my latest 16mm purchase: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GRIZZLY ADAMS.
This is the original 1974 feature. It is in good condition with good to fair color, some scratches and splices and good contrast and sharpness.
A truly fun movie they don't make anymore!
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Laksmi Breathwaite
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 771
From: Las Vegas
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted February 29, 2012 12:48 AM
Tonight I'm going to watch one of my favorite digest 400" reels LOGANS RUN This is one of the best super 8 edites. And it has beautiful Jenny Agutter in it. This film still has some good color and contrast. It looks good on a big screen and the sound is good. One of the GREATEST of the MGM 400 foot digests! And James N. Savage 3 agrees with me in his review he said .....
Back in the late 70's, when MGM unleashed thier first 12 digests, I was mortified when I discovered that there were no horror movies in the line-up! Me, being 15 years old and all. I was in the camera store, looking at those new "fancy" boxes, thinking, "I've just got to get something, I love those fancy boxes". I saw "Logan's Run" on the shelf. The box was VERY cool, using the original artwork from the movie poster (unlike most of the other MGM titles). It was Sci-Fi, so that was close enough to horror, so I bought it (even though I hadnt seen the movie before). I spooled it up, ran it for the first time, with some of my school friends over. This digest instantly became my favorite! And my teen friend's favorite too.
It had-
-Action
-Nudity
-Violence
-Nudity
-Farrah Faucette
-Did I say Nudity???
We were 15 years old, for crying out loud!
LOGAN'S RUN
400 foot; 18 minutes.
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Osi Osgood
Film God
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 03, 2012 12:41 PM
Well done on those screen captures from that Richard Harris film from the early 70's. I have always admired Richard Harris as an actor and a person!
I can verify that the Kempski/Derann "Logan's Run" feature is top notch, as I own a copy. Sadly saome of the special effects haven't aged well, (as in the beginning shots of the city, which look obviously fake, even back then.
For me, it's fun to do a comparison of STAR WARS and Logans Run. It's amazing just how big of a jump in special effects was made in just that one year from "Old Hollywood effects" (which could be really hit or miss) to "New Hollywood", STAR WARS and beyond, (though it should be noted that "2001: A Space Oddity" (snicker) looked great for it's time).
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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted March 11, 2012 03:16 AM
It has been awhile since we have been working with our new dog Rocco who has some behavioral problems, but tonight we all sat down for a 16mm movie show...It started with one of my favorites, Patsy Kelly in Sing, Sister, Sing (1935 1 x 800ft) This is a hilarious short but sadly I think all of the copies floating around are quite soft in focus. The feature for tonight was a Warren Hymer crime comedy called Sea Racketeers (1937, 2 x 1200ft). Typical of B-pictures of this time it never quite figured out what genre it wanted to be.. Comedy, Crime, Musical? Much like the Artist, the dog steals the show...
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Michael Scheck
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 163
From: Moeriken, Switzerland
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted March 16, 2012 09:48 AM
I did one of my Scheck Family-Picture shows a few days ago. My wife and two kids (12 and 14 years old) attended and very much enjoyed the filcks I picked this time.
I started the program with the Charley Chase Short Long Fliv the King (400', b/w, sound), a very good Blackhawk print with a rather strange musical score. My kids cheered at Oliver Hardy, wearing a gigantic moustache playing the prime minister's crooked adjudant.
Next thing was a surprise film entitled For Your Pleasure featuring Glenn Miller and his orchestra made by Vintage Films. It turned out to be a very entertaining musical sequence from the feature film Orchestra Wives from 1942, featuring Glenn Miller and Orchestra, saxophone player Tex Beneke and the famous Nicholas Brothers (200'). Very good picture and sound quality, a pleasant surprise, because I had no idea what I would get when I bought this reel.
The last part of the show was another short, Calling All Girls made also in 1942 by Warner bros., featuring great moments from Busby Berkeley-Choreografies. My wife and kids were stunned by these highly artificial, beautifully staged musical sequences, which come to life in this beautiful, sharp Derann print.
I am always surprised by how much the kids like these old flicks!
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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted March 17, 2012 12:08 AM
Akshay, great pics, Charlie Chan has always been one of those guilty pleasures..In some ways every movie is indistinguishable from the last, but yet i could watch them all the time...
In salute of its centennial, tonight I have no pictures because i hand cranked my very first 22mm Edison Home kinetoscope film. It was THE AMATEUR WILLIAM TELL (1909, #24 Category F, comedy). Given that the format only survived about 2 years it is pretty safe to say that the film and projector are essentially 100 years old each. The price of this film was $15 in 1912, which would comparatively be close to $400 in todays' monetary values. Clearly the format was for the well to do...I will be shooting some video in the next couple of days of me cranking away at a film...It is a flawed format, but not terrible..It is a fairly complex piece of machinery....
There were 3 different models (A, B, C) that were designed for projecting at different distances...If you look at the base down near the bottom right hand corner you can see that the one in this picture is marked as a Model "B" because the little marker is in the middle of the 3 choices...OH and "NO" I did not use the carbon arc tonight, I used a temporary halogen that I put inside the lamphouse..
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