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Steve Klare
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- posted July 21, 2015 09:12 AM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
The scored "You're Darn Tootin'" is one of my favorite L&Hs!

Last night? -just a bunch of silent 200 footers.

It's easy to just shove these aside and stick to the talkies, especially when you have a sound system.

-but they are great in their own right and what right do I have to complain I don't have enough films when I rarely screen about a third of the ones I do have?

(I see them rarely enough that in a few cases it was like I was watching them for the first time!)

A while back I experimented with switching the amp over to the CD player and just letting music play, but it imposed moods on the films and I didn't like that. Here and there a serious moment in the film and a happy passage in the music came together, or vice versa.

-it just seemed...wrong.

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Janice Glesser
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Steve...I've come to the conclusion it doesn't matter how you enjoy film. You don't need a top of the line projector...You don't need full-length movies....You don't need massive numbers of film reels on the shelf ... You don't need sound ... and it doesn't matter if you have Standard 8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm, 9.5mm, etc. Watching reel film is magical. Still pictures that when placed in sequence creates movement. It's wonderful!

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Vidar Olavesen
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I love silents too, if they are originally silent. If it has sound, I want that stripe on it

I do prefer scored, but that's not a must.

Darn Tootin' kicking contest is funny

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Joseph Randall
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Some of those silent 3 Stooges abridgements play surprising well with super-imposed sub-titles.

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Brian Fretwell
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I watched L&H "The Fixer Uppers" a strange Walton print silent, but striped box titled as NL13 "Een Best Karweitje". Oh and it had subtitles in (I assume) Dutch. This was followed by an reel of adverts which I spent this morning getting out of the works of the projector, but I think I'll only loose about 1ft of film due to this.

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Vidar Olavesen
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On Sunday, we had out 49th viewing in the club and we made it an almost 100% documentary evening. We did finish with a non-documentary
Battle in the Atlantic, 200' sound
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Pearl Harbour, 200' sound
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Fury in the Pacific, 400' sound
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Blitz on Britain, 4x400' sound
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And the non-documentary was Little Rascals in Arbor Day, 400' sound. Most people found this boring, and it's not one of their funniest by far
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Osi Osgood
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Boy! You were certainly running with a largely war theme with you're screenings this time. Nice screenshots as always!

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Mathew James
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The song alfalfa sings in arbor day always made me sad when i was young watching the little rascals. Still, i'd like to own it one day. I like the 'midgets', George and Olive Brasno on this one. They are also in 'shrimps for a day' which i have and love.
Matt
ps: Watched this today for the first time in 8mm, no sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfgrYGVHICo
We Faw Down.

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Dominique De Bast
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Tonight and yesterday night, I watched home movies. The reason is that I decided to sonorise the silent ones. Beside the well identified and titled films I have, there is an amount of 15 m (50ft) spools I never put on a larger reel. So, I started with the black and white films as they are few. It brought me good souvenirs. So did the sound films as some were "forgotten". Of course these already have sound but not all of them have a title, so I will do that first for the same reason I started with the black and white films : the sound ones are not too numerous. The silent colours films will also need to be edited and that will take time.

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Richard Bock
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Wow Vidar, those look like exquisite prints. Beautiful contrast.

Matthew-love that We Faw Down. Primo Laurel and Hardy. Seriously love those guys.

Last night I watched a reel out of The Gold Rush by Charlie Chaplin. Hilarious, with masterful timing. Comedy is all about timing. Well not all of it. It's also about talent, the right casting,costuming and writing. Mack Swain as Big Jim McKay is a freaking riot. The costuming also helps. Check out the costume choice for Swain-the hood shape only contributes to the overall hilarity of the scene. It's all in the details.

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Vidar Olavesen
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Saw a couple of films the other day ... High Society, 800' which is red, but still :-)
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Way Out West, 1200'
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Andrew Woodcock
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Same as mine that one Vidar, the Walton version. It is one of my all time favourite L&H's and one I never tire of watching again.
Classic comedy at it's very best.

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Steve Klare
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Last night? Three Bugs Bunnies in honor of his wascally 75th birthday:

What's Opera, Doc? ("Kill the wabbit!, Kill the wabbit!...")
Rabbit Fire ("Rabbit Season!, Duck season!...")
Buccaneer Bunny ("I aint no Doc! I'm a Pie-rate!")

-all presented in booming monaural sound!

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Richard Bock
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Double Whoopee- Blackhawk, Standard 8mm

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Funny early Laurel and Hardy with Jean Harlow (the one with the nylon stockings- pictured). Everyone in the film is a nasty ambivalent type except L&H and Jean Harlow.

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Vidar Olavesen
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Laurel & Hardy silent called From Soup to Nuts on 400' ... Blackhawk print
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Golden Boy, 400' sound
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and finally Raiders of the Lost Ark, 400'
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This has started to warp a little, any way to fix that without liquid we can't buy here? We have no access to Film Renew or Film Guard anymore in Norway. A bit sad about this, as the colours are very good in this

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Larry Arpin
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Vidar to fix warping try rewinding the film on the bench so it will wind tightly and try to wind it tails out and leave it that way for awhile. Rewinding on the projector makes it loose. I had a 16mm film that I always tight wind it and has pretty much fixed the warping and takes up when projecting fairly tightly.

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Vidar Olavesen
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Thanks, will try that.

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Vidar Olavesen
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Thanks, will try that.

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Janice Glesser
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I watched a digest of The African Queen (1951) that I just bought from a fellow member. I have the complete film on 16mm, but this Super 8 ... although also turning... has better color and contrast. The audio lacks some low end, but the digest is well edited with no narration. This is a classic I can watch over and over again.

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Steve Klare
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You are inspirational, Janice!

I did the first reel of my African Queen feature (1200') last night, and will do the second and last (800') tonight.

I kind of hope your digest disposed of the leech scene...I could live without that!

(Personally, I don't see them staying married, but then again they hadn't invented the mandatory sequel yet, had they?)

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Graham Ritchie
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I had the full feature "once" not so long ago and its well worth getting the color was very good, however the sound at the beginning was a bit harsh. A feature copy came up for sale locally for $70 a couple of weeks ago....and yes the leeches are in it [Smile]

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Janice Glesser
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Steve...I hate to say...but the leech scene IS in the digest. Not one of my favorite scenes either.

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Steve Klare
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-Saw it tonight myself (eww!)

As much as I enjoy a nice day out on a boat, this was no pleasure trip!

-contains one of the least romantic lines ever spoken in a movie:

"I now pronounce you husband and wife. Proceed with the execution."

I started out with Bach's Toccata and Fugue extract from Fantasia, just to clear the cobwebs out of my speakers!

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David Ollerearnshaw
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I hope there were stunt leeches

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Steve Carter
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African Queen on eBay at moment starting price 00.99p...
African Queen

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