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Topic: What Films did you show last night?
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David Erskine
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 230
From: Letchworth Garden City, Herts
Registered: Aug 2008
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posted January 10, 2011 05:42 AM
Just to make Dino envious - Sat 8 Jan I did a show for Group 9.5 St. Gabriels - but in 16mm this time!
The feature was ‘Joey Boy’ from 1965 of which Halliwell’s say:- “Abysmal service comedy, incredibly cheap and tatty and the nadir of several of the talents involved!” (So I KNEW I’d like it!! DE)
MFB (in Halliwell’s) says:- “As visually shoddy as it is unfunny … the final shot (Corbett pulling a lavatory chain) is all too crudely apt.”
DE (That’s me, folks!) says:- “I bought this film (from Tony Hutchinson of Syston, who else?) ‘cos, although I’m not a great Corbett fan (I’ve seen him in film, on TV & on stage and thought him rather one-dimensional) I did like all those other British character actors involved. I liked it on first viewing and even on the 2nd and 3rd viewings. However – after 8 or 10 runs (whilst making up the programme) I have got more than a little bored!!”
To start the programme off, there were some ads - Pears Shampoo, HP Baked Beans, Plumrose Hot Dog Sausages, Alka Selter, Hoover Steam/Dry Iron (with Cicely Courtnedge!) - all with P&D (new) open & close. Then a cartoon (Mickey’s Parrot, 1937); a couple of trailers – ‘Jolson Story’ & ‘Tough Guys’ (Lancaster & Douglas) which got me accused of racism and ageism by a VERY PC member!!; a newsreel (Pathe B/W from 1969) and to lead into the feature, a splendid 30s “infomercial” for ‘Stephenson’s Non-Slip Polish’. The 1st part of the feature (and the 1st reel) ends with an ‘Intermission’ (and ‘The Snack Bar is Open’) title. After refreshments (and our chaps/chapesses make a donation of £1.50 which is NOT just for tea/coffee & bickies, it also helps to pay the rent for the room!) Reel 2 has a very short ice cream advert (blink and you’ve missed it!), a ‘Part Two’ title and after that is quite straightforward. Finally, in B/W, a young HM the Queen on horseback at the trooping of the colours with the National Anthem!!
Now - for my sins - I'm also going to be doing the prog on 22 Jan - so I'll have to look round for more un-PC items!!
-------------------- I've NEVER let failure go to MY head!
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David Erskine
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 230
From: Letchworth Garden City, Herts
Registered: Aug 2008
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posted January 12, 2011 03:29 AM
Dino, m,dear - Aesthetically (!) 'The Queen HAD to be in B/W as the feature, newsreel etc were B/W. More honestly - in 16mm the last two Royal playouts (1 for George VI and one for Her Maj [ or, as my late brother-in-law - a rabid lefty - referred to her 'Betty Windsor'] were on fleabay and went for £80 for the King one and £50 for the Qeen one!!!! I got 2 B/W ones - 1 sound, 1 silent - for about £10. By the way, I've booked the hotel, booked the exhibition halls, booked the cinema museum, booked the motor coaches and nearly booked the visit to a stately home & safari park for September!! Cheers, David E
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Dino Everette
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Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted January 16, 2011 02:12 AM
Just so that anyone who knows about my current fundraising campaign will know I am not selling everything, I watched a film that ain't for sale tonight...This was the final film by one of my absolute favorite stars, Norma Talmadge, called DU BARRY (1930)(sometimes called DuBarry, Woman of Passion)and a film that often gets a bad rap...Sometimes they say it ended her career, but that's not true. Her career ended because she was 36 and did not want to start playing the "older lady" roles..This film does have its problems though, as do most early sound films, but it subtly has some great visuals as well such as the quick little shot of Talmadge/DuBarry slipping her revolutionary lovers' blood soaked rag into the jewelry box filled with trinkets purchased from the blood of the people. Unfortunately the story plays for a 1930 audience and assumes everyone is well familiar with the Belasco play, which apparantly even in 1930 they were not so it gets confusing....That being said it is a rare print and a gorgeous 1930's original on 16mm..
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Lars-Goran Ahlm
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Posts: 205
From: Åmål, Sweden
Registered: Jan 2010
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posted January 17, 2011 05:41 AM
Michael: I have been struck by the unexpected high production value of these medieval films, it would easily fit in a really big budget film as background action and sets. It must have cost a pretty fair amount to do these films, but then there was a large worldwide market for them also, so they probably got their money back.
Now on to the third film about the medieval times. The tournament of Bruges in 1392. Here the whole city of Bruges is involved in a re-enactment. Everybody, even the spectators, are dressed in the fashion of the late 14th century. Since this includes jousting, swordfights etc. there was really difficult to get any pictures, there is almost constant action. I took around 50 pictures and of those only 12 was usable. The print is from 1976 and on SP, and the pictures do not do justice to the colors, they are almost perfect. It's 13 minutes long.
Are there anyone that knows when this was? My copy has the code for 1976, so it's prior to that, but when. Perhaps someone on this forum even was there? Please tell if so, or if you know anything about this, it would be fun to know.
I have a fourth film about the medieval period left, but I have yet not taken any pictures, but I will put them up as soon as I have.
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