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MYST0		#81	[-]
May 26 11 9:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	atkalu, Where did you see ALMOST MARRIED? MOMA has a print of IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE (33) but it is not for screening. I tried to get it screened at one point and I was told it was not projectable. I see that the late madman from Wales had seen it.
rvoyttbots		#82	[-]
May 26 11 10:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	skull island escapee wrote: I haven't seen: Just Imagine [1930] the Monolith Monsters [mid-50s ?] Island of Lost Souls [1932] How to get ahead in advertising [80s?] There's obviously stacks more, but these are the ones that sprang to mind first. JUST IMAGINE is painful to watch.
skull island escapee		#83	[-]
May 27 11 6:07 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The sets look great in this flawed movie, rvoy, and I bet this movie is an overall stinker, but I'd like to see it out of curiosity value. I found clips on youtube: the movie starts off pretty well, with epic cityscapes that must have impressed viewers in 1930 with the good traveling matte and miniature work [for it's time]. Although the technology depicted is more akin to 2180 [at the very least!]than the 1980 I remember! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_zwVhgSbA 'the horror..............THE HORROR!' Cartoon-strip blog here [updated regularly]: http://zoomertoonsrabsmith.blogspot.com/ Last Edited By: skull island escapee May 27 11 9:15 AM. Edited 4 times.
Andrew Kidd		#84	[-]
May 27 11 6:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I haven't seen THE BLACK ROOM, TOWER OF LONDON, BLACK MOON, MURDERS IN THE ZOO or SUPERNATURAL yet. There was once a time when I thought wouldn't be able to see many of the movies I kept reading about in the reference books as a kid and later a teenager; now I'm shocked by how many I have seen at still a relatively young age, thanks to largely to cable TV, DVD and now the Internet.
Jonatwork		#85	[-]
May 28 11 5:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Bill Warren wrote: I've been longing to see IT CAME FROM THE LA BREA PITS, a 1956 Allied Artists monster movie with John Agar. My efforts to see it are hampered by the fact that it doesn't exist. But it should! Why the heck, with the tar pits right here in Los Angeles, hasn't anyone ever made a movie about a monster emerging from them? ("La Brea" is Spanish for "the tar." So the usual name, The La Brea Tar Pits, means The the Tar Tar Pits.) Bill, The only movie I seem to recall featuring the La Brea Tar Pits is MIRACLE MILE. Not what you want to see, but interesting just the same. “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” Joseph Priestley
Wich2		#86	[-]
May 28 11 12:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>("La Brea" is Spanish for "the tar." So the usual name, The La Brea Tar Pits, means The the Tar Tar Pits.)< Here in NYC, we have "Yeshiva University" - which essentially translates as "College College."
professor liebstrum		#87	[-]
May 28 11 12:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Sahara Desert is Desert Desert, I've been told. We've got a River Avon which..., yep... Russ
atkalu		#88	[-]
May 28 11 4:12 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>("La Brea" is Spanish for "the tar." So the usual name, The La Brea Tar Pits, means The the Tar Tar Pits.)< Here in NYC, we have "Yeshiva University" - which essentially translates as "College College." My favorite is still Manos: Hands of Fate.
atkalu		#89	[-]
May 28 11 4:17 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>>>>atkalu, Where did you see ALMOST MARRIED? MOMA has a print of IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE (33) but it is not for screening. I tried to get it screened at one point and I was told it was not projectable. I see that the late madman from Wales had seen it. UCLA has ALMOST MARRIED on vhs. it's about a 47 minute print. I did a write-up on it on imdb. Pretty decent flick, but definitely felt like it was missing a reel or two. Hey, with the support we're getting here for RETURN OF THE TERROR, does anyone know if The Wisconsin Film and TV archive will dupe that 16mm print???? Anyone know the details there? I know it would cost $5-6k to do a safety transfer at the Library of Congress, and unless we have some philanthropists visiting this message board, that's a little too steep Kenny
PhantomXCI		#90	[-]
May 28 11 5:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	atkalu wrote: Hey, with the support we're getting here for RETURN OF THE TERROR, does anyone know if The Wisconsin Film and TV archive will dupe that 16mm print???? Anyone know the details there? Kenny You've got a better chance of seeing a 3D Technicolor print of LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT. RETURN OF THE TERROR is still in copyright, so Wisconsin will not make copies. Depending upon their access policy, they might loan the film to a film festival or revival house. Currently, however, I think our best option is to barrage TCM with requests to show the film. That might get them interested. I have already written TCM twice. Perhaps if 100 other people were to write in also...
professor liebstrum		#91	[-]
May 28 11 7:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Phantom's recent postings of title cards reminds of how many I've got to see. If you grew up on Carlos Clarens and Denis Gifford you have a few gaps to fill, [and they are great books, I think.] Top of my list at the moment, Murders in the Zoo and Mystery Ranch. Russ
DonM435		#92	[-]
May 28 11 11:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Not to mention the Rio Grande River, the big river river. Or the ERA amendment, if you remember that.
Lady Tottington		#93	[-]
May 29 11 10:43 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	As a big Lugosi fan, I am ashamed to say I have never seen The Black Camel. I know it is available downloaded, I just never get around to sitting up here long enough to watch it. Usually, my watching is done while doing something downstairs--or waiting for something to get done in the kitchen.
atkalu		#94	[-]
May 29 11 11:00 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>>>>>You've got a better chance of seeing a 3D Technicolor print of LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT. >>>RETURN OF THE TERROR is still in copyright, so Wisconsin will not make copies. Depending upon their access policy, they might loan the film to a film festival or revival house. Currently, however, I think our best option is to barrage TCM with requests to show the film. That might get them interested. I have already written TCM twice. Perhaps if 100 other people were to write in also... Ah, I forgot, isn't it something like 95 years for copyrights now? Maybe they should up that to two hundred years so that materials can be withheld for centuries and become part of a bizarre "dig up treasures that we had all along" cult of future human beings. Last I heard, films, certainly those from Hollywood, were made for public consumption. Well, that's my political rant... I think it would be worth it for having an organized petition to TCM for this and a few other unseeable releases like FOG that would fall under TCM's domain. It can't hurt other than a little time. I had written TCM monthly for 10 years to play THE MYSTIC and only once did they respond and it wasn't favorably. A large group of us is the only hope. Otherwise we'll just be sitting here talking about these films anyway for another 95 years. I have an idea to start - Barrage them with separately-written letters requesting RETURN OF THE TERROR and FOG. If we ask for too many titles, they'll drown each other out. Maybe even only one is best, but since FOG was on their schedule recently, they are certainly aware of the film and the letters may be an additional push to help the process (whatever is stopping it). Any other ideas?
PhantomXCI		#95	[-]
May 29 11 3:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Another problem which might affect RETURN OF THE TERROR is it's ownership status. WB owned the rights to Edgar Wallace's play THE TERROR, which they filmed in 1928. In 1934, they made a "sequel" (actually, ROTT is more of a remake than a sequel, with a death ray substituting for the original's cache of gold). Then WB sold the screen rights to Associated British who remade the film in 1938. I suspect that the sale contractually obligated WB to destroy all copies of THE TERROR and RETURN OF THE TERROR. But I have a theory: WB somehow overlooked the sequel, and it sat in the vaults for 30 years. In the '60s, someone finds the negative and the company releases the film to TV syndication and 16mm non-theatrical, ignorant of the fact that they no longer own any rights to the film. 15 years pass before they discover their mistake; then they quickly withdraw all prints from circulation, donate the negative to the AFI, a 16mm positive to Wisconsin (which houses the WB collection), and hope that nobody is the wiser. It's only a theory.
MacXoftheMounted		#96	[-]
May 29 11 6:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>JUST IMAGINE is painful to watch. I saw this as a teenager and thought it was kind of fun. MacXoftheMounted.....................formerly known as Professor Von X
Wich2		#97	[-]
May 30 11 11:03 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Imagine THX 1138 as done as a musical - by Monogram.
Uncle Bingo		#98	[-]
May 30 11 12:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I never saw The Man Who Laughs, quite a few Hammer films, and I missed quite a few of the "big bug" movies of the 50's. Also never saw all of Metropolis, the Omega Man, the Invisible Agent, and many of the early Chaney movies. I guess there are plenty that I've missed along the way. I love discovering the good ones though, which is why I hang around these parts.
MYST0		#99	[-]
Jun 2 11 10:23 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	La Brea: 13 Ghosts. The father gives lectures there if I remember correctly.
Tom Powers		#100	[-]
Jun 5 11 4:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wich2 wrote: Imagine THX 1138 as done as a musical - by Monogram. HA! Yeah, it kinda has that vibe. I managed to enjoy it when it was on Fox Movies -- and it was still part of my cable package.

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