Good morning everyone 
I hope there;s been no serious damage to your property caused by Storm Darragh 
Highest gust recorded by the local weather station a mile from here was 49.5 mph. Still gusty here but very slowly getting less strong.
My fencing seems to have survived.
I hope everyone has a good day 
Slim, not much to mention re films on the Talking Pictures tv channel over the next week. The 1952 film "Scandal Sheet" is on tomorrow at 21..05. Unlike the 1985 tv movie of that name which I mentioned recently the 1952 film has some merit. A film noir about a newspaper editor (Broderick Crawford) assigning a reporter (John Derek) to report on the murder of a woman (Rosemary deCamp). Also in the film is Donna Reed.
Various other actors might have played the leads including Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Orson Welles,
BBC Four has a Judi Dench evening today marking her 90th birthday which is tomorrow,
The main drama is called "Talking to s Stranger" which was originally shown on BBC Two in their Theatre 625 series first shown in October 1966. It's in 4 parts, first two tonight, the other two in a week's time.
Dysfunctional suburban family recounting what happened over a weekend. The four are played bu Judi Dench, Maurice Denham, Michael Bryant and Margery Mason. the four episodes show the events of what happened through the viewpoints of the four in that order.
Top class black and white drama of the 1960s, Judi Dench hot a BAFTA for her performance.
The director's cut of Coldplay's "All My Love" which is the Dick van Dyke special - he's 99 in a few days time. His family also appears with his wife Arlene Silver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4OlL0OpbW8
@El Loro posted:Good morning everyone
I hope there;s been no serious damage to your property caused by Storm Darragh
Highest gust recorded by the local weather station a mile from here was 49.5 mph. Still gusty here but very slowly getting less strong.
My fencing seems to have survived.I hope everyone has a good day
Great news El 
It's as still as could be here... 
Take care folks!
@El Loro posted:Slim, not much to mention re films on the Talking Pictures tv channel over the next week. The 1952 film "Scandal Sheet" is on tomorrow at 21..05. Unlike the 1985 tv movie of that name which I mentioned recently the 1952 film has some merit. A film noir about a newspaper editor (Broderick Crawford) assigning a reporter (John Derek) to report on the murder of a woman (Rosemary deCamp). Also in the film is Donna Reed.
Various other actors might have played the leads including Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Orson Welles,
Thank you El 
@El Loro posted:BBC Four has a Judi Dench evening today marking her 90th birthday which is tomorrow,
The main drama is called "Talking to s Stranger" which was originally shown on BBC Two in their Theatre 625 series first shown in October 1966. It's in 4 parts, first two tonight, the other two in a week's time.
Dysfunctional suburban family recounting what happened over a weekend. The four are played bu Judi Dench, Maurice Denham, Michael Bryant and Margery Mason. the four episodes show the events of what happened through the viewpoints of the four in that order.
Top class black and white drama of the 1960s, Judi Dench hot a BAFTA for her performance.
Judy Dench is a very fine classical/drama actress with a wicked sense of humour that suits comedy to a tee
The BBC showed her in 'The Importance of Being Earnest' yesterday, which I have recorded 
@El Loro posted:The director's cut of Coldplay's "All My Love" which is the Dick van Dyke special - he's 99 in a few days time. His family also appears with his wife Arlene Silver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4OlL0OpbW8
Aww that's wonderful
He's still very nimble on his feet despite his age...great stuff! 
Thanks El
@slimfern posted:Judy Dench is a very fine classical/drama actress with a wicked sense of humour that suits comedy to a tee
The BBC showed her in 'The Importance of Being Earnest' yesterday, which I have recorded
As Lady Bracknell
"Talking to a Stranger" is not a comedy.
I mentioned the Japanese film "Rashomon" the other day. The concept of the film is that the key incident is told in flashback by various people giving different viewpoints as to what happened. Only at the end of the film do the pieces fit together to show what really happened. That concept has been used since and is sometimes called the Rashomon effect.
I think that "Talking to a Stranger" may be an example of that.
night EL slim
Slim, if you're looking for a film to watch, Film 4 has the 1960 British comedy "Two-Way Stretch" tomorrow morning at 11 am. Peter Sellers and others plan to rob some diamonds whilst in prison. Quite an amusing film, Lionel Jeffries as the chief prison officer trying to be a disciplinarian at the prison.
@El Loro posted:Slim, if you're looking for a film to watch, Film 4 has the 1960 British comedy "Two-Way Stretch" tomorrow morning at 11 am. Peter Sellers and others plan to rob some diamonds whilst in prison. Quite an amusing film, Lionel Jeffries as the chief prison officer trying to be a disciplinarian at the prison.
Oooh Thanks El ...I enjoy a good British comedy as you know...and Peter Sellers generally doesn't fail to provide
@El Loro posted:Window cleaners been and done my windows and soon afterwards went away as it's turned rainy and breezier than it had been
Hopefully you won't have the winds increasing there, Slim
They've forecast much of the same for the rest of the week & weekend El..little chance of wind or rain... I'm okay with that
@slimfern posted:Oooh Thanks El ...I enjoy a good British comedy as you know...and Peter Sellers generally doesn't fail to provide
You may find that you've seen "Two Way Stretch" before, Slim, as it does get shown on television from time to time. There were a number of similar films over the years. For instance the Will Hay 1938 film "Convict 99"
You'll recognise quite a few of the cast in "Two Way Stretch"
night EL slim
I often do a bit of shopping at a small Co-op shop close by.I tend to get a receipt. Recently there was the time when the paper had run out and another time when the paper got stuck so didn't come out. Today, the paper came out but nothing was shown on it. Tuned out that someone had put the roll in backwards. Presumably the paper is something like thermal paper and coated just on the one side,
@El Loro posted:I often do a bit of shopping at a small Co-op shop close by.I tend to get a receipt. Recently there was the time when the paper had run out and another time when the paper got stuck so didn't come out. Today, the paper came out but nothing was shown on it. Tuned out that someone had put the roll in backwards. Presumably the paper is something like thermal paper and coated just on the one side,
Yes they are El...
Games for the 8 bit Atari came on either cassette or floppy disc.
Loading from cassette always took many minutes.
The biggest surprise I had with one game on cassette is that there was also music on the cassette to listen to whilst the game loaded. The music was from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cao6WyF-61s
Some years later I had another game. I can't remember if that was for a 16 bit Atari or a PC as it was long ago, What was extraordinary about it was that the introductory scene to the game had somehow made the music surround sound on the ordinary loud speakers. When I say surround sound it was if I was in the middle surrounded by the music. I've never come another game like that.
@El Loro posted:Games for the 8 bit Atari came on either cassette or floppy disc.
Loading from cassette always took many minutes.
The biggest surprise I had with one game on cassette is that there was also music on the cassette to listen to whilst the game loaded. The music was from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cao6WyF-61sSome years later I had another game. I can't remember if that was for a 16 bit Atari or a PC as it was long ago, What was extraordinary about it was that the introductory scene to the game had somehow made the music surround sound on the ordinary loud speakers. When I say surround sound it was if I was in the middle surrounded by the music. I've never come another game like that.
We were a Spectrum family El
Still have all the consoles, cassette player and over a thousand games 
I used to have Grand Touirsmo set up. Steering wheel pedals. Loved it, some sort of Honda Civic.
Have a good one troops. Might get a new one,
@velvet donkey posted:I used to have Grand Touirsmo set up. Steering wheel pedals. Loved it, some sort of Honda Civic.
Have a good one troops. Might get a new one,
Might have known you'd have a car game
@slimfern posted:We were a Spectrum family El
Still have all the consoles, cassette player and over a thousand games
I almost bought a Spectrum, Slim. I had placed an order for one when it was first announced. Weeks then months passed and then I heard that the workforce who would have been producing them were on strike. So I gave up, cancelled my order, and bought an Atari 800 instead. My brother had already bought an Atari 400. Years ago he told me that the serial number on his was very low and he thought he would have been one of the first people to get one. He does not know what happened to it. A pity, because if it was one of the first, it could have been of interest to a museum.
I sold off the majority of games I had for the Atari 8 bit computer when I changed to a 16 bit one. I used to go to a shop in Birmingham which specialised in Atari 8 bit and 16 bit computers and games. I had bought many games from them and they agreed to sell those old games on my behalf. They sold the majority of games bur returned one or two which I've still got but I doubt if they would still be usable. Some items I did keep, mainly some cartridges with programming languages on. The most obscure of those would be Action! - that was 100 times faster that Atari's own BASIC.
Atari's BASIC was the one which came with the computer and there used to be magazines with programme listings in for games for people to type in (which took a long time )
@El Loro posted:I sold off the majority of games I had for the Atari 8 bit computer when I changed to a 16 bit one. I used to go to a shop in Birmingham which specialised in Atari 8 bit and 16 bit computers and games. I had bought many games from them and they agreed to sell those old games on my behalf. They sold the majority of games bur returned one or two which I've still got but I doubt if they would still be usable. Some items I did keep, mainly some cartridges with programming languages on. The most obscure of those would be Action! - that was 100 times faster that Atari's own BASIC.
Atari's BASIC was the one which came with the computer and there used to be magazines with programme listings in for games for people to type in (which took a long time
Late Hubby often used to go to the recycling centre to pick up games that others had gotten fed up with
