@El Loro posted:

I would expect the staff who assess films etc to have had training as to what to look for,  much as the BBFC staff would.
Their role would be to assess content affecting classification rather than to watch something for enjoyment.
They should be unbiased when watching so that their personal preferences don't affect their decisions.
There should also be senior staff checking on the welfare of staff to ensure that they are not adversely affected by what they have seen - that's what happens at the BBFC.

Were you on the staff at the BBFC at all EL?
I wonder if certain staff are kept to certain genres of film, keeping the need for a welfare team down to a minimum

@slimfern posted:

Were you on the staff at the BBFC at all EL?
I wonder if certain staff are kept to certain genres of film, keeping the need for a welfare team down to a minimum

No, I've never worked for the BBFC but I have a considerable interest in film so have an interest in what the BBFC does and how it works. When it comes to certifying films, the staff who do this have to look at some material which would repel many people. Those staff are selected as to their ability to deal with this and are trained. Those who do this work will have a wide range of material to look through so that they don't become too used to looking at the more challenging material. Although most of the time, material is looked at by one person, where the material is really challenging it will be looked at by more than one person. BBFC also uses external consultants rarely such as lawyers and psychologists. 

@El Loro posted:

No, I've never worked for the BBFC but I have a considerable interest in film so have an interest in what the BBFC does and how it works. When it comes to certifying films, the staff who do this have to look at some material which would repel many people. Those staff are selected as to their ability to deal with this and are trained. Those who do this work will have a wide range of material to look through so that they don't become too used to looking at the more challenging material. Although most of the time, material is looked at by one person, where the material is really challenging it will be looked at by more than one person. BBFC also uses external consultants rarely such as lawyers and psychologists.

Glad to hear that... there are definitely some films out there that shouldn't be watched alone

I don't suppose I've ever sat down to really think about how much goes into the certification of what we watch, but yes I can see it is a complex process

@slimfern posted:

Glad to hear that... there are definitely some films out there that shouldn't be watched alone

I don't suppose I've ever sat down to really think about how much goes into the certification of what we watch, but yes I can see it is a complex process

A complex process as you say

@El Loro posted:

A BBC news article today about Netflix to continue with the BBFC age ratings.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-58466154
Netflix staff manually tag material for things like violence and feed the data in an algorithm using technology developed with the BBFC to determine an age appropriate rating, The BBFC carry out a monthly audit to assess accuracy.

Very unlikely I'll find out what happened/will happen behind the scenes between the BBFC and Netflix regarding my report last week.

interesting EL

@slimfern posted:

Glad to hear that... there are definitely some films out there that shouldn't be watched alone

I don't suppose I've ever sat down to really think about how much goes into the certification of what we watch, but yes I can see it is a complex process

very complex EL

night EL slim yogi moonsieee

Good morning everyone it's a cooler showery day to come today.

Enjoy your day everyone

Good morning everyone

Sunny here with a forecast high of 28°. Breaks down tonight and tomorrow with thunderstorms forecast for tomorrow afternoon.

I hope everyone has a good day

Some films which never got made:
Stanley Kubrick's "Napoleon" (he had planned it and had written a script but the film "Waterloo" was released and was not a box office success, instead he made "Barry Lyndon"
Sergei Eisenstein's final part of his intended trilogy on Ivan the Terrible (production had started, then halted and he died before that could resume - 4 minutes of it exists and can be seen on Youtube)
Orson Welles' "Heart of Darkness" (exists as a script, based on Joseph Conrad's book) (Apocalypse Now is based on the book)

Possibly the strangest film which never got made was a collaboration between Salvador  Dali and the Marx Brothers, Title was "Giraffes on Horseback Salad"

@El Loro posted:

Some films which never got made:
Stanley Kubrick's "Napoleon" (he had planned it and had written a script but the film "Waterloo" was released and was not a box office success, instead he made "Barry Lyndon"
Sergei Eisenstein's final part of his intended trilogy on Ivan the Terrible (production had started, then halted and he died before that could resume - 4 minutes of it exists and can be seen on Youtube)
Orson Welles' "Heart of Darkness" (exists as a script, based on Joseph Conrad's book) (Apocalypse Now is based on the book)

Possibly the strangest film which never got made was a collaboration between Salvador  Dali and the Marx Brothers, Title was "Giraffes on Horseback Salad"

Would absolutely be crazy El and quite possibly be a box office hit by default (out of people's curiosity of the weird and wonderful)

Apocalypse Now was a hit if my memory serves me correctly, although I never saw it. I believe it was quite violent.
I wonder if 'Heart of Darkness' will ever be made, as there is a script....a posthumous shout out to the great Orson Welles, so to speak ?

@slimfern posted:

Would absolutely be crazy El and quite possibly be a box office hit by default (out of people's curiosity of the weird and wonderful)

Apocalypse Now was a hit if my memory serves me correctly, although I never saw it. I believe it was quite violent.
I wonder if 'Heart of Darkness' will ever be made, as there is a script....a posthumous shout out to the great Orson Welles, so to speak ?

Apocalypse Now is set during the Vietnam War so has war violence in it, also very disturbing and very dark. Seen parts of it once, good but an unpleasant film.

Hearts of Darkness was made in to an American TV film. Looking at imdb, not a good film.

I read the book doing my English literature o level. As part of out homework we had to write a review of it. I got top marks for that. It's a novella so a short novel (about 130 pages).

Orson Welles made a radio adaptation of Heart of Darkness with his Mercury Theatre group. It was broadcast on 6 November 1938.

Audio quality is poor.
H of D lasts for about 38 minutes and is followed by an adaptation of "Life with Father" by Clarence Day (that was made into a William Powell film in 1947).

@El Loro posted:

Orson Welles made a radio adaptation of Heart of Darkness with his Mercury Theatre group. It was broadcast on 6 November 1938.

Audio quality is poor.
H of D lasts for about 38 minutes and is followed by an adaptation of "Life with Father" by Clarence Day (that was made into a William Powell film in 1947).

Despite the poor quality of sound I managed to follow the story through to the end where Marlow told a fib about Cultz's (sp) final words....thought that a nice touch.
It was easy enough to imagine the words into a film and something I would probably watch.

Thought 'Life with Father' was quite funny
I'm going to take a look at the William Powell version of it
Thanks El

@slimfern posted:

Despite the poor quality of sound I managed to follow the story through to the end where Marlow told a fib about Cultz's (sp) final words....thought that a nice touch.
It was easy enough to imagine the words into a film and something I would probably watch.

Thought 'Life with Father' was quite funny
I'm going to take a look at the William Powell version of it
Thanks El

I've seen "Life with Father! many years ago and it's a nice film.

night EL slimyogi moonsie

Good morning everyone it looks like it will be a wet day today with thunderstorms.

Enjoy your day everyone

Good morning everyone

Thunderstorms forecast here today.

I hope everyone has a good day

Part of a driveway to go on display at the Natural History Museum in London. It's where the meteorite landed in Winchcombe and shows the splat mark it made:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-58493430

@El Loro posted:

Part of a driveway to go on display at the Natural History Museum in London. It's where the meteorite landed in Winchcombe and shows the splat mark it made:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-58493430

Looks a bit tenuous El   

Hope all are A1 or getting there.

Moonie - I can't believe it. Full recovery my friend      Yogi too - notable     

I still rate Woman Under an Influence slim. Powerhouse - on Youtube   

@El Loro posted:

I've seen "Life with Father! many years ago and it's a nice film.

Just finished watching it
I think everyone should have a Clarence Day in their lives
As for Mrs Day's logic regards charging accounts...hmmm
Enjoyed this film

@velvet donkey posted:

Looks a bit tenuous El   

Hope all are A1 or getting there.

Moonie - I can't believe it. Full recovery my friend      Yogi too - notable     

I still rate Woman Under an Influence slim. Powerhouse - on Youtube   

John Cassavetes ?

@slimfern posted:

John Cassavetes ?

Yep. Him and Falk were best pals     

A bit different to Columbo     

@velvet donkey posted:

Looks a bit tenuous El   

Hope all are A1 or getting there.

Moonie - I can't believe it. Full recovery my friend      Yogi too - notable     

I still rate Woman Under an Influence slim. Powerhouse - on Youtube   

All is OK here

Most notable meteorite find in this country for some time. Winchcombe is a few miles to the north of Cheltenham, hence my interest

@velvet donkey posted:

Yep. Him and Falk were best pals     

A bit different to Columbo     

Watched the trailer...okay....will give it a watch later...Thanx Velvet

@El Loro posted:

Part of a driveway to go on display at the Natural History Museum in London. It's where the meteorite landed in Winchcombe and shows the splat mark it made:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-58493430

I'm not sure it would lure me in to visiting the museum El......maybe if the meteorite had little green alien men stuck to it

That meteorite would be in the Natural Science Museum if it landed here - no charge.

It probably is - I've never seen a follow up though       

@velvet donkey posted:

That meteorite would be in the Natural Science Museum if it landed here - no charge.

It probably is - I've never seen a follow up though       

Would we be here if the meteorite landed?

@slimfern posted:

Would we be here if the meteorite landed?

Meteorites vary a lot in size. The Winchcombe one is very small than the one which exploded at Tunguska in 1908. That was in a sparsely populated area, It's thought that at least 3 people were killed then. If that had happened in a populated area, the number would have been far higher.

@El Loro posted:

Meteorites vary a lot in size. The Winchcombe one is very small than the one which exploded at Tunguska in 1908. That was in a sparsely populated area, It's thought that at least 3 people were killed then. If that had happened in a populated area, the number would have been far higher.

Wasn't there also a theory that it was a possible meteorite that saw off the dinosaurs and caused the ice age ??

@velvet donkey posted:

I still rate Woman Under an Influence slim. Powerhouse - on Youtube   

I found it a bit of a hard watch...it was fairly intense at times
Well acted though and NO not at all like the Columbo we all used to love

@slimfern posted:

Wasn't there also a theory that it was a possible meteorite that saw off the dinosaurs and caused the ice age ??

It's thought that it was caused by an asteroid rather than a meteorite. Asteroids are bigger - over 1 metre in diameter. It's though that the one in Mexico was about 10 kilometers in diameter.

@El Loro posted:

It's thought that it was caused by an asteroid rather than a meteorite. Asteroids are bigger - over 1 metre in diameter. It's though that the one in Mexico was about 10 kilometers in diameter.

Ahhh okay

And those things float around out there willy nilly......we've been lucky really haven't we, that they have no real sense of direction

@slimfern posted:

Ahhh okay

And those things float around out there willy nilly......we've been lucky really haven't we, that they have no real sense of direction

A track is kept of asteroids by NASA:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroid-watch

@El Loro posted:

A track is kept of asteroids by NASA:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroid-watch

A job one wouldn't want to take one's eye off

I remember the film 'The day after tomorrow'

@slimfern posted:

A job one wouldn't want to take one's eye off

I remember the film 'The day after tomorrow'

From the same man who directed "Independence Day" and the American version of "Godzilla"

@El Loro posted:

From the same man who directed "Independence Day" and the American version of "Godzilla"

Saw that, not keen on Will Smith, he's a bit of an OTT actor for me and it was very much the usual ...The USA saves the world again type film

Very much enjoyed 'Abigail's Party' ...you mentioned it in MC thread...... cringey stuff but fabulous to watch

night EL slim velvet yogi moonsiee

@El Loro posted:

Part of a driveway to go on display at the Natural History Museum in London. It's where the meteorite landed in Winchcombe and shows the splat mark it made:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-58493430

wow a bit iffy EL love your posts

Good morning everyone it's supposed to be another wet day today but as we've had so little rain the last couple of days I'll believe it when it happens.

Enjoy your day everyone