Good morning everyone 
A generally cloudy day, rainy season looks as if it starts tomorrow.
I hope everyone has a good day 
Morning El
Just ignore me politically.
@velvet donkey posted:Morning El
Just ignore me politically.
Good morning Velvet
Not much happens in this 2 minute film made by the French director Alice Guy in 1905:
The 1905 is not a typo.
Film may have been made as a joke. She worked for Gaumont - that's their logo at the bottom in the centre.
The other main French film company at that time was PathÃĐ and their logo was and is a rooster.
@El Loro posted:Not much happens in this 2 minute film made by the French director Alice Guy in 1905:
The 1905 is not a typo.
Film may have been made as a joke. She worked for Gaumont - that's their logo at the bottom in the centre.
The other main French film company at that time was PathÃĐ and their logo was and is a rooster.
He's a fine figure of a bird and very vocal isn't he 
@slimfern posted:He's a fine figure of a bird and very vocal isn't he
Very vocal
@slimfern posted:He's a fine figure of a bird and very vocal isn't he
That film was made years before "The Jazz Singer" (1927) which was the first feature film with sound, The use of sound in films took years to develop. Leon Gaumont was one of the early pioneers. In 1902 he demonstrated his sound-on-disc Chronophone, involving an electrical connection he had recently patented. So it's likely that this short film used that system.
Alice Guy directed this in 1905 also. It features a cabaret singer by the name of Dranem. It's 2 minutes long.
Posting a link to the Youtube clip rather than embedding as the act is racial stereotyping (of Japanese). One of the comments includes the words in English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kv0Mxc3j2A
@El Loro posted:Alice Guy directed this in 1905 also. It features a cabaret singer by the name of Dranem. It's 2 minutes long.
Posting a link to the Youtube clip rather than embedding as the act is racial stereotyping (of Japanese). One of the comments includes the words in English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kv0Mxc3j2A
I would never have guessed he was trying to be Japanese until I saw the pigtail 
Not a show I would pay money to see, but I guess he is of his time isn't he
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@slimfern possible films on the Talking Pictures tv channel for the coming week:
Friday 21.55 "The Face behind the Mask" (1941) Hungarian immigrant badly burned in a hotel fire turns to crime. Peter Lorre. Being shown in TP's horror slot but closer to a film noir. Good but not a cheerful film.
Saturday 17.30 "A Scandal in Paris" (1946) An account of a real life man born in 1776 who was a criminal but eventually becomes the head of the Paris police force. Crime/romance/comedy and stars George Sanders.
Saturday 21.05 "Sammy Going South" (1963) About a 10 year old boy who travels by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban. One of the people he meets on the way was played by Edward G Robinson, It's not a comedy but was directed by Alexander Mackendrick who directed some of the classic Ealing comedies.
Sunday 14.20 "Forever and a Day" (1943) a film made in the States to raise money so the cast worked for notihing An American comes to this country to sell an old house near London which belonged to his family. He meets a woman living there who refuses to sell and tells him about the house from the time it was constructed to then. It's an episodic film so features quite a lot of people, was written by several people and directed by several people.
What may be of interest to you is the segment featuring Ida Lupino, The script for that segment was written by Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited). The intention had been that he would direct it but he couldn't due to scheduling so it was directed by Rene Clair.(I think Hitchcock was working on "Shadow of a Doubt")
Cast includes a number of people you would recognise.
@El Loro posted:@slimfern possible films on the Talking Pictures tv channel for the coming week:
Friday 21.55 "The Face behind the Mask" (1941) Hungarian immigrant badly burned in a hotel fire turns to crime. Peter Lorre. Being shown in TP's horror slot but closer to a film noir. Good but not a cheerful film.
Saturday 17.30 "A Scandal in Paris" (1946) An account of a real life man born in 1776 who was a criminal but eventually becomes the head of the Paris police force. Crime/romance/comedy and stars George Sanders.
Saturday 21.05 "Sammy Going South" (1963) About a 10 year old boy who travels by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban. One of the people he meets on the way was played by Edward G Robinson, It's not a comedy but was directed by Alexander Mackendrick who directed some of the classic Ealing comedies.
Sunday 14.20 "Forever and a Day" (1943) a film made in the States to raise money so the cast worked for notihing An American comes to this country to sell an old house near London which belonged to his family. He meets a woman living there who refuses to sell and tells him about the house from the time it was constructed to then. It's an episodic film so features quite a lot of people, was written by several people and directed by several people.
What may be of interest to you is the segment featuring Ida Lupino, The script for that segment was written by Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited). The intention had been that he would direct it but he couldn't due to scheduling so it was directed by Rene Clair.(I think Hitchcock was working on "Shadow of a Doubt")
Cast includes a number of people you would recognise.
Thanks El
Some iinteresting ones there, and at a reasonable hour for a change
The last one sounds like a challenge....Recognition is one thing, remembering their names is another 
@slimfern posted:Thanks El
Some iinteresting ones there, and at a reasonable hour for a change
The last one sounds like a challenge....Recognition is one thing, remembering their names is another
I didn't mean it to be a challenge as quite a number of the actors were people who would have been well known at the time but aren't that well known now. For instance Jessie Matthews was famous at the time. There are a few that you are more likely to recognise, the most likely being Charles Laughton and Ray Milland. There are some that you may recognise but can't place the name such as Una O'Connor (Irish character actress in many films of the 30s & 40s) and Edward Everett Horton (American character actor).
@El Loro posted:
@slimfern a film challenge for you
Name the Alfred Hitchcock films which featured Charles Laughton (2 films), the one which featured Ray Milland, the one which featured Una O'Connor and the one which featured Jessie Matthews.
@El Loro posted:@slimfern a film challenge for you
Name the Alfred Hitchcock films which featured Charles Laughton (2 films), the one which featured Ray Milland, the one which featured Una O'Connor and the one which featured Jessie Matthews.
Charles Lauhgton was in Hitchcock's 'Jamaica Inn' and 'The Paradine Case'
Ray Milland featured in 'Dial M for Murder'
Una O'Connor featured in 'Murder'
and Jessie Matthews featured in 'Waltzes from Vienna'
night EL slim moonsieeee
There's a hole in our rocket, Oh NASA, Oh NASA,
There's a hole in our rocket, Oh NASA, a hole.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-62758482
@El Loro posted:There's a hole in our rocket, Oh NASA, Oh NASA,
There's a hole in our rocket, Oh NASA, a hole.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-62758482
@slimfern posted:Woohoo!!
I don't know if you have ever seen "Murder!" (1930) or "Waltzes from Vienna" (1934).
"Murder!" has some merit and can be seen as one of Hitchcock's more experimental films.
"Waltzes from Vienna" was based on a musical of that name. Hitchcock only made it as he had no other film projects that year and wanted to continue working.. It should only be seen as a curiosity rather than a Hitchcock film. The only interesting point of trivia was that Johann Strauss the elder was played by Edmund Gwenn, best known as Kris Kringle in the original "Miracle on 34th Street".
@El Loro posted:I don't know if you have ever seen "Murder!" (1930) or "Waltzes from Vienna" (1934).
"Murder!" has some merit and can be seen as one of Hitchcock's more experimental films.
"Waltzes from Vienna" was based on a musical of that name. Hitchcock only made it as he had no other film projects that year and wanted to continue working.. It should only be seen as a curiosity rather than a Hitchcock film. The only interesting point of trivia was that Johann Strauss the elder was played by Edmund Gwenn, best known as Kris Kringle in the original "Miracle on 34th Street".
They don't ring any bells El...
'Miracle on 34th Street' however, I've definitely seen that one, several times
'Dial M for Murder' I saw many years ago, and again recently..
The other two with Charles Laughton, I saw not so long ago after you recommended them to me 
@slimfern posted:They don't ring any bells El...
'Miracle on 34th Street' however, I've definitely seen that one, several times
'Dial M for Murder' I saw many years ago, and again recently..
The other two with Charles Laughton, I saw not so long ago after you recommended them to me
"Murder!" if of interest for those who want to see how Hitchcock developed over the years. Can be slow moving at times but worth watching if it ever gets shown again.
"Waltzes from Vienna" is one I've never seen and wouldn't bother to if it were to be shown,.
@El Loro posted:"Murder!" if of interest for those who want to see how Hitchcock developed over the years. Can be slow moving at times but worth watching if it ever gets shown again.
"Waltzes from Vienna" is one I've never seen and wouldn't bother to if it were to be shown,.
Alfred Hitchcock made a German version of "Murder!" though most of the cast are different. He used the same sets. The German version was called "Mary" and there's a copy of that on Youtube. It's shorter than "Murder!" and there are differences including the final scene which is very different. No subtitles and only of any interest if you are fluent in German.
@El Loro posted:Alfred Hitchcock made a German version of "Murder!" though most of the cast are different. He used the same sets. The German version was called "Mary" and there's a copy of that on Youtube. It's shorter than "Murder!" and there are differences including the final scene which is very different. No subtitles and only of any interest if you are fluent in German.
Nein
@El Loro posted:
Neither am I
I do know that GÃķtterdÃĪmmerung means "twilight of the gods" but that's only because that's what Wagner's last of his Ring operas is called,
I feel a bit ignorant tbh, as my sister was born in Germany and so my parents both know a fair bit, and more so, my husbands maternal family are German thoroughbreds, hence my children are a fraction that way bloodlined
@El Loro posted:There's a hole in our rocket, Oh NASA, Oh NASA,
There's a hole in our rocket, Oh NASA, a hole.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-62758482
awwww - how frustrating
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