@El Loro posted:Good morning everyone
Sunny cold start to the day here.
New stamps being issued by Royal Mail from next week with various Aardman Animation characters depicted such as Wallace & Gtomit and Shaun the Sheep:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...and-bristol-63202506I hope everyone has a good day
I like those stamps, they're very colourful and fun 
Am old enough to remember 'Morph' on 'Take Hart' ...Tony Hart was very clever/talented. 
@El Loro posted:Links to 2 silent films on Youtube.
The first is called "Terror Island" from 1920. 2 of the 7 reels are missing though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCYaZfvsjUE
The second is called "The Man from Beyond" from 1922:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm-njiAhwXg
The films are hardly worth bothering to watch other than to see who the leading "actor" (if you can call him an actor is). He is much better known outside films.Incidentally he was a family friend of a couple of vaudeville comedians. At one time he travelled with them in a medicine show, At that time he saw their 3 year old son fall down the stairs. He picked the son up, brushed the dust off, and said to the father that the fall was "a buster". The father liked that name and that's how Joseph Keaton jnr became "Buster" Keaton.
An interesting piece of trivia El
Harry Houdini as the lead...as you say, better known for another talent 
@slimfern posted:An interesting piece of trivia El
Harry Houdini as the lead...as you say, better known for another talent
I think that piece of trivia is more interesting than those two films Incidentally, Eugene Pallette was in "Terror Island", he was a well known character actor during the 1930s and 40s, he was in "My Man Godfrey" which you watched a few months ago (William Powell, supposedly homeless, being hired as a butler in a dysfunctional family).
@El Loro posted:Good morning everyone
Sunny cold start to the day here.
New stamps being issued by Royal Mail from next week with various Aardman Animation characters depicted such as Wallace & Gtomit and Shaun the Sheep:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...and-bristol-63202506I hope everyone has a good day
lovely fun colourful light -hearted stamps-thank you EL
night EL slim moonsieee
@slimfern posted:
I didn't watch much of Blue Peter.
Loved Johnny Ball in 'Think of a Number'
I watched Blue Peter during the Christopher Trace era, he was one of the original presenters, later he was joined by Valerie Singleton, then John Noakes. There were other presenters during that time but those the best known of them.
Short extract from a recent House of Lords committee hearing. "Ai-Da" is the best known robot artist.
If you want to watch the whole session (about 40 minutes):
https://parliamentlive.tv/even...eb1d2180?in=15:40:36
Select committees in the Commons are the only way you get near the truth. For the Conservatives it's a lying exercise. Comical.
Hope you're well and busy El
It's an ignore me day
@El Loro posted:Short extract from a recent House of Lords committee hearing. "Ai-Da" is the best known robot artist.
If you want to watch the whole session (about 40 minutes):
https://parliamentlive.tv/even...eb1d2180?in=15:40:36
Do we really have time for that? Of course one day man will invent himself - it's a stick on. Then worry
@El Loro posted:Short extract from a recent House of Lords committee hearing. "Ai-Da" is the best known robot artist.
If you want to watch the whole session (about 40 minutes):
https://parliamentlive.tv/even...eb1d2180?in=15:40:36
Not quite in the parameters of a 'Humans' synth yet is she
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans_(TV_series) ...a great series.
@velvet donkey posted:Select committees in the Commons are the only way you get near the truth. For the Conservatives it's a lying exercise. Comical.
Hope you're well and busy El
It's an ignore me day
Thanks, I'm busy and keeping well, I hope you're OK
@velvet donkey posted:Select committees in the Commons are the only way you get near the truth. For the Conservatives it's a lying exercise. Comical.
Hope you're well and busy El
It's an ignore me day
Hi Velvet
Better late than never I hope all is well with you and your family
@Moonie posted:Hi Velvet
Better late than never
Thanks bro
I've not seen a squirrel in years. Let your cat out and destroy mother nature 
Hope you are okay Moons. Tony Iommi - I had the full lot 
Dunno why you hired Steve Bruce. Feck, how did he get past the board?
Take care - my radar says you're good. And it's a Canada Goose
Likewise family wise
@velvet donkey posted:Thanks bro
I've not seen a squirrel in years. Let your cat out and destroy mother nature
Hope you are okay Moons. Tony Iommi - I had the full lot
Dunno why you hired Steve Bruce. Feck, how did he get past the board?
Take care - my radar says you're good. And it's a Canada Goose
Likewise family wise
Even if I had a cat I wouldnât let it out when the squirrels are about. I love watching their antics. I feed them and the birds
All well here fankoo Velvet
Tbh, I donât understand why they employed Bruce either 
Thatâs good news
@slimfern posted:Not quite in the parameters of a 'Humans' synth yet is she
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans_(TV_series) ...a great series.
I saw the first episode of that but didn't like it so stopped watching 
That Wiki link diesn't work as the crowdstack parser doesn't like the use of bracket symbols in hyperlinks, Here's a link to the imdb pages about Humans:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4122068/
@El Loro posted:I saw the first episode of that but didn't like it so stopped watching
That Wiki link diesn't work as the crowdstack parser doesn't like the use of bracket symbols in hyperlinks, Here's a link to the imdb pages about Humans:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4122068/
Oh! I binge watched the whole 3 series during lockdown and really enjoyed it
We human beings weren't very nice in it tbh. 
A film poser for you. In what way are the films Hitchcock's "The Trouble with Harry", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Zulu", and the 1976 version of "King Kong" connected?
The answer can be found from the opening credits to the four films and it's not that someone is in all four films.
@El Loro posted:A film poser for you. In what way are the films Hitchcock's "The Trouble with Harry", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Zulu", and the 1976 version of "King Kong" connected?
The answer can be found from the opening credits to the four films and it's not that someone is in all four films.
Has it got something to do with the music? 
@El Loro posted:No, it's not music-related. You might have to look through the opening credits of the films to spot it. Another film is "Roman Holiday". It's only in some films and isn't always wholly accurate.
I went onto You tube to take a look and got distracted 
I'll have another go tomorrow El
@El Loro posted:A short French film from 1907, unrelated to the Bizet opera of s similar name. It was directed by Ferdinand Zecca. There is no soundtrack and no title cards Lasts just over 7 minutes.
A funny little film El
At one point I had ''Bobbing along on the bottom of the beautiful briny sea' enter my head....which is no surprise as I've been humming it on and off since the news of Angela Lansbury's death today 
night EL slim moonsieee velvet
@slimfern posted:A funny little film El
At one point I had ''Bobbing along on the bottom of the beautiful briny sea' enter my head....which is no surprise as I've been humming it on and off since the news of Angela Lansbury's death today
Yes, I heard that Angela Lansbury had died She had a long acting career starting in films in this country in 1944. She's better known for her work after 1960 and of course for "Murder She Wrote",
Of interest to fans of "Desert Island Discs". Over 90 lost episodes have been found and are now available to listen to. There are some very well known people.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d5wts9
BBC article on the discovery:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-63215698
@El Loro posted:Yes, I heard that Angela Lansbury had died
'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' was a fabulous film ...I was just the right age when I watched it
It left me wanting to do magic 
@El Loro posted:
BBC article on the discovery:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-63215698
Wow! what a wonderful find ....very lucky for those who like to listen
It used to be part of my weekend routine
@El Loro posted:Of interest to fans of "Desert Island Discs". Over 90 lost episodes have been found and are now available to listen to. There are some very well known people.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d5wts9
BBC article on the discovery:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-63215698
Germaine Greer's was a classic
It's not lost though. I had a hangover that morning and thought wtf is this
@slimfern posted:'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' was a fabulous film ...I was just the right age when I watched it
It left me wanting to do magic
For me it was "Mary Poppins" which I saw at the cinema when it was first released. Disney was intending to make "Bedknobs and Broomsticks", was developing it along with "Mary Poppins" at the same time but decided to make it afterwards. It's no coincidence that the director and songwriters/composers did both films. David Tomlinson is the best known actor who was in both. There were other actors and snimation staff who were in both.
Julie Andrews originally turned down the role of Miss Eglantine Price in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks", but, by the time she changed her mind, it was too late as Angela Lansbury had been chosen.
@velvet donkey posted:Germaine Greer's was a classic
It's not lost though. I had a hangover that morning and thought wtf is this
Her choices were a little out there...
@velvet donkey posted:Germaine Greer's was a classic
It's not lost though. I had a hangover that morning and thought wtf is this
2,439 episodes available on BBC Sounds to listen to, going all the way back to 1951
@El Loro posted:For me it was "Mary Poppins" which I saw at the cinema when it was first released. Disney was intending to make "Bedknobs and Broomsticks", was developing it along with "Mary Poppins" at the same time but decided to make it afterwards. It's no coincidence that the director and songwriters/composers did both films. David Tomlinson is the best known actor who was in both. There were other actors and snimation staff who were in both.
Julie Andrews originally turned down the role of Miss Eglantine Price in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks", but, by the time she changed her mind, it was too late as Angela Lansbury had been chosen.
I think the right choices were made
Julie Andrews will always be 'Maria' to me
