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@El Loro posted:Slim, a couple of films on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the comping week.
Tomorrow at 15.15 "The Small Back Room" (1949) with David Farrar, Kathleen Byron and Jack Hawkins, directed and written by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the film they made after their "The Red Shoes". It;s about a bomb disposal expert who has become disillusioned and due to an injury is in constant pain do he drinks to dull the pain. It's a serious film and is possibly the most mature British film of the 1940s. The most challenging bombs he has to deal with are booby trapped ones. It's a very good film. Incidentally Michael Gough has a key role, Oddly enough, the piece of music "Wintermärchen" I mentioned yesterday is in the film.There;s a very minor British film on Wednesday at 8.40 am called "Murder at the Windmill" (1949), which was the first film to be shot partially at the Windmill Theatre and includes some musical routines from the Windmill Girls but they are clothed this being a 1949 film, The detective sergeant was an early role for Jon Pertwee.
My Great Uncle Bob was a bomb disposal expert during the war...he lost a leg & hand to one going off...the same explosion killed his colleague 
I can imagine this film being rather tense....
I'm not sure I could watch anything with John Pertwee without seeing him as Wurzel Gummidge 
Might record that one though 
Thanks El
(apologies for not getting back to you yesterday)
@El Loro posted:A short black and white animated film posted on Youtube a few months ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfpF2G3eCTc
A very gentle film isn't it....
And yes it does have a Studio Ghibli feel to it 
If anyone has a spare £9,000,00 to spare 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...izKgAzGA_bDaSgG5erVE
@slimfern posted:My Great Uncle Bob was a bomb disposal expert during the war...he lost a leg & hand to one going off...the same explosion killed his colleague
I can imagine this film being rather tense....
I'm not sure I could watch anything with John Pertwee without seeing him as Wurzel Gummidge
Might record that one though
Thanks El
(apologies for not getting back to you yesterday)
or Doctor Who
Incidentally, for a time during WW2 he was working in the Naval Intelligence Division along with Ian Fleming 
@slimfern posted:If anyone has a spare £9,000,00 to spare
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...izKgAzGA_bDaSgG5erVE
as seen in this clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL4Gf2ydq2U
@El Loro posted:as seen in this clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL4Gf2ydq2U
Awww I love this film
Lionel Jeffries as Grandpa was my favourite character....followed closely in second place by Baron Bomburst 
@El Loro posted:or Doctor Who
Incidentally, for a time during WW2 he was working in the Naval Intelligence Division along with Ian Fleming
Yes!
although, I have to say...Tom Baker was my favourite Dr Who, but Pertwee was my second
I think I stopped watching it when he left the series...
@slimfern posted:Oh, I don't think I've seen that one El....is it worth a watch?
Am a fan of Hitchcock films as you know
Slim, "Stage Fright" is a lesser Hitchcock film. You could have seen it before and had forgotten about it as it's not that memorable. Cast included Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Alastair Sim (as Jane Wyman's father), and Sybil Thorndike. Hitchcock's last British film.
I would put it as one to watch if you want to try to watch all of Hitchcock's films but otherwise only watch if you have nothing else to so
@El Loro posted:Slim, "Stage Fright" is a lesser Hitchcock film. You could have seen it before and had forgotten about it as it's not that memorable. Cast included Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Alastair Sim (as Jane Wyman's father), and Sybil Thorndike. Hitchcock's last British film.
I would put it as one to watch if you want to try to watch all of Hitchcock's films but otherwise only watch if you have nothing else to so
I'm sure I can find time El
@slimfern posted:I'm sure I can find time El
Slim, apparently the BFI consider "Juno and the Paycock" (1930) (from Sean O'Casey's play) to be Hitchcock's worst film - imdb gives it a rating of 4.6.
I've never watched it.
If you really want to you can see it on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL4Gf2ydq2U
@El Loro posted:Slim, apparently the BFI consider "Juno and the Paycock" (1930) (from Sean O'Casey's play) to be Hitchcock's worst film - imdb gives it a rating of 4.6.
I've never watched it.
If you really want to you can see it on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL4Gf2ydq2U
That link takes me back to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang El
@slimfern posted:That link takes me back to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang El
I must have thought I'd copied the address but hadn't so the previous one got pasted instead
The link I meant to put is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULYPlfRgOtk
@El Loro posted:I must have thought I'd copied the address but hadn't so the previous one got pasted instead
The link I meant to put is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULYPlfRgOtk
Thanks El
@slimfern posted:Thanks El
Slim, the play is the second of Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy of plays, The first was "The Shadow of a Gunman". I'm not aware that there's a cinema film adaptation of that.
The third was "The Plough and the Stars". There was a film adaptation of that in 1936 directed by John Ford. Haven't seen that either.
@El Loro posted:Slim, the play is the second of Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy of plays, The first was "The Shadow of a Gunman". I'm not aware that there's a cinema film adaptation of that.
The third was "The Plough and the Stars". There was a film adaptation of that in 1936 directed by John Ford. Haven't seen that either.
Sean O'Casey comes across as a very staunch Irish man...political with it.
I see that he died in Torquay 
A new found snake in Peru has been named Tachymenoides harrisonfordi
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66516576
Harrison Ford is vice chair of Conservation International and likes snakes, unlike Indiana Jones.
@El Loro posted:A new found snake in Peru has been named Tachymenoides harrisonfordi
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66516576
Harrison Ford is vice chair of Conservation International and likes snakes, unlike Indiana Jones.
"These scientists keep naming critters after me, but it's always the ones that terrify children," Ford told Conservation International. "I don't understand. I spend my free time cross-stitching. I sing lullabies to my basil plants, so they won't fear the night."
Not just a loveable character but a loveable person too
@El Loro posted:A new found snake in Peru has been named Tachymenoides harrisonfordi
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66516576
Harrison Ford is vice chair of Conservation International and likes snakes, unlike Indiana Jones.
Now there’s a name to conjure with
@slimfern a Youtube link to "Putting Pants on Philip" (1927) the first Laurel and Hardy film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbmyqjFPeE8
I mentioned the film to you in January when it was shown on the Talking Pictures tv channel. The reason for mentioning this again is that the above link is a version which has been enhanced using AI to make this of HD quality. The downside is that this silent film has no soundtrack so is totally silent.
@El Loro posted:A new found snake in Peru has been named Tachymenoides harrisonfordi
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66516576
Harrison Ford is vice chair of Conservation International and likes snakes, unlike Indiana Jones.
aww lovely tale -Harrison Ford seems a lovely person
@El Loro posted:@slimfern a Youtube link to "Putting Pants on Philip" (1927) the first Laurel and Hardy film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbmyqjFPeE8
I mentioned the film to you in January when it was shown on the Talking Pictures tv channel. The reason for mentioning this again is that the above link is a version which has been enhanced using AI to make this of HD quality. The downside is that this silent film has no soundtrack so is totally silent.
Watched this yesterday
It has been digitally enhanced really well, but not having music was a little strange, however, I did enjoy it
At the start where the ship's captain kept taking Stan's hat to check his head, reminded me of Michael Crawford's Frank Spencer
Thanks for posting the link El
@slimfern posted:Watched this yesterday
It has been digitally enhanced really well, but not having music was a little strange, however, I did enjoy it
At the start where the ship's captain kept taking Stan's hat to check his head, reminded me of Michael Crawford's Frank Spencer
Thanks for posting the link El
Slim , There's another Laurel and Hardy short "The Battle of the Century" which has also been digitally enhanced, That was their second film as a duo and has that pie fight. This one does have the soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iidVRWx3y8A
That's the only other Laurel and Hardy enhanced in the same way at present but I'll put a link to the posters list of videos. Quite a number of other videos, though not feature films/shorts. There's a 1939 tour of Devon for instance which might interest you but it was made using Dufaycolor which was an early colour technique for photographs and for a couple of films. It was cheaper than other colour techniques for films but does show.
https://www.youtube.com/@livin...oryaienhanced/videos