Not a bad idea to get it all in the will. My wife keeps saying that if I go first, she'll call the dumpster guy BEFORE she calls undertaker. She's kidding, of course......I think.

For many years, I worked at a local TV station and I begin during the era when they ran 16mm film. Unlike with theaters where every print had standard cues that were used universally, the TV industry didn't. Each station had it's own system of cues to reel changes and to commercial breaks. Some wher...

I worked in the film department of a local TV station back then and we always got prints of those "making of..." shorts. The studios hoped they'd get some free publicity when a station used them as filler, but our station never did because management felt they were nothing but ten-minute commercials...

While early John Wayne westerns aren't exactly my cup of tea, I'm glad for those who enjoy them. Now if Olive Films would just get going and release a restored version of THE QUIET MAN on Blu-Ray I'd be very happy. EDIT: Forget what I said, I just saw Olive's website and it's coming in January. Than...

I think that perhaps a better record was kept after the extras became unionized. Instead of often being payed a flat daily rate (sometimes in cash at the end of the day) they were paid hourly and with premium pay for doing additional "bits" and penalties for missed lunch breaks and such. Still, it's...

THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH is one of my very favorite British films. We too had one like it in my hometown. I guess up until the early fifties it was pretty well cared for, but by the time I started going there around 1958 it truly had become a "flea pit". It was so bad that they never turned on the...

Oh, I remember those days. They'd come in and grab anything with sprocket holes. It didn't matter if the films were in public domain or whether they had legally been purchased from some company like Blackhawk. Out they'd go and it was up to the collector to prove they had the right to them. I knew o...

Ah, such memories. When I was a little kid in the early 1950's my dad worked in the Albany, NY branch of National Screen Service and ran the press book and mat department. He was always bring home press books which I would cut up and past on a big toy truck I had. Boy, what I wouldn't give to have a...

Wether you like it or not, Film is going away. It's already happened in a lot of places. In the city where I live all the first-run theaters are owned by one of the major national chains which last Spring quietly converted all of them to digital just in time for the summer film season. Not long aft...

Do you guys know Berhard Wicki's DIE BRÜCKE (1959)? That's one of my favourites. It's about a group of Nazi-indoctrinated German teenagers who "defend" a pointless little bridge in the last days of WWII against approaching US forces and die in the attempt. As much parable as psychological drama. ht...

Thanks for all the comments. A lot to savor. Unfortunately "A Walk In The Sun" appears not to be on dvd. A WALK IN THE SUN is or was considered P.D., and has been on 16mm and VHS, and may be in some of those multi-film DVD collections with awful quality. I think it's available for watching on line ...

CliffordWeimer wrote:I've never found anything remotely amusing about Wheeler & Woolsey or the Ritz Brothers.

I haven't seen enough of the Ritz Bros. to say much, but I can't stand WHEELER And WOOLSEY.

Just a thought. Perhaps the foreign studios had already made dubbed versions for English-speaking theatrical markets and used those to make TV prints for this country.

My dad said that what made the Ealing comedies-- and Alec Guinness, who was in so many of them-- so famous in the 1950s was that they played on ABC back when it was the poorest of the networks and most in need of programming, and they enjoyed a lot of popularity for being high quality, pretty recen...

If it's a fact that TCM is getting a package of thousand films from Universal, most likely they're spreading it out with a certain number of films per year for so many years. The cost of such a large package would be extremely expensive and taking delivery all in one year would mean that they'd have...

Indeed I remember the store. I started collecting stills when I was in my early teens and when my cousin (who also collected) and I were around 16 or 17 we'd take a train from Albany to NYC on a Saturday and spend the day going through movie stores. I remember we stumbled on it by accident and thoug...

You can bet if Concast started a movie channel it wouldn't be classics (at least what we consider classics), commercial free or uncut like TCM. The only thing Comcast is interested in is how much money it can make and how many commercials it can cram into each show or film.

In my view, the problem is that many digital projectors now in use do not have the lumen horsepower to properly fill a large screen with light from a long throw. There are such projectors available, but often budget constraints triumph over physics and common sense. SETH I agree. The technology is ...

Penfold wrote:It's a surprise that anyone thinks it's a 'Screen Classic'.....

Nowadays, the studios will call anything a classic if it helps them sell it.

I believe that Canadian broadcasters, including the networks, used 16mm (and tape) exclusively until sometime in the 80's. I ran the film department at a local station in Upstate New York for many years and the entire industry transitioned from film to tape in the early to mid 1980s. Not sure about...

I always looked forward to each weekly issue of Boxoffice magazine when I managed theaters, but while I would love to be able to access all those back issues, $240 a year is a little too steep for me.

Strange. For some reason my first post (literally) came out blank. I shall try again.

I can't answer your question, but you might try the large and very active forum in Britain called Britmovie. (britmovie.co.uk) most likely somebody can help you over there.

I can't answer your question, but there's a large and active forum in Britain called Britmovie [url]htpp://britmovie.co.uk[/url] and I'd bet you'll find somebody there who can help you. Good luck!