2/11/2008
Posted in Vintage at 5:12 pm by Sam
My apologies for being so astronomically late with this. But here it is — the last post in the Ballyhoo series, wherein we look at advertising stunts used in the 1920s to advertise movies at your local cinema. As we learned in the previous entries in this series, advertising had a spicier, zanier character to it than it does now that the process has become corralled by laws. The most striking difference, though, is that the burden of advertising fell more on individual theaters than on the production studios, which, in today’s world of mass information dissemination, handle almost everything.
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12/7/2007
Posted in Links at 8:40 pm by Sam
This short film is about ten minutes long. The less said about it by way of introduction, the better — but it’s absolutely wonderful.
http://www.scorsesefilmfreixenet.com/video_eng.htm
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11/2/2007
Posted in Side Topics at 1:54 pm by Sam
The WGA is on the verge of striking. As with the last WGA strike in 1988, it changed the face of television overnight. The reality show genre blossomed, and audiences fled the networks for cable channels in droves. You think there are lots of reality shows now? Feature films are less likely to impacted, although films that might otherwise go direct to DVD might get a shot in theaters.
Behind the mask of arts and entertainment Hollywood puts forth as its product, it’s one of the messiest political maelstroms you can imagine. In short, there’s a lot of money floating around, and everybody wants a piece of it.
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10/20/2007
Posted in Bloopers at 5:00 am by Sam
Maybe the French have it figured out after all. In Episode 52’s Jacques Tati segment, my ever so logical tongue runs afoul of that thing called English.
This is the last of the bloopers. Should I be pleased or mortified that this blooper series has lasted even longer than the podcast itself?
Blooper: Would Have Met [0:06m]:
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10/19/2007
Posted in Bloopers at 5:00 am by Sam
By Episode 50, we had closed the show so many times, we could do it on autopilot. Thing is, autopilot doesn’t always get you where you’re supposed to go.
Blooper: Wrong Turn In the Closing [0:23m]:
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10/18/2007
Posted in Side Topics at 1:10 pm by Sam
There is no inherent link between the Motiograph, a type of camera we’ll look at here, and seat covers for use in movie theaters, except that interesting articles about both appeared on the same page of The Film Daily Yearbook 1928. So we might as well cover them at the same time.
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10/13/2007
Posted in Bloopers at 5:00 am by Sam
In the ongoing effort to try to minimize the number of segments we start with the word “Well” (and other useless words like “So” and “Anyway”), I came up with the wonderful alternative, “Uh.” This is a bit you didn’t hear in Episode 50’s Fact Or Fiction segment.
Blooper: Well Uh [0:08m]:
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10/12/2007
Posted in Bloopers at 5:00 am by Sam
Stephen starts skipping, in Episode 50.
Blooper: Part [0:07m]:
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10/11/2007
Posted in Vintage at 12:34 pm by Sam
An assortment of 1928 advertisements for film laboratories….
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10/5/2007
Posted in From the Editors at 10:30 am by Sam
A tight schedule these past two weeks have meant I haven’t been able to get to the Vintage and Blooper posts much. I hope these will resume next week. In the meantime, anybody seen any good movies lately?
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