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Ah, JR, memories are made of this! Norah? Another
cocktail please.
It's a beautiful Saturday afternoon down here in
Soldiers Point. I've been working all day on our upcoming recent acquisitions
E-mail-out for our website, while Mila works on our Movie Poster Bid listings
for the coming week.... meanwhile trying to get an answer from eBay about
something - a robot reply says it will take perhaps 72 hours.... for a what?
another robot reply that answers nothing of our question (and quite an important
one as far as we are concerned, but do they care??)
Our planned move to website-only sales and
auctions through Movie Poster Bid looks better every time I get some idiotic
response from an eBay robot-reply that does NOT address my question or sends me
to a link that has a bunch of drop-down box questions that do NOT relate to my
current issue. Indeed, eBay won't confirm that what may be a spoof scam email
did NOT emanate from them. That's right folks. Send one of their emails off to
spoof @ and while they will come back fast when they KNOW it's not from them,
they are VERY slow in coming back in admitting that YES, they sent this email to
you. Considering it's saying that you had requested a change to certain rather
important preferences that you HADN'T requested, it seems mighty strange that
they cannot confirm or deny that they sent it in the first place.
Norah! Another cocktail, please, my
dear.
And JR's post reminded me (as Tom Pennock's did
elsewhere) of just what a big thing listening to, and recording audio movie
tracks was back in the pre-video days when indeed - here in Australia, just like
there, movies took 3-5 years to get to TV - or you had to wait for a re-release.
And NO colour TV pre 1972!!!
Oh, well, as the old saying goes, "head down and
bum up" and back to work!
Have a nice weekend everybody. We promised an
eye-waterer for our first Recent Acquisitions mail out, and they surely are they
that. If we don't have your email address on our list, get it into us. No spam,
no selling on your email address, no nonsense about how you can't trust anybody
but us - just first notification of our latest, never offered before
(by us) movie material.
Best,
Phil;
Phil Edwards Cinema Arts
26 Vista Avenue
Soldiers Point
NSW
2317
AUSTRALIA
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 3:46
PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Recording Audio
Just listening to only the soundtrack from the right movie can be loads
of fun. I first discovered this with the original film version of THING FROM
ANOTHER WORLD. I was laid up in bed with a back injury and couldn't turn over
easily. I happened to be lying facing away from the TV when THE THING came on
a late-night local station. I just lay there facing a blank wall and listened
to it and was amazed to discover that the dialog and sound effects were so
strong -- and the directing and pacing so tight -- that it played
beautifully as an old-style radio drama and that I didn't need the pictures at
all.
It's hard for younger people to truly get the idea that it wasn't so long
ago that you could NOT watch any movie you wanted in your home at your whim.
No, it used to be that you either saw it at the theater for the week or
two it was showing in your town -- or just
waited until the movie finally came to TV (which took
about 3 to 5 years from the time a film was released). If you missed
the movie the night it aired on your local station, you were just out of
luck. You had to wait until it aired again... which could be months or
years... if it ever did. That was it -- that was the only way to watch
movies (unless you had your own film projector).
I purchased the very first commercial model VCR the day it hit the
shelves -- and there were no pre-recorded tapes of movies available for it.
None. There was only blank tape (and it was fairly expensive). The idea was
that you would record the shows off-the-air (or cable if you had it). It
actually took a couple of years for them to realize that they could start
selling movies on video tape cassettes to the general public. The first
to appear were incredibly expensive -- priced between $79 and $129 each! For
one movie! Hard to believe, I know, but true. Video tape rental stores took
another year or two to appear in most towns. And this wasn't back in the
caveman days, folks -- this was after STAR WARS was released -- in 1978, a
mere 27 years ago!
-- JR
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005
19:45
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Recording
Audio
> HI from Joe B.
A friend of mine was a drive-in
theatre projectionist in the 60s. He dubbed the entire soundtrack of
Gone With the Wind onto an eight-track tape for us. You could listen
and be as drawn in as if you were in the theatre. Just like radio
drama.
It just goes to show you the effect a well-performed good script
can have on a listener-- even without the
picture.
Best,
Joe
> From: "Tom A. Pennock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date:
2005/03/11 Fri PM 08:16:40 EST
> To: [email protected]
>
Subject: [MOPO] Recording Audio
>
> Glad to hear someone else
recorded audio soundtracks from television before
> VCR's. I still
have many audio reel to reel tapes of movie soundtracks
> recorded
from many years ago. Boy are the kid's spoiled today!!! They walk into
a
> video store and buy GWTW or The Wizard Of Oz right off the
shelf.
>
> There was a dealer by the name of Buddy McDaniel who
used to sell vinyl LP
> records custom made of movie
soundtracks. They cost about $100.00 per title.
> Those were the
good old days!!!
>
> Buddy, are you on the MOPO server
list?
>
> Best,
>
> --Tom
Pennock
>
>
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