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Post by mcavanaugh on May 18, 2017 16:23:29 GMT
You're searching the movies by accessing the photo's url. Yeah, I thought so.
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Post by tarathian123 on May 18, 2017 17:21:43 GMT
~~~"You're searching the movies by accessing the photo's url"~~~ Even easier than that. :-) Why? Is that against the rules? I could reel off British movies and actors without a problem. But not the US. I seldom watch the modern (post 1970/80) Hollywood movies. There you have the edge. Doesn't help me with the character. A remark on the TV about a press-editor Nelson Kane, played by Robert Heller, but the guy in your photo sure doesn't look like a press editor, or Robert Heller. Personally I've never heard of the guy. The only two I've heard of in the movie are Sutherland and Durning. It's a very boring movie. Can't wait to finish it.  [Update] And now having seen it...a silly one. Never heard Brainard's name mentioned, or (other that the name of the press-editor, which I think is not the guy in the photo) the name of the character played by the actor in the photo. I still go for my original guess at Roger Angelini. But you say it's wrong. So...who is it? |
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Post by ALurker on May 18, 2017 18:54:26 GMT
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Yeah, but what character was he in that picture and the name of the movie? |
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Post by mcavanaugh on May 18, 2017 22:58:43 GMT
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Yeah, but what character was he in that picture and the name of the movie? The character's name is Walker and the movie is "The Little Colonel." That's the one where he dances up the stairs with Shirley Temple. |
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Post by mcavanaugh on May 18, 2017 23:10:57 GMT
~~~"You're searching the movies by accessing the photo's url"~~~ Even easier than that. :-) Why? Is that against the rules? I could reel off British movies and actors without a problem. But not the US. I seldom watch the modern (post 1970/80) Hollywood movies. There you have the edge. Doesn't help me with the character. A remark on the TV about a press-editor Nelson Kane, played by Robert Heller, but the guy in your photo sure doesn't look like a press editor, or Robert Heller. Personally I've never heard of the guy. The only two I've heard of in the movie are Sutherland and Durning. It's a very boring movie. Can't wait to finish it. [Update] And now having seen it...a silly one. Never heard Brainard's name mentioned, or (other that the name of the press-editor, which I think is not the guy in the photo) the name of the character played by the actor in the photo. I still go for my original guess at Roger Angelini. But you say it's wrong. So...who is it? The only real interest this movie has for me is that I knew a number of people who worked on it, including Robert Heller, who did indeed play Free Press editor Nelson Kane, and that is him in the picture in a scene with Belinda Bauer who played the Free Press reporter, Pat Lennon.
Is your method of identifying photos against the rules? I guess you'd have to ask the people you're playing this game with. Do they all know that if you right click on a photo, select "search Google for image" that that will usually take you to a page where the photo is identified. I used this method to identify the picture you posted of Susan Stephen from "Red Beret," but I didn't post an answer because I felt it would be cheating.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 18, 2017 23:21:55 GMT
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Yeah, but what character was he in that picture and the name of the movie? IMO, that particular photo looks to be a posed studio shot and is not a frame from an actual film. Bill probably wore similar costumes in several of his films. As it stands. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is all that can be known for sure. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 18, 2017 23:35:33 GMT
mcavanaugh "Is your method of identifying photos against the rules? " The "rules" I could find about these screenshot type games is this from the OP of the screenshot game: Post by sheistheslayer on Feb 20, 2017 at 1:58am
Rules:
It's easy. Start by posting a screenshot from a movie. The first person to guess the movie correctly posts their own movie still and so on. If no one can guess the film try posting a different screenshot from the same film."
also from the Celebrity thread:
Directions (from @silentsiren): Post a photo, maybe a clue. Others guess. Whoever guesses posts the next or puts it U.F.G
Dunno if this will help or hinder the "discussion" but .... On another point: fwiw. right clicking on a photo gets me no-where.
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Post by tarathian123 on May 18, 2017 23:41:19 GMT
Yes I always feel slightly guilty at using any method that could be considered as "cheating", but then it doesn't always work. Also I'm no real expert at using computers, and I only came across my method by chance. So I figured that if I had learned how to do it then others have too, and are probably using it. If I right click on a photo I don't get a choice to "search Google for image". I use yet a different method.  My reason for not saying anything was that I didn't want to spoil the game for others, which you may now have done by now explaining the method, or a method, publicly. Wouldn't a PM to me have been a better option? |
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Post by mcavanaugh on May 19, 2017 3:03:17 GMT
Yes I always feel slightly guilty at using any method that could be considered as "cheating", but then it doesn't always work. Also I'm no real expert at using computers, and I only came across my method by chance. So I figured that if I had learned how to do it then others have too, and are probably using it. If I right click on a photo I don't get a choice to "search Google for image". I use yet a different method. My reason for not saying anything was that I didn't want to spoil the game for others, which you may now have done by now explaining the method, or a method, publicly. Wouldn't a PM to me have been a better option? No, a PM wouldn't have been a better option because everyone who plays this game has the right to know if one of the players is using a photo search method to identify pictures of actors he doesn't actually recognize in movies he's never seen. I have the right to play this game, too, and it was spoiled for me when I realized that deceptive methods were being used. Besides, if you've done nothing wrong, how then is the game spoiled?
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Post by tarathian123 on May 19, 2017 3:10:04 GMT
I don't consider it deceptive. No more deceptive than the object of the game which is to find a movie, actor, or character that the players may never have even heard of. If I can discover a method to combat that, so can anyone else. I did inform another player what I was doing, but by PM. It didn't seem to bother him any. You may note that I actually started the thread, and for the most part of it I didn't even know how to enter a picture to partake in the game proper. However don't worry. As I now find the game (and the other two similar games) far too easy, with occasional exceptions, and have lost interest in them, I will withdraw from the games completely. You could say I spoiled things for myself. Ah me, c'est la vie! Have fun. |
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Post by jervistetch on May 19, 2017 20:09:37 GMT
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Post by movielover on May 19, 2017 20:14:52 GMT
Laurel Near as the Lady in the Radiator in Eraserhead.
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Post by jervistetch on May 19, 2017 20:18:51 GMT
The only role she ever played. And why bother? It would all be downhill from there.
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Post by movielover on May 19, 2017 20:25:01 GMT
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Post by jervistetch on May 19, 2017 20:30:20 GMT
Hart (Timothy Bottoms) talking to Prof. Kingsfield (John Houseman) in The Paper Chase
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Post by movielover on May 19, 2017 20:32:16 GMT
Correct! Great movie that's sadly overlooked.
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Post by jervistetch on May 19, 2017 20:39:51 GMT
Remember it was also a TV Show?
And then we got these. Love that guy.
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Post by jervistetch on May 19, 2017 20:43:20 GMT
Helpful hint: This is actually a photograph seen in the movie.  |
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Post by movielover on May 19, 2017 20:46:18 GMT
Remember it was also a TV Show? And then we got these. Love that guy. Yes, I remember the series and the John Houseman commercials. |
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Post by movielover on May 19, 2017 20:48:11 GMT
Ghost Story (1981)
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[Update] And now having seen it...a silly one. 
