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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 4, 2017 21:16:18 GMT
....what would you show?
If I had the opportunity, I'd create a channel dedicated to classic short films, ranging from 1890s to 1990s. Pretty much every genre would be represented (even newsreels and "sponsored films", two genres which are often overlooked these days). It would also feature shorts from a lot of different countries. It would also include old half-hour TV anthology series episodes (which to me are a lot like short films).
How about you? If you could run your own channel dedicated to films, what would you show?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 4, 2017 21:26:20 GMT
Matthew the Swordsman"....what would you show?" Anything good that I could get my grubby little grabbers on. Would love to be able to share with people some of the lesser known movies that I have loved in memory and long to be able to see again. Some have turned up on You-tube but it would REALLy be nice to see them on a big screen. I would show pictures on some sort of "theme" nights with movies that fit together in some way, be it actor, story, location, director, date whatever. OR Maybe like it used to be with shorts and cartoons, newsreel, B-movie and feature presentation ? Nice OP idea. It will be fun to see the ideas that will be flooding in.
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Post by MiketheMechanic on Apr 5, 2017 4:10:20 GMT
I'd go with a 'B' movie channel with lots of little known , obscure B films coupled with the more famous ones. TBC (The B-movie Channel).
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 5, 2017 4:33:37 GMT
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 5, 2017 4:38:13 GMT
I'd go with a 'B' movie channel with lots of little known , obscure B films coupled with the more famous ones. TBC (The B-movie Channel). I would love that. In particular it would be good to have the Columbia and Universal b-films, a lot of which are very rarely seen these days (when I was doing research on early Australian television, I often saw these films listed on the TV schedules, looked them up, and saw that a lot of them have less than 50 ratings on IMDb. Some of them don't even have 20 ratings).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 5, 2017 4:47:23 GMT
Matthew the SwordsmanAs a kid, I kept scrapbooks and notebooks with pictures and newspaper and magazine clippings and reviews of the movies I saw. Some of the pictures that were shown together were real "what were these people thinking" type pairings when looked back upon. Some movies are so memorable that the reaction is "Hey, I saw that ?" No notation of the extras were made but I remember there always being a whole bunch of extra "stuff" that had to be sat through before the big pictures. I need to dig out the books again and take a look at them. We used to go to a theater in Times Square that showed only newsreels. I must have gone there with my dad as he didn't care for "real" movies and mom didn't like to be on Times Square any longer than she had to be and I doubt she would have gone into a theater there.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 5, 2017 5:14:22 GMT
Matthew the Swordsman We used to go to a theater in Times Square that showed only newsreels. I must have gone there with my dad as he didn't care for "real" movies and mom didn't like to be on Times Square any longer than she had to be and I doubt she would have gone into a theater there. In Australia there was also newsreel theatres in the 1950s (TV didn't come here until 1956, and was limited to Sydney and Melbourne only until 1959). One thing I came across mentioned in old newspapers are what they called "theatrettes", which often showed a lot of documentary shorts. There was also "social club" presentations of films. For example, in a place called Camden in New South Wales on 7 May 1951, the Parish Hall showed the following documentaries: " Steady as She Goes" (description: "dealing with the work of Sydney Harbour Pilots". This film is on YouTube, uploaded by NFSA) " The Man on the Beat" (description: "showing something of the life of a London Policeman") "Bakelite" (description: "manufacture and uses of this important material") " Gardens of England" (description: "a short colour film giving views of famous English gardens") " Westminster Abbey" (description: "its description and history") Admission was free! I'd love to see the film on bakelite. It sounds fascinating. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/143976183
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 5, 2017 5:18:18 GMT
Too funny. Bakelite was the very one I was going to say I wanted to see first. Actually, they all sound pretty see-worthy. Matthew the Swordsman
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Post by taranofprydain on Apr 6, 2017 22:00:42 GMT
i would show whole bunches of films both famous and little known from the silent era up through the modern day, selected for quality or entertainment value. It would be particularly nice to showcase Universal and early Paramount titles which are rarely seen.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 6, 2017 22:53:53 GMT
Million Dollar MovieThis was my introduction to OLD movies. I never knew they were old. They were just wonderful to watch. I think you would have been a devoted watcher of the program. "This series began in NYC, on local station WOR TV 9, in 1955, and ran for over a decade. It featured first run movies, where each feature would run for an entire week, airing twice nightly. This format, that simulated the local neighborhood movie house, was also adopted by other local stations, realizing that this was one way to reach the most viewers, considering the competition from the networks. The first 3 features were "Magic Town" staring James Stewart, "Body And SouL" staring John Garfield", and "A Double Life" staring Ronald Coleman. Much of the 1930s and 40s library from RKO were featured. As the station was a subsidiary of "RKO General Tire", many of those films were rental free, to the station. Those RKO films included "King Kong","Gunga Din","Citizen Kane" and the "Fred Astaire"- "Ginger Rogers" RKO musicals. In the summer of 1957, a few of those RKO films such as "King Kong" and "Top Hat" were aired, one time only, on ABC Network TV, on Saturday nights, after which they returned to be rerun on "Million Dollar Movie". Today, those RKO films as well as thousands of others are part of " The Turner Classic Movies" vault." This is where I first "met" and grew to love Garfield, Bogart, Cagney etc etc etc. Something like this would be great to have on WBAT-TV Matthew the Swordsman
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Post by OldAussie on Apr 6, 2017 23:10:13 GMT
Great but rarely seen classics of 1950-1975. My teenage son loves The Bad and the Beautiful and The Carpetbaggers just to name 2. How many kids these days know they even exist?
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 8, 2017 9:11:17 GMT
I'd like to see a TCM for TV. That is, a channel that treats TV programs the way TCM treats movies
Is it worth doing? How would it work?
We've seen some channels do this sort of thing in small ways ever since the old Nick at Nite in the 80s. You also have nostalgia channels like ME. But could a channel aimed for entertainment rather than only nostalgia succeed?
It would be nice to have a place for the best live TV dramas of the '50s
Some nights could be dedicated to variety, sitcoms, westerns, cops and private eyes, documentaries, shows, etc.
And maybe behind the scenes documentaries, on things like the Warners TV factory, the rise and fall of the TV western, the Golden Age of comedy-variety, and so on.
Perhaps this channel could break away from the template of stripping/one rerun per weekday as you show every single episode of the series. Let's say you're showing a series that ran for one season and produced 30 episodes. 10 of these episodes are very good. You can show those episodes as part of a block with other, similar programs.would not air programs in the standard strip 5 format. Instead it would, say, have a westerns night and show a Gunsmoke, a Have Gun Will Travel, a Rawhide, and a Wagon Train. The next night could be sketch comedy with Your Show Of Shows, Steve Allen, Ernie Kovacs, etc...
This idea has been rattling around my brain since the '80s, when I read in TV Guide that the CBC had an all night show where a guy played a CBC night watchman and would play stuff from the CBC archives (anybody remember that show?). The TVG article claimed that a US network (NBC I think) was considering doing the same sort of show.
I was so excited, thinking of all the great NBC stuff that would become available. Of course, that never happened... But ever since I've thought about how it might be done on cable.
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Post by teleadm on Apr 8, 2017 11:11:48 GMT
If If If this could happen I would need a rich uncle (or something similiar) to gain both creative and economic freedom. So movies could be shown without commercial breaks, only commercials between movies, except very long movies, where there is a break (or pause) decided by the original director where that break is (not like some DVD's where it seems to have been chosen in random).
To get access to the big companies movies, exchange their movies with free commercials of chosen companies so they can show their latest outputs (trailers or making-of movies).
One day a week should be a theme day showing classics from other countries (with subtitles).
Between 6 am to 8 pm, only family friendly fair.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 8, 2017 12:53:19 GMT
Richard KimbleI love the idea of the TV channel with the old anthology series shows. You would, of course, have access to the original copies of the ones that were taped over to save money, right ? I'm thinking that you know about the Decades Channel. I liked their earlier format where the theme was some event for that day. This whole weekend devoted to one program, even when it's a program I like, not so much. Two whole days of The Love Boat. AGGGGGGGGH! I would like a mix of show genres on a particular night. Having all one genre might get to be too much sameness.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 8, 2017 15:10:59 GMT
teleadm If it was your dream station could / would you not eliminate commercials completely ? I know I would ! One of the local "old movie cut up real bad for commercials " stations fills in the times between shows with mini-biographies or making-oves when a show ends at "non-hour" time so that the next films start on the hour. That's sort of a nice feature. Can turn in pretty much every two hours and catch a whole movie.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 8, 2017 15:26:36 GMT
Richard Kimble I love the idea of the TV channel with the old anthology series shows. You would, of course, have access to the original copies of the ones that were taped over to save money, right ? There's a lot of ones which survive as kinescopes, but haven't been digitised. Meanwhile, the garbage classroom films by Sid Davis have all been digitised. Ugh. Archivists have really strange priorities....
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Post by teleadm on Apr 8, 2017 16:02:24 GMT
teleadm If it was your dream station could / would you not eliminate commercials completely ? I know I would ! One of the local "old movie cut up real bad for commercials " stations fills in the times between shows with mini-biographies or making-oves when a show ends at "non-hour" time so that the next films start on the hour. That's sort of a nice feature. Can turn in pretty much every two hours and catch a whole movie. Offcourse no commercials world be the best! It was just an idea on how to fill a movie channel with classic movies. To make economical ends meet.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 9, 2017 0:44:27 GMT
teleadmMoney no object. No Commercials. Variety ! = HEAVEN 
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Post by politicidal on Apr 9, 2017 0:53:41 GMT
I would show an even mixture of contemporary films and classics weekly. I'd make a viewing block for certain holidays or special events. It would include a section on the schedule for children's films as well. What AMC should be but only ever made it halfway.
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