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Post by Stammerhead on Jan 17, 2018 21:57:02 GMT
I have How The West Was Won on DVD and, for me, the visual faults add to my enjoyment of the cumbersome spectacle.
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Post by snsurone on Jan 18, 2018 13:27:55 GMT
But dammit, I'm digressing again from the topic of this thread! Please feel free to return to the subject of Cinerama. I always say: if the thread originator can't digress, who can? If I think of anything else to say about Cinerama, I shall return! Thank you, General MacArthur, LOL.
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Post by marshamae on Jan 18, 2018 14:55:23 GMT
Saw a Cinérama travelogue , then Windjammer and How The West Was Won at a Cinérama theater. The travelogue featured a scene in which people got in wicker chariots with sled runners and went flying down cobbled streets of some hilly town in France or Italy ( Villefranche?) it was thrilling.
For years I showed HOW THE WEST WAS WON. To 3rd graders to 8ntroduce the westward expansion . We would look at it segment by segment , stopping to plot the changes on a map, study the modes of transport, the tools, and inventions, the famous personages... Even on VHS. On an old TV. It was pretty thrilling .
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 18, 2018 18:35:55 GMT
I always say: if the thread originator can't digress, who can? If I think of anything else to say about Cinerama, I shall return! Thank you, General MacArthur, LOL. I had a nagging feeling I'd heard it somewhere before. Maybe I should have said, "I'll be back." I'm sure that's a phrase not associated with any well-known figure, even from politics or entertainment...or both.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 18, 2018 19:20:02 GMT
Doghouse6 Only phrase coming even close is "I'll be Bock !" ...but was in one of the olde Cagney films about Prohibition Beer !
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Post by snsurone on Jan 18, 2018 19:39:02 GMT
Thank you, General MacArthur, LOL. I had a nagging feeling I'd heard it somewhere before. Maybe I should have said, "I'll be back." I'm sure that's a phrase not associated with any well-known figure, even from politics or entertainment...or both. Wrong, Dog. "I'll be back" was the tag line of the Terminator.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 18, 2018 21:27:29 GMT
I had a nagging feeling I'd heard it somewhere before. Maybe I should have said, "I'll be back." I'm sure that's a phrase not associated with any well-known figure, even from politics or entertainment...or both. Wrong, Dog. "I'll be back" was the tag line of the Terminator. I really did know that but, once again, the pitfalls of sarcasm, irony or facetiousness in text form are exposed. It's my own fault: even with "smileys," there's no control over the delivery. I considered adding, "Although it might sound good with an Austrian accent," but rejected it as too heavy-handed. Side note, from the "Things You Discover When Moving From California" file: Relocating to WA 10 years ago, we began seeing tourism ads we never saw back home, featuring Governor Arnie & Maria touting the benefits of a CA vacation ( "Kom toooo Kah-lee-for-nee-ahhh") that ended with them hoisting glasses of wine in a Napa vineyard as the Governator intoned, "You'll be bahhhck!" End of digression; rejoining your regular thread in progress.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 18, 2018 21:39:01 GMT
Doghouse6 Only phrase coming even close is "I'll be Bock !" ...but was in one of the olde Cagney films about Prohibition Beer ! Ah! My punny Valentine.* *Four weeks early, but who knows if I'd get the chance to use that groaner next month?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 18, 2018 21:43:27 GMT
"Although it might sound good with an Austrian accent," but rejected it as too heavy-handed.
That's why I ran to the beer truck
Speaking of Holidays -- 2 weeks to Puxatawney Phil , Doghouse6
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