The British team of Powell and Pressburger made some truly unique films, The Tales of Hoffmann, with Moirer Shearer, being one of them. Here is a bit of the movie in two parts. After part 1 finishes, click the “next” button should start the second clip.
Moira wasn’t always this thin! I’ll post a clip of her from ten years later.
Embedding audio and video into this blog makes me think of how far things have come from the days when I held the microphone of my treasured Aiwa TP-32A to the TV speaker and recorded Star Trek. Forty years isn’t a long time … is it?
My favorite actor is Philip Seymour Hoffman. I don’t know if Capote is the best thing he’s ever done, but it certainly beats Love Lisa. Here is Hoffman winning his Oscar™.
Bill Pratt’s stage name was Boris Karloff. Pratts don’t always make friends easily.
Was Grace Kelly ever nude in a movie?
Eva•tone Soundsheets were fun. They were more generically called flexi-discs. I have a few, and I’ll get around to transferring and posting them. There’s precious little information available about these earliest of floppy discs, even from Eva•tone; which is still in business, but ceased soundsheet production in 2000.
Here’s a flexi-disc from the early 1970’s with an interview of Batman comic-book writer Denny O’Neil. A much more recent interview with O’Neil is on the Batman Begins DVD.
