Happy birthday to my identical twin sister Jeanie Beanie! As she requested, here are the opening credits to It’s a Wonderful Life, a modest little movie that lanquished for many years in public domain obscurity.
That’ll Be the Day
Here’s a great opening to a movie. The Searchers. Buddy Holly heard John Wayne say “that’ll be the day” in this movie and his first hit song had that as the title. If you look carefully you’ll see why Ethan was so determined in his search for Debbie.
Am’ Mad’
In 1932, with the Great Depression at its gnawing worst, before FDR, Frank Capra made a great movie called American Madness. The entire movie is here in four parts. It’s worth watching, even in this compromised format. At the end of each part, clicking the play button should start the next one. If not, click the “next” button.
Note: This was captured using my old setup, so there are dropped frames in parts. Sorry! If you wait for each part to fully buffer, you can drag the pointer around and even play at double speed.
Pratt Attack – 3
The very last sketch on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, before they shut down production to work on Holy Grail, made fun of … Pratts.
Note: This video may offend others besides Pratts.
Hoffmann, not Philip Seymour
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.
A/V Boy
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?