@Moonie posted:Good morning Buddies
Breezy cool start to the day here. Better weather promised later
Have a great weekend everyone
That’s very weird El
At least your back to ‘normal’ now
Yes, it was odd 
There's a letter in this week's Radio Times asking about BBC's collection of RKO films. Back in 1979 the BBC acquired the UK TV rights to RKO's library of 740 films. They hold those rights for ever. 40 of them are on iplayer.
Apparently the BBC is in the process of making more of those films available for audiences. they do say that some of the material is not of sufficient picture quality to broadcast.
Here's a link to all of RKO's films on Wiki. There's over 1,000 of them so the BBC have the rights to about 2/3rds of them.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...f_RKO_Pictures_films
night EL slim moonsieee velvet
@El Loro posted:There's a letter in this week's Radio Times asking about BBC's collection of RKO films. Back in 1979 the BBC acquired the UK TV rights to RKO's library of 740 films. They hold those rights for ever. 40 of them are on iplayer.
Apparently the BBC is in the process of making more of those films available for audiences. they do say that some of the material is not of sufficient picture quality to broadcast.
Here's a link to all of RKO's films on Wiki. There's over 1,000 of them so the BBC have the rights to about 2/3rds of them.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...f_RKO_Pictures_films
Will they be shown on iPlayer El?
@El Loro posted:Not much new on the Talking Pictures tv channel in the coming week.
Monday 18.00 "The Bigamist" (1953) film noir - Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, & Edmond O'Brien. Ida Lupino also directed the film.
Collier Young was married to Fontaine at the time and had previously been married to Lupino.
Bet that made for some awkward moments during filming 
@slimfern posted:Will they be shown on iPlayer El?
I assume so but at some point in time in the future rather than imminently.
The 40 RKO films which are available on iplayer at present are via:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p07y2frq
@El Loro posted:I assume so but at some point in time in the future rather than imminently.
The 40 RKO films which are available on iplayer at present are via:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p07y2frq
I use iPlayer quite a bit 
Yesterday I watched a film I had recorded - "The House on Telegraph Hill" (1951) an unusual film noir about a Polish concentration camp survivor who survives and takes on the identity of her friend who died to gain passage to America. Falls in love with a boy's guardian (the boy's great aunt had died leaving the boy a lot of money). They move into a mansion on Telegraph Hill and then she starts wondering what happened there.
Film starts at Belsen (nothing too horrifying shown).
Film is more about what happened at the house rather than the woman having taken on someone's identity.
Starred Valentina Cortese and Richard Basehart who married as a result of meeting during the making of the film. She was Italian and over the years made films for some of the major Italian directors Antonioni, Fellini & Zeffirelli, also Truffaut.
@El Loro posted:Yesterday I watched a film I had recorded - "The House on Telegraph Hill" (1951) an unusual film noir about a Polish concentration camp survivor who survives and takes on the identity of her friend who died to gain passage to America. Falls in love with a boy's guardian (the boy's great aunt had died leaving the boy a lot of money). They move into a mansion on Telegraph Hill and then she starts wondering what happened there.
Film starts at Belsen (nothing too horrifying shown).
Film is more about what happened at the house rather than the woman having taken on someone's identity.
Starred Valentina Cortese and Richard Basehart who married as a result of meeting during the making of the film. She was Italian and over the years made films for some of the major Italian directors Antonioni, Fellini & Zeffirelli, also Truffaut.
Sounds interesting El...did you enjoy it?
Is it worth a watch?
You tube has it to rent or buy, they also have free but the one is in Spanish or at least I think it's in Spanish..it's also in black & white, whereas the other one looks to be in colour ?
@slimfern posted:Sounds interesting El...did you enjoy it?
Is it worth a watch?
You tube has it to rent or buy, they also have free but the one is in Spanish or at least I think it's in Spanish..it's also in black & white, whereas the other one looks to be in colour ?
I thought it was worth watching
It's a black and white film, If there's a colour version then that would be a colourised version,
@El Loro posted:I thought it was worth watching
It's a black and white film, If there's a colour version then that would be a colourised version,
It's not in Wiki's list of colourised films:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._have_been_colorized
@Moonie posted:Good to see the work is still rolling in El
Thanks
Two of the sets of papers which I got this morning (husband and wife) I was expecting tomorrow. The wife rang to say that her husband wasn't coming here tomorrow to deliver them so could she do that today. When she brought them in she said that her husband had broken a rib whilst working at a customer's farm land. He's on painkillers which are making him drowsy. That's why she was driving.
@El Loro posted:Thanks
Two of the sets of papers which I got this morning (husband and wife) I was expecting tomorrow. The wife rang to say that her husband wasn't coming here tomorrow to deliver them so could she do that today. When she brought them in she said that her husband had broken a rib whilst working at a customer's farm land. He's on painkillers which are making him drowsy. That's why she was driving.
That’s terrible. Let’s hope he makes a quick recovery
Quite right not to drive if the medication is making him feel drowsy 
@El Loro posted:Thanks
Two of the sets of papers which I got this morning (husband and wife) I was expecting tomorrow. The wife rang to say that her husband wasn't coming here tomorrow to deliver them so could she do that today. When she brought them in she said that her husband had broken a rib whilst working at a customer's farm land. He's on painkillers which are making him drowsy. That's why she was driving.
awww poor thing -hope he is better soon
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:awww poor thing -hope he is better soon
Thanks
Milky way photographer of the year competition..there are some real stunners
https://www.pocket-lint.com/ca...the-year-competition
@slimfern posted:Milky way photographer of the year competition..there are some real stunners
https://www.pocket-lint.com/ca...the-year-competition
Some great photos there
Zero chance of seeing the Milky Way here due to urban light pollution
@slimfern posted:Same here too El
Maybe from somewhere on the moors it could be seen...most of the pics were taken in the Southern Hemisphere by the looks of it.
Years ago I was driving back home from somewhere in Devon and came to a road closed sign. So I had to go another way. I went down a road somewhere and just kept on going. For a good 30 minutes the road was completed deserted other than one vehicle I passed going the other way. Eventually I came to a road where there were other vehicles. It must have been the A396 as I came out on to the A39 not far from Blue Anchor, It was getting dusk by then and I was relieved to get back on to the right road home before it got dark and that I had filled up with fuel before starting the journey home.
@El Loro posted:Years ago I was driving back home from somewhere in Devon and came to a road closed sign. So I had to go another way. I went down a road somewhere and just kept on going. For a good 30 minutes the road was completed deserted other than one vehicle I passed going the other way. Eventually I came to a road where there were other vehicles. It must have been the A396 as I came out on to the A39 not far from Blue Anchor, It was getting dusk by then and I was relieved to get back on to the right road home before it got dark and that I had filled up with fuel before starting the journey home.
Those quiet roads are the best roads El 
One of my son's lived in Watchet for a time, which is about 3miles from Blue Anchor
@slimfern posted:Those quiet roads are the best roads El
One of my son's lived in Watchet for a time, which is about 3miles from Blue Anchor
Once, many many years ago when we were on holiday at Blue Anchor, we went for a walk on the sea shore to Watchet. Got there just as the tide was starting to come in. We got some fish and chips somewhere at the marina and waited for a bus to take us back to Blue Anchor.
@El Loro posted:Once, many many years ago when we were on holiday at Blue Anchor, we went for a walk on the sea shore to Watchet. Got there just as the tide was starting to come in. We got some fish and chips somewhere at the marina and waited for a bus to take us back to Blue Anchor.
I've not been there..in fact I've only ever passed through Somerset on the train
Oh! and once I had to transfer from the train to a coach in Taunton to travel home...that was when the rains had flooded the track between Taunton and Exeter.
There are many good fish & chip shops around here.