@slimfern posted:Milky way photographer of the year competition..there are some real stunners
https://www.pocket-lint.com/ca...the-year-competition
some gorgeous photos slim -loved the snowy ones -favourites were : Galactic Kiwi, vinchina blue nights and Riano
night EL slim Moonsieee
@slimfern BBC Four seems to be showing a couple of RKO films each week on Thursday evenings. So far they have been ones on that iplayer link I posted. Last week "Citizen Kane" & "The Magnificent Ambersons". Tomorrow "Suspicion". Those you will have seen, Also tomorrow "Angel Face" (1952) a film noir with Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons.
Next week BBC have "Cat People" (1942) and "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943). Those were directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Val Lewton. Regarded as the best horror films of the 1940s. Not that they are that horrifying - they were released as A certificates at the time rather than with an H and now are PG rated.
@El Loro posted:@slimfern BBC Four seems to be showing a couple of RKO films each week on Thursday evenings. So far they have been ones on that iplayer link I posted. Last week "Citizen Kane" & "The Magnificent Ambersons". Tomorrow "Suspicion". Those you will have seen, Also tomorrow "Angel Face" (1952) a film noir with Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons.
Thanks El
Yes I have seen the first three films you mention...Haven't seen 'Angel Face', but have read the write up on Wiki...it definitely sounds a film noir...
And Preminger being hired as the director because he was a bully, by Howard Hughes who wanted to punish Jean Simmons because she wasn't renewing her contract with him...shame on him 
Early in the film, there is a scene where the script called for Robert Mitchum to slap a hysterical Jean Simmons across the face. Because of Preminger's dissatisfaction with Simmons' reaction, the scene required multiple takes before Mitchum finally became fed up. When Preminger again called "Once more!", Mitchum spun around, facing Preminger, and shouted, "Once more?" He then slapped Preminger's face, hard. The director quickly retreated from the set, demanding Mitchum be fired. But instead, "he was told to go back and finish shooting the picture.
Well done Mr Mitchum 
@El Loro posted:
Next week BBC have "Cat People" (1942) and "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943). Those were directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Val Lewton. Regarded as the best horror films of the 1940s. Not that they are that horrifying - they were released as A certificates at the time rather than with an H and now are PG rated.
Yeah El...I don't do zombie films ...not even the comedy ones 
'Cat People' sounds okay, I might give that one a watch...I'll keep a cushion handy and there's always the off button if it gets too nasty 
@slimfern posted:Thanks El
Yes I have seen the first three films you mention...Haven't seen 'Angel Face', but have read the write up on Wiki...it definitely sounds a film noir...
And Preminger being hired as the director because he was a bully, by Howard Hughes who wanted to punish Jean Simmons because she wasn't renewing her contract with him...shame on him
Early in the film, there is a scene where the script called for Robert Mitchum to slap a hysterical Jean Simmons across the face. Because of Preminger's dissatisfaction with Simmons' reaction, the scene required multiple takes before Mitchum finally became fed up. When Preminger again called "Once more!", Mitchum spun around, facing Preminger, and shouted, "Once more?" He then slapped Preminger's face, hard. The director quickly retreated from the set, demanding Mitchum be fired. But instead, "he was told to go back and finish shooting the picture.
Well done Mr Mitchum
Thanks
I'm not a fan of Otto Preminger's films, the only one I've liked was one of his earlier films "Laura" which you've seen.
@slimfern posted:Yeah El...I don't do zombie films ...not even the comedy ones
'Cat People' sounds okay, I might give that one a watch...I'll keep a cushion handy and there's always the off button if it gets too nasty
On a trivia point, as the budget for "Cat People" was low, they used some of the sets used on other RKO films including "The Magnificent Ambersons".
night EL slim moonsieee
I note that BBC Four are repeating a 2007 docudrama next Thursday about the writer John Buchan. It's on iplayer:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/...n-master-of-suspense
A lot more to him than just his most famous book "The Thirty-Nine Steps".
@El Loro posted:I note that BBC Four are repeating a 2007 docudrama next Thursday about the writer John Buchan. It's on iplayer:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/...n-master-of-suspense
A lot more to him than just his most famous book "The Thirty-Nine Steps".
Sounds like an interesting watch El 
@El Loro posted:I note that BBC Four are repeating a 2007 docudrama next Thursday about the writer John Buchan. It's on iplayer:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/...n-master-of-suspense
A lot more to him than just his most famous book "The Thirty-Nine Steps".
I studied that for O level
night EL slim moonsieee
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:I studied that for O level
You were lucky to have that. I got books such as Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and William Golding's "Lord of the Flies"
@slimfern posted:We had 'Lord of the Flies' as one of our O'Level options...A good read
Not at the school but at the local tech college I went to afterwards for a year one of the books I had was "The Diary of a Nobody" by the Grossmith brothers. I borrowed my father's copy of that to use. It was originally serialised in Punch magazine, then in book form. It was a first edition of the book but no dust jacket and in a rather used condition so not of any value.
@El Loro posted:Not at the school but at the local tech college I went to afterwards for a year one of the books I had was "The Diary of a Nobody" by the Grossmith brothers. I borrowed my father's copy of that to use. It was originally serialised in Punch magazine, then in book form. It was a first edition of the book but no dust jacket and in a rather used condition so not of any value.
I take it you mean of no monetary value El
@slimfern posted:I take it you mean of no monetary value El
Yes, of monetary value
A first edition of that book in good condition with dust jacket has a value in the ÂĢ1k to ÂĢ2k range. I wouldn't have taken it to the college if it had been of that value
Although it was a comic novel, I didn't find it funny.
@El Loro posted:Yes, of monetary value
A first edition of that book in good condition with dust jacket has a value in the ÂĢ1k to ÂĢ2k range. I wouldn't have taken it to the college if it had been of that value
Although it was a comic novel, I didn't find it funny.
Humour is subjective isn't it El...but from the read up I can maybe see why you didn't find it funny
@El Loro posted:Yes, of monetary value
A first edition of that book in good condition with dust jacket has a value in the ÂĢ1k to ÂĢ2k range. I wouldn't have taken it to the college if it had been of that value
Although it was a comic novel, I didn't find it funny.
You wonder if sentimental beats monetary. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. People are always between your ears though.
Hope all are A1
@velvet donkey posted:You wonder if sentimental beats monetary. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. People are always between your ears though.
Hope all are A1
All's well here, Velvet though am moderately busy with client work, I hope you're OK
I agree that often the sentimental value of something it more important than any monetary value 
My grandfather gave me a Richartz lamp-post pocket knife when I was a child. It was old then. It had 2 blades though one of the blades had broken off before he gave it to me. I was at home one day with a home chemistry set. I had put various chemicals in a test tube. Suddenly the chemicals reacted fizzing away and the test tube became rather hot. So I dashed out of the house to the back garden with the test tube and put in on the ground. After a while the fizzing stopped and the test tube had cooled down. So I picked it up and scraped out the residue with that pocket knife. Afterwards I found by chance that the knife was now magnetic. Not very powerful but capable of holding a paper clip. No idea as to how that happened though I must have put things like iron filings and sodium bicarbonate in the test tube.
And that knife is still slightly magnetic all these years later.
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Somerset couple living at their home as in the 1930s:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/...nd-somerset-61599777
@El Loro posted:Somerset couple living at their home as in the 1930s:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/...nd-somerset-61599777
I like people like that. They're not offending anyone are they?
A Somerset house at 1930's value would be okay though.
Take it easy and thanks El
@velvet donkey posted:I like people like that. They're not offending anyone are they?
A Somerset house at 1930's value would be okay though.
Take it easy and thanks El
Thanks Velvet
