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If it's a decent movie, I like to see the movie first. Of course, not many books are made into movies. I actually saw the Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mocking Bird, and War and Peace before reading the books.Liked the book better than the movieI saw Oliver Twist before too! That is a REALLY old one I think.
The Great Gatsby, saw the movie/read the book.
Me too. The book was way better, but that's usually how it goes for me. If I've read the book, I'm usually disappointed in the movie with very few exceptions.
Was it the colorized version? I saw a colorized version that wasn't good at all.Just watched Key Largo on Laser Disc.
I agree. Sinatra was actually a pretty good dramatic actor. He was great in Here to Eternity which won him an academy award.A movie called "Suddenly". Frank Sinatra as a cold blooded presidential assassin, can you picture that? But it is a good flick.
Laserdisc predates colorizing. The early colorized movies suck. They still haven't fixed Miracle on 34th Street.Was it the colorized version? I saw a colorized version that wasn't good at all.Just watched Key Largo on Laser Disc.
Laserdisc predates colorizing. The early colorized movies suck. They still haven't fixed Miracle on 34th Street.Was it the colorized version? I saw a colorized version that wasn't good at all.Just watched Key Largo on Laser Disc.
Laserdisc predates colorizing. The early colorized movies suck. They still haven't fixed Miracle on 34th Street.Was it the colorized version? I saw a colorized version that wasn't good at all.Just watched Key Largo on Laser Disc.
What about the Wizard of Oz? I like it in color. Some of the movies, I actually prefer in black and white though. It sets a certain atmosphere for some movies, you know?
Laserdisc predates colorizing. The early colorized movies suck. They still haven't fixed Miracle on 34th Street.Was it the colorized version? I saw a colorized version that wasn't good at all.Just watched Key Largo on Laser Disc.
What about the Wizard of Oz? I like it in color. Some of the movies, I actually prefer in black and white though. It sets a certain atmosphere for some movies, you know?
The Wizard was filmed in black and white and then colored with what they call a sepia tone process until she landed in OZ. From there on, it was in Technicolor. Technicolor was still fairly new at that time, and is part of what made Oz so vivid compared to the scenes in Kansas.
Laserdisc predates colorizing. The early colorized movies suck. They still haven't fixed Miracle on 34th Street.Was it the colorized version? I saw a colorized version that wasn't good at all.Just watched Key Largo on Laser Disc.
What about the Wizard of Oz? I like it in color. Some of the movies, I actually prefer in black and white though. It sets a certain atmosphere for some movies, you know?
The Wizard was filmed in black and white and then colored with what they call a sepia tone process until she landed in OZ. From there on, it was in Technicolor. Technicolor was still fairly new at that time, and is part of what made Oz so vivid compared to the scenes in Kansas.
I really like the color parts. The colors are so vivid and beautiful in that movie. I don't think I've ever seen that one in just black and white. If I have, I was too young to remember.
Laserdisc predates colorizing. The early colorized movies suck. They still haven't fixed Miracle on 34th Street.Was it the colorized version? I saw a colorized version that wasn't good at all.
What about the Wizard of Oz? I like it in color. Some of the movies, I actually prefer in black and white though. It sets a certain atmosphere for some movies, you know?
The Wizard was filmed in black and white and then colored with what they call a sepia tone process until she landed in OZ. From there on, it was in Technicolor. Technicolor was still fairly new at that time, and is part of what made Oz so vivid compared to the scenes in Kansas.
I really like the color parts. The colors are so vivid and beautiful in that movie. I don't think I've ever seen that one in just black and white. If I have, I was too young to remember.
Only the first part before she landed in OZ was filmed in black and white.
Yep. Colorizing always relies on someone, usually not connected with the original production deciding on the color of the house, the dress, the car, and the background. If not done right it can really detract from the directors intent. The success of some movies such as "Citizen Kane", "Rebecca", "The Longest Day", or "Psycho" owe much to the director and the cinematographer's use of shadow and shades of gray. I can't image "The Third Man" in color. There are great movies that would not be so great in black and white and others that need to be seen in black and white. I really hate the way audience's have become so conditioned to color that they can't appreciate great b&w cinematography and the mood it can create. When I watch old movies with my grand kids, they really hate movies in black and white.Laserdisc predates colorizing. The early colorized movies suck. They still haven't fixed Miracle on 34th Street.Was it the colorized version? I saw a colorized version that wasn't good at all.Just watched Key Largo on Laser Disc.
1935 Midsummers Night Dream
A Midsummer Night s Dream 1935 film - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
One of my favorites. For 1935 the special effects are pretty good as are the costumes. Olivia de Havilland good as always and a young Mickey Rooney plays a great Robin Goodfellow (puck) except for that really annoying sound he makes through out the whole movie.
Cast[edit]
L. to R. :Ross Alexander, Dick Powell, Jean Muir and Olivia de Havilland
The Athenian Court
The Players
- Ian Hunter as Theseus, Duke of Athens
- Verree Teasdale as Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus
- Hobart Cavanaugh as Philostrate, Master of Revels to Theseus
- Dick Powell as Lysander, In love with Hermia
- Ross Alexander as Demetrius, In love with Hermia
- Olivia de Havilland as Hermia, In love with Lysander (as Olivia de Haviland)
- Jean Muir as Helena, In love with Demetrius
- Grant Mitchell as Egeus, Father to Hermia
The Fairies
- Frank McHugh as Quince, the Carpenter
- Dewey Robinson as Snug, the Joiner
- James Cagney as Bottom, the Weaver
- Joe E. Brown as Flute, the Bellows-mender
- Hugh Herbert as Snout, the Tinker
- Otis Harlan as Starveling, the Tailor
- Arthur Treacher as Epilogue
- Victor Jory as Oberon, King of the Fairies
- Anita Louise as Titania, Queen of the Fairies Carol Ellis: singing voice
- Nini Theilade as Fairie, Attending Titania (as Nina Theilade)
- Mickey Rooney as Puck or Robin Goodfellow, a Fairy
- Katherine Frey as Pease-Blossom
- Helen Westcott as Cobweb
- Fred Sale as Moth
- Billy Barty as Mustard-Seed
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 American period drama, the second feature film produced and directed by Orson Welles. Welles adapted Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1918 novel, about the declining fortunes of a proud Midwestern family and the social changes brought by the automobile age.
Welles lost control of the editing of The Magnificent Ambersons to RKO, and the final version released to audiences differed significantly from his rough cut of the film. More than an hour of footage was cut by the studio, which also shot and substituted a happier ending. We will never see the movie that Well's intended but it's worth watching just for the unique camera work that's one of Well's trademarks in setting mood.
Welles lost control of the editing of The Magnificent Ambersons to RKO, and the final version released to audiences differed significantly from his rough cut of the film. More than an hour of footage was cut by the studio, which also shot and substituted a happier ending.
Magnificent Ambersons The -- Movie Clip Very Well Indeed
The Stranger was the only film made by Welles to have been a bona fide box office success upon its release. Even Citizen Kane, couldn't break even till it was released in Europe years later.The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 American period drama, the second feature film produced and directed by Orson Welles. Welles adapted Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1918 novel, about the declining fortunes of a proud Midwestern family and the social changes brought by the automobile age.
Welles lost control of the editing of The Magnificent Ambersons to RKO, and the final version released to audiences differed significantly from his rough cut of the film. More than an hour of footage was cut by the studio, which also shot and substituted a happier ending. We will never see the movie that Well's intended but it's worth watching just for the unique camera work that's one of Well's trademarks in setting mood.
Welles lost control of the editing of The Magnificent Ambersons to RKO, and the final version released to audiences differed significantly from his rough cut of the film. More than an hour of footage was cut by the studio, which also shot and substituted a happier ending.
Magnificent Ambersons The -- Movie Clip Very Well Indeed
I saw that. Pretty good.
I like The Stranger, directed by and starring Orson Welles. Edward G Robinson is in it, and he's always good. Loretta Young. It's a creepy noir movie, which is what I like best. I love the obscure ones.
Often they would drive up to Central California to film a movie, and you catch a glimpse of old California. I've seen a few set in Monterey. I like Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) set in little Santa Rosa.
I'm fortunate to live by a specialty DVD rental place. They have a lot of old stuff you can't find on Netflix.
All of OZ was in Technicolor except for the opening and closing credits and the Kansas seances which were in sepia. I've always thought the sepia was nice. It gives a touch of un-realism which fits nicely into the tornado and then the bursting of color in the opening scenes of OZ. This movie did a lot to sell Technicolor to MGM.Laserdisc predates colorizing. The early colorized movies suck. They still haven't fixed Miracle on 34th Street.Was it the colorized version? I saw a colorized version that wasn't good at all.Just watched Key Largo on Laser Disc.
What about the Wizard of Oz? I like it in color. Some of the movies, I actually prefer in black and white though. It sets a certain atmosphere for some movies, you know?
