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| Yet another movie to impell poetic thought netskyIam 24 Aug 08 5:17PM | Thread Closed |
I've just this minute found this film on YouTube.
I saw this film once before. Now I will watch it for the second time.
Will you watch it with me, now? I'm going to start the playback.
Chris Ruppenthal's mother was the local station's female news anchorwoman
and Chris was my best friend. My maternal grandfather died in May of 1968.
I was left at home while my parents went north to the funeral.
Chris and his mother cared for me. She had been given passes to see the Miami
premier of this movie. Molly Turner was her public name. Chris and I and his Molly
were the first Miamians to see
2001, A Space Odyssey
http://tinyurl.com/62eggo
Chris went on to become a producer in Hollywood.
I went on to become practically nothing.
I remember 40 years ago like yesterday,
and I want to take you to a premier,
this time, as my guest on a free pass.
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| re: Yet another movie to impell poetic thought Ananke 24 Aug 08 6:16PM | Thread Closed |
There's nothing worse that I can imagine than watching 2001, A Space Odyssey on YouTube!! No offense netsky, but do you have netflix instant watching? I will watch something on there with you.
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| re: Yet another movie to impell poetic thought netskyIam 24 Aug 08 6:27PM | Thread Closed |
No, I don't have netflix or high speed downloads nor do I like to pay the copyright pirates to watch a compressed video.
Go buy a DVD. But you know, I saw the original as you can never see it again:
first generation print, in a big screen theater (they don't exist anymore), the projectors then used carbon arc for a light source.
Movies on YouTube are mere shadows of what the real deal should be.
So are DVD and home tv playback. Nothing equals what the movie public saw the first time around--quality standards are lower today in sound and vision.
Now, let me ask you to be SURE you set your YouTube account preference for "high quality playback". Otherwise the version YouTube sends out is really, really dreadful. Also, often, adding the suffix " &fmt=18 " will ensure the best possible YouTube delivery.
Do not watch youtube vids in "standard quality". "high quality" is hardly that,
but it's watchable, and it's free and suit yourself, whatever you do.
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| re: Yet another movie to impell poetic thought netskyIam 24 Aug 08 6:54PM | Thread Closed |
(more fuckin' netsky acnedotes)
In section four of fifteen of the YT player, man is on the moon.
It recalls to me the virtual witnessing of man's first real steps on the moon in 1969.
Neil Aldrin and Edwin Armstrong were the first humans to set foot on the moon.
trivia, ultra-trivia, the amazing confluences of chance alone:
Grandmother Fern loved her two sons. In 1933 she saved a page of the Miami Herald newspaper because it's face page of the Womens' Section was a montage of cute tykes from around Miami. There in white short sleeve shirts and shorts, on the golfing green of The Biltmore: my five year old father and his nine year old brother. Along with that photograph, merely captioned, "Gordon and Paul Welch, sons of Dr. and Mrs. Welch of Coral Gables", there is another very cute picture of a baby soaking in a wading pool along with a rubber duckie,
captioned, "Edwin Eugene Aldrin, son of the Armstrong family of New Jersey, who are vacationing in Miami.
The same man who first walked the moon decades later.
And this newspaper page probably represented his first public appearance.
And my dear father, a life underachiever, is depicted right next to him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin
Many years ago I sent the spare copy of the paper (Fern saved two) to Aldrin's biographer, who was amazed that such a thing existed.
I had two copies of the old paper. I sent one to Ar
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| re: Yet another movie to impell poetic thought netskyIam 24 Aug 08 6:55PM | Thread Closed |
^ ^
hwat ahappens when you don't poof reed.
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| re: Yet another movie to impell poetic thought Ananke 25 Aug 08 9:18PM | Thread Closed |
I would never be able to buy as many DVD's as I get through netflix. Perhaps it's an expenditure that I don't need, but I have seen so many beautiful films through netflix that I would not have watched otherwise (whether by renting the DVD or instant watching). The most recent was "Stalker", a Tarkovsky film. Simply gorgeous. But anyway, I do pay for it. But I can find any film I want.
I am lucky to live in Rochester, NY, home of Kodak and the Eastman House which has an extremely large film archive. And they play them regularly in their playhouse turned movie theater: http://dryden.eastmanhouse.org/
> No, I don't have netflix or high speed downloads nor do I like to pay
> the copyright pirates to watch a compressed video.
>
> Go buy a DVD. But you know, I saw the original as you can never see
> it again:
> first generation print, in a big screen theater (they don't exist
> anymore), the projectors then used carbon arc for a light source.
>
> Movies on YouTube are mere shadows of what the real deal should be.
> So are DVD and home tv playback. Nothing equals what the movie
> public saw the first time around--quality standards are lower today in
> sound and vision.
>
> Now, let me ask you to be SURE you set your YouTube account preference
> for "high quality playback". Otherwise the version YouTube sends
> out is really, really dreadful. Also, often, adding the suffix "
> &fmt=18 " will ensure the best possible YouTube delivery.
>
> Do not watch youtube vids in "standard quality". "high quality"
> is hardly that,
> but it's watchable, and it's free and suit yourself, whatever you
> do.
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