ALL SCI-FI Forum Index ALL SCI-FI
The place to “find your people”.
 
 FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   MemberlistMemberlist   UsergroupsUsergroups   RegisterRegister 
 ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 

The Lost World (1960)
Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3  Next
 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    ALL SCI-FI Forum Index -> Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Maurice
Mission Specialist


Joined: 14 Dec 2013
Posts: 460
Location: 3rd Rock

PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 3:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
Wow, you mean the title on the marquee was the only thing that doesn't quite look right?

No, but I was poking fun because it's REALLY obvious, since how often do movie marquees ever use lowercase letters? Wink
_________________
* * *
"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art."
― Orson Welles
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Bud Brewster
Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)


Joined: 14 Dec 2013
Posts: 17018
Location: North Carolina

PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

________________________________

Ah-HA! Good point. Thanks. Is this better? Very Happy



________


~ This is an improved version with the marquee text corrected by orzel-w. Very Happy
_________________
____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)


Last edited by Bud Brewster on Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:39 pm; edited 7 times in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Maurice
Mission Specialist


Joined: 14 Dec 2013
Posts: 460
Location: 3rd Rock

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 12:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I sense what you really really want is this font, Bud. Wink

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/pelavin/marquee/faceted/
_________________
* * *
"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art."
― Orson Welles
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Bud Brewster
Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)


Joined: 14 Dec 2013
Posts: 17018
Location: North Carolina

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

________________________________

My goodness, Maurice, those fonts are far to fancy for the poor little East Point Theater!

I realize that big theaters like the one at Lenox Square in Atlanta (where I grew up) had raised letters similar to the font shown at the site you provided. But if I had used a font like that one from Paint.net (the app I used to modify the old photo), the letters would not have looked like real plastic letters on a marquee.






Besides, that would have been the wrong kind of letters for the little East Point Theater anyway. This was a small 600 seat theater in a Mayberry-sized Georgia town. It probably used a fairly small (and simple) version of the marquee letters, because the marquee itself was small. Very Happy

However, as you can see from the jpegs below, even large theaters (like the RKO Hill Street Theater in Los Angeles and the Paramount Theater in Atlanta) just used letters that appear to be flat — which is exactly what I used.








_________________
____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)


Last edited by Bud Brewster on Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:41 pm; edited 4 times in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
orzel-w
Galactic Ambassador


Joined: 19 Sep 2014
Posts: 1877

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe something more like this, then?


_________________
...or not...

WayneO
-----------
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Bud Brewster
Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)


Joined: 14 Dec 2013
Posts: 17018
Location: North Carolina

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 2:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

________________________________

Hey, by gum that DOES look better! I'll make the change in the original and replace it in the post above and in the Beyond the Time Barrier thread.

Nice going, Wayne! Very Happy

_________________
____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)


Last edited by Bud Brewster on Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:43 pm; edited 2 times in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Gord Green
Galactic Ambassador


Joined: 06 Oct 2014
Posts: 2940
Location: Buffalo, NY

PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 4:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I went to "THE LOST WORLD " once , but couldn't find it again.

I guess I "lost" it!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail
Maurice
Mission Specialist


Joined: 14 Dec 2013
Posts: 460
Location: 3rd Rock

PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 5:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
My goodness, Maurice, those fonts are far too fancy for the poor little East Point Theater!



I realize that big theaters like the one at Lenox Square in Atlanta (where I grew up) had raised letters similar to the font shown at the site you provided. But if I had used a font like that one from Paint.net (the app I used to modify the old photo), the letters would not have looked like real plastic letters on a marquee.

Kinda related, my now 91 year old neighborhood theater uses both opaque black and transparent red lettering on its marquee, but not that fancy dimensional kind like the font I half-jokingly shared.

Some years back the theater got a grant to restore its blade sign and marquee, and my neighbor Paul got the contract to do the work (except for the neon). I helped out in a small way by finding old photos of the theater to figure out how blade sign was originally painted and how all the neon had been originally (sadly they didn't have the budget to replace all the bits that had been removed in the past). One day Paul waved me up on the scaffolding so I could see that we was chipping away the decades of paint trying to find the original color, which turned out to be a deep reddish color and not the salmony orange it had been for ages. It's like theater archaeology!

http://hoodline.com/2016/06/the-story-of-the-outer-richmond-s-historic-balboa-theatre

_________________
* * *
"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art."
― Orson Welles
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Bud Brewster
Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)


Joined: 14 Dec 2013
Posts: 17018
Location: North Carolina

PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 11:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

________________________________

Good Lord, Maurice, I'm glad you didn't post pictures of the gorgeous Balboa Theater before we discussed the poor old East Point Theater and my efforts to restore it to a better condition using a photo of it long after it had closed down. Sad

This old photo of the Balboa Theater from 1968 makes it look like a small step up from the East Point Theater —






— but these more recent color photos of the Balboa clearly show that even though it was a small theater (800 seats, just 1/3 larger than the East Point Theater's 600 seats), it's spectacular appearance is equal to many much larger "movie palaces"!


_________


But I hated the fact that the jungle of telephone wires were so distracting. They marred the two magnificent shots of the Balboa I found, like the one above and the second one below. So I went to work removing the wires from both photos, and here's the results. Very Happy


_________

_________


And even the interior of the Balboa Theater puts the old East Point Theater to shame. I don't have a picture of the interior, but it was very plain and unimpressive — as opposed to the beauty of the Balboa. Cool





Maurice, I'm so pleased that you and Paul are working to restore the Balboa to its glory days. If you could provided us with photos of the restoration work, we'd love to see them.

Perhaps I'll start a thread on this subject in Off Topic Discussions and invite other members to share their memories of theaters like the East Point, the LaRose (which Rick has told us about), and the Balboa. Very Happy

_________________
____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)


Last edited by Bud Brewster on Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:46 pm; edited 2 times in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Bud Brewster
Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)


Joined: 14 Dec 2013
Posts: 17018
Location: North Carolina

PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 10:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

GETTING TO KNOW OUR FAVORITE MONSTERS!
________________________________

Just how did the makers of this movie (and others like it) get those alligators and crocodiles to fight so viciously.






Well, apparently it's easy . . . especially during mating season! Wink
________________________________

_________________ Gator fight on golf course


__________

_________________
____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)


Last edited by Bud Brewster on Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:47 pm; edited 2 times in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Robert (Butch) Day
Galactic Ambassador


Joined: 19 Sep 2014
Posts: 1437
Location: Arlington, WA USA

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jill St.John was a very popular girl. While making the movie she had these pictures taken:







I'd definitely fight over this during "mating season"!!!

_________________
Common Sense ISN'T Common
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail
Bud Brewster
Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)


Joined: 14 Dec 2013
Posts: 17018
Location: North Carolina

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 11:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

________________________________

The YouTube video called "Alligators fight over female" was removed, so I replaced it with the one above.

_________________
____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)


Last edited by Bud Brewster on Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:48 pm; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Pow
Galactic Ambassador


Joined: 27 Sep 2014
Posts: 3400
Location: New York

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 11:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

TLW Trivia } Irwin Allen's 1959 hit The Big Circus made it possible for him to get TLW produced.

Allen tried very hard to secure Gilbert Roland for the role that Fernando Lamas would ultimately play in the film.

Allen wanted James Mason for the part of professor Challenger.

Allen felt that it was disrespectful for any of the crew to address the cast by their first names.
Claude Rains was fine being called by his first name. Calling him 'Mr.Rains' made him feel like an old man according to Claude.

The ASPCA made a formal complaint against 20th Century Fox regarding the fight between the lizards.

David Hedison felt that the movie was terrible. It was why he turned down numerous times the offer from Irwin to be cast in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea movie, and later the television series.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Bud Brewster
Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)


Joined: 14 Dec 2013
Posts: 17018
Location: North Carolina

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pow wrote:
Allen wanted James Mason for the part of professor Challenger.

I don't think Mason would have been right as Challenger. Raines had the right gruffness for the role — and wore the beard very well, too. Very Happy
_________________
____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)


Last edited by Bud Brewster on Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:49 pm; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Bud Brewster
Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)


Joined: 14 Dec 2013
Posts: 17018
Location: North Carolina

PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

________________________________

I can't believe I haven't put the trailer for this movie on the thread. What WAS I thinking? Shocked

Omission corrected!
________________________________


______________ The Lost World (1960) Trailer


__________

_________________
____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)


Last edited by Bud Brewster on Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:49 pm; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic    ALL SCI-FI Forum Index -> Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969 All times are GMT - 5 Hours
Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3  Next
Page 2 of 3

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group