Bud Brewster
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 Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:57 am Post subject: FEATURED THREADS for 7-26-22 |
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Three movies you saw when you were young — regardless of how old you now — and loved with all your heart! See if you can guess what the are from these brief description. 
~ The first one is an interstellar adventure in which two scientists are abducted by aliens.
~ The second one is about the ultimate adventure to a prehistoric "Lost World".
~ The third is about a small scale alien invasion which is opposed to by two groups of people who can't agree on how to handle it.
Give up. Here's another clue about the fist one.
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This Island Earth (1955)
I found this truly horrible poster over on the Classic Horror Film Board, and I pointed out the fact that Ruth is obviously enjoying the attentions of the Mutant!
She's rubbing her backside against the Mutants you-know-what!
It occurred to me that This Island Earth has other subtle clues that suggest it isn't as wholesome as we've always assumed.
For example, these so-called "conversion tubes" are nothing more than bondage devices for Peeping Toms!
"And now, my Dear, you will stand there while I gaze at you through these tubular windows I designed. Yes . . . yes . . . keep breathing hard like that. So exciting, my pet."
"Don't give him the satisfaction, Ruth! Hold your breath!"
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King Kong (1933)
The post on CHFB devoted to small details which King Kong fans have spotted over the years includes this post.
| atlantis.nendowingsmira wrote: | . . . before they run on the log where Jack waves, you can see, after he runs further, a bird or something flying into a tree, at the other end of the pit.
First I thought it was a hair or damage on film . . . but looking closer it drops a shadow on one of the tree's.
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The gif shows the bird's very brief appearance far better than the movie does, but it's definitely a bird.
And since the jungle around the men is comprised of a set with rear screen projections of paintings and tabletop miniatures, that tiny bird must have been animated!.
It's incredible to think that such attention to detail — at such a high cost in terms of time and money — was given to this amazing movie.
The same author also posted this image under a new post he started called Skull Island 81 years later.
I was wondering where he found it, but then I noticed his signature! Visit the thread and tell him what you think of it. It's a recent thread and has very few replies.
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The Thing from Another World (1951)
Yes, I've often read that the cyclorama is supposed to be visible when the camera tilts upward. For years I looked for it, but I couldn't find it! I started thinking it had been digitally removed.
Then I figured out what everybody was talking about: the obvious dark area above the clouds. And I finally realized why it didn't actually look like the top of the cyclorama.
Because it isn't.
First of all, you can see that dividing line between the light and dark area before the camera even tilts up -- and it just looks like the tops of real clouds.
Compare the visible landscape and the distant clouds just before the first explosion --
-- and a moment after the second one. Please note that the line which is supposed to be the top of the painting isn't even straight the way a cyclorama would be! 
As the camera tilts back you can see a little more of the "real" sky above. But the alleged "cyclorama" looks even more like the upper edge of a real cloud layer! You can even see the way the top of the clouds are rounded.
Maybe they were just painted to look that way.
But did the painters make the actual top of the cyclorama slightly "wavy" like a cloud layer and then paint right up to the very upper edge?
That's possible too, I guess.
And yet at the height of the camera's tilt, the light from the explosion has dimmed enough to cause the camera's aperture to adjust, so we see the shading on the cloud's shape even better.
Okay, sure, that would occur whether they're real or painted, so I still don't know what to think.
I'm not saying that all the statements about the landing site being filmed in 100 degree heat on a set that was open to the sky and surrounded by a cyclorama are not really true
I'm just saying it sure as hell doesn't look like it!
I mean, be honest with me, guys. Does this really look like the upper edge of a large painting, with the real sky beyond it, exposed by the camera when it tilted upward?
To me it bears a remarkable resemblance to this --
-- which is cropped from this --
-- after taking the color out of this --
-- and then having fun putting it together with a jpeg from The Thing to create the Turner colorized IMAX version!
But since I hate colorized movies, here's the way it ought to look -- and besides, this one makes my point best of all!
What cyclorama? I don't see no stinkin' cyclorama! Do you guys? 
Just for comparison -- the actual scene, directly from the DVD, with all the crappy scratches and junk I hope they'll clean off that new Blu-ray!
What Blu-ray, you may ask? Why, THIS one, of course!
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