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The Life of Charles Peace (1905)
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000520/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Director: William Haggar
Cast: Walter Haggar, Violet Haggar, Lily Haggar
Production Co: William Haggar and Sons
Country: UK
published: 28 Nov 2018
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William Haggar - Desperate Poaching Affray (1903)
Three hunters surprise two poachers in the act. The hunters take umbrage and give chase over fences and through fields. The hunters fire away, but the poachers have guns as well, and a fight ensues with casualties for the hunters.
Cast
Sid Griffiths ... Second Poacher
Will Haggar Jr. ... First Poacher
Walter Haggar ... First Gamekeeper
Directed by William Haggar
Details
Country UK
Release Date: July, 1903
Production Co: William Haggar And Sons
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published: 19 Aug 2015
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LBJ: The Last Interview (1973)
In an interview filmed ten days before his death, former President Lyndon B. Johnson discusses with Walter Cronkite his commitment to civil rights and his achievements in this area: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Equal Housing Law of 1968
originally shared on the Internet archive. I do not own the rights
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published: 21 Sep 2018
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Walter Murch - Movies sound better in colour (40/320)
To listen to more of Walter Murch’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzCodipONmNiROhYCUWyz_U
Walter Scott Murch (b. 1943) is widely recognised as one of the leading authorities in the field of film editing, as well as one of the few film editors equally active in both picture and sound. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: When we were mixing 'The Godfather', we were mixing in Los Angeles to a black and white print. So it wasn't video, but it was still black and white, and it was still a dupe, meaning a generational loss. Like a bad Xerox version of the film. And this was fine for doing the mixing, but a version of that same problem was present in any of this technology of the time. And the question comes, when do we show it to the produ...
published: 13 Sep 2017
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Walter Murch - This is one of those moments': Bob Evans approves our work (47/320)
To listen to more of Walter Murch’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzCodipONmNiROhYCUWyz_U
Walter Scott Murch (b. 1943) is widely recognised as one of the leading authorities in the field of film editing, as well as one of the few film editors equally active in both picture and sound. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: This was an unusual thing to do, to screw around with music like this, but we were in a desperate situation so that's what I did. And we... I took it into the mixing theatre, and we mixed it that way, and then called Bob Evans and said, 'Come down and listen to this cue.' So he came, and everyone... I knew it was going to work, but everyone else was, like, what's he going to say? And so he came in very impatiently, and...
published: 13 Sep 2017
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Walter Murch - 'The Rain People' (25/320)
To listen to more of Walter Murch’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzCodipONmNiROhYCUWyz_U
Walter Scott Murch (b. 1943) is widely recognised as one of the leading authorities in the field of film editing, as well as one of the few film editors equally active in both picture and sound. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: The following year, Francis had written a screenplay for the film 'The Rain People', which was an original screenplay about a wife coming to terms with a pregnancy that she did not really want. She wasn't ready to have a kid yet and so she travels. She gets in her car and travels across country with this baby inside her and along the way, she picks up a hitchhiker. Shirley Knight played the mother, the wife and James C...
published: 13 Sep 2017
14:26
The Life of Charles Peace (1905)
More rare films here: https://filmsbytheyear.com/chronological-list-of-films/
Join the Films by the Year Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/filmsby...
More rare films here: https://filmsbytheyear.com/chronological-list-of-films/
Join the Films by the Year Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/filmsbytheyear/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000520/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Director: William Haggar
Cast: Walter Haggar, Violet Haggar, Lily Haggar
Production Co: William Haggar and Sons
Country: UK
https://wn.com/The_Life_Of_Charles_Peace_(1905)
More rare films here: https://filmsbytheyear.com/chronological-list-of-films/
Join the Films by the Year Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/filmsbytheyear/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000520/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Director: William Haggar
Cast: Walter Haggar, Violet Haggar, Lily Haggar
Production Co: William Haggar and Sons
Country: UK
- published: 28 Nov 2018
- views: 1561
2:38
William Haggar - Desperate Poaching Affray (1903)
Three hunters surprise two poachers in the act. The hunters take umbrage and give chase over fences and through fields. The hunters fire away, but the poachers ...
Three hunters surprise two poachers in the act. The hunters take umbrage and give chase over fences and through fields. The hunters fire away, but the poachers have guns as well, and a fight ensues with casualties for the hunters.
Cast
Sid Griffiths ... Second Poacher
Will Haggar Jr. ... First Poacher
Walter Haggar ... First Gamekeeper
Directed by William Haggar
Details
Country UK
Release Date: July, 1903
Production Co: William Haggar And Sons
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https://wn.com/William_Haggar_Desperate_Poaching_Affray_(1903)
Three hunters surprise two poachers in the act. The hunters take umbrage and give chase over fences and through fields. The hunters fire away, but the poachers have guns as well, and a fight ensues with casualties for the hunters.
Cast
Sid Griffiths ... Second Poacher
Will Haggar Jr. ... First Poacher
Walter Haggar ... First Gamekeeper
Directed by William Haggar
Details
Country UK
Release Date: July, 1903
Production Co: William Haggar And Sons
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- published: 19 Aug 2015
- views: 324
43:09
LBJ: The Last Interview (1973)
In an interview filmed ten days before his death, former President Lyndon B. Johnson discusses with Walter Cronkite his commitment to civil rights and his achie...
In an interview filmed ten days before his death, former President Lyndon B. Johnson discusses with Walter Cronkite his commitment to civil rights and his achievements in this area: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Equal Housing Law of 1968
originally shared on the Internet archive. I do not own the rights
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Reelblack's mission is to educate, elevate, entertain, enlighten, and empower through Black film. If there is content shared on this platform that you feel infringes on your intellectual property, please email me at Reelblack@mail.com and info@reelblack.com with details and it will be promptly removed.
https://wn.com/Lbj_The_Last_Interview_(1973)
In an interview filmed ten days before his death, former President Lyndon B. Johnson discusses with Walter Cronkite his commitment to civil rights and his achievements in this area: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Equal Housing Law of 1968
originally shared on the Internet archive. I do not own the rights
#####
Reelblack's mission is to educate, elevate, entertain, enlighten, and empower through Black film. If there is content shared on this platform that you feel infringes on your intellectual property, please email me at Reelblack@mail.com and info@reelblack.com with details and it will be promptly removed.
- published: 21 Sep 2018
- views: 371227
3:01
Walter Murch - Movies sound better in colour (40/320)
To listen to more of Walter Murch’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzCodipONmNiROhYCUWyz_U
Walter Scott Murch (b...
To listen to more of Walter Murch’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzCodipONmNiROhYCUWyz_U
Walter Scott Murch (b. 1943) is widely recognised as one of the leading authorities in the field of film editing, as well as one of the few film editors equally active in both picture and sound. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: When we were mixing 'The Godfather', we were mixing in Los Angeles to a black and white print. So it wasn't video, but it was still black and white, and it was still a dupe, meaning a generational loss. Like a bad Xerox version of the film. And this was fine for doing the mixing, but a version of that same problem was present in any of this technology of the time. And the question comes, when do we show it to the producers? Meaning, the head of the studio, Bob Evans, when do we show this? 'We're not going to show it to him', said Howard Beals, who was the head of the sound effects department at Paramount at the time. 'We're not going to show it to them until we have a colour answer print.' Why? 'Because it will sound better when it's in colour.' Why? And he came up with a fantastically accurate emotional answer to it, he said, 'It sounds better for the same reason your car drives better when it's clean.' So if you'd have the experience, which we all probably have had, of putting your car through a car wash and cleaning it and polishing it, and then you get in. It's exactly the same car, the motor and everything, but you drive off and somehow, it seems to be driving better.
It's... When the picture is low in quality, again, more of your mind is able to pay conscious attention to the sound and you are aware of, inevitably, the technical problems that still remain that you haven't found a solution to. When it's in colour, there's this blooming of the brain. It now has more to deal with in colour, and less brain to deal with the problems, the fact that the equalisation wasn't exactly right there, or we still hear the click of the cut from one scene to another. Whatever they might be, these minor imperfections suddenly seem to go away. They haven't gone away, they are still there technically, on the soundtrack, but your brain does not have the ability to pay conscious attention to them. And so they are pushed to one side as if they didn't exist in the first place. These are problems that have disappeared from our world, because we now... When we're doing postproduction, we are always looking at a very sharp colour image of whatever it is that we're working on. And the distinction between what we're looking at and what will finally be seen in the theatre is negligible.
https://wn.com/Walter_Murch_Movies_Sound_Better_In_Colour_(40_320)
To listen to more of Walter Murch’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzCodipONmNiROhYCUWyz_U
Walter Scott Murch (b. 1943) is widely recognised as one of the leading authorities in the field of film editing, as well as one of the few film editors equally active in both picture and sound. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: When we were mixing 'The Godfather', we were mixing in Los Angeles to a black and white print. So it wasn't video, but it was still black and white, and it was still a dupe, meaning a generational loss. Like a bad Xerox version of the film. And this was fine for doing the mixing, but a version of that same problem was present in any of this technology of the time. And the question comes, when do we show it to the producers? Meaning, the head of the studio, Bob Evans, when do we show this? 'We're not going to show it to him', said Howard Beals, who was the head of the sound effects department at Paramount at the time. 'We're not going to show it to them until we have a colour answer print.' Why? 'Because it will sound better when it's in colour.' Why? And he came up with a fantastically accurate emotional answer to it, he said, 'It sounds better for the same reason your car drives better when it's clean.' So if you'd have the experience, which we all probably have had, of putting your car through a car wash and cleaning it and polishing it, and then you get in. It's exactly the same car, the motor and everything, but you drive off and somehow, it seems to be driving better.
It's... When the picture is low in quality, again, more of your mind is able to pay conscious attention to the sound and you are aware of, inevitably, the technical problems that still remain that you haven't found a solution to. When it's in colour, there's this blooming of the brain. It now has more to deal with in colour, and less brain to deal with the problems, the fact that the equalisation wasn't exactly right there, or we still hear the click of the cut from one scene to another. Whatever they might be, these minor imperfections suddenly seem to go away. They haven't gone away, they are still there technically, on the soundtrack, but your brain does not have the ability to pay conscious attention to them. And so they are pushed to one side as if they didn't exist in the first place. These are problems that have disappeared from our world, because we now... When we're doing postproduction, we are always looking at a very sharp colour image of whatever it is that we're working on. And the distinction between what we're looking at and what will finally be seen in the theatre is negligible.
- published: 13 Sep 2017
- views: 492
3:12
Walter Murch - This is one of those moments': Bob Evans approves our work (47/320)
To listen to more of Walter Murch’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzCodipONmNiROhYCUWyz_U
Walter Scott Murch (b...
To listen to more of Walter Murch’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzCodipONmNiROhYCUWyz_U
Walter Scott Murch (b. 1943) is widely recognised as one of the leading authorities in the field of film editing, as well as one of the few film editors equally active in both picture and sound. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: This was an unusual thing to do, to screw around with music like this, but we were in a desperate situation so that's what I did. And we... I took it into the mixing theatre, and we mixed it that way, and then called Bob Evans and said, 'Come down and listen to this cue.' So he came, and everyone... I knew it was going to work, but everyone else was, like, what's he going to say? And so he came in very impatiently, and he had a bad back at that time so there was a hospital bed in the mixing room, and he would lie down on the bed. 'Okay, play it.' And we played the scene, and when the scene was over, he jumped out of bed, forgot about his bad back, and he said, 'Fantastic. Give me a telephone.' So we gave him a telephone with a long cord on it, and he started to... 'Go back to the head of the scene', and he started dialling the phone, and walked up to the screen, and turned around and said, 'Roll it.' And he got... On the other end of the phone was Charlie Bluhdorn, who was the head of Gulf and Western, which was the parent corporation that then owned Paramount. And he said, 'Charlie, listen to this', and he held the telephone up to the screen, and we ran the scene. And I was sitting in the back with Dick Portman, the lead mixer on the film, and we looked at each other as if to say, 'This is one of those moments.' Because here is the head of the studio holding a telephone up to the screen, and his shadow is being cast on the screen. And what's on the screen is the fictional head of a studio who is pulling back the sheets, revealing more and more blood, and then this actual decapitated horse's head that has been put inside his bed. And the scene is over, and he talks to Bluhdorn, 'Yes, it's fantastic, okay, great. You know, click.' And then, 'Great work, keep up the good work.' And he leaves, and we never hear from Bob Evans again.
So somehow, that scene satisfied him that it was going to be okay, whatever the problem was. And we just continued to mix the film the way we had wanted to do it in the first place. But that image is still imprinted on my retina somewhere, of this guy holding a telephone up to the screen, with the horse's head playing in the background. I can't imagine what it sounded like to Charlie Bluhdorn at the other end, because you know, what would it sound like, going over the telephone line, without the picture? But the net result was all good as far as we were concerned.
https://wn.com/Walter_Murch_This_Is_One_Of_Those_Moments'_Bob_Evans_Approves_Our_Work_(47_320)
To listen to more of Walter Murch’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzCodipONmNiROhYCUWyz_U
Walter Scott Murch (b. 1943) is widely recognised as one of the leading authorities in the field of film editing, as well as one of the few film editors equally active in both picture and sound. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: This was an unusual thing to do, to screw around with music like this, but we were in a desperate situation so that's what I did. And we... I took it into the mixing theatre, and we mixed it that way, and then called Bob Evans and said, 'Come down and listen to this cue.' So he came, and everyone... I knew it was going to work, but everyone else was, like, what's he going to say? And so he came in very impatiently, and he had a bad back at that time so there was a hospital bed in the mixing room, and he would lie down on the bed. 'Okay, play it.' And we played the scene, and when the scene was over, he jumped out of bed, forgot about his bad back, and he said, 'Fantastic. Give me a telephone.' So we gave him a telephone with a long cord on it, and he started to... 'Go back to the head of the scene', and he started dialling the phone, and walked up to the screen, and turned around and said, 'Roll it.' And he got... On the other end of the phone was Charlie Bluhdorn, who was the head of Gulf and Western, which was the parent corporation that then owned Paramount. And he said, 'Charlie, listen to this', and he held the telephone up to the screen, and we ran the scene. And I was sitting in the back with Dick Portman, the lead mixer on the film, and we looked at each other as if to say, 'This is one of those moments.' Because here is the head of the studio holding a telephone up to the screen, and his shadow is being cast on the screen. And what's on the screen is the fictional head of a studio who is pulling back the sheets, revealing more and more blood, and then this actual decapitated horse's head that has been put inside his bed. And the scene is over, and he talks to Bluhdorn, 'Yes, it's fantastic, okay, great. You know, click.' And then, 'Great work, keep up the good work.' And he leaves, and we never hear from Bob Evans again.
So somehow, that scene satisfied him that it was going to be okay, whatever the problem was. And we just continued to mix the film the way we had wanted to do it in the first place. But that image is still imprinted on my retina somewhere, of this guy holding a telephone up to the screen, with the horse's head playing in the background. I can't imagine what it sounded like to Charlie Bluhdorn at the other end, because you know, what would it sound like, going over the telephone line, without the picture? But the net result was all good as far as we were concerned.
- published: 13 Sep 2017
- views: 328
1:40
Walter Murch - 'The Rain People' (25/320)
To listen to more of Walter Murch’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzCodipONmNiROhYCUWyz_U
Walter Scott Murch (b...
To listen to more of Walter Murch’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzCodipONmNiROhYCUWyz_U
Walter Scott Murch (b. 1943) is widely recognised as one of the leading authorities in the field of film editing, as well as one of the few film editors equally active in both picture and sound. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: The following year, Francis had written a screenplay for the film 'The Rain People', which was an original screenplay about a wife coming to terms with a pregnancy that she did not really want. She wasn't ready to have a kid yet and so she travels. She gets in her car and travels across country with this baby inside her and along the way, she picks up a hitchhiker. Shirley Knight played the mother, the wife and James Caan played the hitchhiker and they travel across the country. She flirts with him but it turns out he's brain damaged because of a football accident. And the subtext of the film is that this brain damaged college student that she's carrying with her becomes the proxy for the child that she's carrying in her womb. And one thing leads to another and Robert Duvall enters the picture as a policeman and the football player in the end gets killed trying to protect her from this policeman who gets angry about something when... I forget the particular details of it but it's a kind of domestic tragedy. It ends with her holding this dead baby, this football player and promising to do right by him and you never know what her final decision is, relative to her own pregnancy.
https://wn.com/Walter_Murch_'The_Rain_People'_(25_320)
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Walter Scott Murch (b. 1943) is widely recognised as one of the leading authorities in the field of film editing, as well as one of the few film editors equally active in both picture and sound. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: The following year, Francis had written a screenplay for the film 'The Rain People', which was an original screenplay about a wife coming to terms with a pregnancy that she did not really want. She wasn't ready to have a kid yet and so she travels. She gets in her car and travels across country with this baby inside her and along the way, she picks up a hitchhiker. Shirley Knight played the mother, the wife and James Caan played the hitchhiker and they travel across the country. She flirts with him but it turns out he's brain damaged because of a football accident. And the subtext of the film is that this brain damaged college student that she's carrying with her becomes the proxy for the child that she's carrying in her womb. And one thing leads to another and Robert Duvall enters the picture as a policeman and the football player in the end gets killed trying to protect her from this policeman who gets angry about something when... I forget the particular details of it but it's a kind of domestic tragedy. It ends with her holding this dead baby, this football player and promising to do right by him and you never know what her final decision is, relative to her own pregnancy.
- published: 13 Sep 2017
- views: 464