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  1. MikeKardec

    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    I agree. For the record there were, however, a couple of single system sound newsreel cameras around. Berndt had one in the early '30s, though I don't know if very many were made. By '39 he was manufacturing the B & M Sound Pro and Bach Auricon was making a single system (optical recorder in...
  2. MikeKardec

    [Most??] moving lines of acceptance or tolerance?

    Some of that heavy handedness was also just the requirements of the 1 hour (really 43-45 minute once you subtract ads) format. There's a limited amount of subtlety you can manage in that time. I'm always amazed at what "anthology shows" like Alfred Hitchcock Presents or Twilight Zone were able...
  3. MikeKardec

    [Most??] moving lines of acceptance or tolerance?

    Slightly off the topic of movies but there's an issue I mentioned elsewhere that bears repeating here because of Lizzie's memory of this great moment: Robert Heinlein has in more recent years been reviled as being "right wing" ... in reality his writing seems a good deal more complicated. He...
  4. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    You are right about how even these, mass produced shows, explored some important themes. Like Western movies, they are better than they seem on quick perusal. Over saturation, however, became a huge problem. And that led to a furtherance of an issue that has plagued the genre from its middle...
  5. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    It's so odd, I see/hear this all the time, especially about Wayne. Actually a lot of "his" westerns (Stars in this era had less to do with the content of their films, although Wayne did produce a few of his own later on) were very complex and insightful. It was the WWII semi propaganda films...
  7. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I don't specifically remember any that I've seen, but the few I did see were done before the rather contentious present era. I suspect that The Searchers was more controversial in the past when the protagonist was more likely to be a "hero" who was supposed to be some sort of role model...
  8. MikeKardec

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Monsters: A compromised photojournalist is asked to retrieve his boss's daughter from southern Mexico before travel ends during the migration season arrives for some gigantic alien creatures that have been breeding there for the past several years. You have to cut the film some slack over lame...
  9. MikeKardec

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Two Jakes: Worth noting is that this was sort of a split between a sequel and a remake, attempting to tell the same story but this time about oil. Personally, I don't like that split. I'll take one or the other but both in the same boat doesn't work out well ... at least in this case...
  10. MikeKardec

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Just saw No Escape, a thriller starring Owen Wilson, Lake Bell and Pierce Brosnan, for the second time and was reminded what a great little film it is. A young engineer/executive and his family move to a nameless southeast Asian country only to find they have arrived on the eve of something...
  11. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    A note on "cancel culture." My take is that this grew out of the academic world, specifically the science community. Starting in the 1980s and possibly in reaction to a lot of wacky far out science that was done in the 1970s (and a lot of dangerous far out science that was done in the 1960s)...
  13. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    More likely they have been given the mandate to "explain" the work by their corporate superiors and they are not quite up to the job ... but it's the job they have nonetheless. I do this sort of thing all the time now, adding "the story behind the story" to older novels. However, I never...
  14. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    What I've tried to do is splitting the difference. A feisty 1950s female in The Diamond of Jeru (Audio not Film) bursts with a tirade about the nature of men but it is (hopefully) established that she's just thinking these things for the first time, spurred on by the (not all negative but...
  15. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I'm not convinced that it is intended to "keep male writers down," I've never heard that sort of thing. But these are offices full of women who are getting the "women are the readers" message, day in and day out. I THINK some of that is conformation bias and I think some of it is just the sort...
  16. MikeKardec

    RIP Land Rover Defender

    I think there's a law of thermodynamics that precludes too rapid a charge. Batteries/capacitors may catch up someday as might some kind of super hot charging station. Electrics demand VERY little maintenance, which is good. I dislike electric vehicles, no romance, lack of privacy and autonomy...
  17. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    You are probably not missing anything ... but timing and momentum. I'm not super familiar with some of those names but Koontz, Patterson, and to a certain David Baldacci, are successful holdovers from the old regime. They had enough momentum prior to the issues I mention to carry through...
  19. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I worry that this is a compounded case of conformation bias on the part of the book business. In the past 10 years publishing has gotten to the point where it is run more and more by women. They really aren't interested in publishing the sort of fiction men are interested in and kind of have...
  20. MikeKardec

    RIP Land Rover Defender

    The issue isn't power. Electric delivers that in enormous amounts, you can make them super fast, they have tons of torque from rev one and, most important for off road, the "throttle" can be modulated very slowly to give you great control. What they DON'T have is range. Getting to the place...
  21. MikeKardec

    Bring me baggy trousers!

    More expensive than the Cordite entry but you can get pretty full cut "Hollywood Top" trousers from Edward Sexton in the UK.
  22. MikeKardec

    Oumuamua

    A just released book on Oumuamua by astronomer Avi Leob, quite an advocate for its ET origins: https://www.amazon.com/Extraterrestrial-First-Intelligent-Beyond-Earth/dp/0358278147
  23. MikeKardec

    Looking to Relocate ... Ideas?

    Ha! I did an Audio Drama production presentation at the Texas Library Association convention in Austin a couple of years ago. It was very different from what I remembered from the 1970s!

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