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  1. MikeKardec

    What Shows/Movie Franchises have you "Rage Quit"?

    Though I'm quite familiar with BBC programming from the last 20 years I am fairly ignorant of the 1970s. I never saw The Sweeny and never really got the original LOM's allusions to British TV of that time. Of course the US film business was overrun with East Coast immigrant culture in the...
  2. MikeKardec

    What Shows/Movie Franchises have you "Rage Quit"?

    I went through my teens in the 1970s and also spent that time making Super 8 movies. My vocabulary in film was constructed out of the conventions of the time; the films and TV shows. I absolutely loved LOM, (the US version) because of that. Best of all was the casting of Harvey Keitel because...
  3. MikeKardec

    What Shows/Movie Franchises have you "Rage Quit"?

    I'd love to know more about that. When I lived there I found Australian radio play really refreshing compared to that in the USA. Far too many of our major stations were (this has changed some) "playlisted," meaning they were only allowed to play a limited number of popular songs. I suspect...
  4. MikeKardec

    Men's Cologne / Men Of ( STYLE ) THE FEDORA LOUNGE What Are You Wearing ?

    I never wear cologne or fancy after shave but I did hang out with a friend's university class as they experimented with pheromone concoctions. My take was that they were surprisingly effective when you give up your hope that the result will be magic. That's about as opposite an experience from...
  5. MikeKardec

    What Shows/Movie Franchises have you "Rage Quit"?

    I don't rage-quit even if I want to because sometimes I have to be up on some of these shows for work. However, I did have a hard time even getting started with Orphan Black ... then I was mesmerized by the freak show "one actress plays multiple parts and even plays parts where she is one...
  7. MikeKardec

    Rodd Redwing

    He was pretty good at nearly anything physical, no doubt he'd have been a gifted athlete if he hadn't go into a different kind of show business. He was a top and with knives, whips and various axes. I don't know for sure but he was probably a pretty good fencer. And he had the stuntman's...
  8. MikeKardec

    Rodd Redwing

    I've posted elsewhere about this guy but I just found some photos. Rodd was a well known stuntman and weapons master from the '30s to the '70s. He taught knife, rope, whip, pistol and rifle to Hollywood's greatest and performed some very tricky stunts. His real claim to fame was as a trick...
  9. MikeKardec

    Anyone familiar with Roy Rogers Radio Show?

    I'm searching for an episode list or someone familiar with the episode stories. I am researching several story ideas that were sold to them July of 1949, so production dates would be after that date. I can supply all the details but the most critical is about escaping bank robbers (or thieves...
  10. MikeKardec

    How did people 'hook up' in the Golden Era?

    And ... I've worked doing events with some EXTREMELY intelligent people, Nobel prize winning scientists and the like. In their fields they are heroes, and with good reason. Outside of that, though many clearly felt that their god-like powers of the intellect made them superior to all mankind...
  11. MikeKardec

    How did people 'hook up' in the Golden Era?

    Having read a good deal about the USSR, one of the things that strikes me is that, post Yeltsin, they ended up creating a country that looked a lot like horrors of their Soviet era propaganda regarding American culture. Totally weird. I also spent some time in West Germany just as the wall was...
  13. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Thank you! Fingers crossed for luck!
  14. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Book comes out October 24th. This must be a popular day for pre Christmas releases because I have two other friends, neither professional writers, who's publishers are releasing either on the same day or close to it. All three of these books have a "gift or holiday audience" unlike a thriller...
  15. MikeKardec

    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    So right, Germany, Italy and Japan were all overwhelmed with colony envy. Strange too because the era of colonies being a financial boon to the mother country was just about over. High populations, modernizing in the areas to be colonized and better financial practices seem to have made...
  16. MikeKardec

    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    I was surprised to discover that fuel cell is actually a pretty old technology, the concept dating back to the mid 19th century. The first time I heard of it I'd have never guessed but a lot of technology has roots farther back in the past than we tend to think. I'm guessing that the fusion...
  17. MikeKardec

    Movie locations

    If I remember correctly this film (best watched with the sound off as the dialog is, as we used to say Porn Horrible) was filmed in Hawaii, California, Texas, Indiana, Nevada, Mexico and England. This is the superbowl of production logistics, like making five interlocking $20M movies back to...
  19. MikeKardec

    Noirish Radio

    My first show was a Hitchcockian noir; meaning a thriller but no detectives. It's pretty crude by my current standards (30 years later) but here's a couple of links -- Here's the high sampling rate version ... http://louislamour.com/audio/unguarded.htm here's Audible ...
  20. MikeKardec

    Movie locations

    Superficially there's only one rationale, efficiency. We just don't know what that means in this case. If they were shooting some other scene within a few blocks it might just be that they didn't want to move the whole circus for a minor shot. I learned early on NEVER move two days in a row...
  21. MikeKardec

    Miniature Murder Scenes

    They look oddly like work done by an old colleague of mine, Richard Tuschmann, which are miniatures with live models (complete with duplicated lighting) composited in. https://www.lensculture.com/articles/richard-tuschman-hopper-meditations
  22. MikeKardec

    Film Noir...in Color?

    I suspect that you guys are talking about the same place. I actually grew up playing on the Columbia Ranch lot and making Super 8 films there when I was a kid in the 1970s. A good friend of the family was an executive at Columbia. Back lots were a great resource and the Southern California...
  23. MikeKardec

    Film Noir...in Color?

    I have also seen this, it's an amazing museum. A lot of Germans left during their depression, which predated ours by a few years. By the time the Nazis came into power they had been steeled in Hollywood for a long time. There was something about the educational systems in Eastern Europe (a...

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