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  1. martinsantos

    Messrs Chandler and Hammett

    Funny to look into the older posts. This is interesting. I prefer Hammett to Chandler. He has something dry, ever brutal, in his stories. I just prefer those with Continental Op. OK, Sam Spade is an icon, but Continental is better. Chandler is great too. I ever prefer the short stories...
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    How Old Are The Members of The Fedora Lounge?

    I'm 33. Nice to see that a lot of members are younger. Not remembering the past, but liking what happened one day. Martin
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    Poll: Bela Lugosi's 40's, Poverty Row Films

    The only one I saw from this phase, "Ghosts on the Loose". These films had a very bad distribuition, ever with Lugosi in the cast. Probably almost all dever reached Brazil in those days... And still apeared here in any "incarnation" as VHS, DVD, super-8 or similar.
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    Unpopular music opinions

    Cage is almost a criminal. 4'33'' is just a fraud. As Stockhausen, usually. I always fell that they are laughing in the audience's face, when this think about the "geniality" of the "composer". Alba Berg is just great if you want to make that boring relative to go away from your home...
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    Kodachrome Curtains

    Slides are une of the most spetacular ways to see photos. My parents asked to convert their collection in DVDs, but I prefer with the projector (so I got all the collection! Around 6 thousand slides, from 40s to 80s). There is something special about projecting images in a large screen, all...
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    Kodachrome Curtains

    Kodachromes are almost indestructible - but with direct sun is hard that they won't fade. I hope that there are just crab, stupid photos in that curtain. Sad to think about a really good photograph be destroyed this way.
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    Old Film Cameras - With Film Inside!

    Never found old film in a camera. But I had two experiences that surprised me about the "magic" in any roll of film. When my granfather died in 1975 there was a roll to be developed. Panatomic X, his preferred film. I got it this year, and I could get some images (unhappilly just tests with...
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    Bought a bunch of cameras, look what I found...

    Brownies use a still popular film called "120". It's the same used in Rolleiflex, Super-Ikontas, etc. It come in paper, and you don't have to rewind it. You just get the spool to be the taking spoll of the next roll. Makes a big negative (usually 6x6 and 6x9) so you don't need to enlarge, just...
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    The demise of VHS

    In this the old VHS tapes are similar with the audio tapes in open reels. In these in more necessary than video records because the splices we have to do now and then. Rewinding give "air" to the whole tape, and it will last longer.
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    Share your own art here :)

    Wonderful results, Alan! Martin
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    Goodman Or Shaw?

    That's true. Shaw did things with his clarinet that few musicians would ever try. Just think that Goodman's band had more swing than Shaw's.
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    Unpopular music opinions

    Sinatra has different phases in his career. The recordings to Tommy Dorsey are just fabulous. In the Columbia years he was almost boring. At Capitol he was great!! Only the Lonely, Nice'n'Easy, Where are You? and other classic LPs. With the back of wonderful orchestras, by Nelson Riddle...
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    Unpopular music opinions

    Agree with all about Springsteen and Beatles. The first almost nobody remembers (like Sting, for example - and I do not him as well). But when I started to criticize Beatles, when u University, my colleagues almost killed me! Something to tell about in just private places...
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    "City of Shadows" - Sydney Police Photography

    Looks to me that they were using 9x12cm glass plates or 6x9 film. 9x12 is almost impossible today, but the 6x9 is easy. Uses a film called 120 (the same used to Rolleiflex). Get any one with a Tessar (from Zeiss) and go ahead. These 6x9 usually are spring type. Closed looks like a wallet, but...
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    Best 1930s-40s American magazines?

    "Life" is certainly the very best. In fact, the photos inside made every issue something to hold and see now and then. I like too some photo magazines, as Popular photography, Photography, etc. But are specific magazines. Here in Brazil the most famous (and best) was "O Cruzeiro". Begining...
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    The Third Man: Chutes and Ladders

    That's a funny detail, and I think that Reed wanted to put it. From the begining we know that Cotten will have trouble... A lot of it.
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    Hammet

    This is a very good film!! I liked it a lot. The soundtrack, with clarinet, is very very good. Never found a LP of it, unhappilly.
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    Your favorite silent movies.

    Two german movies. "Dk Caligari" (1919) and "Variety" (1924), both expressionists.
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    The Nora recorder - anybody knows?

    I'm not showing anything, but I would like to know if anybody here can show and tell a little about. No Google could do that. It's about a tape recorder, called "Nora". The tape was circular, somewhat little (little larger than a hat) but very wide. You could find the exactly point of the...
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    What Are You Reading

    Santa Claus brought me "Slighty out of Focus" by Robert Capa. What a wonderful book! The text is very very good, and the photographs are really what anybody can mean with the word "genius".

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