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    Film Noir...in Color?

    I think some sets were built for specific movies but they continued to be used for other movies, including TV, for as long as possible, sometimes with remodeling, sometimes not. Generally speaking, outdoor movie locations are usually pretty bare when not set up for shooting, without signs and...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    That's one of my favorite movies, too. My favorite scenes include the very first one (I think it was) when the man (Foster) is watching the bank from the building across the street and checking off the times, then later in the same room, meeting the men he hired. The other scenes are in the...
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    Hitler's Car

    The 135 mph claimed sounds impressive but not so much the 235 horsepower. They probably weren't armored, though, all of them that I've ever seen pictures of being open touring cars. The ones with six wheels looked interesting, though. I have read that while Hitler made a lot of money from his...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    We have a Mexican-made VW. When we were in the UK, we rented a VW van of some sort. Six-speed, right-hand drive. The first hundred yards was fun and fortunately, there was no one on the sidewalks. When we were in Germany a few years ago, we rented an Opel, also a six-speed manual but left-hand...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    I had even looked it up, then failed to mention it. Haven't see Tomb Raider. I think I spotted a Land-Rover fire truck conversion in You only live twice. And I think I have seen them in historically extremely inaccurate Hong Kong WWII action movies but don't quote me.
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    Speaking very generally, if it isn't made where you live, it's imported. In that respect, all cars sold where I live are imported.
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    I was just thinking about the times I've seen Land-Rovers in movies and on TV. Not that many times, actually. There is or was a British TV amateur detective drama about two middle-aged women who are gardeners, one of whom drives an old Land-Rover. When her partner suggests getting a new one...
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    Dunkirk - I've just seen it

    I saw the film, too, a few weeks ago. I have mixed feelings about it. As others have mentioned, there's virtually no character development aside from those of the small boat that much drama is centered on. There is also no realistic feeling of the vast numbers of men involved, but I give them a...
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    Film Noir...in Color?

    In the days of Westerns and adventure movies filmed mostly out-of-doors, the filming was done on movie ranches. Most of them were located within a certain distance of L.A. (don't know where they measured from) because if the locations were further away, everyone had to be paid more. I believe...
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    Hitler's Car

    Thanks. I enjoyed the links. I almost couldn't believe that Roy Rogers (and Gene Autry, same year) had finally passed away when they did. But then, so did Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Cary Grant and all the others I grew up watching on TV and in the movies.
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    You are correct, although it was Austrian. I even managed to get a sales brochure, which I might still have. Don't remember what it cost, though, or who sold them. You might get more use out of a dune buggy, if anyone remembers them. In some ways, they were a little bit like the US Army "Mule,"...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    Fair enough but no one likes to be called common. Are you like everyone else and in no unique?
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    I had been trying to remember another 4x4 vehicle from 40 some years ago. Quite rare but I actually saw one. The Steyr-Puch (at the time) Haflinger was a small and not very fast 4x4 vehicle that was probably too small, too slow and much too basic to ever expect much in the way of sales. But it...
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    Film Noir...in Color?

    Although not the least bit noir-ish, a few movies that were brightly lit in direct sunlight and filmed in color had virtually no color in them. Everything was tan, brown or dirt color. I was thinking of a movie with Jay Silverheels that was, not surprisingly, about Indians and had no European...
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    Film Noir...in Color?

    Oh, I know next to nothing about movie making but my son works in the business and naturally, lives in L.A.
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    Film Noir...in Color?

    That was true of a lot of mostly low-budget movies. Few movies were made entirely on location then, too, for budget reasons. Also, most if not all of the studios in Los Angeles had extensive backlots that duplicated jungles, European cities, New York streets, Southern plantations and the like...
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    I thought we were the only ones who called it a "glider." I doubt that any motel, motor courts or tourist cabins had any, though.
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    Film Noir...in Color?

    It just occurred to me that, in the same way that silent films, when being filmed, were created in a world of sound, black & white films were produced when everything that everyone saw--except in the finished product or the rushes--was in color. So maybe they didn't conceive of things the way we...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    I won't. It wouldn't be the same. But the thing is, I once owned a Land-Rover in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was a 1965 short wheelbase station wagon (estate car). I also had two Rover sedans, too, but this isn't about cars. The Land-Rovers of the day had some good features but also some...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    How interesting! Some of the things described here are the Peter Principle personified. I've had the good fortune to work for a few bosses who were absolutely wonderful to work for. None were perfect and you shouldn't expect that. I worked for my previous boss for eighteen years, with both of us...

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