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  1. Stanley Doble

    Would you want a remake of something you like to fix mistakes?

    Sometimes I have to remind myself I am watching a show not a documentary. I can overlook a fake set, or props. What I can't overlook is something that breaks the illusion, like using 2010 slang in a movie set in 1890.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Use it if you've got it sounds a lot like smoke em if you got em, a WW2 catch phrase.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Would you want a remake of something you like to fix mistakes?

    Here is something that has never been done, that could be done without too much trouble. Take a silent movie and give it a new sound track. Find a lip reader, write dialog that fits the lip movements of the actors. Put traffic noises in the street scenes, and other sound effects as appropriate...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Would you want a remake of something you like to fix mistakes?

    If anachronisms bother you that much, just watch old movies made in the time they represent. I don't know why this is such a hard concept to grasp. Does it really bother you that much if a movie set in 1936 shows a housewife hanging clothes on a line using clothespins invented in 1937? All...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Overly appreciated movies?

    The characters and basic story of any mystery usually are not very complex, if you leave out the mystery part. The only one I didn't really believe in is Joseph Cotton as the naive rube. Other than that the story was intriguing with enough twists and surprises for anyone. It's a zither, not a...
  7. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    You are lucky, we still have plenty of ice and snow from the January and December snow storms with more snow and freezing rain today. This will be the first of many nice drives you have this year.
  8. Stanley Doble

    Classic One Liners and Quotes

    I don't drink. It runs in the family not to. A Texas Tornado is a perfectly sound commercial drink for conventions and hangovers, but not for an occasion like this.
  9. Stanley Doble

    Iron Sky and the real question about Nazi experimentation with flying discs...

    One of the things that hampered Nazi technology was the very compartmentalized, top down organization structure. They had some very smart engineers at the top, and some very smart mechanics all the way down, but they did not talk to each other much except to give and receive orders. The result...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    You mean "sex appeal"?
  11. Stanley Doble

    Source for 1930's Radio Commercials?

    I have an original lacquer disc of Benrus watch commercials from the thirties. Recorded on one side only. Six spots of 30 seconds or so. (A lacquer disc is a disc of aluminum covered with black lacquer or plastic. It is slightly larger than an LP vinyl record which it resembles in format, but...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I still call it breakfast food. Didn't know this had fallen out of use.
  14. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    Rockefeller tried to monopolize the oil industry and failed. He had the Pennsylvania and Indiana oil fields sewn up but as soon as they found oil in Texas and Oklahoma, there was too much oil for even Rockefeller to buy up. His first effort was to organize the Pennsylvania oil fields into an...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Overly appreciated movies?

    The African Queen is the only movie in which Humphrey Bogart played a Canadian. They changed him from a Cockney to a Canuck, it's in the movie but you have to be quick to catch it. The Third Man is one of those movies I can watch over and over and never tire of. On the other hand, I tried to...
  16. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    Rockefeller started out working as a bookkeeper in a wholesale grocery concern in Cleveland. Then he went into business for himself, still in the grocery business. Cleveland became a center for the new oil trade as it was near the Pennsylvania oil fields. Rockefeller got into the oil business...
  17. Stanley Doble

    Would you want a remake of something you like to fix mistakes?

    I don't know if it would be possible to make a remake accurate enough to please someone who nit picks every detail. The answer might be to watch old movies. Charlie Chan movies from the thirties and forties, that are set in the thirties and forties. Or old horror pictures. A movie set in 1936...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Leather care for old briefcase

    Connoley hide food?
  20. Stanley Doble

    The Martini

    Bartender: What're you drinking? Johnny Wayne: Gimme a martinus. Bartender: You mean a martini. Johnny Wayne: If I wanted two I'd ask for them.
  21. Stanley Doble

    We've all heard these stories before about Japanese soldiers holding out for years.

    That's right. The Japanese soldiers themselves confirm that they were ordered not to surrender, to hide out and wait for the return of the Japanese army. We have the testimony of the soldiers themselves to that. Ones who hid out for years rather than surrender. The idea that Japan would...
  22. Stanley Doble

    We've all heard these stories before about Japanese soldiers holding out for years.

    You must realize these men were under orders. When the Japanese army retreated from these islands they left behind many men who were ordered to keep fighting to the death, or to hide out and await orders or the return of the Japanese army. Their commanding officers considered this the best way...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Rods are more a measurement used by farmers but you are right, all the people I know (knew) who used the rod as a measurement, were born at least 100 years ago. But then, Canada has officially been on the metric system since 1970.

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