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Philco Predicta TV Being Reproduced
The tubes are custom made specifically for this company, which is one reason they are $2650. Doug- Atomic Age
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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There is no great secret about how the story developed and Lucas has talked extensively about his original ideas and how they developed and changed. Its covered in quite a bit of detail in the official history of the films... BTW not only was Luke originally Luke Starkiller, he was also...- Atomic Age
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Yeah I always find it amusing how many people put blame on Nixon for the Vietnam War, when he is the one who ended it. No one ever blames Kennedy for starting the damn thing! Doug- Atomic Age
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I know I was one of those kids that got the "early bird" card for Star Wars toys under the tree at Christmas in 1977. (By the time the toys actually started coming out however, I was almost 13 and getting a little old for toys.) However what they did have, and what was totally owned and...- Atomic Age
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I haven't seen a movie in a theater in over 2 years. Most of what is out there now just doesn't interest me. I tried to watch E.T. recently and it really does not hold up well. Doug- Atomic Age
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Well to be fair, the toys and other merchandising items paid for the movies to be made. After Star Wars, all the films were financed by Lucas out of his own pocket. And in spite what many people may think, the first Star Wars film made Lucas rich, but not THAT rich. In fact because Empire went...- Atomic Age
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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This is the place that opened near me about a year ago. They actually have in theater food service. http://www.ultrastarmovies.com/ Doug- Atomic Age
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Yes but to say that is incredibly simplistic. The basic plot outline was borrowed from Hidden Fortress, but you could also say that plot elements were borrowed from The Wizard of Oz, The Odyssey, and MANY other sources. Lucas studied mythology and classic story telling extensively before...- Atomic Age
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Exactly! When I was a projectionist, the AC returns for the theaters were up near the projection booth, so anytime people snuck food in, I would smell it. And I mean they snuck in KFC and Chinese dinners and all kinds of stuff. Well as soon as I would spot it, I would send the usher into take it...- Atomic Age
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It is true that after the theaters pay the rental fees for the films, most of the profits go back to the studios. The only profits left for theaters is concessions, which is why you are now seeing theaters offering things like Pizza and subs. There are some theaters now that are offering full...- Atomic Age
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If you don't see the political and sociological allegories in Star Wars then you just aren't looking for them. Star Wars is and was always intended to be a metaphor for the Vietnam war. Its the project that Lucas made when he couldn't make Apocalypse Now. The Empire of course represents the...- Atomic Age
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James Cameron is rather bad writer. All of his characters speak with the same voice. While he is a skilled filmmaker, he should really stop writing. Doug- Atomic Age
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What's your alltime favorite movie?
top 5 in no particular order... Raiders of the Lost Ark The Big Sleep Out of the Past North by Northwest Rio Bravo- Atomic Age
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Fedora Lounge Film Festival
Here is the latest short that Amanda Lee and I put together. This one is inspired by those old studio shorts that would be promoting a new starlet! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROzB48ER8Fw- Atomic Age
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Noir-Inspired Photos
I often use open faced dish reflectors with photo floods. So did guys like George Hurrell. [/url] This image was photographed with a 12 inch spun aluminum reflector dish with a 500 watt photo flood for the key light. It is sitting about 4 to 5 feet from the model. The hair or back light...- Atomic Age
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Star Trek
I don't know that Shatner himself ever said anything about it, but in their book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, Robert Justman associate producer and Hertbert Solo production executive talk about how a new toupee was bought at great expense (these were GOOD toupees) at the start of each...- Atomic Age
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Noir-Inspired Photos
The first and third photos have somewhat soft light feel to them with quite a bit of fill light. European films of the 60's tended to use soft lighting, where as American films were still using hard un-diffuse key light, so that maybe why he gets a 60's Europe feel from those. Noir films in...- Atomic Age
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Typewriters Are Back
This is why professional secretaries were worth their weight in gold! Doug- Atomic Age
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