For my money, there is no better time machine than television commercials and station ID’s. Above is a terrific collection of 1970 KNBC (Los Angeles) ads that evoke the era perfectly and offer some interesting perspectives on issues of the day. A young Tom Brokaw, then a local newscaster, manages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUqnSedqssI Much is being jabbered about A.I. and its likely calamitous effect on the creative/filmmaking/writing and even acting process. There’s little reason to worry in my opinion; A.I. is hear to stay and will soon supplant the methods by which movies have been made for one-hundred plus years. And in
On January 1, 1971, the last cigarette commercials were aired. To celebrate the occasion (or perhaps ‘squeeze the life out of the opportunity’ is more accurate) Phillip Morris, that noble institution, bought an hour of airtime to jam as many cigarette ads into as possible. Above is a mash-up of
‘Listen, Judge’ (1952) is the 138th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Tuesday, November 6 through Thursday, November 8, 1951 and was released on Thursday, March 6th, 1952 (the 66th day in the Gregorian Calendar). The film is a mash-up of three
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOCohXRrdkghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQKuNHhX8Js Apropos of yesterday’s post, I was going to post the highly controversial Vanessa Redgrave Oscar acceptance speech from 1978 in which she criticizes Israel in a virulent and stinging speech that provoked boos and a scolding from Paddy Chayefsky. But you know what? The hell with it. Let’s end
Continuing our history of ‘Annie Hall’ at the 1978 Oscars, here is Paddy Chayefsky announcing the best original screenplay award which of course goes to the magisterially absent Woody Allen and his partner Mashall Brickman, who is there and accepts on Woody’s behalf. (By the way, one of the nominees
Continuing our story of ‘Annie Hall’ and its Oscars moment, above is a short section from a doc about Woody (don’t know which one) which tells the oft-repeated tale of how he blew off the ceremony and didn’t even know the movie had won the major Oscars of that year
Yesterday we watched Woody Allen not pick up his Best Director Oscar for ‘Annie Hall’ in 1978 due to his being in New York playing the clarinet with a band in midtown. However his producers, Jack Rollins and Charles Joffe, chose to make the trip and were rewarded with picking
Last week I posted William Friedkin’s Oscar win for ‘The French Connection’ in 1972. The award was nicely presented by Natalie Wood, who was paired with legendary director Frank Capra. In 1978 the Academy had the good taste (believe it or not) to repeat this actress/legendary director bit again, this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKYiPFGMaohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEij2bn7rGY ‘Creeps’ (1956) was the 168th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. The single day of photography took place on May 16th, 1955. The film was released on Thursday, February 2, 1956 (the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar), 41 days after the