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I overheard some girls that I liked Oooohing about Barnabas Collins, so I checked out Dark Shadows. It was a little subtle for my Saturday Night Shock Theater-accustomed pre-teen brain (meaning: no stakes plunging into hearts, nor any Hammer Studio plunging necklines).

I also heard rumors at school about "homework"... but I don't remember following through on that one.
 
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BruisedOrange said:
Interesting older take. IIRC I was in 4th grade, so it was hip to our age level.

Painted my Western Flyer bicycle black, cut out batwings from cloth in Mom's fabric bin and painted them black, then attached them to the seat stays on either side of the rear wheel. Man, they made a flappin' racket when I sprinted it down the alley where the neighborhood guys came to race their bikes!

And besides being cool... we'd memorized all the lyrics to the theme song!
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The girl I eventually ended up marring (1980) was only 3 yo back in 1960. :)
Google Search .... The first TV episode air date of Batman was in Jan. 1966-1968.
 
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BruisedOrange said:
I overheard some girls that I liked Oooohing about Barnabas Collins, so I checked out Dark Shadows. It was a little subtle for my Saturday Night Shock Theater-accustomed pre-teen brain (meaning: no stakes plunging into hearts, nor any Hammer Studio plunging necklines).

I also heard rumors at school about "homework"... but I don't remember following through on that one.
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I loved all the Hammer Studios Horror movies in the 1950s & 1960s.
I remember going to the movie theatre in downtown Jackson to see them.
Those movies had actor Peter Cushing in them as the lead Scientist.
 
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TN Jed said:
It was fitting for Apocalypse Now. Rough listen when you're on shrooms, though (that was a LONG time ago, lol) .
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Since we get some youngsters passing through the thread (and it's our responsibility to further their socio-historical edumacation), this is one of the great openings to a film. The cinematic techniques are all there, delivering dialog-free backstory on this main character. The visual dissolves intermix with audio dissolves to communicate his half-conscious, barely sober, state of mind. And "The End" lyrics sound like they were written for the scene.

For some reason, this clip ends just before his disgusted realization upon peeking through the blinds, of where he still is: "Saigon. Sh*t!"

 
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BruisedOrange said:
Since we get some youngsters passing through the thread (and it's our responsibility to further their socio-historical edumacation), this is one of the great openings to a film. The cinematic techniques are all there, delivering dialog-free backstory on this main character. The visual dissolves intermix with audio dissolves to communicate his half-conscious, barely sober, state of mind. And "The End" lyrics sound like they were written for the scene.

For some reason, this clip ends just before his disgusted realization upon peeking through the blinds, of where he still is: "Saigon. Sh*t!"

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All of those characteristics were in one song? I must have missed most of them.
When I hear helicopters fly, I'm reminded of that nasty ass Viet-Nam war of the 60s & 70s. CBS News would play updates each afternoon of that War & you'd hear the sound of helicopters in the background each night on CBS news w/Walter Cronkite. Cronkite was the famous CBS news broadcaster who announced the death of John F. Kennedy live on air in 1963.
 
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Halph66 said:
I was born December 1966. Does that make me old?
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You really don't want to be the youngest guy in an old men's club. They'll just have you fetching all the drinks and doing all the physical labor.

Back in the day, in the Walnut Room of Lakefront Airport in N'awlins, my wife and I would go for Saturday breakfast and get a table within earshot of this large table where a group of old fliers would meet and tell tales. Most of them, getting pretty old by then, had flown/fought in WW2. Several others flew in Korea, and the youngest guy had flown (for "The Company") in Vietnam, where he frequently wandered across borders into other countries' no-fly zones. He was known as "a professionally poor navigator."

You can guess which one they'd always send to the counter to check on their order or request more coffee.
edit: Which he respectfully and happily did.
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
All of those characteristics were in one song? I must have missed most of them.
When I hear helicopters fly, I'm reminded of that nasty ass Viet-Nam war of the 60s & 70s. CBS News would play updates each afternoon of that War & you'd hear the sound of helicopters in the background each night on the news.
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I was referring to the opening of the film Apocalypse Now, and how it used the song with it.

But, yeah, I recognize the (now rare) sound of a Huey over any other kind of chopper, for the same reasons.
 
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BruisedOrange said:
Since we get some youngsters passing through the thread (and it's our responsibility to further their socio-historical edumacation), this is one of the great openings to a film. The cinematic techniques are all there, delivering dialog-free backstory on this main character. The visual dissolves intermix with audio dissolves to communicate his half-conscious, barely sober, state of mind. And "The End" lyrics sound like they were written for the scene.

For some reason, this clip ends just before his disgusted realization upon peeking through the blinds, of where he still is: "Saigon. Sh*t!"

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Just remember...."CHARLIE DON'T SURF!"
 
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Movie trivia:

When theater wunderkind Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood with an unheard of $1M contract from RKO to direct his very first motion picture, he initially began work on a screenplay based on Joseph Conrad's famous novella "Heart of Darkness."

But the studio balked at shooting on location in Africa, so he worked on another idea, which became known as... "Citizen Kane."

"Heart of Darkness" was never made into a movie until Francis Ford Coppola adapted the story and released it under the title of...

"Apocalypse Now."
 
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BruisedOrange said:
Movie trivia:

When theater wunderkind Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood with an unheard of $1M contract from RKO to direct his very first motion picture, he initially began work on a screenplay based on Joseph Conrad's famous novella "Heart of Darkness."

But the studio balked at shooting on location in Africa, so he worked on another idea, which became knows as... "Citizen Kane."

"Heart of Darkness" was never made into a movie until Francis Ford Coppola adapted the story and released it under the title of...

"Apocalypse Now."
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and after a bit of editing became a very good movie
 
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I'm just sick at home today, so letting my ADD run wild here, between nose blows and short, unanticipated naps.

Alas, my eyes are too watery to read, though there's several good books within reach that really need to be scavenged this weekend. But every med that clears my eyes deadens my brain.

edit: Maybe on the subject of "old"... was this always true about non-fiction: the more weighty the content, the smaller the text?
 
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BruisedOrange said:
Movie trivia:

When theater wunderkind Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood with an unheard of $1M contract from RKO to direct his very first motion picture, he initially began work on a screenplay based on Joseph Conrad's famous novella "Heart of Darkness."

But the studio balked at shooting on location in Africa, so he worked on another idea, which became knows as... "Citizen Kane."

"Heart of Darkness" was never made into a movie until Francis Ford Coppola adapted the story and released it under the title of...

"Apocalypse Now."
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…the rest of the story.

Good stuff, boo!
 
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