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We are now having a very innocent little chat. Let us suppose that there is a bomb underneath this table between us. Nothing happens, and then all of a sudden, “Boom!” There is an explosion. The public is surprised, but priot to this surprise, it has seen an absolutely ordinary scene, of no special consequence. Now, let us take a suspense situation. The bomb is underneath the table and the public knows it, probably because they have seen the anarchist place it there. The public is aware that the bomb is going to explode at one o’clock, and there is a clock in the decor. The public can see that it is a quarter to one. In these conditions this innocuous conversation becomes fascinating because the public is participating in the scene. The audience is longing to warn the characters on the screen: “You shouldn’t be talking about such trivial matters. There’s a bomb beneath you and it’s about to explode!” In the first case we have given the public fifteen seconds of surprise at the moment of the explosion. In the second case we have provided them with fifteen minutes of suspense. |
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The birds was also based on a real event. This flock of birds somewhere in California swooped in and made quite a mess of things by colliding with windows, etc. as I understand it. It was featured in Mystery at the Museum. It had a rather mundane cause though unlike the movie. The birds eat fish which have eaten a particular type of plankton or other sea plants and it every now and then has a neurological effect on the birds. Scrambles their sense of direction or something so they fly into things.
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I seem to remember one person had a speaking part -- Marcel Marceau. It appealed to my sense of humour that a mime spoke the only word in the movie. I was going to say the only line of dialogue in the movie but hard to stretch Non! into a line.
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Sort of like Clarabell the clown having the final word on the final episode of Howdy Doody. His words? "Goodbye kids." Speaking of which didn't they make a line of books featuring Howdy Doody?
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The Key may have been originally titled The Distant Shore. I read it in a book by that title many years ago. Last edited by The Old Man; 07-19-2018 at 08:20 AM. Reason: Additional info |
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I've read that only half of the films made before 1950 still exist and only about 20% of silent films from the 1910s and 1920s remain.
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I can remember watching one restored movie a number of years ago (can't remember the name of the movie at the moment) where they had the audio track, but not the film for several sections, so they just played the audio track with various stills from the movie during those sections. It was kind of an interesting effect as I remember it. |
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I'm pretty sure this has come up here before. Last edited by issybird; 07-20-2018 at 02:55 PM. |
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Lost Horizon was cut in some small parts as it ran long and some of the pieces are lost. They did a restored version a few yrs ago that had the audio restored but used production stills to fill the gaps for the actual film. There are also a few pieces missing from Wizard of Oz that were filled in via such production photo's on the DVD version (in special features) as well for that matter. I hadn't known about A Star is Born having such missing pieces.
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