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Sunday, February 14, 2010
The Blogathon is Here!
The For the Love of Film Blogathon is here, hosted by Marilyn at Ferdy on Films and the Siren at The Self-Styled Siren. Go to The Siren's page for updates on all new posts. I made this second commercial to advertise and celebrate the blogathon and if you'd like to put it up yourself just follow the YouTube link below. Later in the week I'll be doing a write-up of Cecil B. DeMille's 1928/29 The Godless Girl, one of film preservation's triumphs as sound footage, thought lost forever, was found and restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2007.
Embedding code for commercial can be found here. Thanks.
Embedding code for commercial can be found here. Thanks.
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This is an outstanding commercial! Thanks, Greg, for another great effort.
Thanks Marilyn, it's very much appreciated. I look forward to participating as well with The Godless Woman, which is where the clip is from in the commercial of the woman kicking up her leg.
You know why? She's Godless!
Just curious about that Beethoven's 9th Symphony soundbite: did you get that from the Shared Music on a Windows XP?
Okay, I'll stop being nit-picky... great commercial, Greg! Now all that's left for me is to select a Film Preservation *topic*. Still quarreling with myself over that.
Adam, I'm afraid your comment's meaning has eluded me. I got the second movement of Beethoven's ninth from my CD because I love that piece of music and wanted music that was celebratory, which the ninth is.
And worry not, I'm sure you'll come up with a great post for the blogathon.
Haha. I'm just talking nonsense.
Nice commercial. Should I be happy or scared to say that I could identify almost every image? Maybe I spend too much time thinking about movies...
That's it Adam, you're banned! Nobody talks nonsense around here except me!
Okay, you're unbanned.
Joe, you should be proud beyond measure, that's what you should be. Knowing almost every image? In my book that means you've lived your life correctly. Nice going.
Molto vivace, was that a great video!
Wonderful job as always, Greg.
Bill, thanks a million! Great to get positive feedback from a trusted friend.
You're welcome. Also, did you get that "molto vivace" joke? Did you think it was hilarious?
I know "vivace" is music tempo notation for "lively". So, is that the joke? And yeah, that's hilarious. Shit man, I'm still laughing.
No, I thought that was the name of that particular movement from the 9th! The album my parents had told me so!
I guess technically it is, you'r right. They usually divide symphonies into tempos using the Sonata form. And that piece is vivace! Hell, it's MOLTO VIVACE!
See!? HILARIOUS!!!
Comedy, thy name is Bill.
Who's the dish with the shades on the banner?
That's an actress from Beat director Christopher Maclaine's 1953 short The End. Unfortunately there is no cast list, not even on IMDB so I don't know who she is.
I got the image from DVDs I received from the National Film Preservation Foundation to use in promotions for the blogathon. It's also where I got the copy of The Godless Girl whose review will go up tomorrow.
Son of a gun. You know, checking out what's gone up so far, and the resources, general knowledge, and so forth, of the people who have yet to post, I'm feeling very intimidated by this blogathon.
I understand. Truth be told, I got lucky in that I was sent the DVD from the Film Preservation Foundation that contains The Godless Girl which is the only way you can see it. It's not on a stand alone DVD you can rent or buy.
The DVD also contains a hilarious short on Bolsheviks that I want to put up but won't since I don't want to show the very items being given away in the raffle.
Makes sense. Anyway, I really want to take part in this, but right now I'm completely at sea.
How about just do a personal post about your first experience with a restored film? That's what I was going to do before I got the DVD. I was thinking about the movies I've seen after restoration, like Lost Horizon, or how much I'd love to have seen the full version of Greed or seen the attack of the spiders segment cut and destroyed from the original King Kong, etc. You get the idea.
You know, I might. I mean, I might have to, just for lack of anything else, but, for instance, I've never written up THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, and if not for the Criterion restoration that masterpiece might have slipped away.
Or does merely putting a movie on DVD that no one else was going to count as restoration? Probably not...
Kinda, sorta. Ah, who cares, it's all about raising awareness. Do it any way you can.
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