The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for January 2, 2024
Feature: Behind That Curtain
Chat Number: 1,236
Extra:
The Green Hornet – 1940 – “The Hornet’s Trapped”
Participants:
Godwinshelley
Hawaii_Steve
Hounder
Matt
Rush
tenman
01-02 18:25
Rush:
01-02 18:30
Rush:
hello, Matt!
welcome back!
01-02 18:30
Matt:
Hello Rush…..Happy New Year!
Thnx….Hope the holidays were nice on your end
01-02 18:30
Rush:
And Happy new Year to you!
01-02 18:31
Rush:
They were, thank you! And I hope that you and yours had a great Holiday Season!
01-02 18:32
Rush:
Our older daughterreturned to California this morning. it was great having her back with us for a while!
01-02 18:32
Matt:
A lot of travel, but nice, thnx. We’re hoping we’ll be home now until Easter, so fingers crossed
01-02 18:32
Rush:
Yes!
01-02 18:33
Matt:
That sounds like a wonderful holiday
01-02 18:33
Rush:
Hopefully attendance will grow a bit tonight. We had sparce gatherings the past couple of weeks.
Yes, it was nice, indeed.
01-02 18:33
Matt:
How was the 26th?
01-02 18:34
Rush:
I think we had six?
No one arrived for the extras, so they were not run.
01-02 18:34
Matt:
Eh, considering Christmas…..not too bad
Gotcha
01-02 18:34
Rush:
Yes, that’s so.
01-02 18:35
Rush:
I have been considering not having the extras if only a couple of us show for those.
01-02 18:35
Matt:
I’m fine with that
01-02 18:35
Rush:
We do have the Green Hornet set for tonight.
01-02 18:36
Matt:
I noticed CC Chance this month? Very cool
01-02 18:36
Rush:
Maybe we can go back to the way things were years ago when we start with arrivals at 8:00 eastern and riun the film at 8:15.
01-02 18:37
Rush:
yes! CC’s Chance recreation!
That sort of gives us TWO “lost” movies to share!
01-02 18:37
Matt:
I “think” we viewed that, but it’s been so long for me
01-02 18:37
Rush:
“Eran Trece” and “Chance.”
Yes. it is available at YouTube, which makes it a good one.
01-02 18:38
Rush:
I think it hasn’t been online for too long.
I “chanced” upon it recently.
01-02 18:38
Matt:
Good pun, lol…..How was it?
01-02 18:39
Rush:
It looked good…what I watched of it.
01-02 18:39
Rush:
I have been sort of busy of late, as I am changing jobs. I am now going to be a special education paraeducator.
01-02 18:40
Rush:
it was time for a change.
Babysitting high schoolers in “study” hall was getting old.
01-02 18:40
Matt:
Good for you! I wish you all the best. Have you started yet?
I can ONLY imagine!
01-02 18:41
Rush:
I was doing all of the paperwork for the past week or so. I have a meeting on the 8th…next week, then I guess i begin for real.
Orientation meeting.
01-02 18:42
Rush:
At least now i can use what i was trained for in the past.
01-02 18:42
Matt:
My cousin teaches HS and his wife teaches Spec Ed…..Takes a very special person. You’ll be great
01-02 18:43
Rush:
Thannk you…appreciated.
Well…maybe it’s time the TWO of us share “The Green Hornet”?
01-02 18:44
Matt:
I’m ready here
01-02 18:44
Rush:
Ready?
Ok…
15…
10….
5….
GO!!!
01-02 18:44
Rush:
Yes…bug spray time!
I have been stung by one of those guys!
Not pleasant!
01-02 18:45
Matt:
01-02 18:45
Rush:
You got him!
01-02 18:46
Matt:
On a side note, perhaps we can try the extras at the end of the dvd’s again. Seemed most enjoyed them
01-02 18:47
Rush:
the Hornet sent two cars off the road!
01-02 18:50
Rush:
Good thing he didn’t see Kato in there!
01-02 18:51
Matt:
Yes!
Kato chuckled too
01-02 18:55
Matt:
lol, it’s the “ammo”
01-02 18:56
Rush:
Yes! Seems they are BOTH poor shots!
01-02 18:57
Rush:
pretty good smoke screen!
01-02 18:58
Matt:
Alohaaaaaaaaa, Steve…..and Happy New Year!
01-02 18:58
Hawaii_Steve:
Happy New Year from the Land of Chan
01-02 18:59
Rush:
Aloha, Steve!
Great to have you with us!
How are you this afternoon in paradise?
01-02 18:59
Hawaii_Steve:
Gentlemen, start your engines. I mean, how are you?
01-02 18:59
Rush:
Doing well in 2024…so far!
01-02 19:00
Hawaii_Steve:
Rush, please take a look at Chan movie schedule. You have our next chat listed Wednesday, Jan. 3rd.
01-02 19:00
Hawaii_Steve:
Just came back from a walk to Target in Kailua. It’s overcast and warm.
01-02 19:01
Rush:
Yeah. That mustve been left on as I recycled last year’s January!
01-02 19:01
Matt:
Tue & Wed? …..Bonus week!
01-02 19:01
Rush:
I will fix that! TYSM!
01-02 19:01
Hawaii_Steve:
Two Chans for the price of one. LOL.
01-02 19:01
Matt:
01-02 19:02
Hawaii_Steve:
Rush, I have a special request for next week’s chat, Jan.8th.
01-02 19:02
Matt:
Hello Hounder and Happy New Year!
01-02 19:02
hounder:
hi everyone. Happy new year
01-02 19:03
Hawaii_Steve:
It’s a special request for me to provide the extras, with your permission, of course.
Aloha Hounder.
01-02 19:03
Rush:
Fixed it.
01-02 19:03
Hawaii_Steve:
Thank you Rush.
01-02 19:04
Rush:
That was a problem of working on it late at night!
Hounder….WELCOME!!!
01-02 19:04
Hawaii_Steve:
For New Years Day, we have a huge manhunt for a killer. It went on for hours, across the entire island of Oahu.
01-02 19:04
Rush:
Happy New Year to you and Steve!
01-02 19:04
hounder:
hope everyone had a great Christmas and new year
01-02 19:05
Rush:
Matt was already “wished”!
We did, thank you! And you?
01-02 19:05
Hawaii_Steve:
HPS finally got the bugger, next University Avenue, in town. Shot him dead. Big-Time panic across the island.
01-02 19:05
Matt:
Sounds pretty wild, Steve!
01-02 19:06
Hawaii_Steve:
Hounder, I worked my butt off on Christmas and New Years. Got very little sleep. Catching up now.
01-02 19:06
Rush:
yes, Steve!
Score one for the good guys.
01-02 19:06
hounder:
soryy hs.r
01-02 19:07
Hawaii_Steve:
So much for paradise in the islands. Lots of shootings these days. How’s your part of the world.
01-02 19:07
hounder:
sorry you were so busy hs.
01-02 19:07
Rush:
Good in our area, really. But, yes, we are living in insane times.
01-02 19:08
Hawaii_Steve:
Truth be told, because my family members are dead, I like to work through the holidays. I don’t feel sorry for myself.
01-02 19:08
Rush:
Hopefully our Chan evenings can bring a little “normalcy” to things.
Understood, Steve.
01-02 19:09
hounder:
i can understand that feeling hs
01-02 19:09
Rush:
This can be a lonely time of the year for many.
01-02 19:09
Hawaii_Steve:
Thanks gang. Sorry, I don’t mean to be a downer. But life is what it is.
01-02 19:10
Rush:
No, Steve, I think we all get what you are saying.
Thenman!
01-02 19:10
tenman:
Happy New year!
01-02 19:10
Rush:
WELCOME!!!
GS!
WELCOME to YOU as well!
01-02 19:10
Matt:
Hello Tenman & GS!
01-02 19:10
Godwinshelley:
Hello all – and welcome to Early Karloff night
01-02 19:10
hounder:
i have a freind that calls it the empty chair syndrome. andas we get older there are more empty chairs.
01-02 19:10
Rush:
Yes, GS!
01-02 19:11
hounder:
hi tenman and gs
01-02 19:11
Rush:
His first “talkie,” right?
01-02 19:11
Godwinshelley:
I do like his performance, limited though it may be
Let me check that
01-02 19:11
Rush:
Agreed, GS!
4 minutes…
01-02 19:11
Matt:
Cued here
01-02 19:12
Rush:
3 minutes…
Everyone ready?
Here is the online version….
01-02 19:12
hounder:
getting tr
there
01-02 19:12
Rush:
01-02 19:12
Hawaii_Steve:
Hounder, I like your friend’s message. Good one.
01-02 19:12
Godwinshelley:
Yes references do say it was his first talkie
01-02 19:13
Rush:
Being it is from 1929, it probably was.
01-02 19:13
Godwinshelley:
It’s interesting when you see Karloff in westerns – like “The Utah Kid”
01-02 19:13
Rush:
less than 2 minutes…
90 seconds…
01-02 19:14
Rush:
75 seconds…
60 seconds…
01-02 19:14
Godwinshelley:
And he was in a Laurel & Hardy film – though ONLY the French Language version, not the English
01-02 19:14
Hawaii_Steve:
cued from video at YouTube.
01-02 19:14
Rush:
50 seconds…
40 seconds…
30 seconds…
25…
01-02 19:14
Hawaii_Steve:
Cued to the gong. Correct?
01-02 19:15
Rush:
20…
15…
10…
5…
GO!!!
01-02 19:15
Matt:
01-02 19:15
Rush:
Organ intro music….
Title….
Credits….
01-02 19:15
Godwinshelley:
The DVD does not have a gong – goes directly to title
01-02 19:15
Rush:
WOW!
NICE, Matt!
01-02 19:15
tenman:
Mine too
01-02 19:15
Rush:
I like that!
01-02 19:15
Matt:
Thought it was appropriate, no?
01-02 19:16
Rush:
Nice aerial shot of London there.
01-02 19:16
hounder:
nice visual matt
01-02 19:16
Rush:
I love the exaggerated lines here.
01-02 19:17
Godwinshelley:
Seems like a lot of the story has already happened before the start of this film
01-02 19:18
Rush:
GS, it does come off that way.
01-02 19:19
Rush:
Savoy Hotel, London.
01-02 19:20
Rush:
Note the spitoon in the hall.
Makes it look like Col. Beetham killed him.
01-02 19:21
Rush:
In spite of it’s shortcomings, this film does have some good production values!
01-02 19:21
Rush:
Really good sets, etc.
Some great location shots later, as well.
01-02 19:21
hounder:
nice shadows even at night
01-02 19:22
Rush:
Yes!
01-02 19:23
Rush:
A “bounder.”
01-02 19:25
Hawaii_Steve:
01-02 19:26
Godwinshelley:
Classic Universal
01-02 19:26
Rush:
NICE, Steve!
01-02 19:26
Godwinshelley:
Though where is the wolfman?
01-02 19:26
Hawaii_Steve:
In honor of the new year, I purchased a 2024 Universal Monsters calendar. I got it last week for 40% off.
01-02 19:26
Rush:
The man who portrayed the Creature left us last year.
01-02 19:26
Godwinshelley:
NICE
01-02 19:26
Matt:
Very nice
01-02 19:27
hounder:
nice hs
01-02 19:27
Godwinshelley:
Ricou Browning – he was listed on the TCM Remembers for 2023 along with Bert I Gordon
01-02 19:27
Hawaii_Steve:
For this calendar, the Wolf Man was omitted.
01-02 19:27
Rush:
That must be a GREAT calendar, Steve!
01-02 19:27
Godwinshelley:
The wolfman isn’t anywhere in the whole calendar?
01-02 19:27
Rush:
Yes, GS.
01-02 19:28
Hawaii_Steve:
The calendar begins with Frankenstein (1931).
01-02 19:28
Rush:
Nice!
01-02 19:28
Godwinshelley:
This past TCM Remembers was difficult as I had actually met some of the actors at events in the past. It made their passing so much harder.
01-02 19:28
Rush:
Is Dracula the focus of February?
01-02 19:29
Godwinshelley:
Vampires for Valentines Day?
01-02 19:29
hounder:
tcm was showing some of the old monster movies recently
01-02 19:29
Rush:
Yes, Hounder!
01-02 19:29
Hawaii_Steve:
Yes Rush, Dracula is the image for February, but it is not Lugosi.
01-02 19:30
Rush:
I watched a bit of the Japanese monster films.
DVR’d a couple.
01-02 19:30
Godwinshelley:
I saw the new Godzilla Minus One and it was actually pretty good.
01-02 19:31
Rush:
This actor appears in TWO of the series Chan films.
01-02 19:31
Godwinshelley:
And, if anyone is thinking of seeing “Poor Things”, do not bring children. It’s a bit gory and has a ton of graphic sex. I knew about the gore but the sex surprised me as I hadn’t heard about that part.
01-02 19:32
Rush:
Hm.
Too bad about the “need” for that.
01-02 19:32
Godwinshelley:
My husband said it was interesting but he wouldn’t recommend it to anyone
01-02 19:32
Rush:
I see.
01-02 19:33
Rush:
She will regret this move in her life!
01-02 19:33
Godwinshelley:
The sets and wardrobe were amazing and Wilem Defoe had good makeup as the Frankenstein monster
01-02 19:33
hounder:
yes she will
01-02 19:34
Hawaii_Steve:
01-02 19:34
Godwinshelley:
His sternness makes it hard for her to go back home after she see what an error it is.
01-02 19:34
Rush:
On another note…Matt and I were noting how just the two of us usually watch the “extras” of late. Also, last week, no one showed, so I obviously didn;t run the extras about Ross Martin. So, I think that starting next week, we can begin our arrivals at 8:00 eastern Time and start the movie 15 minutes later.
This is what we did years ago, actually.
01-02 19:35
Hawaii_Steve:
The back side of the Universal Monster 2024 calendar. There is no Wolf Man.
01-02 19:35
Rush:
the Mummy image looks great!
01-02 19:35
Godwinshelley:
I usually have things to do before we start, hence the lateness of my arrival. Sorry I missed the Ross Martin extras
01-02 19:35
Hawaii_Steve:
Wait Rush. I have something planned as an EXTRA next week.
01-02 19:35
Godwinshelley:
HS I like the Bride page – nice to see her included
01-02 19:35
hounder:
i’m sorry about last week rush. i was feeling a bit sorry for myself. lol
01-02 19:36
Rush:
Understood, Hounder!
Note that we are only six tonight.
01-02 19:36
Godwinshelley:
This is not the usual Chan film
01-02 19:37
Rush:
Six lat week…and FOUR the week before.
True, GS!
01-02 19:37
Godwinshelley:
Looks like the music lovers are staying away
01-02 19:37
hounder:
possibly its the change to tues nights?
01-02 19:37
Matt:
Last week and this week are tough for attendance, with the holidays though
01-02 19:37
Rush:
Maybe.
We shall see next week!
01-02 19:37
Hawaii_Steve:
Please remember Rush, its Tuesday night, not Monday. People may have plans.
01-02 19:38
Rush:
Could be!
01-02 19:38
Matt:
True, Steve
01-02 19:38
Rush:
“Walk softly…go far.”
We shall see.
01-02 19:38
hounder:
are we back to monday nights next week?
01-02 19:38
Hawaii_Steve:
The pacing in this film is very slow. It’s like a filmed stage play.
01-02 19:39
Rush:
Even so, only a couple of us have been here for the “extras.”
So, I propose a change there.
01-02 19:39
hounder:
let’s try it for a while.
01-02 19:39
Rush:
Ear plugs ready?
01-02 19:39
Godwinshelley:
It does mean a large commitment for the evening when you do the extras and the feature
01-02 19:40
hounder:
oh no the song
01-02 19:40
Godwinshelley:
This is probably why any music lovers stayed away
01-02 19:40
Rush:
Using his wife’s perfume.
Yes, GS!
01-02 19:41
Rush:
Was he looking as US?
01-02 19:41
Godwinshelley:
Quick Karloff
01-02 19:41
Matt:
BK!
01-02 19:41
Rush:
Karloff!
01-02 19:42
hounder:
a chance meeting
01-02 19:42
Rush:
So, starting next week, let’s begin arrivals at 8:00 Eastern time?
Sans an extra.
01-02 19:42
Godwinshelley:
OK – sounds good Rush
01-02 19:43
hounder:
didn’t hs have an extra he wanted us to see? perhaps we could begin the week after?
01-02 19:43
Rush:
Steve, do you have an extra you would like to share next week?
01-02 19:44
Rush:
It WOULD be fun to share the trailer for “Charlie Chan carries On.”
01-02 19:44
Hawaii_Steve:
Yes Rush, I do. It’s something special related to the date.
01-02 19:44
Rush:
But that is short enough to show just before the featured movie.
Okay…we will share that.
01-02 19:45
Hawaii_Steve:
I will keep it to about 20 minutes.
01-02 19:45
Rush:
Just email me the details, please….
Ear plug time….
01-02 19:45
Hawaii_Steve:
01-02 19:45
hounder:
ear plugs
01-02 19:45
Hawaii_Steve:
Karloff with Warner Baxter.
01-02 19:45
Matt:
lol, yes Hounder
01-02 19:45
Rush:
So, we will begin as we have in recent times.
7:30 eastern Time.
01-02 19:46
Hawaii_Steve:
Thank you Rush.
01-02 19:46
Rush:
If we get any turnout, we can perhaps continue the extras.
The light bulb finally lights for her!
01-02 19:46
Hawaii_Steve:
We shall see.
01-02 19:46
Rush:
One blow afer another!
01-02 19:47
Hawaii_Steve:
Does anybody knew about the song being sung?
01-02 19:47
hounder:
only that it’s annoying hs
01-02 19:48
Rush:
Nothing beyond what we are hearing, Steve.
01-02 19:49
Rush:
Alfred Ponick.
01-02 19:50
Rush:
“Hundreds of pounds” was a lot of money in those days!
01-02 19:52
Rush:
A hundred English pounds in 1929 would convert to about 8,000 pounds today.
01-02 19:53
Hawaii_Steve:
01-02 19:53
Rush:
Karloff again.
01-02 19:54
Godwinshelley:
That’s Pardon Us – in French
01-02 19:54
Rush:
AH!
01-02 19:54
Hawaii_Steve:
Karloff with Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy.
01-02 19:54
Rush:
YES!
01-02 19:54
Godwinshelley:
He played alot of foreign looking heavies in the silent and early talkies
01-02 19:54
Rush:
He had the “tough guy” part in that version!
01-02 19:56
Rush:
Thank you for the image above it, too, Steve!
I would love to know where they shot these scenes!
01-02 19:57
tenman:
never thought of him as handsome before but he is in this pic!
01-02 19:57
Rush:
GREAT shots!
Yes, Tenman!
01-02 19:58
Hawaii_Steve:
I’m sorry to say, but the acting is kind of melodramatic. Too much stage acting.
01-02 19:58
Rush:
That is true, Steve!
01-02 19:59
Godwinshelley:
I wonder if their “stage projection” style of talking is partly due to the early sound equipment
01-02 19:59
Hawaii_Steve:
The secret to film acting is “less is more.” Due to the large silver screen.
01-02 19:59
hounder:
or becuase of the transition to talkies
01-02 19:59
Rush:
Acting is stilted…the scenes arepretty rich visually, though!
yes, Hounder.
01-02 20:00
Rush:
That must have been the proverbial two-edged sword for actors back then at that transition!
A good number could not make the transition!
01-02 20:00
Hawaii_Steve:
By the time we got to the mid-1930s, they, the directors, got a handle on it.
01-02 20:00
Rush:
Yes, steve.
01-02 20:00
Godwinshelley:
And directors too
01-02 20:01
Rush:
yes.
01-02 20:01
Godwinshelley:
Wonder if they imported stage directors to do the early talkies
01-02 20:01
hounder:
i’m sure some actors had voices the audience would not have accepted
01-02 20:02
Rush:
Some, yes.
01-02 20:02
Hawaii_Steve:
An early director who understood the difference between stage acting and film acting was James Whale.
01-02 20:02
tenman:
Yes!
01-02 20:02
Godwinshelley:
He was a master
01-02 20:02
Rush:
(Howwwlllll…)
01-02 20:03
Hawaii_Steve:
Example: The Invisible Man (1933). Several subtle scenes in this film.
01-02 20:03
Rush:
True.
01-02 20:05
Hawaii_Steve:
Recently, I watched a couple of early Lugosi films. The Black Cat, The Invisible Ray, and The Raven.
01-02 20:05
Rush:
Yes, Steve?
01-02 20:05
Hawaii_Steve:
In The Black Cat, he is very good. According to books, the director had to tone down his dramatic acting.
01-02 20:06
Rush:
I remember the first time I watched “The Invisible Ray” as a kid.
This scene is a LONG one!
01-02 20:06
Godwinshelley:
It does feel like they could have “tightened up” this
01-02 20:07
Rush:
in LA back in the mid-1960s, KTLA Channel 5 showed the Universal monter films in weekend afternoons.
01-02 20:08
Godwinshelley:
My main difficulty with this film is that I find the woman foolish and not sympathetic, so i frankly have little interest in her
01-02 20:08
Rush:
I find her painfully foolish and naive.
01-02 20:08
Godwinshelley:
Oh Rush – wow – in the afternoons – we only got them at night on non-affiliated channels
01-02 20:08
Rush:
AH!
01-02 20:08
hounder:
me too gs. but in that ear, weren’t rich women expcted to be decorate not intelignt
01-02 20:08
tenman:
We had them on Saturday mornings.
01-02 20:09
Godwinshelley:
Isn’t that the same era that suffragettes marched for votes
01-02 20:09
Rush:
There were at that time, several LA stations that aired horror films of varying quality: Channels 5, 9, 11, and 13!
Weekends, manly in the evenings, early or late.
01-02 20:10
Godwinshelley:
And this is just before the stockmarket crash – things get a bit more real after that
01-02 20:10
Rush:
Yes, GS!
01-02 20:10
Hawaii_Steve:
This dialogue, silly in “talkie” form, may have worked better, as “title cards,” in silent movies.
01-02 20:10
hounder:
true hs
01-02 20:10
Rush:
Horses are spooked by the plane.
01-02 20:11
hounder:
camel doesn’t appear impressed by plane
01-02 20:11
Rush:
True, Steve.
hide her, quick!
01-02 20:12
Rush:
Now HE’S being naive!
01-02 20:12
Godwinshelley:
It must have been horrible to live through the stockmarket crash – losing your job, banks closing, plus the dust bowl.
01-02 20:12
Godwinshelley:
Yea Boris
01-02 20:13
Rush:
Careful! They could wreck that plane!
Here’s where karloff gets to act a bit.
01-02 20:13
Hawaii_Steve:
This is the kind of scene that Gene Kelly parody in “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952).
01-02 20:13
Godwinshelley:
Now this scene would be a telephone call today – instead of all this
01-02 20:13
Rush:
Karloff’s express then was priceless!
01-02 20:14
Hawaii_Steve:
I’m referring to the lovers scenes.
01-02 20:14
Rush:
(expression)
01-02 20:14
Godwinshelley:
I love his “I don’t understand” look he gives to throw them off
01-02 20:15
Rush:
See if it fits his foot!
01-02 20:15
Rush:
Yes, GS.
01-02 20:17
Rush:
“I order obeyment.”
01-02 20:17
Rush:
Karloff’s characte rgets the message to play the mute.
01-02 20:17
Godwinshelley:
Was Beetham a type of chewing gum – in a blue wrapper
01-02 20:18
Rush:
As you said, GS…great facial expressions!
01-02 20:18
Godwinshelley:
This is where Chan’s “dropping of the coin” trick would be useful – though on sand no “clink”
01-02 20:18
Rush:
GS:
01-02 20:21
Rush:
These scenes had to have been shot someplace in california. i am guessing the Mojave Desert.
01-02 20:21
Godwinshelley:
spinning yarn
01-02 20:22
Rush:
Nice rear proction in these interior scenes. Very convincing.
01-02 20:24
Rush:
It would be fairly miraculous that Eve could survive alone out in the desert. Many dangers!
01-02 20:24
hounder:
it looked lik a drop spindle but you couldn’t actually spin it that way
01-02 20:24
Rush:
He stumbled on a line there.
01-02 20:25
Godwinshelley:
Yes hounder that was what I thought
01-02 20:25
Rush:
GS will recognize some of the street shots that are coming up!
01-02 20:26
Godwinshelley:
I should take more photos from this film and see what else I can find at my next visit out there
01-02 20:28
Rush:
Those people will be taking the stairs!
Yes, GS!
01-02 20:28
Godwinshelley:
From the looks of the panel next to her, there are a lot of floors
01-02 20:28
Rush:
Actually her acting here is the best in the whole film.
01-02 20:29
tenman:
Isn’t she aware that surrendering the letter guarantees her own murder?
01-02 20:29
Rush:
YES! That’s for sure!
01-02 20:29
Godwinshelley:
My kingdom for a xerox machine for those letters
01-02 20:30
Rush:
01-02 20:30
Matt:
CC!
01-02 20:30
Godwinshelley:
look quick – Charlie
01-02 20:30
Rush:
They could be photographed then!
01-02 20:31
Godwinshelley:
When I think of Dicken’s Christmas Carol – and Cratchit was really just a human xerox machine, making copies
01-02 20:31
Rush:
75 minutes in and Chan finally enters the picture!
01-02 20:32
hounder:
is it just me or is this a slow moving film?
01-02 20:32
tenman:
slow as molassess!
01-02 20:32
Rush:
Today, besides no pay phones, we don’t have telephone directories!
01-02 20:32
Hawaii_Steve:
Yes, Rush. But this is really a Warner Baxter movie. He was a popular actor at the time.
01-02 20:33
Rush:
Molasses!
01-02 20:33
Godwinshelley:
Showing exotic location
There I was there
01-02 20:33
Rush:
YES!
I have been there as well.
This very corner.
01-02 20:33
Godwinshelley:
306 Grant Ave – I’ll have to look for that address next time I’m there
01-02 20:33
Rush:
Chan finally speaks.
01-02 20:33
tenman:
Weirdly enough we got an “official” yellow pages dropped on our porch a few months ago! All ads of course
01-02 20:34
Rush:
Yes, GS!
01-02 20:34
Rush:
E.L. Park.
The father of the
actress who plays Lee’s Shanghai telephone girlfriend!
01-02 20:35
Rush:
Also she is the Chans’ Number One Daughter in the breakfast scene in “Black Camel”
01-02 20:35
Godwinshelley:
306 Grant Ave is at the intersection of Sutter Street – you can see the buildings on Google Earth
01-02 20:36
Rush:
I will look later.
01-02 20:36
Godwinshelley:
Looks like it is available to lease
01-02 20:36
Rush:
HM!
01-02 20:37
Rush:
Note a familiar face toward the rear of the audience.
01-02 20:37
hounder:
fancy dress for the lecture
01-02 20:37
Godwinshelley:
It’s just down from the Dragon Gate in SF
01-02 20:37
Rush:
An aphorism from Karloff!
01-02 20:38
tenman:
Rfeminded me of Dune
01-02 20:39
Rush:
He admits his servant can speak…and speak and understand English!
See Dr. Cream?
01-02 20:39
Godwinshelley:
This must have been the year of bad hats for women
01-02 20:40
tenman:
01-02 20:40
Godwinshelley:
Or was her choice of hats was similar to her choice in men
01-02 20:40
Hawaii_Steve:
About 5 minutes ago, I heard a “pop” outside my window. Then all the lights went out. The clock went off and are flashing 12:00.
01-02 20:40
Rush:
C. Henry Gordon is in the audience.
01-02 20:40
Matt:
I need to run. Have a great week.
01-02 20:41
Godwinshelley:
HS – are you ok – just a power outage or something worse?
Stay safe Matt
01-02 20:41
hounder:
bad idea to drink the water
01-02 20:41
Rush:
Take care, Matt!
See you next week.
01-02 20:41
hounder:
hs might have been a transformer
nite matt
01-02 20:42
Hawaii_Steve:
I’m okay. I need to reset the clocks.
01-02 20:43
Godwinshelley:
Ugh – the curse of the blinking clocks –
01-02 20:43
Rush:
Yes.
01-02 20:43
hounder:
hate doing that hs. be safe
01-02 20:44
Rush:
Yes, sounds like it was a transformer, Steve.
Now they can get married.
01-02 20:45
Rush:
Loooonnnng still pose!
THE END
01-02 20:45
Godwinshelley:
I’ll just bleed to death in the hallway – don’t worry
01-02 20:45
Rush:
Organ exit music.
Yes, GS!!!
Next week, we WILL have an extra, courtesy of Steve.
01-02 20:45
Hawaii_Steve:
Oh boy. What a long, long movie.
01-02 20:46
Rush:
Consider watching it.
He always digs up fascinating things!
01-02 20:46
hounder:
nite all. i need to be up early tomorrow
01-02 20:46
Godwinshelley:
I’ll try to make it next week
01-02 20:46
Rush:
Next week: “Eran Trece”
01-02 20:46
hounder:
see you next week
01-02 20:46
Godwinshelley:
stay safe everyone
night
01-02 20:46
tenman:
Until next time, adios!
01-02 20:46
Hawaii_Steve:
Thanks Rush. Have a good night everybody.
01-02 20:46
Rush:
I would like to maybe add another “extra” perhaps…short, but nice!
TYSM…Steve and every one!
Hopefully a bigger turnout next MONDAY!
01-02 20:47
Hawaii_Steve:
Good night.
01-02 20:47
Rush:
Have a great week!
Good night….
TYSM, Steve and Tenman!
see you next week!
01-02 20:48
Rush:
Good night!
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