The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for October 5, 2020
Feature:
The Black Camel
Extra:
The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack (Chapter 1)
Participants:
Captain Bob
dangerous$ angel & foxxxxx
Godwinshelley2
Hawaii_Steve/Hawaii_
Hounder
Louise
Matt1
Mike n Rachel in DC
Phil
Rush
tenman
Captain Bob has joined this room
Captain Bob: will return at 7:30
Rush has joined this room
Rush: Good evening, Captain Bob!
Matt1 has joined this room
Rush: See you in a few minutes?
Matt1: Hello Rush & CB!
Rush: Matt….Good evening!
Rush: How are you tonight?
Matt1: Very good, thnx….u?
Rush: Keeping as cool as I can!
Matt1: How are the fires out there?
Rush: Over a hundred today.
Matt1: Yikes!
Captain Bob: Thank you for your welcome
Rush: None in my area, thankfully.
Rush: They are un north.
Rush: (up)
Matt1: 100+ in October?
Captain Bob: are both of you in California
Rush: Great to have you with us, Captain Bob!
Rush: I am in the San Diego area.
Matt1: Fires not making the news here, sadly. I just wanted to ask
Rush: Matt’s in Florida.
Captain Bob: so am I…..south of Tampa
Rush: High temperatures happen.
Rush: We are a costal desert here.
Matt1: lol, St. Pete, near SkyWay Bridge!
Rush: Weather “weathers.”
Rush: AH!
Rush: Two Floridians!
Mike n Rachel in DC has joined this room
Captain Bob: Palmetto, other end of SWay!
Rush: mike and Rachel!
Matt1: Hello M & R!
Rush: Good evening!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Good evening all!
Mike n Rachel in DC: *salute Capt. Bob*
Rush: Please meet our newest member, Captain bob.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Very happy to meet you!
Captain Bob: thanks…..aloha mui nui!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ah. Aloha. Another Hawaiian?
Rush: If it’s okay, we will probably type you in as CB, Captain!
Captain Bob: no problem
Rush: As things get rolling, we quickly go for abbreviations!
Rush: 🙂
tenman has joined this room
Mike n Rachel in DC: Rachel: “Captain Bob? Oh my!”
Rush: Tenman!
Rush: WELCOME!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Good evening 10man!
Rush: Great to see you again!
Matt1: Hello Ten!
tenman: Hola all!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Abbreviations help those of us who type slowly. 🙂
Rush: captain Bob, how did you find us?
Rush: Agreed, Mike!!!
Captain Bob: your website, the name is very catchy!
Rush: AH!
Rush: Nice to hear!
Rush: TYSM!
Mike n Rachel in DC: We were also attracted by the “family” idea, Rush. 🙂
Matt1: I’m cued here….26 min for the short?
Rush: Well, you are our Guest of Honor tonight!
Rush: We might have one or two other such guests tonight, perhaps!
Rush: We shall see!
Rush: Do you have a copy of tonight’s movie, CB?
Rush: If not, you can use the link above for an online copy.
Captain Bob: the black camel, yes……
Rush: Very good!
Rush: We will begin our movie at 15 after the hour.
Rush: In about 4 minutes we will watch the first chapter of the serial “The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack” with Keye Luke and Sidney toler!
Mike n Rachel in DC: One of the best Chans!
Rush: For that one, we all use the link above!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Very excited to see Toler in the serial, too.
Rush: I agree, Matt!
Rush: In fact, I have to say that “The Black Camel” is my favorite!
Matt1: Agreed!
Rush: For our serial, we need to start at the 10 second mark as there is an “intro”
Matt1: Ok
Rush: Hopefully no embedded commercials!
Rush: 75 seconds…
Mike n Rachel in DC: OK. Cued past the commercial intro.
Rush: 60 seconds to go…
Hawaii_ has joined this room
Rush: Everyone ready?
Rush: CB?
Matt1: Ready Here!
Captain Bob: yepper
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx has joined this room
Rush: Hawaii….(Steve?)
Mike n Rachel in DC: Locked and loaded in DC!
Rush: 30 seconds…
Matt1: Hello A & F! & HI
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: LOADED & LOCKED in NC!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hey A&F
Rush: 25
Rush: 20…
Rush: 15….
Hawaii_: Aloha from the Land of THE BLACK CAMEL !!!
Rush: 10…
Rush: 5…
Rush: GO!!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: *zoom!*
Rush: Aloha….Steve!
Rush: WELCOME!
Mike n Rachel in DC: OH. This is the graduation music!
Rush: Serial just started….
Matt1: Yikes, volume turned WAY up from last week
Rush: WELCOMEAngel and Fox!
Rush: Dangerous or not!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Hello ALL! We are at 0:40. Yes?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Aloha Steve. We still have the ambition to travel to Hawaii and stay at the Royal Hawaiian to see all of the Chan sights.
Rush: Yes, Matt! I can actually hear this one!!!
Rush: Air show….
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Marjorie, Lord of Marjories
Mike n Rachel in DC: Oops
Rush: YOW!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Hawaii_, Royal of Hawaiis
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: THAT made ME smile!!
Hawaii_: Mike & Rachel – Good luck with that. Serious rise of infections and deaths now.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Smilin Jack: the pilot who does not crash into buildings
Rush: Our film tonight will bring back very fond memories, Steve!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Yikes! Maybe next year!
Rush: Dogfight!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: He’s gotta quit that smilin’. Send him to Spain.
Rush: Biplanes go wild!
Rush: Bombing!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Guernica
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: This is more than a little macabre, with emphasis on the -re and live ammo.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: And our BEST CHINA!
Mike n Rachel in DC: ah so…happier regions!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Picasso is in here somewhere.
Rush: “1941 Chungking”
Rush: Guernica.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Can we get those noodles?
Rush: Nationalist Chinese emblem on the car.
Hawaii_: Yes, Rush. A few of the Chan family have visited the Royal Hawaiian with yours truly.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: A MALE plane? CHAUVINIST!!
Rush: By the way…Keye luke….
Matt1: Time, plz?
Mike n Rachel in DC: There will be two more when it’s possible, Steve. We’re dialed into your website. 🙂
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: KEYE to the FUTURE!!
Hawaii_: Rush, In 2010, you and I went to every possible site related to TBC. I remember it well.
Rush: YES, Steve!
Rush: You can fill us in as we see the movie!
Rush: In fact, you live right in the neighborhood of the opening scenes!
Rush: Sidney toler….
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: General looks fighty mamiliar.
Rush: 🙂
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I want a xylophone for the new house.
Rush: Yes, Angel!
Rush: Nice way to pass the time!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Xylophones are SO 90’s. Get an mbira. It’s the latest thing…
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: M n R. You are always right. Please provide mpirical evidence to my dealer on this alleged mbira. They’ll alert airports. Airports may want mbiras.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: LET’S play HAVOC!!
Rush: “LUCY….”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Lucy? She’s going to move the football
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: If Marjorie Lord had known she’d wind up stage-wed to Danny Thomas she’d have USED that strychnine on the teacozy.
Rush: Looked like her at first glance!
Rush: 🙂
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I’ve got a rap.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Angel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbira
tenman: I know the guy who’s smilin Jack fomr somewhere else, but can’t place where
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: They both oughta be beech-slapped.
Mike n Rachel in DC: …SO cool…
Rush: Just so it’s not a mile long, Angel!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: More xylophones.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: The Midol is kicking in.
Hawaii_ has left this room
Hawaii_Steve has joined this room
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Rush: If it gets to be a mile, we turn it sideways. Start again.
Matt1: wb Steve!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Impossible to find a Chinese restaurant in this town.
Rush: AH! WB, Steve!
Rush: )
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: “Australian intelligence”. Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?
Rush: Official, now!
Hawaii_Steve: Aloha Matt. I’m signing in on a wide screen version of the Chat Room tonight. It’s the only way I could get on.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Just change the streetsigns.
Rush: I have had that happen, too, Steve!
Rush: Secret door!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: My humble door. Hmmm. Hmble.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Woulda been cheaper for the Japs to have hired Vincent Price, sold Tojo’s contract to Republic or Monogram.
Rush: “The Black Samurai.”
Hawaii_Steve: Before tonight’s chat room discussion, I decided to do a bit of research on “my research” of the Black Camel.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Many “round eyes” find path to humble door
Rush: Yes!
tenman: And HS, what did you find?
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I’d walk 1.67 kilometers for a Black Camel.
Rush: Yes, Steve?
Rush: I’d go the whole mile, Angel!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: This guy looks like he could RUN a mile. An obvious fakir.
Rush: 🙂
Hawaii_Steve: If I have your permission, please indulge me with facts related to my research of THE BLACK CAMEL in Hawaii.
Rush: WOW!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: The other is the tuba-ist.
Rush: pool cue!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Not the You Tuba-ist!
Rush: yes, of course, Steve!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: M n R
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: The penalty is Horror Carey?
Rush: “Hari Kiri”
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Drew’s brother?
Mike n Rachel in DC: She’s ruthless. Where’s Ruth? (Firesign Theater reprise)
Rush: Harry?
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Try the Ginger Root. Very piquant.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Harry? I hope she’s not Harry!
Rush: Are you still with us CB?
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: M n R—I wonder where Ruth is?
Hounder has joined this room
tenman: Wasn’t Harry Carry in some detective movies?
Rush: Hounder!
Rush: WELCOME!
Rush: How are you and your mom tonight?
Hounder: Hi everyone. Howdy CB
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hi Hounder!
Rush: hello!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: HOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNDER! Pull up a bombshell! Join our Axis!! We’re pretending to be Chinese!
Hounder: we toddle along. Thanks for asking.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: O Solo Mio
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: SAFE TODDLING!
Mike n Rachel in DC: So…everything comes from Berlin. Where’s Inspector Strasser when we need him?
Rush: 🙂
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Toler being here cracks me up.
Hounder: :
Hawaii_Steve: Aloha Houndr.
Hawaii_Steve: Hounder
Captain Bob: having dinner with col. hogan
Matt1: Hello Hounder!
Hounder: 🙂
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Suggest the governor pay ME 50 cents, specifically a 1935 Liberty Walking half dollah.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: It’s Jack Benny!
Rush: To those arriving and recently arrived, we have our Honored Guest, Captain Bob!
Hounder: aloha has. Long time.
Mike n Rachel in DC: *vroom*
Rush: Nice plane.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Let’s break out the vodka now.
Hawaii_Steve: In the middle 1990s, I began buying 16mm films related to Hawaii, i.e. features, TV episodes, cartoons, newsreels, soundies, etc.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Open door?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Dude…there’s nothing out there
Rush: Pig Latin comes in handy!
Hounder: starting to get things ready to head south near the end of the month, Mom permitting
tenman: You have a way to play these? Are you moving them to digita;l?
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: CORRECTION: You DO have all day. S.J. here may not have all day. Thanks to YOUR open-door policy, you bat rastard.
Rush: Yes, Hounder?
Hounder: and praying for those in the path of Delta.
Louise has joined this room
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ig-pay Attin-lay
Rush: Yes.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: And in the path of Pan Am.
Matt1: Hello Louise!
Louise: Hello Chan Clan!
Hawaii_Steve: On 2004 Aug 24: I purchase a 16mm film print of THE BLACK CAMEL from Randy M., Long Beach, CA.
Cost: $635.20 (including insurance and tax).
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2004 Nov 20: I purchased VHS tape of THE BLACK CAMEL from Anthony T. Cost: $12.99.
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Rush: Louise!
Rush: Good evening and WELCOME!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: LOUEEEZ!! You have been CHOSEN!
Hounder: Starting to get cool here and having trouble keeping Mkm warm.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Oowise-lay!
Hounder: hi louise!
Louise: I am always happy to be here for a birthday party!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Pretend to be on a peaceful demonstration.
Hawaii_Steve: Hello Louise.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Happy Natal Day to WHO?
Rush: Yes, Louise!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Buncha Pekingese.
Louise: Warner Oland
Rush: And, there is a slice of our virtual cake for everyone tonight!
Rush: Yes!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Time to throw that guy out the door, Jack
Rush: Happy Birthday WARNER OLAND!
Louise: I, too, was wondering why we went back to Black Camel until I saw Rush’s email.
Rush: yes, mike!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Offer him a Chesterfield. They satisfy.
Mike n Rachel in DC: “I’ll try to get the Jap”
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: If S.J. had a sense of smell not only would he have noticed the smoke, he’d have noticed the script.
tenman: How old was the 16mm print?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Janet – safe
Matt1: Wasn’t this a no smoking flight?
Rush: Reminded me of WC Fields’ fall from the peak.
Hawaii_Steve: Mr. Oland turned 141 years old on the 3rd. Not bad.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Jack – um…pull the ripcord
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: W.O. looks better EVERY YEAR.
Rush: Next week! PART TWO!
Rush: Will the rip cord rip?
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Next Week LUCKY Strikes!!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Well, either Jack’s parachute opens or this is a very short serial
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Will Pearl make the train?
Rush: Next!
Rush: “The Black Camel”
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Will Snidely make the mortgage?
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: BUY WAR BONDS!!
Rush: 8 1/2 minutes to go…
Matt1: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Rush: My dad did for me, Angel…long before I was born!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Back with The B.C. momentarily! I’ll just throw this Fox over my chair to save my spot.
Rush: You got me, matt!
Rush: I need to cue up my copy….
Hounder: Cool rush. Did you cash them in yet?
Mike n Rachel in DC: My dad was busy dodging Germans…no war bonds for us
Matt1: Cued to opening title!
tenman: A few minutes to work through this bag of caramels…
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I had to dodge darts when i was a kid, but i still walked uphill both ways to save smokes for the effort & i bought more war bonds than any pip in Poughkeepsie.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Are the BLACK caramels, tenman? (sorry)
Louise: Carmels! I need popcorn and will go make it later.
Rush: Captain Bob, please pause your copy of “The Black Camel” at the OPENING TITLE.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: tenman, you gotta be tough to work thru caramels. Don’t get stuck.
Godwinshelley2 has joined this room
Rush: GS!
Rush: WELCOME!
Matt1: Hello GS!
Godwinshelley2: Hello all
Hounder: hi gs!
Louise: Hi GS
Godwinshelley2: Howdy all
Rush: I love seeing that “2” after your name!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: GodWINNNNNNN! Godwin Shelley! [Coming, Mother!]
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hey GS. Are you in IN?
Rush: It means you can stay on for a while!
Rush: 🙂
Godwinshelley2: I registered the Godwinshelley – but can’t recall how to call it back up on your new system
Rush: WELCOME!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: We’ll leave the lice on for ya.
Rush: 4 minutes to go….
Godwinshelley2: It won’t let me do the Godwinshelley because it is registered
Hawaii_Steve: 2006 Feb 18: Received first email from Steve Owens, who had read the Honolulu Advertiser article. Owens refers me to Rush. Feb 27 Mo: Attended Chan Family Home Chat Room for first time. Chat with Rush Glick, Virginia, and other members.
Rush: Everyone ready?
Godwinshelley2: I’m cued
Godwinshelley2: Hello HS
Louise: CUED here
Rush: Wow, steve!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Hawaii_S…Sounds like evidence to me. Book ’em, Danno.
Godwinshelley2: Im in Delaware – and hope to be here for awhile
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ready to drive the camel, Rush!
Rush: A real blast from the past!
Rush: Ready here, too!
Rush: Very good, GS!
Mike n Rachel in DC: 2006! We are in the presence of History.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: GS, is it true they don’t have dew, they have DuPont, on the lawns Delaware mornings?
Godwinshelley2: Glad I didn’t have to get on our Bay Bridge yesterday – there was a jumper and the backup was 5 1/2 hours long trying to get that person off the bridge without falling
Rush: coming up to TWO MINUTES to go!!!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Tin can in readiness?
Rush: “Happy Birthday….WARNER OLAND!”
Matt1: Ready!
Hawaii_Steve: Test.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: WAR-NER! WARN-ER!!
Rush: 90 seconds…
Hawaii_Steve: Hello GWS
Hounder: ready here
tenman: MAybe we can have HS go into more detail on the message board? I’d like more details about his colleciotn
Rush: 75 seconds…
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Cue the cards.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: *rattles Jujubes*
Mike n Rachel in DC: *adjusts plume*
Rush: 60 seconds…
Mike n Rachel in DC: O-land
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: *slaps fox*
Rush: 50 seconds…
Louise: wiggles in seat
Hawaii_Steve: Tenman, everything about the collection is posted on my website.
Rush: 40 seconds…
tenman: url?
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: GO Charlie!!
Hawaii_Steve: Cued to Fox logo. Correct?
Rush: 30 seconds…
Dona has joined this room
Rush: 25…
Godwinshelley2: after
Rush: 20…
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: DON-A! don-a!
Dona: Hello All!
Rush: 15…
Hounder: hi dona
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hi Dona! Quick, we’re ready for launch
Rush: 10…
Godwinshelley2: at film start not logo
Mike n Rachel in DC: *lights fuse*
Rush: 5…
Captain Bob: ……and the curtain opens and I sink down in my comfy chair……..
Rush: GO!!!
Matt1: <GONG!>
Rush: Title….
Louise: Hi DONA
Rush: Music…
Matt1: Hello Dona!
Rush: Credits….
tenman: Had forgotten Bela was in this one!
Dona: Yay! I made it.
Rush: TYSM, Mat, for the GONG!
Godwinshelley2: and Dwight Frye
Rush: Surfers….
Mike n Rachel in DC: Tanneverrro, 10man
Rush: At Waikiki….
Mike n Rachel in DC: Surfs up!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Surf City, here we come!
Louise: Shelah: so weird spellings of common names is an old idea!
Godwinshelley2: So was Bela basking in the Hawaiian sun while poor Boris was sitting in his makeup chair getting hours of make up for Frankenstein
Phil has joined this room
Hawaii_Steve: When the DVD is in preparation mode, a Fox editor contacted me about the film. Looking for best source material.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: PHHHHHHHIL!!
Rush:
Hounder: hi phil
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: SCANDALOUS.
Godwinshelley2: How nice HS
Phil: ALLOOHAAA!!!
Rush: Kailua Beach.
Dona: Hi Phil
Louise: Oh that HAT!!!
Hawaii_Steve: The Hawaiian boy is incorrectly credit as Duke Kahanamoku. It is not him.
Phil: Greetings to all my Chan friends.
Mike n Rachel in DC: I’ll take a Kailua and cream, Rush
Godwinshelley2: The hat is almost an entire shirt
Louise: Hi Phil
Rush: You are right, Steve.
Phil: Hi Louise
Matt1: Hello Phil!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I love hot beach boys. One of us gotta cool off.
Hounder: that sounds good m n r
Godwinshelley2: So what is at this site now
Phil: Hi Matt, good to see you.
Godwinshelley2: I imagine it is all developed
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: She’s asking for it already.
Rush: Melvin Paoa: Hawaiian Beach Boy
Rush: Steve….sigh….
Godwinshelley2: Camera dolly along with
Hawaii_Steve: Correct Rush. Wikipedia has it wrong.
Rush: Note the “I’m COME-ing….”
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hello Phil.
Rush: PHIL!
Phil: What’s our time, please?
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Rush, THANK YOU! Do you have his number?
Rush: Welcome!
Godwinshelley2: 3:30
Godwinshelley2: 3:45
Mike n Rachel in DC: Joo-leeee
Rush: “I’m COME-ing”
Godwinshelley2: 4:00
Hawaii_Steve: Standing on Kailua Beach today, one can not see that mountains in the background. Too many houses today.
Godwinshelley2: 4:15
Rush: like Like the famous har horn melody!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I’m having pretzels for dinner. Better than friends.
Rush: (car)
Godwinshelley2: 4:30
Rush: Look at the kids playing baseball!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Friends are less salty, Angel…
Rush: Note how the weather changed.
Louise: pretzels and chocolate chip is a common lunch here
Phil: Yeah, I’m a little in the future but I’ll be ok.
Godwinshelley2: 4:45
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Put a little sand in your castle.
Hounder: love these old cars!
Hawaii_Steve: Just noticed the studio light panning into shot with Robert Young. Never seen that before.
Rush: Yes!
Rush: Due to the sudden cloudy weather.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: A great White Sale!
Godwinshelley2: What was that monument they passed at the start of their drive?
Phil: Sorry I haven’t been around but I don’t own the films we’ve been seeing and a two computer configuration is a bit awkward.
Rush: Royal Hawaiian.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: ROYAL HAVAIIAN ‘OTEL
Hawaii_Steve: There’s a great shot of Rush and I standing next to the Lani Kai landmark (2010) somewhere in the Research Area.
Rush: Understood, Phil!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: CRAWL FORRRRR PHILIP MORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSS!
Mike n Rachel in DC: A Dr. Van Helsing to see you…
Louise: nice to have you back anyway Phil
Rush: “Clue!”
Matt1: Awesome hotel
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: He’s a bill collector, Bela. Duck him.
Rush: Tarneverro.
Godwinshelley2: So they had to write out the Japanese assistant as WWII started to loom
Hawaii_Steve: Augh. The great Bela Lugosi.
Louise: Lifter of veils: sounds vulgar
tenman: One of my most favorite actors ever!
Rush: Kashimo was in the Biggers story.
Hawaii_Steve: GS, remember when we visited the Royal?
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: GS: So the actor was ANOTHER victim of Jap aggression.
Godwinshelley2: Of course – it was a WONDERFUL tour
Rush: Faithfully used in this screen adaptation!
Hounder: but he was a distraction in this film not a help
Mike n Rachel in DC: DISCRETE lifter of veils, Louise.
Rush: I sure do, Steve!
Godwinshelley2: My husband is saying – “yes, we’ve been there – but not as palacelike now”
Hawaii_Steve: GS, I remember the wonderful shrimp dinner that you and your husband took me to at the military hotel.
Rush: I will ALWAYS treasure that VERY fond memory!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Bela wonders who’s the heroin in this flick.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Hold the Mayo.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: TYSM!
Rush: Will do, Angel.
Mike n Rachel in DC: At least he’s not Denny Aoli
Rush: Looks like Jimmy’s fiture car.
Godwinshelley2: There’s the front
Hawaii_Steve: The hotel lobbies, main and lower, are stripped of all flowers and dressing. Very bear now.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: We SHAN’T be here when you return, lady.
Rush: Seen in “CC in Honolulu”
Godwinshelley2: Yes – not nearly as fancy
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: He’s on rekief too.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Well, if we go, I’m definitely getting a turban.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: *relief*
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: THE END
Louise: With that accent you wonder why he went all turban
Rush: In a little bit, look very closely at the “crystal” globe! As it is grabbed, you can see a little bubble come loose and drift upwards!
Godwinshelley2: Tying a turban in on my skills bucket list.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Louise, men do strange things. They do turbans, for example.
Hawaii_Steve: At the time of the filming of TBC, “Dracula” (the film) was playing on the mainland, but not in Hawaii. Nobody knew who Lugosi was.
Mike n Rachel in DC: What troubles me? All the bubbles in your crystal ball…
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: YOU noticed those TOO!
Mike n Rachel in DC: No! No! Yes! No!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Lux Flakes.
Louise: I see…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Police courts! Investigations! Bubbles!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: HE’S got a widescreen crystal ball.
Rush: See it?
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: No one in the next room, i hope.
Godwinshelley2: Fancy hand purse
Phil: Saw a couple Rush
Rush: Nice “save.”
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: YES!
Mike n Rachel in DC: glub, glub, Rush
Rush: Yes, phil?
Hounder: that crystal needs smoothed. It has a rough surface.
Captain Bob: smart observation on Bela not being known in Honoruru then….
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: No, only us. Not EVEN us. I’m not listening, for example.
Rush: Shelah spills the beans…
Mike n Rachel in DC: Serves him right for getting a Waterford crystal ball. Notorious for air bubbles…
Godwinshelley2: I do think he had a better time than sitting in the makeup chair doing Frankenstein as the studio wanted him to.
Rush: Yes, Mike!
Rush: By the way…”Hello” to rachel!
Hawaii_Steve: Yes, GWS.
Godwinshelley2: Black gloves with that outfit?
Louise: I went to the Waterford factory: beautiful stuff
Rush: My Rachel is in the room with me.
Hounder: I bet louise!
Louise: Hi rachel
Rush: I would imagine, Louise!
Mike n Rachel in DC: OH. Hello to CA Rachel! This is an MD Rachel favorite…
Godwinshelley2: The makeup for the Lugosi Frankenstein monster looked closer to the German Golem than the Karloff version did
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: You could play checkers on that girl.
Hawaii_Steve: Lugosi wanted to bring his girlfriend to Hawaii for the filming, but the Fox executive won’t let him. He traveled alone.
Hounder: hi Rachel! Welcome
Rush: And, no bargains, correct?
Godwinshelley2: Is it CA Rachel or more mid-west?
Rush: Rip…rip…rip…rip….
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Alone? 500? 1000?
Rush: CA
Mike n Rachel in DC: “Bob”
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Gladiolas aren’t gladiators.
Rush: yes!
Rush: “1313, please.”
Phil: Renfro
Mike n Rachel in DC: Lucky number if I ever heard one
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: He inherited those quote marks from his father, who was quite a rou-ee.
Captain Bob: donald duck’s license plate #1313!
Godwinshelley2: Ha – she asked for Robert Frye – and then they change to Dwight Frye
Rush: Yes! he and Lugosi hot off “Dracula”!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I’ve got it, Ethel! Let’s do a show!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Let us go somewhere, Master. Somewhere where there are flies…
Hounder: that’s a funny lacy apron. No straps to hold it up
Godwinshelley2: They might have pinned on the apron – not uncommon
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Box my ears. I’ll carry them.
Rush:
Hounder: odd look to Charlie’s tie. Not your typical 4 in hand bow tie
Rush: Chan’s badge.
Hawaii_Steve: The fountain in the b.g. is gone today, but the staircase is still there.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: EEEEEK! The RINGGGGGG!
Rush: “All foxes come at last to fir store.”
Rush: Sorry…fox…!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I shall name my future dog NO CLUE.
Louise: too many fox references in these movies: sorry Fox, just my opinion
Hawaii_Steve: Rush, how do you send a photo to chat room?
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I want the hole truth.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Joo-leeee
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Gong reminds me: TIN CAN READY?
Godwinshelley2: You have to register to do fancy stuff in this room
Matt1: Yes!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Hawaiian singing….
Rush: Steve…a high school choir?
Godwinshelley2: Is that Ft Dursey
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Ah! The third from the left! Ah, i see what you MEEEEEEEEAN!
Hawaii_Steve: In the 1930s, there was a grand mansion where Young and Shelia run up to. Not seen in the film.
Hounder: that swim wrap reminds me of either drawings.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: The old Hollywood Complex. Wasn’t that knocked down for a Sears in ’63?
Captain Bob: fort DeRussy……..was stationed there…. tough assignment!
Rush: The blond lady played the Chicago gangster’s wife in “CC Carries On.”
Matt1: <tin can>
Mike n Rachel in DC: Shelah sleeps wit’ da fishes
Rush: TYSM, Matt…
Godwinshelley2: Hello Capt Bob – is this your first visit with us – I’ve been missing a few lately
Rush: I think a line was cut out thesr where we saw that “skip.”
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: This sounds like “For Me And My Gal” in ukelelelelelele.
Captain Bob: yes it is…. you pineapples are hard to keep up with!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: M n R: I pity the fishes.
Rush: Steve has a copy of this film…on film…and it is the same.
Godwinshelley2: Rush – is there a script to check for the line?
Rush: I would say, yes, GS.
Hounder: It gets easier with practice CB
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: If you’re gonna get offed, a pavilion’s pretty classy. I’d have no complaint.
Hawaii_Steve: 2004 Aug 24: purchased 16mm film print of THE BLACK CAMEL from Randy Miller, Long Beach, CA.
Cost: $635.20 (including insurance and tax).
Godwinshelley2: wow
Rush: Before I move to Iowa in June I would like to see that script at the USC film archive
Rush: Funny line coming!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: One bad ball-joint and the world would have been a different, far more somber place.
Rush: At first, I’m pretty bad driver; but now, me and road turn corner same time.
Hounder: Charlie’s wearing his hat pulled down hard. Worried about it blowing off?
Mike n Rachel in DC: <applause>
Louise: funny
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I have ONE VERY STRONG finger. Now me and car turn same time.
Rush: Probably, Hounder!
Rush: I do the same in winds.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: The angerny of de feet.
Hawaii_Steve: Cute scene of Oland and Lugosi in old car.
Rush: YES!
Rush: I love it!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Cute if you like drinks & drugs in the front seat!! I know i do!!
Rush: Location footage.
Hawaii_Steve: UCLA Performing Arts has the only copy of this film. In their archives.
Hawaii_Steve: Script, I mean.
Rush: Yes.
Rush: So does USC.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I’ll do with stale footprints. I can’t afford fresh every day, not like SOME people.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Huh? They can’t both have the only copy…
Hawaii_Steve: It will cost big bucks to jet copy of script.
Louise: Death is a black camel…
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Oughta put out a camelpad.
Hounder: the black camel line is my favorite line from this film
Louise: Lights out!!
Phil: Yup, you guessed it. Out go the lights
Mike n Rachel in DC: Leave the camel. Take the cannoli
Rush: Yes!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: SOCKET to ME?
Rush: Out they go!
Captain Bob: cannoli!
Rush: “I am not in mood tonight for turning other cheek, but will return assault with compound battery.”
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: M n R: You have outdone yourselves! I’m gonna tell Tony. And Uncle Junior.
Hawaii_Steve: Hounder, my favorite line is: “Dirty Jap has locked us in.”
Phil: Could this be the first time the old “lights out” trick was executed?
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: LIGHTS OUT, EVVVVVVERYBODY!
Hawaii_Steve: Phil, the “lights out” gag was done on stage and in silent films.
Rush: I don’t think said “dirty,” actually…only “this.” But I could be wrong.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Good to see that Renfield found a steady job…
Phil: I mean in a CC film Steve
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I couldn’t tell you what I’M wearing now.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Al Fong?
Rush: Wilkie Ballou: “This Jap has locked all the doors on us!”
Hawaii_Steve: Thank you, Rush.
Rush: Kashimo destroys the room!
Louise: This guy is no BB
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Unscrutable Japs.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Kashimo stealthily investigates…
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I think Kashimo followed a different muse.
Rush: Looks like my older daughter’s room!
Mike n Rachel in DC: …moves like a silent shadow…
Rush: Marjorie White: Rita Ballou
Louise: you drank his liquor!
Hounder: It’s kinda like they had trouble justifying Kashimo
Hawaii_Steve: Actually, I cringe each time I play this film to the public. And the “jap” line comes on. Yipes.
Rush: “CLUE!”
Louise: Agreed Steve
Rush: Kashimo came through.
Rush: Again…Marjorie white.
Rush: She was to have a tragic end a few years later.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Dr. Cream!
Rush: Fatal car accident.
Rush: Yes, mike!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Have TWO, they’re cheap.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets out.
Hawaii_Steve: Otto Yamaoka (Kashimo) was a comic actor at the time of this film. He was popular.
Hawaii_Steve: … popular in America.
Rush: NOTE: Always clear out suspects before seeking lost pieces of an important clue!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Chinese chef…
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Rush, i’m writing that—what? My invisible ink! Disappeared!
Rush: He was certainly chosen, then, due to his cmedic abilities!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Hazelnut. Shelah dead.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Did you bring cheese?
Rush: A tradition that brought Mantan Moreland into the series years later.
Rush: HM…he’s wearing Dracula’s clothing!
Captain Bob: stick a big medal on a red ribbon around his neck and presto! new Dracula
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Indeed!
Rush: He even has some of the accent.
Hawaii_Steve: At the start of the War, Mr. Yamaoka was place in an internment camp with his brother and sister (?). He survived the ordeal.
Rush: Do you know which camp, Steve?
Captain Bob: it was in wyoming
Rush: AH!
Rush: Thank you, Bob.
Captain Bob: yes can! Clue!
Louise: PAA
Rush: We see “Smith” in several other Chan movies!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Just landscape for me. Yard cleanup. Hedges. Trimming.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Leslie Howard type, huh?
Rush: Murray Kinnel:
Rush: The Black Camel: Smith
Charlie Chan’s Courage: Martin Thorne
Charlie Chan in London: Philips (alias Captain Seton)
Charlie Chan in Paris: Henri Latouche
Hawaii_Steve: The archivist at the camp has the family records for the Yamaoka family. I spoke with her a few years ago.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Ah. Mr. Smith!
Rush: Yes, Steve?
Rush: Interesting!
Rush: See the lady in the background.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Lyndon LaRouche.
Hounder: Nice hs!
Louise: liar
Rush: She’s playing “Miss Dixon” and is uncredited.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Liar. Liar. Pants on fire.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: The ol’ False Confession To Shield Someone!
Rush: A mystery as to her identity.
Captain Bob: back soon, put #1 grandson to bed…..
Mike n Rachel in DC: OK. So if you’re going to falsely confess to a murder…get your story straight
Rush: Nice series of deductions there!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: HA!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Sweet dreams to #1 Grandson!
Rush: “If I were a dose of poision, I’d give myself to YOU!”
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Gotta remember that line.
Rush: Okay, bob!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I have family in Anytown! Maybe we’re related!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Rabbit with watch?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Rabbit predates Wild Bird, apparently
Rush: Found it!
Hawaii_Steve: The drawing room scenes remind me of a film stage play. Anybody else?
Hawaii_Steve: Rush, what did you find?
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: This role cinched Bela for Ed Wood’s “bad actor” criterion not too many years later.
Louise: eve, early movies always seem that way to me
Rush: Nothing yet.
Mike n Rachel in DC: The Devil Bat was one of his most fun bad pictures (not Ed Wood…)
Rush: If we could find something like a payroll list, we might solve that one!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: A TROLLOP! Things are looking up!
Rush: Rita Rozelle: Luana
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: LET’S MAKE A DEAL!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: For a hamburger today, i will gladly pay you on Tuesday.
Rush: $4,500 today.
Rush: A set here.
Hawaii_Steve: In my humble opinion, Mr. Lugosi’s English pronunciation is better in TBC than in DRACULA. Anybody?
Rush: painted backdrop.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Tannavarro shot him at least in part cuz the painting’s bound to go up in value.
Rush: Agreed, steve!
Rush: i was actually thinking about that!
Hawaii_Steve: The Devil Bat is a fun Lugosi film.
Rush: The Chan family at breakfast.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: YES, HawaII_! Bela DOES talk like a CAMEL here.
Rush: “”Ah, BALONEY.”
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Chan Family groaning board!!
Rush: Bo Ling: Number One Chan Daughter
Rush: recognize that daughter?
Mike n Rachel in DC: Chinese children sling hip lingo
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: ANOTHER film unmade.
Rush: We see her again in “CC in Shanghai.”
Hawaii_Steve: Scene from Punchbowl. Window picture show Honolulu downtown and harbor.
Rush: As lee’s telephone girlfriend!
Hounder: Kinda surprised all the girls had shortish hair
Rush: steve…here’s our walk!
Hawaii_Steve: See the Dole Pineapple in b.g.
Rush: prospect street!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Steve…would you like to try some of this new…aftershave lotion? Just put a little on the tender part of your neck. BWHAAA.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: ALI KATZ, GRANDFATHER!
Rush: The “roof”!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Everyone was on the Dole.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Rather obvious.
Mike n Rachel in DC: She was young, pretty, um, had scissors…
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Striking and scissing.
Rush: Bo Ling, who plays Chan’s Number One Daughter here, was the daughter of another Charlie Chan!
Hawaii_Steve: About two weeks ago, somebody, drunk in their car, ran into the old stone wall on Prospect St. Smashed the wall to bits.
Hounder: that’s sad hs
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Now NOBODY wants to see the L.A.Times.
Rush: The actual daughter of E.L. Park…Charlie Chan in “Behind That Curtain”!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: HS: Shoulda smashed the driver to bits. Somehow the Lord looks after babies & drunks.
Rush: Yes.
Rush: upple bones.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Or egg’s anniversary.
Rush: (Supple)
Hawaii_Steve: Prospect Street has become a dangerous part of Honolulu today. Lots of gangs and people getting robbed and beat up. Not proper place for haole boys to hang out.
Rush: Same filled-on O’s.
Hawaii_Steve: Recently a murder or two.
Rush: (in)
Louise: typewrter clues–miss them from new movies
Rush: Yes, louise.
Rush: A sad loss to the passage of time…
Rush: Steve showed me the spots where scenes like this were shot.
Godwinshelley2: Im getting my grandfather’s old L.C. Smith typewriter fixed so I can use it. It weights a TON.
Rush: 🙂
Rush: Note the short palm trees!
Rush: Still pretty young when this film was shot.
Mike n Rachel in DC: are they huge now, Rush?
Rush: Oh, yes!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: That’s what YOU say.
Rush: And, they are probably second generation!
Louise: my son did thay GS. Took an old typewriter I had and now uses it for letter
Louise: letters
Rush: Nice, louise!
Rush: We see this lady much later in the series….
Mike n Rachel in DC: She looks like Mrs. Hudson…
Rush: Mary Gordon: Mrs. MacMaster
Rush: Cue crowd!!!
Hawaii_Steve: See Diamond Head.
Hawaii_Steve: Real beach boys in background.
Rush: The kid in the white shirt gets way into scene!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Out of NOWHERE a crowd arrives to help. This IS an old movie!!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: REEL beach boys.
tenman: Steve, what’s the URL for your page so I cancheck out your Chan info?
Hawaii_Steve: When Oland stepped out on the beach at Waikiki, the local people went crazy. Early Chan films were popular in Honolulu and with the locals as well.
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dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: The Museum of Bad Art in Boston had a theft a few years ago & the $3.98 reward is yet unclaimed. (NOT a joke!!)
Hawaii_Steve: Tenman, my Chan inform is not posted at Steve’s Tours and Films.
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Rush: Sorry!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Imagine being told you got a role, & it’s cuz somebody says you look like Bela Lugosi.
Rush: mary Gordon:
tenman: But you said it was all on your page
Rush: The Black Camel: Mrs. MacMasters
Charlie Chan in London: Prison Matron
Shadows Over Chinatown: Mrs. Conover
Hawaii_Steve: Rush, welcome back.
Rush: I clicked the wrong button!
Dona: wb Rush
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Get him a Chesterfield.
Hawaii_Steve: Sorry, Tenman. My Chan tour is posted on the website. Not my research.
Rush: Yes…one final one…
Rush: Check rifling marks.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Or pistoling marks.
Matt1: <tin can>
Rush: CC comforts the young lady.
Rush: TYSM, Matt…
Hawaii_Steve: After this film, Mr. Oland returned to Honolulu about two or three times. Each time, the press and public went crazy over him.
Rush: Bob, we have a long standing tradition that at the passing of someone in a Chan movie, Matt “kicks the can” for them.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Pshaw. Don’t confuse me with facts, Charlie!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: PSHAW inDEED!!
Rush: We once had sound effects at our previous Chat Room, but the only thing close was a tin can!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: You can’t heal a heel.
Hawaii_Steve: tenman, what do you want to know?
Rush: No buckets!
Rush: 🙂
Dona: isn’t this in another chan movie?
tenman: No particular piece of data, your research sounded like an interesting read
Mike n Rachel in DC: Chan in Rio is sort of a remake of this one, Dona
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: TYSM!
Captain Bob: thanks on tin can…. wondered what it was about!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Taneverro = Morana
Rush: 🙂
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Scott’s Liquid Gold indicated here.
Louise: We have some strange traditions, Bob
Mike n Rachel in DC: A little plastic wood and the floor is as good as new…
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: MURDERER is a HEEL.
Hawaii_Steve: Tenman, what is your interest in Charlie Chan?
Rush: Indeed, Angel!
Rush: She made a good choice, as he became a famous doctor years later!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: M n R I’ll bet you’ve got a tin of PW in your cellar right now.
tenman: Oh, I’ve been into it since I was a kid and could only see the movies on some saturday mornings on tv reruns.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: NICE background, 10man!!
Hawaii_Steve: Most of us, in our 60s, saw the Chan films on TV during the 60s and 70s.
Louise: I watched chan in 60s and 70s
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: I had a friend who taped them on VHS when they were Midnight Movies, gave me the tapes. Late ’70s, early ’80s.
Hawaii_Steve: Part of my research in Hawaii was to interview local Chinese who saw the Chan films in the theater on the big screen.
tenman: Yeah, I was about 8 0r 9 when I started watching them in the early/mid-60’s
Rush: NICE, TM!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: BELA looks like BELA LUGOSI!
Rush: The pin does not lie!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Mr. Chan: The pin!
Hounder: Nice hs. And were there any who saw them filming in hawaii?
Hawaii_Steve: Years ago, I met a Chinese man who saw the Toler-Chan films at local movie theaters. Chan was a hero to the Chinese community, here in Hawaii.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: What difference, after all this time, does it make????
Rush: Chan’s sideburns are the length we were allowed to have at my high school!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: hs: THAT’S all been flipped upside-down.
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: “Bob”.
Louise: Interesting Steve
Hawaii_Steve: The Chinese man told me that “we looked beyond the white actor and saw the character.”
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Book ‘er, Danno.
Rush: Nice, Steve.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Interesting quote, Steve. That sensibility is in short supply at the current moment.
Hounder: Good Perspective to have had
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: HS: I’m gonna REMEMBER that line. My family are very much supportive of historical revision. ‘Nuff said, i’m sure.
Dona: Very interesting Steve
Louise: We have been discussing this issue for years: moving beyond the actors.
tenman: There were few to no positive asian role models oon the screen at that time
Rush: As Keye Luke said: “It’s called ACTING.”
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: MY shoulder hurts!
Rush: Got him after a very short struggle.
tenman: Save for next case. LOL
Rush: “CLUE!”
Hawaii_Steve: That same Chinese man told me that he was an extra from the filming of “From Here to Eternity” in 1951.
Rush: “Too late, save for next case!”
tenman: That’s cool!
Mike n Rachel in DC: <kids-yeah>
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: THANK WESTERN ELECTRIC!!!!
Matt1: <yee-haw!>
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: YAY!!
Godwinshelley2: Ha – that was a good one
Hounder: that would be a memory to have! And a bragging point
Louise: Fun to see this one again
Mike n Rachel in DC: One of the very best.
Rush: Too bad Fox didn’t allow the entire song to play through the exit….
Hawaii_Steve: On my 16mm print of this film, the exit music continues with black on the screen.
Matt1: Classic
Godwinshelley2: Nice to see Lugosi and Fry together without Fry having to do that laugh
Rush: THE END
Rush: (Applause…)
Dona: <Wahooo>
Hawaii_Steve: Or eat a bug.
Mike n Rachel in DC: Flies!
Mike n Rachel in DC: yum
Captain Bob: wahoo…..woop, woop!
Rush: Next week: TWO episodes from “The New Adventures of Charlie Chan.”
Rush: Starring J. Carrol Naish with james Hong.
Louise: Fun night. Thanks all.
Dona: Another good one Rush! Thank you! So good to see everyone tonight.
tenman: But Dracula was my first favorite movie. Saved up for moinths to buy a silent 8MM print of the Lugosi film when I was about 10
Mike n Rachel in DC: (and, of course, Smilin Jack. 🙂 )
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: TILL ANON! Next week!!
tenman: Night all!
Matt1: Good night and have a wonderful week!
Dona: Night All!
dangerou$ angel & foxxxxx: Tenman, i look forward to more from you!
Mike n Rachel in DC: Good evening all! Have a great week.
Rush: I will try to make sure we have two with online availability for those who lack copies of this series!
Godwinshelley2: I might be missing next week. I am having way too much fun this year.
Hounder: Nite all. See you next week.
Phil: Good night all. Stay safe.
Captain Bob: Good night and thanx for the invite…..mahalo!
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Godwinshelley2: Capt Bob – glad to meet you
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Rush: Take care.
Godwinshelley2: I’m out in Delaware
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Rush: have a wonderful evening!
Rush: Thank you ALL!
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Rush: GS…
Rush: Fun as in “FUN”?
Hawaii_Steve: What a great way to celebrate Oland’s birthday.
Rush: Yes!
Godwinshelley2: Not really – I’m heading in for some surgery on Friday – not sure how I will be feeling on Monday
Godwinshelley2: I sent you another email – after the Baldplate one.
Hawaii_Steve: GS, I hope it’s not too serious.
Rush: Oh, one day we will have to trod the floors and hallways of the Royal Hawaiian again, steve!
Godwinshelley2: Hope not
Rush: Sorry to hear, GS!
Godwinshelley2: Yes the hotel was a wonderful tour
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Godwinshelley2: I would be great if we could all get together there
Hawaii_Steve: Did you know that the Royal is completely closed at this time. One cannot walk onto the property. I didn’t know that.
Rush: May all go so well that you will be fit and ready to join us next time!
Godwinshelley2: Yikes! I didn’t know thaty
Rush: Wow, Steve!
Godwinshelley2: Are they closed for good or just for CoVid?
Rush: But, these days, i can believe that!
Godwinshelley2: What about the hat guy?
Rush: I would also bet that it remained open even on December 8, 1941!
Hawaii_Steve: Years ago, I suggested that we have a Chan conversation in Hawaii. I wish we would have done it then. It’s going to a long time before we can do it now.
Rush: Newt at the Royal?
Rush: Is the shop still there, steve?
Godwinshelley2: Yes I remember when we talked about a convention
Rush: Yes….(a huge sigh….)
Rush: Still with us Hounder?
Hawaii_Steve: Due to CoVird, all the hotels in Waikiki are closed to the public. Very sad.
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Rush: VERY.
Godwinshelley2: Even the Military one – Hale Koa?
Rush: Actually, with the restrictions on tourism, that is not too surprising.
Hawaii_Steve: That one might be the exception.
Godwinshelley2: I guess they had to really lock it down.
Rush: Are there ANY tourists around?
Godwinshelley2: Military new to the island would need someplace to stay and quarantine
Hawaii_Steve: A few months ago, some locals beat the crap out of local from the Mainland. Bring the virus to Hawaii.
Rush: Nice “welcome.”
Rush: Sheesh.
Hawaii_Steve: There are tourists around. Not much. No Japanese.
Rush: Is there much for them to do?
Hawaii_Steve: I meant locals beat up tourists from mainland. Sorry.
Rush: That’s what I thought you meant.
Godwinshelley2: Man – we really were lucky to do our tour in Feb 2019
Hawaii_Steve: Nothing to do. No attractions are open. Just the beaches.
Rush: Not good.
Godwinshelley2: We might have been stuck on that stupid cruise ship
Rush: Trapped in paradise!
Godwinshelley2: Yikes – well if you have to stuck somewhere, the island (as a local) is good
Hawaii_Steve: I’ve head that this covid is going into 2022. Anybody elese?
Godwinshelley2: I was stuck in my old High School bedroom!
Hawaii_Steve: LOL !!!
Rush: Well…if some want it to, I guess….
Godwinshelley2: I spent at least 6 months in Indiana helping my folks
Rush: I mean, does the flu ever completely disappear?
Godwinshelley2: Anyways – might not be in next week – or at least just a quick drop in
Hawaii_Steve: Since the lockdown, the murder rate has gone up in Hawaii. No kidding.
Rush: if we wait for it to comopletely go away, we will see it out as VERY old persons!
Godwinshelley2: Yikes – sad to hear that
Godwinshelley2: Good time to learn new skills
Hawaii_Steve: GS, please take good care of yourself. Best of luck.
Godwinshelley2: Have a safe week everyone
Godwinshelley2: night
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Rush: murders, suicides, divorces, drug use….
Rush: The social calamity is worse, perhaps than the virus.
Hawaii_Steve: About a month ago, I went back to work at the radio station downtown Honolulu.
Rush: Oh, well….
Rush: That’s good!
Rush: Glad to hear that one, steve!
Rush: same studio I saw way back when?
Hawaii_Steve: It’s very sad. Only homeless people walking the streets. No professional people, i.e. attonys, bankers.
Rush: Yeah.
Rush: Not good.
Rush: How many actual DEATHS has Hawaii had?
Hawaii_Steve: The scary news was about Trump. Such a surprise.
Rush: He’s out and back at the White House tonight.
Hawaii_Steve: Deaths from Colvid reported every day now in Hawaii.
Rush: Many?
Hawaii_Steve: Most in the retirement homes, the elderly.
Rush: yes.
Rush: Those are the ones to protect.
Hawaii_Steve: Oh, it depends. Sometimes its about 5 per day. sometimes its 25 per day.
Rush: Everyone else should be able to get on with their lives.
Rush: Especially school children.
Hawaii_Steve: One would think so. But many long time restaurants are closing up. Nothing is normal anymore.
Rush: Our school is open, with restrictions. The kids were HUNGRY to be with their peers.
Rush: Same here, steve.
Rush: So, life shuffles on….
Hawaii_Steve: The teachers are fights with government official about bringing the kids into the classrooms. A big fight here.
Rush: Oh, well.
Rush: Do your teachers want the schools to reopen?
Hawaii_Steve: You are teaching inside the school? In the classroom?
Hawaii_Steve: The teachers do not want the classrooms open.
Rush: Yes, with some still learning at home via Zoom.
Rush: I am at school.
Rush: They do NOT. Ah. Unions.
Hawaii_Steve: Do you feel safe at the school? Are you wearing a mask as you teach the kids?
Rush: I feel totally safe. i do wear a mask as we ALL do at my school.
Rush: really, I have not worried about this virus since about a few weeks after it officially hit.
Rush: I just cannot live in fear like that.
Hawaii_Steve: The police have been issuing tickets to people without a mask. $5,000.00 per offense.
Rush: I have heard of people getting it and hardly knowing they had it.
Rush: oh, my!
Hawaii_Steve: Carriers.
Rush: If it’s my time, it’s my time.\, I guess.
Rush: Oh, well….
Hawaii_Steve: A few months ago, I tried to get tested. A nurse told me to go away. I did not have any symptoms.
Rush: HM!
Rush: I was required to get tested, so I did a week ago. Negative, of course.
Rush: Marie was tested, too. negative.
Rush: Our state has set really impossible standards to reopen fully.
Rush: I don’t see that happening.
Rush: So many job are dying.
Hawaii_Steve: Since this whole thing began, I’ve been working as an essential worker at food stores, etc.
Rush: People who own small businesses are really suffering.
Rush: That’s good, Steve.
Hawaii_Steve: Lots of small businesses are going out of business here.
Rush: really sad.
Hawaii_Steve: I feel truly lucky that I haven’t got it. I’m wearing masks, gloves, washing my hands lots of times, etc.
Rush: Well, this will be an interesting one for our archive!
Rush: Some 2020 “history” included at the end!
Hawaii_Steve: As for our Chan parties, and visits in the past, I am so glad that we did them when we did.
Rush: You are in good physical shape. If you were to get it, I guarantee you would recover, and quickly.
Rush: I am glad we did, too, steve!
Hawaii_Steve: It was a blast for me to be with you, your family, and Lou. I wanted you to see everything in 2010.
Rush: Hard to believe that those, indeed, were those storied “good old days”!
Hawaii_Steve: Since moving to Kailua, I go for 90 minute walks to the beach and back.
Rush: We recall it all very fondly, steve!
Rush: Believe me!
Rush: I see pictures from that trip, and mmmmm….
Rush: BEAUTIFUL, Steve!
Rush: You are in a GREAT place!
Rush: KAILUA.
Rush: Actually, Marie and I spent some time there in 1990.
Hawaii_Steve: I’m very grateful to you for documenting our 2010 gathering. Because I am detailed, I know that I can be a pain. You helped me greatly with the article posted on the site.
Rush: At a bed and breakfast.
Rush: Steve “No ‘pain’, no GAIN”!
Hawaii_Steve: Governor shut down all the bed and breakfast places on Oahu. I believe it was a few years ago.
Rush: And I have GAINED much in our friendship!
Rush: Why?
Hawaii_Steve: The governor thought it was a crooked business. Something about taxes.
Rush: Yes. Always taxes.
Rush: Missed the bigger picture!
Rush: people staying at B and Bs will spend money all over the place!
Hawaii_Steve: it seems the that the government is always pinching pennies from the local business people.
Rush: Plenty of tax revenue there!
Rush: Yes.
Hawaii_Steve: Are you working Monday thru Firday?
Rush: The small businesses are the backbone of the economy.
Rush: ANYWHERE.
Rush: Yes, Monday through friday.
Hawaii_Steve: Were you furloughed at all during this period?
Rush: I was never not paid. I worked from home to close out the year last year. i was able to work with a few students.
Hawaii_Steve: Are your kids being schooled through Zoom?
Rush: I tried to contribute what I could.
Rush: IYes, Zoom.
Rush: It is far from perfect, but is is something.
Rush: Better than nothing.
Hawaii_Steve: Last year, I left the tour guide position at the USS Missouri. And I’m glad I did because at least one tour guide became infected.
Rush: That would be a more vulnerable situation, to be sure.
Rush: Thing worked out for the better for you there.
Rush: Well, sir….
Hawaii_Steve: Last week, I was invited to a Zoom meeting, but I couldn’t log on.
Hawaii_Steve: Yes, its time to say Aloha.
Rush: This is the first time I have chatted until 7:oo my time in YEARS!
Hawaii_Steve: Oh, I forgot to ask you about an old member.
Rush: Please stay in touch.
Rush: I’ll try to check my email more regularly.
Rush: The very best to you from ALL of us!
Rush: Yes?
Rush: The iold member/
Hawaii_Steve: Is Steve Owens still around?
Rush: haven’t heard from him in yeaqrs!
Rush: years.
Rush: Have you?
Hawaii_Steve: 2006 Feb 18: Received first email from Steve Owens, who had read the Harada article. Owens refers me to Rush.
Rush: Oh, yes!
Hawaii_Steve: From my notes. This is how I met you.
Rush: he was a very regular regular back in the day!
Hawaii_Steve: No. I have not.
Rush: Yes!
Rush: You noted that earlier!
Rush: When things get moving during the Chats, I can get “lost” in the posts!
Rush: Yes, he was “Steve O”
Hawaii_Steve: Lately, I have been selling films from my collection. i’m thinking of selling the black camel 16mm print.
Rush: We had a few “Steves,” of course!
Rush: 🙂
Rush: I hear you. I am “lightening” my “burder” as well.
Rush: Burden
Hawaii_Steve: Which prompted me to look up the original purchase date and price. Boy, I spent a lot of money buying films.
Rush: I mentioned your copy of the film tonight.
Rush: Yes, back when we COULD spend the money!
Hawaii_Steve: in the library business, we call it “weeding out” stock.
Rush: I make much more “modest” purchases today.
Rush: YES!
Rush: Nice “weeds,” though!!!
Hawaii_Steve: When I moved to Hawaii, I really fell in love with “Hawaii in the Movies.” So many films and TV episodes.
Rush: Life moves on…
Rush: YES!
Rush: You have (had?) quite a collection!
Hawaii_Steve: In 2020, I haven’t done any tours or shown any films. There is little to no interest.
Rush: In fact, whenever I see a piece of Hawaiiana on TV, I think of you!
Rush: Or the opportunity, I would add!
Hawaii_Steve: That’s nice of you.
Rush: maybe when the evil dust settles, there will be a hunger to see such things again!
Hawaii_Steve: Well … it’s time to end this. I do believe.
Rush: maybe a place like the Bishop Museum would go for that!
Hawaii_Steve: Thank you for letting me relive the Black Camel with you.
Rush: Okay…I agree!
Rush: Thank YOU, sir!!!
Rush: Tou are the SOUL of the whole thing!
Hawaii_Steve: The Bishop is closed too. They tried to open, but closed a second time.
Rush: Well, when they reopen for REAL, perhaps!
Hawaii_Steve: Have yourself a great night. Say “aloha” to the wife and kids for me.
Rush: maybe you could contact someone with the thought?
Rush: And, and HUGE Aloha to YOU as well…from ALL of us!
Rush: take care….
Rush: Be safe….
Rush: But above all….try, please, to be HAPPY!
Hawaii_Steve: Last night, on the TV news, there was a story about the number 1 Audio-Visual company about to close up for good.
Rush: Ouch.
Hawaii_Steve: Thank you so much. Stay well yourself. And aloha.
Rush: And so it goes…
Rush: And you….
Hawaii_Steve: Good night now.
Rush: Good night….
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