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For those of you who get the Turner Classic Movies channel you may be interested to know that the movie Grand Prix will be on Friday 2/22/08, in letterbox format without commercial interuption at 1:30pm.
Sorry for the late notice, I just saw the listing for it.
SalahK
02-21-2008, 09:52 PM
For those of you who get the Turner Classic Movies channel you may be interested to know that the movie Grand Prix will be on Friday 2/22/08, in letterbox format without commercial interuption at 1:30pm.
Sorry for the late notice, I just saw the listing for it.
That is an awesome movie. Thanks. Ill record it on a DVD since i dont have TIVO yet.
On another note, my new Sprint MotoQ9c phone has Live Speed TV, so now I can watch F1 and all the other crap on my phone. The quality is not too bad either. Too bad i dont get TCM on the phone. But still, Is that cool or what?
That is an awesome movie. Thanks. Ill record it on a DVD since i dont have TIVO yet.
On another note, my new Sprint MotoQ9c phone has Live Speed TV, so now I can watch F1 and all the other crap on my phone. The quality is not too bad either. Too bad i dont get TCM on the phone. But still, Is that cool or what?
When I was a boy I had to get up to change the channel...
stoooo
02-22-2008, 07:42 AM
When I was a boy I had to get up to change the channel...
Did you have to rotate the dial and fiddle with the aerial at the same time to tune it in ? On a black and white TV ? I hated having to do that.
Stuart.
EWAustin
02-22-2008, 07:58 AM
C'Mon Stooo, that doesn't make you (or Fitz) old. Even I had to do that... (Except for the B&W part)
phile
02-22-2008, 08:47 AM
C'Mon Stooo, that doesn't make you (or Fitz) old. Even I had to do that... (Except for the B&W part)
OK, how about this to prove I'm old. I drove to the Cooper Theatre to see the super-wide-screen premiere of the film. They gave out programs. I'm not sure where my program is, but I still have the vinyl LPs I bought in the lobby.
After seeing this film, Steve McQueen was disappointed because it didn't have enough racing in it. We all know what he did about that.
Not only did I drive to the same theater, [maybe the same day as Phil] but drove to St.Cloud to pick up a 'girl friend' and then returned her on that same very cold night, in my '65 MGB.
Brrrrrrrrr.
Today?
OK, how about this to prove I'm old. I drove to the Cooper Theatre to see the super-wide-screen premiere of the film. They gave out programs. I'm not sure where my program is, but I still have the vinyl LPs I bought in the lobby.
After seeing this film, Steve McQueen was disappointed because it didn't have enough racing in it. We all know what he did about that.
with a couple of other gearheads, 11th row center, rode there in the back of a Ford Fairlane convertible, very cold, but worth it.
phile
02-22-2008, 11:57 AM
with a couple of other gearheads, 11th row center, rode there in the back of a Ford Fairlane convertible, very cold, but worth it.
It was just like Imax/Omnimax to us back then. The screen was fifty feet wide. Took three projectors to show the movie. There is this one shot where they must have had the three cameras on a rotating platform on a blimp. The shot is straight down, plan view on a single car which stays still in the frame while the entire Principality of Monaco rotates around it 180 degrees. Folks prone to motion-sickness need not apply. I'm sure that nowadays a change in the frame-of-reference could be done digitally, but then it was as-shot. It's all there on the original three rolls of film.
The multi-image stuff may look corny on TV, but it worked on the huge screen. This was World's Fair stuff for us.
Dave Kral
02-22-2008, 12:05 PM
They gave out programs. I'm not sure where my program is
I've still got mine! I ran across it when I was organizing some stuff about a year ago. I was at the University of Kansas at the time. A group of us drove to KC to see it.
gkullman
02-24-2008, 04:08 PM
OK, how about this to prove I'm old. I drove to the Cooper Theatre to see the super-wide-screen premiere of the film.....
The premiere for me was late 1966 at the Red Wing, MN, Auditorium Theater. My girlfriend, now my wife of 40 years, took me as a gift before I went off to Army boot camp. By the way, I have the VHS versions of Grand Prix and Le Mans long since replaced by the DVD versions. Just like new sell for $10 the pair.
May yer really old!:lol:
Lemme see, 40 years ago to boot camp?
Uh, I went in September of 1963, that's uh, 45 years ago almost.
Yikes, I'm old too.:bigeyes:
I went to Fort Leonard Wood MO.
No matter where you march there, it's uphill.:x
Oh yeah, I saw 'Gran Prix' at the Cooper theatre in St Louis Park.
Oh, I said that. :p
The premiere for me was late 1966 at the Red Wing, MN, Auditorium Theater. My girlfriend, now my wife of 40 years, took me as a gift before I went off to Army boot camp. By the way, I have the VHS versions of Grand Prix and Le Mans long since replaced by the DVD versions. Just like new sell for $10 the pair.
Thanks Mark, I did watch.
There are some benefits to being 'retired'
For those of you who get the Turner Classic Movies channel you may be interested to know that the movie Grand Prix will be on Friday 2/22/08, in letterbox format without commercial interuption at 1:30pm.
Sorry for the late notice, I just saw the listing for it.
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