John M.
@nitrate74.bsky.social
NYC. Love film and film history, especially the silent/studio system eras. Also very into 20th century pop, jazz, rock, swing, big band, old time radio. And the preservation of all these things. Reviews at Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/nitrate74/ 🏳️🌈
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!
🧵👇
⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2024 at 3:56 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!
🧵👇
⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!
🧵👇
2/20 Katharine Hepburn
November 29, 2024 at 3:39 AM
2/20 Katharine Hepburn
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At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?
November 26, 2024 at 5:52 PM
At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?
An invaluable PSA: Truly the kindest TV-related service you can perform for those you love!
For those going home to visit family this weekend:
• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
November 27, 2024 at 6:32 AM
An invaluable PSA: Truly the kindest TV-related service you can perform for those you love!
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Step 1: Eat the pumpkin pie.
Step 2: Get another pumpkin pie.
Step 3: Eat 2nd pumpkin pie.
Step 4: Repeat if necessary.
Step 2: Get another pumpkin pie.
Step 3: Eat 2nd pumpkin pie.
Step 4: Repeat if necessary.
November 27, 2024 at 5:29 AM
Step 1: Eat the pumpkin pie.
Step 2: Get another pumpkin pie.
Step 3: Eat 2nd pumpkin pie.
Step 4: Repeat if necessary.
Step 2: Get another pumpkin pie.
Step 3: Eat 2nd pumpkin pie.
Step 4: Repeat if necessary.
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Seriously, if you ever found someone that recognized your Monty Python, Airplane, Caddyshack or blues Brothers quotes, or had even heard of Doctor Who, you were like, “hey this person is now my best friend.”
Blues Brothers and a variety of Monty Python for me.
November 26, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Seriously, if you ever found someone that recognized your Monty Python, Airplane, Caddyshack or blues Brothers quotes, or had even heard of Doctor Who, you were like, “hey this person is now my best friend.”
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Being an ‘80s kid means you can quote entire sections of Caddyshack and Airplane! to this day. (in high school Latin club we once did an entire skit that was riffs on Airplane!, obviously it killed)
it's safe to say that no single cultural artifact in human history had a more foundational impact on my own sense of humor and, by extension, my world view than "Airplane!"
Jim Abrahams, one of the creators of the highly quotable movie "Airplane!," has sadly passed away. In 2016, he gave us the backstory on how its most enduring joke, "Don’t call me Shirley," may have saved the entire production. vulture.visitlink.me/whJogz
November 26, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Being an ‘80s kid means you can quote entire sections of Caddyshack and Airplane! to this day. (in high school Latin club we once did an entire skit that was riffs on Airplane!, obviously it killed)
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Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
November 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
This instrumental's all the moods at once, and it's been that kind of day: Santo and Johnny performing Sleepwalk on The Dick Clark Show in 1959.
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November 27, 2024 at 6:11 AM
This instrumental's all the moods at once, and it's been that kind of day: Santo and Johnny performing Sleepwalk on The Dick Clark Show in 1959.
youtube.com/watch?v=2rwf...
youtube.com/watch?v=2rwf...
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Excited to head to Chicago in April for the SCMS conference to give a talk related to my bio-in-progress, "Categorizing Dorothy Arzner: The 'Never-Married,' 'First' and 'Only' Woman Director." Can't wait to see who else is on my panel!
#scms #scms2025 #scms25 #dorothyarzner #arzner #hollywood
#scms #scms2025 #scms25 #dorothyarzner #arzner #hollywood
November 26, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Excited to head to Chicago in April for the SCMS conference to give a talk related to my bio-in-progress, "Categorizing Dorothy Arzner: The 'Never-Married,' 'First' and 'Only' Woman Director." Can't wait to see who else is on my panel!
#scms #scms2025 #scms25 #dorothyarzner #arzner #hollywood
#scms #scms2025 #scms25 #dorothyarzner #arzner #hollywood
Don't think I have many followers likely to have freelance film writing gigs available, but in case I do, this guy is a great writer and has justifiably built up quite a following. Giving him an assignment or subscribing would be well worth it!
In between gigs and things are getting a little tighter than I expected. Gonna post my Substack here because I’m not at the point of posting PayPal or anything. Would mean the world if you to subbed!
Gonna have something cool on the paid tier up this week
open.substack.com/pub/brandons...
Gonna have something cool on the paid tier up this week
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The Janitor Diaries | Brandon Streussnig | Substack
Film, Action and Anything else that crosses my mind. Click to read The Janitor Diaries, by Brandon Streussnig, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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November 21, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Don't think I have many followers likely to have freelance film writing gigs available, but in case I do, this guy is a great writer and has justifiably built up quite a following. Giving him an assignment or subscribing would be well worth it!
And Nancy Carroll again, tripping the light fantastic with George Murphy in AFTER THE DANCE (1935)
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youtube.com/watch?v=QKpN...
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November 19, 2024 at 7:45 PM
And Nancy Carroll again, tripping the light fantastic with George Murphy in AFTER THE DANCE (1935)
youtube.com/watch?v=QKpN...
youtube.com/watch?v=QKpN...
It's Nancy Carroll's birthday (1903-1965). A personal favorite, and a huge star of the late silent and early sound period who's still under-remembered. Here she is in a clip from 1930's PARAMOUNT ON Parade:
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November 19, 2024 at 7:41 PM
It's Nancy Carroll's birthday (1903-1965). A personal favorite, and a huge star of the late silent and early sound period who's still under-remembered. Here she is in a clip from 1930's PARAMOUNT ON Parade:
youtube.com/watch?v=m9a5...
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November 19, 2024 at 5:16 AM
And because it would be comic malpractice not to post it, here's the famed mirror sequence.
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November 17, 2024 at 10:13 PM
And because it would be comic malpractice not to post it, here's the famed mirror sequence.
youtube.com/watch?v=VKTT...
youtube.com/watch?v=VKTT...
As noted in my earlier repost of the estimable Citizen Screen, it's DUCK SOUP's 91st release anniversary. Any possible similarity here to anything more recent is, of course, surely coincidental...
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November 17, 2024 at 10:11 PM
As noted in my earlier repost of the estimable Citizen Screen, it's DUCK SOUP's 91st release anniversary. Any possible similarity here to anything more recent is, of course, surely coincidental...
youtube.com/watch?v=uSsU...
youtube.com/watch?v=uSsU...
A great day in cinematic history, and as always, enduringly relevant.
Leo McCarey’s DUCK SOUP, starring the four Marx Brothers and Margaret Dumont, hit theaters across the U. S. #OnThisDay in 1933.
Long live Freedonia!
Long live Freedonia!
November 17, 2024 at 2:07 PM
A great day in cinematic history, and as always, enduringly relevant.
I love stop-motion animation. Here's a beautiful, ethereal example from legendary Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. Enjoy!
youtube.com/watch?v=R_E6...
youtube.com/watch?v=R_E6...
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November 17, 2024 at 5:16 AM
I love stop-motion animation. Here's a beautiful, ethereal example from legendary Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. Enjoy!
youtube.com/watch?v=R_E6...
youtube.com/watch?v=R_E6...
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Proud to say I sometimes work with Criterion Channel on their classic-film offerings. (I helped program the Ida Lupino: Actress series on now.) But one channel can't do everything, and I worry all the time about what Justin is describing. Physical media is a must (and support your local arthouse)
November 16, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Proud to say I sometimes work with Criterion Channel on their classic-film offerings. (I helped program the Ida Lupino: Actress series on now.) But one channel can't do everything, and I worry all the time about what Justin is describing. Physical media is a must (and support your local arthouse)
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We've arrived! Please let all physical media and movie fans know that the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social YouTube show has made it to the big Bluesky in the sky.
November 16, 2024 at 9:01 PM
We've arrived! Please let all physical media and movie fans know that the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social YouTube show has made it to the big Bluesky in the sky.
Here's some 1928 surreality from Felix The Cat, who's definitely having a more exciting night than I've had! Goodnight from New York, Blueskyers.
youtu.be/5PqZuu5APrg?...
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Felix the Cat: Woos Whoopee (1928) - Classic Cartoon
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November 16, 2024 at 6:03 AM
Here's some 1928 surreality from Felix The Cat, who's definitely having a more exciting night than I've had! Goodnight from New York, Blueskyers.
youtu.be/5PqZuu5APrg?...
youtu.be/5PqZuu5APrg?...