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  1. MikeKardec

    Toilet back-fires, sinks U-Boat

    I think I heard that they still do use the tank system. To make matters worse on the Type VII subs the midships head (one two for around 30 men) was usually stuffed full of food at the onset of a voyage. To pull a great quote from "Das Boot": "... we have to eat before we can s**t." Unlike...
  2. MikeKardec

    When did the penny drop?

    I'm far from an expert but it seems to me that there was a point where the Nazis abandoned their highly effective tactic of attacking their neighbors in a manner that was both political and military at the same time. Certainly, creating political chaos that seemed to be going their way then...
  3. MikeKardec

    London, Edinburgh, Paris - Recommendations Please

    Cool. The catacomb tour is also pretty good ... more interesting when you realize that what you are allowed to go through is just one small part of the entire system. Parts of modern Paris are built on the ruins of a series of old roman rock quarries (used to build the original city), those...
  4. MikeKardec

    Best Golden Era (up to mid 60s) Westerns?

    I always liked the "anti western" aspects of The Oxbow Incident. Thanks for mentioning Hondo, that one runs in the family. A couple of interesting notes about it: It was an early 3D film and the don't seem to have had water trucks so there was lots and lots of dust. A great effect (though I...
  5. MikeKardec

    London, Edinburgh, Paris - Recommendations Please

    Others have covered some really great attractions but I might have something to add: In Edinburgh, book a tour through Mary King's Close. The "closes" were closed off (for security) neighborhoods that stretched up and down the hillsides on either side of The Royal Mile (or High Street). In...
  7. MikeKardec

    Master and Commander

    Peter Weir is a great film maker. I was just at the Australian Consulate for the 40th anniversary screening of one of his earliest, Picnic at Hanging Rock. Still a great movie and so hard to believe it came so early in a career.
  8. MikeKardec

    anyone else hate 1960's Westerns & WWII movies with modern music soundtracks?

    Westerns have always been full of anachronisms, gosh it's only recently that efforts have been made to try to really nail down the actual details. Historically, the clothes were often just western wear from the era and they used all those crazy low slung holsters and such. Western town (with a...
  9. MikeKardec

    Novels Set during Pacific Theater of WW2

    Let me double down on Tales of the South Pacific ... it is nothing like the rather silly (in comparison) Broadway show or movie. It's an amazingly well written set of fictionalized vignettes from Mitchner's life that touches on a lot of different aspects of the war. Super stuff. I have a ton...
  10. MikeKardec

    The Man From UNCLE movie

    Yes. I liked that too. And the hot rod Trabant and ESPECIALLY the wondrous scene at the racetrack, kind of a first for a period film. There were great cars in all the street scenes too. I think all that's what made the off road chase so jarring. But just the sheer fun they had with the look...
  11. MikeKardec

    The Man From UNCLE movie

    I liked it very much also. One of the few highly stylized films where I think all that super '60s gloss worked beautifully because it wasn't just great looking stuff, it was style the way it was done in the films of the time ... but tuned up for a modern budget and look. SLIGHT SPOILER (for...
  13. MikeKardec

    "Public Morals" on TNT

    I liked it too. The locations are especially good. I haven't caught any anachronistic props yet ... better than Vegas a few years ago where they were cheating all the time. There's been a couple of bits of dialog I thought weren't right, like the slang-ish use of "party," but others might...
  14. MikeKardec

    Classic Safari vehicles!

    Movie sound is mostly recorded "double system" using a separate camera and sound recording, that way they can be edited separately for more flexibility and each system can use larger, higher quality, gear. One of the early exceptions was the Auricon camera which was aimed at news reel crews...
  15. MikeKardec

    Classic Safari vehicles!

    Back in those there were several systems (Light Valve, Moving Mirror, etc.) that recorded sound by printing it on movie film using a light source. Basically, a "sound camera" was literally a sound camera, a camera that recorded just the sound. It was bulky and needed it's film chanced as often...
  16. MikeKardec

    The Big Sleep location?

    A great deal of the forest material in the Siege of Bastogne episode of Band of Brothers was shot on a stage (and a lot of stuff in other, less realistic movies) film maker's ability to make this look good has come a long way.
  17. MikeKardec

    The Big Sleep location?

    Alas, Night Song, my film predates You Tube by quite awhile and I've never thought to upload it. I've become a pretty good writer and director, though I haven't worked in film in quite awhile, and my student film was before I learned one iota of what I was doing. A lot of it is pretty cringe...
  19. MikeKardec

    The Big Sleep location?

    Greystone is really something. I was up there a few times when the American Film Institute was there. There used to be Raymond Chandler tours around Hollywood, back when the 1930s was going through it's revival in the 1970s and '80s. I grew up a few blocks from Ciro's nightclub (Guns at...
  20. MikeKardec

    The Big Sleep location?

    I think it's a set too. I'm betting that everything beyond the road side brush is a painted cyclorama. The lighting feels like overhead grid lighting rather than the lights on stands they'd have used on location. Location lighting might have been harsher too because they might not have been...
  21. MikeKardec

    When Travel was Romantic

    I took trains whenever they made sense. All over the UK, Canada (back in the days of the TransCanadian), and Australia. 1st and 2nd class on the Indian Pacific was truly a blast from the past (after doing 1st I realizes that 2nd was just as good for me, 1st was mostly about fancy food), very...
  22. MikeKardec

    40s fashion photography

    Two things occur to me. The first is the nice tension that comes from the obscured features in many of the photos, also the dramatic diagonals ... the strongest "line" you can present. The second has to do with the petulance issue which does seem to have gotten worse in more recent decades...
  23. MikeKardec

    Long Beach, CA Dance Venues?

    For the piece I'm writing/restoring (an old novel of my Dad's) I need the names of a couple of Long Beach, CA dance halls. I'm currently using the Cinderella Ballroom and The Majestic and hoping that they were both in operation under those names in 1939. Anyone have any idea about this...

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