BRITISH COLONIALISM

[Baggers]

It should, but every time evidently.
I tried doing that recently with Windows Media Player. I wanted a frame grab off a Divx file for a project I'm working on and it didn't work.

Cheers!

 

[Baron Kurtz]

If you do the print screen on a Mac, wouldn't it be easier to (when the print dialogue box comes up) use the 'save as PDF' option? Then extract from the PDF ...

bk

 

[Feraud]

a few more screen caps while we are on the subject. Can you name the films?
Film #1

Film #2

 

[renor27]

trying tocapture a still on a MAc

Hav etryed what was suggested and with the DVD player that came with my mini Mac running OS X.5 no luck can not get the still.:rage:
As for the two sets of photos just posted
1st set is from Kitcher of Karton ( not sure about the spelling sorry about that )
2nd set is from Zulu
David

 

[Baggers]

a few more screen caps while we are on the subject. Can you name the films?
Film #1

Film #2

Khartoum starring Charlton Heston, and Zulu starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine.

Do I win anything?

Cheers!

 

[Feraud]

Khartoum starring Charlton Heston, and Zulu starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine.

Do I win anything?

Cheers!

...[huh] some more screencaps?...[huh]

 

[Baggers]

...[huh] some more screencaps?...[huh]

Ehh, I think I'll pass. I can make all of those I want.

Still, great films. Especially the scene in Zulu when thousands of chanting warriors are advancing on the mission station and the "thin red line" responds by singing Men of Harlech while standing at the ready and waiting for them to come within range ("VOLLEY FIRE...PRESENT!!"). Stirring stuff. I started getting goose bumps just writing about it.

Cheers!

 

[Mojave Jack]

Ehh, I think I'll pass. I can make all of those I want.

Still, great films. Especially the scene in Zulu when thousands of chanting warriors are advancing on the mission station and the "thin red line" responds by singing Men of Harlech while standing at the ready and waiting for them to come within range ("VOLLEY FIRE...PRESENT!!"). Stirring stuff. I started getting goose bumps just writing about it.

Cheers!

Khartoum was really good, too. It stuck to the real story pretty well for Hollywood at the time. Surprsingly, they didn't change the story so that General Gordon survives.

 

[Mike K.]

Sorry for the delayed response everyone. It's been a busy week. The screen capture software that I am using came bundled with the Hewlett-Packard laptop I own. I've tried using other programs like Windows MediaPlayer and RealPlayer but haven't found a way to get the screen caps using them. My best results come from pausing the DVD, then taking the screen cap. I you go to www.intervideo.com you can download free trial versions of the software. Perhaps they include the screen capture function...worth a try!

Here's a few more caps....one of my favorite characters, Van Pelt.

How's that for a classy safari outfit?!

 

[Mojave Jack]

Here's a few more caps....one of my favorite characters, Van Pelt.

How's that for a classy safari outfit?!

Ah, ha! Jumanji! Your avatar looked so familiar, and I've been trying to place it for days. The screen caps with his humongous rifle finally made it click. lol

 

[Haversack]

I think that my favourite movie for British colonialism is the 1939 version of The Four Feathers created by the Korda Brothers. A good part of this favouritism is due to the fact that it was filmed in a time and place in which they didn't have to recreate the look and feel of the British Empire in Africa. It was still a going concern. Plus there were people involved with making the movie who had been there. The river boat that is shown being pulled up one of the cataracts of the Nile was one the river boats that took part in the Sudan campaign. (and is now the clubhouse of the Khartoum Yacht Club) I cannot imagine the trouble that it took them to film three-strip Technicolour in the Sudan during the 1930s. Plus it has C. Aubrey Smith...

Haversack

 

[Nick Charles]

I found another flick today at the library. The Flame Trees of Thika

Anyone seen it.

Coincidently I also found a book on Lawrence of Arabia, the life and legend.

 

[Baggers]

I think that my favourite movie for British colonialism is the 1939 version of The Four Feathers created by the Korda Brothers. A good part of this favouritism is due to the fact that it was filmed in a time and place in which they didn't have to recreate the look and feel of the British Empire in Africa. It was still a going concern. Plus there were people involved with making the movie who had been there. The river boat that is shown being pulled up one of the cataracts of the Nile was one the river boats that took part in the Sudan campaign. (and is now the clubhouse of the Khartoum Yacht Club) I cannot imagine the trouble that it took them to film three-strip Technicolour in the Sudan during the 1930s. Plus it has C. Aubrey Smith...

Haversack

Oh yes, marvelous film. Just think, real Fuzzy Wuzzies, some of the older of which might have actually participated in a charge on a British square or two, as opposed to the typical extras in costume and makeup they would use today. BTW, the remake that came out a couple of years back had none of the sweep of the Korda production. I was so underwhelmed.

Cheers!

 

[Mojave Jack]

I found another flick today at the library. The Flame Trees of Thika[/COLOR][/I].

Nick, you're brilliant!

We had a video store here in town that had just about every classic movie ever filmed. The owner had an absolutely phenomenal memory, and was great to talk to (we shared an interest in the Lady Be Good, among other tings). Well, his store unfortunately burned when the nail salon next door caught fire.

I just looked up both the 1939 Four Feathers and The Flame Trees of Thika, and our library system has both! I had never thought of checking there for movies! Thanks, Nick!

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Has anyone caught "The Charge of the Light Brigade?"
I saw it this weekend. It was made in 1969 with Trevor Howard.
It was quite good.
It had these interesting animated transitions in the style of 18th C. political cartoons, though Monty Python was brought to mind as well.
I recommend it.
I apologize if this has been discussed.

 

[Feraud]

I remember watching Charge of the Light Brigade some time ago and liking it. Because I cannot remember too much about it, I think it needs a re-viewing.

 

[Nick Charles]

OK after our new adventure threads and someones request for links and such I;m bumping this after rewatching the first disc of the Heat of the Sun series

"The second one kills you" my favorite line from these. From a nifty looking police Lt. that seems to never miss.

 

[Haversack]

_Heat of the Sun_ has become a favourite at home ever since we picked up a set after being reminded about it here. It is a shame they never continued with it. By the way, the third episode is probably the most exciting. A nasty villain and the K.A.R.
I've turned a couple of my co-workers on to the series as well. Since we are also Pratchett fans, we've noticed certian parallels between Tyburn and his crew, and Vimes and the Watch.

Haversack.

 

[carebear]

Not the Brit colonials exclusively but "55 Days at Peking" is of the latter part of the correct timeframe.

Again straying a bit afield nationally but in the right genre of (late) "colonial" vs. autochthon is "The Sand Pebbles".

 

[Story]

OUT OF AFRICA
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089755/

In early 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter.

GUNGA DIN
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031398/
In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.