Posted by moviePig on 04/11/06 19:16

Derek Janssen wrote:
> moviePig wrote:
> >
> >>I'll leave aside the now little-remembered (despite being a 30's
> >>star-studder) "You Can't Take It With You"--and the Ronald Colman "Lost
> >>Horizon" now remembered only for a bad remake--and go straight to the
> >>'Boomer classics:
> >>
> >>http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60031007
> >
> > You're right, I had no idea. (And... how much crap I must've watched
> > afterwards, on the strength of how good this had been...)
>
> Crap?...Are you calling the non-Capra Bell Labs films crap?
> Sneer ye, sir, at "It's About Time", "The Alphabet Conspiracy" or the
> Chuck Jones "Gateway to the Mind"??
> (Just because Rhino orphaned them on VHS, and Image never picked the
> non-Capra's up for disk?)
>
> I'll admit, they weren't as good as Capra's "Magic screen" ones, but at
> least we got less of Frank's distractingly intelligent-design "God
> smiles upon Science" speeches...

Probably not the Bell Labs... though I don't recall. I do know that
I'd watched HEMO grudgingly... and was blown away... a tv-experience
that I think didn't repeat itself in *any* genre until much (much)
later.

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