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Joe Redifer
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posted 01-19-2008 02:48 AM

People are posting questions but rarely answers so learning is at a minimum.

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Tim Reed
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posted 01-19-2008 02:58 AM

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Brian Michael Weidemann
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posted 01-19-2008 04:14 AM

Yeah, I'd be interested in learning some of the answers to the questions posed, as well. How 'bout it?

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Michael Coate
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posted 01-19-2008 07:57 AM

Well, Joe already correctly answered all of mine. And he gets extra credit for nailing that tough two-part John Williams question.

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Leo Enticknap
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posted 01-19-2008 09:34 AM

quote: Hillary Charles
For some reason, Leo, I'm thinking of "Alphaville." Is that correct?

Bingo!

In 1925, the New York housewife Ruth Snyder conspired with her lover, lingerie salesman Judd Grey, to murder her husband in order to collect on his life insurance policy. Almost two decades later the case inspired a major Hollywood feature film - what was it?

The German director Detlef Sierck began his career in Nazi Germany, directing romantic melodrama propaganda films which stressed the importance of family values and women's role as a homemaker. He later emigrated to Hollywood, and became well known for a series of films he directed starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. By what name was he known in America?

What product did Eastman Kodak cease to manufacture in February 1950?

Foxfire in Hollywood and The Ladykillers in Britain were the last feature films shot using which process?

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 01-19-2008 09:39 AM

Well Joe is right that we should be posting the answers to our questions. Here are the Qs I posted:

quote: Mike Blakesley
Which Disney castle is depicted at the beginning of Disney's current films?

Why are movies often referred to as "flicks?"

And another Oz one: Who was the first actor slated to play the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz?

Answers:

1. Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland, Anaheim

2. Anybody here on F-T should know this

3. Buddy Ebsen

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Hillary Charles
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posted 01-19-2008 10:01 AM

Okay, Leo, I'll have another bash at this;

quote: Leo Enticknap
In 1925, the New York housewife Ruth Snyder conspired with her lover, lingerie salesman Judd Grey, to murder her husband in order to collect on his life insurance policy. Almost two decades later the case inspired a major Hollywood feature film - what was it?

Double Indemnity?

quote: Leo Enticknap
What product did Eastman Kodak cease to manufacture in February 1950?

Nitrate film?

quote: Leo Enticknap
Foxfire in Hollywood and The Ladykillers in Britain were the last feature films shot using which process?

Three-strip Technicolor

I just can't think of the German director. [Confused]

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Michael Coate
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posted 01-19-2008 10:27 AM

quote: Leo Enticknap
The German director Detlef Sierck began his career in Nazi Germany, directing romantic melodrama propaganda films which stressed the importance of family values and women's role as a homemaker. He later emigrated to Hollywood, and became well known for a series of films he directed starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. By what name was he known in America?

Douglas Sirk

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Richard P. May
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posted 01-19-2008 10:40 AM

I have used this one for a SMPTE meeting, and nobody got the answer.

In the 1952 MGM film, THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, the movie producer (played by Kirk Douglas) and director (played by Barry Sullivan) take their new horror movie to a theater for a sneak preview. They rush into the lobby carrying cans of film, and to the projection booth.

A. What year is it?
B. What's wrong with the booth?

RPM

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Leo Enticknap
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posted 01-20-2008 06:18 AM

Hillary & Michael: Bugger! I'll have to think up some truly evil ones...

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Michael Coate
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posted 01-20-2008 09:28 AM

quote: quoting myself
Well, Joe already correctly answered all of mine.

Okay, okay, the one question of mine that Joe did not answer seriously/correctly was the one that asked for the film that won the most Oscars without winning Best Picture.

The answer: "Cabaret" (It won eight, none of which were for Best Picture; every other film with eight or more Oscars included one for Best Picture.)

And here's a new one to chew on...

What film has the record for having its trailer issued the furthest in advance of the film's release?

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Bill Enos
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posted 01-20-2008 09:49 PM

Margaret Hamilton's stunt double in Oz.
Betty Danko

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Mike Heenan
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posted 01-20-2008 09:54 PM

Coate: I think ID4?

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 01-21-2008 09:24 AM

Wasn't ID4's trailer first played during the Super Bowl of that year? If so, there have been lotsa movies since then where the trailers came out sooner than that. We had some Harry Potter trailer about 9 or 10 months before the movie came out.

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Mike Heenan
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posted 01-21-2008 10:09 AM

You're probably right. Coate said trailer, but didn't specify as to whether he meant teaser or regular full length trailer. But I assume he meant the teaser.

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