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Get ready to bathe your soul in the warm glow of nostalgia as Leonard Nimoy croons "Once I Smiled" from the album "The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy" over clips from Star Trek illustrating Spock's brief and bittersweet romances. Then marvel as William Shatner frantically sings "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" acccompanied by clips of Kirk womanizing his way across the galaxy. This was too good to pass up.
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Added: 3rd October 2007
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Milky the marvellous milking cow from 1978. I didn't know these existed until I discovered this clip. It drinks water and gives milk, useful.
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Added: 19th November 2007
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I remember getting all excited as a boy, hoping that if I said Shazam I too would have these powers. Still trying. This was a staple of the Saturday morning Cinema kids club at my local Odeon. How the floor boards ever stood up to 200 screaming and stomping kids, I'll never know.
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Added: 1st January 2008
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One of my favorite scenes from The Man Who Came to Dinner, starring Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Billie Burke and the marvelous Monty Woolley.
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Added: 19th May 2009
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In the early 80s, fresh off the directors "Apocalypse Now" spectacle, Francis Coppola decided to make a romantic drama all in his own studio. But the deal was, he'd be using technicians that he wanted to work with, all under his complete control, done inside a portion of an aeroplane. This deal would included Coppola's complete ownership of the 1982 film too. Paramount Pictures though would be handling the distribution. This Paramount deal was shot when the studio wondered what kind of movie it was at the critical premiere. Columbia Pictures was then brought in to handle the release of the ill-fated films acceptance. This was no trouble-fee production as you can tell. The filming budget increased beyond the filmmakers expectations, this which destroyed him financially. Frederick Forrest, Terri Garr, Raul Julia, and Nastassia Kinski - all were brought in to star in the directors feature. But once word got out to the public, critical comments soaked the Zoetrope film with disappointing reviews, right across the board. Mostly pointing towards the $25 million dollar budget, ignoring the actual photography advances shown throughout the film. With this afoot, "One From the Heart" was sent out of the cinema only after a few days. It was a massive set back for Coppola at the time as the film had no chance of finding an audience. Its burdened financial legacy has taken Francis years to overcome. The groundbreaking films production recoopment was met with his future directorial efforts throughout the eighties and nineties. Remember the film "Jack"? The facts are that the motion picture is a technical marvel of colours, effects, all done under Coppola's expertise, focusing with the art of his love for big screen entertainment set in his hands. With his own studio effort, he developed new ways to capture the scene using video and film together. This would enable Francis to cut the scenes during the actual shooting. This progressive method which wasn't heard of at all in Hollywood at the time. Many MTV videos were later shot using Coppola's unfamiliar way of never-before-seen motion photography. With "One from the Heart," the director now had inspired professional movie and television directors with technical cinematically advanced images, captured to show how a story can be shown on a theatre or televised screen. With Coppola's vision, he brought a complete new way to mark the start of music video productions with his original playback method.
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Added: 24th July 2009
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"Bennie and the Jets" was a Bernie Taupin song from a now renowned album that spent two whole months at number one in America. The 70s vinyl masterpiece is still bought over and over on CD now. This is due to its extended re-issues. Originally intended to be recorded in Jamaica, but later cancelled over the lack of studio equipment and country unrest. The hired staff responsible for the entire album were without any doubt in their mind unsafe. Elton was relieved to be able to get outta the Jamaican surroundings. Elton and the band decided to take themselves back over the Atlantic to a better equipped studio. A top-line recording studio they previously recorded in without turmoil. The mansion-sized studio was famous for many recordings. Artists such as Pink Floyd, The Bee Gees, and David Bowie brought out what is universally accepted as great albums from weeks in there. The particular studio, just conveniently located outside the city of Paris, France, situated right in a white chateau, alike Jackson's Neverland; which was more relaxing for the band to create something better than they had ever done previously.
With being surrounded by island crime threats, Elton and Bernie accomplished absolutely nothing in Jamaica. As it turned out, the result the team had presented to their record company was something that had various songs. Elton and Bernie's compositions had really no real connection to each other when listened. The appearance of a new Elton LP anywhere at this time was an event. Tens of thousands of albums were bought monthly. Almost by mistake, music fans noticed the unique 45 "stand-out" single.
"Bennie and the Jets," shot automatically up the crowded music charts the following year of '74. We all know, the early 70s was a "hot-bed" of fantastic music being ushered out monthly. Bernie Taupin's content filled song captured a generation successfully. With this classic song, if you carefully listen in on the studio version of "Bennie and the Jets" you will hear a series of enhancing sound effects that blended into it like water into a teabag. Elton was lucky to have hired an experienced, supportive album producer. Gus Dudgeon, who being aside him had a marvellous ear for making radio songs fuller and more ambient. And was known for being able to get the correct instruments in-line with the others to create an album of Bernie Taupin's lyrics flow into something long remembered. Gus Dudgeon wanted this LP to be uplifting considering the songs were quite gloomy in parts.
Bernie wrote down a visual-minded album for Elton to compose music with.
The producer created with the two an already hit-filled album of their combined songs. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" has over the years become Elton John's top-selling album. In this seemingly live version, the Saturday TV program 'Soul Train' shows "Bennie and the Jets" found an audience with Black America. This was thanks to a bit of luck from a music insider who had an ear for cross-over hits. Elton had thought the song would never be able to capture radio as there were already so many songs he had thought were so much better. For some reason or another "Rhythm and Blues" stations were comfortable playing the 45 single instantaneously. The likely reason behind it was the continuance of the beat in the recording. It made it 'radio friendly,' that was really appealing in 1973/4 as it sounded fresh and new amongst all other songs at the time on the Billboard chart. Elton was composing music for Bernie without any effort. Both had created so much music that "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" was released as a double longplay release. This was chiefly responsible for getting it much airplay on FM radio stations. In this clip of the song, Elton kind of got carried away with the audience and dancers. Elton is known to really make different versions of certain sang from the heart songs during live sold-out concerts. He is a master showman, and carries a lot of musical history behind his career with writer Bernie Taupin.
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Added: 3rd August 2009
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