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Post by yanmacca on Nov 26, 2018 14:10:38 GMT
Hi John, welcome on board!
Regards Ian.
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Post by yanmacca on Feb 16, 2019 12:09:11 GMT
I see we have a new member in our midst, welcome ccrae.
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Post by yanmacca on Mar 15, 2019 11:24:43 GMT
Another new member has graced our camp, welcome elwoodpdowd.
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Post by Beth on Mar 16, 2019 3:36:04 GMT
Another new member has graced our camp, welcome elwoodpdowd. I wonder if he brought Harvey with him.
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Post by yanmacca on Mar 16, 2019 10:22:24 GMT
Beth are you suggesting that I have been led down the garden path?
To be honest I never looked at the name, I just copied and pasted it.
It wouldn't have made any difference though because I have never heard of the character before, but it sounds like an old TV show and with me being the youngest founder, I probably wouldn't have been born when it was shown.
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Post by quincannon on Mar 16, 2019 10:50:52 GMT
It's a movie "Harvey" with Jimmy Stewart playing Elwood P Doud, and Harvey was his invisible friend a six foot eight rabbit. One of Stewart's best movies
When I was in OCS Candidate Harvey was there to keep us all straight. When our beds were torn up for not being properly made, it was Candidate Harvey. When our uniforms were not properly displayed in our lockers, or our shoes and boots not properly shined, they were thrown all in a big pile, along with every one else's, it was Candidate Harvey. You get the idea.
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Post by yanmacca on Mar 16, 2019 14:48:19 GMT
Chuck, That is a movie that has past me by or I have simply forgot about it. I like Stewarts movies, but a giant Rabbit! I suppose it will be a better movie the Francis the talking Mule.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2019 15:09:11 GMT
Hello,
Hope my Avatar works, I took it from Weir Point with a zoom lens in 2015, couldn't make much out even on a clear day.
Elwood,
By the way he's a Pooka,"P-O-O-K-A. Pooka. From old Celtic mythology, a fairy spirit in animal form, always very large. The pooka appears here and there, now and then, to this one and that one. A benign but mischievous creature. Very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and how are you, Mr. Wilson.
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Post by yanmacca on Mar 16, 2019 15:33:54 GMT
I am glad you made an apearence Elwood. Good to see you getting in your first posts and I can speak for every one here that we are hoping you post some more soon. Ian.
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Post by quincannon on Mar 16, 2019 17:57:19 GMT
Actually Ian, it is a very good movie. Not what you came to expect from Stewart, but it shows off just how good and actor he was.
Next thing you will tell me that you haven't seen Stewart in "After the Thin Man", the only one I can remember where Stewart plays the bad guy.
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Post by yanmacca on Mar 16, 2019 20:12:29 GMT
Never seen that one either Chuck.
Did you know that Stewart and Henry Fonda shared an apartment together and their favorite past time was building model airplanes.
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Post by quincannon on Mar 16, 2019 22:18:45 GMT
Knew that they did share an apartment in their early years as actors, and were lifelong friends. Did not know about the model airplanes though. That would not surprise me about Stewart given the fact that he was an accomplished pilot, even before he entered the service.
Another model airplane builder was Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona,whose collection of self built models is rumored to be in the hundreds, if not thousands. Maybe Steve knows where the collection is now?
There was a fellow from my other life off this board, who recently passed away. He collected passenger ship models and his collection was into the hundreds. I am hoping that collection goes to a museum somewhere, such as the Merchant Marine Academy.
There is a Jimmy Stewart classic on tonight at 1800 my time. Broken Arrow, followed by Fort Apache. Will watch both.
You need to watch the entire "Thin Man Series" starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Like Charlie Chan movies they are just fun.
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Post by yanmacca on Mar 17, 2019 10:18:11 GMT
I am going in the loft later and I will check on my figures and models. I haven't opened the trays for years and all this talk about model planes has planted the seed.
Talking about TV series, I have stumbled across and entire ww2 series on you tube. It covers a US squad in ww2 and apparently it ran for years in the states but I don’t recall it ever being shown over here. The show is simply titled "Combat" and the episodes are in good quality.
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Mar 17, 2019 10:37:00 GMT
Ah, yes Vic Morrow. He later died on a movie set with a kid.
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Post by yanmacca on Mar 17, 2019 13:41:48 GMT
The series itself looks like it was made on a tight budjet, each episode last around 50 minutes. I have checked a few out and the picture quiality is surprisingly good for an old movie file, maybe someone has up loaded them straight from a DVD box set or something. I noticed too, that the first couple of seasons start off in black and white and then the later ones revert to colour. It ran from 1962 to 1967, so as I said earlier, I don't remember this program being shown in the UK, as I can recall many of the sixties US shows, like the Invaders, Batman, Voyage to the bottom of the sea and lost in space. Ah those were the days!
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