Something Old, Nothing New

This may be a bit of a pointless film-grammar question, but hear me out. For a long time, the rule in most films was that if one scene happe...

The musical portions of this episode suffered pretty heavily on DVD/Hulu (though "Boogie Oogie Oogie" is one of only three or four...

Some good comments in my previous post, both in terms of correcting me (it was wrong to talk as if Hitchcock was more leery of location shoo...

Comments on a previous post bring up a good point about special effects: it seems like every Hitchcock movie has a special effect or process...

Among the late '50s Famous cartoons written by Irv Spector, "Finnegan's Flea" isn't the most disturbing -- not while ...

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown is not in the Peanuts '70s collection being released tomorrow (though it will be in a volume 2 if they ...

The great video on the special effects of Bringing Up Baby was deleted along with the user's account, but fortunately he uploaded it ag...

This is sort of a combination of a "request" post and a "my random thoughts" post. First, the random thought: ever sin...

I didn't mean to do another post in my unofficial "the obscure live-action films of Frank Tashlin" series so soon, but I final...

I was talking to someone about a subject I've brought up earlier, how unfortunate it is that Richard Lester is now widely considered a ...

One thing I wanted to add to my post on the different attitudes to stereo mixing in different types of music in the '60s: one thing that...

I could get a better-quality version of this picture if I bought it off Ebay, but I'm not a very good memorabilia-buyer. Still, this pro...

I've become really interested in the ongoing series of Chuck Jones' letters to his daughter Linda, being posted one at a time at his...

File this in the "Posts about a not-so-great movie from a not-so-great era" category: I've written before about Sheree North, ...

So Roman Polanski is in the news again. I don't feel like writing a post about that, because, yuck, but here's something I notice ab...

I got a request for this one, though apart from the beginning it doesn't have much you won't see on Hulu (but if you're in Canad...

In my recent Bob Bolling profile , I noted that he tended to change the designs of the characters depending on what kind of story he was doi...

He linked to my old post about P.G. Wodehouse, but even if he hadn't, I'd recommend that you look at Ray Givran's post about the...

North By Northwest is on now (I wonder if the upcoming Blu-Ray release will finally correct the mis-framing that cuts off the full name on ...

This is the 60th anniversary of "Fast and Furry-ous," and while the Chuck Jones site has the early Road Runner/Coyote model sheet ...