#av geeks

[thinkbolt]

The Crane's Magic Gift (Coronet/Gakken, 1967)

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[pixiebeepopples]

Today at the museum I was just heading towards an indoor bench to wait for my dad when I saw this gorgeous cargo jet coming in for a landing.  I shrieked, “NO WAY!,” as I bolted outside and ran up a grassy mound just to see it come in for a landing.  This was the first time I ever saw one land and then it taxied back up our way.  It seriously is so huge, even this smaller version of the An-225.

Oh, this is the Antonov 124-100 Ruslan by the way. :)

[gold-standard]

Todays' was a very "eye-opening" programm about commercials. And the tricks they use! 1:07:42- 1:22:05

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[dr-archeville]

Before there was video tape and streaming TV,16 millimeter film was the standard. The forgotten format has found a new home...

Raleigh, N.C. — There are plenty of television streaming services you can binge-watch while trapped at home during the stay at home order.

However there's one you may have overlooked.  The site has thousands of titles to offer.

A/V Geeks, a Facebook page run by Skip Elsheimer, delivers old educational, promotional and industrial films each weekday at noon.

“I'm trying to make the best of the situation,” Elsheimer said, “I love showing the films that I collect.”

The Museum on Modern Art in New York recently included A/V Geeks on its list of resources for "any cinephile’s needs."

The MOMA writer offered this recommendation: "Spend a most pleasurable lunch hour with an always surprising grab-bag of 16mm films, drawn from the collections of the A/V Geeks."

He has 27,000 films in his collection and has digitized 3,000 of them.

“This is a hobby that's gotten way out of control,” he said, “I started collecting films 20 years ago.”

His collection appeals to both old and young.

“I like it because it's a little bit of a distraction, and pulls you out of current events, and let's you be just a little nostalgic,” he said, citing some films from the 1970s.

"With some of my younger viewers, they don't know the 70's, they weren't born yet, so they get to dip their toe into that time," he said.

The films run weekdays at 1 p.m., with Elsheimer hosting a 90 minute showing.  You can find them on Facebook at A/V Geeks.

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Charter Goes Chic ....at Thomas Cook Airlines 

Charter Goes Chic ….at Thomas Cook Airlines 

Thomas Cook Airlines is one of the biggest leisure airlines in the UK, with a fleet of 31 planes, flying from 20 airports across the country to over to 60 destinations around the world.  This is my long haul experience flying non stop from London Gatwick to Cape Town, South Africa, on a fully refurbished Thomas Cook branded A330. Welcome onboard ! A330 Thomas Cook two cabin seat map ( Long Haul )…

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[thinkbolt]

I love the passive-aggressive title of this film.

[dr-archeville]

Ooh -- after my interview Wednesday afternoon, I’ll already be in Raleigh, so I could get tasty noms for dinner, then go by the Colony Theatre to see the AV Geeks presentation of Shock Value: The Movie:

Using New York Times writer Jason Zinoman’s book Shock Value as inspiration, USC School of Cinematic Arts archivist Dino Everett assembled a feature-length anthology of SCA student works from the late ’60s and ’70s entitled Shock Value: The Movie—How Dan O’Bannon and Some USC Outsiders Helped Invent Modern Horror. The anthology features recently uncovered and previously unseen student films by O’Bannon (Alien, Total Recall) and John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape from New York)—including their very first pairing in 1968, Good Morning Dan!—along with films by their classmates Terence Winkless (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), Alec Lorimore (an Oscar-nominated documentary producer) and Charles Adair (Bleeders), to show how USC was a major birthplace for the redefining of the horror genre in the 1960s. Admission $5

Could be a full day!