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Searchers Far and W-I-D-E

Clicking here will open a previous posting in a new window.  Start the video clip there and let it run a bit before starting the one on this page.  You’re watching an example of how some widescreen movies are actually cropped regular format movies.

See how the composition of the uncropped version seems to have empty space at the top and bottom?  Some old comic strips did something similar to this.

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This posting is mostly an excuse for me to play with wide format video capturing.  But it also provides an opportunity to show a bit more of The Searchers.  I’ve spliced together four scenes that represent what I feel is the core of the movie.  Ethan’s search for his … niece?

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WOZ Note

The Wonderful Wizard of OZ should be the title of the old audio book I’m posting, but the LP album is named after the movie, The WIZARD of OZ.  Although the publisher shortened the title of the book, the adaptation is unabridged.  There are, however, numerous minor changes from the original text, obviously done for the sake of readability.

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Chapter III. How Dorothy saved the Scarecrow.

Audio Adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of OZ, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1961

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Don’t be Square

Previously, I posted a song from an old record that appeared in a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.  Here’s the scene

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