Month: November 2016

Film clip, “Indochine” 1992, Catherine Deneuve and Linh Dan Pham

000085 “According to the text accompanying the clip on YouTube: “Catherine Deneuve with Linh Dan Pham, in Indochine (Oscar, Best Foreign Film, 1992) – a story that chronicles the separation between a wealthy French landowner (Catherine Deneuve) and her adopted daughter (Linh Dan Pham) which intertwines with France’s loss of

Laurel & Hardy Dance Tango in a Movie, 1937

Ray Batchelor writes: “A clip from the 1937 Laurel and Hardy movie, “Way Out West” in which the Avalon Boys sing “At the Ball, That’s All”. This is the link to clip – be patient… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAmb4dVJAmU One comment left on YouTube (link below) says “August 29th 2016 is the 100th

The Addams Family’s Gomez and Lurch Tango Lesson, US TV, c1965

Ray Batchelor writes: “According to Wikipedia, The Addams Family began as a strip cartoon by Charles Addams in 1938, graduating(?) to TV for two series between 1964 and 1966. It strikes me as interesting that – on present showing – there seem to be far more cartoons and comic images