obit, I'm getting the colorized BEST YEARS right after the colorized KANE. I can hardly wait to see what color the litt
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escalera-2 — 17 years ago(April 24, 2008 11:25 AM)
"TARP" was one of my favorites for along time. The amoeba with the whirrling eyeball was freaky. There's another one I should like to see again as well (still haven't viewed "Caltitki").
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escalera-2 — 17 years ago(April 23, 2008 12:54 PM)
and I don't mean to nag, hobnob, but I really would like the first volume of your series of books out soon. I believe many others would enjoy them as well.
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obit1 — 17 years ago(April 23, 2008 05:51 PM)
"Thanks for that. It is lots o' fun to read your posts and obit (is that from The Outer Limits I wonder?) and that's what movies should be about some fun. "
When I got online for the first time (YEARS ago!!!) I had to come up with a "tag" and I thought of the Outer Limits episode, O.B.I.T.
"Are you watching itor is it watching you?"
I loved the idea that if I turned my computer off, someone or something, could be watching from the other side.
So, escalera-2, you have hit the nail right on the head!!! Your year's supply of Turtle Wax is in the mail (Hopefully you have a turtle)
The correct title to the special effects house in question was PROJECT, singular, but everybody, including some title houses out here, would get it wrong at times. It's natural to confuse that, because you'd think that they worked on many "projects" but according to Baar, Warren's idea for the title was to show that no matter what project they worked on, there was no limit to what they could do.
Tim got me into CASCADE PICTURES where I worked for a split second animating on sets with Dave Allen and Jim Danforth, so I am very appreciative of that. Baar died in the mid 1970's of a brain tumor.
Tim Baar had ALL of Bill Brace's glass paintings from the Time Machine and when he(Tim) died, his daughter was calling up everybody who had worked with him, wanting to know if they would buy the stuff. The paintings now reside in the BOB BURNS collection.with the real Time Machine too. Just where they should be.
Good Lord! The Time Machine! Boy am I WAAAAAAAY off course on this thread.
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escalera-2 — 17 years ago(April 23, 2008 07:35 PM)
Well, I would have thought it WAS "Projects", smart guy that I am. That's interesting background.
Dave Allen was a nice guy. I met him when he ws directing his segment for Charlie Band's "Dungeon Master".
Until tonight, I did not know that Paul Blaisdell was involved in "Teenagers from Outer Space" (my attempt to bring us back to the title in question, although I have enjoyed the sidetracking!) as I was about to mention that I thought the Special Effects were superior for a low budget movie. I was going to compare the efforts to the homegrown efforts of Mr. Blausdell and checking the IMDb Main Details right ther was his name ("uncredited"). I'll be.
One of the things that I like about movies like this are the flashes of ingenuity like putting a tiny mirror on the end of a cap pistol for effect.I think Paul Blaisdell was a genius. He took a bunch of foam rubber and plastic tubing and turned out some great monsters. His wife, Jackie, was a gem.
Now, we've joked about the budget for this and other such movies being 25 cents and OK they had a few dollars more but it was still a shoestring budget and look here, all these years later we still have fun discussing the film. Sure, it only ran 86 minutes, but it still entertains.
(The great thing about The Outer Limits and OBIT was that it did make the viewer look again or to see everyday things a different way)
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hobnob53 — 17 years ago(April 23, 2008 08:32 PM)
You know, I'd occasionally pondered whither you'd gotten that moniker, obit, and at some point the OL episode "O.B.I.T." crossed my mind, but I never really thought that might be it. Congratulations to escalera on hitting it right away!
(Okay, but how come "obit1"? Was obit0 taken? Hey, now there's a coolly mysterious, inscrutably intergalactic B-movie space nameObit Zero. Feel free!)
And in between my doubting inquiry and reading your response I checked and discovered it was indeed Project Unlimited, singular. They did some cool stuff for OL, the Zanti misfits, that fish man from "Tourist Attraction", all those alien make-ups. Daystar Productions. Also, I infinitely preferred that dramatic, doom-epochal music from the first season, by Dominic Frontiere, to the sickly-eerie sound of season two's theme. My favorite episode, however, was the monster-less two-parter from season two, "The Inheritors", with Robert Duvall and the great, too-soon-departed and honestly lamented Steve Ihnat. Call me a sucker for a sweet and sentimental (and somewhat sad) story, but I really liked that episode. I always thought it would have been a natural for a big screen version by Spielberg. It's the sort of story I think he'd find appealing.
I'm always gratified when props and other things from a film are reunited into one collection, like you say obit, where they belong, as long as it's with someone who truly treasures the stuff, not simply some "investor". So good for Bob Burns holding so much from THE TIME MACHINE. It still astounds me, how the studios not just threw away but actively destroyed so much of their valuable, painstakingly made props and other film assets. A case in point is our friend Paramount's destruction of all three Martian war machines from our pal Pal's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS! They were among the greatest props ever constructed they shot real rays (sort of) and stuff! Sleek and exquisite craftsmanship. And Paramount melted every one of them down for the copper! Can you imagine what one of them would be worth today? Even if all three still existed? Pity George didn't grab them and sneak them out the front gate after wrapping. Criminal waste!
Now, how much am I bid for this leftover lobster from TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE? Comes complete with bib sewn from Derek's space uniform! (Yes, not just any old uniform a SPACE uniform. Wooooooo) -
hobnob53 — 17 years ago(April 23, 2008 09:10 PM)
Oh, my friend, one day the nagging may produce something. Or you and I and obit might collaborate. Why not publish our IMDb posts for starters?
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obit1 — 17 years ago(April 23, 2008 10:21 PM)
"Okay, but how come "obit1"? Was obit0 taken? Hey, now there's a coolly mysterious, inscrutably intergalactic B-movie space nameObit Zero. Feel free!)"
Someone did have obitME! LOL
When I moved from the Alto Nido apartments to my high rise in Hancock Park I got reset up, but the new provider said that "obit" wouldn't work for me (as "somebody" already had that and it wasn't showing up as a usable i.d.) and that I had to have it changed.I decided. "obit1" and it's been that way for the last 5 years I think.
Of course that somebody must've been me cause I had obit for about 8 years before. Oh well. Nobody said that me OR Comcast were geniusesNow I have Time/Warner. Big deal.
Oh yeah, I forgot about Blaisdell working on the little gun.
I am a BIG Paul Blaisdell fan.
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hobnob53 — 17 years ago(April 24, 2008 10:23 AM)
IT CONQUERED THE WORLD maybe P.B.'s best!
THE BEAST WITH A MILLION EYESTHE SHE-CREATUREDAY THE WORLD ENDEDNOT OF THIS EARTHIT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACEall with beings designed by Paul Blaisdell, and sometimes acted by him. INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN? The giant hypodermic needle in THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN? Okay, we'll overlook those. But the design of FROM HELL IT CAME?? HmmmPaul, Paul, Paul. The curse of the Tabanga looms large!
Come to think of it, Paul would have done a better job creating some sort of monster for TEENAGERS than the silly shadow-lobster. Maybe lots of smaller Gargons scuttling over the Earth? But then the herds might have been harder to control. I keep forgetting critical plot points like that. -
escalera-2 — 17 years ago(April 25, 2008 08:26 AM)
You're right again, hob, it is getting a mite difficult to follow the thread. Besides we've worn out the original Poster's comment and gone far afield. A great field, but way off the subject.
Perhaps we can take the party elsewhere.
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hobnob53 — 17 years ago(April 25, 2008 09:27 AM)
Yes. I'd say we've gotten our nickel's worth on this two-bit thread. What, is this like page 19 or something? I'm open to alternate sites, and will try to think of one, but have to be off now. (As if this thread weren't sufficient proof of how "off" I am already.) Let's pick on somebody else our own size, just notify via this poor old thread!
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escalera-2 — 17 years ago(April 25, 2008 12:43 PM)
Agreed.
By the way, since Bob Burns and George Pal's production of H.G. Wells "The Time Machine" was mentioned in this conversation, it is of some interest that the Machine itself will be featured in the next episode of a TV sit-com called Well, now, I don't know what it is called. Something about some "nerds" who live across the hall from a beautiful young woman.
It will be on whenever it comes on the week of the 27th. It is a CBS presentation.
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hobnob53 — 17 years ago(April 25, 2008 06:20 PM)
Did I say "demented"? Oy. Okay, agreed, but I did go back to my last post just above to add another adjective to describe the thread, in the first sentence, that occurred to me later on and I couldn't pass up. Maybe one more fitting than demented!
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escalera-2 — 17 years ago(April 25, 2008 07:13 PM)
Yes. I'd say we've gotten our nickel's worth on this two-bit thread. What, is this like page 19 or something? I'm open to alternate sites, and will try to think of one, but have to be off now. (As if this thread weren't sufficient proof of how "off" I am already.) Let's pick on somebody else our own size, just notify via this poor old thread!
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escalera-2 — 17 years ago(April 25, 2008 09:42 PM)
25 cents, Not much can be bought for a quarter that can bring along as much fun, eh? Sure, a newspaper has sports, crossword puzzles, and the funnies if you can still find one for a quarter!
See you around the IMDb, tt.