25-05-2018, 11:57 PM
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I watch or record Talking Pictures quite a lot. It's a bit of a bugger when you have to watch stuff from the fifties and sixties to be entertained. Out of interest, I recorded the first ever Old Mother Riley shown on TV (1937) entitled Bridget's night out as we used to watch the reruns on TV in the sixties (Lucan who played OMR died in 1954). What a load of crap
- makes you wonder what we found funny in those days. 
26-05-2018, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Judd
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I watch or record Talking Pictures quite a lot. It's a bit of a bugger when you have to watch stuff from the fifties and sixties to be entertained. Out of interest, I recorded the first ever Old Mother Riley shown on TV (1937) entitled Bridget's night out as we used to watch the reruns on TV in the sixties (Lucan who played OMR died in 1954). What a load of crap - makes you wonder what we found funny in those days.
I know what you mean. I was watching an old 'On the buses' the other day. I used to roll around laughing at it when I was a kid. What the....?
27-05-2018, 09:44 AM
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I can listen to old music from the past millennium, without moaning about the state of current music. Similarly when visiting an art gallery.Isn't it perfectly acceptable to treat TV & cinema in exactly the same way. If it is good enough, it will stand the test of time and become timeless.
I love Talking Pictures, a channel British TV has been crying out for ever since BBC2 and C4 stopped showing Saturday afternoon and late night classic films.
I watched Cabaret for the umpteenth time last night and it hasn't lost anything in the 40+ years since it was made.
30-05-2018, 07:20 PM
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My husband loves Talking Pictures, he's a big fan of b & w films. I saw Portrait of Jennie again the other week and that was still good, but for me all these films seem very stilted and, well, unrealistic. Everyone is either frightfully posh or else Gor' Blimey working class, young men who are supposed to be "yoofs" look about 30, police stations never seem to have any phone calls - and don't get me started on Brief Encounter ....30-05-2018, 08:42 PM
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Talking pictures is the only channel my dad will watch really, he doesn't like todays movies with all the bad language in and can relate to the movies and programmes of old, I think its a good channel to have. I've seen land of the giants on there and the big valley, I have to admit, I still like them.|
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