the greatest advert kodak never made...

Alan;

I remember that clip, I watched the show and this scene brought chills to my spine and tears to my eyes, it was amazing.

It was also very emotional for me as the Carousel slide projector in the scene is the identical one my father owned, and now I have it!

I can still remember the smell of the screen when my Dad would take out the projector and show us some slides he shot

Thanks so much for posting

Paul

 

Where's the American Dream gone?
We had kodachrome, panatomic x and a general state of well-being.
Now we have cheap digicams, a credit crunch, and a possible global default...

 

I hope Mad Men makes it in the ratings. It's the best thing on television.

I'm just old enough to retain childhood memories of the look and feel of the early sixties. After Eisenhower but before things went to hell in Vietnam. They have that milieu spot-on.

 

I have one of those and still use it (or, at least, still have slides in the trays). It does the rest? - hah! Those little metal slide frames get bent and jam up all the time. The accompanying clunking noise makes you cringe at the thought you're about to spend the next minute or two trying to get it going again.

Dan

 

Aww it's removed. Too bad.

 

You can get all the Mad Men episodes via the CTV.ca website.

 

Which episode was this clip from?

 

"... in Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound."
I wish I had written that.
(just give me time... I will. )

Very powerful clip.

Cheers,

 

Amazing

 

Sorry, I have to disagree. It's a saccharine coated sugar pill of sentimentality that too much US TV and films rely on.

 

I don't think Mad Men is saccharine in general. Weirdly (counter?)nostalgic in some places, sure. But these are a highly dysfunctional group of men who somehow figure out how to hook mainstream people into buying products. The mainstream people come across as oddly numb and oblivious to the emotional propaganda that the agency produces. Everyone drinks and smokes profusely and has two or three deep dark secrets. Women are treated awfully; children too, and the show throws in a few real news events now and then just to give us some minor relief in knowing that this whole thing is set back then, not now. As a gen-xer I would certainly not say that the show evokes saccharine; it is amusingly disturbing... more like lime than saccharine

Anyway, Mark, you might prefer Breaking Bad, which is less focused on saccharine than other chemicals

P.S. Alan, I wouldn't deny Mark his opinion nor resort to generalizations just because he didn't care for one little clip...

 

:rolleyes:

 

This was a pic from a photography industry trade show some years ago, when "viral marketing" was the thing.

 

You're new here aren't you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_(TV_series)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire

 

I prefer British drama to the formulaic crap that gets shipped over from the US. Shakey camera work (woo, how original) split screen (gosh, never seen that before), graphic violence (whoop de doo).

Six Feet Under was total crap, it was well named because that was where it belonged. Then you send us Lost, more crap that has no plot and is made up as it goes along. The Wire I've seen dozens of times in many different forms, nothing original there. Dexter, gosh its Monk but he's a reformed serial killer.

There was more originality in the opening credits of The Office than I've ever seen in anything that came across the Atlantic.

 

I agree: American broadcast television isn't worth watching. And the situation isn't very much improved by throwing in the cable channels. What bothers me most, however, is not the entertainment offerings, but the popular entertainment which passes for news reporting these days.