[Elecraft] Klaatu

[Lu Romero]

We interrupt this contest to bring you a very OT topic on
the Elecraft List...

The Day the Earth Stood Still... A very well made film
created by very talented professional filmakers!  It was my
senior thesis film in Cinema Production in college (Soap
Opera production was my TV Production thesis to impress my
then YL, now XYL ha ha!)

One of my favorite parts is when the folks in the boarding
house are listening to the news, and the scene cuts to
Michael Rennie's silohuette dark against the door with the
shadows from lights across the background.  Then he walks
into the light and is perfectly lit.  

An exquisitely crafted scene!  

This movie is extremely well made from a cinema craft
standpoint, the reason it stands the test of time so well
(the music is a bit cheesy with all the Therimin stuff,
tho).  The attention to detail paid to the props and
background content (like the equations) is breathtaking for
what was a rather simple journeyman studio production on a
limited budget.

The remake with Keanu Reves fell way short of the mark set
by the original. 

Dont get me started on this film, I wont stop!  Its been 37
years since I dissected it but it remains high on my list of
favorites. 

Now back to our regularly scheduled contest....

-lu-w4lt-
K3 # 3192

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Message: 37
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:47:00 -0700
From: "Kevin Rock" <kevinr at coho.net>
Subject: [Elecraft] Klaatu
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    I watched the movie about a month ago.  The special
effects hold up  
well and the story is interesting.  I remember the first
time I saw it but  
viewing it again was fun.  I have always wondered about the
damaged gift  
to the nations.  Oh, and the mass of equations on the
professor's  
blackboard?  I stopped the movie on those frames and went
through them.   
They were accurate descriptions of orbital mechanics.  I am
always annoyed  
when math is flashed on a screen in a movie and it is
incorrect.  I was  
pleasantly surprised when I worked through this blackboard's
worth and  
found them accurate and entertaining.
    73,
       Kevin.  KD5ONS