Subj : Science Fiction movies on
To   : ED VANCE
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Fri Dec 11 2020 16:48:18

>  DW> Tonight on TCM at 8pm USET, they are showing the classic "The Day the
>  DW> Earth Stood Still," a movie about a pacifist alien and his robot who
>  DW> insist that the human race end their aggression and warfare.  I have
>  DW> heard good things about it but have never seen it before.  Will be
>  DW> recording it tonight.

> Did You enjoy watching The Day The Earth Stood Still?

> I was a youngster when I saw the movie the first time.
> I saw it on Over The Air TV a long time ago.

Yes, I did!  I would recommend it for anyone who has not seen it.  Very
good for an early '50's SciFi movie.  The effects did not look near as fake
as several movies and shows from up into the 1960's even.

WDRB, and others, used to show old movies like that more often than they do
now.  I can remember seeing the Giant Mantis movie more than once on
Louisville TV back in the 1980's.

> One day I told a Representative from the Cable TV Co. that came to my house
> that I didn't want the priviledge of paying for shows that I didn't want to
> watch on TV.

Where I live now, I pretty much have to have cable in order to get the over
the air stations.  That was not true during the days of analog, at least
not at my first house here.  I did have an antenna that pulled most of the
Louisville and Lexington stations, and sometimes a station from Cincinnati.

When they first went digital, I was still able to pull many of them. Once they
went full digital, most stations lowered their power output.  Between that,
and moving to the Lexington side of town, I lost all the antenna stations.

> I have seen some Godzilla shows in the last Year or so on TV.
> I still think of the TV Commercial (GIECO, I think) that says:
> "Here Lizard, Lizard, Lizard" and later said OOPS! when Godzilla appeared.

There may have been a GIECO commercial, but the one I remember like that
was for Taco Bell.  They were promoting the movie at their restaurants, and
it was the Taco Bell Chihuahua that was trying to bait the lizard.  In real
life, Chihuahuas were bread to chase lizards.  My sister had one that
looked very much like the Taco Bell dog (before there was a Taco Bell dog)
that loved chasing lizards.  Sometimes she'd catch one by the tail, and it
would shed the tail to get away.  We had to keep her from swallowing them.


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