dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

Sounds like CNN copped anothers picture and now the reality of the situation is catching up with them.

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

an getting it free too. more likely.

krgatlgm Loc: Las Vegas, Nv

Looks like the "You have a nice camera. I bet you take really good photographs" mentality has found a home at CNN. No wonder their ratings suck...... :cry: :cry: :cry:

Danilo Loc: Las Vegas

Ratings suck...income declines...cut budget...ratings suck more...income declines more...cut budget more... ratings su...

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

What are you try to say Danilo.. Lol

Danilo Loc: Las Vegas

Never been a big Turner fan, ever since colorizing all the old MGM classics. The high point of his life was his divorce.

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

I got yuh

LARRYR. Loc: Saint Martinville, La.

My stomach is starting to hurt, it's good to be awaken
with a good laugh, thanks Danilo, who says the truth
doesn't hurt.

ratings su....

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

Wow...Photojournalists at CNN are like blacksmiths...

davidrb Loc: Half way there on the 45th Parallel

CNN is trying to do to photogs what the airlines tried to do with pilots. Airline officials began to believe that they were the revenue producers and pilots were over-paid, evil necessities. We called these people "bean counters" because that is all they could do. These persons used to shuffle in and out of different companies, usually leaving under less than pleasant circumstances. But the pilots stayed with one carrier (usually). Now, most of the "beaners" have gone back to selling real-estate and the pilots still fly. Since CNN decided to exit the news reporting business, it is easier to make it up than to investigate the real thing, pro photogs are now "evil non-necessities".

What goes around ...

RichieC Loc: Adirondacks

I too had reservations about colorizing B&W films. However the simple facts have swayed my feelings toward this. In order to colorize the films, you have to restore them/ convert and digitize them. This is a very expensive, frame by frame proposition. Who's going to pay for this? We are talking about 100,000's of miles of unstable and degrading film stocks.

The options are:
1) Leave them as is and they degrade and destroy themselves,

2) Simple conversion leaves you with whatever quality these films have turned into after 50 or 60 years of use and storage. Whole reels and sections are unwatchable. Film is unstable, and turning into mush as I write this.

3) Find someone to pay to restore them. The more popular classics are probably always safe, but the thousands of others aren't as commercially viable nor is there interest in $$$ to rescue them- and time is running out.

BY colorizing them, they made them commercially "show-able" so they generate at least some of the money used to restore them- or perhaps some evil profit. You can argue this point probably by saying " I'd rather watch the B&W original version". So would I, but I'm sure he must have found the general public won't, or he wouldn't have gone to the considerable trouble of doing this. Wealthy & successful people seem to do things for a reason. Meanwhile, the original restored, B&W version is safe and secure for these films forever, and he is responsible for that, AND more people may see them.

Anybody who is responsible for saving these treasures in my book has done everybody a service and deserves the credit.

BTW I HATE his and his ex-wife's politics, but i don't care where a good idea or good work comes from.

Al FR-153 Loc: Chicago Suburbs

Turner lost me the day he married the TRAITOR BITCH.

oregon don

hey Danilo, I assume you were refering to Hanoi Jane?

AL AFR 153, I agree with you, NEVER FORGET.

neilds37 Loc: Port Angeles, WA

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