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1940's fantasy movies

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I guess this one should go first 😃

 

(Rene Clair made this movie below starring Dick Powell and Linda Darnell:

 

He also made the one below (Veronica Lake's image was painted on many WWII fighter planes)

 

 All of these are available on Amazon Prime, but also the whole movies are free on Youtube (with adds).

 

 

 

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16 minutes ago, Fielder said:

This looks like it ought to be captioned, "Microsoft won't be attending Flight Sim Expo 2025??"

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Larry Hookins

 

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

My favorite one that I recall was a British film called “A Matter of Life and Death” (1946, released in the U.S. as “”Stairway to Heaven”).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Matter_of_Life_and_Death_(film)
 

It’s a unique film.  Here’s a scene at the reception room in heaven, where the airmen who died check in.  I love when an American bomber crew arrives, they all come in like a mob and head straight for the Coke machine:

 

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Coke machine?  Huh.  Musta been Heaven. 😄 

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Larry Hookins

 

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

31 minutes ago, LHookins said:

Coke machine?

Actually, it wasn’t branded, I should have said soda pop machine. Funny that it was next to heaven’s check-in desk.  And the Americans making a bee line to it like they were the East End Kids/Bowery Boys 🤣

9 hours ago, Mike A said:

Actually, it wasn’t branded, I should have said soda pop machine. Funny that it was next to heaven’s check-in desk.  And the Americans making a bee line to it like they were the East End Kids/Bowery Boys 🤣

Ah, it WAS branded!  Coca-Cola. 😄 😄 At 1:55.  Use the < and > keys to move one frame at a time.

This is how I'd know I was in heaven.

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Larry Hookins

 

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

In 1946 I was about 12 years old.  I probably would not have understood the movies listed above.  But there is one movie made in 1940 that I do have clear memories of.  Walt Disney's Fantasia.

Most of all I remember The Sorcerer's Apprentice segment and the music of Night on Bald Mountain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_(1940_film)

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The tires are worn.  The shocks are shot.  The steering is wobbly.  But the engine still runs fine.

Ahhh... Ice Cold Coca-Cola in 8 ounce bottles.

I had a 33 RPM record from a radio station once. Instead of running everything live, they played records like these.

After the news, which was mostly about the Korean War, we heard this:

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In these days of rising inflation, it's good to know that some things never change.  There has never been a time when you couldn't buy Coca-Cola for a nickel a bottle, a quarter a carton, a dollar a case.

And now, back to the 1951 World Series.

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Larry Hookins

 

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

1 hour ago, LHookins said:

Ah, it WAS branded!  Coca-Cola. 😄 😄 At 1:55.  Use the < and > keys to move one frame at a time

AW-RIGHT!!, thanks for your eagle eyes in catching that, much appreciated !  One more thing that I did  miss.  I meant to say East Side kids instead of East End Kids.

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