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Guinea pig snacks for everyone!

June 5, 2019June 5, 2019 L.T. Hanlon1 Comment

 

Journalist Marc Singer stands with his back to us as he videotapes a giant alien flyinf saucer gliding over a river in El Salvador.
More than 35 years later, the slow-moving, almost-documentary style special effects in the original “V” miniseries remain effective.

Photo is of the following typewritten text. Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Chicago, USA. Those lizards still work! Today I binge-watched the original V miniseries first telecast in 1983. Surprisingly, the production holds up really well. In fact, many of its set pieces created the template for subsequent cinematic ventures into alien threats. Much of the reason why V remains visually impressive is that the special effects rejected a frenetic approach to depicting alien technology. The Visitors' gigantic saucers sweep over earth gracefully, slowly, even slower than the ships in 1996’s Independence Day. Even the Visiors' smaller craft move little faster than terrestrial helicopters when chasing humans. The only thing that doesn't work for me in V is its derivative score. Composer Joe Harnell gets a wave-through for cribbing Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries and Gustav Holst's Mars, The Bringer of War (everybody does those), but rubberstamping Bernard Herrmann's main theme from North By Northwest makes me expect Cary Grant, James Mason, and Eva Marie Saint to show up. Still a good time, however. The shocker everybody talked about at work the next day was, of course, watching Jane Badler enjoying a rodent snack.

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Typewriters and flying saucers

May 18, 2019May 20, 2019 L.T. Hanlon5 Comments

At least for now, you can watch the TV movie “Roswell” on YouTube. There are excellent performances by Kyle MacLachlan, Dwight Yoakam, and Martin Sheen. The music in this production is incredibly creepy and adds a lot. 

This photo of a typewritten page contains the following text. Saturday, May 18, 2019. Chicago, USA. Hermes 3000 made in 1970. Smith-corona and the thing from another world. Ever since fifth grade I've been fascinated by UFOs. In junior high, my best friend and I even went to a meeting of the Denver UFO Society. And then I became obsessed with cattle mutilations mystery that still not been fully explained to this day. In the 1 980s, the so-called Majestic-12 documents came to my attention. Skeptic that I am, my inclination is these are a hoax.  The papers purport to prove that in the late 1 940s, President Truman authorized the creation of a secret committee to deal with, among other unworldly things, the spacecraft and extraterrestrials allegedly recovered near Roswell, New Mexico. Supposedly, one damning detail that examiners found is that at least one of the documents was typed using a Smith-Corona machine not produced until many years later. According to Curt Sutherly in his UFO mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth (Llewellen Worldwide, 2001) , an expert concluded that the MJ-12 Truman memo was typed with a Smith Corona cartridge machine introduced no earlier than 1963. Clues to determining the typewriter year and model were the capital letters A and W, both of which, (skeptic Phil) Klass, said, tended to. tear the old-style carbon ribbon. This defect was corrected by Smith Corona in the model introduced in 1963. The mystery for me — and perhaps someone more familiar with Smith-Corona product offerings than I am can shed some light here — is that as far as I know, Smith-Corona  didn't introduce its Coronamatic cartridge ribbon system until many years later in 1973. So either the company did make a cartridge typewriter in 1963 or someone made a typo and changed 1973 to 1963. A third explanation, of course, is that the same team investigating the Roswell Incident also worked on the Philadelphia Experiment and a 1973 Smith-Corona Coronamatic typewriter somehow timeslipped back into the late 1940s. Hey! Can you prove it didn’t happen?Note: Unedited. Typos are Easter eggs.

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