No Highway in the Sky on TV
No Highway in the Sky on TV
Missed the first half, but the 1951 film is showing on Talking Pictures TV.
Adaptation of Neville Shute's novel.
Excellent.
Adaptation of Neville Shute's novel.
Excellent.
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Youtube. Watching it now.
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As PN says, appears to be available on Youtube at the mo, in HD
link below
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Flight of the Phoenix currently also available!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o3E9GaDvmI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o3E9GaDvmI
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Ian, DVD so passe. Modern computers don't have optical drives, buying a DVD player is rare. Even hard drives are getting smaller. I think the smallest spec I have seen is 32Gb with 128Gb average and 256 is large.
15_years ago my car had a CD Auto changer and could play a DVD when stationary. Now it just has blue tooth.
15_years ago my car had a CD Auto changer and could play a DVD when stationary. Now it just has blue tooth.
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I still use it and Bluray for movies. It's pretty permanent, and a cheap way to buy them, plus there's a large back catalog that the studios don't seem to want to make available electronically without huge fees and impermanence.
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Watched it last night. Seems much as I remembered it from years ago, but the flying scenes looked very crude compared with modern techniques. I think the book was better, I'll read it again when I get unpacked from moving.
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The plane might have looked crude but AFAIK it was a 'real' aircraft as opposed to a genuine aircraft mocked up to look different. Loved the detail on the RAF-pattern uniforms. Anyone notice the Captain's belt? Standard 3 pairs of buckle holes, belt loosened to one side when of course new uniform fitted properly would use centre holes
Theodore Honey's house was amazing too. Outside a plain cheap terrace council house, inside opened like a tardis. Had to keep remembering it was made in 1950.
Some of the other characters all famous but that bar scene - Dora Bryan bar maid mad as a hatter serving vodka in wine glasses instead of whiskey. Or the test pilot in the Attacker, I suppose it allowed us to know more about Jack Hawkins.
Theodore Honey's house was amazing too. Outside a plain cheap terrace council house, inside opened like a tardis. Had to keep remembering it was made in 1950.
Some of the other characters all famous but that bar scene - Dora Bryan bar maid mad as a hatter serving vodka in wine glasses instead of whiskey. Or the test pilot in the Attacker, I suppose it allowed us to know more about Jack Hawkins.
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Re: No Highway in the Sky on TV
SM can operate the DVD player or sat decoder and TV combo.Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 10:52 pmIan, DVD so passe. Modern computers don't have optical drives, buying a DVD player is rare. Even hard drives are getting smaller. I think the smallest spec I have seen is 32Gb with 128Gb average and 256 is large.
15_years ago my car had a CD Auto changer and could play a DVD when stationary. Now it just has blue tooth.
All other functions are too complicated!
My DVD player is a Blueray one, with a USB socket.
If I download anything to a USB drive, I have to do the operating so that she can watch it.
Its worse than having baby Nav's operating the HsS at Lindholme
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My car has a CD autochanger!
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Just had to junk the Sony CD autochanger bit of my stack. Wasn't 'changing'. Had it all in bits but could not work out how to fix it, so it has gone to the great CD tray in the local waste site. So sad.
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Thank-you for that (I think) - it took almost the full one hour and thirty-eight minutes to resolve.Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 9:02 pmAs PN says, appears to be available on Youtube at the mo, in HD
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A real cliff-hanger!
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Just watched it on Youtube. Superb movie. About a third of the way through mention was made about "the Ministry, ARB.....". Gave my heart a bit of a flutter, my original eng licences were issued by the ARB. I think it became the CAA not long after.
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