Looking west. Via Vintage Los Angeles.
Gart Williams is a New York media buyer who has grown exasperated with his career. His overbearing boss, Oliver Misrell, angered by the loss of a major account, lectures him about this “push-push-push” business. Unable to sleep properly at home, he drifts off for a short nap on the train during his daily commute through the November snow.
He wakes to find the train stopped and changed into an 1880s railcoach, deserted except for himself. The sun is bright outside, and as he looks out the window, he discovers that the train is in Willoughby and that it’s July 1888.
Original air date: 5/6/1960
The U.S. Navy’s produced a series of pretty righteous photographs that compare scenes from the Day of Infamy — December 7, 1941 — to the present.
I’d never seen this before the other night. An abbreviated 45-minute version of the 1947 classic. Features Thomas Mitchell (forever known as Uncle Billy from ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’) as Kris Kringle.
One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real McCoy.
The production is followed by a preview of scenes from the Fox feature film The Rains of Ranchipur, starring Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, and Michael Rennie. This behind-the-scenes portion was produced and directed by Joe Parker.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writers: John Monks Jr. (teleplay), George Seaton
Stars: Macdonald Carey, Teresa Wright and Thomas Mitchell
Notice the ‘The’ in the title.
Another Man’s Trash
by Jace Daniel (b. 1969)
FADE IN:
EXT. STREET ALLEY – DAY
A garbage truck idles.
Full garbage cans line the alley. It’s trash day.
The GARBAGE MAN picks up a can of trash. Dumps it into the back of the truck. A couple stuffed trash bags follow. [click to continue…]
