Visit: A Tale of Two Movies
Weather: High white clouds rolling through deep blue skies -- no rain today.
Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site Keep helping them -- let's feed some critters with your clicks.
In The Community: First Friday means the Hockaday Museum and some other downtown Kalispell art galleries are open in the evening. (I'm writing this at the desk.) Hockaday Museum of Art
We featured the U.S. Forest Service's video The Greatest Good, and had a reasonably full house!
Garage Sale Booty: Good Night, Sweet Prince -- A biography of early 20th Century actor John Barrymore (1881-1941) -- who was as much a character in real life as any dramatic character he played onstage. This looks like a wartime edition from about 1944. His films from the sound era are marred by the effects of alcoholism, but some of his fire still shows through in Grand Hotel, and in some episodes of the Bulldog Drummond series. His silent performances are living demonstrations of the term "histrionics."
Media Watch: Speaking of the Barrymore family -- Lionel Barrymore was over the top in The Mysterious Island from 1929. It was 25% talkie and 75% silent, with about 10% plot and charactarization subdued under 90% goofy special effects and laughable pseudo-science-fictional adventure. (Sounds like it could be made today, huh?) Jules Verne's Captain Nemo was named Prince Dakkar, but there WAS a submarine too.
The Ghost of Slumber Mountain -- A very early dinosaur movie by Willis (King Kong) O'Brien from 1917. It had NOTHING to do with ghosts at all, but that's how they sold it -- the stop-animation Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, Brontosaurus et al, were still fun to watch.
Hockaday Museum of Art
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