I love old movies and I love old TV sets.
I have many vintage TVs , but I use them as much as I can.
At least every second day.
Well the other day a friend gave me a 50s movie to watch that I had been looking for
It was 1957 Plunder Road ! Its about a group of crooks that steal a ton of gold using trucks.
Great old movie with one of the best endings ive seen.
Such a buzz to be watching it on a 50s TV.
So I thought I would pop a link here to the movie and you can watch it on youtube if you like old movies.
Heres the link

https://youtu.be/oPM6KXCoOTo

I have also been watching all the old 50s sci fi movies lately which I buy from the Hum in Newtown
Ive watched some really good ones and some really corny ones.
But they were all great fun to watch, particular on a 50s TV set.
The Fly Vincent price,
1958?
The Thing 1951
Quatermass and the Pit.
The crawling eye.
All crazy sci fi.!

But Plunder Road is a great old drama and a classic 50s crime film. Check it out or if you have seen it ,, watch it again ,you wont find such good movies on TV!

Pete

I haven't seen Plunder Road, and not sure if it's what I'd term "noir" or not until I watch it, though Elisha Cook was in many such films, but thanks for the link.

I'm not into sci-fi, but I have the Criterion series remastered version of The Day The Earth Stood Still and the black tones are wonderful in that version.

I also have Plan 9 From Outer Space and the poorly titled Teenagers From Outer Space ( I gather studio marketing came up with that title to attract the drive-in audience).

Hi G,
Apparently, according to some sites on the web there is a colour version of the Day The Earth stood still.
All though I have never seen a colour version and I've tried to find one and I never did. Yet many people on the net and forums say its out there on DVD.
Either way it was and still is a great movie!

Pete.

according to some sites on the web there is a colour version of the Day The Earth stood still.

I don't like 'colourised' versions of movies. They were designed and filmed for B&W and the best ones are perfect as shot. Criterion remastered movies -- whose process produces a print from an 'as new' restored negative -- are well worth the money, IMO.

There was a 2008 remake of TDTESS, but I wouldn't be bothered with it myself.

I am keen to watch my Beatles DVD's on my HMV F3 A2 once it get's fixed.
Particularly the 1964 Melbourne Festival Hall concert which I have on a DVD.

Also any British war films and Ealing comedies from the 50's

I also love CinemaScope, Vistavision and Technirama films from the same period but as they are in a widescreen process I will leave them for my flatscreen.

I would also like to catch up with a lot of 60's sitcoms which I grew up with in the 70's. Nostalgic yes and a guilty pleasure.......but just fantastic to watch on a TV set of the same era in glorious monochrome.

I can't wait.......

I am also a vinyl lover and have a lot of vintage English 50's & 60's LP's which I play on either my HMV Westpoint Radiogram or portable Dynatron Carnival GR8. I love both of these, they are prized possessions and in lovely condition and they sound terrific.

Particularly the 1964 Melbourne Festival Hall concert

Can anything be heard above the screaming audience?

The Beatles' performances in the USA in 1965 were largely inaudible, leading to a revolution in PA systems for concerts.

Pitchers!
You and I love the same stuff!
I collect vinyl, tons of them.
I have 1960 Kriesler stereophonic I'm working on and soon I hope to be playing all my old records on that. I have 1962 german radiogram thats all working fine , I just prefer the Kriesler so when its finished I will just put the Kriesler in the lounge room.
I watch a lot of old shows and movies on my vintage TVs but one thing I do watch a lot of is those old band stand dvds ! Some are great! Or sometimes I just leave it on the TV playing while I'm doing stuff around the house just to hear the old 6os music!
Warms the house up too!

Pete

G
I would image there are a few folk on this very site that went to see the beatles in the 60s .
It would be good to hear about the day they had.

Pete

I am not old enough (49) but my wife's mother and father saw the Beatles at Festival Hall in Melbourne in in June 1964.
The tickets were obtained by writing to the Sun News Pictorial (newspaper) and they traveled up in the Ford Zephyr from Camperdown Victoria.

Performance by the Beatles lasted a mere 25 minutes
Support acts were Johnny Devlin, Johnny Chester and Sounds Incorporated.

I wish I could have been there.........



The Beatles' performances in the USA in 1965 were largely inaudible, leading to a revolution in PA systems for concerts.

Yes GTC, the speakers at the concert at Shea Stadium in New York in August 1965 were broadcast through a primitive tannoy type speakers that was used for Baseball announcements.
The Beatles Vox amplifiers at the time were also incapable of penetrating the screaming.

You mean they won the tickets?
Or was this how tickets were bought in the 60s
No I'm not old enough either I'm same age as you.

I presume that's how tickets were obtained back in the day.
The tour promoter booked them for Australia before they were world famous (early to mid 63) so this may have been how my mother in law obtained the tickets so easily.

I like to watch 3 Stooges DVD's on my restored PYE W101 56 vintage (hence my avatar).

My friends and I still get a good chuckle out of their antics and some of those stunts must have hurt!
The episodes with Curly are still my favourites. "A plumbing we will go" still cracks me up.

I tend not to run it for great lengths of time as I'm frightened of having an unobtainable part fail (Line O/P transformer or Vert O/P transformer etc).

Back in the day when I repaired sets of this vintage (as a radio apprentice) it was not uncommon to see these parts fail but there were aftermarket spares available (Radar etc). No chance now.

Virtually all sets of this vintage have been junked long ago so even a good used part would be very hard to find I think.

My nomination for the best black and white movie ever, is
The Magnificent Ambersons. An Orson Welles directed film, I have a copy that I rewatch every couple of years.

Orson Welles had a mastery of using light and shaddows that completely negated the need for colour. The film will have you in its grip from the very beginning.

Wayne.

Actually Irext you shouldn't worry so much about those parts failing. Three reasons:

1. Both parts were very reliable in the W101
2. Several forum members have W101 parts chassis.
3. Equivalent parts are readily available in the US.

When I ever get an old TV I'll enjoy my favourites from an earlier era. Silent film comedies by Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy and more, love that stuff from the teens, 20's right up to the fifties and the stooges are just great! Old pre-code Hollywood movies and Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, I could go on and on! I wish I still had an old TV...