Children’s films shouldn’t automatically be considered benign.
I was taken to see Disney’s Alice in Wonderland by my well meaning grandmother when I was i think barely 5.
It may have been meant for children, but to me it was creepy and weird, disturbingly full of vaguely menacing characters.
The Cheshire cat’s vanishing and leaving his smile terrified me, as did the caterpillar…
In the scene where Alice has to run through the dark woods and the trees are reaching for her with their branches, I started howling and had to be taken home.
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My niece, similarly, had a meltdown when the forest catches fire in Bambi, and was carried out screaming and crying.
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BTW…when I was 9 or 10, I read Alice myself, and loved the wordplay.
It became n my favorite book until my mid teens.
Even so, I couldn’t reread or look at the Tenniel illustrations for the scene when the Duchess shakes her baby, or when he turns into a pig.
Sleeping Beauty did it for me (at age 3 or 4.) I was a teenager before I could be in the same room as the Magic Mirror on Disney’s Halloween Specials. Alice was okay — possibly because I didn’t get to see it till I was i my thirties…
My first one was “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” at a theater. 9 years old at the most. A woman buried alive, and clawing her way out of the casket. Coming to get revenge on those who buried her. Probably coming for me, too!
My two younger siblings and i used to go to the Saturday matinee at our local theater, walking through town unaccompanied, starting when I was six. We moved away when I was 10.
We saw all the old B/W sci Fi and horror movies, sitting together without our parents. Sometimes it would be a comedy..Martin and Lewis, Laurel and Hardy, etc. We never knew in advance.
I don’t remember which movie we saw first. We mostly loved them all.
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But a few were terrifying, and one that I’ve never been able to identify gave me and my sister recurring nightmares for years.
It was about a man who comes to town and somehow implants receivers in local people’s brains, after which they have little holes in their foreheads, and he controls them from his basement.
The hero is trying to stop him… but in the end he comes home to his little girl and she sees telltale holes in his forehead.
If anybody recognizes it, please tell me!
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The House of Usher was later and bloodier… one of the first Roger Corman ones, in color, that made me stop watching horror movies to this day.
It’s “Sherlock Holmes Jr.”
I’ve set it to start at the beginning of this scene, but you can easily move back to the beginning of the movie by moving the progress bar. If you don’t want your ears blasted, turn down your sound (the music isn’t what I call “typical” for a silent movie, but it’s not bad / just loud).
I was already in the workforce for 11 years by the time 1987 rolled around… My body says … way older than 70…
Tracy Chapman had it right (Fast Car):: ♫♪ His body’s too young to look like his ♪♫
You’re correct about the blurriness of the sign.
My brother lives just north of San Francisco, and when our eldest sister went out to see him he took her on the route the chase scene took. She had to make him stop following the route as it did make her feel rather queasy!
Ooh…Ross is very upscale, compared to Santa Rosa, where I live. It’s in Marin County, one of the most affluent counties in the US
Huge trees, on forested hills… big old houses, including mansions… I’m not saying everybody who lives there is rich, but a much higher percentage than here.
Santa Rosa is considered the boonies by Marinites 😁.
He doesn’t live in one of the big old houses, but something a little bit smaller. He has two sons, and the hills nearby are good for trekking and mountain biking.
Knock on your door is a musical example of the revolution.
Young girls have just as much energy as the boys, but they were repressed by societal taboos to protect them from their “baser urges”. Dancing is OK, but what happens when they stop dancing? Some of them even run away with those boyfriends.
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Looks like my Fee. Except Fees face is all pink. And to be perfectly honest, i’m not certain that she is a lovebird.
Her name is Fee?
Did you have to pay one?
It’s short for Finger Eater.
Fee Fi Fo Fum! I wanna bite your thumb!
Which came first, the bird or the peach?
A kindred spirit!
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I wish I could draw transparency that well… and this is on rough paper besides.
Albert! What do you think of quantum theory now???
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Ah! Art.com, not AI.com!
I think so.
Yes… But what is she doing?
YoYo,?
Oh yeah… I was misled by the white circle, thinking a wire was looped to her other hand.
Trying to attract Tommy Smothers.
Yay, I got one!
A WELL DONE PHOTOGRAPHIC MONTAGE OF HER LIFE BY THE seattlepi
She’s 30 in that photo?!?!
A neighbor of mine (sorta)
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Nope! No way!
Same here. Not gonna happen.
That guy on the spire would be several stories tall!
A real person standing in the same spot probably wouldn’t come up to his knees.
Yup
I remember this photo! (shop?)
I remember one with a woman standing up on a spire, and without the fellows closer to us.
But maybe this one too.
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Not a big fan of horror. I saw the original Night of the Living Dead way too young.
Me either.
But it’s October. Brace yourself.
Abbot & Costello meet Frankenstein scared me silly as a kid. Wizard of Oz is the scariest movie I’ve ever watched. ☺
Children’s films shouldn’t automatically be considered benign.
I was taken to see Disney’s Alice in Wonderland by my well meaning grandmother when I was i think barely 5.
It may have been meant for children, but to me it was creepy and weird, disturbingly full of vaguely menacing characters.
The Cheshire cat’s vanishing and leaving his smile terrified me, as did the caterpillar…
In the scene where Alice has to run through the dark woods and the trees are reaching for her with their branches, I started howling and had to be taken home.
….
My niece, similarly, had a meltdown when the forest catches fire in Bambi, and was carried out screaming and crying.
…
BTW…when I was 9 or 10, I read Alice myself, and loved the wordplay.
It became n my favorite book until my mid teens.
Even so, I couldn’t reread or look at the Tenniel illustrations for the scene when the Duchess shakes her baby, or when he turns into a pig.
….
Sleeping Beauty did it for me (at age 3 or 4.) I was a teenager before I could be in the same room as the Magic Mirror on Disney’s Halloween Specials. Alice was okay — possibly because I didn’t get to see it till I was i my thirties…
Umm, isn’t Abbott & Costello meets Frankenstein supposed to “scare you silly?”
Perhaps, but I think I got too much scare and too little silly.
My first one was “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” at a theater. 9 years old at the most. A woman buried alive, and clawing her way out of the casket. Coming to get revenge on those who buried her. Probably coming for me, too!
My two younger siblings and i used to go to the Saturday matinee at our local theater, walking through town unaccompanied, starting when I was six. We moved away when I was 10.
We saw all the old B/W sci Fi and horror movies, sitting together without our parents. Sometimes it would be a comedy..Martin and Lewis, Laurel and Hardy, etc. We never knew in advance.
I don’t remember which movie we saw first. We mostly loved them all.
…
But a few were terrifying, and one that I’ve never been able to identify gave me and my sister recurring nightmares for years.
It was about a man who comes to town and somehow implants receivers in local people’s brains, after which they have little holes in their foreheads, and he controls them from his basement.
The hero is trying to stop him… but in the end he comes home to his little girl and she sees telltale holes in his forehead.
If anybody recognizes it, please tell me!
….
The House of Usher was later and bloodier… one of the first Roger Corman ones, in color, that made me stop watching horror movies to this day.
Sounds a little like “Invaders from Mars” (1953) Though there the hole was in the back of the head
Thanks ….I’ll check that one out in case I’m misremembering anything.
In that movie, a little boy was the hero.
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♪♫”Old MacDonald had a farm…”♫♪
And on this farm he had some demons… ♪🎶♪🎶
Pigs, cows, monkeys, not too demonic…
Pig… check. Cow…..check.
But that … thing…. on the left… his right… doesn’t look like any monkey I ever saw.
It’s got a human body… those arms and broad shoulders don’t look simian… And it’s holding a cudgel, or maybe a torch.
That’s what I’m calling a demon.
The somewhat inscrutable caption, which I posted below in Google translation, I think is calling it a monster.
Google interpreted the Latin thusly:
“ANTONI’S dark father, the monsters are tearing you apart, JESUS is present in the heart of a sweet heart.”
Why do I get the feeling something was lost in translation?
Gandalf!!! How you’ve changed!!!
It does open if you click on it…
The image? It’s open for me… Unless it’s supposed to be doing something more than displaying.
It was a broken link when nighthawks first posted it
Christmas decoration!
OK Alex, with this brief bit can you snag the whole movie?
It’s “Sherlock Holmes Jr.”
I’ve set it to start at the beginning of this scene, but you can easily move back to the beginning of the movie by moving the progress bar. If you don’t want your ears blasted, turn down your sound (the music isn’t what I call “typical” for a silent movie, but it’s not bad / just loud).
Eyes on the road AHEAD, cowboy!
Look out for that tree!!
That’s not George!
where’s Waldo ?
Based on previous events, I’m inclines to ask if this is one page of a two page picture and if Waldo is on the other page.
That’s what I was going to say.
Nope. Not tonight.
Maybe? I’ll see what you guys say in the morning.
Is he in drag?
I see her but she’s not Waldo.
Oh! I see him! I see him!
mostly hidden, on the other side of the booth with the green and white striped canvas, down in the lower left corner.
There are two dogs facing each other behind him, and a large man in a suit to his right.
That’s a guy in a black.striped shirt and hat with a mustache.
That’s just the old glasses, nose & mustache ploy – how else is Waldo going to stay hidden?! 😉
Setting his shoe-phone on “vibrate”?
Sigh… I think you’re right.
Back to Waldo being on the other page.
Which still has to be found…
Saw him too, I think Tigressy’s right.
Nah, I believe Susan is correct in her “Spoiler”…
Nothing else comes close, at least to moi!
Nope, she found Odlaw, waldo’s nemesis. See the pictures below of some of the other “Waldo” regulars.
Aha… Thanks.
I haven’t seen enough Waldo books to know regulars exist!
Is that last one not him either?
Thanks, but I don’t think I was.
It was 2 or 3 am, and my vision was blurry.
I’m sure this is only part of the picture, and the real Waldo is in another part.
I’m like you, Susan. Back “in my day” (that’s 60 years ago!) I don’t remember “Odlaw” or any other “regulars”.
Only other MAYBE is:
Other than that, I got nothin’
Sorry.. .. I can’t make out anything.but a blur on that sign.
The good news is, I was just looking up Where’s Waldo/Wally, and it only came out in 1987… 37 years ago.
Maybe you’re younger than you think 😁!
I was already in the workforce for 11 years by the time 1987 rolled around…
My body says … way older than 70…
Tracy Chapman had it right (Fast Car)::
♫♪ His body’s too young to look like his ♪♫
You’re correct about the blurriness of the sign.
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Get this girl some allergy meds.
Shouldn’t she be on black velvet?
With that make up job, maybe she was….
…and now for some music! ! !
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You get those Staples commercials too, do you?
Candy season has begun.
Dancing with reckless abandon like nobody’s watching.
After all, it did say on the truck that the donuts were “hot.” I’m sure that’s why the cops were after it.
Steve McQueen as Lieutenant Frank Bullitt in Bullitt (1968)
My brother lives just north of San Francisco, and when our eldest sister went out to see him he took her on the route the chase scene took. She had to make him stop following the route as it did make her feel rather queasy!
Small world.
What city?
I live North of San Francisco too…. But maybe farther. 50 miles.
I’ve driven all those streets, though not at all recently, and at different times… not purposely following that particular route.
He lives in Ross.
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It is a small World, but I still wouldn’t like to paint it!……
Ooh…Ross is very upscale, compared to Santa Rosa, where I live. It’s in Marin County, one of the most affluent counties in the US
Huge trees, on forested hills… big old houses, including mansions… I’m not saying everybody who lives there is rich, but a much higher percentage than here.
Santa Rosa is considered the boonies by Marinites 😁.
He doesn’t live in one of the big old houses, but something a little bit smaller. He has two sons, and the hills nearby are good for trekking and mountain biking.
Whoa… I know you’re not supposed to think about these things in a comic…
But to have hot doughnuts in a truck, unless it’s stationary for a long time, you have to be traveling with vats of very hot oil.
At that speed, it’s a combination doughnut truck and siege weapon.
Red Lights!!! We don’t see no steenking red lights!
Had somebody start to blow through one as I was making a left turn. Good thing I stopped. Should have blessed him (and his family). Maybe last rites!
Knock on your door is a musical example of the revolution.
Young girls have just as much energy as the boys, but they were repressed by societal taboos to protect them from their “baser urges”. Dancing is OK, but what happens when they stop dancing? Some of them even run away with those boyfriends.
I don’t think I’d heard “I’m Gonna Knock on your Door” before. I really like it. The dancing in the video is nuts. Thanks for posting this.
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”
Here’s another from today’s “Daily Mail.”