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And now the avatar, you've all been waiting for! This is Amy Grant's 1991 album, Heart In Motion. It went platinum many times over and to date it is not only her best-selling album, but it's the best-selling Christian album of all time, which is ironic, as its biggest hits all came from the pop radio (this is when she really blew up as a pop star, though her first #1 pop hit, The Next Time I Fall with Peter Cetera, came the year before). This album contains some of her most well-known songs:
Baby Baby
Every Heartbeat
Good For Me
That's What Love Is For
I Will Remember You
(all of which are on the upcoming Greatest Hits album) and of course many more.

-Aaron

Well as you may have noticed for a while i've been doing a series of mostly film frames/formats like the Ben Hur and Sleeping Beauty OARs vs the DVDs, or the several STAR WARS film frames in their 35mm 2.40 Panavision OAR. I've also posted weird stuff like the first Batman and Robin color film or the technical conversations between Jar Jar and the Emperor during the making of the trilogy dvd, and other stuff , etc etc

Today I found a web page that had some captures from the old widescreen STAR WARS laserdiscs which look totally different from each other since they were made from diferent sources (I think there have been 3 different LD's versions in the US: 1. original LD 2. THX LD and 3. SE THX LD) and the captures were done with totally different settings. For example the THX LD one is wider mainly cus he changed card drivers and now his captures get more image at the sides. Those images didn't look too good. Well anyway, since they looked totally different and beyond hope I demastered them.

Wonder how they compare to the new DVD (which i have yet not seen)

I love your avatars, deathie, even when they have me scratching my head...which is most of the time!

My new avatar is an avatar I made today, it is a scene from one of My Favorite Doris Day Movies. It is a scene from the 1956 HitckCock Thriller The Man Who Knew To Much. That Starred: Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart. Great Movie,

i agree, great movie, and is good to have Doris gracing up the pages of UD again, like Amy does


Luke: What exactly makes you scratch your head? Any question or aspect about them I'll be happy to answer, this being the "explain your avatar thread" and you liking them makes me twice obliged

I just got my avatar, and I am very happy about it! I wanted Pumbaa from the time I joined this site; he is my favorite Disney sidekick. He knows a lot more than anybody else thinks he does, including himself. He is just a lovable, caring character. Pumbaa's character design and Ernie Sabella's voice are a magical combo, and I am happy to associate myself with Pumbaa.

Welcome to the Avatars Club, BrandonH!

deathie, right now it's just that I look at the two frames and I try hard to see what is different. Which leads to head-scratching, when it's not obvious...

Of course, I could just smile and nod and take in the Leia!

And now, 1994's hit album, House Of Love, which was almost (but not quite) as successful as its predecessor. The title track was the biggest hit, and the first of many duets with now-husband Vince Gill. Other big hits were Big Yellow Taxi, Lucky One, Say You'll Be Mine (all on the upcoming Greatest Hits CD) and Oh How The Years Go By, Helping Hand, and Children of the World.

-Aaron

Disney Guru wrote:My new avatar is an avatar I made today, it is a scene from one of My Favorite Doris Day Movies. It is a scene from the 1956 HitckCock Thriller The Man Who Knew To Much. That Starred: Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart. Great Movie,

That reminds me DG, I've been meaning to ask this.

What other song did Doris Day sing in Man who knew too much? Near the end of the movie, after she sings Que sera, she sings another song, but never finishes because that guy gets shot and falls down the stairs (or something like that, I haven't seen the movie in awhile). What song was it? I just remember her singing, "And again and again..." then she gets cut off because the guy fell down.

Escapay

I think you are mistaken Escapay. I watched my DVD of Man Who Knew To Much recently. And that part is not even in the movie. Because in the movie at the end. She is asked to play an encore performance and she is still suffering of Hanks dissapearance. And when she is playing Que Sera Sera, it shows her sonin a room upstairs, and her sons Captors wife who wants to save the boy from being murdered. Asks Hank if he knows that song and he says yes kinda, and she says can you whistle it ? And he says yes I can whistle it. And she says Whistle it Hank. Whistle it with all of your might, and then Jimmy Stewart hears the whistling and finds Hank. But then the Captor sees Jimmy with Hank escaping, and he tells them not to make a sound and he walks down the stairs with them with a gun pointed towards their act. Then Jimmy does a beautiful act of heroism. And knows The Captor Down the stairs and the Captors gun goes off and he dies. And then Doris stops singing Que Sera Sera, and they go home with Hank. That is the end of the movie.

Disney Guru wrote:I think you are mistaken Escapay. I watched my DVD of Man Who Knew To Much recently. And that part is not even in the movie. Because in the movie at the end. She is asked to play an encore performance and she is still suffering of Hanks dissapearance. And when she is playing Que Sera Sera, it shows her sonin a room upstairs, and her sons Captors wife who wants to save the boy from being murdered. Asks Hank if he knows that song and he says yes kinda, and she says can you whistle it ? And he says yes I can whistle it. And she says Whistle it Hank. Whistle it with all of your might, and then Jimmy Stewart hears the whistling and finds Hank. But then the Captor sees Jimmy with Hank escaping, and he tells them not to make a sound and he walks down the stairs with them with a gun pointed towards their act. Then Jimmy does a beautiful act of heroism. And knows The Captor Down the stairs and the Captors gun goes off and he dies. And then Doris stops singing Que Sera Sera, and they go home with Hank. That is the end of the movie.

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Hmm, I remember everything that you just typed, and I don't know why, but I definitely remember her singing another song after the whistling part. I remember she practically yelled Que Sera Sera, knowing/hoping that Hank would hear it, and she heard him whistling, which led to Jimmy Stewart finding him. But for some reason, I remember her then singing another song afterwards which she doesn't finish because the captor guy is shot and killed and they go home.

What are the lyrics for Que Sera? Maybe if I read it all it'll refresh my memory (and make me wonder where I heard the lyrics "And again and again" in the movie)

EDIT:

I found this at Imdb's listing for The Man Who Knew Too Much

Soundtracks for The Man Who Knew Too Much:

"Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)"
Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Perfomed by Doris Day

"We'll Love Again"
by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Performed by Doris Day

"Storm Cloud Cantata"
Written by Arthur Benjamin and D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Bernard Herrmann
Sung by Covent Garden Choir
Solist Barbara Hewitt

I guess "We'll Love Again" is the song I'm thinking of.

Escapay

Escapay: What you remember is the original version before Lucasfilm made the SE changes

just kidding

btw there's a prevous b/w version of that movie directed by Hitch himself (so the color version is a "remake ) but i don't remember if they sang in that one too

Luke wrote:deathie, right now it's just that I look at the two frames and I try hard to see what is different.

Oh that's cus i did a deathimastering on both of them.

<---I'm posting the original captures (For a limited time only! First time ever on UDVD! err i mean Forum ) as they looked originally downloaded from that site so you see what i mean with "demastering" Those captures don't trully reflect how they look on LD but they give you some idea of how both transfers differ from each other. The THX LD one looks nothing like the THX LD looks on a properly calibrated monitor (cus it's waaaay too dark) and its reds look magentaish. The original LD capture one looks closer to the original look but the reds there are orange! So i lightened them up and brought the color back to normal, so that's why they ended up both looking good and similar. Which always amazes me when i buy a dvd that doesn't look good cus if i can make two completely off kilter heavily compressed jpeged captures whose colorimetry runs in opposite directions look good enough and fairly similar, and i'm only using readily available software why do video transfers made from superior resolution and color richness filled 35mm film sources in million dollar telecines come out of whack?
They should at LEAST look as good as the avatars


I usually made the avatars i post here slightly lighter than i prefer (darker they'd look richer and the reds glow with Technicolor vibrancy) so to show all the detail possible, cus my normal viewing conditions are in a total darkened room and with the brighness setting (black level) on the monitor set so that 0 0 0 RGB gives totally absolutely 0 light output like it should be done (very tricky to get that right : you have to use a special PLUDGE pattern (NOT THE THX ONE! ) and mmm make your eyes acustomed to the dark in a for like 20 minutes ) but since most people at a computer have their lights on, or nowadays use LCD panels (whose 0 0 0 RGB black sometimes look like my 20 20 20 RGB greys! LCD panels don't reach true blacks yet) or sometimes even with a CRT and a darkened room they have the black level setting turned up higher than 0 black well i sometimes (but not always) try to make the avatars look slightly more suited to those "uncalibrated" conditions (by opening the widows when i make them! ) Also the bright light blue background of the site also change's their lightness perception a little too Anyway it's easier to make therm darker again if needed than to lighten things up cus the way bits are allocated in dark regions (and mpeg2 compression )

btw if you saw the full sized captures youd see the original laserdiscs (not the THX) looks better, richer, and with more definition. It also has 4 more vertical lines at the bottom with extra image (278 total) than the THX one (274) But the THX one is wider cus the guy who did them tweaked his video driver afterwards to capture the whole video signal width into the capture card's 704 pixel window width for the THX one but not for the standart LD one (As I've mentioned, analog NTSC is 711 wide, and as you know digital NTSC reaches 720. That' s why many things (like supplements) made on analog standarts show up with slight black borders on the sides on dvd software captures: Cus 1.333 is either 480 x 702 or 486 x 711 wide . Well actually, since it's a fraction more than 702 that's why some capture cards use 704 as the width.


well it's called "Explain your avatar" isn't it?



I'm curious about the others avatars that might have left you scratching..



PS. the dynamic duo's secret identity was ..

Coming Soon at an Avatar Near You!
Same BatForum Same BatThread

I think that about answers every question I had (and didn't have)! The other confusing bit was the dynamic duo. But I assume we'll find out who those two masked men were!

It's 'Laddin time!!!


cover of the laserdisc.
it's been almost a decade, baby


(I hope Luke got to see the identities batavatar. So little time. we barely knew you batavatar. sniff )

Even though this isn't a new avatar, I changed my siggy to reflect the fact that my name is not Christopher Michael.

I think I've only had 3 different siggys:

1. A fool and his money are soon parted, let's let Eisner be the fool and money be Disney.

2. Rhetorical Question: Would you rather have your daughter obsessed with Disney Princesses...or BRATZ?

3. The current one.

deathie mouse wrote:(I hope Luke got to see the identities batavatar. So little time. we barely knew you batavatar. sniff )

I did! So, were they tried out before Adam West and Burt Ward got the parts, or what?

I LOVE homestarrunner.com, so naturally, my avatar HAS to reflect my favorite character from Homestar.

Luke wrote:So, were they tried out before Adam West and Burt Ward got the parts, or what?

Luke, it's my opinion they probably did it first if not concurrently. This Batman is dead serious compared with the subtle Adam West one and at the same time that Robin has an almost childlike voice compared to Burt Ward's (so after years of hearing Burt, it suddenly sounds like Michael Jackson is playing Robin if you can imagine that.) If that team woulda made it, i think the series woulda been very different, more like a standart action show. What's interesting is imagining them crossing teams. The serious Batman with Burt Ward would probably been even more serious, kind like the modern Batman, while Adam West with that Robin woulda been freaky. Cus he really sounds like a little child! Instead of subtle double meaning humor it woulda made you laugh to much cus the absurdity would be way over the top. (and just because the way it woulda sounded! )

so the duo we know was a good combo that walked the razors edge

if that team had gone and done it, in an alternate univese , we would have had a stranger, serious for the 60's, batman (maybe like the difference between lost in space and land of giants or even star trek)

hope you noted Batman was wearing the TRUE bat symbol on his shirt


great avatar related this post is, mmm.. mmm..

so i'll continue breaking flash rules

today i went to the local Borders and guess what they were playing my favorite movie "Refuse of The Jedi"

It wasn't a pretty picture...
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Excuse me, Sir..

Now WHAT?

Err.. we've found another technical issue


*breathes heavily

It seems the System gamma was set at 1.0

So we seem to've applied an extra 2.2 gamma curve to the transfer

*sounds of neck being squeezed


and.. *cough .. the monitor *rrgghh was set *gasp.. to a D50 graphic prints white point standard *wheeze ... instead of the *ahh ahh... video D65 one *aacckkhh so we.. made.. it.. too.. blue

*PLUNK

You have failed me for the Last time, Captain Needa

jack-o-mickey is back!!

My avatar speaks for itself.. Happy Halloween to all of us Disney Freaks!

Sounds wild, deathie. And I guess we can add "Batman" to your seemingly endless list of topics you're an expert on!

Jack-o-Mickey is back! Yay! Has it really been nearly a year since we last met?!