I'm Anarkyvist: Time Warp Television - CKVR - Adverts and Bumpers

 

In early 2011 I felt it was time to start digitizing my VHS collection of over 200 tapes. To YouTube I went and signed up under the improbable and somewhat mysterious name of "Anarkyvist". The project got off to a good start, but after the initial volley, I seemed to lose interest while gaining other convenient distractions. It.'s time to go back to those VHS boxes and the conversion process, but for now I will take a look back here on this blog....

"While in the process of digitizing a mass of VHS tapes, I came across some material that I recorded off of CKVR television in 1991-92. Back in the day when they used to be a great station, "VR" ran a framework concept titled "Time Warp Television" which showcased old television classics such as "Gilligan's Island", "All In The Family", "WKRP in Cincinnati", "Star Trek", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "Lost in Space", and (the less classic) "Land of the Giants". I popped together this little clip of bumpers, adverts, and promotions. There might be a Part Two...."

I will correct the recording period specified in my YouTube intro: it should read as "1992-93". The "Time Warp Television" framework programme started in the 1991-1992 television year with an offbeat host by the name of Nabu Perini (spelling?). Unfortunately for regular viewers, he, and his Elvis bust, left after Time Warp's premiere season. On the tape that I pulled the above clips from he is nowhere to be found doing his "streeter" thing. However, in one of the clips he can be seen walking ('behind' William Shatner) with a Super-8 movie camera.

Yes: Voyage, to the Bottom, of the Sea!

I Understand It's National Coffee Day

Understood!

... I'm sipping a cup of Maxwell House "Instant".

Not bad....

Blu-ray: Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Directed by

Werner Herzog

Shout! Factory LLC

Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Death Affected Me

Minutes ago I learned, or was reminded, that Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada's 15th prime minister, father of our current leader, died twenty years ago today. I have a strong memory of how it affected me. For a few days I felt gloomy.

"Me, feeling a loss over the death of a politician?" I sure did.

I was just old enough to have understood "Trudeaumania". Though I was living in then West Germany in 1968, nodes of excitement tickled their way across the Atlantic, ending up on my schoolroom's "Current Affairs" board. I remember my teacher talking about him to the class. This was the year after Canada's 100th birthday, after Bobby Gimby serenaded us air force brats with the song "Ca-na-da". Prime Minister Trudeau would go on to be one of this great country's most controversial, and perhaps, authoritative, leaders. It could be argued that his brand of leadership was exactly what we needed in the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s.

In my need to brush up on PET and his terms as PM, a few years ago I read Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Nino Ricci's fine human biography, and found it to be fair, balanced, and in the end, a panegyric to a great man.

I'm feeling gloomy again....

A Forever Question: Motion Picture Production Titles

“Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a question.”

Sir. Is a "Production Designer" anything like a "Production Director"?

Picturing: Bird in the Bush

Picturing: Bush Bird

Picturing: Plant Life

Book: From Caligari to Hitler (Kracauer)

From Caligari to Hitler

- A Psychological History of The German Film -

By Siegfried Kracauer

Princeton University Press 1947/1974

Blu-ray: Die Nibelungen

Die Nibelungen

- Special Edition -

Directed by

Fritz Lang

Kino Lorber  2012

I'm Anarkyvist: Star Wars TV Promo - ET - 1999

 

In early 2011 I felt it was time to start digitizing my VHS collection of over 200 tapes. To YouTube I went and signed up under the improbable and somewhat mysterious name of "Anarkyvist". The project got off to a good start, but after the initial volley, I seemed to lose interest while gaining other convenient distractions. It.'s time to go back to those VHS boxes and the conversion process, but for now I will take a look back here on this blog....

"On June 11th of 1999 Entertainment Tonight aired this short promo, hosted by movie critic Leonard Maltin, on the then upcoming tv special From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic to be aired by the Fox network (which I did not tape)."

That ghastly vexatious disturbance in The Force, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, was but a few weeks old when the above special promo aired. I don't remember watching the special in question, but I'm sure Star Wars fans were cooking their VHS machines that night. ILM has long been at the forefront of special visual effects technology, and that's something I can admire. And Leonard Maltin's enthusiasm is always infectious.

Time's 100 Most Influential People (I Don't Know)

"Time Magazine releases its list of the 100 most influential people of 2020"

So blazed the Chyron.

Then ran a series of stills showing various celebrities, most of whom I've never heard of.

When I think of "influential people" I don't think of people known to the masses, but people I know: friends, or even acquaintances.

I may be inspired by certain "celebrities", but, even then, I'm more inspired by people most folk have never heard of.

Ringo Starr on Perspective

"I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do."

And we're laughing with you, sir.

Ringo Starr on the United States of America

"So this is America. They must be out of their minds."

?!

The Emmy's Creeky

I just learned that the CBC series Schitt's Creek cleaned up at last night's Emmy Awards. Was the competition poor this year? The Ceeb broadcast the series on weekday evenings last year, so I was able to catch up with newer shows after ditching it during its first year.

Actors gesticulating like characters in a Hal Roach short in 2020 instead of 1930, is cringeworthy.

DVD: The Towering Inferno

The Towering Inferno

- Special Edition -

Directed by

John Guillerman

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment  2005

A Forever Question: In a Jar

“Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a question.”

Sir. One can get someone out of a jam, but can one get someone out of a marmalade?

Sunday Fun: "Why Did I Buy This?"

I bought the Space: 1999 Complete Series Blu-ray set in July of last year; and have watched just one episode, which I did last night: "A Matter of Life and Death"

Even it were a matter of life and death, I might have to be forced to watch more of this series. The good news is the wrapping is off the set....

I'm being somewhat facetious as there are a few good episodes. A few.

Space: 1999 premiered when I was a young teen, but even then I knew something was off. Buying this BD set, perhaps, was a simple case of me trying to force myself back to my youth.

John Turner (1929 - 2020)

Canadian Prime Ministers Pierre Trudeau, John Turner, Lester Pearson, Jean Chrétien.

Picturing: Toronto Drain Assembly