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Post by John Green on Apr 17, 2023 11:24:56 GMT
Pay attention people. I had to read ELSEWHERE that P.G. Wodehouse was also targeted. What do I come here for? Interestingly he was accused of being a collaborator because of some radio broadcasts in the Second World War & had to live his later years in exile. Orwell regarded him as a silly ass, rather than a collaborator: orwell.ru/library/reviews/plum/english/e_plum(In his terrific memoirs For You the War is Over, Sam Kydd recounts how he was approached by the Germans, when he was a POW, with a view to fighting on their side in future, because of his Irish heritage).
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Post by Frank Shailes on Apr 17, 2023 18:15:25 GMT
Someone needs to make a documentary about these sensitivity readers. All these big decisions and sweeping changes, yet all we know about them are two words (their name/title) I wonder what's more worrying here? Is it the fact that these changes are being made in the first place - or the fact that we know absolutely nothing about the people doing it? The mind boggles. Well, presumably they are recruited from the ranks of the famous "PC Brigade". There is probably an equivalent of the Army List somewhere that will give their names and qualifications, after all they must be keen on transparency, the "disinfectant of sunlight": if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear. Or it could just be some mates of publishers' staff. I doubt there's a contract as they probably do it for fun.
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Post by John Green on Apr 17, 2023 22:50:29 GMT
More seriously, it seems evident that some groups are keener than others on creating, and then staffing, posts which gate-keep the general population's access to cultural material. At its most ludicrous, we have a situation at Mumsnet where threads are deleted if women 'misgender' men, and newspapers have a similar code of practice, which seems to be dropped when it comes to reporting rape and child-abuse. (Eventually Mumsnet, too, allowed accurate referencing in such cases).
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Post by Stuart Douglas on Apr 18, 2023 0:47:15 GMT
Pay attention people. I had to read ELSEWHERE that P.G. Wodehouse was also targeted. What do I come here for? The book in question, 'Thank You Jeeves', has been edited that way for years, and involves removing the n-word. Specifically, the plot involves Bertie Wooster blacking up to disguise himself among a troupe of blackface minstrels - except they are not referred to as "blackface".
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Post by anthonybartley on Apr 26, 2023 15:03:46 GMT
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Post by John Green on Apr 26, 2023 16:39:42 GMT
"The director’s next project is yet to be confirmed but he has been attached to a drama based around the lead character from 1968 drama Bullitt with Bradley Cooper set to star."
Bullitt, eh? Oops.
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Post by sonnybh on Apr 26, 2023 20:28:02 GMT
The 2002 DVD edit of E.T. digitally changes the guns for walkie talkies, Spielberg was quick to change things back!
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Post by John Wall on Jun 25, 2023 15:51:01 GMT
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Post by John Wall on Jun 26, 2023 10:13:25 GMT
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Post by anthonybartley on Jun 27, 2023 22:28:59 GMT
I guess that makes me some sort of ultra-militant.
Why just last month I was stacking books up on shelves that I have no idea what to do with? All from deceased members of the family over the years. I do read a lot, just not what they used to.
However, amongst all the shelves I do recall a stack of Agatha Christie and a few others mentioned in all of this nonsense recently.
Should I be fearing a visit from the authorities? Should I hide them?
Perhaps I could change my name to Montag and invest in a flamethrower?
Are some of us now sitting on some sort of 'black market goldmine' with all these 'uncensored' books?
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Post by garygraham on Jul 6, 2023 4:32:18 GMT
But what do we do when there are no more DVD or bluray players? If someone has 1000 VHS tapes now how much longer will they still be able to play them? Should they, could they, spend ten thousand hours (416 days 24/7) transferring and encoding them? But to what and stored how? Even 100 tapes would be a terrabyte of data if encoded to MP4 with a modest bitrate. And double that with a back up?
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jul 11, 2023 13:14:52 GMT
As usual I'm a bit late on this, but I wouldn't need thousands of VHS tapes, just the Disney ones that were later altered for DVD and can't be transferred to digital because of the VHS copy protection feature. Books are no problem, I buy them secondhand; most of them are really cheap now normal people "don't have time to read". I hate reading books or comics on screen anyway. Personally, I love outdated satire and old science fiction magazines. The satire teaches me history, and the science fiction reads like satire.
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Post by darrenlee on Jul 12, 2023 20:21:37 GMT
As usual I'm a bit late on this, but I wouldn't need thousands of VHS tapes, just the Disney ones that were later altered for DVD and can't be transferred to digital because of the VHS copy protection feature. Books are no problem, I buy them secondhand; most of them are really cheap now normal people "don't have time to read". I hate reading books or comics on screen anyway. Personally, I love outdated satire and old science fiction magazines. The satire teaches me history, and the science fiction reads like satire. Which Disney VHS tapes were altered for DVD and how?
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Post by timmunton on Jul 13, 2023 1:51:55 GMT
Probably what is being referred to is that Disney is known to have messed about with the colour in their classic animations - changing hue & brightness & so on to make them more similar to the colour palettes in their modern films. And probably also sometimes digitally scrubbing out all the film grain.
Animation fans (of which I'm one, though not as exasperated by this as many, as my interest in Disney is relatively small) have mainly been quite annoyed by this, understandably. A slightly strange & rather hypocritical modus operandi by Disney seeing as they've always incessantly trumpeted on about their proud history, legacy & achievements etc. I'll personally believe all that when they give a full restoration to all the 1920s Alice comedies!
Things have improved just recently though it seems: In the last couple of years - maybe changes at the top - Disney has started to listen about this - including listening to animation experts who know about these things & had previously told them but were ignored. So, very recently & with more on the way I hear, releases are starting to appear displaying colour palettes the same (or as close as is possible) to how the films would have been constituted at the time of their original theatrical release. I understand Cinderella - from a 4k restoration no doubt - has been released recently this way (& everyone is very impressed & happy with its new faithfulness of colour) & Snow White is on the way & is assumed will be given the same faithful treatment.
I haven't recently looked into exactly when they started messing with the colour, or more accurately I have read about this many years ago & now can't remember! but from Sue Butcher's comment I would imagine this may well be when VHS releases became DVD releases. Although I think I've heard that even in the VHS era - & in TV screenings before & during that - the colour also wasn't right but not so much due to digital misguided retinkering as other reasons (maybe what sort of prints they were starting with). But the VHS era, although probably also inaccurate as mentioned, was quite possibly closer colour wise (& probably in grain aspect too) than the later more blatant & deliberate DVD era colour changes.
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jul 14, 2023 13:30:16 GMT
I was referring to Disney's reputation for removing "unsuitable" images from cartoon films because... cartoons are for kids, right? I'm not 100% sure of specific examples, I'm just playing safe and keeping the tapes. Carol says they removed the cigarettes from later issues of "Pecos Bill", which seems senseless because what is Bill going to roll with his lips and light with a lightning bolt? As for the technical aspects of DVDs, it's over-compression that bugs me rather than the colour.
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