Just as amusing, but scary, is how news anchors have been replaced by people who don't have a mastery of the english language.

For further amusement, watch a program with closed captioning! Just a decade ago, networks would never have hired the spelling impaired to translate for the hearing impaired!

Quote from: quiller on December 13, 2010, 07:37:20 PM
I've got a bunch of old Adventures of Robin Hood shows with Richard Greene, featuring original Wildroot Cream Oil for Men as the sponsor. (Back in the days when everyone looked like Mitt Romney with glistening oiled hair).

When you think of it, convincing a kid he needed hair oil was just about as bright as Warner Bras being a sponsor for the syndicated Lone Ranger program (in at least one area).

Another difference between now and then was that villains in Ye Olde Days of TV and radio (and pulps and movies too) were in fact often foreign and of other races. (The Max Rohmer series of Fu Manchu tales, and dang near anything starring Anna Mae Wong.)

Turned around, there were wily Asian detectives, but only whites in starring roles --- Peter Lorre and others.

Monsters were still monsters. But back then we could see the zippers up the back. Today we see the monster's innards and everything else. Some progress!

The Green hornet's "Japanese Houseboy" Kato, turned Chinese after Pearl Harbour, according to my Dad.


Billy

I noticed we never see Muscum super heroes. ::) :D

Quote from: wally on December 14, 2010, 05:18:36 AM
Ted Turner owns them.  I'm sure if you join his cult of Global Warmists, they show al of the old movies at their meetings....

(actually, they are reairing the old classics; everything from "It's a wonderful life" to "From here to Eternity"; if you can get your kids and/or grandkids to unhook the xbox from the tv in the livingroom)
(I watch them in my bedroom; nobody else much cares to give black & white a chance)

Wally, you are SO right! The very best of the best was shot in B&W! Stagecoach. High Noon. Back then, the "old West" was just a memory or two away.

Quote from: BILLY-bONNEY on December 14, 2010, 03:23:30 PM

The Green hornet's "Japanese Houseboy" Kato, turned Chinese after Pearl Harbour, according to my Dad.


Billy

True---as in the night of the attack, if I recall my history of that Detroit-based radio series correctly. To radio actors and directors and audiences, the accent remained identical for any Asian character. Hey: they all sounded Oriental, so radio lumped them together.

Quote from: Solar on December 14, 2010, 04:22:24 PM
I noticed we never see Muscum super heroes. ::) :D

We see PIECES of them, maybe, stuck to some wall.

Quote from: quiller on December 14, 2010, 06:03:08 PM
We see PIECES of them, maybe, stuck to some wall.

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are. LOL! They don't generally die of old age, do they?