The Clock Is Ticking — Alert the Authorities!
Saturday 12/31/2005 3:56 PM
 Screen grabs from one of Comcast's On Demand programs. The drill-down menu path to find it was The Cutting Edge, Something Weird, Pop Culture Films, Holiday Matinee Ads. (2002) File Under: Holiday; Movies; Photograph, Digital Manipulation/Composite; Someone Else's Image; Television; Video Capture |
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There are a number of things I've promised to write about on this blog, but never got around to it. One of those items is my re-disocvered love of television programming by way of three different technological advances that have graced my life this year:
- Comcast On Demand
Since I am a digital cable subscriber, I get access to a wide array of pre-recorded programs that are stored on The Big Server In The Sky and are available to me to watch anytime I damn well feel like it.
- Comcast DVR (Digital Video Recording)
I finally have TIVO-like functionality! And does it rock! I love being able to schedule my DVR to record stuff for me, but... there is a problem.
- DVD Recorder
The problem with the DVR is that there are lots of shows I want to save. So I bought a DVD recorder. It's like a VCR, but for recording DVDs. We just recently started on our fourth large geunine leatherette-covered disc holder for our roll-your-own discs. One of those is for Candy and her collection of Monk episodes. One is for my poker shows. One is for my UFO, Mysteries of the Bible and dog programs. The last hardly has anything more than my collection of the remastered Carl Sagan Cosmos series.
It's that first one item on my list though (On Demand) that has provided your image of the day. In their Something Weird section, I found a collection of bygone holiday matinee ads with the following description:
Nothing like a bunch of celebrities hitting you up for money in this collection of ads including "Merry Christmas", "Happy New Year", "Jack Lemmon for Christmas Seals", and "Doris Day's Christmas Message"! Pass the collection plate.
Imagine my delight when I saw that one of the New Year's specials declared that December 31st for whatever year it for was on Saturday — that clinched it for your image of the day. A quick check of the years' past calendars suggests that maybe this was for December 31st, 1955.
Anyway, I'm off to the dog park with the boys. It's a beautiful day with the outside temperature hovering just a nudge below 80°.
See ya next year!
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