User talk:Tbrittreid/Archive/2008/November

Hiawatha
The one with the "last Mohican" joke was a different one, I forget its name. That was kind of a tall, pot-bellied and dopy-looking Indian. The one from Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt was short and looked a bit like Elmer Fudd. It was back-referenced in What's Cookin' Doc? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 20:56, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It's called A Feather in His Hare. The voice of the Indian in that one does not appear to be Mel Blanc. IMDB says it's Michael Maltese, one of the writers. That could well be. I'd have to compare it to other cartoons where Maltese was a voice. Co-writers of A Feather in His Hare were Maltese and Tedd Pierce, whose voices were both used in Wackiki Wabbit. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 02:43, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Manhunter
Did my edit make it clear what I was trying to say? Simonson says the following ''He shown me a long list of possible names for the character. Eventually we settled on Paul Kirk because that was the name of the Simon/Kirby Manhunter in the 40s. We didn't really do it at the time because we had planned to link the characters together. We did link them together later, but in the beginning we just thought that one name is as good as another, and why the heck not?''

and "Somewhere around the third issue we thought it would be kinda fun to actually make it the same guy from the old Kirby Manhunter. We thought making him the other character would open up his backstory". BTW, would you consider archiving old discussion on this page, it's pretty big and slow to load. --Cameron Scott (talk) 23:23, 14 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm on a 24mps connection but I'm aware many of our users aren't :-) I've got the whole collection of modern masters so I've plenty of other quotes to put in and other references (those are great books) --Cameron Scott (talk) 21:45, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Lol - no that's 24 MEG per second. Simonson talks a bit about the paper in his Modern Masters. :-) --Cameron Scott (talk) 23:10, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Question
Hi. I created a section over at the King Kong page explaining in detail the rights situation. (I finally dug out my book Living Dangerously from storage and went through it.) Anyway when you read the opening paragraph, I put "See Below" right next to with limited rights held by the estate of Merian C Cooper. I want to have it so that when you click on "See Below" it goes right to the "Character Rights" section. Since you seem to be a more of an expierenced editor then I, I was wondering if you knew how to do it?Giantdevilfish (talk) 19:56, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Alright thanks for the assist. Looks good. I hope that clears up any questions people might have about the rights. Mark Cotta Vaz's book is a great read and very thorough with pages and pages of citations near the back of the book, mostly from letters and court documents. His book is invaluable to anyone interested in Cooper's life. If his name sounds familar, its because he was also interviewed extensively for the I'm King Kong documentary about Cooper on WB's DVD release of King Kong (1933) back in 2005 as well as the Production 601 documentary on the film itself.

As for that Robert L Bendick fellow, according to the book (page 349) he was A combat cameraman with the First Motion Picture Unit from Cooper's old battleground of the China-Burma-India theater. He's also described as being the coproducer on the seminal Cinerama featureGiantdevilfish (talk) 00:54, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

''No idea what Mark Cotta Vaz would have meant by "the seminal Cinerama feature." The only potentially relevant definition in the dictionary at hand here is "rudimentary" which might suggest the introductory film This Is Cinerama, essentially a travelogue designed to showcase the "new" process.''

Yeah that's what he meant. In the earlier paragraph above when I wrote out that quote about Robert L Bendick from Pg.349, it's in Chapter 29 which is titled This Is Cinerama. That whole chapter is devoted to that topic. So that's what Cotta Vaz was referring to.Giantdevilfish (talk) 22:06, 17 November 2008 (UTC)