Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2008 September 7

= September 7 =

Name of this piece of surf music?
Hey, can anyone identify the name of the surf music that starts playing at 1:10 on this video ('John McCain - Reformed Maverick' from the Daily Show)? I've heard it several times before. If you also know the name of that first music in the video as well, please let me know. Thanks! &mdash; Kieff | Talk 01:57, 7 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Argh! I can't view it! ("In Canada, Comedy Central videos are available on The Comedy Network .") I couldn't find it at their website, though—the most recent Daily Show is 4 Sept. I may try tomorrow. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 10:31, 7 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The music sounds pretty generic to me. Probably stock production music. —D. Monack talk 20:08, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

How to Load Images of Objects in the Correct Ways on Wikipedia
My favorite things include dimples, feet, arches, hands, shoes, cxties from the Upper Midwest extended eastward into Mid Atlantic and Miss Americas.

What are appropriate or unsuitable images to bring under this Wikipedia regarding these objects? Atkinson 10:18, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * This is more of a help desk question, but here is info about using images on Wikipedia. Fribbler (talk) 19:53, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

who played on this song
who played bass guitar on chaka khans (i feel for you ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.163.144 (talk) 13:14, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * According to I Feel for You (album), it's Reggie Griffin. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 15:09, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

First car chase
What was the very first car chase in a film? (Artical says Bullitt included first "modern" chase.) --S.dedalus (talk) 20:58, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Just before that, the article says "car chases on film were staged as early as the motor vehicle itself", but I have a feeling that isn't quite true. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 01:25, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Indeed, but there has to be a “first” doesn’t there. What was the very first film? Was it of a car chase? Haha --S.dedalus (talk) 03:45, 8 September 2008 (UTC)


 * It's all semantics. What does "modern" mean?  What was modern in 1968 wouldn't be modern in 2001.  I suppose if you divide the entire cinematic era into modern and pre-modern, you have to draw the dividing line somewhere.  Would 1968 be that line?  I kinda doubt it, somehow.  And what does "first film" mean?  The first feature film (not that such terminology existed back then) is usually reckoned as The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906; Australia).  Did it have a car chase sequence?  I've never seen it and am never likely to, but again I doubt it.  --  JackofOz (talk) 04:17, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * This claims it was in the 1903 Runaway Match. This car chase database says it could be. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:36, 8 September 2008 (UTC)


 * It is certain that there was a "first chase on film", but that doesn't mean that anybody alive has an answer. It could have easily been a penny-arcade film (you put in a penny and watched a very short film - which could have been a car chase).  Those things did not survive.  The films were low quality and deteriorated.  The people who produced it weren't into movies, they were just making a quick buck (or penny, in this case).  So, a few years after the fact, nobody would really remember that little strip of film with a car chase on it. --  k a i n a w &trade; 12:25, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Many early films by Thomas Edison are viewable from the Library of Congress website, because, to preserve copyright, he sent them paper prints of the films, and the paper survived after the celluloid film rotted. Here is an automobile parade from November 4, 1899, in a snowstorm. Policemen on bicycles had no trouble keeping up  Does that count as a 'chase?" In the infancy of motion pictures, they were just novelty films and not plotted shoot-em -ups, so a car chase as a plot element of a drama would have had to happen after films matured a bit. Edison (talk) 01:33, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

First episode of Guiding Light
I want to listen to the first radio episode of Giuding Light, which was presumably first broadcast in 1937. Is there some way I could hear it online? Thanks. --Ye Olde Luke (talk) 22:18, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * As in "online... for free"? Or simply online?  Dismas |(talk) 03:08, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, you can get the more recent episodes online for free. --Ye Olde Luke (talk) 22:17, 8 September 2008 (UTC)