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= December 24 =

A 1950s or 1960s daugher-father duet
Hi ! I'm trying to recall a song. I guess it's a song from the 1950s or early 1960s. What I remember is that : the girl who sings might be around ten or twelve. She is speaking with her father, presumably on the phone. The rythm is quite frenetic. It's an US song. That's all what I remember. If someone knows... Jean-no (talk) 00:03, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * @Jean-no Do you recall any of the lyrics? Lyric searches on Google have led me to songs with even just a few words, sometimes even if they're misheard. Seventy years on this will sound weird, but given the time frame it may be helpful to know if the singers were black or white. That is, was it a mainstream "pop" song or part of the R&B universe? Matt Deres (talk) 14:47, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * @Matt Deres I'm quite sure the father says "Is that my baby ?", and the girl calls him "daddy". That's not a lot. Jean-no (talk) 23:05, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

House Of The Black Death
According to the article for the movie House of the Black Death, the film is apparently based on the book The Widderburn Horror; however, the earliest publication date that I can find for that book is 1971, 6 years after the film was released. Can anyone explain this? (Incidentally, the page also gets the name of the author wrong).

Iwasateenagecannibalwerewolffrombeyondplanetx (talk) 05:18, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The author (Ruth Warner-Crozetti – the hyphen is sometimes omitted) seems not to have been a very prolific and/or successful writer, I can trace only one other work by her, a 1954 collaborative short story published in the struggling magazine Spaceway (to whose editor William L. Crawford the novel is dedicated) under a pair of pseudonyms, hers being "J. M. Loring."
 * I speculate that she had some connection with the film's other writer Richard Mahoney, or someone else involved with it, and that they either utilised her unpublished MS of the novel, or that the novel was actually based on the screenplay. The connection with the film may then have been enough to get the book published by a couple of rather low-end paperback houses, Leisure Books in the US in Dec 1971, and Five Star (PBS Limited) in the UK in 1973. (I happen to have a copy of each edition – damn, I suppose I'm going to have to read the book now.)
 * It's also possible that the cited source The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide, which presumably is responsible for the incorrect name, is simply mistaken about the connection, although Stephen Jones is usually reliable. Perhaps you could contact him via his website and see if he can shed more light. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.122.56.237 (talk) 11:32, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The author name "Lora Crozetti" is simply a pen name used by Ruth G. Warner Crozetti. "Lora" may simply have been her nickname. Seeing as she also used the pen name Rich O'Mahoney, it seems likely that the credited script writer "Richard Mahoney" and the book author are the same natural person. As an old-time member of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, she could easily have had contact with (prospective) producers of horror fantasy flicks to whom to peddle her script. --Lambiam 12:28, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the information; honestly, I didn't expect there to be that much information about the book out there, given it's obscurity. I'm not curious enough about the topic to actually go out and contact the author of any of the sources, though; I was just curious about an apparent oddity about the dates on the page. Iwasateenagecannibalwerewolffrombeyondplanetx (talk) 14:39, 24 December 2020 (UTC)


 * My thanks also to Lambiam for the further information. Having now almost finished the novel, I must say that it seems more accomplished and interesting than the plot summary of the film sounds, and reads as if it's (at least) the second work of a series about its main protagonist, psychic detective Eric Campion (a nod to Margery Allingham?). {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.122.56.237 (talk) 08:30, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Is there any specific name for this effect?
Effect makes the video looks like bending. Video Is there any specific name for this effect? Rizosome (talk) 13:45, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Possibly corner pinning. I'm not a video effects guy, so maybe there's a more specific name for it, but it sure looks similar (albeit used slightly differently). It's a distortion effect. Matt Deres (talk) 05:07, 25 December 2020 (UTC)