Notices by Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social), page 3

Up next is Cat Women on the Moon.

This is another #publicDomain scifi flick. This one is about a secret society of telepathic cat women living on the moon!

It's also kind of a romance?

It's very silly!

https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/brHkRU38LfeFwAuf7mzRJz

Continuing our quest to make Public Domain movies available on New Ellijay Television:

https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/nvfCGmpjmmYoNhjiYiUHCy

A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 Roger Corman joint staring Dick Miller (who has gone on to play a million other small but notable roles, such as the cop in the time travel episode of DS9).

It's part of that run Corman did of "Horror Comedy" in 59. It was shot in like 3 days, with leftover cast, crew, and sets. It's cheap.

It's also my favorite of early Corman, probably. The concept is just so simple, and it works. It's high camp, several years before most people figured out how to make that work.

I wish I had the time to learn real digital animation.

I'd like to make some Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons, among other things.

The Bandleader is an Oswald The Lucky Rabbit short.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, of course, is the antagonist of the Wii Game "Epic Mickey"

He was Walt Disney's first cartoon star. Oswald started appearing in Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney shorts in 1927, and all of those '27 shorts entered the public domain this year.

A lot of them are not currently available in great quality, but I'm working on that.

https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/bY3YkpebsgqkB3vH2yF5kz

To spring is another MGM short about some ... Gnomes? who make spring happen by mining crystals? https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/2bo5Mq3tiFZvmxAuhPvdyR

Doggone Tired! https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/h3iXNB6aDgrXakh9wAN6px

It's a Tex Avery short about a hunting dog that can't get any rest because of a rascally rabbit (just not *that* rascally rabbit.)

Curse of the Aztec Mummy
https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/oaQVwimjzgi7v5JZKyNv9a

I don't know if this one is unquestionably in the public domain, because of the changes in international copyright law over the years, but this American release appears to have never been renewed, and it's widely available through all the usual bargain bin public domain issuers.

So, you know, here it is.

It's a mexican monster movie. It's pretty good

Here's the first episode of The Beverly Hillbillies: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/bwUSqvSE5Z4NwZa2vd8326

It's

It's the Beverly Hillbillies. It's silly. The characters aren't yet fully formed, but they're pretty close to where they end up.

You've probably seen the beverly hillbillies. If you haven't, this pilot gives you a good idea of what you're in for.

Here's a forgotten Lon Chaney Jr flick, the indestructible man: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/4Tyvh813H9tMrGrjW1qNaJ

I say "forgotten", I mean it has been really widely distributed, but it is rarely talked about.

It's a 1956 scifi film, it gets called a horror film, but that's not fair. It's a monster movie, maybe, but it's not a horror film.

If you're a fan of the kinds of movies that Lon Chaney Jr is in, you'll love this.

Next: the 1959 horror film The Killer Shrew. It is widely regarded as a horrible movie, but honestly I think it's kind of cute.

It was produced alongside and released in a double feature with The Giant Gilla Monster. I think they're both cute.

https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/paJ2Ftt9pVEFR6ERi2zw3q

First we have the first Blender Open Movie, Big Buck Bunny.

I feel like a lot of tech folks know Big Buck Bunny, but it (and the rest of the Blender Open Movies) don't seem to be super well known outside Open Source circles.

It's a cute cartoon short, creative commons licensed and made with open source technology: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/5F528nJLUpDsVj9pQdyhsa

For anyone who's interested, but especially @TaxDan who watches New Ellijay Television the most, we've just uploaded a ton of new Video On Demand stuff to #NewEllijayTV

This is a thread of some of these things!

There are people in this country who I am genuinely unwilling to mention by name when criticizing for fear of bringing a mob down upon myself.

So let me just say instead, no one earns a billion dollars. Everyone deserves shelter, food, medicine, safety, and leisure. The men in this country who continue to conspire to keep these things from us are monsters who must be (metaphorically, I must stress, for legal reasons) slayed. Vanquished. Destroyed.

Key requirements: Must output a playlist that OBS can understand (or that VLC can understand so that OBS can understand it)

Must run on Ubuntu

Must crash less often than editing a playlist on VLC.

Ideally, this is not a video player, but a piece of software dedicated to managing playlists.

The trick is that I need it to be really easy and fast and obvious to update in one of two ways:

1 - put a video in the right folder, or tag it with the right metadata, and it automatically gets slotted in to the appropriate places (in a clockwheel, this would be a rule like "newest file with tag" or "newest file from folder" or "least recently played file from folder", the last of which ideally would default to the newest unplayed file and work backwards.)

Hey fediverse!

I'm trying to do a thing that seems simple, but is basically unsearchable.

I want a piece of software to build video playlists.

I don't want youtube playlists, which is all I find when I search for this.

I don't want music playlists.

I don't want to use the playlist function built in to VLC because, while it's perfectly serviceable, it occasionally crashes while I'm building the list, it doesn't autosave when it crashes, and it's a pain in the ass to move things around.

My ideal piece of software for this would let me tag files with metadata and then build clockwheels based on that metadata such that certain events happened at certain times, and triggered other events based on proximity until the next timed event. (for example: Play one of the videos in this folder at the top of the hour. When it's over, shuffle videos from this folder until the top of the next hour)

So far I've found some software for music that mostly does this, and I could probably hack up a thing that would make it work for video.

But that's going to be hacky and fragile.

I'd settle for just having a good graphical interface.

Hey! Y'all know about things.

I'm looking at Letterbox'd. Is Letterbox'd bad? Is it good?

Is there a federated open source letterbox alternative?

Hey! Do you have any advice on marketing physical products for retail sales?

We are producing records, roasting coffee, making toys, and selling cassette tapes, and I have no idea what the best way to market these physical items might be.

We sell through a couple of retail stores, and also online. Our physical store sales go well, and we have good stuff, and if we could move more of it, I could give more money to members of our community.

Alright, the first of my weird gadgets has arrived.

It's the most mundane of the three weird gadgets. It's a portable external monitor.

What makes it special for me is that it has HDMI in, USB-C Video in, two USB-C Ports, Power distribution over USB-C , okay built in speakers, and a headphone jack.

So I can connect it up with a single cable to a device with a single USB-C port and have a second 15.6" 1080p monitor.

And when my battery wanes, I can plug my power brick in to my monitor and charge over the same cable that is delivering ideo to the monitor.

This is currently being tested on my System 76 Lemura pro, as I type this on one screen, and watch Yor The Hunter from the Future in VLC on the other screen.