More movies

[outsdr]

So, long forgotten movie scenes from my childhood keep bubbling up in my mind, and I'm trying to track them down in google by describing them ans seeing what comes up.

For instance, I remember one where a boy falls in love with a certain horse on a carousel. He always rides that horse, until one day, the carousel is gone, and he is heartbroken. He searches for the horse, and finds it, and it is placed where he can sit on it whenever he likes. The end. I don't remember any dialog.

So, I put this in Google:

movie boy carousel horse love

And found this about eight results down:

I haven't checked yet to see if this is on DVD; I somehow doubt that it will be.

Other movies I vaguely remember:

One that seemed to be set in Greece. A ball of light flies across the sky, and a giant stone statue comes to life and begins crushing people under its feet. As it is about to crush someone, a woman runs in front and screams to it to crush her instead (Very reminiscent of the Daemons, to be honest. But I saw this when I was four!) The giant statue disappears, and the ball of light flies away.

movie flying light sky giant statue crushing people - No luck!

A boy loses his dog, and tearfully searches for it, only to find that a blind man has taken it in to care for and use as a seeing eye dog. The boy sadly leaves his dog to its new home. (I remember crying at this one.)

movie boy lost dog blind man

Found this one immediately! And it's another educational movie. Seriously, what the hell were they trying to teach us in the early 70s?

Along with Larry Yust's 'Lottery', 'Clown' was possibly one of the two best selling ed films ever made. On the surface, it's a cute kid & dog story. Underlying is a possible subtext that fascinates us every time we view the film, and makes for a satisfying, yet ultimately ambiguous ending. Gilou Pelletier is outstanding as the small boy, and the camera work by Guy Suzuki takes wonderful advantage of the terraces of Montmartre.

You can watch it AND download it here: http://archive.org/details/lcoa_clown_1968

A trio of British children lose their bed (Seriously.) They search the city for it, and when they find it begin to push it back home. And one point, a hobo falls asleep on it and they wake him up and get him to move by waving a sandwich under his nose.

movie British children lost bed - no luck

I've also got many vague memories of Godzilla movies, but these are easy to identify. They have Godzilla in them.

Comments

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

That last one's not "Bedknobs and Broomsticks", is it?

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

I considered that myself; but I don't think it was long enough. There was also, according to my faded memory, no magic whatsoever.

The bed brass, ornate I believe, and it was on wheels. They pushed it home, and had little adventures on the way (bed gets away from them, bed disappears, etc.)

I'm pretty sure this one I watched in the back room off the Children's Books area at the Ruth Enlow Library.

I love that library.

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

Thanks to the National Library of Australia, as a kid I saw a lot of brilliant animated movies, many of them National Film Board of Canada stuff. I've tracked down lots of them, though I still haven't found the one with all the Magritte bowler-hatted clerks flying through giant doughnuts or whatever it was. Once seen, always remembered.

I wonder if your living statue was animated by Ray Harryhausen.

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure there were any giant living statues that WEREN'T animated by Ray Harryhausen, lol!

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

As Mork once said, "Well, that narrows it down to everything!" XD

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, do NOT watch 'Clown' if you're the slightest bit sad.

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have "Third Star" here for when I get a minute to watch it. A two box o' tissues weepie, I am assured.

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

I distinctly remember being 3-4 years old and watching it on TV; it was early in the day; I was curled up naked in a chair (why, I dunno) and I understood perfectly what was going on, although I didn't really understand why the blind man needed the dog (Just that the dog needed to be with him.)

And by the end, four year old me was weeping silently as the film ended.






Now, keep in mind that the mechanical floor buffer my mother used on the floors used to make me cry as well, so my emotional remembrances are highly suspect.