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i saw the War Wagon again on 05-29-2019.
Characters talked of going south toward the border from Emmitt to find Eli Walking Bear, so Emmitt must be in the USA. The mine is said to be the richest gold mine in the territory. Texas became a state in 1846, while New Mexico remained a territory until 1912. And some signs in Emmitt say "Emmitt N.M." so Emmitt is in New Mexico.
Since there was a Gatling gun, the movie should be after 1862 when the first type of Gatling gun was patented, but may be after 1881 since that is when the first railroad reached El Paso.
[quote]It's just a sublet thing, but I don't think Captain Kirk would refer to one of his male officers as "the boy."
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Lieutenant Robert Tomlinson in TOS "Balance of Terror" was portrayed by Stephen Mines (born 3 February 1939) who was 27 years, 5 months, and 22 days old when filming his scenes as Tomlinson on 25 July 1966.
And at the end of the episode:
KIRK: How many men did we lose, Bones?
MCCOY: Only one. Tomlinson. The boy who was getting married this morning. His fianc�e is at the chapel.
So Dr. McCoy called Tomlinson a boy despite Tomlinson being well past the age of adulthood and McCoy being less than twice Tomlinson's age. And that is something which I have noticed for a long time.
05-26-19 I just saw "The Mission Part 1".
US Grant is president, and it is said that it has been 15 months since the court martial of Jason McCord.
Grant was president from March 4, 1869 to March 4, 1877, so "The Mission Part 1" must happen sometime between March 4, 1869 and March 4, 1877.
So the court martial of Jason McCord happened sometime between about January 1, 1868 and January 1, 1876, and the battle of Bittter Creek happened sometime before the court martial.
I once read some where that the censors didn't permit navels to be seen when Star Trek was one the air, and so in a 1970s pilot film - possibly Genesis II (1973) or Planet Earth (1974) - Gene Roddenberry made up for it with a character who had two exposed navels.
Possibly that rule was enforced in the first season but ended by the third season.
But in the first season "Shore Leave" the two chorus girls have uncovered navels. But their navels are not quite exposed since it looks like they are wearing little beads in them.
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Thus I have to wonder if there ever was censorship of the navel in Star Trek.
Actually in the first season, Emily Banks (born 23 January 1933) played Yeoman Tonia Barrows in "Shore Leave" and turned 33 years and 9 months old during the filming of the episode.
And Yeoman Barrows referred to her self as a girl several times.
For example:
"All a girl needs is Don Juan."
According to Merriam-Webster:
Definition of girl
1a : a female child from birth to adulthood
b : DAUGHTER
c : a young woman
d sometimes offensive : a single or married woman of any age
2a : SWEETHEART
b often offensive : a female servant or employee
3 US, informal
a : a female friend
I love going to a spa and dinner with my girls.
— Karen Clifton
b —used as a friendly way of addressing a woman or girl
Hey girl, I like your taste in Christmas gifts.
— Miranda Crace
Girl, you need to give yourself some credit.
[url]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/girl[/url]
At the present time the legal age of majority in the USA is 18, when TOS was made it was 21.
Jan Shutan (born 5 November 1932) turned 34 years old during filming of "The Lights of Zetar" and was definitely not a girl according to definition 1a. However, she could be classified as a girl according to some of the other definitions of a girl.
I remember when my grandmother used to call her old women friends "the girls". It is true that they were probably all significantly younger than her, since they were still alive, but they were still old women.
as for the hairstyles, one can always assume that there are problems making historical period films accurately - which of course is true.
In historical period films the characters and the actors portraying them are different, so the characters wore hairstyles which they liked and were fashionable in their own eras and the actors often couldn't be forced to wear the goofy hairstyles of past centuries, insisting that they instead wear the goofy hair styles of their own era.
One can assume or pretend that a historical fiction movie like a western is a recreation of actual historical facts, but the historical characters don't look like the actors who portray them, and the costumes and hairstyles of the movies are often anachronistic.
So one can pretend that the story is true but the visuals are an inaccurate modern recreation.
As I remember, there are several Bonanza episodes with historic events.
There is at least one episode with the Pony Express, which operated from April 3, 1860 to October 1861 in real history before the overland telegraph put it out of business.
And there may be an episode about the First Battle of Pyramid Lake 12 May 1860 and/or the Second Battle of Pyramid Lake on July 2-4, 1860.
If Little Joe was about 20 in 1860 he would have been born about 1840, and Hoss would have been born 1834-1835, and Adam would have been born about 1827-1829. (When Adam was born, going as far as Indiana might have been what Ben meant by going west) Ben would have acquired the Pondorosa during about 1834-1840, when Nevada was Mexican but probably had very few Mexicans or Americans living in it.
It seems to me that after the Comstock Lode was discovered Ben would have had trouble holding on to the Pondorosa. Just as the California gold rushers didn't respect the land rights of Mexicans or Indians or general Sutter the prospectors in Nevada wouldn't have respected Ben's rights any more than they respected the Piutes'.
So possibly there had been some sort of conflict between Ben and the prospectors just before the first episode which made Ben hostile to people entering the Pondorosa but it was settled by later episodes.
PS there was a parody of Bonanza in Mad Magazine long ago where the size of the Pondorosa was emphasized in a song Ben sang:
From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli,
the land is called the Pondorosa, and it all belongs to me.
Oops! I saw Southwest Passage again and Beale said the bugler was Lilly's size and they gave Lilly a pair of the bugler's pants.
I didn't see the bugler at all close this time but just saw him in the background and can't say how big he was.
Joanne Dru was said to be 5 feet 2.5 inches or 1.66 meters tall. So a bugler close to her size should have been noticeably shorter than most of the men in the troop.
If the bugler was the same size as most of the men his uniform pants would have had to be rather elastic to fit Lilly so well.
Three dead wives in a row is enough to make someone see a pattern or curse, whether it is there or not!
Of course some men and women have been know to remarry even after three or more spouses have died, not believing or caring if there was a curse on their spouses.
As far as I know Nevada was pretty much uninhabited by Americans until just a few years before the 1860s when Bonanza is set.
So it would not only have been impossible for Ben Cartwright to build up the Pondorosa so fast by totally legal and non shady methods, it should have been impossible for Ben Cartwright to build up the Pondorosa Ranch so fast by even the most evil and illegal methods.
So Bonanza should be in some alternate universe where Americans began settling Nevada years or decades earlier than in our history. Maybe there was some totally fictional Spanish land grant to the Pondorosa area. And maybe Ben Cartwright somehow acquired both the ownership of the land grant and enough money to hire cowboys and other workers for the ranch, and established it right before the Comstock Lode was discovered and the silver rush began and there was a big market for the products of the ranch.
Or maybe Ben found a strange middle eastern oil lamp, rubbed it, and a genie appeared to grant three wishes.
I have read that there were several flashback episodes of Bonanza, including three that told how Ben Cartwright met the three mothers of his three sons. Since the sons were in their 20s and 30s they should have been born in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s if Bonanza time is the same as historical times. And those flashback episodes should give clues about Ben's occupations and locations at those times.
To me it seems an obvious task in writing that if Character A follows character B from C to D, and arrives a certain amount of time after Character B does, then the interval between Character A and Character B leaving should be approximately equal to the interval between them arriving. But possibly the scriptwriters wanted to show Victoria meeting Simon as the first scene in "Ambush" to set up that the episode was about them.
I'm sure that there are sites about the outdoor sets used in movie and tv production as well as books about them.
There is a movie, Fort Utah (1967) with a lot of scenes inside a fort set. And there is at least one scene where someone looks out through fort gates and a Vasquez Rocks formation is visible a short distance away. It is possible that most of the fort scenes were filmed at Paramount studios, there must have been at least a section of fort wall and a gate built at Vasquez Rocks. Anyway, this shows that sometimes movie sets were built at Vasquez Rocks.
The only outdoors location listed is Vasquez Rocks.
According to Google Maps, there aren't any standing buildings at Vasquez Rocks that look like a mission. But when I zoomed in and moved around the area I did see, west of the entrance, what looked like foundations of demolished buildings, possibly from former movie sets.
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Are you suggesting that TV shows might have depicted their protagonists as being more honorable than real persons in their positions tended to be? How shocking!
In the case of the Big Valley, I have read that Mr. Barkley Sr. died 6 years before the first episode. It is possible that he spent about 20 years building up his huge ranch using methods both fair and foul, and that since his death his heirs have continued to run the property but restricted their methods to the fair category, realizing that some of the deeds of their husband and father were too unethical for them.
A number of western movies have owners of big ranches who see quite likely to have bended, twisted, and broken the laws and ethics to built up their cattle empires.
In The man from Laramie (1955) the Waggoman ranch called The Barb, somewhere in Apache territory a thousand miles from Fort Laramie, is said to be 100,000 acres in one scene, and in another is said to stretch farther than a man can ride in three days in every direction. Alec Waggoman, the owner, isn't as bad as his son but seems rather sinister and probably built up his ranch in underhanded ways.
In Duel in the Sun (1946) Senator McCanles's Spanish Bit Ranch is a million acres large, somewhere in far western Texas. Since the senator threatens to massacre hundreds of people at one point I find it easy to believe that he built up the Spanish Bit ranch using shady or down right pitch black methods.
As I have read, many large ranches grew by exploiting loopholes in the homesteading laws which were designed to allow poor men to acquire public land for free after claiming it and working and improving it for a stated number of years.
Richer and more successful western ranchers had a number of employees like cowboys, etc. And they would have each employee file a claim to a number of acres around a waterhole or along a creek and after the required number of improvements and the required number of years for homesteading the employee would get that land free.
And after the employee got the ownership of that plot of land, the rancher would have the employee sell the land to the rancher cheap, but at a big profit for the employee. And thus the rancher would come to own the only places to water livestock in a large region of public land. Anyone could graze their cattle on the public land, but the rancher could keep their cattle from drinking water on the plots of land that the rancher owned. Thus the rancher could monopolize the grazing on large areas of public land that were many times the size of the land he legally owned.
Other ranchers who wanted to graze their herds on the public land near the water owned by the big rancher had to pay him rent to use his watering holes. And when neighboring ranchers were unsuccessful and wanted to sell out, the bigger and richer land owners would buy their herds and their land and thus increase the amount of private land they owned and the amount of public land they could control access to.
Thus a large ranch would come to control the use of regions of public land that were many times larger than the parcels of land actually owned by the ranch.
So among the western ranchers, the rich got richer and richer by repeating the homesteading process by their employees and hiring more employees to homestead more land, and buying up neighboring ranches and their herds. And so a few western ranches got very large.
Well, Lena is back alive as of "Friendship Hates Magic", so as far as I am concerned Magica can survive.
Because Donald Duck wore a black coat at the time of his greatest glory and the creators of Duck Tales sometimes make efforts to restore Donald's former glory.
The last 50 years when you say that Donald wore blue only go back to 1969.
Note that Huey, Dewey, and Louie are the protagonists of both Duck Tales shows, and they go on adventures with Uncle Donald and Uncle Scrooge.
When did Huey, Dewey, and Louie first go on adventures with Donald and Scrooge?
In the great Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comic books by Carl Barks in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
And what was the usual color of Donald Duck's coat in those comic books? Black.
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Why does Webby call Donald duck one of the greatest adventures of all time in "Woo-Ooo!"?
Because the adventures of Donald, Scrooge, and the boys in the Carl Barks stories were some of the greatest adventure stories in all of comic books. Carl Barks made Donald Duck one of the greatest adventure heroes of all time. (The adventures of Donald and Scrooge were one of the inspirations for Indiana Jones).
And the creators of Duck Tales 2017 are trying to return Donald Duck to some of his former glory as one of the greatest adventurers of all time, as can be seen for example in "The Shadow War". So naturally they want to restore Donald's appearance to that of his glory days by changing the color of his coat back to black.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
There are a lot of bridges over the Thallahatchie Bridge. I don't know why the one in Money, Mississippi is suggested as the one in the song, except that it is just a few miles from where Bobbie Gentry grew up in Greenwood.
And now I have read a suggestion that the Thallahatchie Bridge in the song was farther northeast, where the Thallahatchie river is in the highlands of the Choctaw Ridge.
This page [url]http://jjmccullough.com/billyjoe.htm[/url] claims it happens near Batesville, Mississippi:
"An internet source uncovered a valuable old map that clearly marks the delta and the place where the Tallahatchie River intersects Choctaw Ridge. This would put the events in and around Batesville, Mississippi. From Robert Pollack's description of his scanned map:
I like this map because I have seen no other of Panola County, and because of the clarity with which it indicates the Delta, which is ambiguous on most maps though it is not ambiguous when driving into or out of it.
Also, I learned from this map that Choctaw Ridge names the border separating the Delta from the Hills. This realization shed new light on the Bobbie Gentry song, in that a) the line "Nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge" could reflect the historic cultural antagonism between the Delta whites and "Rednecks" from the hills, and that b) the central event of the song presumably occurs in Panola County, as the Tallahatchie River crosses Choctaw Ridge here, and thus the Tallahatchie Bridge named in the song is presumably here as well.
This seems to incontrovertibly narrow down the non-fictional location of this fictional event. Thus the Tallahatchie Bridge could refer to any bridge that crosses the Tallahatchie River."
But on the other hand, Bobbie Gentry would have known that Money, Mississippi's other claim to fame was what was put into the Thallahatchie River on August 28, 1955, so possibly the bridge in the song was supposed to be the one in Money.
Possibly it might have been to establish that Catherine had big shoes to fill and might have felt inadequate and intimidated by her mother's achievements and abilities.
Of course in real life both Isabella and Catherine were sufficiently military for people in their positions. Isabella was the ruler of Castile when Castille conquered Granada and so was responsible for the victory. Catharine was in charge in England while her husband Henry VIII was away and so was responsible for the victory over the Scots at Flodden - maybe not as much as the Earl of Surrey who was in command at Flodden but to a degree.
There have been a few shows where I have wondered for years or decades how to fit the interior sets of a building into the exterior sets, since it looks like the interiors are larger than the exteriors.
And in science fiction shows like Lost in Space (1965-68) and Star Trek (1966-69) space vehicles like the Jupiter 2 or the shuttlecraft Galileo 7 seem larger on the inside (probably for ease in filming in them) than on the outside (probably for lesser expense in building them).
Thus not caring enough about making the insides and the outsides fit seems to be a very common factor in Hollywood production design.
Actually I have read that there are several episodes where the wagon train reaches its destination, California or Oregon, and then the main characters take a ship back east, and also that there are several episodes where the main cast lead a new wagon train out of Missouri.
It is possible that the first episode of each season had a new wagon train head west and the last episode of each season had that season's wagon train reach its destination. But I am not familiar enough with Wagon Train to say whether that is true or not.