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September 27

Movie/TV show with printable cell phone

Anyone remember a movie or a TV show set in the future where the leading woman goes to a vending machine and it prints out a flexible circuit board. She folds it in half and instantly has a disposable cell phone. It's been bugging me for days trying to remember it. --70.167.58.6 (talk) 01:34, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

If you figure it out on your own, please post back here with the answer. Now it's bugging me... I've seen it and can't think of the title. Dismas|^(talk) 18:05, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Ultraviolet (film) APL (talk) 20:05, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Really?? I'll have to rent that again. I could have sworn it was an episode of Stargate SG-1 or the Knight Rider 2010 movie. --70.167.58.6 (talk) 21:11, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

APL is right. It's even mentioned in the article. What's odd though is that I've never seen that movie (though I would like to considering the female lead!!) and I can almost picture the scene with the phone printing. Dismas|^(talk) 04:32, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Really. The scene is exactly as you described. She makes some weird comment about how her own personal phone is being traced even though her number "changes every sixty seconds", then she walks up to a vending machine and swipes her credit card bracelet. The machine announces "Disposable phone ... printing". The phone comes out like a ticket out of a subway fare machine. She grabs it, folds it over once, and immediately dials a number and places a call. Nifty. APL (talk) 07:40, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

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See he. DAVID ŠENEK 11:51, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

lost songs

There are two 60's songs I'd be so grateful to be helped by knowing title & perfomer.

One says something about "stronger than a mountain, taller than a tree but I'm too old for love" or something like that.

The other one has a paragraph saying: "forget it, all your love & tender kisses, plans for you to be my missus I don't think I ever had"

Thanks for your help in these frivolities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mannix Joe (talk • contribs) 20:24, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

I think song 1 is "Longer" by Dan Fogelberg, and the line is "Stronger than any mountain cathedral, taller than any tree ever grew, deeper than any forest primeval, and I am in love with you." I'm not sure on song 2... --Jayron32.talk.contribs 20:59, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Not sure, but maybe it was misheard? Immediately Buddy Holly came to my mind with All your love, all your kisses. --Con^structor 04:34, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

That'd be "All of my love/all of my kissin/you don't know/what you've been a-missin'" from "Oh Boy". Its also the opening line of the song, and seems to have a different rhythm from what was quoted above, but its a possibility... --Jayron32.talk.contribs 04:39, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

What's the tune? (classical music)

Thanks. [1] Imagine Reason (talk) 21:58, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

If you mean the thing you get when you click "Play sample," the tune is Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King". And I really wanted to replace my sig with "Hans Beckert" for this one. Deor (talk) 23:41, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Man, I like Brian Setzer, but that's a bad application of that tune (swing jazz version of In The Hall of the Mountain King)? It totally robs the power of the original. It'd be much better suited for some heavy metal shred music, of something dark and heavy like that. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 23:52, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

How many movies do movie reviewers watch?

How many movies have Leonard Maltin, Roger Ebert viewed? per year, per day, total? Thanks. --Rajah (talk) 22:20, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

I doubt either of them have ever published statistics like this, especially for the long term -- or that they even keep any. -- Captain Disdain (talk) 01:54, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

The FAQ page on Ebert's web site at the Sun-Times says that the site provides over 5,500 reviews that he has written since 1967, although there are some older reviews they don't have. So, depending on how recently the page was updated, that would be somewhere around 140 per year on average. Occasionally he reviews the same movie more than once, and presumably he once in a while sees a movie that he does not write a review of, but it should be safe to say he's seen somwhere between 5,000 and 10,000 movies. --Anonymous Ebert fan, 17:07 UTC, September 29, 2008.

Video game

Somebody remembers a beat 'em up video game in which the player fights against humans and dinosaurs. Also there is a level where the player can drive a car and the player can defeat enemies with it except for the boss. It is difficult to keep the car intact for long, because the boss is armed with grenades. David Pro (talk) 22:25, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Probably Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. You beat up bad guys and bad dinos, and you drive a (surprise surprise!) Cadillac in one of the levels. I remember it being rather fun back in the day... :) -- Kreachure (talk) 23:47, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Stock TV sounds/music?

Hi! I've tried looking for a sound/music pack (library) containing all those stock sounds effects and music that are repeatedly used on TV and that you've heard so many times in so many different TV shows of all sorts (including a few infomercials and other low-budget programs). I'm guessing it's a kind of royalty-free package of sounds and music that TV studios share, but I haven't been able to find a file on the Internet that has them. Maybe someone here knows of a place (on the 'net) where I can get these in some way or another? I hope you know what I'm talking about! I'd hope there's at least a pack for the stock music... thanks in advance, Kreachure (talk) 23:55, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Anyone? They also go by the names of production music, or stock music libraries, or copyright-free music, or royalty-free music (and sound effects). There are many sites that offer lots of royalty-free music for a price (yeah, that makes sense...) I don't know if they have the "more classic" sounds I'm looking for... Kreachure (talk) 16:32, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot everyone. Another legitimate and elaborate question completely ignored. Kreachure (talk) 14:55, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

There's no single answer to your question. There are hundreds of companies that produce stock music and effects, which have been doing so for decades in numerous markets, so your asking for "stock sounds effects and music that are repeatedly used on TV and that you've heard so many times" is about as vague as you can get. Cite examples? Shows? Episodes? Moments in an episode, where such a song or effect can be heard?

There really isn't some centralized resource for these things, especially not one you would be able to download anything and everything yo're hoping for. "Royalty-free" is definitely not the same as "free", and while music and effects may come from a library, that library still has to be purchased from its creator. Sorry you weren't finding the answer you were hoping for but you didn't really give us anything to work from.

That being said, I do have an interest in library music myself, and can recommend this book as an interesting collection of examples, which might also give you a bit of an idea of the scope and diversity of your question, and why it was essentially impossible to answer as presented. Poechalkdust (talk) 11:48, 1 October 2008 (UTC)