Posted on 08/23/2017 7:37:52 PM PDT by Strac6
Need A Little FReeper Movie Historian Help
With your help, I can dig deep into my past.... because I have come to learn, somewhere, some FReeper anything you want to know....
Rainy Saturday childhood afternoons at the Calderone Movie Theater on Long Island had a great effect on me. For example, I developed an early hate for Communists after they killed William Holden, Mickey Rooney and Earl Holliman in the Bridges of Toko Ri.
I had the opportunity to work with Rooney much later in both our lives, and he said it had the same effect on him. His words were “…. And I was only an actor in the movie! For many men, it was way too real.”
That hate kept me a little more wary in RVN, and you never know, might have saved my life.
But I digress. I also saw a short movie about that time, that, as a Christian, helped me develop a lifelong respect for Israel.
I saw Mike Todd’s “Around The World In 80 Days” in the late 1950s. I think the movie I am interested in, 60ish years later, was either part of the intro to ATWI80D (which I doubt) or a “short” that ran with it.
It was brief documentary about what the immigrated Jews had done in Israel. It was amazing, just 10 years after the declaration of the State of Israel, that they had created life in what had been dead lifeless desert. They had developed an army to defend themselves, and build shining cities where there was once only sand.
I’m not talking about Exodus, Cast a Giant Shadow or other feature length film. This was a color short. It might have been in Cinerama, as I think I saw it in the Theater that showed Around the World in 80 Days. I also have an unconfirmed slight thought that it might have been made by Mike Todd, as he was very pro-Israel.
My connecting it to ATWI80D may be incorrect, but it was certainly about that time/era?
I wish I remembered more, but does thing ring a bell with anyone? Anyone know the title or anything about it?
You know what had a great effect on me? Carol Lee Kaizinga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZPk2vTXYjg
If these movies aren’t what you’re looking for, just follow other vids on Youtube
I tried to find the short for you and the only thing that is remotely close, is a 1956 movie, made in Israel by Israelis, called THE HOPE. But couldn't find out anything else...sorry.
Jeez, I think that’s it. I have a vague recollection it was in color, as this is.
Thank you very much!
Did a little research as well. ATWI80D played in theaters for more than a year. We moved to Clearwater, Florida in mid ‘57, and I know I saw ATWI80D in Tampa, so the dates click.
Might have seen the Israel movie later.
Thanks.
I too spent a LOT of Saturday afternoons, in the mid to late '50s going to movie theatres. :-)
Watched it through. That is definitely it.
Thank you again so much.
You have solved 20 years of head scratching!
They were magic times..... In a way I miss them.
I don’t think kids have that today!
Bfl.
Never seen it myself.
Just did a query on google
documentary of early israel 1950’s
Just followed the vids on the side that sounded like what you described.
The internet is a wonderful thing.
So much at our finger tips.
I had tired same technique, but never found it. U are a genius.
Thanks again.
You all are good! Here’s one I have been trying to find for years. I *believe* it was a made-for-tv movie, possibly of the A&E/Lifetime channel variety. What I remember are two kids, the oldest is a girl of maybe 14, and either a parent or some relative, living out in the woods or maybe like the mountains. The adult figure either dies or leaves, but the kids keep on living in the home. They hide fact they are on their own from the school teachers. Then, to make ends meet, they start collecting and selling wild flowers that grow on the mountain or in the woods. Does this ring any bells with anyone?
Bfl???
bkmk
I have one. An alien gets left behind in the woods when his ship leaves because of some FBI agents. A kid befriends him by giving him some peanut butter M&Ms knockoffs. The two bond to the point where if one gets sick, so does the other. They make a communications device out of an old Texas Instruments toy and contact the ship, which picks the alien up. Any ideas?
Note: it is NOT E.T.!
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