Game #209 (Frank and Ollie)

[Janke]

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Here's a sneaky one for you - but I promise it will be a fast game, within a day, the screenshots will become obvious... :hv20-smilie84:

[Janke]

Oh, yeah, almost forgot, a clue: Current score on Rotten Tomatometer is 88%.

[KingDucky]

Beverly Hills cop???

[Janke]

Nope, but not very far away, geographically.

Hint: Premiered in Toronto...

[paperkut12]

One Hour Photo

[Janke]

Nope. Hint: Running time 89 minutes.

[Janke]

Bedtime here, new screenshot and a hint:

This is not an "ordinary" movie...

(PS: Krute probably may guess this sooner than anyone else, I'm afraid. He may use his special Rule #7 - if he so wishes... ;))

[Janke]

Too hard? Well, the movie has been called "obscure" - on Wikipedia... :hv20-smilie84:

This should help you narrow it down:

[Jim E]

That could almost be a photograph of your bookshelf, Janke.:hv20-smilie03:

Despite the five clues, (and the four hidden clues?...:hv20-smilie03:), I still haven't a clue.

[darthpaully]

Man, I suck at this game.... I have a film studies minor and I've seen more movies than anyone I know- I host movie night every week in my garage theatre..... and still I'm never anywhere close on this game!!! Could you maybe give a genre first? Sorry, I'm a total terd- but I wanna WIN!!!!

Keep it up guys. I think the harder it is, somehow the more I like it. It's like 60% pain and 40% pleasure seems to balance me out. Is that bad that I enjoy suffering?

[Almohada]

is it The Glass House?

[Janke]

No, but a clue:

According to IMDB, the house much of the film was shot in was designed by Frank Llloyd Wright...

[drapeama]

According to IMDB, the house much of the film was shot in was designed by Frank Llloyd Wright...
It doesn't look that old...i didn't know there was color movie so early. Well, i've learned something!

[Janke]

i didn't know there was color movie so early

LOL! ;) The house still stands, so we can even get new, fresh digital movies of it...

A new clue: Filmed on location at ZIP code 91011:

[Janke]

I have a film studies minor

Then if you haven't seen this movie, you should! :hv20-smilie84:

[KingDucky]

Lethal weapon 3?

[Janke]

Definitely no lethal weapons here...

New screenshot - I'm not joking, this is a frame from this movie :

[Ugarte]

Frank and Ollie

[darthpaully]

Then if you haven't seen this movie, you should!
I'm sure I've seen the Chaplin movie, but it looks like that's a movie "in" in the movie....

[Janke]

Ugarte got it!

Frank and Ollie

is the correct answer! It's a movie about Disney movies, featuring two of the animators, of "Nine Old Men" fame. Strongly recommended to anyone interested in movie history and art.

(Krute: book no. 3 from the left is a gift from me to Frank sometimes in the late 1970s...)


it looks like that's a movie "in" in the movie

Just a short clip, when Frank talks about how important pathos is - and in that Chaplin scene, you've got tons of it!

Here are the rest of the screenshots:

[Ugarte]

(Krute: book no. 3 from the left is a gift from me to Frank sometimes in the late 1970s...)


That is way cool! Looks like a great film. I've added it to my Netflix queue.

New game up later tonight.

[Janke]

Oh, BTW, you can find an 8mm clip I shot of Frank animating (1976) at my youtube site "AnimatoFinland", and another, where we run Ollie's backyard railroad (1993) on "FinnishLivesteam" - won't post them here, though, so if you want to watch them go to youtube and do a simple search...

[Jim E]

Oh, cuh-rap! I saw that movie listed in almost every keyword search I did, but I dismissed it when I saw it was a documentary!! For some reason I thought the game movies had to be fiction.... dunno where the hell I got that idea!!

Now I know why you said I'd probably get it before anyone else - because of our chats about animation and your long friendship with those venerable gentlemen, (for which I am still consumed with envy, btw.:hv20-smilie03:)

Dang, I really have to buy that film!!! :hv20-smilie03:

[Janke]

Oh, so even these hints didn't help?

Here's a sneaky one for you...
This is not an "ordinary" movie...

Krute, I'm disappointed... or, shall we rather say it was just a "temporary slip by the master-of-recognizing-old-films"? :hv20-smilie03:

I thought the game movies had to be fiction

Nowhere in the rules do I see anything about documentary vs. fiction. However, I think we have an implicit understanding that all movies here must have had a theatrical release, i.e. no pure TV movies...

[Jim E]

Oh, so even these hints didn't help?

Here's a sneaky one for you...
This is not an "ordinary" movie...

Krute, I'm disappointed... or, shall we rather say it was just a "temporary slip by the master-of-recognizing-old-films"? :hv20-smilie03:


Yeah, I had an idea "sneaky" meant that you were being sneaky by slipping one in that was personal to you. In fact, that's how I found "Frank and Ollie" in the first place. But, as I said, I dismissed it because it was a documentary.

As for it not being an "ordinary" film, at first I decided that was another clever Janke clue, and that you meant it was a film produced by some company called "Extraordinary Films", (there is one, I discovered.) But that didn't pan out so I checked on every antonym of "ordinary" that I could think of and find, but that didn't help either.

By this time I was getting a tad puzzled, and then that shot of the bookshelf really did my head in! You just must have one just like it!! Heck, I've got one that's a little bit similar to it myself!


Nowhere in the rules do I see anything about documentary vs. fiction. However, I think we have an implicit understanding that all movies here must have had a theatrical release, i.e. no pure TV movies...

You're absolutely right, of course. That was just a figment of my imagination.

But yes, let's call it a temporary slip, and my big ego can remain intact. :hv20-smilie87:
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