JohnnyEnzyme

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Good question!

There's a lot to unpack across these two links: [short films] and [feature films], but skimming through quickly, it seems like there's two main points:

  1. In terms of running length, it seems that the total number of 35mm reels (2-4 I think?) and total film length (35 - 40min it seems) tended to suggest a "short," while longer films could be said to be "feature-length."

  2. A completely different definition for "feature film" was based on it being the advertised lead film on the marquee. So I guess it's possible that a film could be both a short and a feature film at the same time(!) Note: in that era, no matter how long the feature-film ran, I believe it was typically accompanied by a short, including cartoons and newsreels.

Anyone feel free to take a deeper dive and correct any of that, please!

Btw-- what films were you thinking of...?

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Ah, that's right... Jocko.
In fact I think it was mostly him doing the 'Buster' stunts like these, not Jo.

For reasons like this, I sometimes call the series: The high-flying misadventures of Jocko the chimp, featuring his little accomplices Jo & Zette.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean one of the magazines or journals like Pilote, or could it have been a special book edition collecting certain comics?

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sur l’étoile, the exclusive short comic Mœbius did for the company anniversary of Citroën in 1983, which introduced the characters Stel and Atan and later became the basis for the beloved The World of Edena series.

Wow, I never would have guessed those two came out of a Citroën partnership. oO

Anyway, nice research!
Some months back I'd posted a different version of this poster over at Mindoki, and I enjoy the color differences between the two. This one having more earthy colors, and the other one being a lot more reddish.

Btw, I'm just kind of gathering myself up today after some days of exertion, followed by some potent wine to celebrate! Will catch up on messages soon enough..

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Ah, ouais?
Then check out LibGen et Les Archives d'Anna, svp.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

See, now that one scares the hell out of me, lol.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well, English is out.
What language did you study in school? (assuming)

One thing I've been pleasantly surprised by is the fact that even though my French is technically only "A1" on the CEFR scale, when you're a fluent English speaker you're already going to understand a bunch of French & German, which in cases like mine means that I can read French at more of an A2 level, which is often just enough to enjoy series like these. ^^

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wow, what a place. oO

I haven't read much of his stuff yet, but I have a good bit of his art, and don't know what to make of it, lol.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Just now I took a pretty solid look in Google for scanlations, and only found one little fan-translated sequence, pasted in above.

So... whatever language you took in school, this could be a solid motivational opportunity to brush it up!

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

The coming of the apocalypse, I presume! D:

But seriously, I was blown away when I first saw this, especially strange since it's been around for... well over 10yrs I think?

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Such a fun assembly. ^^
I can't for the life of me remember if this corresponds directly to the AG books.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I set up a little script yesterday that reloads an “all” mindokin page every minute or so,

This reminds me that when I load this instance (Lemm.ee) after a pause of some time (maybe 20min - 1hr) it's quite slow at first. But once it gets 'locked in,' it's very fast for awhile.

It's almost like it requires many server hops at first, then it figures out how to re-route much faster to my ISP for a period of time, before eventually forgetting again.

I hope techie-people are talking about this stuff somewhere, because it seems pretty important for attracting more people to Lemmy.

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