Charlie Chan Message Board
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: sciano on April 07, 2015, 02:43:46 pm
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According to the stats, it has been at least 3 weeks since anyone has posted here. Has this board died? Is it too hard to find? Is it too hard post and read? I don't know what the problem is. Is there anyway to put a redirect link on the old board to directly send people here? Are people still trying to post to the old board? I've always enjoyed this board and the people on it. It would be a shame to lose it. Any thought from the few people who have made it here as to what the problem is and how to fix it? I'm sure there are still Chan fans out there.
Ed
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I want this board to survive as well. I check it daily, but haven't had anything to post. I am curious to see if there has been any further word on the remaining Chan movies appearing on DVD.
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Last time I looked, the Charlie Chan Home Page still links to the old Message Board and not this new one.
A message Board like this one also needs new participants to keep things going, even if it sometimes means re-hashing old material and old discussions for the benefit of the new people. Many of our old "regulars" have dropped off the Board discussions, but they might come back to discuss an old topic along with any new participants. I haven't seen a new person posting in a long time. Does this site have a link on other outlets that could attract new people? For example, I found this site about 15 years ago when I bought a Chan item on eBay, and there was a link to this Message Board with a little paragraph describing it. I don't think this site is being promoted by anyone in that manner, which may be a reason for the lack of "new blood".
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Also, I notice very little activity on Rush Glick's Chan Family Site message board, so the lack of any interested new participants may extend beyond this site.
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I too check this site daily, hoping that there will be new posts - on just about any topic. It appears that John's suggestion about re-hashing old discussions and comparisons might serve to revive interest and participation in this forum.
We also need to be aware that we Chan fans who are serious about our interest in Chandom constitute a very small segment of the overall population, and we are rapidly aging and disappearing from the scene. We saw Chan films many years (actually decades) ago at the movie theaters and later, on television. As our numbers diminish, it seems that we are not being replaced by sufficient numbers of younger Chan enthusiasts.
I am grateful to Dr. Cream for his ongoing efforts to make this forum a success. I hope that we can participate here, engage in lively discussions and continue this fine Chan tradition.
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i find it hard to figure out where to post a new topic. There used to be a button for new post, but all i see now is how to e-mail the message. I am sure that i am doing something wrong, but wasn't sure.
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I was about to post the same thought. After a good 15 plus year run, has the CCMB died? Not until, of course, Kurt officially says it's over. I know I had trouble finding the board after the recent switch. I found the old board but had a difficult time getting from there to here.
John is correct, too. Yet when I look at the number of views of CC movies on you tube there are tens of thousands. Even if we assume the movies have been posted there for a few years and people view them more than once, there must be fans out there. The sales of the Chan movies on DVD, which I understand are good, must also tell us there are fans out there.
There is only so much that can be said about the same subject, but fans of other series talk about things over again. Star Trek fans, and I am one, talk about the same episodes many times. I'm always interested to read about the same topics more than once.
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There isn't much happening in the Chan universe other than waiting for Warner Bros to release the last few Monogram Chan movies and hoping that someone discovers the lost Fox Chans ... hey, they found Richard the Third's remains recently so there's always hope
ps. someone uploaded "Curse of the Dragon Queen" (with Peter Ustinov as Chan) onto Youtube ... that's something new. Is it as bad as some people say ?
Oh, for Star Trek and Fringe fans ... R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy
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Yes, Curse of the Dragon Queen is that bad.
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off topic: TCM IS SHOWING THE FOLLOWING MYSTERY MOVIES......
MAY 5TH 6:30 PM.....TWO IN THE DARK
MAY 5TH 1:15 AM ..... AND THAN THERE WERE NONE
MAY 6TH 12:45PM..... NURSE'S SECRET
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Thank you for this information. These types of posts are very helpful to me. I have set the DVR to record several very good mystery movies based on recommendations from people on this Board, and I need the reminders !!!
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It's nice to be back! I just located this webpage, after having been absent from the old message board for several years. I left because we were getting too off topic too often, and it was being inundated by a member who went on and on and on about his life story. He was harmless enough, but it was no longer about Charlie.
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I really thought the last of the known Chans would be out on DVD by now. I'm not getting any younger. :D
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I'm not either. ;D
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I have always considered myself a "purist", in that I have only viewed the available Warner Oland/Sydney Toler Chan films. I see that the J. Carrol Naish TV series is available and am about to purchase those thru Amazon. I hope they are worthy of Charlie's' reputation.
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Hi Gravelle. There are 2 DVDsets of "New Adventures of Charlie Chan" listed on Amazon.com ... one looks like an obvious bootleg (ie. its unprofessional cover design). I just checked with www.tvshowsondvd.com and they say there are no official DVD releases of "New Adventures of Charlie Chan" even though they list Warners Video as owning the rights. So the other DVDset must also be a bootleg.
Oddly enough, some Amazon customers say the DVD quality is "acceptable" although a few say the DVD quality is poor. Oh well, it's a case of "Buyer Beware".
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Several years ago I purchased a DVD set of the J. Carroll Naish TV Chan series quite cheaply. The stories are short and simple, but are entertaining to watch once or twice. The copies I had were slightly blurry at times, but were easily watchable and were worth the bargain price. I have since passed the DVD's along to other friends, who in turn gave them to other friends, etc, so these DVD's are probably sitting on a shelf somewhere across town. I don't remember the seller's name on the label.
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When you have had time to view these programs, your impressions of them would be much appreciated.
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I think I'll take a chance on them. I enjoy the 1950's Ronald Howard Sherlock Holmes series, so I'm expecting the quality of these to be about the same, with pretty much the same guest cast in different supporting roles in each episode, redressing the same sets constantly, etc. :)
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Tomorrow evening starts those Mystery Movies on TCM that RodB was kind enough to tell us about on the April 20th message, below.
I'll check out the 3 Mystery movies and see how good they are.
Keep letting us know of good TCM Mysteries in the future! Without all of you, we'll miss some good Mystery movies.
Trader Jack
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Thanks for the reminder. I always thought the majority of the chan message board were mystery fans themselves,but is hard to track tcm schedule for the showings.
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A Big Thanks to rodb for the excellent Tip about 3 Mystery Movies on TCM last week.
"And Then There Were None" was definitely worth watching. A fine Agatha Christie story with a delightful cast. "Two in the Dark" was a Fun mystery
with notable cast members. "The Nurse's Secret" was a pleasant mystery with some well-traveled actors and a fast moving story. I also saw a few cast
members I will be on the lookout for in future movies.
I read a lot of Reviews on IMDb about these mysteries. Seems like some people expect all movies to be the best they've ever seen. These 3 movies sped along at an entertaining clip and had enjoyable mysteries in them All.
When you all see some More Mystery Movies worth watching on TCM and elsewhere, feel free to pass them on to us. Had Fun with these 3 Mysteries.
Trader Jack
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I managed to see part of Two in the Dark (1936) which starred Walter Abel. Although I had never seen the film before it seemed very familiar and as I continued watching realized the same story was remade by RKO nine years later, directed by Anthony Mann, with Tom Conway and Anne Rutherford in the lead roles as "Two O'Clock Courage" (1945). In fact, the stolen script for a play about which the plot centers in both films is entitled "Two O'Clock Courage" which was a major clue! Anyway I enjoyed it even though I knew the solution to the mystery! Chris.
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Regarding the original topic of this thread (Has this Board died?), I have a question. I've been thinking about this matter since reading the message from Dr. Berlin about closing down his site and also receiving a message from John Betancourt about the restructuring of his site. My question concerns this - since there are several Chan/mystery movie sites on the Internet, such as this site, the John Betancourt site, the Rush Glick site, the Yahoo Chan site, etc, is it possible to electronically combine these sites so the participants will have access to all of these sites with one address, so all of the discussions and postings can be linked? For example, can it be arranged such that logging into this one site will also bring up the other message boards and their active threads, thus perhaps expanding the number of participants, or expanding the number of topics? I am not a computer whiz, so please forgive me if this sounds silly, but I think that one large vibrant combined site might work better than several smaller sites which each have limited activity.
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I have just had a bit of trouble trying to get to this forum, which is unusual for me. I kept turning up the old forum, which I enjoyed visiting back in the day. However, I had to persist to finally get to this new forum. As mentioned by others in previous posts, I wonder how many people attempt to find this forum, get to the old one and just give up their search.
There were some interesting discussions in the old forum, thanks to some of the very experienced Chan watchers who were on board then. I would enjoy seeing some of those same discussions/comparisons conducted here on the new forum, though some might think, "We covered that thoroughly way back then and there's no need to bring it up again."
My feeling is that if it pertains to Chan books, films, and material, it's fair game for discussion and debate here. Thoughts, anyone?
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I, too, sometimes have trouble getting here. Whenever my PC tunes itself up, the new address seems to disappear.
Of course, discussion of anything Chan related is to be encouraged. Half of the people who were party to the discussions of the early days of the board are gone, and those of us who are still here probably can't remember most of what went on in the "good old days." Alerting each other to upcoming broadcasts, interesting books, and good deals on dvds, etc., is a wonderful side benefit of our little brotherhood.
Keep those messages coming! ...Ed K
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Hi:
Has any thought been given to opening up a Facebook page? Several groups I belong to have moved to Facebook and continue o do very well, also getting new members to join. You can make a Facebbok page where members have to join, so ou can try to avoid most spammers now. Just a thought, a it seems more people spend time on Facebook instead of web sites.
Ed
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I think a Facebook group would be great.
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I'm in favor of trying any new idea to get things rolling, and to get some new people interested in this site. Even if only 25 new folks joined the Board, a lot of topics (including old topics) would come up for discussion. Considering there are about 7 billion people in the world, finding a few new participants for this site should be an attainable goal!
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i always have to do a google search for chatter charlie chan to get to this site myself. if most people don't put chatter in front of their search, they will probaly end up at the old board.
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Right now, there is some activity on the old Board, and I tried to direct the person who posted the message to try to get to this Board.
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Linking the Chan sites through a single log in may not be practical, but it might be beneficial to have a page of links to other Chan websites. Several other Chan sites were mentioned, but I am not familiar with some of them. A set of links would make it easy to check them out. Ideally, other sites would also have links to this board.
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Maybe a Charlie Chan fakebook page IS the solution. Personally, I spend most of my on-line time there, looking for an intelligent, thought-provoking post (without much success). ::)
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There are a couple of Charlie Chan community pages on facebook, but I don't think there's an actual Charlie Chan Group where discussions are held and membership is maintained.