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Post by BunnyWhit on Dec 31, 2023 21:26:20 GMT
(I like how you slipped a watch drop in here as well.) |
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Post by NoShear on Jan 1, 2024 2:20:03 GMT
(I like how you slipped a watch drop in here as well.) Laughing, BunnyWhit... Hey, you need to check out the following - I thought of you while recently perusing:  You too, Fading Fast. |
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Post by kims on Jan 15, 2024 2:23:24 GMT
Watching BABY BOOM. Diane Keaton signing contract and taking notes left handed.
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Post by topbilled on Feb 11, 2024 17:07:05 GMT
At the sixteen and a half minute mark of THE GREAT GAMBINI (1937) William Demarest answers a phone and writes a note, using his right hand.
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Post by NoShear on Feb 17, 2024 20:16:23 GMT
According to Ben Mankiewicz's outro for THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES last night, not all the scenes of righthander Gary Cooper were flipped for the effect of being the left-handed Lou Gehrig:  |
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Post by kims on Feb 18, 2024 0:09:16 GMT
Glad you reminded me. One scene Cooper wrote a letter with his right hand in PRIDE OF THE YANKEES.
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Post by NoShear on Feb 18, 2024 0:22:11 GMT
Glad you reminded me. One scene Cooper wrote a letter with his right hand in PRIDE OF THE YANKEES. Nice catch, kims!! (No pun intended.) |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Feb 18, 2024 21:47:03 GMT
Do we know if Joan Blondell was left handed?
In Three on a Match (1932), she mocks the prison matron with a mime of consulting her watch. She looks at her right wrist. This is not always a sign that someone has the opposite dominate hand, but often it is. This could have been done for the staging of the scene, as her right is to the camera.
In The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Blondell deals right-handed, but I also know that there was a great deal of training and attention paid to the hand gestures for the card scenes, and I suspect even if she was left-handed, that would not have been preferred for the film.
Just wondering....
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Post by topbilled on Feb 21, 2024 2:12:33 GMT
Do we know if Joan Blondell was left handed?
In Three on a Match (1932), she mocks the prison matron with a mime of consulting her watch. She looks at her right wrist. This is not always a sign that someone has the opposite dominate hand, but often it is. This could have been done for the staging of the scene, as her right is to the camera.
In The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Blondell deals right-handed, but I also know that there was a great deal of training and attention paid to the hand gestures for the card scenes, and I suspect even if she was left-handed, that would not have been preferred for the film.
Just wondering.... |
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Post by topbilled on Mar 17, 2024 1:25:55 GMT
In a season 7 episode of Rawhide called 'The Winter Soldier' Robert Blake shoots a gun with his left hand.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 17, 2024 6:45:59 GMT
A Christmas Story (1983) -- We see that Peter Billingsley is left handed when he shoulders his Red Ryder bb gun.
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Post by topbilled on Mar 24, 2024 2:40:17 GMT
At the 48 minute mark, Jeffrey Lynn uses his right hand to write a prescription in his role as a doctor in WHIPLASH (1948).
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 25, 2024 17:07:11 GMT
I was struck by the CBS item BunnyWhit posted concerning Martin Greenfield. He could tell by someone's gait whether they were left or right-handed.
Is this common knowledge?
It sounds like something that would come up in a Sherlock Holmes movie. I am usually just watching someone's wrist to see where they wear their watch.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 26, 2024 17:40:37 GMT
I was struck by the CBS item BunnyWhit posted concerning Martin Greenfield. He could tell by someone's gait whether they were left or right-handed.
Is this common knowledge?
It sounds like something that would come up in a Sherlock Holmes movie. I am usually just watching someone's wrist to see where they wear their watch.
This is what I've gathered from health professionals I've worked with over the years. I'm sure this is a wild oversimplification. What always amazes me is that these differences can be imperceptible to the rest of us, while people who are able to see it can do so rapidly and accurately.
Frankly, I've come to view this ability as signaling the difference between a good physical therapist (or whatever occupation you're talking about) and a great one. Anyone can do the book learning, but it takes a dedication and love of craft to be able to so perfectly apply the knowledge -- enter Martin Greenfield. |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 27, 2024 2:14:00 GMT
So utterly fascinating BW. Thank you for all the detail. I feel like a blind person sometimes for what others are able to do with their senses.
I'll be watching how film southpaws walk for quite some time to come I fear. It will be a nice break from facial symmetry monitoring!
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